When People Were Getting it All So Very Wrong Jesus Christ Took Time to Correct Their Thinking

We were reading in Luke Chapter 19 and at verse 10. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost. We have been reading and even studying of how Jesus came and found that little lost man. He was up a tree. He had a big balance but an empty heart. He had lots of money, but little love. He was financially wealthy, but had few friends. He was lost, and we saw how Jesus found him.

While they were listening to this; listening to what? They were listening to what Jesus had said in verses 9 and 10.

No other system of belief in the whole world has words which say anything like that. None comes near it, but, Jesus Christ came to seek and to save what was lost.

Something had been lost. Man had lost something, and Jesus Christ comes to restore that and to give it back and to put man back in his right place and in his right condition. That is the true meaning of restore. He put it back in its right place and in its right condition.

Jesus tells a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and people thought the Kingdom of God was going to appear at once, immediately, and politically. People thought that politically Jesus was going to overthrow Rome, deal with every enemy, and become King of Israel in a political sense. Many thought that was going to be the solution. Do read this passage in Luke Chapter 19. There is always a special reward when we take time to read the actual text.

Jesus sensed that people were getting it all wrong again, and He dealt with it. Jesus sensed that people were not grasping the real meaning of what He was saying, so He moved right in to tell a parable. They thought Jesus was going to set up a secular Kingdom, and that they were going to be the senior politicians, the government ministers, the civil servants of God, with authority, at once and immediately.

Jesus shocked them. They were expecting secular success. They were looking for worldly positions, and Jesus is so aware that what was involved was Rejection, Suffering, Pain, Execution, The Cross, being killed at the hands of men and rising from the dead.

This is a powerful demonstration of concerned leadership where wrong misleading expectations and thinking must be adjusted and corrected. It takes courage, real courage, to do this!

Sandy Shaw

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