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The Real Source of Divisiveness and Disunity

After the election of Donald Trump in November 2016 he, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama called for unity among Americans. This particularly surprised me coming from these three, they all seem quite skilled at divisiveness. They have to be in order to be successful against one another.

I think there is something deeper going on and is originating within the church. As long as Christians are supremely distracted from Jesus Christ, divisions will continue. This is true by default because only he can unite us. Not common theology, not common distinctions, not family ties, not common culture, Jesus and Jesus alone is our unity.

We are distracted by many things. But even devout Christians seem distracted by our “ministries”, even by so-called “preaching the gospel”. These good things divert our attention, resources and energy from our life source. And then cease to be good things because they distract us from the Lord Jesus Christ, they become just idle actions not directed from heaven. Our distractions divide us because they separate us from the one thing that can unite humanity. That is the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Obama was not the root cause of our national divisiveness, the church was. He was just the agent that made it happen…this time.

Christians distracted from Jesus Christ….this is currently planet earth’s #1 problem.

What happens exactly when Christians gather together is the single most important happening in all of creation.

All of creation is eagerly waiting on us to look to him, to display him and to bear his image in the earth once again.

More on Christian’s voting and participating in elections from Frank Viola.

 

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The One and Only Christian Burden

“Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” – Matthew 11:28-30

“LEARN OF ME” is to seek him first, is to gather around only him.

“LEARN OF JESUS CHRIST” this is our only burden and it is wonderfully light and easy. This is the key to living the Christian life.

We cannot find real rest if we fail to ‘learn of Christ’.

Someone who puts burdens and demands or rules on themselves and on others and calls that Christianity or Christian ministry has not yet “learned of Christ”. This mindset is a mixture of humanism, human strength or greatness, with serving Christ.

Do not listen to them!

And do not do this to others, especially your children.

The only Christian burden or duty is to learn of Jesus Christ, in other words ‘seek him first then all things will be added to you.’ Matt 6:33

 

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The Stone that is Filling the Whole Earth

I found an amazing gem while reading the book of Daniel to my kids the other night.  I hadn’t seen this before.

In the past year as I read the Old Testament I have learned to look for Jesus Christ and I am finding him everywhere. The centrality and supremacy of Jesus Christ is the key needed to interpret and understand the Old Testament. Jesus himself taught us this concept.

Luke 24:27 Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He (the resurrected Jesus) explained to them the things concerning himself in all the Scriptures.

A little back ground info, the king Nebuchadnezzar from Babylon had just had a confusing and troubling dream, so being the murderous dictator he was, he demanded an interpretation from the soothsayers, or Chaldeans or sorcerers of his country or else they would all be killed. Of which Daniel was one in exile from Judah. So Daniel prayed and God told him the kings dream and its interpretation.

The interpretation was that God had used this dream to show Nebuchadnezzar the future as it regards the kingdoms of the earth. The statue in the dream represented the current and coming kingdoms of the earth.

But then there was this rock cut out without hands which crushed all the other kingdoms and then became a great mountain which filled the whole earth.

Daniel 2:34-35 “You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet and iron and clay crushed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed  all the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.”

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The Lord Jesus Christ is that rock which comes from God and crushes all the kingdoms of the earth and fills the whole earth. This was a messianic prophecy, the first of many in Daniels experiences and writings. God chose this king to reveal what he was doing in the earth.

So if you are in turmoil about what might befall this nation during this election season and the prospects of new leadership, be encouraged because, even if we find ourselves being crushed and ground to powder as a nation its ok, it is to give place for the kingdom of Jesus Christ which is continuously and increasingly filling the whole earth.

Now that is something we can all agree on and get behind.

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