Living Words

A Sermon for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 & St. Luke 19:41-47 by William Klock Imagine being in the crowds that surrounded Jesus as he made his way through the towns and cities to Jerusalem for the last time.  By now, everyone knew who he was—or, at any rate, who he claimed to be.  There were sceptics.  There were believers.  A lot of people weren’t sure what to believe.  He wasn’t what people expect of the Messiah, but he was doing Messiah things.  He was healing the sick and the blind and the lame.  He cast out demons.  He raised the dead.  He preached good news to the poor.  Think of the crowds in Jericho, the last city before Jesus climbed the mountain to Jerusalem.  The crowds swarmed the road to see him, he’d healed blind Bartimaeus, and that thing with Zacchaeus!  That little twerp had spent his traitorous life selling out to the Romans and ripping everyone off, but since he’d met Jesus he was a new man—even paying everyone back what he’d stolen.  Everywhere that Jesus wen