Jesus is Loving Barabbas

we see the story of jesus going to the cross and everything seems to kind of be hand in hand and then there's this one character that seems to interrupt the narrative his name's barabbas you don't even know much about him except that he's a murderer leader of an insurrection a rebel and why he's even mentioned sometimes i'm not so sure it's like what let's this is about jesus going to the cross so in this moment pilate thinks i hold the destinies of these two men in my hand i know the jews have a tradition that on a holy day i will release one of the prisoners on death row pilate stands on this audacious stage who now presents jesus son of the living god versus barabbas the thug and rebel he says all right who do you want this is blasphemy this is this has gone too far there's no comparison this is a rightful prisoner a man who should be on death row he's a rebel against rome he leads a rebellion he murders people he's a bad man he's a thug and he's a crook he deserves the chains and he deserves the crucifixion jesus what has he done but heal restore deliver set free open blind eyes open deaf ears heal the lame and the leper what what is jesus done who do you want we want barabbas yeah give us barabbas people say give us barabbas the roman soldiers come up and they put the key in and they unlock barabbas from his chains and shackles and he walks down the platform welcomed by all of his thug friends yeah the people love me yeah that's right i don't even know who this jesus guy is but all i know is my people love me there seems to be no conscience in barabbas there's no record of him turning to jesus and saying i owe you everything now for you have set me free no i don't see any of that in barabbas and god knew that jesus stood there silent for he knew the will of the father he said it's fine father let him have barabbas for jesus knew that the father would have to treat jesus like barabbas so he could treat barabbas like jesus barabbas thought it was the people that set him free no no no no it was the love of a heavenly father when i look at the story i realized cooper ravish really is that's me that's you that's us and i felt i was reading this the other day and i felt god speak to me i love perhaps i love him but god he's bad man i love him and i wanted him to go free but didn't you know that he probably would have never acknowledged the freak it yeah but i love perhaps for while we were still sinners christ died for us god sent his son for barabbas even the one he knew would walk away from jesus and his free gift and never come back he loves them and the nerve i call on the audacity of believers to think i got saved by grace but now that i'm in this deep dark place of bondage i better work hard to get myself out what that's the opposite of the gospel are you bound are you held under the power of this temptation this sin the sexual urges do you feel like it's controlling you what are you gonna do i'm gonna shake myself free stop it no you won't you're no match for the powers of hell and the urges of sin and sexual temptation you will not overcome it and you will never overcome it you'll just be another statistic there's no answer within yourself your own marriage your own goodness your own discipline your own devotion will not save your marriage it will not save your kids there's only one and he's the one that took your place he's the one that stood soundly on the platform with pilate and said yes let him out barabbas take me how many times have i stood on that platform with pilate and jesus and i'm the barabbas and they start to take my chains off and i say no no i deserve this i deserve the guilt i deserve the shame i deserve the consequence i deserve it jesus seems to look at me say no son let me have it let me have your sin let me have your pain no god i did it to myself i deserve it my marriage won't make it this is what i deserve i deserve divorce i deserve poverty i deserve sickness i deserve it all no god i i'm so ashamed give me your shame god what if i do it again i'll still be here oh god i don't want to hurt you i love you i i don't want to do this anymore give me your sins this is all we got it's all i got it's all you got we can play games we can play church games we can pretend like some people are better than others and that's why they're blessed or we can all come to the honest conclusion that it's god and it's god alone the greatest challenge is not your discipline your devotion your focus your greatest challenges believe in the gospel could it be that there's a god with a love so scandalous so wide so deep so fast so high so expansive so welcoming so inclusive let me have your sins son okay and i give him my sin let's stand in this empty space of forgiveness and acceptance why jesus walks off to the cross that i deserve i see him i see him walking to the post to be whipped as i stand a free man all the attention is turned now and i feel the love of god saying go son live your life i'll pay the price where did we get off thinking that we were gonna set ourselves free it's still jesus it'll always be jesus it'll never stop being the power of jesus if his blood is sufficient for your salvation his blood is sufficient to sustain you through every challenge and every sin and every temptation jesus is enough you

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Keywords: sermon, Jesus, Judah smith, the city church, seattle, washington, barabbas, love, loving, crucifixion, music, emotional, God, church

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Length: 8min 39sec (519 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 16 2016

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