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Colluding With the Kingdoms

Judas betrayed Jesus by colluding and cooperating with the local human government of his day.

Human governments are unavoidably hostile to Jesus Christ. This unfortunately includes the American government from the bottom to top.

The involvement a group of Christians should have with human govt is to pray for it. And to challenge it when it gets out of line, like John the Baptist did. Not collude or cooperate with it, like Judas did (I’m sure he thought it was for the greater good at the time.)

I understand this sounds extreme in today’s hyper political climate. But the reason I say this has to do with who is the spiritual head of human government.

There are two kingdoms in the earth today, the kingdom of darkness headed by Satan. And the kingdom of Jesus Christ headed by Jesus himself. Satan still enjoys dominance in much of the earth and he uses human government and sinful people to manipulate the earth and people.

The kingdom of Jesus is also on the earth. Jesus’ representatives on earth, his ambassadors, are called the Ecclesia. The gatherings of Christians around the earth who gather such that Jesus Christ rules.

The ecclesia the church has failed many times in our representation and submission to him. It is optional, he doesn’t force us to surrender unite and love him. Or represent him well by loving the world.

The extent that the ecclesia or the church takes rulership of itself away from Jesus Christ. Is the same extent that we cease to represent him in the earth.

Despite this failure there have and there are successes in the church. Jesus is gaining ground in the earth. The father’s will is sometimes done on earth, as it is in heaven. But when we fail human government controlled by the kingdom of darkness never becomes the answer.

Satan reached right into Judas’ life through human government.

Is he trying to reach into yours?

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kissing Jesus while betraying him
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Refusing Persecution

If we refuse to be manipulated, abused, persecuted and taken advantage of..

Because we can see it coming, and are skilled at exposing and avoiding and escaping all the schemes of evil men.

Being able to see the schemes does not necessarily mean we have Gods permission or power to avoid or escape them.

“And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.””
‭‭Mark‬ ‭8:32-33‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Peter knew there was an evil scheme awaiting Jesus, and was trying to help Jesus to avoid it. Jesus responded to him “get behind me Satan”. It was God’s plan for Jesus to walk into a trap of suffering and death. Peter assumed, because it seemed terrible and evil, that must be it was not a thing God wanted

If we are constantly activists against evil schemes, some of which succeed (temporarily). Then we may, at times, find ourselves refusing to follow Jesus Christ. We may even find ourselves fighting and undermining what Jesus is doing in the earth. We may get swept up in a battle he simply is not fighting. Using our limited ability to see the big picture and logic we may find ourselves taking a side that seems good but is not necessarily his side.

He may intentionally lead us into trouble, he just may have that for us for a time. That may be in our cup to bear. And if He is our Lord that should be ok with us.

Following his path for us just might result in humiliation, injustice, and peril. If he wants us to take all that, it’s our job to not whine and to accept it. Like a good soldier, and like a loyal bond-slave.

So don’t spend your days as an activist an antagonist of Satan and his helpers. Instead spend your days as an obsessed activist of Jesus Christ and come what may, take it all as his will for you.

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Gospel Deficiency

Whenever something is off, or it produces bad fruit, be it chronic illness in our bodies or mind. Or the results in gardening or farming it is necessary to look for the root cause if we really want to resolve it.

Mineral Deficiencies

In gardening often the root cause in bad fruit is at a deeper more fundamental level. Often it is a mineral deficiency in something critical for life function.

An example in human health, chronic headaches are not solved with aspirin, that is just an expensive masking of a symptom. Headaches can result from high blood pressure which may result from a number of things such as low blood sodium. Anxiety can be the bad fruit of a magnesium deficiency.

Warning Signals

Symptoms are warning signals of a fundamental problem or deficiency. Poor soil results in unhealthy plants which results in no or lousy fruit.

Applied to Christianity

Also, the root cause in church fruit problems, ALL OF THEM is the gospel preached and accepted by its members. Shallowness, over-emphasis on certain doctrines. Self-centeredness, coldness to certain people types, is a sign of a deeper problem.

Either false gospel (like toxins) or incomplete (like deficiencies) gospels being preached and accepted. Or sometimes it is even a complete abandonment of the original gospel (see what happened in the book of Galatians).

The foundation for the life of all Christianity is the gospel of the kingdom preached by John the Baptist and then Jesus and then his disciples. And I’m afraid to say it’s almost unheard of in modern Christianity.

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