It was evident that the Jews had a direction they decided to travel and Jesus was not a part of their plan. Yet, He was and is truth and life to them and they refused Him!
John 19:17-22 NKJV And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called the Place of the Skull, which called in Hebrew, Golgotha, 18 where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Jesus in the center. 19 Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. And the writing was: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. 20 Then many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. 21 Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, "The King of the Jews." 22 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Each of us can give voice to that which is desirous to our heart. What do we celebrate but is really death to us? We can give our opinion or view of any subject that we think we have great knowledge of and on. And if we appear in a place of position, somehow that place seems to give more credence to what we may believe and trust in our heart. So if we are giving voice to something, have we started in the place of prayer? It is important hat God's love shows up in that which we pray for and seek to know that is the knowledge of God where insight is given to help us discern the best, the pure and the blameless way of walking while presenting truth to any situation and possibly the world?
To give voice to the right thing, means we give it in the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ who is the glory and praise of God. (Philippians 1:9-11)
But there are those who abuse their power to exert their own agenda in having things their way even if it brings death to another!
Have we bound mercy and truth around our neck and written them on the tablet of our heart so that we find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man. Or are we going about to make a statement about someone or something just to exert that "our will" is exerted on another person? (For that is sin) You and I are to trust in the Lord with all of our heart and not to lean on that which is known as the human living in a humanistic world, but we are to acknowledge Him in all that we do in the ways of walking through this world into the next place in our future.
For if we acknowledge Him, then He is directing our path and He can do for us that is life, for that relationship with our spouse that is a marriage founded on His word of truth. Acknowledging Him in raising children for Him, or even to acknowledge what our place in Him is to look like and how we get there without exerting pain on others. So, as we choose not to be "wise in our own eyes" we fear the Lord and depart from evil to find health for our flesh and strength to our bones. In this we look to honor Him with our possessions and with the first fruits of all our increase. (Proverbs 3:3-10)
Acknowledging Him is to be our thought and to be our way. It is not making Him aware to be on guard for us on this, but that we make our heart aware to follow Jesus, counsel with Him, and that we make our own heart know His truth and His thoughts to walk in His ways while we travel a lifetime to eternity! Continuing in His righteousness, we see the reward of that effect. And when correction comes and it will most certainly come, we are to heed that is of God's love and His concern for us as individuals that the correction comes. And then how you and I respond to that correction will reveal what path we truly travel on: either for Him and His glory or for ourselves and for our own glory!
In Matthew 27:15-26 NKJV Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to releasing to the multitude one prisoner whom they wished. 16 And at that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. 17 Therefore, when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?" 18 For he knew that they had handed Him over because of envy. 19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that just Man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of Him."
Matthew 27: 20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. 21 The governor answered and said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!" 22 Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let Him be crucified!" 24 When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it."
Matthew 27:25 And all the people answered and said, "His blood be on us and on our children." 26 Then he released Barabbas to them; and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified.
Pilate's wife sent word to tell him of her dream the night before. He is given a word by her not to have anything to do with Him because of what she experienced while dreaming of Jesus.
In
remembrance of all the things that occurred to Jesus, we consider Peter denying
him and Judas betraying him for monetary gain. It was Pilate who
declared Jesus the Christ to have no fault in him. And for Pilate’s wife a
dream was given. How much previous knowledge would she have had of Jesus
before that night? It is possible she had heard many voices speak of Him, but
did she regard the voices?
If we
view the whole of the written word of God, it is God Himself who will not leave
himself without witnesses to the truth of what He is giving to a people. “Have nothing to do with the just Man, for I
have suffered many things today in a dream because of Him.” Pilates’ wife gave a caution of warning what
would be wrapped up in Jesus the Christ.
In regard to others, do we regard that
friendship to be foremost and given especially when so many things are
appearing around us? Pilate was bombarded on all sides: the Jews who desired by
envy to put Jesus away for good, the Sanhedrin who were led by Caiaphas the
high priest and elders present were active to influence the people in favor
of Barabbas. Then there was also the Roman government with its rules and own
law. And we know Jesus was led to Annas
first .( John 18:12-14)
The detachment of troops and its captain and officers
of the Jews arrested Jesus. And bound they led Him away. This Annas asked Jesus information of His disciples and His doctrine. And Jesus answered that He had spoken openly
to the world. He told him that He had taught in synagogues and in the temple
where the Jews always met and in secret He told Annas that He had spoken
nothing. In John 18: 21 “Why do you ask
Me? Ask those who have heard Me what I said to them. Indeed they know what I
said.” Because of Jesus’ answer to Annas, He was struck by an officer who stood
by, but Jesus' answer was: “If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil, but
if well, why do you strike Me?”
And of
course, then Jesus is sent to the court of Pilate!
What lay
ahead was a view of people who asked for the evil of Barabbas to be released and to destroy the
just Man Jesus. These were corrupt
leaders who set themselves to show Jesus as the corrupt, the Man who did wrong, was spoken of as a
deceiver and was in league with the devil. This people became those who managed
mobs at the expense of the innocent man.
