"Stop Hate. We Need Love and Unity."

"So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good” (1 Peter 2:1-3 ESV).

So, a Christian friend of mine posted a video on Facebook which was a dramatization of people spelling out a message with their physical arms, like in a choir. And the message read: “Stop Hate. We Need Love and Unity.”

On a surface read it sounds good, right? For who doesn’t want to stop hate? For, isn’t that what this Scripture is teaching? We are to put away from our lives all malice, and malice is hate, spite, venom, viciousness, meanness and nastiness, with harm intended. We are to put these things out of our lives. And envy can go right along with malice, along with jealousy, resentment, and bitterness. And deceit and slander are just two sides of the same whole, for they are both about deliberate lies told to harm other people.

So, should we as Christians automatically “like” this Facebook video? No! Why? It goes to the whole matter of deception, which can include the use of misimpressions in order to mislead people into believing something on the basis of false assumptions. For this message has been being conveyed via people of the world and world leaders for some time now who want global unity, who desire all the people of the world to be of one mind and heart and purpose, which is not God’s mind and heart and purpose for our lives.

When Obama was president of the USA for eight years, he and the pope “sang a duet,” basically, by giving out this message of unity and oneness and of all the people of the world fundamentally joining hands together in singing, “Kumbaya”. And looking at my documents, I see that Donald Trump gave a similar message for Thanksgiving in 2016 speaking in terms of “healing our divisions,” “shared purpose,” “common resolve,” “one voice and one heart,” and a “unified” America. This is where things are headed.

11/01/2016: “They want us to do away with all which divides us as the people of the world. Sovereign nations divide as does the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are divided “saved” and “unsaved.” So, they feel the gospel and its messengers must go, or be reformed, so the world can all live together in perfect harmony. We are already being tagged as hateful, bigoted, intolerant and as religious extremists, which is to be associated with terrorists” (1). 

So, please don’t take all things you read or hear or think you see at face value and automatically assume good purposes are behind them, when they may not be. For misimpressions (indirect lies) and manipulations of truth are huge right now! So, we then need to go to the source of the message and look to see what that source stands for. And I guarantee the source for that video did not come from a Christian perspective but from a worldly perspective, and every indication was the intention I have mentioned above.

So, we have to be careful about receiving messages like this. Although it sounds good, and yes, it is true that hate should be stopped, and that we need love and unity, still who is sending the message? That is the big question. Is this the love of God/Christ? Is this unity with Christ? With whom are we supposed to unite? And how is hate being defined? Many are defining the teachings of the Scriptures and the gospel of Christ as “hate speech.” 

But this love, unity, and absence of hate being pushed is not of the heart, mind, and voice of God, but of man. And if we unify with them, then we have to disunify with Christ and with the gospel of Christ, for many are calling Christians "haters" and "disunifiers." So, although this sounds good on a surface read, if you consider the reality of it on a global scale, this is not good. So as Christians we need to be testing all these things.

And we need to be those who are longing for and seeking after the pure spiritual milk of God’s word, and of his gospel message, so that we may grow up into salvation, into maturity in our walks of faith. And so we don’t fall prey to the devil’s traps, and so we can be more discerning of the tricks of the enemy which are to get us to buy into his lies. And then we must follow our Lord in obedience to his commands in holy living, and sin must no longer be what we practice. Therefore, we are not to be hypocrites!

For Our Nation  

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

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(1) https://runwithit.blog/2016/11/01/they-surround-me/