2000 years ago, in a political climate as nasty as we could ever imagine, He came to be.

 

A dark-skinned, illegitimate, son of a carpenter… He would escape an assassination attempt on His life only due to the warning of a regal prophet and obedient parents.

 

And none of His qualities would be extraordinary.

 

None, except for His heart, His character, His obedience …

 

For being sent to a foreign land is tough.

 

But being sent there at the resistance of the very people you have come to save — that is impossible.

 

John 1–  “He came to that which was His own, but His own did not receive Him.”

 

And His first (noticed) public appearance was riotous, violent protest in the middle of the Passover Feast.  (John 2)

 

Yes …

 

My Hero, the One who I look to for all guidance, was in a protest.

 

A One Man Protest.  A Violent Protest.  And He was intimidating.

 

This is not a call for violence.

 

It is a call for surrender.

 

When despair shows up, it is a tidal wave.  It sucks us under and there is not even vision of where the surface even is.  And in our hopelessness, we tend to make terrible decisions.

 

 

But HOPE can also show up.  And it can be more overwhelming.  And it is not a feeling, or a distant dream.  It is a person.  And that person is Jesus Christ.

 

If despair is a tidal wave, then HOPE the person is a TSUNAMI.

 

Romans 5 20 The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

The radical move of Jesus TO FORGIVE is the most important single event in human history.

 

It is the hope of the nations and of individual man.

 

It is the hope for our country, of all countries.

 

It is the only thing that can truly save all of us—any of us.

 

 

As we repent

And pray

And cry out for mercy

 

Let us pray for the broken

Let us have faith in the power of the Living God

Let us worship and glorify like at no time in human history

 

The world is in dire need of a Savior, a King, a Lion, and a Lamb.  It is in need of a Redeemer, a Counselor, a Friend.

 

Let’s make sure we look to the One True God, because the gods we look to now can only make it worse.

 

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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