In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest:
Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.
This then is the clincher for all who claim to be Christians….who is our “brother”? Is it someone who worships a different god to the one Jesus worshipped? The one whom he still calls “my God” even in heaven? (Rev 3:12)
If the churches of Christendom support the political agendas of their nation’s governments and go to war with those who also identify as “Christians”….where does that leave them in compliance with that scripture?
Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
So is it possible to “hate” your brother of another nation because of the fact that he resides in a land that is in conflict with your own? Even in the current conflict with Russia and Ukraine, both sides accept the teachings of the Catholic church…..supposedly “brothers in the faith” separated by what? Nationality? Politics? In the two world wars, “Christians” were on both sides.…so whose side was God on?
Whoever has blood on their hands, does not have God on their side. (Isa 1:15)
Christians are to have no divisions of nationality (Acts 10:34-35)……nor should they be divided by politics because Christ said that they are to be “part of the world”. (John 18:36)
What is Christendom’s record in these things…?
Very clear, therefore we love the Gospel of God which is Salvation in Christ.
And yet, “many” of those who claim Jesus as their “Lord”, are going to suffer rejection as those he “never knew” (Matt 7:21-23) So what is the “gospel of love“ in reality? It is obedience to the Christ in all things….evidenced by the way you live your life, not by any label you wear.
If not, you will end up vilifying those who are in Christ.
Unless you know the true identity of God and his Christ, you end up vilifying the one Jesus called “the only true God”….Yahweh….who “sent” his son (John 17:3) to redeem mankind because he was the only one who could become a sinless mortal human, to pay the price set by God’s perfect justice.
Christ died instead of us…an exchange that released us from sin and death inherited from our first parents.
So why do we still die if Jesus has saved us? Do we live on after death? The Bible does not teach that we have an “afterlife”……there is no immortal soul ever mentioned in the Bible….so where did that idea originate?
What is the truth about death? Do we sleep in death till the resurrection, or does a spiritual part of us live on somewhere else?
