Building Up in a Broken Down World

17 April 70 CE, The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem, by David Roberts (1850)

As He was going out of the temple, one of His disciples *said to Him, “Teacher, behold what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” 2 And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another which will not be torn down.”

Mark 13:1-2 

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

 Ephesians 2:20-22

Fathom this…Jesus, Yeshua, the Messiah rejected by the religious and political elite of the day. With His disciples He is weaving through the crowded Temple Court to exit Jerusalem through one of the gates of the Eastern Wall. The apocalyptic truth, Jesus is the chosen Chief Cornerstone, the firm foundation of the ekklesia/the church.  The entire superstructure begins (Cornerstone) and ends (Capstone) with Him with shouts of “grace, grace to it!”  In this moment, He is simultaneously  building up the New Emerging Temple while He is prophesying the Destruction of the Second Temple.  As the Wise Master-builder, for three years, He has been fitting “living stones” (the disciples) together with Himself. The soon to be  apostles are star-struck by the massive stones and ornate buildings…while walking and talking through the streets of Jerusalem,  and climbing the Mount of Olives. Jesus is proactively fitting together and building   the most durable gathering of mankind for all the ages…the Church. Invisibly,  Jesus is building His church in the shadow of a doomed religious edifice, a failing hybrid monster of political, religious, military and economic structures. In forty years, The Jerusalem of His day will be crushed by 80,000 Roman soldiers. However, This Old Jerusalem will eventually be replaced with the New Jerusalem descending  from heaven at the end of the age like a beautifully adorned bride on her wedding day (Rev.21:1-2)!

Flashback to 1969-1970…As a 7- year old, I’m standing on a scaffold 8’ feet off the ground constructed along the westside of a brick house my dad and my brothers, John and Steve, are building.  John is mixing the cement, Steve is wheelbarrowing the cement and shoveling it up on to  the scaffold that me and my dad are on. In his spare time, my dad (an engineer for the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service), a civil engineer, is tediously and accurately laying each brick in place with the use of a trowel and mason’s string line pulled horizontally just above the last row of brick.  I can still feel the Pueblo springtime cold nippy wind blowing around my neck. My big bruder John’s face was ashen from the cement powder swirling around his body as the cement mixer grinded away. I can see my dad with his black frame glasses, his weathered construction hands and a drip of nasal snot hanging on the tip of his nose.  My simple singular job was to hand him an individual brick over and over again.  On that scaffold we did not talk much, I simply watched him carefully and I learned to hand him a brick at the right time and the right place without a single word from him…I  knew him, what he was doing and what my job was. My brother’s and I were sons and slaves! My dad was the Pharaoh and we were building the Great Pyramid of John Langskov brick by brick. In fact, we were racing the union mason’s across the street and we were faster. My dad was a fierce competitor in all spheres of life.

The Langskov House 1969 in Pueblo, Colorado (Left to Right: Steve, Dad, Jeff, Dave (Master-carpenter) and John)

The Great House of the Langskov took 1 year to build….hahahaha.  The Great Pyramid took 20 years to build.  The Great Wall of China stretched out over 200 years.  The Great House of the Langskov,  the Great Pyramid and Chinese Great Wall stand today.  Solomon’s Temple took 7 years to build (completed in (957 BC) but was destroyed in 586 B.C. by the Babylonians. Seventy years later (first wave of POW’s from Judah was around 604-606 B.C.) a group of exiles returned from Babylon and eventually finished the Second Temple (aka Zerubbabel’s Temple) in 516 B.C. after a 16 year delay. The principal leaders for this Restoration Temple were the governor Zerubbabel, Joshua the High Priest and the prophets Haggai and Zecheriah (Ezra 5:2).  All  ministry  in the Church is to be led by Jesus Christ, the King, the High Priest and the Prophet. Jesus, as the King of kings,  has all authority and power to rule; He is our sinless sacrifice, High Priest and Intercessor between us and the Father; He is the infallible Word of God who fully explains the Godhead…Listen to Him!

As Apocalyptic-Disciples we possess true hope that expects things to get worse before they radically are transformed for His highest good. We know “good will triumph over evil.” We prepare our spirit to be ready to do His will and make a difference in simple tasks of love each day. We value people above the things of this world that is passing away.

  • Shake up/down: Political, religious, and economic systems will ultimately fail humanity…they will collapse under the judgement of God.  As needed, Pray you will disentangle yourself from these false gospels and shakeable alliances of peace and prosperity.

  • Shake-off: Let go of any inbred pessimism grounded in the failure of broken systems, fake news, conspiracy theories, shipwrecked  relationships and personal failures. Let His redemption wrap you in a warm garment of  present hope and future release of purpose. Lift up your head for your redemption is drawing near!  

