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Jesus is supposed to be the one we follow in his footsteps. He’s god, he’s almighty. He doesn’t need weapons to protect himself as he controls what we can’t.

When I heard from God himself he told me I didn’t need to bring my messenger bag that I use to carry a Planner, and my trauma kit- the Trauma kit being the #1 thing I carry with me.

I’ve spent 5 years studying conceal carry, learning the ins and outs, training, learning how to protect people and save lives.

Now the Holy Spirit is telling me to forget everything I’ve ever learned. I have to learn from it now, and I’ve taken the past few months studying Dave Ramsey to get my financial plan on track, my conceal carry stuff up to date. I’m unsure of what it is telling me, and it’s a tough internal battle.

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:rofl: Even after more then 2000 years… :roll_eyes:

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A machete certainly can be used as a weapon, especially to sever the servant’s ear----something Jesus would have foreseen.

I don’t think the Romans would even allow Jews to possess actual swords.

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Your interpretation is incomplete. The exact same word, μάχαιρα, is used many times in the New Testament to refer to swords, i.e., armaments, not just machetes to clear out brush.

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I agree. I was merely offering an alternative perspective. I do believe that, while He did not advocate violence, I do believe He understood circumstances in which it may be necessary. The church didn’t always see it that way, however. It was not until the late 1000’s, at the beginning of the crusades, when the church sanctioned “righteous violence”. There are still many Christians who believe Jesus promoted complete pacifism. I, however, am not one of them.

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You are correct. While there are still Christians who claim Jesus promoted pacifism, I believe He understood better than we ever could how violence can be a necessary evil.

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Some here, probably many will call BS on this but I think this one possible explanation.
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least we forget…

and

the comments are often worth reading…

and there are many more of such video’s out there…

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I took a part time job and soon after the office the office hired a Jezebel. She wanted and tried to take over the office. I told her to slow down, I wasn’t used to that pace and her attitude. I told her to slow down and she laughed in my face. I thought about what to say all night and the next morning I unloaded on her. I was polite but firm and direct. First thing she did was cry and then went after my job. I quit because I didn’t need a job. She quit soon afterwards because I exposed her and how she operated.

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Another piece of biblical trivia.

The word “Palestine” is descended from the word “Philistines”.

The Philistines were the Old Testament sworn enemies of Israel.

Interesting, no??

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I am starting to like Isaiah 8:12, but am not sure it means what I think it means.

Do not call conspiracy
everything this people calls a conspiracy;
do not fear what they fear,
and do not dread it.

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I love a happy ending.

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Verse of the day on my iPad. Is that a coincidence, or do you have the app as well?

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religion of peace?

In January 2012, ISIS fighters invaded the area where Samia’s sister, Rajaa, lived with her husband, Fouad, and their infant daughter. Rajaa learned that the Islamists had a list of Christians’ names to target for execution.

The following month, the area around Rajaa’s house was consumed by a full-scale battle. When extremists shot out the windows in their home, Fouad told Rajaa to take their baby and hide while he went outside to fight.

Fouad was wounded and captured by ISIS militants. They injected diesel fuel into his veins and left him on the porch of his house so his family would witness his agony. In great pain and struggling to breathe, he was able to tell Rajaa what had happened before he died.

“They attacked him because he was Christian,” Rajaa said.

Rajaa took her baby and fled to her parents’ house, moving in with them and her sister, Samia.

As ISIS fighters gained control of more territory, the two sisters and their family were again in great danger. The family was forced to flee.

After walking for about a week with a 5-month-old baby and their elderly parents, they finally reached a neighboring country, where they received emergency housing and basic supplies.

For two years, the family lived in a tent at a refugee camp, where Rajaa and Samia’s father died of a stroke. Most of the other refugees were Muslims who didn’t accept them. But with help from the global body of Christ, they eventually found a more secure place to live.

A local pastor also started teaching them more about the Bible. “When the pastor told us all the Good News, I felt like I am a little baby,” Rajaa said. “I was really born again.”

Samia experienced a similar revival of faith.

The two sisters, along with their pastor, now regularly deliver aid and share the gospel with Muslim refugees. They hope, someday, to return to their Syrian homeland.

“We want to go back and tell them about Jesus,” they told their pastor. They hope to somehow utilize their parents’ bombed, roofless home.

Despite, and partly as a result of, their deep suffering and personal loss, the sisters long to share the hope of Christ with their countrymen who are in desperate need of reconciliation with one another and the God who loves them.

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“Does anyone suppose that our Lord’s hearers understood him to mean that if a homicidal maniac, attempting to murder a third party, tried to knock me out of the way, I must stand aside and let him get his victim? I think it impossible that they could have so understood him. I believe the meaning of the words was perfectly clear – insofar as you are simply an angry man who has been hurt, mortify your anger and do not strike back. If however, your motives are other than egoistic retaliation, then not only are you free to protect yourself and others, rather it is your responsibility to do so.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, “Why I Am Not A Pacifist.”

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