One Thing You Lack

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This GoodNews of total abandon to the care of our Father is the Goodnews that Jesus preached. It's the life of jubilee. Divorcing from the manymasters of this world and living with One. Jesus is saying, Pay attention to Me. It's all about ME. I'm the Way, Truth, Life.

The goodnews is that it's all about Jesus, from here on out. Livvers of this life, this King-led life, this goodnews life, are divorced from the old way... they become offensive oddities--reminders of the death of this world--awakeners from the matrix--proclaimers of That Day...

That Day--
Romans 2:16
"...on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus."

That Day...
the reality that we die, then live forever, eternally, by what we did with Jesus... Shouldn't that drive you to a kind of desperate, fearful, holy madness? Like grabbing an electric wire with your hand, Truth courses through you like a thousand volts... Exhausted, you pull away and retreat...

Yet to some of us, it kills off the lies that echo in our heads. It soothes our schizophrenia. It makes the false visions stop. It clears us to hear God speak Love to us. To some, we crave the peace that Truth brings. Charred. Bedraggled, we grab the wire again, holding our Bibles with charred fingers, our souls wracked with joy and freedom as the worthless is cast down and we begin to live...

That Day is pretty much the reason why for a ton of things we do that seem crazy to good churchfolks... why we come outside when there's shooting, to check for bodies and copy down plate numbers...
...why we stand between angry young men...
why we love our attackers...
...why we choose debt over plenty...
why we associate with failure and call it brother...

...why we eschew evil
why we aren't tolerant...
...why we are tolerant...
why we serve...
...why we can receive help...
why we...

That Day... Think about eternity--where we'll spend it--with whom... then think on the love He has commanded. think of the mission of the Gospel--how we're called to preach it to the Nations...
Now look!
There's the "church" in America spending millions on a building! Ouch.
There's the "church", calling for the death of Hugo Chavez by assassination.
There's the "church", hoping that Israel uses those Nukes we gave 'em to kill Iranian women, children and innocents, so the inevitable won't happen...
OUCH!

I recently tried to read a book about this stuff. John Hagee, a popular christian teacher, was tellign us that "...something must be done...", clearly calling for a military strike. 2lame.

I'm calling for a missionary invasion. The power of the Gospel up against the Power of the World. You know who the Power of the World is? You Know who Simon the sorcerer is? You know who he served? Simon was known as the "Great Power". Where'd he get his power? Acts 8.
You know what Ephesians 2 says about who that Power is? "...Prince of the Power of the Air...the spirit at work in the sons of disobedience..."
You know why this world is so full of antigod? antilove?
There is a real devil... are we playing into his hands? are you? does that SHOCK you?