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Have you Bibles going to be Matthew chapter 27 and got a
message. I got this message back in
September. Man, I've looked at it four
times going to preach it and I guess tonight's a night.
Amen. It just keeps reoccurring.
It's very familiar passages of Scripture, but it's some very
important stuff in it and appreciate everyone coming
tonight. Matthew chapter 27 finds Jesus
before Pilate. Very important time in eternity.
You know, there there's there's two ways and and it's always you
know, how many is confused about some things in the Bible when
you read it. Maybe, maybe the plan of God
kind of sometimes we, we wonder about it because, you know, we,
we can preach this as, as, and I'm going to preach it this way
tonight about living in neutral and not really taking a stance
because I see it everywhere in the world and in the church, in
our parenting sometimes. And sometimes when it seems like
things aren't working and we're not gaining ground, especially
in our family, sometimes it's easier just to just to be
neutral sometimes. Hey, man.
But I found when I'm neutral, it really piles up and it really
gets worse, right, if we don't address some of these things.
But, you know, ultimately this was the sentencing of Jesus to
the cross, very pivotal time in human history and eternity in
the Bible. And Jesus didn't say anything.
He had already said it. He had already, he had already,
he had already had the Gospels that he knew people were going
to spread the word. And sometimes, you know, I had
to answer a question today about preaching in the same place for
so long, someone very close to me, I might add, and preaching
to the same people week in wake out.
Do you really feel like you're doing anything?
And God's called us to go out and disciple, which is true.
He told us to go out and into the world and preach the gospel.
He's also called us to to make disciples.
He's called us to do any, to do a lot of things.
But I answered that question. I said, I don't know what you
think, but I know what I'm called to do.
Hey man, I'm going to do what I'm called to do.
You do you. But somewhere in the mix, I got
to not let you affect me, right? And that's where the hard part
is, especially when it's people close to us.
And it took me to the Scripture because with eternity hinging
right here, Jesus didn't say anything.
He didn't defend himself. Now there's two sides to this
message. I've heard it preached in
different ways. I've preached in different ways.
But but see, we, we, we want Pilate to, to step up and take
the authority that he had and take it away from the people and
set Jesus free. I mean, that's one way to preach
it. Why didn't Pilate do that?
Because it wasn't in the will of God.
But he could have, Jesus could have called 10,000 angels and he
could have been released, but it wasn't in the will of God,
right? Why don't why don't I do some
things easier sometimes or you as a Christian take the easy way
out sometime because it's not in the will of God for our life and
we're greatly affected. But as we look at this is at the
first part of this. I'm not going to have time to
read it all, but in chapter 27, Jesus was of Matthew.
Jesus was sent to pilot. We know what Judas had already
done. He had sold the Lord for 30
pieces of silver, and Jesus had seen his closest betray him.
Man, if that was one of us today, we'd have to tell the
people in the courtyard and all around the way where we were
being tried at, at what Judas had just done to us.
But Jesus already knew. He'd already warned you to say
you're going to betray me. It's going to happen.
He already knew that. And there's some things that we
see going on in people's life. We we know because we've lived a
lot longer than them. Hello.
I had to tell my son, though. They said it doesn't matter what
I tell you you, you already know it.
You know, you've already figured this stuff out.
And half the time that I did So what good does it do?
How many men ever feel like that?
See them making mistake after mistake and you know where it's
headed. And if they would just tap into
some of the wisdom and stop for a little bit, they could go way
around this thing. But you know the truth.
Sometimes you got to find out for yourself and it hurts.
It hurts us, especially as parents.
If you're a young, if you're a young parent, you don't know
what I'm talking about yet, but you will.
But they just sold the Lord. And in verse 11, I want to read
a little bit and I really want to take some time on this
tonight and talk about it. But it says Jesus stood in
Matthew 27 and 11. He stood before the governor.
I'm going to be in the King James Version tonight for y'all
back there if you want to post it.
But Jesus stood before the governor.
He was speaking here to Pontius Pilate, and he asked him, He
said, are you the king of the Jews?
And it was a kind of an ironic question to ask Jesus because in
reality, there was a man named Jehoshin, which was the Last
King of the Jews, which reigned 600 years prior to this, because
we had had what, 400 years of silence.
