“Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was an insurrectionist." You see what the Jews have done here is that they have said they would rather have an insurrectionist than the Lord Christ. This makes sense for in that choice they were revealing their own Jewish insurrectionist Revolutionary spirit that would rule over God’s sovereign rule. Later Pilate asks the Jews again, “Shall I crucify your king?”(John 19:15) In their reply, “we have no king but Caesar” (John 19:15). In this St. John shows that the Jews’ rejection of Jesus leads them to deny God’s kingship and embrace Roman rule. Here the Jews have decided that the Tyranny of the Roman State is to be preferred above the Kingship of the Lord Christ. In these two choices of someone besides Christ as King (Barabbas the Insurrectionist or Caesar the Tyrant), we have the only two choices presented to us when we refuse the Kingship of Christ. If we will not bow to Christ the King we will bow to either the Tyranny of Centralized Authority (Caesar) or the Tyranny of individual Revolutionary anarchism (Barabbas). The Jews, intent on Revolting against God, crucify the King but in doing so they do not get rid of the idea of Kingship. Instead, they embrace Kingship… the Kingship of the Insurrectionist autonomous individual or the Kingship of the Tyrant. So there it is. If we will not have Christ’s Kingship we will not escape from being ruled. If we will not have Christ the King then we will have either the Insurrectionist and Revolutionary as King or we will have the State as King. It is never a question of if we will be ruled by a King, it is only a question of what King we will be ruled by.
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