Christ or Chaos Again these na n were mistaken in supposing they could claim God's blessings and yet reject God s Son. The basic trouble with those big men of Jerusalem, and the people they influenced, was that they did not want Jesus. They did not want him. his ideas, his leadership; they had no notion at all of his sacrifice. Lis ins or dying thrv had no use for him . . . and so they perished Those who reject the living Grace of God have to suffer the consequences. Christ is still the to.-t of community and na tion. The people who welcome him. live by him, have enduring life The kind of people who turn him iway and try to destroy what he gave his life for. will themselves be destroyed The epitaph of all wrecked nations could well be the same. Here lie the wretched re mains of a people that had no use for God To reject Christ is to choose chaos pn AijOlfif* r p p \ rlrhtfd be thr «• < brt«tl«n t durntlnp Vt* Hont I | nil nr 11 th* (h|lfe hr* < hrUI • n (hr I * \ Ft 11 f P«. * H H\ t ririrnuntt* »*rr«s Servlet.)

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