Classic Christianity – A Closer Look at Jesus Christ P3 (10-07-20)
Synopsis
1 Corinthians 3:11
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Everyone starts out with basic questions: Why am I here? Why do I feel empty inside? Is there meaning and purpose to life? Did you know Jesus offers a practical solution to the most basic need of all people? Jesus came as a solution to the problem of mankind.
This course is about building a solid foundation in Jesus Christ. Who is Jesus? Who did he claim to be? What did he accomplish for you and me? What is your understanding of salvation? Many other questions could be asked, but when you start with the foundation in Christ Jesus, so many questions commonly asked by people of all backgrounds, generation after generation, can be readily answered.
Listen as Bob George answers questions such as, “Can I lose my salvation?”, “Am I of the elect?”, “How do I know I am saved?”, and other questions often still brought up in today’s world. When you understand that Christ Jesus came not to give temporal life but eternal life, then once you are in Christ, then how can lose something he gave you called eternal life. Jesus Himself said that no one can snatch you out of my Father’s hands, and “I and the Father are one?” Jesus identified Himself as God, so you have to believe what He says is true or he is a liar and not God.
To know you are saved, you first have to know what salvation is, what Jesus came to give you, and you need to examine the attitude of your heart, and identify that attitude in whatever you thought you did in regard to what you understood concerning salvation. Did you come to get a miracle, to get prosperity, to work for food that spoils, to get a fire insurance policy to escape hell, or did you come to Christ to receive life?
In regard to election and predestination, consider reading the entire books of Ephesians and Romans in context, and you will see what Jesus is talking about, the body of the Jews and the body of the Gentiles, both being able to be saved the same way, by faith in Christ Jesus, each person individually, whether Jew or Gentile, in what he came to do by means of his death, burial and resurrection. In 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, the apostle Paul reminds us of what the gospel is.
In short, salvation is being saved from the consequence of sin, which is death, by the gift of God, which is life, and not any life, not temporal life, but eternal life. Jesus Himself said, “I am not willing that anyone should perish, but for all men to come to repentance.” and He also said, “Come to me for life.” So, do you see the foundation of truth is Jesus, God in the flesh, who proclaimed what he heard from His Father, so we may know what God has prepared for us that we might have life in His name.
As you take the effort to open up the word of God yourself, with the attitude that if the Spirit of God does not reveal to me the meaning of the word of God, I will not know what it means. I urge people not to rely on denominational persuasions for truth, merely echoing what you heard someone else say is true, but to discern what truth is for yourself, learning directly from God.
If Christ is in you, you have the mind of Christ, and He has promised to lead you and guide you into all truth. He gave us His word for that purpose. He said His people will worship Him in Spirit and in truth. To make your bodies available to Him is your spiritual act of worship. Let the Spirit of God lead you internally and individually, what He would have you say or do, or to simply be listening at the feet of Jesus. Spend the necessary time getting to know Him.
If you are a believer, do not be compelled to do this or that, but make it a priority to grow and be nurtured, sitting at the feet of Jesus, pondering over His word, passages and books of the bible in their entire context. This is a good course at which to get familiar with who Jesus is and what He has done for you.
Transcript
We started our first lesson, of asking the question that Jesus would be asking, “Who do you say that I am?” That is why A Closer Look at Jesus Christ was produced, to get us to answer that question, “Who do you say He is?” The first book in our Classic Christianity study series, although we do not put them in sequence, that is the first one, because that is the foundation. Everything that we have is built upon that foundation of Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:11
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
As I mentioned last week, you can build a home with fine walls and very strong rafters and very strong roofs and everything else and beautiful well appointed carpentry and wall covering but if your foundation is not solid that thing will crack on you some day and when it does it will destroy everything. It will destroy walls, the roof, the structure. It will destroy everything. The key to the stability of a home is the stability of the foundation. Christ is that foundation.
John 10:27-30
27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”
So as we talked about last week, is what kind of Christ is to be responded to. We dealt with the passage of scripture in John 10 where Jesus said His sheep listen to His voice. And if we are His sheep, we know His voice and follow Him. So the one we respond to is the one who said “I give you eternal life.” He is not Jesus who said “I give you temporal life.” He did not come to give temporal life. He is also Jesus that said, “No one can ever snatch you out of His hand.” So if you responded to the Jesus of the bible, then you have responded to Jesus who says “I will never let go of you.”
John 10:29
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
If you responded to Jesus who said “I will never let go of you” that means that even if you wanted to let go of Him, He would not let go of you, which alleviates some of that bizarre teaching, to me at least, of people who said you can walk away from God. First of all, you cannot. If He is holding onto you, you cannot walk away from Him. Why would you want to if you truly had come to Him? Now, you could walk away from Him if you are just there observing, but if you have truly come to Him by faith, in other words, received the real Jesus.
