This week, Michael writes how there is so much confusion in this world today. Confusion divides, and separates our hearts one from another. It pits one faction against another. Confusion is of the devil; for where there is strife and contention there is confusion and every evil work. This is what James 3:16 says.
The devil is real and uses confusion to divide and conquer. Confusion separates, it atomizes, explodes, mortifies, deconstructs, repels, disintegrates and destroys. The opposite of confusion is fusion. Fusion unites, implodes, constructs, attracts, Builds up, makes whole and integrates. Fusion produces unity.
The context of James 3:14-16 regarding confusion says: “But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.” However, to counter the confusion of this world and the god of this world, James 3:17-18 says, in contrast to the wisdom of this world: “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”
And how do we receive the wisdom that is from above?
Have you heard about the first atom bomb used in warfare? It wasn’t the atom bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to bring about the end of WW2. It was the Adam bomb dropped in the Garden of Eden when Adam bombed by committing the original sin. Adam and Eve both bombed when they disobeyed God’s only command by eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eve was tricked… she was beguiled and deceived by the devil into doubting the love of God and the Word of God. Genesis 3:6 says, “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” She succumbed to the lie of devil instead of God’s wisdom. The wisdom of this world is earthly, sensual and devilish.
The original Adam bomb when Adam and Eve sinned was a nuclear fission reaction that separated all mankind from God. The human being was created as body, soul and spirit. On the day Adam and Eve sinned, their spirit died that day. The repercussions of the first Adam bomb has reverberated down through the ages from generation to generation and continues even today, for we have all inherited Adam’s fallen sin nature that results in death. This is why we needed the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ, to redeem with a fusion reaction to reconcile us back to God.
Romans 5: 17-21 says: “For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: \That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Let's continue Michael's message on 'Unity" in the next post.
In Christ, Brian
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