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Not only
do I create and perform musical works with all my
heart and soul, I'm at least as passionate about
writing down my thoughts and feelings. Reasoning,
meditating and analysing is all part of this and
by putting it down in words Jah has enabled me to
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Love
and Unity
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Many
Christians speak and think about "love
and unity". Including myself. In a
world where the Power Elite is using all
kinds of techniques based on the simple
"divide-and-rule" principal, the
Divine Saviour Yesus Kristos urged His
followers to "be as one" and to
"love one another". This very same
Yesus Kristos also said, by the way, that He
didn't come to unite but rather to divide.
And the word Babylon translated from Hebrew
means: "mix-up, con-fusion, an unholy
alliance". So there is "love and
unity", and there is "dividings
and unholy alliances".
There is another word which is used in this
same context. Or rather, two words
describing certain opposites. These words
are also used as a canon or law by many
people in order to see as to whether they
have to "love" and "be
one" with some other person. These two
words are "positive" and
"negative". Personally, I do not
agree that these words have anything to say
about the "love and unity" as well
as "divisivement" of which our
Lord and Saviour Yesus Kristos spoke about.
But still, many who profess to follow Yesus
Kristos speak about "positive" and
"negative" as if they were
electricians rather than Christians. This
becomes clear, as to what they actually mean
with "positive" as well as
"negative". All they speak about,
namely, are pure feelings. Emotions. It's a
"Feel-Good-Gospel" where these
Christians believe in. "Jesus makes you
happy", and what have you...
Sure, the Divine Saviour makes you happy.
But how, why and when? Is He some kind of
drugs, to keep us asleep while the world
around us is being prepared for the
one-world-government of the coming
antichrist?
Especially in neo-evangelical
circles, the words "positive" and
"negative" are used in this
context. Everything must be
"positive", that is: in no way
offensive to someone else. When our Lord
walked on this earth, He would not have been
accepted in many neo-evangelical
churches. He would be regarded divisive,
without love, in one word:
"negative".
So, when love and unity is not based on any
law of having to feel-good, not on positive
or negative, where is it based on?
I don't know about you, but when I look to
myself, I know why I follow Yesus Kristos. I
do so, because He is the Truth. It is true,
that He is Who He says He is. It is true,
that I am who He says I am!
He said, that He did not come to unite, but
to divide. But to His disciples He said that
they have to be in unity. At least,
that is what He prayed to the Father. He
told us to love each other and be one, and
He told us to love each and everyone.
"Love thy neighbor as thy loveth
thyself", He said. And we all love
ourselves. We truly do.
But, is "love" the same as
"unity"? No. While it is true,
that we have to love everyone, we should not
strive to be in unity with everyone. We
should not enage ourselves in spiritual
fornication. So love is not the same as
unity. Ask any married couple about the
difference...
Ask JAH about the difference, even!
The most important Bible Scripture:
"For JAH so loved the world that He
gave His Only Begotten Son so that each one
who believeth unto Him shall not perish but
have everlasting life". Is Jah one with
the world? No, He is not. Still, He loves
the world.
The unity, of which our Lord and Saviour
speaks about, is based on the truth. The
Truth, ultimately being Himself. When you
are born again into the body of Kristos, you
have become a member of a mystic spiritual
family. Yesus said: "Be as one, as
you are all brethren"). So we don't
really have to strive for a unity which is
allready there. If you are a member of that
mystical spiritual family, you don't have to
strive for that unity, you have to walk in
it.
How?
Not by being "positive". When Paul
rebuked Peter, that surely wasn't
"positive". But Peter listened
nevertheless. He didn't talk about
"you're negative and divisive". He
knew, not that "Paul was right",
but that Paul was only reminding him of...
the truth!
It is by a love for the truth, that you
recognize with whom you have to be
"one". Because what you love, is
what makes you one with other that love this
very same thing. So the question is: on what
basis should there be a unity? Especially
when you know that the unity allready
exists?
The apostle Paul talked about "the body
of Kristos". He said: "When you
are a hand, you should not tell the foot
that you do not need him, neither should you
tell him to be a hand". This is about
"simply" realizing who you are: a
part in this body. Why should the hand not
tell the foot: "I don't need you"?
Because it is not true.
To speak the truth, therefore, is to
practice unity. For Yesus Kristos is the
Truth!
The Truth is, for example, what made me
write my books about Christafari. Not to get
any attention to myself, not to "be
divisive", or "be negative"
even though it is a very negative thing. The
simple truth. The simple truth, that the
Movement of Rastafari is not how it is
described by Christafari, for example. The
simple truth, that the Gospel of Yesus
Kristos is not a product in no industry, for
example.
It is with those who love the truth, that I
have a unity with. The Truth, ultimately,
being Yesus Kristos Himself! And it shows,
when one loves the truth or not. When one is
willing to spread false information, willingly
and knowingly, for years in a row, one
does obviously not love the truth.
It doesn't matter when you don't know
everything. It doesn't matter when you're
not a walking encyclopedia. Only a few of us
are, actually. I for sure am not a walking
encyclopedia. But I love the truth enough to
know that when someone corrects me because I
state some factual incorrectness, it doesn't
matter who that person is. I love to be
corrected on the basis of the truth. It is
this very same mentality that I also see
when it's the other side around.
Where should our unity be based on, as
Christians? On the truth. Because
ultimately, Yesus Kristos is the Truth and
therefore: when you look for the truth,
ultimately, you will find the Ultimate
Truth, Yesus Kristos!
Where should our love be based on, as
Christians? On the truth, Because
ultimately, Yesus Kristos is the Truth and
therefore: when you look for the truth,
ultimately, you will find the Ultimate
Truth, Yesus Kristos!
One Love,
Messian Dread (Dec 10, 2005)
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