Easter Approaching

Easter Approaching by Bill Keller

The masses are still calling for Barabbas over Jesus today. As we enter the Easter season, we read and hear some of the great passages in the Bible about the events of Palm Sunday through the death, burial, and resurrection of our Savior Jesus.

One of the events that took place soon after Jesus was seized by the Romans was Pilate allowing the masses to vote for either Jesus or a criminal named Barabbas to be released as was custom of the Roman overlords during the Jewish Passover.

Pilate felt certain the people would ask for Jesus to be released, thus allowing him to escape being used by the Jewish religious leaders to put Jesus to death. After all, the crime Jesus was guilty of was stating that He was God, a non-violent theological debate that he really wanted no part of.

Barabbas on the other hand was a violent revolutionary working to overthrow Rome. However, when Pilate gave the people their choice, Jesus or Barabbas, they cried out for Barabbas to be released!

Whether people today understand this or not, the reality is that many are still crying out for Barabbas. They have rejected Christ, and His Truth, and are in open rebellion against Almighty God.

People today are calling for sin so they can live in opposition to God and His Truth. Our society has chosen to promote the agenda of satan while rejecting Christ and the Truth of God's Word.

God cannot forever wink at our sin. A day of reckoning must ultimately come, though He is longsuffering toward us and our rebellion seems unchecked.

Where will you be found on that day when Heaven opens and the Lord descends? Will you be among the lost who are indulging every corrupt pleasure in the darkness of sin or will you be in that number of saints who are awaiting His return with their lamps trimmed?

No man knows the day or the hour of His coming, so don't delay your decision too long.