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WAS JESUS MEAN? BY MARK GALLI [AT THE BATTLE FRONT 33]

June 15, 2008 by Marc Leave a Comment

Saints,

The Identity Crisis continues in the church of Jesus worldwide.

Is His identity the permissive grandfather always full of unlimited grace, smiling at all we do, turning His head away at every sin, and giving us cotton candy as He sends us to have fun at Disney World?

Or is His identity one who is mean, a capricious and arbitrary despot, a cosmic kill joy, and waiting to strike at every opportunity?

What does His Holy Word teach us about His full identity? Are we even in His Word to really know? And why at His throne for eons of time do the creatures sing in antiphonal chorus, “Holy, Holy, Holy?”

Miss who He is in His real identity – and you’ve missed it all. Just ask the unrepentant Laodecean congregation of Revelation 3. Jesus didn’t create, nor does He proclaim, the Religion of Niceness.

Mark Galli is a fine saint who used to edit Christian History. Now, I believe, is in a similar capacity at Christianity Today. He and I have corresponded, for he’s not aloof. He’s a real soldier. I’ve always appreciated his candor and balance. This piece is well worth your consideration.

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WAS JESUS MEAN?

By Mark Galli, published in Christianity Today, used by permission

When Jesus speaks or acts sternly, it seems like a far cry from nice. But it isn’t a far cry from love.

Jesus opens his ministry as a rather exacting rabbi. He suddenly appears before two groups of fishermen and starkly commands them, “Follow me!” (Mark 1:16-20). He tells a deranged man to shut up and then causes him to writhe in pain (Mark 1:25-26). After Jesus heals a helpless leper, Mark says, “sternly warning him, [Jesus] sent him away at once” (Mark 1:43).

The Greek behind the phrase “sternly warning him” can mean “to denounce harshly, to scold.” And the phrase, “he sent him away at once” is a translation of the Greek verb ekballo, which elsewhere is translated “to drive out,” and “to throw out.” A plain reading of the passage suggests that Jesus scolds the man and then throws him out.

It is no wonder that some ancient manuscripts read that at the opening of this incident Jesus, after being interrupted by this leper, is moved not with “pity” but with “anger.” That reading at least accords with Jesus’ overall demeanor here.

This is not unusual behavior for our Messiah. Jesus throws people out of a room (ekballo again) so he can heal a child, and then he “strictly ordered” witnesses of the miracle to keep quiet (Mark 5:40, 43). He and Peter get into a row, each rebuking the other (Mark 8:32-33). Jesus becomes exasperated with a crowd and his disciples: “You faithless generation, how much longer must I be among you? How much longer must I put up with you?” (Mark 9:19). He cursesa fig tree (Mark 11:13-14). He drives people out of the temple area (with a whip, according to John 2:15), overturning tables, and physically intimidating people to prevent their passing through (Mark 11:15-17).

Jesus’ attitude toward authorities is hardly respectful. He calls Herod a fox (Luke 13:32), and he castigates the scribes and Pharisees at length, mocking them as “blind guides” and “hypocrites” (Matt. 23:24-25), and practically curses them, saying, “You are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth” (Matt. 23:27).

Such incidents crop up again and again in the Jesus story. That story, in fact, is inexplicable without them. If Jesus was merely loving, compassionate, and kind—if Jesus was only nice—why did both Jews and Romans feel compelled to murder him?

Naturally enough, these are not passages upon which we meditate in morning devotions, nor do we memorize them for inspiration. Why bother when, if we just keep reading, we’ll find something edifying? And so, despite their prominence in the Gospels, these passages remain foreign to us. And there’s a reason for that.

Today we are adherents of the Religion of Niceness. In this religion, God is a benevolent grandfather who winks at human mistakes, and it goes without saying that he always understands—after all, it is human to err, divine to forgive.

