"Behold, I bring Him forth to you....Behold the Man!...Behold your King!" (John 19)
What a glorious call issued by a Roman govenor. I repeat them today, and so should all Followers of Jesus. Repeat them; live them. Call the world with these words.
"Behold your King!" I have often noted that what finally brought Pilate to end the debate between himself and the Jews was their declaration, "'We have no king but Caesar!' Then he delivered Him to them to be crucified." I tell you again that the world does not much care about those who proclaim some religouseze "gospel." But all through history, anywhere or anytime the assertion that Jesus is King is put forth, persecution and death follow. Every totalitarian government in history got the rivalrous message of the Gospel, "Jesus Christ is Lord" (King, Ruler, "only Potentate"). This is total control of a person's life, "If anyone desires to come after Me, he must deny himself (herself), and take up his (her) cross daily, and follow Me." Governments, including the American Government of 1962 & 1963, "get" the message, even if religion-blind others do not. This was not some woman or school board that attempted to outlaw the reign of Jesus Christ in America. It was all America. It was a repeat of, "We have no king but Caesar."
We need a revival in America and the whole world of, "Behold the Man!...Behold your King!" What glorious exercise! What glorious redemption, salvation, deliverance in the act of, "Behold the Man!...Behold your King!" Do you "see" Jesus today? "For it is the God Who commanded light to shine out of darkness, Who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ." Wherever people do not behold, "....the glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ", there is only Darkness, despair, fear, hopelessness. When any, "Behold the Man!", and, "Behold your King!", there and there alone is the, "....the Light of the world."
Father, in Jesus' Name, I, "Behold the Man!" and, "[my] King," today. What glorious beholding. Amen.
What a glorious call issued by a Roman govenor. I repeat them today, and so should all Followers of Jesus. Repeat them; live them. Call the world with these words.
"Behold your King!" I have often noted that what finally brought Pilate to end the debate between himself and the Jews was their declaration, "'We have no king but Caesar!' Then he delivered Him to them to be crucified." I tell you again that the world does not much care about those who proclaim some religouseze "gospel." But all through history, anywhere or anytime the assertion that Jesus is King is put forth, persecution and death follow. Every totalitarian government in history got the rivalrous message of the Gospel, "Jesus Christ is Lord" (King, Ruler, "only Potentate"). This is total control of a person's life, "If anyone desires to come after Me, he must deny himself (herself), and take up his (her) cross daily, and follow Me." Governments, including the American Government of 1962 & 1963, "get" the message, even if religion-blind others do not. This was not some woman or school board that attempted to outlaw the reign of Jesus Christ in America. It was all America. It was a repeat of, "We have no king but Caesar."
We need a revival in America and the whole world of, "Behold the Man!...Behold your King!" What glorious exercise! What glorious redemption, salvation, deliverance in the act of, "Behold the Man!...Behold your King!" Do you "see" Jesus today? "For it is the God Who commanded light to shine out of darkness, Who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ." Wherever people do not behold, "....the glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ", there is only Darkness, despair, fear, hopelessness. When any, "Behold the Man!", and, "Behold your King!", there and there alone is the, "....the Light of the world."
Father, in Jesus' Name, I, "Behold the Man!" and, "[my] King," today. What glorious beholding. Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
