Coming up on the Potter's Touch.

Christ had come to do a new thing, but one cannot take new fabric and show it to

old fabric without their being a tear.

And some of us are so afraid of a tear that we won't accept anything new.

Sometimes we are loyal to a fault. Have you ever been loyal to a fault? All the loyal people say amen. Yeah, it takes something for you to break away, even when you know you should break away because you are loyal to a false.

The Pharisees were loyal to a tradition and an ideology that was supposed to be expected of a Messiah,

and yet when the Messiah comes that which they expected, they rejected because they were loyal

to orthodoxy, because when you are Orthodox, you are accepted.

The word Orthodox is to fit in with that which is acceptable.

And any time you fall in love with fitting in, it becomes an idol in your life,

where the opinions of other people become more powerful to you than the word of God itself.

Jesus is the word of God made flesh. He is the word incarnate. He is a word made

physical. He is a word made tangible. He is God revealed in human form. He is that which the Pharisees

had studied all of their lives.

They were noted for being scholars and theologians and studying the word of God.

And here they are standing in front of the word they studied

and won't accept the word that they studied because he has come in the flesh.

The art some moron is staggering that the religious people actually gave Jesus more trouble than the sinners.

It was the church people that called him wine bribber.

It was the church people that called him Biazob.

It was a church people that challenged his theology. It was the church people that attacked him.

It was a church people because he came with new theology that threatened their orthodoxy.

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