In her essay “Nice Is Not the Point,” Marilyn Chandler McEntyre writes, “One of my husband’s finer moments in parenting came one day when, after he had uttered an unwelcome word of correction to a disgruntled child, he leaned down, looked her in the eye, and said, `Honey, this is what love looks like.’ Love, in that case, must have seemed to her a far cry from nice.”

When Jesus speaks sternly to the healed leper, when he castigates the Pharisees, when he rebukes Peter, it seems like a far cry from nice. But it isn’t a far cry from love. Simply put, when Jesus is not nice, he’s trying to get people to do the right thing.

Take the healed leper. The context of Jesus’ sternness is quickly made clear: “After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, saying to him, `See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.’ But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter” (Mark 1:43-45).

Jesus realizes that the leper is grateful and that he wants to do something extraordinary for Jesus. But Jesus does not want the extraordinary. He wants the man to do what the day’s religious conventions (as outlined in Leviticus 14) told him to do. If the man really wanted to do something for Jesus, he would have played it by the book. This would have demonstrated to the authorities that Jesus was no law breaker (an accusation he knew he’d have to confront sooner or later), and this would have allowed Jesus to continue his ministry in towns throughout Galilee.

As commentator Ben Witherington puts it, the man healed of leprosy “bore witness about the wrong thing in the wrong way.” Thus Jesus could no longer enter towns and therefore synagogues–houses of worship and education, the richly symbolic place where he would have preferred to speak about the fulfillment of Israel. Now people began to mob him, not to hear his message so much as to be healed of their infirmities.

Variations of this theme—Jesus wanting others to do the right thing—are seen in Jesus’ rebuke of the Pharisees’ hypocrisy and Peter’s ignorance. Jesus is less than nice because people are often wicked and foolish, and they need to be jolted out of their stupor. Simply put: “The Lord disciplines those whom he loves” (Heb. 12:6).

Such confrontation is more than helping people do the right thing. It’s also about deepening our relationships with one another. Thus Paul tells the church in Colossae, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom” (Col. 3:16), in the same passage in which he urges them, “Clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony” (Col. 3:14). There is a deeper unity, an intimacy that Paul longs for in the church, and that intimacy is brought about by a variety of behaviors such as “compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience” (Col. 3:12) but also by the courage to “admonish one another.”

Brother Mark Galli

Married couples know when their relationship moves into a deeper intimacy: it’s when they start arguing regularly. Indeed, many arguments have nothing to do with love, but a lot of them do. They often begin when one spouse has the uncomfortable duty of telling the other spouse, “You have done something wrong.”

This can be said in the nicest tone, but it rarely feels nice hearing it. And so it usually leads to a “conversation” that becomes less than nice. The spouse who starts this whole thing has to have a lot of courage, which is why most couples don’t do it until they are some distance into the relationship, when they are pretty sure the other is not going to walk out on them. They are willing to risk arguments because they know that unless the relationship moves into the not-nice stage, their love will never deepen.

Excerpt from Mark’s book:

Jesus Mean and Wild: The Unexpected Love of an Untamable God

http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Mean-Wild-Unexpected-Untamable/dp/0801071577

 

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Saints, we’re one day closer to Home, and Him! Love Him wholeheartedly!

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IDENTITY CRISIS: WHICH JESUS DO YOU FOLLOW? [MONDAY MANNA 31]

January 29, 2007 by Marc 4 Comments

Dear Friends,

The church of Jesus Christ that calls itself His is in deep weeds.

Many, many years ago in 1989, I was given a taped message by Bruce Wilkerson when he was still President at Walk Thru The Bible in Atlanta. I had met him personally at a conference that year and was thrilled he would actually speak to me, a nobody.

In that message, he boldly proclaimed that the church was “in the ditch” even way back then.  I submit to you for your consideration that it has not gotten any better but has gotten immeasurably worse.  And we need to start dealing with it before the return of Jesus and His accounting for all of our deeds in the flesh, whether good or bad (2nd Corinthians 5:10).

