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Within the Temple.......within the "church" and His own people......rebuking and disciplining His own. That is not how He (and we) are to deal with the world. You have not been rightly taught....no surprise these days.
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By all means pray and intercede for government leaders and do what good you can. But I don't see how we can have ALL our hopes and affections on two places at once. Jesus said we can't serve two masters.
Your commitment to injustice is disgusting, a sign of the unmanly, soul-less, feminized church in understandable decline. You've learned nothing from Christ in feeding the poor, giving water to the thirsty, clothing the naked or the lesson of the Good Samaritan. All are image bearers of God, not just the believers. Indeed, the Great Commission is precisely a work of outreach outside the church.
I haven’t been following this thread. But your response stood out. Agree. I feel like it’s on so many topics…this “trying to correct the world” and neglecting that which is within. If the church is looking at those things without to justify what is within, by being able to say “I’m holier than you”… at least “thank God” we are not those without which do horrible things…like same sex marriage, abortion of children , confusion of gender roles, murder, deception, manipulation…by condemning those things without isn’t that saying and admitting …acknowledging God hates those things which means we see that and judge it as wrong. But within the church is it is still using the knowledge of Christ to destroy a weaker brother for whom Christ died, is this not murder? To prevent and hinder the children of God from coming to Him and to destroy them before they reach maturity, to destroy babes in Christ, isn’t this aborting God’s children before they grow and form (until Christ be formed in you) in the womb? To confuse gender as who is the man of Christ and who is the woman he as the husband gave himself for her, isn’t this confusion over gender? Same sex marriages, is found in two women or two men joining together in banding together against the things of God? My husband was talking the other day about the opening of the Olympics and the drag queens posing for the Lords super. As much as it’s condemned by the church, is it a mirror to provoke “women posing as men” within the church? Consider the magnitude of the church condemning drag queens posing, men posing as women ….and yet within men pose as women …needing to go on to become “the man”. Makes me think of it’s better to be on the rooftop in a corner than in the house of a brawling woman. Paul spoke of when he became a man he put away childish things. Maybe all that sounds crazy but it seems our own words will condemn us if we don’t as you say…see that going on in the world and pay attention in …our mouths acknowledging it’s wrong let’s say to murder…but then we continue to use our knowledge given in Christ to wound, kill, steal from the weak as if murdering the weak will go unpunished.
Thank God for the Crusades for that is not all they did! They stopped the Conquest of Christianity!
The LORD is a warrior. Exodus 15:3
God gave the job of "justice" to government, not to the church. We as the church are not to take whips or other weapons and go hurt people with them. Paul wrote under inspiration of the Holy Spirit that our weapons are not carnal but mighty in GOD (ie, in His Spirit). Jesus was chastising and rebuking His own when He went into the temple and drove the merchandisers out with a whip. I doubt He stood there whipping any individual to shreds but used the whip as a means to threaten and drive them out before Him.
That is God's business, raising and lowering or judging kings and kingdoms etc. And He will use one kingdom to judge or conquer another. Not our business as believers. We are to go into "war zones" armed with the healing balm of Christ. Are you Catholic by any chance?
In my view people of course are free not to like Trump.
And it is ours as Apostles to God's Kingdom. Unlike Christ, who was a subject, we are citizens with duties and obligations to guide the government.
Governments are of the world. Born again believers, the born-of-the-Spirit church of Jesus Christ is not of this world.
Some people ask for an explanation after it was just given. It reveals willful ignorance.
