We think we are choosing between Christ and our own moral value system...
.. or Christ and Buddhism
.. or Christ and academia as the ultimate solution
.. or Christ and the evolution of man into a higher state
but we are not... It is Jesus or Barabbas
Mark 15:6-7 ESV — Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas.
Barnabas was dangerous. He was a wild man. Society wanted him locked up and for good reason.
Mark 15:9-13 ESV — And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?” For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead. And Pilate again said to them, “Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?” And they cried out again, “Crucify him.”
Those were not the choices they wanted but that is the real choice.
Barabbas is let loose and chaos ensues. If we don't want God. If we don't the want the truth contained in the scriptures. In particular, if we don't want Jesus to mess up our convenient little system... Barabbas... a person we know should be locked up... gets let loose.
Antichrist will be a Barabbas. It might be us. If we shake off the shackles of truth we might just become the thing we hate.
People blame God because the world isn't what it should be but humanity has chosen the wild man again and again.
Choose Jesus today. Not everyone else is or will but your choice makes a difference.
1 John 4:2-4 ESV — By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
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