Listen "Releasing Expectations"
Episode Synopsis
"A political and national messiah doesn’t ride on a donkey. He collects taxes and tributes, gold and silver, valuable, exotic gifts and treasures, not people’s castoff work coats and palm branches thrown haphazardly on the ground.
What kind of king is it that we want Jesus to be? Because no matter what our expectation is of the Savior, he will turn our hopes on their heads in this upcoming week. He will not bring a sword against those who oppose him, nor mobilize us to be soldiers in an army to defend His Kingdom. He will not resist the violence that will be cast upon him, nor turn his face away from the sneers of his oppressors. He will not silence the mouths of those who lie against him nor compel a confession from the ones who deny him.
He will not fight back."
What kind of king is it that we want Jesus to be? Because no matter what our expectation is of the Savior, he will turn our hopes on their heads in this upcoming week. He will not bring a sword against those who oppose him, nor mobilize us to be soldiers in an army to defend His Kingdom. He will not resist the violence that will be cast upon him, nor turn his face away from the sneers of his oppressors. He will not silence the mouths of those who lie against him nor compel a confession from the ones who deny him.
He will not fight back."
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