They Cancel Him   

     You know how Jesus was drawing people to himself by teaching and healing them. 

     Pharisees and Sadducees were losing their grip, built on man-made rules which they called "the law." 

     Here is this man performing many miraculous signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. - John 11:47-48

     Only the governor of the Roman province could order an execution. Plotters who apparently believed the miracles still convinced Pontius Pilate ... who "found no basis for a charge" ... to satisfy them ... in the night ... when most people were in their homes ... sleeping. 

Jesus forgave them...

     ...while he was nailed to the cross. There will be a miracle. 

     In A.D. 70, the Romans came and took away both the place and nation. Cancelled, until 1948.     

     God himself has done some cancelling - of wickedness. Remember the flood? Sodom and Gomorrah? On the night of the Passover he cancelled the first born of all Egypt, including cattle.

     He cancelled Jericho with another miracle. 

     Before "cancel culture" was a thing, Saul tried to kill David. Elijah cancelled the prophets of Baal. Jezebel tried to cancel Elijah. 

     People, in effect, cancelled themselves by their sins and evil ways. Some cancelled their own sons and daughters - 2 Kings chapter 17. 

     Assyrians and Babylonians cancelled the divided kingdoms.

Tomorrow: "I have seen the Lord."