142. Rock Goes The Gospel - Queen "One Vision"

"One Vision" was written by Roger Taylor and first released as a single in November 1985 and then included on their 1986 album A Kind of Magic. Taylor's inspiration for the song came from Martin Luther King's "I had a dream" speech. It is also said that Queen was inspired to write this by their Live Aid appearance in 1985 - millions of people sharing one vision of a better world. this is exactly what Martin Luther King believed in.

One man, one goal,
One mission.
One heart, one soul,
Just one solution.
One flash of light, yeah,
One god, one vision.

One flesh, one bone,
One true religion.
One voice, one hope,
One real decision.
Wowowowo, gimme one vision, yeah.

No wrong, no right.
I'm gonna tell you there's no black and no white.
No blood, no stain.
All we need is one worldwide vision.

One flesh, one bone,
One true religion.
One voice, one hope,
One real decision.
Wowowowowo, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah!

I had a dream when I was young,
A dream of sweet illusion,
A glimpse of hope and unity,
And visions of one sweet union.

But a cold wind blows,
And a dark rain falls,
And in my heart it shows.
Look what they've done to my dream, yeah.

One vision!

So give me your hands,
Give me your hearts.
I'm ready.
There's only one direction.
One world, one nation,
Yeah, one vision.

No hate, no fight,
Just excitation,
All through the night,
It's a celebration, wowowowo, yeah.

One [echo]

(One vision)

One flesh, one bone,
One true religion.
One voice, one hope,
One real decision.

Gimme one night, yeah.
Gimme one hope, hey.
Just gimme, ah.
One man, one man,
One bar, one night,
One day, hey, hey.
Just gimme gimme, gimme, gimme
Fried chicken.
Vision [fading]

In the Bruce Willis movie The Sixth Sense. There is a startling ending that forces you to go back and re-interpret everything you have seen before. (The shock is that Bruce Willis, the therapist, is really dead - a ghost - and does not know it. Sorry to give it away)

The second time you watch the movie you cannot help but interpret every statement and every encounter in terms of the ending. You can't Not think of the ending any more when you watch the beginning or the middle of the movie. the ending sheds light on everything that went before. the same is true of the scriptures. Once you know that all the lines of every story, that all the climaxes of all the Old Testament and New Testament themes converge on Christ, you simply cannot fail to see that every text is ultimately about Jesus. This is what Jesus is doing in Luke 24:36-49.

There is three part outline in Luke 24:36-49 that will help us as we read it. 1. The God of all Scripture. (Vs 44-45) 2. The Focus of all Scripture. (Vs 44) 3. The Promise of all Scripture.(Vs 46-47)

Luke reveals to us such an important fact: that knowing God's plan and gift of salvation is deeply rooted in knowing the entire story. The good news does not just reside in part two of the Bible - The New Testament. The entire story from one end to the other is about one person, one plan, one goal.

One Vision. That person is Jesus, that plan is redemption, the goal is the glory of God, the vision is restoration of all that God has created. It's a pretty simple storyline. But the truth of it transforms lives.

You can know a little of the bible and not know the story. You can know your doctrines and tick them off on the list and not know the story. You can cherry pick bible passages and miss the story completely. Jesus in Luke 24 tells the disciples "The Story of God" and it's the story of God that is important.  We get the story of God by doing what Jesus did with his disciples. To know the bible that well that we peice together the story by being familiar with what is written. A bit like a jigsaw of the whole story of God.

No use saying we believe in the bible and not reading it, not reflecting on it, not giving time to it. In my experience there is no better way to know the story of God than to read and re read the scriptures until they become a daily companion to you, They reveal Jesus. This is not wishful or fancy thinking but exactly how Jesus handles the scriptures in Luke 24. "He opens their minds so they could understand the scriptures". The scriptures that speak about him. This is the Story of God. This is the "One Vision" The big story of all time, the big story of God's redemption in Jesus.