In
truth, the High Priest Caiaphas was never to tear his garments. And some have
written that he most likely did not have on his priestly garment at the time…..not
sure why that would have been since he was High Priest! But we do know that
the High Priest was present and that Jesus Christ stood before him. And what was to be regarded as truth, these
priests did wickedly. In Deuteronomy 17:8-9 If a matter arises which is too hard
for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment
or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and
go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses. 9 and you shall come to the
priests, the Levites, and to the judge there in those days, and inquire of
them; they shall pronounce upon you then sentence of judgment.
A
witness was required to initiate the penalty by casting the first stones, thus
subjecting himself to blood revenge should his testimony prove to be false.
(Deut. 19:15-21)
The witness was to give truth!
Some
people love having the power but they choose to abuse by lies exerting that power bringing pain or even death it upon
those who would be the “innocent”. Those with the abusive power do come to their end
in the error of their ways when causing such wicked things on the innocent.
Within these scenes that led up to Jesus' crucifixion we find a group of people who moved hurriedly to make decisions that revealed violence not only on Jesus, but also that which ultimately would come to their nation. They were the blind leading the blind!
Within these scenes that led up to Jesus' crucifixion we find a group of people who moved hurriedly to make decisions that revealed violence not only on Jesus, but also that which ultimately would come to their nation. They were the blind leading the blind!
Even
though Pilate did not regard the warning from his wife, he did see something in
the Just Man. But choosing to disregard the good Man , the Just Man sin is
expressed and multiplied indeed.
Proverbs 8: 29 When He assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters would not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth, 30 Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him, 31 rejoicing in His inhabited world, and my delight was with the sons of men.
God's wisdom is a life-giver. He enriches us with His wisdom when we seek His counsel and when we seek to be the witness that declares His goodness to man. Peace on earth comes when men have the Prince of Peace on their hearts. When the water represents man, then those people should not transgress the Lord's boundaries for safety!
Psalm 93:2-5 NKJV Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting. 3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, they floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves, 4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, than the mighty waves of the sea. 5 Your testimonies are very sure; holiness adorns Your house, O LORD, forever.
Things are swept away by floods of adversity, swept away by those with hostile natures against other men and when they all make their voices heard, it is only God Who is established and His word stands sure!
Psalm 93:2-5 NKJV Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting. 3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, they floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves, 4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, than the mighty waves of the sea. 5 Your testimonies are very sure; holiness adorns Your house, O LORD, forever.
Things are swept away by floods of adversity, swept away by those with hostile natures against other men and when they all make their voices heard, it is only God Who is established and His word stands sure!
Pilate had sought to release Jesus: John 19:12 From then on Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar's friend. Whoever makes himself a kings speaks against Caesar."
The pronouncement: "What I have written, I have written." Roman law forbade the sentence written to be altered in any manner or form. It was an inscription pronouncing something against Jesus. BUT what was given was prophetic indeed. The kingdom of the Jews would have no other Messiah. Jesus was crucified because He was the king of the Jews. In the book of Matthew it was given as an accusation against Him, but in the book of John it is given as His title!
What do we profess? What does our day, week or year look like in regards to Jesus? Do you and I regard Jesus by His title in all we do and how we regard others when making appointments with them? Do we consider those things as important as enjoying the world and its positions for such a limited time to leave Jesus behind and do our own thing?
Again, do we give regard to Him or do we take account of choosing Barabbas to serve the world? There was no crime in Jesus, and that innocence when it was written of Him, that sign would be revealed upon the cross of the dying Messiah.
Yes, Caiaphas pronounced someone had to die for the good of the people. In meaning: these men in some form of witness but not for the good of Jesus, but as the witness against Him, that which was the written proved to be that which prophesied of His title. Yes, the Jews rejected Christ Jesus and would not have Him for their king. And Pilate the Gentile knew this, still he remained to give an earnest account of the king of the Jews.
Again, do we give regard to Him or do we take account of choosing Barabbas to serve the world? There was no crime in Jesus, and that innocence when it was written of Him, that sign would be revealed upon the cross of the dying Messiah.
Yes, Caiaphas pronounced someone had to die for the good of the people. In meaning: these men in some form of witness but not for the good of Jesus, but as the witness against Him, that which was the written proved to be that which prophesied of His title. Yes, the Jews rejected Christ Jesus and would not have Him for their king. And Pilate the Gentile knew this, still he remained to give an earnest account of the king of the Jews.
John 19:19 Pilate wrote the sign himself: Jesus of Nazareth , the king of the Jews. And verse 21 "the chief priest of the Jews" meant they were no longer priests of the Lord.
What is written on your heart? Have you written on your heart: "Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews"? What appears written if we take a look into that arena of your heart?In 1 Kings 3:9 Solomon as king asked for a hearing heart. "Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of yours?" Whatever our walk, whatever is given to you and me we are to deal in that knowing our limitations are there no matter what and ultimately we are to rely on the Lord to have victory in this lifetime. In His wisdom we gain even more wisdom and discernment of the King, and we discern the importance to honor Jesus and to honor relationships that He has given into our hands. If we do not honor them, then how much less do we honor HIM?
What I have written, I have written!
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