Matthew 7:7-11
7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
Revelation 3:20
20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
Not the one who said, “I am standing at the revolving door of your heart and if anyone hears my voice and wants to flit in and out, why you come to me by faith.” He does not have a revolving door. But the one who said “I am standing at the door of your heart and if anyone opens the door I will be with you forever and you shall never perish and I will give you eternal life and no one can snatch you out of my hand. No one can even snatch you from my Father’s hand.” Then he says, “I and the Father are one.” So that means you will never be snatched of anyone’s hands.
2 Timothy 2:15
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
Ephesians 4:14-16
14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
I am concerned when I see the feebleness of people in Christianity, seeking one experience after another experience. Always in that discontent search mode. I am convinced, my friends, if you are still searching, it is because you have not found. I am convinced that people are out looking for spiritual experiences instead of coming to the one who alone is spiritual and that is Christ Jesus. We know the verbiage, my friends, and we are taught a lot of verbiage. There are a lot of people who come up and say, “this is the way you are saved” and so you answer that. Then they convince you that you are now saved. So you are walking around thinking you are saved.
I was thinking of my early days as a child that we went to a church that believed salvation by baptism. We never heard the word salvation. It was just come to be baptized at the particular church I went to as a young child. You got baptized and you got baptized three times, in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, and in the name of the Holy Spirit. I got it three times and came out gasping for air. In that particular case, that was the way you joined the church. I am sure that it was probably proclaimed that it was the way you are saved but I never really heard the word saved so I did not really know what the rituals were. It was probably just to join the church. In reality, I was not saved at all. I have not responded to Jesus of the bible. I just responded to what someone told you to do in order to join the church.
I am concerned about what I see out there. That is the reason I have been calling out on this to the extent I have in this particular lesson about the person of Christ.
I also see in the bible where Jesus said in John 2 that they believed in the miracles that Jesus did. They saw he was a miracle man. And, it said they believed in his name. “Awe, they were saved.” No, they weren’because Jesus said.
John 2:23-25
23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name. 24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. 25 He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.
But, Jesus did not commit himself to them because he knew man, and he did not need the testimony of man concerning man. What do you mean he knew man? He knew what they were believing. He knew what they were responding to. The same reason the people followed him from Capernaum after he fed five thousand people.
John 6:25-29
25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”26 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. 27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
In essence, this is what Jesus is saying. “To be real honest, the reason you are following me over here is for food. You are not following me for why I came here, the Messiah, God, the one who came to give you life, eternal life. You came to me to get a feed, to get a handout. You came to me because I am a miracle man. You came to me to get your body healed. You came to me thinking I can bring you prosperity. You came to me so you would not go to hell. That is not why you came to me. You do not come to me so you will not go to hell. You come to me so you will receive life. You do not come to me to get miracles done. The reason I did miracles here on this earth was to substantiate what I am saying about your spiritual birth. You do not come to me for your reason. You have to come to me for my reason. The reason I came is not to make up a religion. I came to you because I know you. You are dead and you need life. There is no life apart from me. I came to you because your sins needed forgiven and there is no forgiveness apart from me. I did not come to form a ritualistic type of an activity that you could enter into so you could be worthy. I came to you because you are lost beyond measure. The only solution to your lostness is foundness, being found by me.”
So we make up our own Jesus. We make up this Jesus who came to give you temporal life. Then you have not come to the Jesus of the bible if you came to Him to give you temporal life. That is not Jesus of the bible. That Jesus is not in there. The Jesus of the bible you respond to is one who gave you eternal life, the one who gave you life that could never be lost. Anything short of that is not the Jesus of the bible.
Christ’s direct claim about himself is that He is God. I want to encourage our listeners to look up our study guide on Closer Look at Jesus Christ.
Again, we are not talking about some kind of a cursory study on this. We are talking about one of our most important studies you will ever engage in. You are talking about the very foundation of your life and mine. I get amazed at how casual we take this study, many times, to the person of Christ Jesus. I stand amazed, many times, of how people say I am just satisfied to just listen to something. They do not want to take the time to study it, to let God renew their minds. “I just want cursory deals.” It is like saying, “I do not want to get married. I just want to live with her.” That same kind of mentality carries over to Christians. I have to question where you are with that kind of mindset. What in the world is going on in your mind?
2 Timothy 2:15
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
There is nothing more important than being able to go through questions like we are going through and writing down the answers. It gives you an opportunity with the eye gate, with your ears and to write with your hands. It is what solidifies these truths so you do not have to walk around wondering anymore. You know you have been taught by God as you went to the word of God to receive it directly from Him. I do not live for time or expense not to be able to follow along and to have something in your hands that you can refer back to. Believe me, I am not trying to sell books. This ministry does not survive by selling books. But you are going to survive as you learn how to study the word of God and pull these passages out and have them speak to your heart.
