Paradox of our Times A curious thing happened while I was preparing this issue, I looked in the Cambridge dictionary for the meaning of Christ and Trinity and there was no listing to be found there and I thought,“ Typical!” The world has no real interest in the things of God. There were idiomatic references which suggested that Christ is commonly used as a mere exclamation / curse word. I cringed on the inside, having witnessed this commonplace practice myself.
Later on, I watched a Youtube video where a billboard was mounted outside a church downtown New York that read:‘ Keep the merry bin the myth’, referring to taking Christ out of Christmas. Well, I think that there is as much logic in that line of reasoning as having a birthday party and excluding the person whose birthday it is. This is the prevailing‘ knee jerk’ reaction to anything of Christ these days. People will accept the gifts of God but reject Him as the giver. Why is this so? I believe it is because acknowledging God as the giver of all creation’ s bounty necessitates that mankind will have to defer to Him and become accountable to Him. This is no longer negotiable as humanism, liberalism, hedonism, atheism, and Satanism fight against Christianity for mainstream legitimacy at the expense of world peace.
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Christians are therefore now targeted and labelled as haters.
Warring over The Prince of Peace Jesus, The Prince of Peace brings peace in 3 areas. 1) He reconciles us to God so we are no more at war with Him. 2) He brings a supernatural calm so we need not be afraid or agitated in the storms of life. 3) Before Jesus came the world was divided between the children of Israel, whom God fought for, and the rest of the world( Gentiles) whom God fought against, but now all that has changed.“ For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation... so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.” Ephesians 2:14-16. God, through the cross, has reconciled and made peace between Jew and Gentile because of Jesus. Division based on nationality is no more.
The Prince of Peace is now the point of contention. On one side are those who are for Him and on the other those against Him. Jesus is the narrow gate and the door that stands between those on the outside and the few on the inside, those going to hell and those who will be with Him in His Kingdom.“ He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life” 1 John 5:12, no matter their
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