Song: We’re not gonna take it (Twisted Sister)
Subject: Israel = Rebellion
Jesus’s birth was anything but conventional. It was a night where a motley crew consisting of unlearned shepherds, angels on high, animals, a stepfather named Joe and a Virgin conceiving immaculately by the Holy Spirit gathered to welcome God to Earth. Even in his birth we see Jesus’s preference for the unlovely. Jesus was the target of a mass murder of ever Jewish boy under 2 years of age by the wicked King Herod, but escaped for a time of hiding in Egypt before he eventually returned with his parents to their home in Nazareth where he would live until he begins his ministry at the age if thirty.
Israel at this time was a hotbed of political rest w. Nazareth being groundzero for those who violently opposed the Roman government. Yet, the rebel that Nazareth produced with Jesus was one who was wholly revolutionary both with Rome and with Israel. Jesus’s taught rebellious things in the eyes of the law, except it was not Roman law he insulted, but Jewish law. In one of his famous sermons he proclaimed “You have heard it said…” “but i say…”
Culture says Fight //
But I say “Turn the other Cheek” //
Culture says “Poor are cursed” //
Jesus says “Blessed are the poor!”
Culture says “Submit ONLY to God” //
“Jesus says Submit to all authority AND pray for them”
He was Revolutionary among Revolutionaries. He created the first revolution of Love/Peace, and His revolution continues today through thousands who consider themselves disciples of Him.
Galations 2:20 Jesus lives through us, because we have given our lives to him
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