So this Jehoshin guy, he was the Last King that was recognized by
God to settle on the throne of Judah back in Second Chronicles
36 and 9 through 10. So he was asking Jesus this, the
last one that said in the place that Jesus that that they were
pinning on Jesus as king of the Jews, because Jesus had not yet
answered that question. He had not yet said, I am the
king of the Jews, but he answers it.
And he said unto them, thou sayest it as it is as you say, I
am the king of the Jews. But as far as it as it was
recorded, this was the first time that Jesus claimed this
John had added some things to this and John 18 and 36 that
when Jesus said my Kingdom is not of this world, when they
they were always trying to pin the worldly things on Jesus,
right? Everything he did, they tried to
relate it. Hello somebody.
Is that like a Christian today? We try to relate everything of
the Kingdom to to the earth and it does not relate because we
have a big problem there, because his ways are not our
ways, His ways are higher. But yet we as Christians, we
always try to relate our life and our flesh to the Kingdom.
And it cannot happen. It does not happen that way.
But standing there, Jesus said it, sitting there, it is as you
say. And see, Pilate knew that his
claims were spiritual and he wasn't of this world.
And when he was accused of the chief verse 12 and the priest
and the elders, he answered nothing.
Man, that would be hard to do. Done open blinded eyes, done
raise the dead. Done, done all kinds of
miracles, turn water into wine, put money in the fish's mouth,
calm the sea. That would be hard for me to do
is to not sit there and and and not say anything that just got
me when I read that he answered nothing.
He would not defend himself before the people, which they
cared nothing about the truth anyway he ever found you spend
all this time defending something that you believe or
something you say sometime and then they come out with the
stupidest answer that you could ever imagine and and you're like
where did they get that something you learned back in
the second grade of your Christianity walk that that they
should have done been way past. I told somebody one time I said
you said under more teaching than that.
Surely then said Pilate unto him.
Do you not hear how many things they witnessed against you?
They were coming against him, but yet he had done nothing
wrong other than what? What was the one thing that
Jesus did wrong that offended the the thing that the only
thing that he really did wrong. They couldn't they couldn't
convict him of a law when they reverted back to the law healing
on the Sabbath. Some things that that mess with
their law, but legally they had no ground to stand on.
Hey man, they had no ground to stand on, but Jesus did not
defend himself and he answered verse 14 to him, never a word.
But see back in Isaiah 53 and seven.
He was fulfilling what Isaiah said in so much that the they
marveled greatly. It says so in verse 15.
It says now at the feast. So you got to picture this, you
have Barabbas and you have Jesus sitting on the stand and we're
at a pivotal time. As I said, the governor he was
that was accustomed to release some a prisoner to whom they
they they wanted. In other words, see the people
could choose which one they wanted released.
And Pilate thought that that he had found a way out of his
dilemma. What a dilemma he was in.
Amen. Because Pilate really didn't
want to. He didn't want to to crucify
Jesus. He would he didn't want him.
He wanted to release him. He knew that Jesus was innocent,
but they they in verse 16 it says and they had then a notable
prisoner called Barabbas. Therefore, when they gathered
together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will it?
Whom will you that I release unto you?
Barabbas or Jesus? And, and, and some manuscripts
say that his name was Jesus Barabbas.
They say so the people were forced with a choice.
It was Jesus or Barabbas, A murderer or someone that had
done nothing wrong. But yet they chose the murderer,
for he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
And in verse 19, it says when he was set down on the judgment
seat, it was a chair raised up on a platform.
His wife talking about pilot's wife Here it says she sent unto
him saying, have thou nothing to do with the just man?
For I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of
him. You know, most men listen to
their wives sometimes. But here she he chose he chose
not to see when we look back in in history in the time her name
was Claudia and another another name was Persulia.
And tradition says that ultimately she became a
Christian later on. And she was also anybody know
the history of this? She was also a Gentile.
She was a gentile. Well, that touched me when I
read that Amen. We got a place in Jesus heart,
right. She was a Gentile and she later
met Christ personally. But but in verse 20 it says, but
the chief priest and the elders persuaded the multitude that
they should ask Barabbas. The governor answered and he
said unto them, Whether of the two will you that I release?
They said Barabbas pilot said it to them, What shall I do then
with Jesus, which is called the Christ?
You know, that's the greatest question probably ever asked in
the Bible. What shall I do with Jesus
called the Christ? There's still people today that
can't answer that. They can't answer what will I do
with Jesus? There's a lot of people in
church that need to answer that question today.
Maybe they're in the church, but they're not of Jesus, right?
