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 As we have entered into the Season of Advent, preparing for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, the signs are ever increasing, more and more, bearing the stamp of the prophetic Words Jesus Christ gave to His followers concerning His return. For example:

Matt 24:10 "10 And many will turn away from me and betray and hate each other."

From God’s perspective, it has never been about human effort or achievement to become finally and fully human. Jesus Christ, by His sacrificial death and resurrection is able to bring out of death, by the Holy Spirit’s power, any who will believe and receive. But humanity, on the whole, hates mercy. It demands payment for the wrongs done to it conveniently forgetting those wrongs done by them personally. Hatred, bitterness, unforgiveness, resentment…all are cancers of the soul.

There are followers of Jesus Christ being imprisoned, persecuted, slandered, ostracized, marginalized and murdered because they bear the Name of Jesus as Christians. The cost of following Jesus entails the refusal to evaluate worth, life, meaning and purpose by the constantly shifting standards of culture and society. Too many fear the rejection of another human more than they do issues of eternity.





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