The Enslaved Liberator

God's sovereignty works with what he’s got. On the threshold of Holy Week, we take stock with all God has to work with: corrupt governments, perverted justice systems, and religious individuals and establishments more interested in protecting their own power than in dispersing blessing. That God happens to love all the people enmeshed in these structures of power is both deeply inconvenient and the greatest occasion for God to show how his power works. His power is to disarm the darkness that vitalizes the machinery of oppression, including the darkness at work within us, corrupting and enslaving us. His triumphal entry is the perfect example of how Jesus works within the story he has, how he is at work liberating it and liberating us. Deacon Lisa Elmers preaches from Luke 19:28-40.