Warning: Everything but what moves you to discipleship of Jesus is destructive of your health. jesianity.info/search/label/Jesus
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how very curious, let alone catastrophic. Imagine someone telling another that Michael
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Jordan is their teacher and leader and coach. And that person said, only Michael Jordan?
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Only Simone Biles? Only Warren Buffett? Regularly, after a Christian stops, and I'm not belittling
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anyone here, often after a Christian stops and hears what I have to say for a couple
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of minutes, only Jesus? We're told that
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in the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy had the solution with her all the time. The people that have
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said this to me have given me a perfect summary of what the beliefs that hold James now, that
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give him life. Yes, only Jesus.
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It's been staring me in the face.
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face since my earliest memory. Yes, only the perfect cancer drug regimen? Yes, undiluted, it works.
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Diluted, it doesn't. Isn't that convenient for empire that Jesus gave his life to destroy?
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In all its forms, religious and secular, only Jesus.
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Yes, Jesus, straight up, unadulterated. James, you are an endless source of amusement.
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It's been staring you right in the face. Only Jesus. And I suspect with this gift this morning
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realization that this morning, I mean that from now on, often when someone asks,
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so what is that word on your vehicle? I may answer, well, it's the word I give to only Jesus.
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The not Christianity, the not the original one, the real one.
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Though I probably will not be offering the latter parts of what I just spoke,
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unless I think it's a particularly strong soul able and needing to hear it.
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Yes, only Jesus. Only Jesus, straight up, unadulterated, has given me life.
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And I have been in the midst of thousands of hours now of studying and pondering and contemplating and trying to understand his words and example. And boy, be fair now. This is not some teaching of James. Many will come preaching in my name. Do not follow them. I am the way, the truth, and the life. I am the light of the world. Those who follow me, I am the light of the world. Those who follow me, I am the light of the world. Those who follow me, I am the light of the world. Those who follow me, I am the light of the world. Those who follow me, I am the light of the world. Those who follow me, I am the light of the world. Those who follow me, I am the light of the world. Those who follow me, I am the light of the world. Those who follow me, I am the light of the world. Those who follow me, I am the light of the world. Those who follow me, I am the light of the world. Those
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me will no longer work in darkness. He did not say me in the Old Testament, me in the scribes
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and Pharisees. He did not say me in the Christianity that hasn't been invented yet
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by thousands and tens of thousands of people. He didn't say me in Paul, me in John of Revelations.
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He did say, all who came before me, all who came before me are thieves and robbers.
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Many will come preaching in my name. Do not follow them.
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And that's exactly what Christianity is. Tens of thousands, if not tens of millions,
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speaking in Jesus' name with barely a reference to anything he said.
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Or did. Except replacing what he did and said with their own. Love, for example. Oh yeah,
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love captures Jesus. No, it doesn't. Isn't that convenient? Reducing Jesus to love
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totally castrates, eviscerates his words and more importantly, his example.
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Humanity. The God-given human capacity for humanity is what pretty well encapsulates Jesus.
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Look it up. Look it up in the dictionary.
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Love is one benign, banal, meaningless,
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aspect of that. And we don't do that by accident. We want Jesus to be banal and benign. We don't want
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his, the world hates me because I say that the ways of the world are evil.
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We don't want that. We're part of the world. It's the only world we know. That can't be the problem.
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It's got to be.
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We haven't found the right drugs. We aren't taking enough alcohol. We aren't buying enough stuff. We haven't bought enough of the right stuff. We're not approved by the right men. We don't have enough money. That's got to be the reason that we're miserable, that we're walking dead people trying to find life. It can't be that Jesus was right about the world.
Warning: Everything but what moves you to discipleship of Jesus is destructive of your health. jesianity.info/search/label/Jesus
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