Our Wednesday evening small group Bible Study is going through a video series on who is Jesus by Pastor Louie Giglio. In this last lesson, Pastor Giglio states that no matter where you live,
how much money you have, what your job is or what you are in control of, there
is always something else that can sweep right into your world and shut it down.
But, just because we cannot be in control of everything and everyone, doesn’t
mean that we need to feel insecure. It doesn’t mean that we have to go through
life worrying how things are going to turn out. 2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God
has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound
mind.” Today, we can trust and rest in the One who stands above it all.
A Grand Master Chess Player
can vision 15-20 moves ahead and what the board will look like at that point.
If only we could allow God to help us to think today beyond the nest move!
There is going to be peace and hope come into our lives, because we are “next
move” people. A situation comes into our world out of left field, a tragic
phone call comes, news that we were not expecting appears, or somebody moves in
a way that we did not imagine; what is our next move? We are a generation of
“next move” people and God is a God of all the moves. So, for us to align our
lives with Him, roots us in hope and peace.
Isaiah 46:5-11 “To whom
will you liken Me, and make Me equal and compare Me, that we should
be alike? They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver on the scales; they
hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; they prostrate themselves, yes,
they worship. They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its
place, and it stands; from its place it shall not move.
Though one cries out to it, yet it cannot answer nor save him out of
his trouble. Remember this, and show yourselves men; recall to mind, O you
transgressors. Remember the former things of old, for I am God,
and there is no other; I am God, and there is none
like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient
times things that are not yet
done, saying, ‘My
counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure,’ Calling a bird of
prey
from the east, the man who executes My counsel, from a far
country. Indeed I have spoken
it; I will also bring it to pass. I have
purposed it; I will also do it.”
Pastor Giglio points out that in life, there is a “big
picture” going on and the question is not who is moving the pieces within the
chessboard of life, but Who is moving the pieces of history today? God, through
all ages, has raised up people of power to accomplish His purposes in time and
eternity. Jesus, standing before the “outside” power of Roman Authority caused
them to ask: “Are you a king?” or “Are you a pawn?” The promised Messiah was
going to be a great and mighty Ruler, the One to bring the Kingdom of God, the
One that they all were waiting for … the Promised One. But, Jesus looked like
He was just a pawn in the hands of power. As Jesus affirms that He is a King,
at the end of the day, the “inside” (Jewish) power has it’s way with the
“outside” (Roman) power and take Christ away to crucified Him.
The answer to was Jesus a
King or a Pawn is clear. Jesus was not the pawn on that day, but everyone else
there (both inside and outside powers) were the pawns on that day. In fact,
Jesus was the King on that day and everyone else was a role player in the
purpose and plan of Almighty God. The Roman Empire was conquered and fell in
476 A.D. and here we are worshiping Jesus, the living Savior of the world,
today. Jesus Christ is King!
Let's continue this eye-opening study's message in the next post.
In Christ, Brian
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