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Matthew 27:32
Personally, I don’t like interruptions and I don’t like intrusions. When we make plans to go somewhere, I want all the planes to leave and arrive on time. I don’t want traffic jams. I don’t want delays at the motel desk. I like to keep on going and do the thing I’ve planned to do, but sometimes you can’t do that! In fact, there was a man in Jerusalem whose life was saved because of a very humiliating interruption.
Let me read to you Matthew 27:32, “And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.” Now this was legal. Palestine was a civil state under the control of Rome, and the Roman soldiers could impress. They could draft anybody they wanted to draft to help them get the job done. Well, here is Simon of Cyrene, a Jew who had come to celebrate the feast. And here he was coming in from the country. I don’t think he knew anything about the Lord Jesus, he perhaps had no idea what was going on but all of a sudden he felt on his shoulder the heavy hand of a Roman soldier and he heard a voice say, “You! Carry that cross!” What a humiliating thing to do! To pick up a cross and walk in that procession, that humiliating procession to go to Calvary and Simon had to do it.
You see, some changes took place in his life. He came to Jerusalem seeking and now he had found. He had religion. He was going to celebrate the Passover feast, but now he had really found the Lamb of God. He’d been changed from a seeker to a finder. From watching to participating. Perhaps he was standing there looking saying, “What is going on here?” Someone said, “Oh, they’re taking those people out to crucify them.” And then he was drafted and no longer was he a spectator. Now he was a participant; from rebelling to submitting. At first he said, “I won’t do it!” And then he did it and as a result, it is likely that Simon came to know Jesus Christ as His own Savior.
Today you have no idea what kinds of interruptions or intrusions are going to come to your life. Remember you could be walking with the Lord Jesus and helping Him accomplish His will. Let’s submit and do what He wants us to do.
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By Back to the BiblePersonally, I don’t like interruptions and I don’t like intrusions. When we make plans to go somewhere, I want all the planes to leave and arrive on time. I don’t want traffic jams. I don’t want delays at the motel desk. I like to keep on going and do the thing I’ve planned to do, but sometimes you can’t do that! In fact, there was a man in Jerusalem whose life was saved because of a very humiliating interruption.
Let me read to you Matthew 27:32, “And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.” Now this was legal. Palestine was a civil state under the control of Rome, and the Roman soldiers could impress. They could draft anybody they wanted to draft to help them get the job done. Well, here is Simon of Cyrene, a Jew who had come to celebrate the feast. And here he was coming in from the country. I don’t think he knew anything about the Lord Jesus, he perhaps had no idea what was going on but all of a sudden he felt on his shoulder the heavy hand of a Roman soldier and he heard a voice say, “You! Carry that cross!” What a humiliating thing to do! To pick up a cross and walk in that procession, that humiliating procession to go to Calvary and Simon had to do it.
You see, some changes took place in his life. He came to Jerusalem seeking and now he had found. He had religion. He was going to celebrate the Passover feast, but now he had really found the Lamb of God. He’d been changed from a seeker to a finder. From watching to participating. Perhaps he was standing there looking saying, “What is going on here?” Someone said, “Oh, they’re taking those people out to crucify them.” And then he was drafted and no longer was he a spectator. Now he was a participant; from rebelling to submitting. At first he said, “I won’t do it!” And then he did it and as a result, it is likely that Simon came to know Jesus Christ as His own Savior.
Today you have no idea what kinds of interruptions or intrusions are going to come to your life. Remember you could be walking with the Lord Jesus and helping Him accomplish His will. Let’s submit and do what He wants us to do.