Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Just Repent

Mark 12:12 KJV
And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

Jesus had just spoken a parable that describes the Jew's reaction to Christ and God's response toward it. They knew that the parable was directed against them. The appropriate action then would have been to repent. But that was not what they did.

First they sought to lay hold on Him
Response one was violent.

Second, they feared the people
Though this is the reason they did not lay hold on Christ it is also a reaction toward the conviction in their soul. Fear can draw people to Christ.

Third, and they left and went their way
What a shame that they left without reconciling to God.

Fourth they tried to catch Him in His words

Pastors may see the same responses from those who come to hear the Word. Rather than seeing the care in the preacher's eye, so many take the message to be an attack against them.
• Some become angry
• Some become fearful but not to repentance
• Some leave and never return and
• Some become critical of the preacher, looking for mistakes rather than listening for God

And all the while God's purpose and the preacher's heart is just to see people turn from their sins and be saved from a lost eternity.

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