Frank Lynch
Boise City Pentecostal
WHY JESUS WAS ACCEPTED
From the beginning Jesus was rejected by the religious leaders in Jerusalem. He was not part of the cronyism of the High Priest and his crowd. Being a Galilean he lacked the prestige of those who had attended the “best” schools and people from the Galilee were scorned. Jesus despised the elitism of the leaders and the politics of the temple. So, he turned to the disenfranchised for his audience: the poor and the sick, the lepers and the whores. They loved him. Because of one flaw or another they had been barred from the temple mount and so when this country rabbi began doing his miracles he was endeared to the hearts of the downtrodden.
Never had they seen such marvelous things nor such a compassionate minister. In the simplistic culture of the society in which they had been raised nothing exciting ever happened unless it was a wedding or a Bar Mitsvah. But the incredible miracles of Jesus, healing the blind, cleansing of the lepers and demons being cast out, it had never been seen before. And when he raised Lazarus from the dead it was apparent that some way or another he had to be disposed of by their highnesses on the hill.
It’s the same today. Jesus will never fit in with the traditional crowd. It’s the common folk who love Him. They always have and rightly so. God resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble. He has never changed. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Hallelujah! What a Saviour!
