Thursday, February 4, 2010

Luke 20:9-19; Conflict

Jesus did not answer in a politically correct way to the teachers of the law and the priests. He then moved to an offensive posture and told a parable about them that basically called them dishonest and murderous. Again, not very politically correct.

To this blunt statement regarding their hearts and their future he added his interpretation of Psalm 118:22. His application was that whoever comes into contact with him will either be broken or crushed, humbled or destroyed.

Somehow we have lost our vision of this Jesus. We see him as the one who fills "a God shaped hole in your heart". We sing songs calling him the "darling of heaven". I might be wrong but I really don't think anyone listening to him that day would have used either of those terms for him. They are not wrong terms, they are just incomplete. It seems that from his own words, anyone coming to Jesus should expect some form of painful transformation.

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