Instead of deep repentance for the lack of true and sustaining biblical fruit that invades our culture in America and other affluent cultures worldwide, most leadership is more enthralled by their books, messages, and conferences that continue to spawn a lot of smoke but little fire.  And this leadership that says it represents Jesus Christ Himself is intent on congratulating itself while consistent and deep personal holiness goes lacking in much of the body.

When admonishment is attempted to present them complete in Christ (Col. 1.18), they boldly stonewall the messenger under the guise of protecting the flock. A next step usually ensues that produces either the infamous phrase “let’s just agree to disagree” or outright ignoring the message.  And often accompanied by trashing the messenger’s honor. The Bible calls it quenching the Holy Spirit.

I, for one, am tired of it, angry about it, and am embarrassed to call myself a Christian for what the term now represents in modern culture.  If you take issue with this proclamation, I point you toward David Kinnaman’s book Unchristian and the scathing rebuke that pagans place upon the thing that calls itself the Church of Jesus Christ in America.

But I digress.

If I remember correctly, it was in the 1960s when I first saw the little green alligator show up unannounced in America. As a young man in my teens fighting raging hormones and the arrival of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, it was another onslaught to the senses trying to figure out what life is all about.

Prior to this time, clothing was nondescript and other than a certain style or color, it could be anybody’s guess what you were wearing.  But a French company created by René Lacoste would invade the American consciousness by putting (get this) green alligators on clothing.  The first one I saw, if I remember correctly, was on a short sleeve polo shirt quickly followed by another green alligator on a cardigan sweater.

Weird, I thought.  Who in their right mind would want to have anything on their clothing, let alone an animal.  And at that, a reptile known for its ferociousness and living in swamp water?!  Is there no limit to what human beings will do in the realm of silliness?

Apparently not.  And once again, my marketing savvy proved to be faulty as Izod clothing became a rage.

Why would human beings do something like this, and actually crave this association?  It wasn’t until a few years ago that the Holy Spirit instructed me into some of the cultural aspects of human nature when it lives in the flesh.

“Marc,” the Spirit stated, “all of life is about identity.  You must realize, my child, that your identity is in Me and in nothing else.  I jealously desire all of your affection and devotion and will accept nothing less if you really say you love Me.”

Wow.  What a bombshell.  And what truth.  It struck to the heart of the issue of whose kingdom are we living in and whose kingdom are we serving.  The kingdom of darkness and Satan?  Or the kingdom of God the Father through Jesus?

So, let’s ask each other the same question today.  Who are you identifying with?  If I was to follow you around for several months, what would I see you doing and speaking about that captures your attention?

In school we remember studying the native American Indian and their totem poles.  A totem is something of great value that the creator would first generate, then worship.  They’re what we, and God, would call an idol.  And what were the images that they identified with?  Animals, right?  Like the bear, eagle, cougar, etc. Here in Florida, perhaps the Seminole Indians would’ve carved a totem that also included the gator I presume.

And what about us?  Are we identifying with any of these animals in life? Animals?

Let’s assume it’s in the fall of the year.  Most Christians I know are fans (fanatics) of football.  And what are the totems of that gladiator sport where grown men pump their bodies up to gargantuan size?  So they can put on protective clothing and gear and crash into each other while trying to steal an inflated object made I suppose from pigs?  How weird is that?  What must God think about all this when He asks us to be fully devoted to Him and not His creation?

Seems pretty silly like putting an alligator on a sweater, doesn’t it?  And what football totems are you following these days?  Here in Florida, Christians routinely watch and decorate their vehicles with Seminole Indians, gators and some sort of a mean spirited bird that identifies the Miami Hurricanes.

A low point was the audacity of so-called Christian men in Orlando years ago raising millions of dollars to create a pro basketball team. And what, of all things, did they decide to call it? The Magic. Satan must be having a field day. Instead of burning our magic paraphernalia like the Ephesians, we pay top dollar for the right to view the games and place their insignia on our vehicles and homes. God help us…

I personally have been demeaned, written off, and have lost ministry subscribers for pointing out the taunting, bloodshed, and hatred toward opponents by none other than Tim Tebow.  Love your enemies, anyone?  Or do we identify with hyper competition in putting our pagan enemies on their backs as we run over them and enter their end zone all the while celebrating their demise on national television?  And with unsaved pagans watching us looking for clues as to who Jesus may actually be?

