Jesus, the Outcast, Is Victorious

Essentially, there are two opposite Christologies. Jesus as King, Jesus as outcast Scripture plays with both But the 2nd speaks to me far more powerfully I like the idea of a Savior Lives with the meek and poor The humble and humiliated A Savor that says power and wealth are obstacles to spiritual health A former sheepherder Understood not being able to rest until those in your care are all recovered and safe Lines from Psalm 118 repeated in Acts 4:11 Applied to Jesus One of numerous places appears in the New Testament The seeming paradox of these two cristologies are reconciled The humiliated is triumphant; the one cast out is now at the center As the resurrection account has unfolded in the gospel readings We see the rejected one Seemingly destroyed by earthly powers Victorious