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“Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.” (Exodus 14:14, WEB) Trust and obey Yahweh.

https://x.com/reformeddoc/status/1812301156929994999?s=61 Enemies who are killed are people who are then rendered unable to repent. Don’t kill your enemy. Love your enemy. Pray for him. Pray for her. Pray for them. Do not repay evil with evil. Repay evil with good.

A message to Muslims / Islam (“The religion of peace”) from Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, the Son of the living God; in me: “Treat others as you would have others treat you.” If you love Jesus, listen to Jesus preach.

Listening to Paul preach is listening to Jesus preach in Paul, is listening to God preach in Jesus. “Don’t listen to Jesus preach” -> the devil whispering in our ears.

The gospel of God, the gospel that Jesus preached, the gospel of the kingdom, the gospel of peace, is the gospel that Paul (and all of the other Apostles) preached.

“A sermon is not a lecture. It is not absorbing trivia. It is a heart-shaking assault on darkness and the very gates of hell, trumpeted forth so that sinners tremble and saints quake in wonder.” - Michael Reeves Peace (shalom) is light. War (milhama) is darkness. The gospel of the kingdom...

“Too long have I lived among those who hate peace. I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.” (Psalm 120:6-7, NET) In 1869 the Russian author Leo Tolstoy had published a novel titled War and Peace. What a pity, the word order in the title. How true, though, the word order is in this...

“Do you feel the world is broken? We do. Do you feel the shadows deepen? We do. But do you know that all the dark won’t stop the light getting through? … Do you wish that you could see it all made new? … Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted...

“One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God’s promises.” - John Piper

We live in an evil age and it’s going to get worse, not better. The coming age - the Messiah’s return and reign on the earth - is where the primitive Christian hope is fixed.

“4. Individualism The question as usually posed assumes that the decision and what happens are individual matters. Not only does this make the ‘What if …?’ situation quite unrepresentative of the social and institutional dimensions of war; it even makes it untrue for any particular case. The...