What would Jesus do?  Certainly not that, I can assure you with all certainty.  He was too busy with kingdom work and preaching that one should repent or perish.  Healing the sick, raising the dead (yes, the dead), casting out demons.  Full-time, 24-7.  Not that one should tailgate and be fanatical about some animal totem.  Read about Sports & Christians?  here:  /sports

And what of the other football animal totems mentioned above?  The Chicago Bears?  The Philadelphia Eagles?  The Detroit Lions?  You get the idea.  And so does Satan.  His main scheme is distraction and to put our energy into things that have no eternal value in God’s kingdom.  He is a roaring lion and is a master at his craft.  And yet many Christians think he’s an easily defeated enemy and go on their merry way to engage in cultural fornication.

Growing up in Chicago, I used to follow religiously the Chicago Bears, not to mention the Chicago Cubs, and the Chicago Blackhawks (more native Indians), or the Chicago White Sox (yes, that’s right: sox one wears on their feet), etc. etc. etc.  Then came none other than the Chicago Bulls (based on the once famous Chicago stockyards) and his highness, MJ.

But I remember the day well when I was watching an NBA finals game with Michael Jordan as he attempted to vanquish his foes in one of his last championships.  Early in the first quarter, a beer commercial came on with an ultra-seductive and scantily clad woman.  I was single at the time and was fighting with the urge to have mental sex with her, or maybe worse.  I can’t remember if I was successful or not.  But one thing I know, I didn’t want to be involved in actual or mental fornication any longer.  I wanted to serve God and Jesus and I wanted him to be pleased with me and everything that I did.

So I walked over, reached out my hand, and turned the TV set off.  And that was the last sports game I’ve watched with the intent of cheering on my team to vanquish my chosen enemy.  I believe that was about 20 years ago.

That is just one example of identity and the cultural gravity upon us.

God commands us to identify with things in His kingdom and not those of the world.  If we love the world or the things of the world, the love of the Father is not in us.  The Bible makes it crystal clear of where our affections and devotions are to be placed and that talk is cheap.  We recall the Word states in a clarion call that we’re to be doers of His commands.

Jesus grades us on every thought and action as a believer following Him.  And if we are involved in the worldly culture in mimicking what they do and how they act and what they identify with, it may be a good indication that we don’t even know Jesus as He is meant to be known.

What are some other examples of mistaken identity?

Well, let’s draw a picture of what most Christians I meet in the American church act like as representatives who called themselves His believers.

They truly believe Jesus would be (like them?) wealthy, healthy, very politically active as Republicans, very nationalistic in defense of America, very competitive in business (which is really no different than Darwin’s theory of evolution carried out in the marketplace), very involved in really pointing out voraciously only three pagan sins which are abortion, homosexuality and evolution, etc. The ‘below-the-belt-only’ sins.

So, in short, we make Jesus to look a lot like us in this case. We venerate a God who is not there. He doesn’t exist. Are we actually worshiping ourselves, then?

Yes…

And what is that called?

Idolatry…

I distinctly remember in the late ‘80’s Tony Campolo preaching a rousing message called “It’s Friday, But Sunday’s ‘Acomin.” In it he speaks to a national convention of youth leaders about the false Jesus they teach to their youth. You could hear a pin drop when he proclaimed that what was really happening was little more than their training the youth to be pimps for the system…listen here if you dare:   /friday

Now then. What will we identify with to help rectify the current Indentify Crisis where we’re planted by God?