Matthew 4:4
4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
I cannot encourage you enough to not miss these opportunities. We procrastinate and get involved in other things. It is very easy to call and order one of these books. Do not miss that. Don’t just be content to sit and listen. Get actively involved in looking it up and write it down what we are going to be talking about.
Picking up in John 10, we are going to ask some questions about that verse.
John 10:27-30
27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”
Now, in the first question, “Who is Jesus referring to when he uses the expression ‘sheep’?” That obviously is us. He is talking about us, whether in Jew sheep camp or in a Gentile sheep camp. There is another shepherd than the Jew shepherd and the Gentile shepherd, regardless of who that is, and that is the good Shepherd. When the Lord speaks truth, we come out of one of those two camps, and you got a brand new Shepherd you are following.
And for whose hand did he say no one will snatch? He said “No one will snatch you out of my hand.” That falls into the kind of life he is going to give us, and that is eternal life. He also said, “No one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand”, the one who gave you to Jesus.
When you are in Christ, there is something you need to know about God. God the Father gave to you Jesus. It is God’s will that none should perish and all come to repentance. If you are on this earth you are part of that all, a part of that group that says “it is my will that you should not perish”, and you are a part of that. “It is my will that all of you come to know my Son Jesus Christ.” That is God’s will. It was not his will to elect this group and that group or to elect this person and not someone else, to make you a pot and to make you a glorious dish. That is not what predestination is nor is that what election is.
John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Ephesians 1:11-14
11 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. 13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession – to the praise of his glory.
Predestination and election have to do with Jew and Gentile. Not only were the Jews elected for salvation but I also predestined the Gentile to be subject to salvation. “It was my will. In my foreknowledge I predestined the Gentile to come to Christ and to know Him the same way I predestined the Jew to come to know Him.” It is not talking about an individual over here and another individual over there. You are talking about Jew and Gentile. All you have to do is read scripture in context for a change and you will understand that is what he is talking about.
1 Corinthians 12:12-13
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body – whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free – and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
There is one Shepherd that has come and made a call to you and all who come to Him you have assurance of something. Nothing can snatch you out of His hand, including yourself, which alleviates that hair-brained idea you can walk away from God. If you walked away from Him, then it means you never got to Him. If indeed you got to Him and He knew your heart, then He accepted you unto Himself. Do you think when you came to Christ, He did not know what you would do later on? “Well, I came to Christ and then later I decided to walk away.” If you made that decision, He would have already seen that when He accepted you and why would He accept you when He knew you would walk away.
Psalm 139:2
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
Isaiah 55:8-9
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Jeremiah 12:3
3 Yet you know me, Lord; you see me and test my thoughts about you.
God is not a nitwit. He understands you and knows what is going on. We make Him out to be some lame brain. God saw you before the foundation of the earth. He knew every thought you would ever have. If you thought you could walk away then you never had thought to come to Him.
So this teaching that you can lose salvation is an insult to God. It is not an insult to theology, whether Baptist or Church of Christ. That is irrelevant. What is important is you made an insult to God who said He came to give you eternal life and no one will snatch you out of My hand. Either call Him a liar or believe Him by faith but quit saying I believe in Jesus. When I believe in a Jesus that will cast me out, that Jesus does not exist. He may exist in your own mind but he is not the Jesus of the bible.
That is why you can rest in the fact that if you came to Him by faith, then you are in Him forever. That is the good news of the gospel. There is no good news of the gospel that says, “I am saved temporarily, that if I ever mess up He will pitch me in water.” That is not the good news. The God we have come to is the God who said “I will never ever leave you and I never ever will forsake you.”
Hebrews 13:5
5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Now when the Jews, who came to stone him after he said “I and the Father are one”, did they understand what he claimed about himself? Did they understand He was proclaiming to be Deity? Absolutely. That is why they picked up stones to stone him.
John 10:31-33
31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”
Is there any doubt about what Jesus claimed about himself? He claimed to be God. The people who came heard, and heard him claim to be God. He said “I and the Father are one.” Their idea of God was “God the Father”. He said they are one. He said, “I am God.” They heard him. They picked up stones to stone him for the statement. So we have to understand, folks, that Jesus Christ is precisely who he claimed to be. He is God who came to earth and took upon himself our earth suit. He identified himself with our humanity and being found in appearance as man, he humbled himself to the point of death on a cross for you and me.
Philippians 2:6-8
6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death – even death on a cross!
Jesus said, “My sheep listen to my voice and I know them and they follow me.” So we understand who he is and who it is who follows him. Whose hand did he say that no one can snatch them? His. “I give eternal life, and he will not perish, and no one will snatch him out of my hands.”
I sit here with amazement at teaching that is contrary to that. At any rate, we have to know that there is but we do not have to give into it.
