Sermunition Sunday #40 - The Wolf Eats Jesus

I'm going to lay down my life. When the wolf comes, the wolf is coming for me instead of you. I'm actually going to stand there and take it. When I say I'm going to lay it down and pick it up, I'm now telling you what it means for me to know you, how well I know you, and how I've chosen to never unlink myself from you. So when you ask: Am I a good sheep, I'm going to tell you again: I took it all for you. When I lay down my life I do it with all your sin on me. I do it because I know you. And by this, you will know me: I call you by name. That's the word that's going to be in your ear, not: What have you done? So when I pick up my life, I pick you up with me. I own you. Not as property, but I own you as someone who calls your name over and over again.