“I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!(Luke 12:49-50 ESV)
As Jesus' statements become more and more bold and demanding, He reminds us that His coming involves judgment as well as deliverance. His commitment to accomplish what the Father had sent Him to do was consuming. He could not wait to get to the cross and put sin to death. But this work He was sent to do poses us with the question: how will we respond to what He has done. Will His cross become our deliverance as we accept it, or our judgment as we reject it?
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