From: rking164@comcast.net   
      
   Nationalism is a barrier to the international cooperation desired by GOD.   
   Nationalism inspires hatred between foreign communities over customs and   
   domestic rules or laws... Jesus advocates socialism to some degree, does He   
   not?   
      
   The Mountain of the Lord   
   This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:   
    In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established   
       as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills,   
       and all nations will stream to it.   
    Many peoples will come and say,   
      
   “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,   
       to the temple of the God of Jacob.   
   He will teach us his ways,   
       so that we may walk in his paths.”   
   The law will go out from Zion,   
       the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.   
    He will judge between the nations   
       and will settle disputes for many peoples.   
   They will beat their swords into plowshares   
       and their spears into pruning hooks.   
      
   For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ   
   Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been   
   witnessed to at the proper time.   
      
   Now he had to go through Samaria.  So he came to a town in Samaria called   
   Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.  Jacob’s   
   well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the   
   well. It was about noon.   
   When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give   
   me a drink?”  (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)   
    The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman.   
   How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)   
    Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks   
   you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living   
   water.”   
    “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is   
   deep. Where can you get this living water?  Are you greater than our father   
   Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons   
   and his livestock?”   
   Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,  but   
   whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I   
   give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”   
    The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get   
   thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”   
    He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”   
   “I have no husband,” she replied.   
      
   Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.  The   
   fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your   
   husband. What you have just said is quite true.”   
      
    “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors   
   worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must   
   worship is in Jerusalem.”   
      
    “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will   
   worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.  You Samaritans   
   worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is   
   from the Jews.  Yet a time    
   is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in   
   the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father   
   seeks.  God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in   
   truth.”   
      
    The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When   
   he comes, he will explain everything to us.”   
      
    Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)