I like watching Korean historical dramas. I like the tales of human struggle, where most of the time good overcomes evil. Yes, they show people suffering and way too much death, but it’s a dramatization of what may have happened in the distant past. The real people of that time have long since died, so I can follow the story without getting bothered too much by their misery. It does remind me to thank GOD for my blessings.
I’ve been watching a story about a King of Joseon fighting with the rich and powerful political leaders of his time. It’s amazing how his “Subjects” publicly honor the King but disobey his commands. It’s a rather typical K-Drama plot in which honor and righteousness is talked about but they steal, kill, and destroy in their fight for control. It’s clear that the rich and powerful want more wealth and power and don’t care about the poor and weak. With all the King goes through to get and keep his position, then battle his own people to get anything done, it makes me wonder why anyone would want to be the King.
That drama isn’t so far removed from what we see in “the Church” as a whole. We praise and glorify GOD, proclaiming “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive…honour, and glory, and blessing” (Rev 5:12 KJV) but don’t obey Him. We are told to love GOD and our neighbor (Mat 22:37 and 39) but we do neither. JESUS said “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned” (Mar 16:15-16 KJV). The Church doesn’t seem to be bothered that 150,000 people die each day and most “believeth not” and are “damned.”
JESUS said, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3 KJV) but we fight to keep our old life. We should be defending righteousness, but work for the thief who “cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” and against the King who “come that they might have life, and…more abundantly” (John 10:10 KJV).
With all JESUS had to go through to save us, why did He do it? It’s because “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved” (John 3:16 KJV).
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