THE KING IS MOCKED (8 OF 19)
Scripture: Matthew 27:27-44
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The King is Mocked (8 of 19)
Series: Cross Examination
Wyman Richardson
Matthew 27:27-44
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N.T. Wright has shared an intriguing story about a spelunking friend of his.
A friend of mine was leading a party of explorers through underground caverns and tunnels. They had trained for this expedition and knew the way. Not all the caves had been explored before, and my friend was convinced that there was a way right through, bringing them out by a different route after some miles underground. It would involve them at one point going down under water inside the cave, in order to come up the other side in a continuing tunnel. Nobody had even attempted to go this way before.
But when they got to the crucial point in the cave, some of the party lost their nerve. It was a stupid idea, they said. There were no maps, no charts to indicate that there was a way through. They might go down into the water and simply drown while trying to find the way forward. Some got angry with the leader. What right had he got, they said, to push them into doing something crazy just because he had the dream of finding a new way? Eventually he realized there was only one thing to do. He would have to go through himself and find the way, and then come back to take them with him.
As he went down into the water, some of the group stood there nervously silent, but the ones who had objected laughed at him. So much for your great dreams, they said. Either you'll come back soaked and defeated or you won't come back at all. That's what happens to people who think they know too much and discover too late that they don't.
Of course - I wouldn't be telling the story otherwise! - he did find the way through, and eventually they all followed, including the grumblers. But the point of the story...is to show what it was like as Jesus pioneered the way through death and out the other side into the new life that he knew was there but which nobody else understood.
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Series: Cross Examination
Wyman Richardson
Matthew 27:27-44
Read Matthew 27:27-44
N.T. Wright has shared an intriguing story about a spelunking friend of his.
A friend of mine was leading a party of explorers through underground caverns and tunnels. They had trained for this expedition and knew the way. Not all the caves had been explored before, and my friend was convinced that there was a way right through, bringing them out by a different route after some miles underground. It would involve them at one point going down under water inside the cave, in order to come up the other side in a continuing tunnel. Nobody had even attempted to go this way before.
But when they got to the crucial point in the cave, some of the party lost their nerve. It was a stupid idea, they said. There were no maps, no charts to indicate that there was a way through. They might go down into the water and simply drown while trying to find the way forward. Some got angry with the leader. What right had he got, they said, to push them into doing something crazy just because he had the dream of finding a new way? Eventually he realized there was only one thing to do. He would have to go through himself and find the way, and then come back to take them with him.
As he went down into the water, some of the group stood there nervously silent, but the ones who had objected laughed at him. So much for your great dreams, they said. Either you'll come back soaked and defeated or you won't come back at all. That's what happens to people who think they know too much and discover too late that they don't.
Of course - I wouldn't be telling the story otherwise! - he did find the way through, and eventually they all followed, including the grumblers. But the point of the story...is to show what it was like as Jesus pioneered the way through death and out the other side into the new life that he knew was there but which nobody else understood.
That is a g ...
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