So I won’t watch another terrorist video if I can help it, and recommend that you don’t either. But since this is a blog about Christ, I do want to ask the question, what does Jesus have to say about the beheading of an innocent man by religious zealots?
To those who follow a religion that
teaches beheading someone is a good and justifiable action:
“You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” John 8:44
“And the King will answer them,
'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,
you did it to me.' "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart
from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his
angels.'" Matthew 25:40-41
To those of us who follow Christ:
“If the world hates you, know that it has
hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love
you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of
the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you:
‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will
also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all
these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not
know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have
been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me
hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else
did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me
and my Father." John 15:18-24
“I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! Luke 12:4-5
To everyone:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” John 3:16-18
“Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! Revelation 22:20