They need to at some point in our life.
What shall I do with Jesus called the Christ?
Greatest question, the answer decided eternal destiny.
Think about that for you and I when we make that decision to
follow Jesus. And they all said unto him, look
what they said, let him be crucified, let him be crucified.
You know, I've often wondered right here if the people would
said just release him, just release Jesus, if they could
have believed right there, what would have happened.
It's always stumped me right there.
But it wasn't in the will of God for him to be released, right?
Maybe the trial you're going through the night though, you
think you need to be out of it. It may not be in the will of God
for you to be out of it. But they said crucify him
because see, they knew that such a death, such a death would be
like in Deuteronomy 21 and 23 under the law of Moses and
anyone that was hanged on a tree where it was believed to be
cursed by God. But God was changing something
here with grace right from from the law to the dispensation of
grace. And the governor said, why?
What evil has he done? They could not answer that
question. They couldn't answer it, but
they just hollered crucify him. And you know, as we look at the
news many times today, we see the same thing, especially from
the left. Crucify him.
Do away with this Jesus. Let's don't do anything with
him. And you know, on the other side
of that, the Republicans are really good at not doing
anything, just kind of take in the neutral position.
We've become very good at that. But see, when they hollered
crucify him, what has he done? They had no answer.
But let's look at what Pilate does right here.
He's in a situation and when Pilate saw that he could not
prevail, nothing but that rather a tumult was made.
He took water, He took the water and he began to wash his hands
before the multitude, saying I am innocent of the blood of this
person. He didn't do anything about it.
He just washed. You know, I read that when the
Lord gave me this message, I was in a motel room in McAlester.
OK? And I'm going to preach it on a
Sunday. But there was, there's many
Christians today that they're just washing and they think
they're innocent. Paulo had a chance but he denied
the chance but like I say it's a catch 22 because it was in the
will of God was pilot part of the will of God but still we
have to work out our own salvation.
Even though the crowd was hollering crucify him he could
have still took a chance. You can wash all you want but it
doesn't make you clean. He said I'm innocent of the
blood of this person you see to it.
Then answered all the people and said look what the people said
here man, I found this astounding.
They said they said let his blood be on us and on our
children. And they wasn't talking about
the the redeeming blood of Christ.
They was talking about the punishment and the chastisement
of Christ and they just spoke it on their self.
And you know, today, 2026 years later, people are still doing
that. When we reject the gospel, when
we reject the blood of Jesus, we're they're, they're releasing
curse and not blessing upon their life.
And then they released Barabbas unto them.
And when he they had scorned him, they had they had beat him
so horribly, but yet they delivered him to be crucified.
But see, many times in our life, we're like Pilate.
We just stay neutral. It's easier to just wash.
It's easier not to come clean. Clean on some things it's
easier. I can picture Pilot just
washing. Much like people today lot call
their self Christians. You know, we find as we get
older, I have found an age age-old lie that the enemy is
just selling people and they're still buying it, still buying
it. You know, I heard my son today
saying it, talking about the church and and as y'all know he
don't come to church much anymore.
He was raised in church, but he was the one asked me the
question about preaching to the same people in those things and
how many. Remember when you were running
from the church, you didn't need the church, but God brought you
to a place and that's what I told him.
I said one day you will need the church.
Well we're called to go out and and lead people to Christ.
Can you do all that? And once I said, Oh yeah, we can
do it. I said I pretty got a chance to
preach a funeral the other day to over 100 people at the grave
site. And I said it was a little
different than what I preached in the church.
We got down and we got real. We talked about the Grays
busting open and I said don't be ignorant concerning death
because one day you will die. The apostle Paul said do not be
ignorant. And I preached and I could see
some hands in the back slip up. But after it a young man come up
to me. I've never seen him in my life
to my knowledge. And he said I just want you to
know. My hand didn't go up today.
But he said I come to your church one time and he said I
didn't really know about it because it was a non
denominational church. I was told.
But he said, I want you to know that day I came, I accepted
Jesus as my savior and I want you to know it.
You never know who you're touching, but see so many, it's
just it's just easier to wash and say, I don't need the
church. I'm not really doing anything.
But I'm I'm in neutral. The devil loves to put people in
neutral because when you're in neutral, you're not going
anywhere. See, it sounded good what pilot
did, but he didn't have the courage to do the right thing.
