I am a Jesus pusher!!! You might push aside Jesus’ instruction and take the self-centered approach, saying, “I’ll try my best, but no one is perfect.” Living with a reconciling spirit in yourself and enduring the difficulty of your adversaries without becoming one is a difficult issue. Jesus focused on “in danger of the judgment.” The consequence of murder in your life has the same consequence as anger. The Greek word “enochos,” translated as in danger, comes from the Greek word “enecho,” meaning “to hold in or to be snared.” The Greek word “krisis,” translated as judgment, often expresses the final Day of Judgment. Jesus gave content to this with a statement, “shall be in danger of hell fire.” The order of the words in the Greek language is “into” (eis), “the” (ten), “hell” (greennan) “the” (tou) “fire” (puros). This statement contains some of the most severe words of Jesus warning about the consequences of self-centeredness, the demonic nature. The issue of not reconciling with your brother is not about a rule but a state of being that will not let us reconcile. If my brother becomes an adversary, I must not dwell in a state of being that will not agree with him. In other words, a state of being that fights back and becomes his adversary.
This state of being an adversary eventually becomes “hell fire.” Could it be that the state of hell is a person being consumed by the hell fire and anger of his self-centeredness? Jesus calls us to a nature change that transpires because we mourn our helplessness, and Jesus fills us with Himself. This filling propels us into reconciliation with our brother. We may have adversaries, but we can never be one. Throughout our lives, meekness, fullness, mercy, purity, peace, and joy flow through us as Kingdom people. You are the Kingdom of God in your world! I am a Jesus pusher!!!