JESUS: Superstar or Servant Savior?

Trinity United Methodist Church's Podcast

Jesus Christ Superstar First Person Series: #4

Who am I? What am I really? Why did I come to earth? My name is Jesus, of course, Jesus of Nazareth. Like some of yours, my parents weren't even married when I came along.

I guess the first important thing you ought to know about me is I was born like any other baby. When you say, as you did today that I was "born of the virgin Mary," the key word in that 1,700-year-old phrase is not "virgin," but "born." In other words, I am human! I spat up, whined, and filled my diaper like every other baby does.

My humanity is sometimes overlooked, you see. Yet, even as an adult I slept and I wept. Why I even slept in a boat in the middle of a storm – I guess had a clear conscience! I cried when my friend Lazarus died. I got angry when I saw moneychangers in the temple. I got hungry when I was fasting in the wilderness. I grew thirsty when I was hanging out on a cross on my last day. I smiled and laughed when I was around children. I got tired after a long day of building tables, chairs, and chests in my carpenter career. I was as human as anyone of you in this room with physical, emotional, and mental joys and challenges.

So while I was like every other human being, I was mysteriously unlike any other human being! If you read what they wrote about me, I did some rather unusual things in the last three years of my life. I walked on water and walked through walls! I enabled and empowered the blind to see, the lame to walk, and the deaf to hear. I multiplied bread to feed thousands. I even helped the dead to experience life again. One day I turned water into wine a wedding. (Good thing it wasn't a Baptist wedding!) I don't know what you think about such miracles. Some folks take them literally and others see them simply as signs and symbols of the power and presence of God in me. Bottom line: I have a divine nature, as well as a human nature. I am 100% both!

April 28, 2013
Mark 10:35-45
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