Who Stands to Lose the Most if there is Change?
As preachers of the gospel, we are to demonstrate the circle
of righteousness, not just to have it in our hearts, not just to have it in our
fellowship, or in our relationships with fellow Christians, but to demonstrate
it in our governments, suburban areas in our cities in our nations, and bring
this voice about this type of righteousness is established in large part,
through the demonstration of our own lives as we as we lay down our own
desires, our own greed, and whatever it might be and, and instead the
self-givers, giving into our community into the lives of our neighbors,
building that kindness building that restoration that peace into our
relationships and communities.
Without Jubilee, there will be violence and there will be
devastation and, all sorts of conflicts and destruction of communities that we
are seeing today that's why God instituted this in the Old Testament.
Recently we've seen real hope that these things can be
addressed, we never really thought there could be a hope, that the banks could
change and Jubilee could come. But recently we've heard chatter, or we've heard
certain people talking about the possibility of change.
Who stands to lose the most if there is change? I think the
people that stand to lose the most if we have peace in nations, is the munitions
industries. If we have cheaper medicines in nations, it’s the pharmaceutical
companies. If we stop this centralization of banking and begin to bring relief,
forgiveness of debt, where banks begin to work in the interest of local
communities, then these huge financial industries like the City of London and
others, stand to lose a lot from this.
What's exciting here is that we have at least a bit of hope
in Jubilee. We know how important this is for our nations, because we can institute
local jurisdictions, free of debt, proper economic policies at a local level,
then we can fix the environment, we can fix our relationships, we can heal, we
can give youth hope, we can bring peace, etc.
We've got to continue pressing on. We can't tell our youth, “that's
enough, be satisfied with what we have”. As fathers and mothers, we have to
press on into things that can deliver a better future for our children and
grandchildren and to the youth of tomorrow. We have the responsibility to do
that and to be a voice in the presence of these things and to demand change, demand
that our lives are not run by the selfish interest of the few.
So, the hope of redemption that Jesus gave and spoke to the
disciples in the first century, was the hope of eternal life of the resurrection,
but it is also hope that things will change the title production of that
generation did come to an end and there will be hope for the generations to
follow. We believe that God gives us today not only the hope of eternal life,
but also the peace in our communities, the hope of change, justice, mercy, and
righteousness.
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