Loving Like God

The following is a journey of going through Jay’s posts and finding references to “Babylon”.  It was an enlightening path to take.  I hope you find it to be profitable as well…

“The citizenship of the Kingdom of God is composed of lovers. The citizenship of earthly kingdoms, and the prostitute with whom they keep company, “Babylon the Great, mother of Harlots,” is made up of merchants of one kind or another, but all with an agenda of getting.”   ~ http://bit.ly/1a3GDsT

“Getting out of Babylon, it seems, is a call to every one of us, but where are we to go if we are given no alternative? Does “the gospel” consign us to some kind of mental holding pattern until Jesus comes back? Why should people living in darkness want a piece of that action?”

We need to live in the Spirit’s alternative to Babylon; we need to live there now. My experience tells me that this is well within reach of the faith once delivered to the saints, and still available even in our own day. What we are presently calling “church” isn’t fooling anyone, except perhaps ourselves.”  ~ http://bit.ly/1fMAad3

“If those who are His are going to be called out of Babylon, they must have a clearer understanding, not only of that from which they are being called out, but that into which they are being called.  As it is, the saints seem to be continually called from one Babylon to another, by one blind guide to the next, and the only things that change are the male egos being gratified. And, in our own day, even female egos are beginning to get in on the act.

I confess again, that I may not know the Father’s timing, but for me, I think that this has gone on long enough.  My heart’s desire is for the city of God’s making, not the cities of man’s doing.” ~ http://bit.ly/175v2r8

“I have no business trying to call God’s people out of Babylon, until I am manifestly living somewhere else. The People of God need an alternative place to live.  I call that place, ‘relationships that come from God.’  ~ http://bit.ly/MEyWRA

“Are we prepared to do whatever is necessary to get the objects of God’s affection out of Babylon, and Babylon out of the objects of God’s affection?”  ~http://bit.ly/18yVyfI

Short and simple, but an early post of Jay’s worth visiting again…

——————————

Current Events – The View From Here: BORN IN WOUNDEDNESS

There are essentially two kinds of woundedness; human woundedness, and Divine woundedness.  “The Mark of Cain” was placed on the first of the wounding.  Cain was an older brother displaced by a younger one.  Beginning with Hagar, and Ishmael, Islam was born in woundedness, (rejection).  The perspective, understanding, and conversation of woundedness is easily detected by the discerning ear.  Human wounding is the fruit of its own fallenness.  Kingdoms born of human wounding make bad choices – choices that take us down rather than raise us up.

The Kingdom of God is born of Divine wounding.

The difference is that The King was:

“… pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep,
have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way;
and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
~Isaiah 53:5, 6

One more observation: All religion rooted in law, rather than “loving like God”, is wounded and wounding.  When Christianity “forgot the height from which it had fallen,” it too became wounded and wounding.  Revelation 2:5

Original comments, or new ones below…

“To date, the crash and burn rate among leaders in the “church” has become epidemic, even to the inclusion of child molestation. This suggests to me that, where chemistry is concerned, denial is not the answer. I believe that “getting the point” is.  And, having gotten the point, knowing who you are in relationship to others is also core, and Jesus must be Lord of that, Lord of relationship. What is calling itself “church” makes great boasts about its capacity for charismatic knowing of ministry gifts, but has not yet seen that, charismatic knowing where relationships are concerned is just as important, and perhaps even more foundational. Before Jesus gifted those who were His, He knew that they were His as a gift from God.”

~ Jay Ferris