The Cross

Even Jesus Christ on earth, He was unable to take up His own cross, due to His injuries and tiredness, the Cross is heavy for Him to bear at one time on the journey to Calvary. Another man on the street was called to carry Jesus' cross. This man is called "Simon," (Matthew 27:32), where is that Simon in our Churches today? be a Simon today. Jesus was injured, tired, trapped by the armies, punished for all mankind, fulfilling God's salvation plan.

Another man was carrying His cross! Lord's cross even was carried by a man, what about you? Are you a brother's keeper? Or you are putting extra heavy loads on us?

There is an old pastor I knew, few days ago, he taught his younger elders and pastors and preachers to be quarrelsome, murmuring that the brothers who are reading Chinese Union Version are not spiritual and not wise enough like the KJV readers, so the old pastor continue to pursue the Chinese Bible readers and the pastors. He claimed he had found a perfect copy of Bible from reading the KJV, he said the perfect Bible is hidden under KJV, he said the perfect Bible is the underlying Hebrew and Greek text where the KJV Bible was translated from. This is quite obvious a lie, hard to believe, unless they provide solid proof. But they cannot provide solid proof, and the churches split because of the his theory. They had overlooked the cross Jesus bear for them! They put heavy burden to those who are following Christ. That is why the denomination stopped growing like last time.

Are you a brother's keeper? No, some of us are acting like the robbers who had robbed the man on the way to Jericho, the robbers bitten the man, half death, until the good Samaritan came to rescue and help the poor fellow. (Luke 10:33)

A few minor copy mistake did not defile the whole Holy Bible! The CUV is a Holy Bible! What defile a man? Does CUV defile a man? No! Does CUV carrying the Gospel message? Yes! Does CUV preaches and teaches about Christ, yes!

And the Charismatic on the other hand, pursuing people to speak in tongue, they forgot that the Bible also teaching we must pray with our understanding too. (1 Corinthians 14:15) I wish the Charismatic does not overlooked that the gift of speaking in tongue is only for self edification and uttering mystery! The church needed to hear sermon! The cross of Jesus is our glory!

I pray Conservative and Charismatic churches may reconcile in the Cross of Jesus. Amen. I am undone and a useless man on the way, if I do not take up my cross to follow Jesus. May God have mercy on me.