The kingdom of darkness is like …a man conceiving evil, mischief, and lies. He makes a pit trying to trap the innocent ones that he hates. Digging it out for days, but then one day he himself falls into his own hole. And as he falls, rocks and soil fall on his own head injuring him severely.
Paraphrased from Psalm 7
I’ve spent a considerable amount of energy in the past 4 years sharing, praying and appealing to Christian friends and family about the way church meetings are done in my area. It does seem that most if not all of that energy and writing, and praying and ads in Craigslist and Meetup.com and the local newspaper have fallen on deaf ears.
And if deafness is an accurate description then it’s important to realize that deaf people are not ignoring us when we speak to them about something. They simply cannot hear. They aren’t being rude or cold.
How can Christians be deaf to something spiritual? That I don’t fully understand, perhaps they aren’t really Christians, or perhaps it’s something else causing it, that is not my business.
What I do know with certainty is that Spiritual deafness can be undone by the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. That gospel, preached by John the Baptist with Jesus Christ. Was the combination of heaven and earth, God with humanity. It links God to humanity, to earth, to us physically. Jesus Christ awakens people from darkness to light.
The gospel is not to be seen as a ticket to heaven after we die. That was never it’s primary role. It was and is intended to be the merging, the re-taking over of earth by God through Christ.
So what is needed much more than people wanting to do church better; is a resurgence of people preaching the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. And that is what I am setting out to do, Lord willing.
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Money represents success and power within the kingdom of darkness.
But in the kingdom of Jesus Christ it’s not much of a thing at all. Take it or leave it.
Jesus doesn’t use it to reach people. And he doesn’t teach us to use it to reach people.
We just wish and pretend he does, because we love its power.
The best attitude to have about money is a take or leave it attitude that is very generous for the poor around us.
If the wealthy Christians in the west would give more to the poor around us, and less on fancy buildings and expensive church shows maybe the poor among us would stop harassing the country with this constant push for govt-based socialism.
“But if your eye is bad (after money) your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!”
Matthew 6:23
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