Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon. Right now we're

learning what it looks like to follow Jesus by working our way through the Gospel of

Luke. If you hear any story too many times it starts to get a little bit stale

Probably explains why some of my favorite books as a kid were parodies of classic fairy tales told by an author named John Cheska and one of my favorites was a retelling of the three little pigs.

Now unlike the original the big bad wolf he's the hero in this version and he's framed for his crimes

by a bunch of wicked little pigs who want him to get in jail for something he never did.

Now these stories they're not just interesting to kids. I mean think about the hit book and musical

Wicked it retells the whole story of the Wizard of Oz sympathetically from the perspective of the witch.

As Christians, one of the greatest spiritual risks that we face is letting the story of Jesus get stale.

And so we need to do things to help keep it fresh, to help us see it with new eyes.

The fact is that for a lot of us we've heard or we've read the story of Jesus'

Betrayal arrest trial and crucifixion so many times that sometimes we just stop

listening or really listening and so today my goal is to try and help us see the story of Jesus' betrayal

and arrest with fresh eyes. And I want to do that by focusing on a detail that

only Luke's gospel includes, a detail that radically challenge his first

disciples assumptions. And I think that little detail, it might challenge our own assumptions

if we just let the story speak fresh.

Okay, so to understand it, we need to try and enter into the minds of Jesus's disciples.

Five days before this story takes place, Jesus enters Jerusalem as a king.

A procession of cheering onlookers, they're crying out to him, save us.

And of course, when they cried out, save us, they meant, save us from our Roman pagan overlords.

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