I find it rather ironic that for the last 2,000 years the world
has fought so hard to reject Jesus yet will still acknowledge Him. Holidays,
laws, organizations, and society in general has been greatly changed and
influenced by Jesus Christ. The reaction to Lazarus being raised from the dead
was met with scorn by the religious authorities.
Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and
had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. But
some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. Then
the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the
Sanhedrin.
“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man
performing many signs. If we let him go on like
this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away
both our temple and our nation.”
Then
one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up,
“You know nothing at all! You do not realize that
it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation
perish.”
He did
not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would
die for the Jewish nation, and not only for that
nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and
make them one. So from
that day on they plotted to take his life. - John 11:45-53
Maybe it comes down to this: What are you more afraid of - man
or God? The right answer is found throughout the Bible like: For great
is the Lord and most
worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.
- Psalm 96:4
Honor God with your life. Solomon said: "I know that
everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added
to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people
will fear him."
Amen?