Chapter 23

"Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Killer of prophets, abuser of the messengers of God! How often I’ve ached to embrace your children, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings—and you wouldn’t let me."

Human intelligence will always want to crown itself king over all intelligence, more so to those around, be it your friends, workmates, or family. We always want to be the most intelligent in the group. Unfortunately, this pursuit of group recognition comes at a heavy cost: CONFORMITY. In order for you to be the best in your circle, you have to know the latest public whim, songs, and be "politically correct" to the ever-changing politics.

We can all read Matthew 23:37 and say, "Me? I would never kill the messengers God sent to me". Truth is, some who would commit these atrocious acts were sub-continuously/continuously seeking public validation, one that came at a cost of that kind of conformity.

Countless times, people have told me "No one deserves hell, Humans have been wronged by God or God is unjust. This is so funny coming from us [the creation dead in sin, that resists God on every turn]

Let us not reject the messengers, prophets, specific situations, and people God sends to us; we might be directly fighting His warm embrace. Truth is, if we are not covered in the embrace of God and filled by His spirit, then we will be covered by something else and filled by other spirits

Genesis 19:5 We all remember the story of the angels who went to visit Lot, and as they were eating, the whole town came to Lot’s door and demanded the "visitors to come out" so that they may "know them [rape them]". The state of our current world is so deplorable, anyone using this time to judge their eternal intelligence is by definition lacking in intelligence.

Conformity not only [by definition] leads to the death of the conformer, but it also leads to the death of the conformer’s purpose, life, goals, and vision.  This is because they have taken up the mob mentality and are now defined by the current whim of society. We can clearly see how this [conformity] has now become its own religion. In fact, it is more of a cult as it seeks separation from what defines you [family, parents, and ultimately God]. This is how some are able to so blindly commit spiritual suicide and hang their heads on the altar of "this is what 9 out of 10 people say in my class, so they are right."

Our prayer today is that God you may open our eyes, we want to see you Jesus, we pray that you may give us the strength to resist conforming to the current times, help us not to be so blind to chase away those you send to us, help us not to so end our spiritual lives on the altar of public satisfaction, In Jesus name, Amen.

"Jesus help us not to blindly commit spiritual suicide on the altar of public satisfaction"