Matthew 26
26-29 (New International Version)
26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”
27 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 29 I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
Christ is and was the New Covenant between God and man. Christ gave a lot of lessons missing in today's culture. Greed is good now and we see that with the fighting to retain the tax cuts for rich people at the same time some politicians are talking about ending a lot of programs average Americans need and the poor need even more. There was a time when people would be ashamed to call themselves Christian and then fight against the poor for the sake of the rich.
The average citizen of this country needed jobs but some politicians were allowed to just stop the bills from being voted on in order to help them and help small businesses hire workers back. They needed help to make it when they couldn't find jobs, had to live off of unemployment checks when they wanted to work but then saw no jobs coming while their checks stopped coming.
Taking away a right from people they view as sinful is another thing that some in this country got wrong because there is a double standard against what is thought of as an acceptable sin and one that is just too sinful to allow. Sex outside of marriage is a sin according to the bible but when some people get married over and over again, that is a sin in the bible as well as having an affair or just sleeping around, but we allow them as long as they are with members of different sexes. Many quote from the Old Testament about gay relationships and they use the words of St. Paul but then they ignore the rest that would apply to their own sin. While we do not make it illegal to have sex without being married or make it illegal to get a divorce, some want to make it illegal for two women or two men to have a relationship no matter how devoted they are to each other because it is viewed as a sin in their eyes. All of this yet Christ did not say anything about gays even though we know from historical accounts there were gay people walking on the earth. Even with the woman accused of adultery, Christ stopped the mob from stoning her to death, but we forget that He did not condemn her.
So they justify hating someone using Leviticus when it was also written that eating shellfish was an abomination just as wearing cloths made out of different fabrics. Why is it they don't live up to everything else that is written in the same book they love to quote?
If you read the words of Christ there is something that should jump out at you right away. That Christ was all about taking care of the poor and not judging them, that the rich were getting their reward now while serving the master of wealth instead of their fellow man and that we are to love one another instead of condemning them.
There are some talking about the debt our kids will inherit but they don't talk about our kids not having a home because it was just foreclosed on because Mom and Dad lost their jobs or how today they are living in shelters.
They don't talk about how they cannot go to the doctor to stay well getting check ups or how they have to wait to see if it passes before their parents have to take them to the emergency room because they can't afford to pay for the insurance to take care of them today. Or about their eduction so that they can build their own future and have a better life than their parents have today. Some common need to be able to see a doctor is being part of a heated debate people want to take away? This is about insurance for heaven's sake yet others talk about a debt generations away when their lives are falling apart today?
Some people don't want to pay any taxes at all yet they receive social security checks, get government health insurance under Medicare and Medicaid or the VA, all tax payer funded programs and they still want police, fire and emergency responders along with roads that are not filled with potholes, bridges that aren't falling apart, clean water to drink and medications that are safe to take because of the FDA, another government program watching over our people. They want safe food to eat but they don't want to pay for the bill to get it. They want a strong military but don't want to pay for the care of the troops being sent to do it or take care of the veterans who did it and paid the price with their bodies and minds.
Christ said in Mark 12
(King James Version)
17And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.
When politicians decided to just borrow money to give to the rich with tax cuts, they said it would help give people jobs but we lost more jobs doing this after we gained jobs by ending the tax breaks for the rich under Clinton. When you bring this fact up to them they talk about how he cheated on his wife while most of us were working and buying houses and putting our kids education into a plan to get them into college. That was the future we were worried about but today some want us to fear a Bogeyman so we won't see what is behind the door we really need to be afraid of.
They didn't pay for the tax cuts but they want us to pay for them when they don't help us by taking away what we need today to survive. They didn't pay for the wars or even put them into a budget but then complained when President Obama thought they were important enough to include which drove up the real debt instead of hiding it. They didn't want to pay for the wounded two wars were making any more than they wanted to pay for the veterans other wars wounded or made ill because contractors didn't care about chemical exposures adding to the risk they were taking on.
See we can make things really simple instead of just using a few words here or there that may sound good at the moment or we can make things better by actually thinking about them.
For me, I'll take what Christ said any day over what some people claiming to be Christian have to say about what He fought against and died for! If you want to fight for the rich, then you fight against Him. If you want to hate, then you fight against Him. If politicians fight against the majority of the people in this country for the sake of them rich, then they are serving the rich as their master and not taking care of the people who voted for them. So who will your congressman/woman fight for? Whose side are they really on?
Matthew 25
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
What did you learn in church today? Have you been living up to it or have you been living for the other master?
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