The Prince Of Division?

Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. Luke 12:51

This morning with but a few words I can become to some a flaming liberal Christian, while with those same words become an intolerant fundamentalist Christian to others. I will not attempt to write those words lest I break apart from the strain of conflicting opinion this morning! It may seem a little funny that some of us may have thought that these words of Jesus in our verse today would somehow pass over the Church, maybe even our particular little church. Division, we don't want no stinking division; the Lord Jesus is supposed to be the Prince of Peace, not division! And yet, from what may be the most recent writing of the Bible, if AD 95 can be called recent, John wrote to seven churches in Asia Minor, and they were all different. What! Already? Ha, Mary Magdalene met the risen Jesus outside the tomb that first morning, and the disciples did not believe her story. Yes, division came that quickly.

And still, the Lord will bring us all back together in Him, and He will be the Prince of Peace, Isaiah foretold it! (9:6)

Bucky