Jesus is the only way to the Father and through Him all things were created. Those who accept the unmerited gift of God in salvation are being molded precept by precept into His image. It is all about Him!
Mankind will only know Christ followers by the fruit of the Holy Spirit being manifested in their lives. The goodness, mercy, love and peace that they give to others will draw others to Christ. The greatest of these fruits is love and without it we are just making noise.
Jesus is the dividing line, the mark laid in the sands of time, that allows you to cross over into belief and eternal life with God or refuse His salvation and die in your disbelief.
Jesus’ coming brings judgment on those who refuse to accept Him and divides the believers from the faithless.
Part of Jesus’ mission was to create a division within humankind.
Luke 12:49-53
49 “I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is accomplished! 51 Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. 52 For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three. 53 Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
18 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death,
Matthew 20:18
27 “Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour.
John 12:27
34 “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to ‘set 1a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; 36 and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’
Matthew 10:34–36
43 So there was a division among the people because of Him.
John 7:43
16 Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This Man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.
John 9:16
4 But the multitude of the city was divided: part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
Acts 14:4
No comments:
Post a Comment