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“A Kangaroo Court”. What do you think?
I have always
heard the term, “ Kangaroo Court” but never knew where it came from until this
morning when I read the account of Matthew 26:47-68 of Jesus in the
Sanhedrin. A Kangaroo court is an unofficial court held by a group of
people in order to try someone regarded, especially without good evidence, as
guilty of a crime or misdemeanor.
Jesus has been
betrayed.
Jesus has been violently visited at the middle of the night.
Jesus was with his only family his
disciple that night.
Jesus refrained from calling twelve legions of angels.
Jesus heals the ears of his attackers miraculously.
Jesus did all this to keep his predestined destiny.
Jesus saw to it that all comes to pass
without any alteration.
Jesus was committed, that prophecy must remain unaltered.
Let heaven and earth pass away but the word of God will remain
forever. Jesus said, “How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it
must be this way?”
Jesus declared for the record what was his daily occupation.
“Every day I sat in the temple courts teaching and you did not arrested me.” Jesus’ job
was to serve “Food for thought to feed his servants daily and on time”.
Jesus again, in alignment and Oneness with God, declares
his commitment to Predestination by saying: “But this has all taken
place that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.”
Jesus was
deserted by all his disciples as they all fled in fear.
Jesus is lead to the teachers of the Law and the elders very early.
Jesus was followed by the brave Peter, but at the distance.
Jesus knew the outcome of that predestined meeting.
Peter did not know or believe in
predestination and enter into the Courtyard and sat down with the guards around
the fire to see the outcome.
Jesus was arrested on a cold, dark, lonely and miserable night.
Jesus was handcuffed, unable to rub
his hands together to warm up.
Jesus the beloved of God is manhandled as a common criminal.
Jesus was answering the billions of people ever since have asked,
“Where was God when these unjust things happen to Jesus?”
The answer is the same for all generations, God was in the same
place then and now, “On his Throne” looking at the unfolding of his plan
which was predestined before time began and keeping his word and not
intervening as if he did not know or was not the designer of the plan of
Salvation.
Jesus and his Father are not like human reactionaries who are
driven by circumstances tossed by the winds and the waves.
Jesus and
his Father had already agreed together and predestined the manner of how all
things would develop immutably and on God’s timing.
Jesus and the Father are “never in a hurry but always on time.”
Jesus’ life was driven by the imperative force of the predestined
will of God that is always bound to prevail in an unchangeable way.
Jesus’ predestined life was set by prophesy in written and spoken form
in Scripture to immutably be enforced with divine precision.
Jesus also has other books that will be
open on the Last Day. These books contain the predestined works in which
we must be occupied on earth as Paul in Ephesians 2:10 says; “For we
are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, that God
prepared in advance for us to do.”
If they have been prepared in advance, then it is
predestined. It cannot be any other way. The end is set from the
beginning. Either you believe in predestination or you are in a voyage of
uncertainty subject and slave of chance and endless improvisation without port
of departure or port of arrival where any shore is as good as any as final
destination.
My advice is to
rejoice in the doctrine of predestination instead of resenting it for not
finding room for credit and glory for your part in the process of salvation. “Salvation
is of the Lord alone.”
Just as creation was a sovereign act of God done after the counsel
of his will alone.
In the same way
redemption is a sovereign work of God that follows a blue print where the
kingdom of God is built to perfection without a pile of bricks left at the
construction site or a single brick missing from its place.
Jesus and his father, the immutable architects of the universe, have a master plan that passes through the valley of the
shadow of death.
“FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONE AND ONLY SON THAT WHOSOEVER
BELIEVES IN HIM MIGHT NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.”
It is to this Jesus I present to you today, “Grand Jury of our generation” to
do justice to Jesus and those that are his or to join the “Kangaroo Court” of
the Sanhedrin and the court of manipulative public opinion.
False witnesses are called against Jesus. False testimonies are given. The court
is in search of a crime to pin on Jesus. No Miranda Rights for Jesus. He
is being interrogated without a lawyer. Any and everything he said can and was
used against him in the “Kangaroo Court” of law.
The Fifth
Amendment for Jesus was written too many years later.
They sought to entrap him by self-incrimination. No executive
privileges. They could not find any evidence against Jesus. “But Jesus
remained silent.” It was not until the high priest charged Jesus under oath by
the living God:
“Tell us if
you are the Christ the Son of God.”
Jesus broke his silence by declaring at point blank in their faces the Gospel
of God saying; “YES, IT IS AS YOU SAY, I am the Son of God in the flesh,”
“Jesus is the beloved Son of God. Emanuel, God with us”.
Jesus is the Christ of God. The savior of the world “YES, YES, and YES.”
The Gospel of Jesus cost him his life.
His accusers heard what they wanted to hear and said: “He has spoken blasphemy!
Why do we need any more witnesses? (And the world is asked even today.) Look,
now you have heard the blasphemy.
WHAT DO YOU
THINK?
Yes my friends ...What do you think?
Over two thousand years ago the people thought about Jesus and said, “He is
worthy of death.”
“If Jesus is not in you, you cannot have any other answer but the same
conclusion of the Kangaroo Court and the people of that time.
This means that
you are only alive but have no life, because Jesus is Life.”
Jesus was found worthy of death at the hands of his enemies.
BEHOLD THE FORCES OF EVIL UNLEASHING THEIR FURY AGAINST JESUS THE SON OF GOD
YOUR PERSONAL LOVING SAVIOR.
They spit on his divine and lovely face. They struck him with their closed
fist on the perfect face that bears the loving and compassionate image of
God. They slapped Jesus...our Jesus...your Jesus…my Jesus …awww I can not hold my tears at this very moment and I wish
I was there to slapped back at that daring and miserable soul.
Just then my
memory stops me at the thought that my own hands were guilty as in violence I struck others in ignorance and unbelief. How many times I
have slapped my Jesus by my guilty silence when I should have spoken
of his name and did not speak as Peter warming himself with the
world. How many times Jesus was to me as good as dead when I did the
things I knew I should have not done as if he were dead.
It was me who spit, struck, slapped, stuck and speared and smeared.
Let me for a
moment leave you with Isaiah the Prophet who spoke about Jesus and the “Kangaroo
Court” hundreds of years before Jesus was born.
Isaiah 53
1Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of
the Lord been revealed?
2He grew up before him like a tender
shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract
us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire
him.
3He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with
pain.
Like one from whom people hide their
faces
he was despised, and we held him in low
esteem.
4Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5But he was pierced for our
transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on
him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is
silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8By oppression and judgment he was
taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the
living;
for the transgression of my people he was
punished
9He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush
him and cause him to suffer,
and though
the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his
days,
and the will of the Lord will
prosper in his hand.
11After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life and be
satisfied ;
by his knowledge my righteous servant
will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
12Therefore I will give him a portion
among the great
and he will divide the spoils with the
strong
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the
transgressors.
What do you think my friends about “The Kangaroo Courts” now?
Look not far and open your eyes and see the abundance of the accusers of our
generation and stand up for Jesus as he stood up for you.
The spirit of envy that knocked at Cain’s door is knocking at the doors of our
generation. Beware of what God said to Cain “Sin is knocking at your door
and wants to have you.”
The Kangaroo
Court condemned Jesus but by so doing it was them that condemned
themselves. In the Sovereignty of God those who seem to win are those that
actually lose and those who lose actually win.
Because of predestination only the Will of God is bound to prevail and
prevail always and for the glory of God and the blessings of many and our own
good. Fearfully, respectfully and prayerfully in his name.
Gerry Gutierrez
“The
little people’s prophet”.
