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- But they wanted someone who would free them from the Romans!13) Jesus vs the religious leaders
Luke 7:
- John the baptist sends two of his disciples to ask Jesus if he is the Messiah!
- They can see Jesus curing people and doing many miracles and teaching about God’s Kingdom!
- And Jesus tells them to tell what they have just seen!
- Action is better than words!
- When what we say corresponds with what we do, it is more powerful than anything!
- Jesus doesn’t answer directly to John but he tells him about his miracles and his teaching! Isn’t it the best answer?
- John the Baptist understands perfectly well and he rejoices!
- But not the religious leaders: where is the mistake?
- They understand but they don’t care because it is against their own interests!
- Jesus looks for his Father’s interests, they don’t!
- So we must be careful not to serve the religious leaders’ interests instead of God’s interests!
The religious leaders understood that Jesus was claiming to be the Messiah. John the Baptist believed what Jesus claimed; most of the religious leaders didn’t.
Wouldn’t you if you were in their place?
- They wanted a human king as usual!
Jesus is a human king.
- Thus they have always rejected Yah.weh!
They haven’t always rejected Yahweh.
- They should have been destroyed many times And Moses saved them!
This is an excellent point. Yahweh has historically sent saviors to save his people.
“In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven, and according to your manifold mercies saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.”
(Nehemiah 9:27)
Moses was one such savior whom Yahweh raised up and sent to save his people.