Proper Focus

Pride and superiority have nothing to do with race. Pride and superiority have to do with fallen mankind, the flesh, selfishness and rebellion to God. The curse has nothing to do with race. The curse is removed from all who receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.

Inferiority has nothing to do with race or what anyone else thinks about us or does to us. It is a result of not knowing who Jesus Christ is and who one is in Jesus Christ.

Concerning retribution, all should focus on making things right with Jesus Christ by being and living as if we are forever grateful to Him who made a Way for us to be saved. Go to the cross and look at Jesus, take up your cross and follow Jesus. It is a full time job! You won't have time for anything else. Keeping the board out of our eye does not leave time to think about the speck in someone else's eye. When judgment comes, we will not be focused on what someone else did. To get ready for judgment we had better focus on self preparation!

Concerning the Church, past and present, there has always been the real and there has always been the false. Find the real and become a part of it. It will get your focus in the right place. Ephesians 4 gives a good picture of the Church that Jesus is building. If your Church does not resemble this, then consider the possibility that it is not part of the Church that Jesus is building, or at the least needs major repentance and restoration.

Concerning forgiveness, we have done more against God than anyone could ever do against us. If we do not forgive all others, then God will not forgive us! (Mark 11:24-25). True forgiveness of others has nothing to do with whether they make things right or ask for forgiveness (Acts 7:60).

Concerning love, if we love Jesus, we will obey His commands.

The church that the devil is building focuses on self, be it self-pleasure, self-fulfillment, self-prosperity, self-pity, self-revenge... The church influenced by the devil focuses on sectarianism, be it religious sectarianism, racial sectarianism, political sectarianism or economic sectarianism.

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The Church that Jesus is building focuses on loving Him and loving others as He loves us. It focuses on the unity of faith and on working together to advance His kingdom and bring His message of redemption to the lost. It focuses on making herself ready for the marriage of the Lamb. Expand your understanding of "Depart from me I never knew you." It includes being of another spirit other than the Spirit of God. A house divided will not stand; those trying to divide the house of God are not part of the Church that Jesus is building.

Let's wake up and get serious about being Christ-like and fulfilling His will and work. Let's get unified by getting sanctified by truth--real truth (John 17:17). How many professing ministers and professing Christians study the whole Word of God on a regular basis and do it under the teaching of the Holy Spirit without any devilish man-made leaven controlling the understanding thereof? How many are taking truth to the world rather than taking the devil's lies mixed with truth while talking about Jesus?

Let's identify and get rid of the false apostles (Revelation 2:2). Let's repent and return to our first love (Revelation 2:5). Let's look to Jesus and become formed in His image and then trust the Spirit to unite us with disciples who are doing the same. Let's become salt and light to the glory of Jesus the Messiah!