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Muslim Producer to Bring 'The Passion' to France
Tue Mar 2, 7:05 AM ET
PARIS (Reuters) - French film buffs worried that anti-Semitism
charges could bar them from seeing Mel Gibson's (news)
"The Passion of the Christ" will get to see the movie after all
thanks to a Tunisian Muslim producer ready to distribute it.
This movie-mad country was rife with rumors last week that wary
distributors would boycott the film because it could spark
anti-Semitic violence, a problem haunting France's large Muslim
and Jewish minorities for several years.
The daily Le Figaro reported Tuesday that "The Passion" would
open in France on April 4, two days after it hits cinemas in
Spain and shortly before it reaches neighboring Italy and
Germany.
Tarak Ben Ammar, a major film broker with business ties to media
tycoon Rupert Murdoch and Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Bersluconi, told interviewers the film stressed forgiveness and
blamed the Romans rather than the Jews for Christ's death.
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Wednesday, February 25th, The Passion of the Christ was released. This movie can change your life,
and maybe even change the church. It has that kind of power. It can
do this because it will help to restore the cross as the center of our
lives - so central that we will begin to truly take the cross up daily
and carry it with us in all we do.
What we are doing on this earth is not about us - it is about Him. We
have been purchased with a price, the greatest price that could have
ever been paid - the life of the Son of God. We are not our own. We cannot
go on living for ourselves. Our lives must be centered around and motivated
by the Lord and His purposes.
We must behold the cross, and the price that He paid which demonstrates
like nothing else ever could just how much He loves us and how much
sin cost Him. This movie can help bring this reality back to our lives
and our message. There is no greater message than the cross. It is the
foundation on which everything else must be built, and if it is not
built on it rightly, then it is a weak foundation at best.
Also, if we are going to walk in truth we must be delivered from a great
source of deception - the tendency to get our understanding from the secular
media instead of seeing by and through the Holy Spirit. We must start
being discerning enough to recognize that when something becomes controversial
it is often because it is something of great importance from God.
Seeing By and Through the
Holy Spirit
It is the devil who operates through fear, innuendo, and hearsay; the
Lord has more class than that. When such controversy has been kicked
up about this movie, it is often (but not always) because there is something
very important from God which the devil is trying to turn us away from.
The controversy being stirred up about The Passion is actually from
the same spirit that persecuted and crucified the Lord.
This is not to imply that this is something especially embedded in the
Jewish people, but there are some Jewish extremists who are still subject
to this, just as there probably are in every people group. The extremists
who are attacking The Passion are motivated by the same anti-Christ
spirit that persecuted Christ. Some of the villains in this movie are
Jewish, but so is the greatest hero in the movie, and in all of eternity.
God came to us as a Jew! Not only was Christ Himself Jewish, the apostles,
prophets, and everyone who wrote that which is now canon Scripture were
Jews. All of those who were the greatest heroes in biblical history
were Jewish.
Our Greatest Blessing
Has Come From the Jewish People
Abraham was promised that his descendents would be a blessing to all
of the families on the face of the earth. And they, the Jewish people,
have been the greatest blessing to all of the families on the face of
the earth. We all owe the Jewish people more than we owe any other race,
culture, or people group on the planet.
We also need to understand that the Jewish people have been even more
persecuted by Christians than any other religion - beginning with Peter
the Hermit who led the first crusade, and formulated the diabolical
doctrine that the Jews should be killed to atone for Christ's death.
For nearly a thousand years they were under a continuous threat of annihilation
from those who called themselves Christians. They had their children
and property taken from them, they were forcibly baptized, and if they
refused, they were killed by those who called themselves Christians.
Many credit the doctrines of Martin Luther for the Holocaust they experienced
under the Nazis.
For this reason it is understandable that the Jewish people would have
a knee jerk reaction to anything Christian, and especially anything
that might again in any way incite the kind of persecution they suffered
for nearly a thousand years. What Christians did to the Jews in the
Middle Ages was far worse than the threats they now suffer from Islam,
and in many ways worse than even what happened to them under the Nazis.
