THE SCENE: Perfect 47, crisp, waxing gibbous, still a bit damp from the snow
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
High Knees, stretch left, stretch right, Moroccan night clubs, tempo squats, tempo merkins
THA-THANG:
- Mosey to pool wall
- Spurinna warns Julius of his doom coming by the Ides of March.
- 7s, wall ups and dry docks
- Mosey to amphitheater
- Cassius is looking Pale, Caesar suspects something
- 7s, box jumps and dips
- Mosey to Friendship Bell
- The last 3 straws
- Caesar rejects the honors of the Senate
- “I am not Rex, but Caesar” – Caesar removes the tribunes
- Mark Antony crowning stunt
- 3 sets of 25 decline merkins with a lap in between for each straw (1,2,3)
- The last 3 straws
- Gathering conspirators
- 4 corners of the rectangle, sprint between them
- 60 reps at each corner
- Flutter kicks
- LBCs
- American hammers
- Big boys
- Back at the Friendship Bell
- Julius’s wife, Calpurnia, receives a warning dream, tells him not to go to the Senate meeting
- 5x (10 Bonnie Blair’s, then a burpee)
- Conspirators come to his house and persuade him to ignore his wife
- 3x (10 bobby hurleys, then 5 dry docks)
- Mosey to pool wall – Passing Spurinna on the way to the Senate
- 1 wall up, 1 dry dock
- Mosey to amphitheater – Caesar is stabbed 23 times by his conspirators
- 23 burpees
MARY:
23 heels-to-heaven and LBCs to time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Cassius and Brutus started down the path of conspiracy and murder because they feared that Julius would seize power, dissolve the Senate, and set himself up as king of Rome. They saw preservation of the Republic as being more important than the life of one man, even a man as great as Julius Caesar. Ironically, history shows that the assassination of Julius Caesar was the pivotal event that ultimately led to the dissolution of the Senate and the establishment of the first Emperor of Rome, Augustus Caesar, Julius Caesar’s heir.
John 11:45-50
45 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, 46 but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. 50 Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.”
Turns out the mistake of Cassius and Brutus wasn’t unique, as you would expect. We see the Jewish leadership make the same mistake in the Gospel. Jesus tells them that he is the one path that will free them from Roman oppression, but instead, thinking they are preserving their relationship with Rome, execute him. Less than 50 years later, Jerusalem is ransacked and the temple thrown to the ground. In attempting to save themselves from Rome, they brought about their own destruction. Fast forward 250 years, the Roman emperor converts to Christianity. Jesus accomplished a feat that the Jewish leaders would have thought impossible, bringing the power of Rome under the authority of the one true God.
What do you think you are doing? What are you ACTUALLY doing? When I seek to force the world to abide by my will, it usually blows up in my face. But when I surrender my will, the thing that I want often comes to me in unexpected ways or the error of my desire is revealed to me. Either way, the world is drawn together rather than being torn apart.
MOLESKIN:
Awesome to see Three-peat back out in the gloom!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Nothing new, see Slack for details on camping, hiking, family Q, shield lock, etc.