Why is Jesus in such agony leading up to his death? Didn’t he know this was going to happen? It’s because Jesus is facing something that no-one else has handled before, God’s wrath so that we don’t have to.
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There’s a new covenant, this one brought in by the blood of Jesus. And it means there’s no need to hide, everything that we’d normally hide has been washed away.
Jesus isn’t just another religious guy you can dismiss…he’s the guy who determines where you stand with God. How you respond to him is how you respond to God.
We’re back into Mark, picking up where we left off in 2013. Jesus is in Jerusalem, in conflict with the religious leaders…pushing them to come to God honestly, repentently…to unmask themselves & give up their hypocrisy.
When we grasp God’s grace – the rich God who became poor so the poor could become rich – we start to see what we have not as a means of self-fulfilment, but as a means of being involved in what God’s doing in the world.
God’s Grace changes the way we look at the world and want to engage with its problems and those struggling in it.
There’s nothing that is as compelling as undeserved, lavish, overflowing love. That’s what Christians have experienced from God…and it’s too compelling, and too important, not to share.
When you’re saved by grace, you can’t help but see others differently. Particularly those around you who are saved by the same grace you are, and who God gives you to grow and be grown by.