By Your Love They Will Know
You
However, even though there is a need for understanding and repentance
on the part of Christians for the way the Jewish people have been treated
in the past, we cannot allow our own devotion to our faith to be controlled
by this. Many Jewish leaders also understand that their best friends,
now and throughout the Middle Ages, were Christians who were of a different
spirit. They know, but seldom fully understand, that these Christians
were not Christians because of their association with an institution,
but because of a deep personal devotion to Christ. Those Christians
who have this devotion have always had a deep love for the Jewish people
through whom their Savior came.
I know many true friends of the Jewish people, who are true Christians,
and are being offended by the Jewish response to The Passion. Others
are asking questions about the Jewish control of Hollywood, the news
media, and other such things that seem to be used to attack Mel Gibson,
and this movie. We must not let the reaction of the extremists on either
side drive a greater wedge between Christians and Jews. Our goal should
be to overcome evil with good. There are some practical ways we can
do this.
One way to do this is to contact the Jewish people you know, or who
you may not know but are in your community, and express your appreciation
for them, and the great blessing that the Jewish people have been to
us all. In spite of the terrible way that they have often been treated,
they have tended to be the best citizens and best neighbors in every
nation in which they have sojourned. I think it would be appropriate
to even send them a gift, or send an offering to the local synagogue.
Also, if you have the opportunity, tell them you are sorry for the way
they have been treated by those who have called themselves Christians - that
you do appreciate the great blessing they are to your community. I have
done this with remarkable results.
A Great Destiny
We also need to understand that it is the same anti-Christ spirit that
worked through those who often claimed to be Christians, which have
been seeking to destroy the Jewish people, that also worked through the
extremists among the Jewish people to persecute and crucify Christ.
The same spirit that sought to destroy Christ is so intent on destroying
the Jewish people because he knows the destiny of the Jewish people
at the end. They will not only embrace Christ but will become the "one
new man" (Ephesians 2:15) that Paul wrote about which will reveal Christ
so powerfully at the end of this age.
Because it is the same spirit that is persecuting both Jews and Christians,
some estimates are that just as many Christians died at the hands of
the Nazis as Jews. We do have the same enemy! For this reason the enemy's
greatest victory is to turn Christians against Jews, or Jews against
Christians. Let us determine that regardless of what the enemy tries
to do, we will not let this happen.
As we proceed toward the end of this age, there will be more and more
things arising that will try to divide Christians and Jews. The devil
is attempting to use this movie in that way. But its ultimate result
is actually going to give Christians a far greater appreciation of the
Jewish heroes of humanity. It will also give the Jews a far greater
understanding of true Christians, not just those who serve an institution
which claims to be Christian.
Let us learn from this lesson, and resolve not to respond, to react,
or to be controlled by the extremists on either side. The Christians
that are trying to use this present controversy to illuminate "Jewish
control" of the media are the same voices speaking through some of the
Jewish extremists, both of which are trying to cause a greater division.
Let us determine that we are going to use the whole thing to bring a
greater unity. Let's show our Jewish neighbors the true nature of Christ,
who loved both them and us so much that He went to the cross. That is
how true disciples will always be recognized.
"By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love
for one another" (John 13:34-35).
by Rick Joyner
Web: www.morningstarministries.org/
email: Mpiservice@aol.com
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"TURNING TROUBLES
INTO TRIUMPH" PART I
by Rick Joyner
2004 will be a year of knowing what's for; it will be a year for
understanding the ways and purposes of God. He will be pouring out
great understanding of the scriptures. Turn your criticism into
intercession. Everything that happens in your life is to help you
to be conformed into His Image; if you will change, then your circumstances
will change. There will be a new reformation of the Church.
"YOUR NEXT STEP"
by Steve Thompson
The Lord wants us to move forward individually & corporately, in
some cases, as we have began to enter in to our inheritance. God
wants us to enter into a new relationship with Him. As we move further
into the purposes of God, it will seem more natural and less supernatural
in experience. We should not be living hand to mouth.
"IT'S WORTH IT ALL"
by Kingsley Fletcher
Kingsley teaches on the trials of life and gives some examples of
his life. Kingsley is a pastor from Africa and he shares what he
came out of, ancestral worship, animal sacrifice, etc. This is a
message of hope in the midst of your trials. It's time for the Church
to become the salt of the earth
"CREATIVE RELEASE"
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Suzy teaches on how to help the creativity that the Lord has put
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"KNOWING JESUS AS KING"
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This teaching is on how many know Jesus as Lord, but that they need
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