Which Jesus Will You Choose: Barabbas or Christ?

Nothing controversial to that at all. But, you stand up and say, and he's my lord, or he is lord, he's king of kings, he's lord of lords. You start saying those things, all of a sudden, controversy. You keep that out of our schools. You keep that out of our government. You keep that out of all these places. He doesn't belong here. As long as you stay neutral, nobody cares. But the moment you go all the way, people care. And here's what happens with Jesus. Jesus says, guess what? With me, there is no neutral ground. [00:37:01] (34 seconds)  #NoNeutralGround

And one thing that we find from Jesus, he will not be redefined. He makes it very clear who he is. He did not sway one way or the other. He will not be redefined to what people wanted him to be. And because Jesus was not willing to be redefined, guess what? They killed him. Because they couldn't make him who they wanted him to be, they crucified him. [00:13:45] (26 seconds)  #UnredefinableJesus

But because Jesus won't be redefined, you know what that means? That means Jesus is not your Jesus or your Jesus or your Jesus or my Jesus. He's Jesus of the Bible. Amen. He's Jesus, the son of god. He's Jesus who's unchanging, Jesus who's unmoving. He is Jesus who who will be the same yesterday, today, and forever and no matter how we try to mold him, shape him, redefine no matter what we try to do as people, he will not be changed and he will not be redefined. He's the same. Yes. He's the same. [00:15:41] (38 seconds)  #JesusUnchanging

And the moment we start to tweak, we've now rejected this Jesus and said, no. Actually, this is the Jesus for me. And then all of a sudden, it starts to make a little bit more sense how the crowd could say, give us Barabbas. On the surface, it makes no sense whatsoever. But if we're not careful, we do the exact same thing. And we have to ask ourselves, what Jesus do we want? [00:17:02] (22 seconds)  #DontTweakJesus

And since we cannot redefine him and since we cannot change him, then we're left with two options. Do we accept Jesus who is called Christ for who he is, or do we accept a counterfeit? It's the only two choices we've got. We can't say, I want the real Jesus, but I wish he was a little less, you know, righteous. Or I wish he was a little less, you know, in my life and in my face about things. I like this Jesus, but I wish he was a little more, you know, understanding of what's like to be a human here on Earth. All of these things that go through our mind, I want him but I want some change. I want to tweak this or that. [00:16:20] (42 seconds)  #NoCounterfeitJesus

Sometimes, we try to please people, and we gamble our relationship with Jesus. And I told you last week, our biggest enemy might not even be the people we're trying to please. It might be the flesh we're trying to please. Trying to do things our way, the way we like things done. And so we try to please ourselves, and we end up gambling what we have in Christ. And so we need to take our cues and our example from Christ. And he said, I only please one, and that's him. And in doing so, he's actually we all benefited from that. He actually was able to please all of us, but he was doing it to please his father. [00:02:22] (35 seconds)  #PleaseGodNotPeople

Our world today out there, they don't know Jesus. They may know him by name, but they don't know Jesus. And guess what? They are unqualified judge. They don't know. If we just think that we just throw the name of Jesus out there to the world, that all of a sudden they're gonna be a good judge and make the right decision about him, we are mistaken. They don't know. And so they're begging and wondering and asking the same thing Pilate did. What do I do with this Jesus? What do I do with him? [00:43:45] (34 seconds)  #TheyDontKnowJesus

We also have to answer this for ourselves, not just today, but tomorrow and the next day and the next week. This is a reoccurring question because each morning when we wake up, we have to decide what are we gonna do with Jesus today? Am I gonna live for him today or am I gonna live for myself? Am I going to try to please him or am I gonna try to please myself? It is a question that keeps coming up over and over and over again in our lives. [00:05:52] (26 seconds)  #ChooseJesusDaily