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Luke 12:49
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“I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
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A very serious topic today. What is this Fire, and why does us being divided have to do with this 'baptism' finding completion?
Water cleansed by John, and the Holy spirit then also came upon him; Jesus is referring to something altogether different in this passage. The baptism is a reference to the gospel of the kingdom being delivered to all whom believe. This is specifically for the living, so every generation that sleeps can no longer effect the kingdom. Thatnis why the last are first and the first are last. The last are still alive when the fire starts, and those who are to be raised were first in the kingdom but fell asleep.
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Luke 12:50-51
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But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!
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Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.
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Male vs female
Young vs Old
Gay vs straight
Black vs white
Rich vs poor
Nation vs nation
Soul vs soul
I say to you on this day; this is not two kingdoms at war. The war is in ourselves to love or not.
The enemy in heavenly places describes what our desires are tempted by. We supply our choices, and those choices define our reality. For example trends of liberty deprave one to empower another, but both alone are void of purpose in the Father's presence. For we are called to put ourselves aside and be loving. And in every case, the enemy supplies choices that avoid faith amd live for the judgement that comes with obedience to the knowledge of good and evil.
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1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
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Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person's envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
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Envy and fear. Neither acknowledge love, so neither are of the truth, and therefore are not born of belief in Christ. So, those who describe a truth that supports division, supplies fear, or empowers envy; these individuals or groups are under false understanding. They are supplying understanding that supports themselves.
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Mark 12:30-31
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Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
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The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
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This is not two kingdoms at war, the enemy is defeated. What we are witness to, is an awakening of conscience and the defeat of animal behaviour. The awakening is based on eternal truth that supplies a path to the holiness of love. This is the baptism; as the truth lives in believers and they then are of him. A new creation, a conscience that replaces our animal instinct which relies upon death and therefore the knowledge of good and evil that supplies meaning.
The peace the world seeks rebels against the truth of love. The peace the world seeks is not holy, and is meaningless because it is not founded on love and faith, but instead is founded on fear and obedience. The enemy is attempting to set themselves up in place of the unseen qualities of God, by supplying meaning in place of purpose. The meaning describes the will of the enemy while purpose is solely found in the will of God. True peacefulness is holy and based in love. And no amount of tolerance and dominion is going to supply love. Thus, those who deny the truth will remain bound by a meaningless existence, while those who faith acts through, will become new creations that supply acts that honor the purpose love set out for us by it's truth.
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Luke 13:28
"There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.
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So we clothe ourselves in faith. We fill ourselves with the challenges our daily bread supplies us. We separate the world from the spirit, and we bring love into every act. We fail, we stumble, we faulter. But we continue to get up, for the power of truth is made perfect in our weakness.
What is the Fire? Jesus wants the living to supply faith in love instead of fear in obedience- and that is the fire that consumes.
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