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Who dunnit…?

A yo, itz ya bwoy sun back on tha keyboard bangin' anotha "Heaven 4 a G" I'm gpnna look back on Easter weekend, where we who claim Cristo an' are down 4 tha Cross Set madd celebrate the death an' resurrection of El Rey—Tha King, Jesus Christ. I dunno if y'all have been followin' all tha 411 an' drama 'bout Mel Gibson'z film "The Passion" but, mang, dat jawn be bum rushin' tha show in movie theaterz world wide. Yo, some of tha recent drama be focusin' on jus who smoked Jesus. "Zacly who should get tha rap for dat 187? Who really wuz responsible? Or, like they ol' film noir flickz: "Who dunnit…?

Sadly, lotta peeps want Jewish people to catch this case. Tragically, the damning judgment of anti-Semitez an' white supremos: "The Jews killed Christ!" has rung down thru tha centuries, at the cost of millions of innocent Jewish lives—somethin' that certainly breaks Jesus heart. True, most of the Jewish peeps of His day, didn't recognize Him as Messiah, didn't follow him, and some were outright antagonistic an hostile. Some, like many of the Jewish religious leaders, the Pharisees and Saducess, were enemies and did plot to kill, or more accurately have Jesus killed. But, thatz a universe away from laying the whole rap solelyn of an entire people. Jesus certainly don't feel dat. Yo, when Jesus entered Jerusalem for the las time, he said:

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks…" Mt. 23:37

Word, Jesus be str8 'bout Israel's past history about dissin' an' smokin' many of God's prophets sent to call His peeps to come correct. But, He ain't soundin' like He gonna call down fire an' brimstone on old Jeru either. An' neither should we.

"Aiight," some may spit "What 'bout dem Romanz?" Well, az appropriators of the Classical tradition from ancient Greece they distributed a lot of the knowledge of they day, an' madd added to it, too. But, they copped a lotta dat science, cuz they stepped to an' moved in on most of tha hoodz of they known world. An' them Tiber River katz were mean busterz. Antiguo Roma wuz one of the cruelest civilizationz in history. Yo, ol' Boris Karloff playin' some wack kat in one o' his spook filmz, when describin' a torture chamber or sumpin' like dat, pullz an evil grill an' spitz: "You know, the Romans worshipped pain."

An' he we'rn't clownin'. Yo, one peep at "The Passion" film showz jus how expert the Romans were in "pain management." Flagellation an' crucifixion were about the worst ways to execute a person, an' they were reserved for traitors an' the worst criminals in the Empire. Jesus experienced both. An' it wuz the Roman governor Pontius Pilate who, while washin' his hands of the guilt (hmm…), still approved the order to smoke Jesus.

"So, tha Romanz did it! I knew it all along, mang! Yo, I peeped Gladiator, too! I peeped how dem busterz acted scandalous an' all." lol

Well, like any good "who dunnit" this one got a twist to it. The truth be dat someone did kill Jesus, but he ain't tha guilty party.

"Say what??" Yeah, ya heard me. Someone did kill Jesus, but he ain't tha guilty perp.

"Sun, U reeeeeaallly trippin' now dun!" Mebbe. But, check it:

"Yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted." Isa. 53:4

"A yo, come again? Smitten by…God?? 'The' God??? So are U sayin' dat God killed Jesus????"

Exactly.

Yo, take off ya footgear, an' letz enter holy ground, an' peep one o' tha mos hallowed, poignant moments in all o' Scripture. Jesus in tha garden of Gethsemane:

"He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. Then He said to them (His posse): "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death." Mt. 26:36 …He knelt down and prayed, saying, "Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done." Luke 22:42-43

Did U catch dat? "…not My will, but Yours, be done."

The astounding Truth of all of Scripture be dat God put Jesus to death. It was His plan B 4 the foundation of the world. Jesus came to earth, became a man, for a lotta reazunz. But the major one wuz to die, in accordance with the Father's will. In an incredible transaction--the depth and scope of which we will never fully comprehend an' appreciate prolly even in Eternity—on the Cross of Jesus Christ: God put God to death, an' still remained fully, completely and congruently…God.

"But, yo, doezn't dat mean dat God be da perp? Don't God catch da case for smokin' Jesus?" Nah, it don't. Peep dis:

"But, He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him…Isa. 53:5

Woah. What goin' on here? He…Jesus…was pierced for our transgressions?? He be crushed for our iniquities?? The punishment that brought us peace was upon him???

U got it. Even though God killed Jesus, God ain't tha perp. He ain't tha guilty party.

"Yo, so them Jews are guilty of Jesus' death, after all!"

Word up.

"But, U flippin' da script from what U spit earlier in dis trak!"

Well, it might look like it, but I also spit dat dis whodunit got a twist, too. Yo, it not just the Pharisees an' Saducees dat are guilty of Jesus' death, but erry Jewish person in dat whole crowd, in Jerusalem, in all da whole world at dat time. An' not only dat, ALL da Jewish peeps dat every lived from Abraham to dis present day are guilty of Jesus' death.

"But, U a nazi, sun!!"

Lol I might be, no doubt, if I didn't up an' spit dat dem Roman katz, too, were guilty of Jesus' death-- jus as guilty as tha Jewish peeps. Yo, an' not only Pontius Pilate, an' the soldiers dat flogged an'crucified Jesus-- the whole Roman army, government, tha Emperor, yo all tha Roman citizenz of dat entire 1st Century world wuz just az guilty of smokin' Jesus Christ az any of tha Jewish peeps. In fact, like tha Jewish peeps, ALL da Romanz dat ever lived are just az guilty.

An' I'll go even farther: ALL tha Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Egyptianz, Phoenicianz, English, French, Germans, African-Americans, Hispanics, Crips, Bloods, Latin Kings, MS-13'z, Nortenos, Royals, Surenos…U name it's… ALL OF THEM…are guilty of the wack, painful, body an' soul-crushing murder of Jesus Christ.

"Sun, U bettah check yaself. U madd bumped ya head!!"

Mebbe. But check dis:

"We all like sheep have gone astray, each one of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." Isa. 53:6

Yo repito:

"We all like sheep have gone astray…and the LORD has laid on Him (Jesus) the iniquity of us all."

Yo the Hebrew word for "iniquity," awon signifies a serious "offense, intentional or not, against God's law. This meaning is also most basic to the word hatta't—sin. "Iniquity" as an offense to God's holiness is punishable. The individual is warned that God punishes man's transgressions: 'But every man shall die for his own iniquity…" There is also a collective (my emphasis) sense in that the one is responsible for the many." Vine's Expository Dictionary, p. 122.

Our human sense of justice naturally seeks for accountability, and someone or some party being held responsible for the injustice, crime, etc. That sense of justice, while madd distorted an' perverted in us, originates from bein' made in God's image. God be the Esssence of Justice an' Rightness. .

So, even tho He killed Jesus, God ain't tha perp in dis 187.

If U reeeeeeally wanna know who be the "principle responsible party," go peep a mirror.

I'm out.

Paz. ~1~ sun