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THE WATCHER DISCUSSES LIGHT AND DARKNESS…
HUMAN: “Jesus said ‘I am the light of the world’ did he not? But today we have so much knowledge and understanding—and what I would describe as enlightenment, so can that still be true?” WATCHER: “More true than ever.” HUMAN: “Oh…explain please.” WATCHER: “Well, have you considered the context in which he said those words? There was a display of darkness occurring at that’s very moment as he was speaking his light to people, early one morning near the temple.” HUMAN: “And what was the occurrence you speak of?” WATCHER: “Pharisees and scribes brought in a woman caught in adultery. They were ready to stone her but what they failed to see was that the motives of their dark hearts was as bad as, or perhaps worse than, her sin.” HUMAN: “And their motive was?” WATCHER: “Twofold, no threefold …to test Jesus and to find a means to accuse him. And—they tried to use the woman as a pawn for a game of ‘gotcha’ with Jesus. So there are at least three counts of darkness in their hearts against them.” HUMAN: “These were men who were pretending they were the light of the world?” WATCHER: “Aha…you’re getting it! And then he wrote their darkness on the ground and exposed it to them—and to the others—so that they stole wordlessly away.” HUMAN: “It’s like true Light revealed pretend light as actual darkness. Yes, of course…darkness is just absence of light isn’t it? They had no light within!” WATCHER: “Wonderful! Exactly so—and is why he then said to the gathered people, ‘I am the Light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of life!” HUMAN: “And today?” WATCHER: “Human hearts are the same—and, the more they shut out the true Light, the more desperately they try to manufacture their own light from the darkness within. Soon dark motives reveal themselves in virtue-signalling, hypocrisy, desire for attention and publicity, along with denigration of—or cancelling of others—most especially those who seek to walk by the true Light of the world. It’s also the reason Jesus said in another place, “If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” HUMAN: “Sigh…” (John Chapter 8) 
THE KINGDOM of GOD...FIRST! The Kingdom of God means his government as a present reality in a person’s life, in each ‘now’ moment. It comprised the core of Jesus’ teaching, ‘he went preaching the good news of the Kingdom’ (eg. Matthew 4:23). He desires that government to be embraced by every person because it is the regime designed for us, to bring us to the wholeness of who we were created to be; a home-coming to true self-hood. To arrive there is to arrive at peace. Only his government is capable of bringing us there; it is to come ‘Home’. Its alternative is self-government—which never brings us Home because we don’t know where it is. This is why Jesus said, “seek FIRST the Kingdom of God....and all the other things” (the things we worry about and think will bring us Home) “will be added.” Get that right and he will make everything else fall into place: That is his plan and his delight for you. It’s what he does! To one man Jesus said, “Follow me” and the man said, “let ME FIRST go and bury my father” (that is, wait until Dad dies and family affairs are tidy). Whilst that sounded responsible, the problem was the ME FIRST sentiment! He was not (as yet) prepared to believe that under new (and better) government, God would take care of him AND the ‘everything else.’ Another man said “Lord”, (yes he called him Lord!), “I will follow you, but let ME FIRST go and farewell those where I live.” Once again the ME FIRST prevented him starting the journey Home to who God intended him to become. Jesus went on to say that these men had proved themselves as yet, unfit for a Kingdom and Government that demands abdication of all ideas of self-government so that it CAN bring us Home! The first and big issue that will be dealt with in coming to Jesus, into his Kingdom and under his wonderful Government, is the ME FIRST issue. Actually, it’s the issue he will keep on dealing with throughout life with him, but ironically, as we keep choosing his Government over our own, he brings us Home! 
Genghis Khan or Joan of Arc?
Simple questions... If a man believes he is Genghis Khan or a woman thinks she is Joan of Arc...or for that matter, if a woman believes she is Genghis Khan etc., they are usually referred for treatment and therapy before more damage is done. Everyone would agree that it would do no good for doctors or helpers to provide the man who believes he’s Genghis Khan with a horse and a sword and an army of followers. On the other hand if a man with all the necessary anatomical components believes he is a woman today, why is it considered wrong or damaging to help them come to terms with that delusion/deception. And secondly, to make it worse, why do others deliberately join them in their delusion to aid and abet it! Are two or three or a hundred deceived people somehow better than one? All of us are deceived or deluded about one thing or another, but REAL transformation from any deception begins within and works out from there—and it’s on offer from the only One who has power to transform us in this way. And—to whom we are really meant to come and transition into, and not some warped counterfeit. It is Jesus Christ. He said and says, wonderful words (and backs them up with wonderful actions), like “COME TO ME all who are labouring and under oppression, and I will give you ease.” WE OF THE INCARNATION: for the Church to be as Jesus was, she must live where Jesus lived!
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