Human beings tend to resist lots of things.<\/p>\n
For example, some people resist wearing seatbelts. They resist it in spite of statistics that say it\u2019s the wise thing to do. They resist even though \u201cIt\u2019s the law.\u201d Ivan Segedin was very resistant to wearing a seatbelt. Ivan took his resistance to an extreme. The police had ticketed him 32 times over five years for failing to use his seat belt. Even though this was costing him big money, Ivan refused to buckle up. Finally, instead of obeying the law, he decided to rely on deception. He made a fake seat belt that would hang over his shoulder and make it appear that he was wearing a seat belt when he was not. His trick worked for a while. Then, he had a head-on collision. You know the rest of the story, right?\u00a0 He was thrown forward onto the steering wheel and killed.<\/p>\n
Discussing the accident, the coroner described the fake seat belt with these words: “Though his car was fitted with seat belts, an extra belt with a long strap had been knotted above the seat belt on the driver’s side, providing a belt to simply sit over the driver’s shoulder.” Resistance, in Ivan\u2019s case, was futile. Worse \u2013 his resistance was fatal.<\/p>\n
In our passage today, Jesus addresses the resistance each of us has in reference to him. Click play below to listen to the message.<\/p>\n