John 10:29
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
Who else’s hand could no one snatch them out of? The Father.
John 10:30
30 I and the Father are one.”
What relationship does Jesus have with the Father? “I and the Father are one.”
John 10:31-32
31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
What was the reaction of the Jews? Pick up stones to stone him.
John 10:33
33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”
Why? He proclaimed himself to be God.
John 5:17-18
17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him;
They tried before to kill him, and now they are going to try harder.
John 5:18
not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
Are there any doubts as to who Jesus was proclaiming to be? Are there any doubts that those who heard him knew precisely what he was proclaiming? No. They picked up stones to stone him because he was calling himself God and so they tried all the harder to stone him.
There is one other reason they were angry. There is this person calling himself God and working on the Sabbath. To the Jew that was horrible. They had all kinds of laws to get around what working on the Sabbath was all about. You can spit on a rock but not on the ground for that would be making mud, and that is considered work.
John 9:1-7
1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
That is what Jesus did when he healed the blind man. He spit on the ground and he made mud. He did not get on the ground and get mud because it was there. He got down and made mud. He was not going to leave anything to the imagination. Now if anyone thinks it takes mud to make a blind man see then you really are deceived. He did that to drive the Pharisees crazy because he stooped down and made mud to put on the man’s eyes and he did it on the Sabbath. You could imagine the disciples, who took a lot of gut to follow this guy, what they were thinking. This man was blind from birth, so why not just wait one more day. Wait until tomorrow. But Jesus did that to show the stupidity of religion. It was stupid then and it is stupid now. God did not call us to a religion. He called us to a relationship with himself. So they picked up stones to stone him for Jesus was making himself equal with God, and was breaking the Sabbath, according to the Pharisee’s interpretation of the law.
Why did he make himself equal with God? Because he is. As God, we have to listen to what He said. “I have given you life called eternal life. I could have given you temporal life, but I gave you eternal life. You will never perish. No one can snatch you out of my hand.” If that is not good news, you are dead.
Jesus responded to a question asked.
John 8:48-59
48 The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?”49 “I am not possessed by a demon,” said Jesus, “but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. 50 I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge. 51 Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.”
52 At this they exclaimed, “Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that whoever obeys your word will never taste death. 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?”
54 Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me. 55 Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and obey his word. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.”
57 “You are not yet fifty years old,” they said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!”
58 “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” 59 At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.
John 8:56
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.”
Abraham rejoiced in the fact that this day was coming. Abraham prophesied that this day was coming. He himself rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day. Of course, he is saying to the Jewish leaders, that in contrast to you, that you are not only not rejoicing, you are so angry that you are going to kill me. He saw it and was glad. Here is this Abraham that you say you are a follower of. Again, pointing out their hypocrisy. You say you are a follower of Abraham and Abraham rejoiced for this day, obviously way in advance, he saw it and was glad about it, yet you see it and are angry about it. All they could think about was that Jesus was not yet fifty years old and can see Abraham.
John 8:57-59
57 “You are not yet fifty years old,” they said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!”58 “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
59 At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.
We are going to pick up in the next lesson and amplify some of what that claim was getting at when he stated, “Before Abraham was, I am.” But you see the Jews could not believe Jesus claimed to have seen Abraham so he said, “to tell you the truth, before Abraham was, I am.” The Jews knew exactly, again, what he was claiming about himself, because in Exodus 3:14, God identified himself as the “I am”.
Exodus 3:14
14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
As a matter of fact that was one of the names for God, where the Jews were fearful of even mentioning the name Elohim for God. So they called him, “I am”. So, again, did the Pharisees understand what he was saying? Did they hear what he was saying? The answer to that is absolutely yes. They heard what he was saying. It was coming through loud and clear. When Jesus said “Before Abraham was born, I am”, he was identifying himself as who he is and that is God. What was he proclaiming about himself? Deity. How did the Jews react to that claim? They picked up stones to stone him.
John 6:63
63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you – they are full of the Spirit and life.
There is a written word and there is a living word. The Jews had become custodians of interpretation of the written word. There are many people and denominations today, who like the Jews, have become custodians of the interpretation of the word of God. You even have people around who have become custodians of the determination that here is only one translation of God. So they camp on King James and say that Paul must have spoken to King James. Nothing wrong with King James but there are many translations that are fine translations. For people to sit around worshipping at the feet of that have missed the point of scripture altogether. So we become the custodians of the interpretation of the word of God. We become custodians of protection of a translation. Here were Jews as custodians of interpretation of the word whom God suddenly confronted with the living word. They were custodians of interpretation of the written word suddenly coming face to face with the living word. There was a problem there. The living word did not agree with their interpretation. So what did they do? Hang him on a cross. They really did not come to grips with what it is to be in Christ, who is love. So they came to crucify the one who claimed to be God because they did not agree with His interpretation of the written word.
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