"JESUS CHRIST!"  Let me begin with a parable. The parable begins this way - there was an angry multitude of people standing before the thrown of God on judgement day. They objected to being judged by God. They said, "How can God judge us? What does God know about suffering?"
 

They demanded to know that answer. An olive skinned woman pulled back her sleeve and revealed a tattooed number from the Nazi concentration camp in which she was a part of. There was a black man in the crowd and he lowered his collar, and asked, "What about this?" His neck was scarred from rope burns - he had been lynched. Out of the crowd many voices were raised in complaint against God for allowing such suffering in a world God had made. How lucky God was to live in a place of shelter, and peace, and joy, when so many of His children were suffering. So, they formed a committee, which tells me there were a lot Presbyterians in that group. And, the members of that committee: there was a Jewish person, a black person, a person of illegitimate birth, a prisoner from one of the Siberian slave camps, and an untouchable from the country of India. They consulted with one another and they discerned certain requirements that they would lay down before God to judge any of them. God would have to suffer what they would suffer. So, they would challenge God to live on earth as a human being, because God was God they placed limitations on how God could use divine power. Here are the requirements this committee came up with.
 

1) He would have to born a Jew;

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2) The legitimacy of His birth would be questioned from the day He was born;

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3) He would be required to champion a cause so just and so radical that it would cause a consensus to develop among the established among the religions of His day and they would join hands in eliminating Him;

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4) He would be required to try to describe what no man has ever experienced or seen - what God was really like;

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5) He would be betrayed by His close friends, He would be indicted on false charges, and tried by prejudice jury, and convicted by an ambivalent judge.

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So the committee came back to the crowd and said let Him see what it would be like to be terribly alone and abandoned. Let Him be tortured let Him die. Let Him die in a humiliating fashion being associated with thieves.

 

Each member announced the portion of their requirement that they were privileged to announce. Worship Video HERE.

 

: : Next Steps (after hearing the whole sermon) : :

1.   What do you believe about Jesus?

2.  What do you do so that you never forget him?

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