Change the end of the story and everything changes…
In the end we all wait for the end of the movie. We love all the scenes leading up to the climax, but the climax is what the movie is all about – that’s the essence of the script.
“If Jesus had been killed while leading a bloody revolution against the Romans, or died in bed at the age of seventy, the evangelist would have had a very different story to tell. Just as the last act of a play determines whether it is a comedy or a tragedy, the final scenes of the life of Jesus define the whole” – Spohn.
The in-between scenes have to be watched to get to the end of the story, but once you get to the end and understand the essence, it changes the whole perspective of how you’ve seen the in-between scenes in the past.
The disciples were struggling to understand at some points in the story, but in the end they understood everything.
Unlike the disciples we know what the end of the story goes like…
And if we know, we cannot ignore…
…and then we realize it’s just the beginning…
It’s not just about just ‘finding Jesus in the everything’ – it’s about joining Jesus in what He is doing everywhere, everyday with a life filled with hope and resurrection, giving all glory to God for everything.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.6 We know that our old selft was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.7 For one who has died has been set freet from sin.8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
