MISUNDERSTOOD

This Sunday is Easter. This is the day we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Many though, do not celebrate this, but propagate the idea of the easter bunny and eggs. Just why was Jesus Christ crucified? Basically, he was misunderstood.

It is not pleasant when we are misunderstood. Maybe it's because we used the wrong words, or the tone that it was said in. This was the case in Christ Jesus. He did not speak in a language that the hierarchy in the Roman government nor the Jewish leadership. Christ spoke in parables.

Rome thought he was organising an uprising to topple their power. The Jewish leadership thought he was a blasphemer for saying he was the Son of God.

The two powers began to collaborate on a plan to end the movement that had started because of his' teachings.

Christ at his' trial was accused of casting out devils by the power of the devil, working on the Sabbath, and much more.

I feel the thing that must have hurt the most was knowing that someone who sat at the dinner table with him at the Last Supper was going to betray him. That person was Judas. Judas felt so guilty and it was heavy that we are told he went out into a field an hanged himself from a tree.

Christ while praying in the garden asked the heavenly father if the cup could be passed from him.

While on the cross he cried, Why hast thou forsaken me? Christ felt alone.

The feeling of being alone is overwhelming and can set in motion a set of actions which in a normal mind would never lead to destruction, but in a mind that is under attack it feels that the best way out is death.

Death is not the answer because it also sets in motion hurt, grief, anger, and questions in those who are left to deal with the death.

Some feel that someone dealing with depression is not really suffering from a real sickness. Depression is a sickness that cannot be seen, but its effects can be discerned. Many times though people miss the cues that someone is hurting. Also it is a myth that when someone is talking about suicide they won't do it. They just want attention. More than likely this is not the case.

So, you can see why Christ felt alone. He felt betrayed, and misunderstood.

This Easter seen reach out to someone and bring resurrection to their life bringing them out of the darkness of depression and into the light that Christ gives.

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And they Searched the Scriptures…..

(Acts 17:10 [KJV])

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
Acts 17:11
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Acts 17:12
Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
Acts 17:13
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.
Acts 17:14
And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
Acts 17:15
And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.
Acts 17:16
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
Acts 17:17
Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
Acts 17:18
Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Acts 17:19
And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
Acts 17:20
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.


It has always been my goal to encourage the reader of this blog to, stop, research, and rethink of how they understand the written word.

So often we go through life believing something that was taught through our spiritual leaders without taking the time to really sit down and search out whether what we have heard is really what the scripture is saying.

One way to make sure you can quickly know if something is kind of off, is to memorize the Word.  This is hard for some to do, but it can be done. The scripture tells us to write the Word to our heart.

While I was active I would study a subject, but my drawback was writing out notes about it.  I was trained by my grand-father to memorize songs. So that is what I did with my preaching.  I would put it to memory, and recall it when I needed it.  Maybe, it would very from time to time, but the main body was always the same.

I encourage you the next time you attend your local congregation when you get back home take the time to sit down and actually study the message you had just heard.  Use all the tools you have at your reach to see if the scripture bears it to be true.