So...
Today I went to church for the first time in a long time...
I wasn't amused.
oh the high dollar casual clothes and the high dollar Audio Visual equipment with the best lights money can buy while using high dollar wood to build the stage out of that is "unfinished" and made to look reclaimed but is actually some of the most expensive wood money can buy.
the bobble headed praise band on stage where some of the most physically attractive people are placed to lead the congregation in worship music but you can't hear a one of them....
but I am digressing....
The pastor was trying to teach a lesson from the pulpit about the Passion of Jesus.
and he focused in on the Pharisees trying to stop the entire brigade of the group of disciples singing. (which at this point was hundreds)
The singing, the riding of a donkey colt, cutting of the palm fronds and the crowds shouting "Save Us!". All of which was foretold of the coming Messiah and King...all very treasonous and rebellious behavior.
Pharisees weren't the bad guys that every preacher tries to make them out to be. They followed the Law...they did what was right. They felt somewhat responsible for those that watched them. And in this instance, they were focused on everyone else's life...because if this crowd turned into a riot then the Roman Soldiers would come and kill them all. The Pharisees actually had positive motives for trying to keep things down and contained....they wanted to save lives.
But Jesus had other ideas about what was coming...
Before Jesus made his famous donkey ride...he told the story of Archelious (ark kell ee us) as a "parable"...and the story of the ten minas.
Jesus knew he wasn't going to be wanted as the king...but He just was the rightful king. And Jesus wasn't concerned so much about the here and now(as the Pharisees were) but all of eternity....
And I find the question oddly perplexing.
For once the Pharisees were concerned about someone else...other than their own self righteousness. And they were trying to be good and do good things.
Their heart was in the right place.
Their motives also were right.
But they were dead wrong.
Of course Jesus was right...His tour of ministry was so highly scripted. Foretold and predicted down to the least detail.
"He came into his own but his own received him not"
but...
I wonder...
Do we, having truly positive motives...the best of intentions, do the wrong thing?
Today I went to church for the first time in a long time...
I wasn't amused.
oh the high dollar casual clothes and the high dollar Audio Visual equipment with the best lights money can buy while using high dollar wood to build the stage out of that is "unfinished" and made to look reclaimed but is actually some of the most expensive wood money can buy.
the bobble headed praise band on stage where some of the most physically attractive people are placed to lead the congregation in worship music but you can't hear a one of them....
but I am digressing....
The pastor was trying to teach a lesson from the pulpit about the Passion of Jesus.
and he focused in on the Pharisees trying to stop the entire brigade of the group of disciples singing. (which at this point was hundreds)
The singing, the riding of a donkey colt, cutting of the palm fronds and the crowds shouting "Save Us!". All of which was foretold of the coming Messiah and King...all very treasonous and rebellious behavior.
Pharisees weren't the bad guys that every preacher tries to make them out to be. They followed the Law...they did what was right. They felt somewhat responsible for those that watched them. And in this instance, they were focused on everyone else's life...because if this crowd turned into a riot then the Roman Soldiers would come and kill them all. The Pharisees actually had positive motives for trying to keep things down and contained....they wanted to save lives.
But Jesus had other ideas about what was coming...
Before Jesus made his famous donkey ride...he told the story of Archelious (ark kell ee us) as a "parable"...and the story of the ten minas.
Jesus knew he wasn't going to be wanted as the king...but He just was the rightful king. And Jesus wasn't concerned so much about the here and now(as the Pharisees were) but all of eternity....
And I find the question oddly perplexing.
For once the Pharisees were concerned about someone else...other than their own self righteousness. And they were trying to be good and do good things.
Their heart was in the right place.
Their motives also were right.
But they were dead wrong.
Of course Jesus was right...His tour of ministry was so highly scripted. Foretold and predicted down to the least detail.
"He came into his own but his own received him not"
but...
I wonder...
Do we, having truly positive motives...the best of intentions, do the wrong thing?
