Do we
think Jesus came to bring peace to earth?
People did, the apostles did, the disciples did, most- if not all- of
Jesus' followers believed that Jesus was going to usher in a new era of peace
with the Jewish people as the new rulers and the Roman Empire destroyed. Jesus
told them that He did not come to send peace on earth. Jesus came with a sword
and that sword was Himself, the Word. That sword was one of salvation.
Mat
10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send
peace, but a sword.
Salvation.
The sword
of the Spirit, the word of God, the word made flesh. We are given the sword
that Jesus came to earth to give.
Our weapon
in this spiritual warfare is one of salvation.
Luk
4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to
preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to
preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to
set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk
4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Mat
24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
The gospel
of the kingdom.
Mat_4:17
From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand.
Mat_5:3
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mat_5:10
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is
the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus came
to teach the truth - that we are to live for the kingdom of heaven- not for our
temporary existence. The things of the world that surround us, none of those
things should mean more to us than the things we CANNOT see, the eternal
things, the things that will last forever. We get so incredibly caught up in
the temporary life we lose sight of the eternal.
Please
Lord, please forever keep the eternal before our eyes, in our minds, our hearts
- you are the eternal!
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