There is No Unity in Darkness

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When Jesus and His disciples came to Jerusalem near the time of Passover, He entered into God’s Temple and found moneychangers who were taking advantage of others. They took currency from others who were travelling there, and from those who were purchasing materials for offerings. They even required a yearly tax during this time from every Jew, whether they were rich or dirt poor! This was an act of fraud, and Jesus exposed it for what it was.

He made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple—oxen, sheep, doves and all. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and dumped out their profits on the ground. He flipped over the chairs of those who sold doves, and said, “My house is a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves” (Compare Matthew 21:12-13, Mark 11:15-18, and John 2:13-17). It was crystal clear that He did not accept what was actually taking place behind the scenes.

Ephesians 5:8-13 says: “Once you lived in the dark, but now the Lord has filled you with the light. Live as children who have light. Light produces everything that is good, that has God’s approval, and that is true. Determine which things please the Lord. Have nothing to do with the useless works that darkness produces. Instead, expose them for what they are” (God's Word Translation).

God searches the dark places of our hearts and tests our minds (Jeremiah 17:9-10). In our lives, if we accept and go along with sin like it isn’t there, we conceal darkness, deceive ourselves, and cannot be truly unified with God or one another—whether we realize it or not.

John wrote: “This is the message we have heard from him (Christ) and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son purifies us from all sin” (1 John 1:5-7, NIV). So let us all turn over any hidden tables of deceit and darkness in our hearts and be unified to God and with one another, through the light and mercy of Jesus Christ.