Our life is Jesus by decree of our Father. Not the successful American way of life. He is our Inheritance. He is our Peace. He is our all in all. He is building up all those in His kingdom who the demonic world ignorantly calls losers. Kids who never would be good at any sport, but redirect their considerable energy to the love and furtherance of God’s real kingdom…

We identify with the Jesus in group, not the world’s popular pastimes nor the people participating and trapped in them, or the systems they create to draw God’s human beings away from His grand design and purpose. Which is the consummation of the ages in the finality of the kingdom in His Son…His perfectly pure beloved Son. What amazing love and grace.

Being now a member of Jesus’ in group promises persecution and severe hatred of all types and styles. Family rejection. Friend rejection. Church rejection. Church leader rejection. Not a pretty picture. Not a nice situation.

Lots of enemies. And quite possibly death…yes, that too is coming soon to the so-called safe confines of the West.

But what is the reward? Jesus in His fullness, a safe and peace filled Guide, a real Person who loves us deeply and sacrificially…even now as a Spirit filled and joy filled follower looking through a glass darkly amid lamentation. But soon…flawless perfection forever..with King Jesus.

But now? Joy amid the tribulation! Rejoicing and leaping for joy for so they persecuted the prophets that were before you who also insisted on calling the wayward troops to real righteousness.

What will it be for you? You know, with this whole Identity thing.

I have a photo in my collection of a vehicle that had all the following stickers and signs on it: Semper Fi (Marines), Orlando Magic (basketball), W’04 (our Decider-in-Chief who admitted publicly never was any WMD)…and last, but not least, a pretty small (compared to the other prominent displays) Christian fish symbol stuck on the trunk. Who do they identify with? Who will their kids and grandkids follow? What do their lost, eternally condemned, hell-bound neighbors think about Jesus as portrayed in all this? Or are we more like them than like our Jesus?

As for me and my household, with all the grace and mercy of Christ that He will muster for us, we’ll serve the pure Jesus…the One who we, and we dare say others, can clearly identify. He’s in the Bible. And in our hearts to lead if we will truly listen and obey. As we should be to really get to KNOW Him.

To love Him is to identify with Him. To take up our Cross daily as a condemned criminal to the world, and follow up that hill never again to return to the old life. Resurrection and true truth follows.

Fernando Ortega sings the most wonderful ballad, Give Me Jesus. I urge you to click the link and listen as you cry your way through.

Here’s the link to the music video on the Walk Worthy YouTube channel: GIVE ME JESUS – MUSIC VIDEO

In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise, give me Jesus.

Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus,
You can have all this world,
But give me Jesus.

When I am alone
When I am alone
When I am alone, give me Jesus.

Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus,
You can have all this world,
But give me Jesus.

When I come to die
When I come to die
When I come to die, give me Jesus.

Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus,
You can have all this world,
You can have all this world,
You can have all this world,
But give me Jesus…

Your friend and brother in fighting the good fight,

Marc

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Saints, we’re one day closer to Home, and Him! Love Him wholeheartedly!

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GOD’S INTENTION FOR GRACE [MONDAY MANNA 7]

February 27, 2006 by jesusislord Leave a Comment

grace to stop sinningSaints,

The Word speaks about the multi-faceted role of grace in the lives of those claiming to be Jesus’ children in the faith:

Titus 2:11-15  For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

And, again:

Hebrews 4:1-16 Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it. For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.

For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, “AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST,” although His works were finished from the foundation of the world. For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “AND GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORKS”; and again in this passage, “THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.” Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience, He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before,

“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS.”

For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that. So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Praise God for His grace that in the above passages 1) instructs us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires (anything the world really likes) and to live sensibly (vs. non-sense and frivolity), righteously and godly in the present age, and 2) allows us to boldly come with confidence to the throne for more grace and mercy for His help not to sin against Him and others.  We want the word preached to us to be profitable as we fear, for entering into His rest depends on this. It’s a matter of eternal life or eternal death.

Will you join me in begging and beseeching Jesus this week that His Spirit will help us in a fresh way to appreciate and appropriate His grace to walk in a manner worthy of our calling?

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Your friend and brother in fighting the good fight,

Marc

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