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."