JESUS

 

Jesus Christ didn’t sing “All You Need Is Love”, he wasn’t a flower power, star-child bohemian and he didn’t compromise with degenerate, god-rejecting nullifidians

The Jewish Media has done a knock-out job of distorting and perverting the true nature of Jesus Christ of the Holy Bible. They have portrayed him as a passive resister, appeaser, and OHM chanting hippie…this is a total misrepresentation of the truth. While Jesus did indeed preach a gospel of love, compassion and forgiveness, he also had zero tolerance for bullcrap, was uncompromising, confrontational, militant and stern. He condemned. He denounced. He caused trouble and he disrupted the established order

 Here are some examples:

-Jesus Christ was a carpenter, a man’s man, he wasn’t a hairstylist or a white collar business man

-Jesus was extremely confrontational and put people on blast right in public; he called the Pharisees and Scribes fools, vipers, hypocrites, Sepulchers, Sons of the Devil. He labels them murderers and blind guides, he ridicules them publicly. He undermines their authority. He insults them. He castigates them. He’s not very nice to them (Matthew 23).

- Jesus made a whip from cords and chased the wicked money changers out the temple and flipping over their tables (John 2:15)

-Jesus instructed his disciples to arm themselves, even selling their possessions to buy a weapon in case they didn’t have one (Luke 22:36)

- Jesus was a ZEALOT to the word of God, there was no compromise or middle ground with unbelievers or the secular world.

-Jesus rebukes and condemns. In Matthew 18, Jesus utilizes morbid and violent imagery, saying that it would be better to drown in the sea with a stone around your neck than to harm a child.

-Jesus didn’t say there was many different ways to live ones life; he said he was the ONLY way (John 14:6). Most people would hate Jesus if he was around today because of this. They don’t want to live by God’s laws, statutes and commandments. They want to do whatever and accept whoever and live by: “To each his own.”

- Jesus Christ says he did not come to bring peace to this world but a sword and that belief in him would divide families (Matthew 10:34-35)

-Jesus did not when you are lukewarm in your ways. "because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth" (Revelation 3:16)

-When the Lord Jesus returns he’s not coming back to give big teddy bear hugs but to bring destruction to the nonbelievers and secular world (2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 and 2 Peter 3:10-11)

- On judgment day Jesus will sentence most of the world into the eternal lake of fire (Matthew 25:41, Revelation 20:15 and Revelation 21:8).

From fellow brother in Christ Matt Walsh:

“Anger is good when it is directed at things that offend not us, but God. Just as Christ’s intolerance, like the intolerance we’re commanded to have, stems from a desire to save souls and defend Truth.
Even when we have righteous anger, we do not have carte blanche to act on it in anyway we please. But, according to the Bible, there are times to use strong language, there are times to cause a scene, there are times to hurt people’s feelings, and there are times when we might need to use physical force.

Jesus told us to turn the other cheek when we are personally attacked; He never told us to turn our backs entirely and let lies spread and evil grow.”

I think passive-aggressiveness among true followers of Jesus Christ in general–and leaders in particular–must go away because it runs counter to the ethics of the Kingdom.

Jesus was not passive-aggressive. The Lord did not hesitate to address people directly as needed. No cryptic messages when He stood before Pilate, not parable at the house of Simon the Pharisee ("You did not wash my feet."), and in sending a message directly to Herod

So, enough with the niceties.

Christians in this country sound too similar to the Golden Girls song, and not enough like the Battle Hymn of the Republic. There’s too much ‘thank you for being a friend,’ and not enough ‘lightening from His terrible swift sword.’

We’re all hugging and singing Kumbaya, when we should be marching and shouting Hallelujah.

We’re nice Christ followers with our nice Jesus, and we are trampled on without protest.
Enough, already.”

 PART 2 - WHY BE A MILITANT CHRIST DISCIPLE AGAINST THE KINGDOM OF EVIL?

The Bible is full of military terminology yet many Christians persist in the mentality that the body of Christ is not supposed to be a militant body of people waging an aggressive warfare against the kingdom of Hell. It is high time that we face up to the fact that God has not called us to giddy church gatherings, single's night meetings, or Jesus rock concerts, but He has rather called us to WAR AGAINST THE WORKS OF DARKNESS, both in our personal lives and in the world around us.

 If we are called soldiers (2 Tim. 2:3-4) and we have been given spiritual weapons and armor (Eph. 6:10-18) and corporately we are led by Jesus Christ called our Captain (Heb. 2:9-10), what else can you call the Church but a militant body? If anyone claims to be part of this body they had better get ready for battle or run and join the enemy's ranks, for the Body of Christ is a militant, aggressive spiritual army, anything else is a counterfeit

 Jesus's example of love was engaging in a battle to the death with Satan for our souls. True love is not spending hours in front of a television, or wasting time and money in shopping malls, sports arenas or recreational outings. True love is not covering over sin with false human compassion while souls pour into Hell by the thousands. Churches have for the most part degenerated into prosperous social clubs full of people caring about nothing but themselves and their own ambitions

1 John 3:8 tells us that Jesus was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. Christians of today look glibly at this scripture and say, "We don't have to do anything because Jesus did it all!" What a foolish and ignorant mentality. If the work of Satan was completely destroyed then why is sin accelerating at such a rapid pace? Why are people (including many Christians) so vexed, tormented, physically sick, addicted to drugs and alcohol and given over to all kinds of perversions? Obviously these are not the works of God, they are works of the devil.

