Political correctness drives nearly everything today. Did you know it was like that in the days when Jesus lived on earth. When the religious leaders were confronted with doing what is right and scary or doing what is politically correct and safe, they chose to do what was politically safe. Let’s read our text and it will be obvious. Our story begins after the resurrection of Lazarus.
Text: John 11:47-48
Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs. If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
Did you see it? When confronted with doing the right thing or doing the wrong, but politically correct thing, they ignored right. If you doubt this, notice how this story ends.
John 11:53 says,
“So from that day on they planned together to kill Him.”
There were points to be made for being politically cautious. They feared that if Jesus were allowed to teach unchecked, he would build a great following and that might upset the Romans who would destroy them. They couldn’t have that so they decided to kill Jesus. It is hard to believe that they would make that kind of decision, but that did!
To choose righteousness when it scares us is a hard thing to do. It was then and it is now!
Truth must always be more important than fear.
Lonnie Davis