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Dec 13, 2023 18:30pm

Plenty of Room

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Anybody else that the scene at the end of the Titanic was the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever seen?

Rose and Jack. Two people who were so in love. It was an epic love story.

Or was it?

Here’s Rose, lying on a door as a raft. The supposed love of her life was freezing in the water.

Clearly, there was enough room on that door for the both of them.

All he had to do was get on it. Instead, he chose death.

Luke 19:39-44

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.” – NIV

The Pharisees were making their stand. They were refusing the offer of salvation from God through Jesus.

He was the door. There was plenty of room for them, but they were foolish. They thought they were being heroic by declaring Jesus as a blasphemer, but really they were choosing death.

And it caused Jesus to weep. If only they had believed. If only they had accepted Him. If only…

But they didn’t. And all those that denied Jesus denied God Himself. The beloved city of Jerusalem would be overtaken. And it happens nearly 40 years later. In AD 70, after a Jewish revolt against the Romans, the weakened city was sieged. 600,000 Jews were slaughtered.

Today, Jesus offers us a door.

John 10:9-10

“ I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

But we have to choose to accept His offer. Do not be like the Pharisees and deny God’s salvation. There is nothing heroic about it. Eternal death awaits unless you accept Christ as your Savior and follow Him.

There’s plenty of room for all of us.