1. What Is Your Barabbas?

2. Acts 3:13-26 (NIV)

3. Acts 3:13b-14 (NLT)
13b This is the same Jesus whom you handed over and rejected before Pilate, despite Pilate’s decision to release him. 14 You rejected this holy, righteous one and instead demanded the release of a murderer.

4. The Passion of the Christ
Pilate addressing the Jews about the fate of Jesus

5. Acts 3:13b-14 (NLT)
13b This is the same Jesus whom you handed over and rejected before Pilate, despite Pilate’s decision to release him. 14 You rejected this holy, righteous one and instead demanded the release of a murderer.

6. Disowned/Rejected– GK ‘arneomai’
Verbally renounce knowledge or relationship
Refuse to agree
Disregard
Refuse to follow

7. Choosing a Murder Over Jesus
Barabbas was an insurrectionist (a revolutionary trying to overthrow the Roman Government – Symbolized Rebellion) - Luke 23:19
He was also a known murderer – Clearly guilty
Bottom Line
The Jews didn’t want the Romans ruling over them and they surely didn’t want to accept that Jesus Christ, this lowly carpenter from Nazareth, was the Son of God and would rule over them.

8. Romans 6:16 (NIV)
“Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?”

9. Progressive Submission
Progressive Revelatory Submission
What God shows us at the time of salvation (Justification)
What God progressively shows us as we walk out our Christian life (Sanctification)
“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.” Mary Anne Evans

10. Repent and recommit your life to Jesus Christ
Response
Questions to ask God
Show me what I choose over Jesus.
Show me what I’m allowing to be my ‘Master’
Show me who or what is my ‘Barabbas’
Repent and recommit your life to Jesus Christ