Luke 23:12 (ESV)
And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. That might be the take-a-way of the above passage for some. Both Herod and Pilate were used by the angry mob and the wicked religious leaders of the day to find a cause for Jesus’ death. They thought they would pit these two ruler against each other. Instead, they drove them together. They still found a way to crucify Christ. But, they outcome for Herod and Pilate was to come together in unity. What do we learn:
Principle: A single act of focus can rally and unite even the greatest foes.
When we have a single act of focus we come together like three side of an equilateral triangle, when you start at two opposing sides and move toward the same point you end up at that same point. No matter how far apart if everyone runs to the same point we will end up together in the end. That is the what we learn from the above. We can also see the story of the Tower of Babel. God wanted mankind to disperse and make new nations and replenish the earth. But, instead they all came together at Babel to build a town to God. This was not God’s intent. Note what is said among the Trinity about this tower being built:
Genesis 11:5-7 (ESV)
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.”
Even God thought that they would be able to do much when they were totally unified. He confused them with language barriers and that lack of confusion caused them to spread out around the world, God’s point of the matter. But what we learn is that when parities come together and talk and unified around a common goal you get a powerful result.
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