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Are you a Christadelphian? Jesus himself was approached by the devil. The devil is an external being.

As my friends in high school used to say, “They can kill us but they can’t eat us. That wouldn’t be civilized.” The cost of not listening to and believing the Messiah is condemnation. It isn’t the Messiah who is telling gentiles (and Jews) not to listen to and believe him. It’s the devil.

The devil is going to fight hard to keep gentiles (and Jews) from becoming disciples of the Messiah / newbies.

What is a Christian, newbies? A Christian is a disciple of the Messiah. The apostles were all disciples of the Messiah -> Christians. Christianity began as a sect of Judaism. The first Christians were Jews. Listen to the Messiah teach and preach. Listen to the apostles teach and preach. The...

Christianity began with the Messiah’s teaching and preaching. The devil doesn’t want gentiles (nor Jews) to believe that is true.

“He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.’” (Mark 16:15-16, NET) The one who believes what? The one who believes the word of the Lord / the word of...

From the Messiah’s parable of the sower: “‘When anyone hears the word of the kingdom … .’” (Matthew 13:19, NASB) ”’The sower sows the word.’” (Mark 4:14, NASB) “‘ … the seed is the word of God.’” (Luke 8:11, NASB) The word of God is the word of the Lord. The “seed” that is planted which...

Reading ahead a little further in Acts we find this: ”Next Paul and Silas traveled through the area of Phyrgia and Galatia, because the Holy Spirit had prevented them from preaching the word in the province of Asia at that time.” (Acts 16:6, NLT) Bold is mine. Prevented from preaching the...

“Now after John was imprisoned, Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel of God. He said, ‘The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel!’” (Mark 1:14-15, NET) Disciples are made by teaching and preaching the gospel of God. That’s what Paul and...

“Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you.” (Matthew 28:19-20, NLT) Paul and Barnabas were following up on their having carried out the...

Paul and Barnabas went back to check on the newbies, to see how the seed they had planted in the gentile world was growing. They wanted to evaluate the health of the churches they started, the crop. The seed they had planted was “the word of the Lord,” the message they had taught and preached...

“If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.” - Henry Ward Beecher

* As true today as it was yesterday. *