A Series by Vance Havner
Pilate
Pilate
What shall I do then with Jesus which
is called Christ?
Matthew 27:22
Pilate
had to do business with Jesus, and so must we all. We cannot wash our hands of
the whole business any more than could he. We cannot leave Christ alone. The
question is not, “What will you do with Jesus?” but “What are you doing with
Him now?” We are for or against, we gather with Him or we scatter abroad.
Pilate
faced the alternatives of cynicism: “What is truth?”; criminality: “Barabbas or
Jesus?”; Caesar: “If thou let this man go thou art not Caesar’s friend.” The
issue is always “Christ or…”
This
unbelieving world, whether it choose the cynic, the criminal, or Caesar, must
do something with Christ. He is inescapable. And men must settle with Christ,
not with a church or a preacher. Let us never obscure the issue: what are you
doing with Jesus the Christ?
“He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he
that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the
name of the only begotten Son of God.”
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