July 26 Wisdom Keys

 *EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️

Tue/26th/July/2022

*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach) 

_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_

*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (138)*

_"Whoever is not with Me is against Me, and whoever does not gather with Me scatters"_ (Matthew 12:30). Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for accusing Him of casting out demons by the power of satan. Jesus came to earth to gather citizens for the Kingdom of God by the power of the Holy Spirit (Mat 12:28). Those who receive Him by faith will be rescued from satan's domain of darkness and delivered to Jesus' Kingdom of Light (Col 1:13).

Contrary to the Pharisees' charge, Jesus is declaring to them and the listening crowds just how deeply He is working against satan. Now Jesus looks the Pharisees in the eyes and draws a line in the sand. Whoever is not with Him in this work He is doing is, by definition, against Him. Whoever does not help Him in His mission to gather citizens into His Kingdom is guilty of scattering them. That means that the Pharisees, in their conspiracy to destroy Jesus, have put themselves against the Holy Spirit and the Kingdom of God, with satan, they stand against the work of God. 

Jesus makes this absolute statement as a warning to all who hear Him. Nobody can remain neutral on the issue of Jesus (Acts 4:12). He demands full acceptance and participation in His mission from those who are with Him. Anyone who does not join Him is on the other side, no matter how much he or she may wish not to have an opinion. Christ is the Good Shepherd, that gather His sheep to Himself, and into His fold, by the external ministry of the Word, and internal efficacy of His Spirit and grace. 

Satan is the wolf that catches and scatters the sheep, and seeks to kill and destroy them: and since there's such an open war proclaimed and carried on between Christ and the devil, none ought to be neutral; whoever is not on the side of Christ, is reckoned as an enemy. And whoever is not concerned by prayer, or preaching, or other means to gather souls to His Word and ordinances, and to His Church, and to Himself, is deemed by Christ a scatterer of the sheep. 

*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️

_Christ is the Good Shepherd that gathers His sheep to Himself and into His fold; by the external ministry of the Word, and internal efficacy of His Spirit and grace._ 

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