what do you think?
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 11:29PM It was a favorite question of Jesus. What do you think?
Matthew 17:25 (Show me Matthew 17)
He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, 'What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?”
Matthew 18:12 (Show me Matthew 18)
'What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?
Matthew 21:28 (Show me Matthew 21)
The Parable of the Two Sons
“What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’
Matthew 22:42 (Show me Matthew 22)
saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.”
So now I ask. 'What do you think' was the cause of the crucifixion of the Christ. Was it to save us from the guilt impuned on us for our personal sins; or was it because he stood up for something, for someone, for what was the heart of God and was silenced by the powers that be? Which seems to characterize his life primarily?
How we respond to this question is extremely important. For if He was concerned primarily for the first one we can spiritualize His work on the cross calling it primarily and summarily dismiss other agendas as secondary or less. But, if He was murdered as a result of His stand against the latter then we must let His death speak a word to us. We must agree that power was the driving force behind the tragedy in Jerusalem on that fateful Passover. We must speak about how He was silenced. We must allow the way He died to have its voice.
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