The Division

God rose up the prophet Elijah and said stop sitting on the fence. If the Lord is God then serve Him. If Baal and the false gods are god then serve them [1 Kg 18:21]. But make up your minds. Get on either one side or the other. Elijah speaking the word of the Lord insisted there be a great division. And when Jesus Christ came into the world, as the Gospel of John tells us, this was the verdict, this was the judgment, and this was the separation. That the light came into the world but the people loved darkness. So you have two sides. I have not come to bring peace, the Lord Jesus said, but division. And he said that division would run right through the family [Matthew 10:34]. The letter to the Hebrews says the division that the word of God brings runs right through the center of our own hearts. The word of God is sharper than a two edged sword dividing the human heart because either we serve the Lord or we don’t [Hebrew 4:12]. So then we come to Matthew 25:31, “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. Before Him will be gathered all the nations, and He will separate”. You can’t be lukewarm. You can’t have it both ways with God. It just doesn’t work. Have we failed to respond to the word of God?