Following on from God’s Not Dead,
there is another movie, this time it is called, wait for it – God’s Not Dead
2. This time the film follows a teacher who
is on trial for bringing Jesus into a discussion on Ghandi and Martin Luther
King into the classroom.
The school suspends Miss Wesley
for her actions and a court case starts with the defence lawyers trying to
prove the teacher was innocent and the prosecutor trying to prove that God
doesn’t exist – that he is actually dead.
This involves soul searching by
some people, namely the girl Brooke who asked the question in class. She
becomes a Christian despite her parents being against Christianity and who are
the parents who brought this trial to court as they didn’t want their daughter
being exposed to religion. However, it
turns out that Brooke’s brother, who died, was on a journey with Christ as well
– and this makes Brooke questions her own faith.
The court case is going – well it
seems to be going the way of the prosecutors. There is a minister on the jury
but he had to leave due to taking appendicitis which makes the persecution
claim that there is obviously no God as the defence team have now lost their
only hope to winning the case.
The people who take the stand are
very interesting including Lee Strobel who was an atheist but became a
Christian when he set out to write a book to prove that God didn’t actually
exist – however instead of proving his point, Strobel realised that God does
exist and has since become a Christian.
Then there is another guy who
sets out to prove that the eye witness accounts of the four gospels are all
true and the reason why there are differences is because they are four
different people – and when remembering details, these all differ from person
to person as we all see things differently.
The case starts to look now that
the defence may be winning. Then enters
Brooke, the 17 year old girl who asked the question in class. She wants to
stand up for her teacher in court and set the story straight – to say that it
was she who asked the question and all Miss Wesley did was answer it, and in a
reasonable manner.
All Miss Wesley did was answer a
questions on a historical figure in a history class – and even if people do not
believe in God, they cannot deny that there are other people who do believe in
God and that historians have proven that God did exist.
Brooke admits in court that she
has become a Christian, much to her parent’s annoyance. On hearing this the prosecutor
blames Miss Wesley for converting this child to Christianity. The jury are now again on the side of the
persecution.
During the case Miss Wesley feels
our world is collapsing all around, so she does what she knows how to, she
calls out to God to help her, which is what she should do at all times – even when
we feel that God is not with us, He is.
At the end of the trial people
are sitting outside the court holding hands and supporting Miss Wesley and
someone says the most important words, “God’s got this” – and yes He does. God
has got everything under control – He always does.
Then Miss Wesley is brought onto
the stand and is asked to apologise for what she said in class, but she says
she cannot do that because she has nothing to say sorry for. Her lawyer is taking her through hell on the
stand, and we are not sure why. But then he asks her to say the question that
Jesus asked her “Who do you say I am?” -
And the answer “Jesus is the living Christ. He is personal to us all”
Now it is up to the jury to
decide if Miss Wesley is guilty – and is God dead or isn’t He?
At this point in the movie I
start to feel for Miss Wesley as her lawyer has just been very nasty to her on
the stand and she feels all lost and alone.
We now jump to a Newsboys
concerts where Michael Tait, the lead singer, asks the audience to pray for
Miss Wesley at the time – this is showing that prayer does work.
Now back in the courtroom, the
jury have reached a decision - they find the defendant not guilty. Some people are happy with the decision and
some people are not happy.
As for the question if God alive
or dead? – We are always going to have those people who say that He is dead and
those who say He is not dead, he is very much alive.
The important part of the movie
is that Miss Wesley stood up for what she believe in and that is something we
all should do.
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