Pastor H. Lamar Smith
Jesus was not welcome every place He went. “Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them; for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned” (Luke 8:37 (NRSV)). He was also rejected by the people of His home synagogue and by the leaders of Judaism. He was rejected for a radical message that confronted the government of men with the government of God’s kingdom. He was rejected for exposing religious hypocrisy where piety neglected justice, mercy and faith (Matthew 23:23). He was crucified outside the city gate as a sign of his final rejection (Hebrews13:12). There he died as a sin offering that was efficacious even for the rejectors.
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