Freedom Triumphs

"You can break a man's skull. You can arrest him. You can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here? How do you fight an idea?"
--Sextus (Ben-Hur)

Events of Holy Week should make several things clear. 

Freedom, not safety, is God's gift. Freedom is the right and ability to make personal choices without someone else's permission. Free will.

Jesus was free to avoid the path to death. But, through exercise of free will, He chose to walk down the path instead.

Jesus challenged the status quo. He was fomenting a revolution in the hearts, minds, and souls of people everywhere. Through that revolution Christ was setting people free.

As such, He became a direct threat to all groups who held worldly dominion over those people. The scribes, the Pharisees, the chief priests, the Roman government. All of these groups, which together comprised the secular, religious, and political orthodoxy of the day, consequently conspired to kill Christ in order to quell the revolution.

Little has changed, has it?

By exercising His free will, Jesus showed us that we can liberate our souls from the slavery of sin and from the oppression of worldly tyrants.

Christ demonstrated that freedom triumphs in the end.