2 things today:
1. The enemy game plan is to have us in a continual state of hatred all the time. The continual perpetration of race baiting, provocation, promotion of one race over another is all a means to get us to hate one another. It is not the only method being used for sure. What is the end game for the enemy? He knows what 1 Cor 13, and 1 John 4 say. If he can get people into a state of continual hatred the rolls of those entering the gates of Heaven get slimmer and slimmer.
Matt 24
12Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Love, as it turns out is not just something "nice to have" in the Christian walk, it is essential, non negotiable, a must have item.
Matt 22
34Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ c 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ d 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Let that ^^^ sink in, ALL the law and the prophets hang on those two commandments. Again, not optional and again why the enemy does everything in their power to increase hate while decreasing love. So, you can see the focused, increasing attempts of the enemy to get us and keep us in a state of hatred. The left is the party of hate in the name of "tolerance." Just look at where the hatred is being promoted and you know to whom they belong.
The second item is this:
When Jesus said:
John 14
9Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father, that statement made by the Lord Jesus Christ was accurate on more than one level. It is the second level, a deeper level that applies to us today. Jesus was so committed to doing the Father's Will, He so set aside His own Will that seeing one of them was like seeing the other. We are told to walk like Jesus in this world. We are to be so committed to doing His Will that when people see us (the Church) it should be like looking at Jesus. We die to ourselves, offer ourselves as living sacrifices every day. His Kingdom come, His WIll be done here on earth just as it is in Heaven. Our Lord is the model, we are to follow. This world needs more Light and Life. He is the Life and the Light and we have to "get out of the way" to allow Him to shine through us.
Hopefully you get the idea here^^^. The two items above are end game, top shelf level Christianity. Nothing is more important than loving the Lord our God and loving each other. Part of loving the Lord our God is obedience:
1 John 14
“If you love me, obey my commandments."
He died for us first, in love and mercy. We "die" for Him daily by offering ourselves back to Him as living sacrifices:
Gal 2:20
"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
Romans 12
"Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship."
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How much longer until the Lord shows up for us unexpectedly? We dont know and nobody knows. We are out of the prediction game and all into the preparation game. Preparation is what the Lord God is doing to, through, and for His Church by "leveling us up" before He shows up. The fact that He has us focused on these top shelf items is interesting in light of all the UFO/UAP/Disclosure and other stuff going on.
A counter to this ^^^ from a timing perspective us the little to zero penetration of the gospel in places like N Korea. The "end comes" when the gospel has been preached everywhere throughout the earth which means the communist anti-Christ, anti-human nations have a big target on them. Recent events in the news have borne this out with Venezuela falling, and Cuba next and ongoing pressure on China.
We shall see what happens. Our part in this is to keep our eyes on Christ, and to love which is an essential, not optional, not "nice to have" but absolutely mandatory, will have, shall have, must have item for every Christian.
Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.
Glory to God
grace and peace
