Does Jesus Wish to Unite Everyone? (TMF:1439)

Thursday, August 20, 2020
Peace to Live By: Does Jesus Wish to Unite Everyone? (TMF:1439) - Daniel Litton
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       Now, let’s leave the Sermon on the Mount and consider our next hard passage, this time found in Matthew 10. Go to verse 34, and we’ll pick up there. The passage states: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” (Matthew 10:34-39, ESV). A lot of people have a misperception of Jesus that he is all love, and wants to unite everybody in the world. This, however, is a lie from Satan. As we just read, we see here that Jesus warns us that his coming to earth—his fulfillment of the Jewish law—is not to unite everyone.