He didn't have the courage to stick up for what he was, what
he knew was right. But I say to you tonight, we
can't take a neutral position regarding Christ, even what
people have to know where we stand.
I know what's right and and everything that that you want to
do, you know, they come to your house and they say everything I
want to do. You don't call it fun.
You don't want to do any fun stuff.
I don't want to hang out with you.
They they, they begin to attack who you are and who you are.
I don't know what God's called you to do tonight, but I know
what God's called me to do. Hey, man, I'm not sure of myself
many times when I stand behind this pulpit, but I'm sure of my
calling. Hey, man, and I'm not giving up.
It's not just a hand washing, it's not just a Dunkin under and
come up a mighty man or woman of God.
It's it's, it's being, it's living for God every day and
never taking a neutral position. Amen.
But see, they can talk about the church all they want, but they
need to see the church in US, Amen.
If there's anything I'm glad, I'm so proud that that God has,
has created something within me that Satan can't tear down.
Amen. As long as I keep feeding it, as
long as I keep nourishing it. And that's what I begin to tell
my son today. I said, you know, I said when
you look at the church as a whole of what many of them do,
maybe you don't think you need it, but you need spiritual
nourishment every day. It never changes.
But so many are just washing, living in neutral, never taking
a stand. And we see this.
I read this thing about silence. See, silence grows louder over
time. Can I say that again?
Silence grows louder over time. But silence speaks.
Jesus was the pure image of that.
He didn't have to say anything because he had already walked it
out. He had already lived it.
He didn't have to defend anything.
He was saying, hey, I've showed you the way.
I've showed you the truth. I've presented the promise of
eternal life unto you and told you that I'm going to prepare a
place that where I am, there you can be also, so I don't have to
defend myself. But now here in a few days, when
you hang me on that old rugged cross and you play some thorns
up on my head and you Pierce my hands and feet and my side,
something is going to happen that you will never forget.
Amen. I don't have to talk about it.
I don't have to explain it. I just have to receive it.
Amen. And when I receive it, then I
begin to live it. Because silence grows louder
over time, but silence speaks. Time doesn't shout but shows
everything. Time doesn't shout, but it shows
everything. You don't believe it.
Go back and look at 8th grade picture.
I said time doesn't shout but it shows everything.
I like this. Who's real?
Who's fake? Isn't that true?
Time reveals all. Regret comes too late, but it
stays long. A few things we should remember
about time. I said time doesn't shout but
yet it shows everything. Time reveals everything.
No one escapes it's lessons. Amen.
I go Coon hunting with guys and I had a buddy the other day.
He had this little young dog. He didn't pay a bunch much money
for him and he did really good one night and I knew just
because I know him I knew he wasn't going to sell him.
Most time he will but if I he thinks I want it because we hunt
together he ain't going to sell it to me.
So I offered him kind of a lot of money for what the dog was
doing at the time and this and, and, and people to see the enemy
works this way. See it when when things are
going good, you know, we don't need to quit doing anything
ever. Our life's good.
The money's good. The social drinking's good.
The all the things are good in our life.
We don't need to give up anything.
We just kind of get neutral because we're just kind of
cruising along. You're not really hearing from
God because there's no problems to draw you to God to make you
pray. The thorn in your flesh seems to
be gone. Am I preaching to anybody?
But I told him that and he said he called me as he said.
I said, well, think about it. He thought about it and it was
way over double. It was over doubling his money.
And this particular breed of dog, though, will bring a lot of
money if they're trained. And he happened to tree one Coon
because he was with my dog and he kind of my dog was treated
over here about to tree and he runs under there and gets the
Coon. So he thinks his dog did it.
See. And and and I've done this sport
long enough. I know the insurance and outs
just be and and it's just like Christianity, you know, just
because we won one battle, we're still going to have to pray to
win the next battle. It ain't just going to come.
So he calls me, says I'm not going to I'm not going to say
that dog, I'm going to keep him. I said, OK.
I said, well, I'm really glad you didn't.
I said, because I got caught up in the moment.
He said, oh, he's a good young dog.
I said, OK, but see, I control the hunt because I have the
better dog and if I don't bring the better dog, I can bring
something that'll make his dog mess up.
So I brought two dogs the next night and he there was nothing
but whooping and choking and beating his dog.
But yet he don't understand that I control it, right.
That must be how I thought. That's the kind of how God
feels, you know, we get cocky and we, we get we get all of our
Christian kicks and we get to posting some good things and I
get to preaching a few messages that are just easy, you know,
and then here comes the here comes the trouble.
