The Character of Christ or of the World*
Shavuot or the Feast of Weeks is approaching, which we also know as Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out in spiritual tongues of fire upon the disciples in the upper room. This event followed the Feast of First Fruits, when Jesus was resurrected from the dead. As it is written in 1 Corinthians 15, both Christ and those who are in Christ are first fruits of the resurrection (v. 20-23). I am therefore concerned with the words and behavior of those professing Christ. Who are those who are truly in Christ? Should those who profess to be in Christ be calling for violence, revolution and a new civil war as I have heard them doing? How does Christ behave and speak? In Mt. 12, Jesus scolded the religious Pharisees saying: "O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out o...