Yesterday’s post showed my desire to talk about Jesus more than the Current Crisis. Jesus is the lasting presence. The Current Crisis will pass. We just have to minimize its damage to vulnerable persons who cannot actually choose for themselves, either because of extreme pressure from those who should make good decisions for them or because they just lack the (developed) intellect to make good choices.
How do we accomplish this goal (to protect the vulnerable)?
We should urge vulnerable persons to avoid making choices they cannot change when their brain develops. This is more than a series of ink stains on the epidermis. Some vulnerable people feel capable of making decisions about body organs and drug regimens sure to have life time consequences.
Jesus is all about consequences.
Jesus is all about defending the vulnerable.
Jesus “takes up” for those who cannot take up for themselves.
Yes, I really think Jesus can fix things without chopping off body parts or confusing pronouns.
The various things people seem to want today in our muddled North American culture (community, emotional support, spiritual strength), well, Jesus ‘corners the market” on such items.
How?
The old folks got it right. We do frightful things to the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ through John but John is right. John (the human inspired to write the book of Revelation) says that Jesus is…”the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of kings on the earth” (Revelation Chapter One, Verse Five; the books of our Bible are named, arranged in chapters and cited by verses, like songs).
So, Jesus is the “straight shooter” and the only one to go through death into life as we can do because of Him and Jesus is bigger and better than the men/women who seem to rule over this world for a time. Jesus not only “Gets Us” but Jesus “Gets Us” because He pays the price to “Have Us.”
Jesus gathers us up to take us on the journey of salvation to life eternal. The voice of Jesus calls to us in to the time and place where we can make a choice for Him. We may have only a limited amount of free agency in the matter (sin is as limiting as it is captivating) but we only need to “want to want” to follow Jesus to start the trip.
In this series we will discuss the Work of Jesus and let that teach us about the Person of Jesus. In this manner we follow the literary example of Emil Brunner in his Dogmatics and Dale Moody in his Word of Truth. We will show how Jesus, in the old language, functions as Prophet, Priest and Potentate, while we seek to modernize the language without sacrificing the meaning.
See you tomorrow. We are going to talk about Jesus.