From: raymokeeffe@hotmail.com   
      
   I am perplexed at the apparent lack of awareness in the so called believers.   
      
   As the body of Christ we are to behave like Jesus.   
   This is a process of understanding what Jesus would say and do in our life's   
   situations.   
      
   We are warned that those who live by the sword will die by the sword.   
      
   We are told by Jesus, blessed are the peace makers for they shall be called   
   the sons of God.   
      
   We are told by Jesus, bless when cursed. Turn the other cheek, go the extra   
   mile.   
   We are told by Jesus, LOVE our enemies.   
      
      
   We are also told in proverbs, that those who are "right with God" will have   
   even their enemies to be at peace with them.   
      
   And yet the twisted perversion of religion, known as the prostitute riding   
   civilizations back, has justified war and murder and other things in the   
   name of God for the good of the current Empire of the time.   
      
   When Jesus said he brings a sword to separate families, it was in regard to   
   Judaism and the NEW WINE revelation of his teachings. You cannot have both,   
   its one or the other, else the wineskins break with the contradictions. It   
   is a NEW way of thinking to be embraced whole heartedly. The so called   
   church has been distorted trying to do both. (the church being believers,   
   not the institution run by men in God's name)   
      
      
   God loves all mankind. He hates sinful deeds.   
   The bigger picture seems to be misunderstood. For the wages of sin are death   
   is a consequence of doing harm to self or to others.   
      
   Jesus teachings were about accountability.   
   To summarize Jesus message theme it was about Sowing and Reaping, and   
   understanding how it works. For even now we are sowing trouble by doing war   
   in God's name. The need to sow God's ways, that is sowing the kingdom of   
   heaven, is about sowing love, peace and good will.   
      
   The first crusade to Jerusalem in the 11th Century, the so called Christian   
   Crusaders MURDERED EVERY man, woman and child in the city when they took it.   
   Saying it was God's will, and those who killed an infidel would enter   
   paradise. This was told them by monks and other religious leaders.   
      
   Jesus never said, kill others. His kingdom is not of this world. It is   
   spiritual and the change is won within each individual's heart and thinking.   
      
   The bigger picture is that those crusades are now haunting us today. The   
   locals of the middle-east have mistrust. Ignorantly both Muslims and   
   Christians use the WORLD'S methods of murder and war in God's name that they   
   are doing good by doing evil deeds. They justify killing the "evil doers"   
   but the reality is they become the "evil doers" in order to do it.   
      
   It is never good to kill. It is good to grow in the knowledge of the things   
   of God, so that all would learn the consequences of doing harm. God is not   
   mocked, what is sown is reaped. It is the universal law. The time of   
   REAPING, is recorded as bible prophecy of the end times. It is NOT GOD'S   
   WILL, it is HIS foreknowledge that MEN WILL DESTROY MEN in God's name.   
      
   The MEEK shall inherit the earth, as they are NOT Taking up the sword. Those   
   who do take up the sword are being killed by the sword.   
      
   So antichrist is to do harm, especially in God's name. Christ is the seed in   
   our hearts. When we start behaving like Jesus as it being part of our   
   unconscious ways, then the fruit is showing. Otherwise it's just theory   
   which needs to be learnt and put into practice. As any person who does   
   intensive training will tell you, if you have to stop and think about it,   
   then you do not have it good enough in you. That is if you are required to   
   make a split second decision as drivers, athletes and soldiers need to, and   
   you stop to consider, you will lose. This is the true test of the work in   
   us. It needs to be unconsciously performed without any conscious   
   intervention. In the meantime until this is part of us, it is better to   
   refuse to do harm as a conscious decision, which is to die on the cross   
   daily to the "old way".   
      
   The being transformed by the renewing of our mind is to put aside the old   
   ways and take on the new ones of love and peace. Of treating others how we   
   want to be treated. This is easier to do on a good day. The test of how it   
   is in us is what happens on a not so good day. If we justify our retaliation   
   as Jesus ways, then we have become antichrist in our ways. If others see our   
   example and use it to justify their evil actions, we have helped validate   
   this antichrist behaviour.   
      
   If we throw out Jesus teachings when we need them the most. Then we do not   
   Know Jesus as we ought. Taking up our cross daily is to die to self which   
   wants revenge. It is to say Father forgive them, they know not what they do.   
   Have mercy on us oh God.   
      
   If the church all through history actually did Jesus teachings instead of   
   brute force beast's ways, we would not have the trouble we have now. But all   
   is foreknown by God.   
      
   It is like the parable of the pig in the mud. It cannot clean itself. Indeed   
   it does not know it is dirty. For it does not know any better. Likewise   
   ISLAM now does not know any better than violence. It is written in the Koran   
   to do violence back at those which started it. They are not allowed to be   
   the aggressor but they will retaliate like all hell broke loose as they   
   justify murder as it is written. They do not have Jesus teachings to temper   
   them unless they seek to have a bible as well.   
      
   Likewise there are many in Christianity which also believe it is justified   
   to take up the sword. It's about time the preachers learnt what the real   
   message of hope and peace is.   
      
   Jesus said, those who are not against you are for you. That was before the   
   so called believers started sowing evil and causing so much trouble which   
   provoked anger and revenge at them.   
      
   We are all accountable. We must learn the ways of God with the eternal   
   bigger picture perspective. For without it, we know nothing of God's ways,   
   and are doomed to blindly follow the other guy we think knows better. Jesus   
   called this the blind leading the blind, still dead in their sins.   
      
   The good Samaritan did the Godly thing. He became God (servant concept of   
   God acting through him) to give His ministering to the victim of the   
   robbery. Do we still not get it? What we do to the least we do unto God. It   
   is not I who do these good works, but God working through me. This is the   
   true humbleness.   
      
   So when war is continued in God's name, the chain reaction of NOT turning   
   the other cheek occurs.   
      
   Turning the other cheek is not about being a victim. It is about not   
   retaliating so we can reason with them and come to terms. Ask yourself why   
   are so many people on both sides are thinking they are doing the right thing   
   by killing the other? The deceiver (Satan) is the one who is laughing.   
      
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)