These two verses are the backbone of all my theology, including about God’s and Christ’s Deity! For if He didn’t show interest in someone in this world, what could we do? Indeed, Jesus quoted verse 18 in most of the Gospels, and so did some of the New Testament authors! I wish this was more commonplace in the U.S., but the vast majority of the people will never accept it, especially in the churches across the world that more or less think they follow Jesus when they clearly don’t 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 and every time I try and address legit concerns of how this is ignored in some form (like in an Instagram story post or even texting a friend), I usually get more criticism than a holy response. This passage is found in page 69 of the NKJV Bible I have, page 89 of the NASB Bible I have (Old Testament), page 146 of my VOICE copy, and pages 144-145 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.
I thought I’d write not one, but two posts about this because it’s probably the most important commandment in the Pentateuch along with the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4-5). For I want to send this post to about a maximum of 15 friends to see the feedback on this, seeing that Tim, the Two Rivers Awaken pastor (as of late 2019), wants to read everything I’ve posted on here the last two weeks. Yet, I feel something… disturbing brewing among us, for there are those in my church (and I sometimes fear this is in my inner circle) that think God’s so important that people are meaningless, given their worship of idols that they think Jesus accepts. This isn’t what He had in mind, and that’s how the Pharisees were so critical of Him in the first place, given the words of John 5:39-40.
In the meantime, where can we pray for hope for others? For I recognize I’ll need to get to the human being to preach the Gospel to them before a false disciple or false prophet does. Yet a lot of people in the U.S. discount evangelism across the earth, and I won’t be surprised if the U.S. is no longer a sending nation, because of the atheism disguised as Christianity that’s popular in different forms in every state. The Lord Jesus won’t forget these people’s sins, and He won’t forgive them, either, for they have… attacked Matthew 18:21-35, thinking justice and forgiveness are contradictory. It was supposed to be restoration according to the good the abused deserve 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Brian Zahnd’s book, Radical Forgiveness, explains it in a way I hadn’t imagined up until I read it in 2017. For it says that if someone’s unforgiving, they re-enter the world of retribution forever and ever. For more details, you can find it in a library in your area, if that library’s got the book. I also fear that unforgiveness will be enforced, too, and because they’re deporting so many people to El Salvador for slavery so unjustly (they want to take U.S. citizens like me away, too), soon, I won’t be able to do anything. I pray against this unjust fate where the wicked people always have the upper hand…
Anyone who doesn’t know me, either, please feel free to read this, for I’m making this post public. Indeed, this passage encourages forgiveness, too, given the fact that it forbids grudges and revenge. But slavery was what the Lord Jesus had rescued the Israelites from! He didn’t die and rise again for all mankind only for the U.S. to enforce hateful content and imprison all of us who resist Donald Trump’s reprobate laws! Before long, NO ONE will want to worship Jesus anymore… why even re-establish slavery in the first place?!
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