Mad Enough To Kill
Blue v23-30 Ch 4 Lukev28 So all those in church, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, (v29) and rose up and thrust Jesus out of the city; and they led Him to the edge of a cliff on which their city was built, intending to throw Him down over the cliff.... BUT THEN
That BUT BOMB comes in handy...
v30 Passing right through the middle of them, Jesus went His Way.
Father God had a Sovereign plan over Jesus' Life and the thief wasn't going to be allowed to mess it up and steal destiny through premature death when part of God's plan was the death that Jesus had to die; there was a certain Way all that had to go down, and it wasn't going to be at the direction of a bunch of church folks operating in the devil-flesh nature. Carnal Christians~
So what did Jesus say that made them so firing mad? Well... for one thing they hated how harsh and rude Jesus sounded, but didn't realize they were listening through the ears of fallen man. They became offended by Truth as Jesus pointed out their dark tendencies, the ones still hidden deep within their person that had lied to make them think they were really do-gooders.
Jesus basically told them that they were accusers (v23), and that actually they reject Him (v24). Then Jesus proceeded to tell them about two groups of people that Elijah was sent to so that He could make an analogy out of a word picture and give them something to relate to as Jesus told them that next to none of them were healed or cleansed except these two people... the Zarephath widow and Naaman the leper (v25-27).
They were so mad they wanted to kill Him! But the Truth is, NO ONE gets to take your life out of God's Sovereign plan once His Sovereign Mind has been made up. No one took Jesus away from God. No one took Job away from God. And no one is going to take you away from God either~ Not even you so stop rebelling because it's really hard to have a relationship with you when you act like that.
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