Pleasure seeking, pacifistic Christians are like lambs who are coerced by the lion to drop their guard and lie down in a false peace, only to be DEVOURED! One reason this happens is because too many Christians wrongly believe that to manifest God's love they must be weak, pacifistic and unoffensive. While in reality, God's love is an active, aggressive force that will inevitably clash with sin, both in us and around us. True peace can only be obtained as a result of the power of God conquering the works of darkness in our lives. The love of God is what motivates the true Christ followers to war against Satan for the souls of men. The "peace" which apathetic, pacifistic Christians claim to have is a deception, a false peace, which comes as a result of making a treaty with the enemy. This false peace allows Christians to live after their own desires and "enjoy the good life" as multitudes of souls pour into Hell. True love will motivate us to action, it will motivate us to lay down our lives, pick up our cross and follow the Crucified One.

There can never be peace on earth as long as Satan is free to kill, steal and destroy. The Bible plainly tells us that the world will have peace, but only after Satan is bound up and cast into the lake of fire. There is no scripture in the entire Old or New Testaments which tells us that there will be a peacefull entrance into eternal life. In fact, from Genesis to Revelation the Bible is full of military examples, analogies and terminology. The true peace of God can only be secured by making a stand and going to war against the enemy. If you are floating around inside of a peaceful, passive bubble while claiming to be a follower of Jesus, you had better wake up because you have swallowed the devil's lie. While denominations continue to multiply, living selfishly, squabbling over petty doctrines and exhibiting their religious works, the true Body of Christ will carry on its offensive against Satan's kingdom, destroying the works of darkness and setting the captives free. Why wait any longer, join the ranks of God's army today. Get MILITANT against sin, get AGGRESSIVE against evil, do something with your life that will really count.

Whenever we pass out anointed literature, preach anointed messages against sin, or witness to sinners, we are destroying the works of Satan. We don't destroy the works of Satan with our meaningless church programs, with our social activities and fellowships, or by sitting in our comfortable pews Sunday after Sunday. Religious activities will never do damage to the kingdom of Hell. We will destroy the works of Satan by taking aggressive, MILITANT ACTION against him.

 God has armed His people with the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, both spoken and written, yet this sword has been sheathed by the false church and counted as unnecessary. At the same time, the true Body of Christ has always wielded the Sword of the Spirit in the relentless struggle to defeat sin and defend the faith. The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ was a decisive and devastating blow against Satan. It gave us an undisputed advantage over Him. Yet unless we actively press that advantage, Satan will be free to continue his merciless campaign of destruction against mankind without opposition. If we insist upon avoiding the issue and neglecting our duty while multitudes of people are destroyed by sin then God will hold us accountable for what we should have done, for what we could have done while we had the chance. Pacifism and true Christianity do not mix.

 The Bible tells us to be sober and vigilant because Satan, our adversary, roams around as a lion, seeking whom he may devour. (1 Peter 5:8-9) In this same portion of Scripture, we are also commanded to RESIST Satan. James 4:7, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil (not ignore him) and he will flee from you." This word "resist" in the Greek is defined as "to fight against, to exert oneself against, to counteract or defeat, to withstand the force or effect of, to EXERT FORCE IN OPPOSITION OF!" So we see that to resist is not just a passive turning away of the head, but it is actually AGGRESSIVE ACTION AGAINST OPPOSITION.

You don't have to be a genius to see that what the Bible commands us to do is altogether different from what the modern version of Christianity teaches. In this age too many Christians have become apathetic and pacifistic towards lost and dying humanity. They could care less if the devil is conducting a full-scale murder campaign against the inhabitants of this world. They don't want to hear about warfare or fighting against sin and Satan. All they want is a Christianity where everyone always feels warm and happy, all they want is a peaceful Christianity when there is no peace! True and lasting peace will only be secured as we engage in spirit combat, conquering the forces of the enemy by the power of our God.

Jesus Himself used military terminology in telling us how the Kingdom of God is possessed. He told us in Matthew 11:12 that, "...the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." At the time when Jesus was speaking this scripture the powerful Roman Empire ruled the world. Jesus knew that the Roman army's military might gave them the ability to otherthrow kingdoms and bring whole nations under their control. Jesus knew it was going to take this same kind of militant force to overthrow Satan's kingdom which he has established in our lives and in the lives of others. It is going to take SPIRITUAL WARRIORS AND WARFARE to establish the Kingdom of God. Satan will not relinquish his position by us ignoring him or asking him nicely to leave. He must be conquered, driven out and vanquished from his former power and positions by spiritual force.

 

It’s time that Christ Followers regain its fighting spirit; the spirit of Christ.
It’s time we ask that question: ‘What would Jesus do?’
It’s time we answer it truthfully: Jesus would flip tables and yell.
Maybe we ought to follow suit.