BAPTIZED INTO JESUS'S DEATH
One might say! "You are joking with me, we are not going to have to experience any such a thing?" "We are not going to be nailed to a torcher stake and people will be spreading all kinds of lies about me!" "I will not have to be able to take that?" A reasonable response. However, would that response be practical and true? All things being equal, I would be in agreement, but if I had not witnessed it myself, or rather experienced it for myself, I would have not believed it either.
THINGS ARE NOT EQUAL
Things are not equal because we, like Jesus, stand up for what is right. Other people that don't share our beliefs, will band together against us to accomplish a given goal, which would require us being put out of their way. My torcher-stake, caused me my marriage. Now one might, be saying If you have been put on a stake, why are you not dead, and who is typing on this blog? Good question, and yes it is not a literal torcher stake I am referring to, but a figurative
IF IT HAPPENED TO JESUS, IT WILL HAPPEN TO US
If we truly are one of Jesus's followers, we are going to experience injustices from unbelievers and even so-called family members, especially if money is involved, and people believe that the love of money is wrong, but to some, only unless it is not a boat load of money we are talking about. Regardless of the matter, it is very unpleasant and very painful.
SCRIPTURAL REFERENCE
Luke 12:49-53 states: “I came to start a fire on the earth, and what more is there for me to wish if it has already been lit? 50
Indeed, I have a baptism+ with which to be baptized, and how I am distressed until it is finished!+ 51 Do you think I came to give peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.+ 52 For from now on there will be five in one house divided, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”+ To get the full gist of this reference, one needs to read the entire chapter of Luke chapter 12, to keep it in context. There is a big picture involved.BIG PICTURE IN A NUTSHELL
I will say this, the big picture in a nutshell, is that some people are on Satan's side on purpose, or by default. If we are truly on God's side. When it happens to you, you are not going to like it. When it happened to me, I did not want to stand for it. My thought: "I will come down off of this stake, take these nails out of my hands and feet, and put both of my bloody feet up someone's behind!!" However, I paused for a time. and meditated on the issue, but I didn't understand until I watched the movie about Jesus being put to death, from the time from the crown of thorns to the nailing on the stake, my face was streaming with tears, and it would not stop. Then I reflected on everything I had gone through. His final words still ring in my ears: "IT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED!" Word!
IN CONCLUSION
The dividing line is clear, between the sheep, and the goats: Malachi 3:16-18 states: At that time those who fear Jehovah spoke with one another, each one with his companion, and Jehovah kept paying attention and listening. And a book of remembrance was written before him+
for those fearing Jehovah and for those meditating on* his name.+
17 “And they will be mine,”+ says Jehovah of armies, “in the day when I produce a special property.*+ I will show them compassion, just as a man shows compassion to his son who serves him.+ 18 And you will again see the distinction between a righteous person and a wicked person,+ between one serving God and one not serving him.”
Von Bro'
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