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Washington DC, Money, and Justice

Nancy Pelosi is running again and she says it is so she can raise money for Democrats. Further evidence that money is the lifeblood of our current government system, even voting results can literally be closely linked to money, whether that be buying votes in return for favors, or hiring people to commit voter fraud, (both likely happening).

Many argue that this politician has been the most effective speaker in US history at accomplishing her agenda for loyal party members and her particular base of voters. I think they have a strong case for this. If that is the measure of effectiveness then I’d have to agree with them.

Regardless of what effective means, or what motivates her… a close look at her lifestyle, income and career I think is the best indictment against our federal government and political system’s I have seen in a long time.

Our federal government which started well, has evolved into its current godless, anti-Christ state. But it had to… didn’t it? This is what human government does. Literally all of them have. Unless the Lord himself intervenes in the affairs of our government. They require periodic violence if even a basic things like liberty and justice are to remain a thing. (Patrick Henry said as much).

One reason the ministry of the body of Jesus Christ exists on earth, is to counter this demonic force in the earth. And to hold it to the measure of Jesus Christ, even if this results in our demise.

It is easy to demonize the democrat party and then excuse the whole system, but if it wasn’t this party it would be some other group who yields to evil spirits in pursuit of power and money, whispering in their ears. It would be some other political party or some military strong-man or even some other government invasion.

Human governments are not the ecclesia of Jesus Christ therefore …. DC had to become this, as there is a unique link to demonic principalities and powers.

And for what is coming, without a dramatic and very public turn toward Jesus Christ, the only real source of liberty and justice, by our federal government, it should not even continue to exist. I know that likely has some negative implications for many, but it is still true. Is it time to end our federal government? Or is reform still possible? Jesus Christ is the one who decides its fate.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-running-needed-still-raise-significant-money

The Gospel of the State

Marxism 101 – The Gospel of The State
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Not Neglecting The Whole Counsel of God

“The very word or term “Gospel” has come to imply something less than “the whole counsel of God”, and to be applied almost exclusively to the beginnings of the Christian life.”

T. Austin Sparks (1954)

…for teachers and preachers today to share the gospel and salvation, and to make it exclusively about the beginnings of Christianity and heaven, is to neglect much of it. It produces a church obsessed with only the beginnings of Christianity and they struggle to mature and go beyond those beginnings. It also leaves the Christian in the dark about things such as, why God created, Jesus’ role in the present and future universe, the

We should understand ‘gospel’ to mean “the whole counsel of God” and if we have that gospel it should take months to preach and teach it all. Not 3 minutes conclusions at the end of random, entertaining topical sermons. There should be some accountability for those who claim to be ‘preaching the gospel.’

To Paul ‘salvation’ meant all the work that God has done to get us into his kingdom, and that includes all the work he intends for the church to do in the earth, here and now. Not only the future experience of heaven and resurrection.

Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. 2 For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty, 3 how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

Whichever apostle wrote the book of Hebrews, perhaps Barnabas or Paul or maybe Silas. He warns here in Hebrews 2 to watch out for a drifting away from the gospel and neglecting it. So this is something they were already experiencing and concerned about in the first century. We have no right to dumb down the gospel, and to condense it so it will fit into our 45 minute sermon conclusion, is to strip it of much detail. Condensing it and stripping it also robs those who hear it of much insight into Jesus Christ, into our current dispensation. And understanding of the purpose of creation, Christianity itself, and the ministry/ calling of the church. The gospel preached produces the church. A partial or a dumbed down gospel, changes the church that embraces it. It hinders it, it turns it into something the Lord never intended it to be. A mere idle audience of hearers, being told elementary things repeatedly, who are often used as tithers in support of a salary or a building fund.

For more on this read T. Austin Sparks book The Gospel According to Paul

More content on the gospel from this blog. AdamCollier.com

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Foundation Stones of The Gospel of Peter

Every Christian leader has his or her take on the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. I’ve been studying the life and the gospel and the ministry of the Apostle Simon Peter and his two letters in the New Testament (1 Peter & 2 Peter).

In these two letters I’ve found what I think are about Five Foundational Stones upon which those letters are founded. Peter would make these spiritual points and then elaborate at great length on the implications to these points. He would assume knowledge of these points about the Lord in his readers, and then based on a good portion of new teachings on these points for his followers.

1. The Suffering and Glory of Jesus Christ.

2. Jesus Christ was foreknown before the foundation of the world, (God still has his Eternal Purpose, and Jesus Christ is still central to it, that should give us great joy and hope.)

3. Increasing in the Knowledge of Jesus Christ is central to the Christian life.

4. Jesus Christ is currently an approachable, good and reliable shepherd for the Christian.

5. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ enables us to be born again. And his delay in returning is enabling more children into his kingdom through the preaching of his followers. The born again members of his kingdom on earth are the new Spiritual Israel.

The apostle Peter was an amazing man. I hope to teach in detail on the Apostle Peter soon and his gospel. And to elaborate on these five pillars and all there remarkable implications for the Christian today.

Here is another great resource, a book on the apostle Peter (by T. Austin Sparks).

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