December 27, 2018 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Wise Men Still Seek Him

Article #8 Christmas 2018

Divided by the Lord’s Sword

“God’s ways are not our ways,” the Bible says. So what we want or care to deal with is the opposite of what God planning to do. We often want it easy, no conflict. We like things easy without those ‘bumps in the road’. But God has a totally different plan and purpose in the completion of His will. If you want Christ to return, you better plan on earth that will be in total disarray without order and in chaos on every level of society.

Jesus made this statement in the Gospels, “And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.All these are the beginning of sorrows.Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and you shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved” (Matthew 24:6-13). He went on to say, “And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.And you shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake” (Luke 21:16-17).

Finally Jesus makes this statement in Luke 21:25-26, “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”

Why is such tragedy needed? Why is God willing to destroy the earth and all of mankind before His coming? It is embedded in this statement, “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that takes not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me” (Matthew 10:34-38).

Christ came to divide and He is dividing today. Everything will be divided before Christ’s return—families, cultures, organizations, governments—everything! There will be no unity except within the Body of Christ and the unity of the Holy Spirit. Churches will become divided: there will be no church building standing before Christ’s return. It will be solely the unity in the Spirit that will bring people together to love one another.

I see division everywhere around me. The world is driven to divide itself and it is seen so clearly in today’s politics in America. Christ’s sword is moving faster than the church can stay up with finding unity in the Spirit. Unity can only be found in the Fruits of the Spirits. Want unity then begin to operate in the Holy Spirit. Christ sword is meant to divide so that unity can only be realized within the Holy Spirit.

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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