Like Jesus, like Moses and Elijah

Listen to HIM!      Luke 9:28-36
Jesus is fulfiller of Law and Prophets.
Jesus IS Moses and Elijah in the New Covenant.
Listen to HIM!
What Jesus taught, commanded and modeled as life in the Kingdom of God.
Listen to HIM!
The Liberator (from sin and death), like Moses.
The Agitator (of empire and those in corrupt power and wealth), like Elijah.
Listen to HIM!
Imitate HIM.
Follow HIM.


That was a new message for them. 
It must have been quite a sight, quite an enlightenment, quite a moment.
Passing the mantle of Law and Prophets to Jesus with God's voice commanding them (and us)
to listen to Jesus now AS God's fulfillment in Covenant.


And don't give into the temptation to make this about worship and praise, adoration alone.
This is about BEING Liberator and Agitator.
Can't stay up on that mountain and treat this like it was JUST a moment.
It was a CALL, a COMMAND to FOLLOW Jesus, who came down from that mountain
and into the lives of people who NEEDED the Liberator and Agitator to do the job at hand.


We ain't Jesus.
The best we can do is be like Jesus, imitate Jesus and follow Jesus.
Worship, Praise and Adoration are NOT the call of the Gospel.
The call of the Gospel is to follow Jesus - to listen to HIM!
We are called to be like Jesus, and being like Jesus, like Moses and Elijah.
We are also called to Liberate and Agitate as followers of the Fulfiller of Law and Prophets.


Lent is not a mountaintop experience.  It is a WILDERNESS experience.  This is the Sunday we prepare for that time in the wilderness, keeping in front of us the mission Jesus/God gives us.
It is time to prepare for the work in the plain, where the people are.
It is time to FOLLOW Jesus in what Jesus taught, commanded and lived in the world.
It is time to listen to HIM! To submit to Jesus as Lord of our lives.
Otherwise, it is time to listen to Jesus say to us, "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I tell you?" Luke 6:39-49 (46)


Liberate those in bondage, under oppression.
Agitate the powers of empire who promote injustice, inequity and hatred/division.
Follow Jesus.
Listen to HIM!


With you on THE WAY...
Pastor Jamie