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God is for …Jesus

🎤🎼”God is for me, I am who you say I am”🎹

There is a sliver of Christian truth to these lyrics, but only…if applied to the ecclesia.

But there is also a massive amount of over applying and misapplying this truth to every thing and everyone labeled Christian.

To be clear, God is FOR Jesus Christ exclusively. And he is FOR the living breathing community of Jesus Christ.

He is not FOR religious individuals who fit right into Satan’s world system. Be it his Christian religious money-system we sometimes call church or ministry. He is not for individuals who refuse his painful discipleship with their pursuit of ease and pleasure with wealth and who are living according to the pride of life or the lust of the flesh.

If that applies to you, don’t waste your mental energy applying those lyrics to yourself.

But IF Jesus Christ can be absolute center of your life, if he personally is your connection to others. If knowing him is your source of love with and for others. If he is why you gather and is not just your religious mascot. Then grab some mics and sing it loud “He is for us, not against us, we are who You say we are”

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“Look What I Did”

When leaders do a census of their organization or ministry it’s often in self defense. To undermine their opponents or detractors. To point to their accomplishments and say “see, I am doing a good job, don’t listen to those critics.” Or “look, there is fruit from my way of doing things, so stay loyal”

And this is fine for many leaders (CEOs, -governments, when it’s a strictly human-led organization) but this is not ok for the church. It’s not how it is in the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

The organizations of God are unique and in scripture God saw census-taking as a sign that a leader is taking personal credit for what he is doing. Leaders see it as self-defense but God sees it as evidence that a leader sees himself in the role only fit for the Lord.

The best tactic for a disciple of Jesus being criticized is not to defend himself. But to let God do that, and if he doesn’t then so be it, let it drop. Be criticized.

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What Jesus Said About Himself
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To Them … It Has Not Been Granted

Jesus answered them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.” Matthew 13:11

Jesus said this to his disciples about crowds of people who were listening to him but were simply watching for a show of signs or miracles. He was explaining why he taught about his kingdom with parables.

There are mysteries about reality and life that are hidden from us that only intense seeking, following, surrender, and loyalty to Jesus Christ personally can uncover.

If we’re after a religious show, he knows it!

And he will keep us in the dark spiritually in response. We’ll be hearing teaching that will mean nothing to us, go right over our heads, it will be hours wasted and we’ll remember not a thing taught to us.

It is almost cruel to teach young Christian to go for the entertainment and religious shows. And to then learn how produce more shows for others, this is modern nonsense religion it’s a waste of good time and energy. There must be realness when dealing with God, not a performance attitude.

If done well, shows do sell and do draw crowds but Jesus (the one who is our Lord) was not and is not moved by the crowds and their cash. Show-seeking and show-performing is setting young Christians up for spiritual blindness.

Jesus often refused to perform signs and miracles on demand.

The casual crowd member who is after a show has a level of blindness. Leaders who set out to make money putting them on are intentionally kept blind as well. They may progress in crowd size and with finances but not in ways that matter at all to our Lord.

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