Sunday, March 17, 2013

Mock worship...

 And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.  (Mark 15:16-20 ESV)
The Roman Soldiers were pretending to bow before their king - the purple, the wreath, the salute, were all things one would associate with Caesar.  But the Roman Emporer was much more than a king - he was worshipped as a god.  The ultimate disprespect was when they de-robed Him, representing that they dethroned Him, as if they decided when He was King and God, and when He was not.  Let us beware that we do not mock Him in worship - that today as we come and sing His praises and bow in worship, that we do not derobe Him after the service and spit on Him by failing to live before Him as our King and our God.

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