Good and Evil

Good and Evil!!

We are living on the brink...
At a time like this, it is very easy to be deceived by those who distort both sides of these extreme opposites.
If you who are going to read this Sunday Blog, from me michael jaffraay king, are still under the strong delusion that all is well with our society and that we are not standing at the top of a precipice leading to hell on earth, then I can only say how sorry I am that you are so blind.
What I am about to write will hopefully in the very simplest terms try to expose both sides..The Good and The Evil in a way that even the most simple and child like person will be able to understand.
In my seventy three years of life, I have found out that Good is representes by a FORCE, a spiritual force which was demonstrated to us by the One and Only Jesus Christ.
Sadly those who have rallied around this banner of Christ have down through the ages distorted this absolute TRUTH for their own ends.
Even in the Bible when the Early Church was in its Infancy, in The Book of Revelation, Chapters two and three, we can read how the forces of Evil were infiltrating that infant Community. Read what the Holy Spirit had to say to the seven Churches relayed through the Apostle John on his island prison of Patmos in the Aegean.
Then through History humans who found themselves in a position of hristian leadership were often corrupted by their greed and lust for power. The Church of Christ was misused as a Power Broker to try and rule the world and gain control of ther masses of the people through war and destruction and fear.
Today that Military and Political power has to a large extent been diminished, however because of our many failings, corruption is still there and many in leadership positions care little for the message of the Gospel (Good News of Salvation through Jesus Christ) and instead feather their own nest caring little for the flock of sheep that they are meant to tend and look after.
This is very evident on both sides of the Christian divide both Roman Catholic and Protestant.
In the Bible and in the Catechism of the RC Church, the Truth is laid out, however even this plain Truth can so easily be misinterpreted by those who do not know where to look and how to look and most important of all are doing so with wrong motivations again lead by greed and lust for power.
What is the very basic message of Jesus Christ????
It is FORGIVENESS... This is so important to realise as we all need so much forgiving. We all need so much Mercy and it is through Mercy and Truth that Iniquity is purged.
Proverbs Ch 16 verse 6.
What is the very greatest example of Forgiveness that this planet has ever observed?
When Jesus Christ offered Himself on the sacrificial cross of Calvary for all of our sins.
Nothing beats that..That is the number one example of all time.

Now to expose Evil...
This is very easy to do... Just follow the Money...Money brings temporal power and we all fall for this one from time to time.
In First Timothy Chapter six verse ten we read
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
I DO NOT THINK THAT IT CAN GET ANY CLEARER THAN THAT....
SO WHAT SHOULD WE DO TO PREPARE FOR THE REALLY TERRIBLE EVENTS THAT ARE ON THE BRINK OF HAPPENING TO ALL OF US????????????
How should we all try to prepare???
First let's take a very good look at another verse taken from the Words of Jesus..
Matthew Ch 16 verse 25
25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

I hope you can see that any thought about saving just yourself and yours is disqalified right here.
We have to look for ways in which we can really help others and at the same time we will always have enough of the remainder to have for ourselves and our own.
This way we will be seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness see Matthew Ch 6 v 28 to 33.
When I first went to the Ukraine 23 years ago. We had no money but we had something much better. We had the promises of God..Jesus said..

28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
So there you have it!!!!!
We organised Humanitarian help and lorry loads of clothes and food parcels would arrive and from this we distributed to the people and of course there was always enough for us too.
We neeed to start thinking now about how we as Christians are going to use this situation to help others.
That is the great secret.
To get the blessing of God we need to always think about helping others.. Preaching and spreading the Gospel and not only the Spiritual Gospel but the Physical one too.
GBY and KGFG.