Luke 3-4 : details, a nutter and an awesome God
You brood of vipers!
Last Sunday Andrew Palmer referred to this passage and made the call that John The Baptist was a nutter - well, as a Baptist, he is in very good company - but yeah, I can see Andrew's point - the man looked like a nutter and said nutty things - and yet - that was only the appearance cos in this nutter God was doing a very very special thing - he was getting everything ready for His son to get about doing the Job He came to earth to do.
I love the detail that Luke goes into in his book - his detail to help pin point the time when the events occurred - and with just four little word " so it was thought," he begins to chart the male side of Jesus' family all the way back to God - along the way showing the great heritage of Jesus - well, so it was thought anyway - cos of course he wasn't the son of Joseph at all. He was, like Adam, the Son of God - but a different, better Son, a life giving Son, a freedom granting Son. A Son of God who - well - he WAS GOD!!! What an outrageous thought, God becoming a man.
Actually it's not outrageous it's very very cool :D
He knows what it is like to be human - he knows the feeling of betrayal and abandonment - and He knows for real what it means to be forsaken by God. And he knows what happens when we die - and He is Alive today :D And He loves each one of us dearly enough to die for us.
Things like that - they are the things I wished filled my heart, filled my head - filled me so full that they just burst out, exploded into the world around me - I read this the other night - Philippians 4:4,5 from The Message [love the passion in that translation] Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in him! Make it as clear as you canto all you meet that you're on their side, working with them and not against them. Help them to see that the Master is about to arrive. He could show up any minute! - I got a LONG way to go, a long way. But with Jesus on my side - He can do it, even when I can't.
Last Sunday Andrew Palmer referred to this passage and made the call that John The Baptist was a nutter - well, as a Baptist, he is in very good company - but yeah, I can see Andrew's point - the man looked like a nutter and said nutty things - and yet - that was only the appearance cos in this nutter God was doing a very very special thing - he was getting everything ready for His son to get about doing the Job He came to earth to do.
I love the detail that Luke goes into in his book - his detail to help pin point the time when the events occurred - and with just four little word " so it was thought," he begins to chart the male side of Jesus' family all the way back to God - along the way showing the great heritage of Jesus - well, so it was thought anyway - cos of course he wasn't the son of Joseph at all. He was, like Adam, the Son of God - but a different, better Son, a life giving Son, a freedom granting Son. A Son of God who - well - he WAS GOD!!! What an outrageous thought, God becoming a man.
Actually it's not outrageous it's very very cool :D
He knows what it is like to be human - he knows the feeling of betrayal and abandonment - and He knows for real what it means to be forsaken by God. And he knows what happens when we die - and He is Alive today :D And He loves each one of us dearly enough to die for us.
Things like that - they are the things I wished filled my heart, filled my head - filled me so full that they just burst out, exploded into the world around me - I read this the other night - Philippians 4:4,5 from The Message [love the passion in that translation] Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in him! Make it as clear as you canto all you meet that you're on their side, working with them and not against them. Help them to see that the Master is about to arrive. He could show up any minute! - I got a LONG way to go, a long way. But with Jesus on my side - He can do it, even when I can't.
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