• standoff between Gaddafi and rebels risky
• Jesus our Champion in overcoming evil regime
EXALTED CHAMPIONS, ULTIMATE EXODUS
• metamorphosis on the mount: sneak preview of
glorified Jesus
• Moses stood up against Pharaoh; Elijah - Ahab &
Jezebel
• talk with Jesus about the ‘exodus’ He’s about to
bring to pass
CAPTURE AND CONTROL - OR KILL
• ‘strong man’ tactics in our selfish moments
• Peter rushes to institutionalize religious happening
• need to listen to incomparable Jesus
• our Herod-like impulses resent prophetic rebuke,
shun Son of Man
• Jesus turns our rejection at cross into opportunity
to bind the ‘strong man’
FOUR WANDERING WAIFS: THE STRONGMAN’S LEGACY
• abandoned children pathetic fall-out of human sin
• become opportunity for saving intervention when
love responds