  • Shake-out: Hand someone a brick that will make them stronger and wiser! Find one simple task and do it over and over until you build a wall of salvation around yourself and others! Only speak words that edify in love!

First Impression vs. Divine Impression

The first step of Apocalyptic-Discpleship  is to begin asking Jesus what IMPRESSES HIM. The second step is to become aware what impresses us most and why? 

A model of Herod’s Temple created by Israeli historian and archaeologist Michael Avi-Yonah in 1966. This view would be a probable look from the slope of the Mount of Olives before the Romans destroyed the Temple in 70 AD.

41 And He sat down opposite the treasury, and began observing how the people were putting money into the treasury; and many rich people were putting in large sums. 42 A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amount to a cent. 43 Calling His disciples to Him, He said to them, “Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the contributors to the treasury; 44 for they all put in out of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, all she had to live on.” 

Mark 12:41-44 (NASB)

“As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!” 

Mark 13:1 (NIV)

The prime directive of Jesus is to “IMPRESS US WITH HIS IMAGE”…that is to say, “conform us to His image”!  A “First Impression” is what we think about a person when we first encounter them or meet them. This First Impression can be an evaluation based on a brief conversation, a physical glimpse or distant gaze. Anyone who reads the Gospels for the first time would come to a First Impression about Jesus that He is a contemplative, a friend of sinners, a great communicator, compassionate, good, loving, forgiving, intense at times and He does not trust religious leaders.  His First Impression brings us back to Him as Lord and Savior to make an Eternal-Impression on us!

Basically, God in Jesus  has employed all His knowledge and all His power toward one essential mission… ‘pour all the broken pieces of Jeff’s________(add your name) spirit, soul and body  into the perfect mold of Jesus Christ’.  The real kicker is you have to create a hot enough fire to melt down all the broken pieces until Jeff_______(add your name) becomes purified  molten liquid, fluid enough to be transformed from the inside out…unfortunately this refining process is repeated over and over again!  Apocalyptic-Discipleship  is a call to pressure and fire…metamorphosis (Rom.8:29; 2 Cor.3:18)!  

We become what we behold, what we behold, we eventually worship.  

‘Apolcalyptic-Discipleship’ is Jesus calling a small group  of men or women to Himself to share life together with a common mission.   However, AD(Apocalyptic-Discipleship/Disciple) is a two-way street. Jesus calls us to Himself to “observe” and “learn” what is important to Him…giving secretly, cheerfully and giving our all!   The keen penetrating  insight of Jesus into religious life is the perspective we need to cultivate.  Jesus is a people-watcher, a people-person.  The Master already taught you can’t serve God and Mammon (money) because you will despise one or the other. The problem is the “love of money” not money in and  of itself.  Now Jesus was intensely contemplating all the people giving offerings  at the treasury-boxes.  When large gifts were given trumpets would be sounded and all heads would turn to see who exactly just gave a big donation to the Temple Foundation. 

Click Link below for a Short Clip on the Widow’s Mite

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/bible-videos/videos/jesus-teaches-about-the-widows-mites?lang=eng

Conversely, the two-way street of following Jesus, involves us calling out to Jesus to get His attention in order to  “look” at what impresses or influences  us.  This crucial second level communication of AD’s is where we learn ‘discernment’ to determine how we best steward our time, talents and treasures. The many good things begin to fade as the most excellent ways of God emerge for us!  Discernment for wise choices  and “discernment of spirits” is a critical apocalyptic discipline and spiritual-gift to be developed for the end of the age because religious deception will be so prevalent. 

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ; 11 having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. (Phil.1:9-11)

A wise man once said to me, “we build churches and then they build us.”  If I understood him correctly, he was saying to me be careful Jeff  to not allow church buildings, budgets, projects, programs capture your attention more than the people they are meant to serve and help.  I confess I like things, I appreciate architecture, I enjoy observing nature at all levels of flora, fauna and geology.  When bored, one of my favorite things to do is watch  predators hunt prey on YouTube.  Currently, I am desperately trying to be more powerful in my love as a son, a father, a friend, a husband and a brother!

Jesus points out people…”this widow”, we tend to point out things “Look at these massive stones and wonderful buildings”.  AD’s are more focused on loving people by using things, as opposed to, loving things and using people. All the “things”…all the stuff in this world is falling apart day by day. Our bodies are becoming tattered tents destined to ashes and dust.  The human race is created in the likeness of God, therefore, human beings are ‘eternal’. As Apocalyptic-Disciples (AD’s) we must bring a quality of being to them born of God’s Spirit. We must seek to observe people and determine exactly what it is that they need from God and then seek to bring that to them in a spirit of servanthood and love.  We must first learn to observe, then to listen, then to speak life-giving words and serve with Holy Spirit strength. 

The Lord God has given Me the tongue of disciples,

That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word.

