HOW
JESUS DEFEATED THE WICKED POLITICIANS
The political leader thought he was a God
to be worshiped and the religious leaders were corrupt. This was the world that Jesus was born
into. Three hundred years later the
political leader of that same nation gave His life to Jesus, and encouraged the
citizens to do the same. The religious
system that the corrupt religious leaders led no longer existed. How did Jesus defeat the wickedness of His
generation? He focused on The Eternal
Kingdom. He did not try to change the
political situation, but instead focused on changing people’s hearts. He went around sharing the message of The
Kingdom, and doing good even to His enemies.
He encouraged His followers to do the same.1
Jesus understood this life is only
temporary. Eventually the world will
self-destruct because of sin. God will
roll up the Universe like a piece of cloth.
Time will be no more. Eternity
with God will be the only living thing.2
Because Jesus loves people He paid the
price with His own blood so that every person can be part of His Kingdom.3
Since God loves everyone, His Holy Spirit speaks to every heart. He tells them that they are a sinner, that
His offer of salvation is their only hope, and that if they do not become part
of His Kingdom they will be destroyed.4 Those who trust in His salvation with all
their heart become His Followers. Jesus
told His followers to make His Kingdom
and their relationship with Him the main focus of their lives.5
Jesus and His early Apostles made it clear that Christ’s followers are His
physical presence in this world. They
are His hands, His feet, His eyes, His ears, His mouth, and are called to
defeat the wickedness around them.6
Jesus’ early followers manifested the life
of The Holy Spirit inside them and overcame the wickedness in their world.7
Jesus calls us today to live as He and His early followers lived.8
We need to make His Kingdom and our relationship with Him the main focus of our
lives. If we will do this, we will be
His physical presence in this world. We
will be His hands, His feet, His eyes, His ears, and His mouth and overthrow
the wickedness around us. Jesus will
give us the wisdom to do the right thing to the enemies of God. If we try to overcome evil in our own
strength, we ourselves will become evil.
When we overcome evil by doing good using God’s wisdom, God Himself will
defeat the evil around us. His will
shall be done on earth as it is in Heaven.9
How can we defeat the wickedness around
us? The same way Jesus and His early
followers did. Focus on changing
people’s hearts by sharing the message of The Kingdom with them, and doing good
to them even when they are an enemy of God.
BASIC
Question: Are you allowing God to
manifest His physical presence through you so He can use you to defeat the
wickedness in your world?
Scripture
References: 1 Matthew 4:23,
5:43-48 John 14:12; 22Peter 3:10-13, Hebrews 1:10-12; 3John
3:16; 4John 16:7-11; 5Matthew 6:33; 6Matthew
16:18, Colossians 1:9-29, Romans 12:4-13, 1Corinthians 12:12-31; 7The
Book of Acts; 8John 17:20-23; 9Romans 12:14-21
Henry &
Rita
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