Ignorance Perpetrates Evil and Folly

UV 3668/10000 Ignorance Perpetrates Evil and Folly And Jesus was saying, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” Luke 23 v 34 In human law, it is said that ignorance is not an excuse and just because a man does not know he is violating the law, he is not allowed to go scot free. But in this uni-verse, Jesus lays the foundation of divine law of forgiveness- to forgive our offenders as they do not know what they are doing. This is the single greatest act and expression of love in all history. But that does not take away from not knowing what we are doing being the genesis of much of the wrong doing in this world. It underlies the importance of knowing the law of God- the Word. It will keep us from evil as well as folly. The Jews did not know they were crucifying the very Messiah they had been promised. The Romans under Pilate did not know they were crucifying as a hardened criminal Someone greater than any or all of their Caesars or emperors put together. The people did not know that they were baying for the blood of the very One who had formed them and had come to transform their lives, to set them free from death, sin and its bondages. Were the eyes of the Romans, the Jewish priests and the common people deliberately blinded that they did not recognize Jesus to be God? Did they wantonly choose not to read the signs of His divinity demonstrated in His words, His miracles? God was allowing sin to run its full course and from the lowest point of the grave, He would resurrect hope through the resurrected Jesus. The essence of the truth is that knowledge of truth can set us free. When we know the truth, that is Jesus personally and through Him the entirety of divinity, we are set free. Since the world does not know the truth, we, too are to forgive them for they know not what they do against us. We should know what we are doing so that we stay on the straight and narrow road. The conscience of Pilate warned him of great wrong doing. But, under pressure, he chose to overlook it. His wife, too saw a nightmare that warned him but he chose to ignore it. In our lives, too we overlook the voice of the conscience under the pressure of circumstances. The people were fickle, one day hailing Jesus as King and the next, shouting that He be put to death. The priests who should know the scriptures and the prophecies concering the Messiah hardened their hearts to deal with what they thought was a threat to their authority and well being. Ignorance perpetrates folly and evil but ironically, in crucifying Jesus, the Light of the World, the Word of God, the Son of God, the Lamb of God, the King of Kings, the perfect Messiah, the ultimate sacrifice, ignorance paved the way for the knowledge of God to spread across the world, for mankind to enjoy salvation, to experience every blessing in place of the curses of folly and sin.