But see, life is like this, we can't just wash the cares away.
We have to stand up for something.
I wonder what he thought my wife had a dream about this man.
What was it? What was it?
If I take a stand, what's going to happen?
If I take a stand and release Jesus and and don't release some
Barabbas, so will will I have a job tomorrow?
Well, that hits home, doesn't it?
Think about it. Pilot had a chance here.
He had a choice, but he he did something that looked good.
You know good will lead you away from God sometimes.
Not all churches that look good are good.
Not all ideas that sound good are good.
But never enough to bring a change in his life.
Pilot held his office, as history tells, for for 10 more
years. He was the governor, he was
Pilot, but at the end of that time he was removed for cruelty
and extortion, and history tells that he was banished, that he
was vanished to to Vayen and GAO, where he committed suicide,
killed himself, did the same thing that Judas did, took
matters into his own hands. He, he knew about the blood, but
yet it never changed him. How many are that way today?
How many know somebody in your family that's that way?
They know all about it and, and know all about it, but they're
just in neutral. They're just in neutral, not
really going in any direction. Shaking hands, washing hands
doesn't make you free. We learned this many times.
And in parenting, there was, I'm sure we could all go back and
look at something that if we would have took a stand and we
could have cut it off and stopped it, then maybe we made a
mistake. But Romans 12/1 and two, Paul
says that I beseech you, that means to ask to pray for
something with deep urgency and desperation.
Paul says, I beseech you that you present your bodies.
He says, I pray that I pray to God that you present your bodies
as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable.
You know, as I preached the Sunday before last, or maybe it
was Wednesday, I don't remember, but or something that really got
me that Jesus said if you love me, you'll do what keep my
commandments. Assembling ourselves together is
a commandment. It's not one of the 10
commandments, but all through the New Testament, every
everyone that was anointed of God said Fred, Paul said as
forsake not the assembling of yourselves, but Jesus said, if
you love me, you'll keep my commandments and I love what I
shared after that. And he said when you keep my
commandments, he said, and I will pray the Father.
See that's why why don't we preach holy?
It's not just to be holy. So everybody say, oh, look at
them or I haven't done this this week.
It's so that Jesus will pray the father on our behalf because he
looks down and see us keeping his commandments and sees a
child trying to obey his father. And when he does, he says, I'm
going to pray the father. And when I pray the father is a
really cool thing that's going to happen.
He, the Holy Spirit, is going to come and dwell within you, that
you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and
acceptable under God, which is your reasonable service and
perfect will of God. See, there's a will of God that
He will allow us to walk in sometimes, but then there's a
perfect will of God. I want to be in the perfect will
of God. I think of Joseph when I think
of this eight times in Genesis 39, it says that the Lord was
with Joseph. Why?
Because he was walking in the perfect will of God.
You know, he said what the enemy meant for evil when he was
throwed into the opiate. What happened?
God turned it into good. Joseph is a great example of not
grumbling and complaining at the situation that you're at, but
just keep trying. And Potiphar saw that God had
his hand up on him, so he entrusted him, he entrusted
Joseph with all of his house. And you know what, what
happened? Y'all know the rest of that
story. But it's a great example of not
being in neutral because when when she tried to seduce him, he
said, how could I sin against my God?
What a great attitude to have. It's not that it's not an
attitude of just trying to live for God every day.
It should be. How could I, how could I?
I I've got to obey the commandments so so that the
Father that that Jesus will pray to the Father.
But as you stand your feet, I say this often, your greatest
temptation will come with your greatest justification.
You know, that's that's so true because so many people they're
they're tempted not to go to church.
They're tempted to walk away from God.
They're tempted to to do though. But you know, we, we look at
people today and many of us here, we've lived, we've served
God a long time. And it's hard for us to go back
to that time to where they were. There was a time you didn't
think you needed God. There was a time that you
thought you could do it on your own.
There was a time you thought church was just for old people,
right? But then there was that day that
you quit being in neutral and you knew that I, I can't make it
without it. You got to feed your spirit.
But your greatest temptation to walk away from those things, it
comes with your greatest justification.
I have a whoop, my son since he was very young, but I almost
slapped him because he said, well, we'll be we'll be
different than going to church where everybody believes in
going somewhere where, where and trying to live it.
I guess you could try that, see how it works for you.
You better go to the church and get fed and then go live it.
