[Meeting] SCRIPTURE TRUTH

[Jones, Rob (SF02)]

 SCRIPTURE TRUTH

Jean Cocteau, the French poet and novelist, once observed that "If it
has to choose
who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barrabas." Why is it
that two
millennia ago.an enraged and bloodthirsty crowd demanded of Pilate, the
Roman
Governor, "crucify (Jesus)?" Why is it that instead the crowd demanded
the release 
of Barrabas, the notorious prisoner, thug, and terrorist? And why do you
suppose 
Cocteau wrote that, given a choice, the crowd will always save Barrabas?
The 
answer is that Jesus confronts you and me with our spiritual
stubbornness and 
sinfulness. Jesus came preaching repentance then, as he does today, that
our 
greatest need is to repent - something practically no one wants to hear.
Jesus 
insisted that we lost, miserable sinners need to repent of our sins and
be born 
again. We cannot reform ourselves to God's forgiveness; we must renounce
our 
trust in ourselves and instead put our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ
for our 
salvation. Heed today the words of the hymn writer: "What will you do
with Jesus 
neutral you cannot be. 
Some day your heart will be asking: what will he do with me"

Professor D. Barry Lumsden, Ph.D. 
Mebane Gospel Chapel 
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