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“Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. [*Jeremiah 33: 6 (KJV)]”
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him [*and you…] from the dead… If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. [*Colossians 2: 8-12; 3: 1-4 (KJV)]”
The Gospel never promotes, reinforces hatred, bigotry, prejudice, racism; nor our lusts and pride, along with our wounded egos. These things are nowhere evident in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; as the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ completely leveled the playing field. Every valley has been exalted, every mountain laid low; as there never was any difference, whatsoever, between natural Jew and natural Gentile! All men and women of every nation, regardless of that nation or country, ethnicity, were in dire need of a Savior and peace with God. That Peace was The Provision made by our heavenly Father in, and by, and through, and because of The Lamb. For it was God himself who was in Christ, reconciling the whole world unto himself and not imputing or charging us with our sin and sins; thereby making peace between Himself and humanity, between humanity and Himself… all because of the physically broken and torn, sacrificial and burnt body, and the precious blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, The Lamb. “Peace” is both a Person and revelation, a divine realization… imparted through our hearing the Gospel… of the union, the one-ness, the wholeness, the rest, we presently and forever have with the Eternal Godhead. It is called the Gospel of Peace for a reason! So where does all of that nonsense come from, that, “We are all just a work in progress”? If we are all just a work in progress; then we are not one, whole, complete, in union, at rest, with the Father… through The Lamb! And if we are not all one, whole, complete, in union, at rest, with the Father; then the blood of Jesus Christ, and the death of The Lamb… are vanity! But the blood of Jesus Christ, and the death of The Lamb are not vanity!! We have been the vain, self-righteous, condescending, arrogant, pretentious, narcissistic assholes that we have been; because of where we have been choosing to set our minds, our affections… and our pursuit of those vain things to satisfy our own lusts, pride, egos and to garner the praise of men!!!
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