Woe unto him through whom this division comes. Better for him that a milestone be hanged around his neck and be cast into the sea than to offend the small little band of disciples (unity) existing at that time of Christ and now.
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Jesus presents a Chapter which every soul must ponder. He states the reason for his coming into our world and his interaction with the Jews. He is the real feast which brings repentance and conversion.
One day in the week was instituted as a day of worship (Sabbath) meaning to receive the greatest gift of eternal life from Christ, Word. It is for this reason the seventh day of the week was referred to as Sabbath – a reference to spiritual blessings for all men and women.
Prayer is receiving Christ through the Word which transforms from an earthly life to a new life in Christ. This New life is discipleship with its gift of God’s Spirit in man,prayer is really action involving Asking, Seeking and Knocking through God’s Word.
Life can never be at peace or satisfied by anything tangible except by prayer. This condition is what led one disciple to ask Jesus Christ to teach them how to pray. They must have talked much prior to the request of prayer; nevertheless, it was a very appropriate request which Jesus deals within the following manner:
God’s great sign visible to the whole world should have been unity among the disciples of Christ. Lack of unity manifests the lack of knowledge of God. Sadly the devil disrupted this unity. Today, many things divide humanity; color of skin, education, riches, relatives, selfishness, poverty; and many more
For any sinner to love God it must mean dependency on the cross for removal of sin and death by the gift of the Spirit. This in turn means having true knowledge of God from hearing and doing of the Word. So, as a disciple becomes knowledgeable in the Word and is thus instructed, this instruction develops into discipleship.
The disciples took more than three years to become capable of exercising the rule of grace in God’s Kingdom.They lived with Christ, heard, saw, and felt the divine power of grace as it worked among the people of Israel. The power and the exercise of the rule of grace (the Word), Jesus describes it as indeed it would affect every individual life, so that all would become one body of Christ with the same character/ behaviour.
Jesus reveals the worst sin (rejection of God) in the world. Sin in the heart is invisible and so is its ruler. The devil rules the world in a way that does not appear harmful to humanity. All our human senses have been sold to the world or to the devil. It is Jesus the Messiah who alone reveals the sinfulness of rejecting God in order to deliver us from our blindness, and all evil schemes of the devil; to a new life which starts here on earth – God’s Kingdom.
Jesus is God’s divine power of love, working as the light to the world, revealing the darkness and then seeks to remove this darkness by the same divine power through – “the Word”.