I can't even preach a perfect sermon, let alone live one. What's more, even if my life were the perfect sermon reflecting Christ, it would probably be misunderstood anyway. I guess it was what they wanted to hear. I hope it was what they needed to hear. I hope it's what God wanted them to hear that day, but it wasn't what I meant to say.
Communication is a complex business.
There are so many ways for the message to get garbled along the way. They had ignored him. They had slandered him. They had disobeyed him. They had rejected him.