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January 21, 2024 – Matthew 5:5 – Blessed are the Gentle, for they Shall Inherit the Earth

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Christian, if you are being told or tempted to take up arms to advance the Christian worldview, then know and understand that to do so is to go against what Jesus taught. Jesus taught that the gentle will inherit the earth. It is the teaching of the world that says that the violent are those who inherit the earth. Know Christian that if you take up arms to advance what you think is for Jesus and His kingdom you are not going to inherit the earth. Focus on the word gentle, or as your bible may translate it as humble or meek. Are you considering or even doing something that can be called gentle or meek?

Christian Nationalism, even in non-violent forms, is a view that totally contradicts the plainest of teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ as He taught that His kingdom is not of this world [John 18:36]. There can never be any nationality that is Christian, simply because no physical nation can produce children of God [Romans 9:8].

Nationalities have and will attempt to say that they are Christian, but it is only the universal and invisible church of the Lord Jesus Christ that alone is a nationality that is Christian [1 Peter 2:9-10]. Territorial views of Christianity must be rejected in the strongest of terms and only the biblical understanding of the separation of church and state must be adhered to. Many fail to understand this because they hold to wrong views of the church itself, assuming that the baptism of infants creates inclusion of non-regenerate membership in the church. The church is itself not created by carnal means or of this world, all of which is tainted by man’s fall into sin. Everyone who is a member of the universal and invisible church of the Lord Jesus Christ are saved and there is not a single person in the true church, which is spiritual, that has entered its holy membership by any other means than regeneration [Hebrews 8:11].

All visible forms of the church will necessarily imperfectly include tares among the wheat and goats among the sheep [Matthew]. True Christianity will always be characterized with the correct understanding of its true self in a world that frequently misrepresents Christianity. This is an appeal to true Christians to not be influenced by a worldly form of Christianity that does not follow Jesus. Jesus said that the meek shall inherit the earth.

Any attempt to create a Christian nation in any other form than the church will only result in either a merely nominal form, in which necessarily the majority of its members are not truly God’s people, or it will result in a legalistic and Pharisaical state, akin to Calvin’s Geneva, in which oppression was the result of pursing “the glory of God.”

Lastly, consider that Jesus did not come into the world to judge the world but to save it [John 3:16-21]. If we take up arms against our enemies then how can say that we are also about the same purpose of seeing people saved. If Jesus did not come into the world to destroy it neither should we.