Hey man, but just your greatest temptation will come with your
greatest justification. You ever been there where you
try to justify what was inside of you and you knew it wasn't of
God? Your greatest temptation will
come with your greatest justification, but when you do
not yield to that temptation, you will see the manifestation
of God and the power of God as you've never seen it before in
your life. That's why it's important.
But many forfeit the blessings of God because we refuse to
humble ourselves before God. Joseph could resist the
temptation because he had already humbled himself, right?
Jesus didn't have to defend himself.
You know, I, I get so tired. And if you don't watch it, your
walk will get that way. You try.
You like we're trying to defend God.
We don't have to defend God. Hey, man, he's already hung it
on a cross. He's already said it's finished.
We start, we start fighting battles that he's already won,
and we get caught up in the mess.
Am I the only one? And I realized why I'm not
worried about that. You've already said it's
finished. Hey, man.
But it's the hardest thing because it's hard for me to
grasp sometimes. This is because we pray.
Anybody pray for the kids? Anybody pray for lost loved
ones? It ain't been a few days ago.
My he's telling me he'd been praying about some banging his
head up against the wall. It says exactly what you're
doing. Because when when you're not in
the will of God and when somebody's not in the will of
God and God's using this trial to get somebody to come back to
God. But yet we're over here crying.
Oh God, don't let it happen. You know, it gets kind of mind
breaking. So do y'all ever think of that
or is it just me? Here I am praying for protection
here. I'm praying for all these things
because we don't want to go through the hurt that we can
see. That's a head.
So we're really worried about us.
When God's got a perfect will, he's trying to perform in there.
Where would you be today if you hadn't hit rock bottom?
Hey man, where would you be if you hadn't landed in in the old
jail cell or the old prison or the OR whatever the the with the
bottle in your hand and nowhere else to where would you be
today? But it's hard.
It's hard when we see him making the mistakes.
It's hard, isn't it? But yet we need to be like
Jesus. He sat there with a steadfast
faith. He said, look, I've already
showed y'all what to do. I've already told you on the
way, the truth and the life. So of course I'm the king of the
Jews. I don't know, sometimes we get
caught up in this stuff, you know, when it's already
finished. But as I read earlier, I want to
back up and read that again. They said Barabbas and Pilate
said to them, what then shall I do with Jesus who is called the
Christ? You know, that's a, that's
really a stupid question. We know what we should do with
Jesus, but are we willing to take the stand?
Are we willing to take the, the, the criticism, the whatever that
comes with it? What shall I do with Jesus who
is called the Christ? And they all said to him, let
him be crucified. Then the governor said, wow,
what evil has he done? But they cried all the more
loud, saying let him be crucified.
When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all.
You know, we feel like that sometimes.
We're not prevailing sometimes as the church.
And it's very hard when people are in the church and still not
saved. In many churches there was never
a change in their life. And the enemy, you know, I as I
look back as a kid and it, I lay awake at not crying about that
very thing because I never thought the enemy would get to
God's children through the church.
But it's happening. It's disguised.
He's getting to us. But when Pilate saw that he
could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumble was
resting, he, he took the water and he washed his hands before
the multitude. He had just rejected the blood,
but he said, I'm innocent of the blood of this man, of this just
person. You see to it.
See, living in neutral, not doing nothing doesn't make you
innocent. It might make it easy, but it
doesn't make you innocent. Not doing nothing about the
things that you could be addicted to very easily or about
the thing that God's told you to get out of your life.
Not doing it doesn't make you innocent.
And all the people answered and said his blood be on us and our
children. I want his blood tonight, but
not in the way they said it. I want the grace.
And you know, Pilate could have had that grace, but yet he went
out and hung. It didn't work too good for him
staying in neutral. You know, he could have.
I don't know how it would have turned out.
Anybody got a thought on it? It's kind of interesting, isn't
it, because it was all the plan of God.
But you know, did God have another plan if they hadn't
crucified Jesus? I don't know.
Kind of like the question brother Randy asked me and I
said, I don't know that we have an answer for why kids die of
Hank cancer this side of heaven. I can't explain how you know the
you're going to have to answer that in your walk.
Why would a loving God? I don't know.
His ways are not my ways. His ways are higher.
He's got a perfect plan and a perfect will.
I just want to be part of it. I don't want to tell him how to
do it. Amen That I challenge you.
Don't stay in neutral. Thanks for listening to the
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