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IT IS PUZZLING TO CONSIDER WHY SOME JEWS DO NOT RECOGNIZE JESUS AS THE LONG PROMISED AND AWAITED MESSIAH, WITH SO MANY PROPHECIES OF THE SCRIPTURES FULFILLED TO THE LETTER IN JESUS OF NAZARETH…
THE JEWS, AND YOU AND I, WERE EXPECTING A MESSIAH TO BRING US THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD, BUT JESUS OFFERS US SOMETHING INFINITELY BIGGER, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN…AND FOR IT WE SHOUT “CRUCIFY HIM”! WE EXPECTED A BOSS, AND JESUS IS ONLY A GOD. WE WANTED SWORDS, AND JESUS GIVES US PALMS. WE WERE LONGING TO BE BOSSES, BUT JESUS ORDERS TO LOVE. WE WERE EXPECTING TO BE VICTORIOUS, WITH HONORS, AND JESUS COMMANDS US TO FORGIVE AND TO BE HUMBLE…. AND FOR IT, AS A CRIMINAL OF HIGH TREASON, WE SHOUT “CRUCIFY HIM”!!
THE JEWS DID NOT KILL JESUS, THE ROMAN SOLDIERS DID, UNDER THE COMMAND OF A ROMAN GOVENOR, PONTIUS PILATE… HOWEVER THE “REAL KILLERS” OF JESUS ARE YOU AND I, BECAUSE EACH TIME WE SIN, “WE CRUCIFY THE SON OF GOD FOR OURSELVES HOLDING HIM UP TO MOCKERY” (HEB 6:6).
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