The Unlikely Preachers

From a message by Pastor Love
GGWO Sunday Evening 5/30/2010
The Gospel was preached, not just by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John but by many, some of whom we would find least likely.

John 11.  Gospel according to Caiaphas.   The chief priests and pharisees said "what are we to do?  If we let him alone everyone will believe in Him and everything will be taken away form us..."  They were very concerned about the popularity of Jesus.  All they could think about was "job security" if the popularity of Jesus continued to grow.  Caiaphas said "it's better that one man should die so that the whole nation doesn't perish."   John 11:50.  He wasn't thinking about preaching the Gospel but that is what he was doing.  Verse 51 "He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,".  

John 19  Pilate said Jesus was their king.  But they crucified Him.  Pilate wrote an inscription "Jesus the Nazarene - the King of The Jews".    John 19:19-22: "Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”

Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”   

Pilate is in essence saying "it is written".  Pilate writes the first Gospel tract. 

Matthew 27: 3-4  When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders. “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.”

Judas said that Jesus blood was innocent.  That is the truth.

Three things were spoken by these men and they are The Gospel

1.  One man must die  (Caiaphas)

2.  He is the King of The Jews and it is written (Pilate)

3.  His blood was not like ours which is sinful.  His blood was sinless and incorruptible.  (Judas)

These individuals proclaimed God's message.  How much more for us whose hearts have been redeemed.  We go wherever we have the opportunity.  We preach the message with the time that we have left.

We number our days.  Let's go preach the gospel that Caiaphas, Pilate, and Judas preached.  If God used them, He can use us.