He awakens Me morning by morning,

He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

The Lord God has opened My ear;

And I was not disobedient

Nor did I turn back. (Isa.50:4-5)

The most important ‘temple treasury’ is the one located in your heart…in your spirit. Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Our body may or may not be ‘impressive’ by the world’s standard, but the Holy Spirit desires  to fill our hearts with the eternal  treasures of heaven, of wisdom, of knowledge, of love, compassion, forgiveness etc. The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve us and lay his life down as a ransom for us (Mk.10:45).  

Lenten Reflection:

  • Shake-up/down: Pray your eyes will be opened to what ‘impresses’ Jesus. Talk to Him about what is influencing you and ask for His perspective.

  • Shake-off: What experience or endeavor or accomplishment have you allowed to heavily  influence your behavior or lifestyle  that is temporal in nature?  This may or may not be your endeavor or accomplishment. 

  • Shake-out:  Go and find someone and tell them about how they impressed you with a Christ-like action. Further, ask God to help you “give your all” for Him like the poor widow.

The Sermon on the Mount of Olives & the Call to Apocalyptic-Discipleship

The Mount of Olives Viewed from the Eastern Wall of Jerusalem in the 21st Century. Jesus would have taught about His Second Coming from this mountain two days before He was rejected and crucified in Jerusalem.(Mark 13) 

       “3 And as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” Matthew 24:3

Today is Ash Wednesday.  Ash Wednesday is built on the tradition of imposing ashes on the forehead of the Christian as a sign of repentance and faith in God through Jesus Christ. I remember as a young minister my responsibility was to gather the ‘Palm branches’ our congregation waived on Palm Sunday and place them in a bag for storage. Nearly a year later,  the night before Ash Wednesday, I would burn those branches (if I could find the bag) and prepare the ashes to wipe across the foreheads of our congregation as they took Holy Communion. 

The ashes were symbolic of the confessed sins of omission and commission that we had committed the previous year. Like Peter, our boastings often become the basis of our confession of falling short. Ash Wednesday became the gate of entering into a 40-day season of recentering my life upon the life, ministry and person of Jesus. Lent, in its truest sense, is both commemoration and a  participation in the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness overcoming the world, the flesh and the devil in order to prepare for the public phase of His ministry inaugurated in the Galilee.  Lent ends on Palm Sunday with the beginning of Holy Week.

The Lenten season is never to be a lifeless tradition to replace a lifestyle of repentance and confession. When we confess our sins to God He is faithful to cleanse us and forgive us on any day of the year. The value is found in the “intentionality” of a protracted season of focus on the transformative power of Jesus by His Holy Spirit in us. “Specificity” in our spiritual growth adds focus to His particular work in our heart, mind, will, emotions and body. For example, if we have identified a stronghold of timidity in our soul, we can ‘intentionally’ and ‘specifically’ ask for the help of the Spirit of Jesus to drive this ‘cowardice’ from us to be replaced with bold-love!

I have chosen the Mark 13:1-37 to serve as a Lenten backdrop, spiritual stair-master or template of transformative fellowship with Jesus  for Lent 2021. This Olivet Discourse was given while Jesus sat privately on the western slope Mount of Olives overlooking the ancient city of Jerusalem’s eastern wall. This teaching likely happened at Sunset or in the early evening.

Please read Mark 13 silently, audibly and in various translations over the next several days and weeks. His words are spirit and life to the soul.  You can also read Matthew 24-25 and Luke 21 which are parallel passages which give details Mark does not include and vice versa. Read the events leading up to the Olivet Discourse beginning in Mark 10-16.  You will notice the Sermon on the Mount of Olives is the Last Great Discourse of Jesus other than John 14-17 (which took place likely between during or shortly after the Lord’s Supper and before Gethsamane).  

Therefore, figuratively, over the next 40 days we will climb the Mount of Olives, step by step, stone by stone, verse by verse from the 13th chapter of Mark. There are thirty-seven verses in this chapter that Jesus taught which unfold a kingdom culture and a  lifestyle which we can initiate as citizens of heaven on earth!  The Chief Cornerstone, Jesus, is the firm foundation that provides the immovable and eternal nature of the kingdom of God in a ‘shakeable’ world. The more we internalize this teaching in obedience the more stable and productive we will be for His kingdom in the difficult days unfolding in our world today. 

We must build discernment of the times, be found as faithful servants and stewards when Jesus returns at the end of the age!  This is the simply purpose of the Sermon on the Mount of Olives.

Our goal will be to build on the high ground of the  ‘unshakeable’ kingdom of God.  We will ask the Holy Spirit each day to “ create in us a clean heart”…to “restore the joy of our salvation” and to “renew an upright spirit in us” in the midst of crooked, dark and  crumbling civilization. 

At the end of each biblical devotion, I will suggest one simple prayer-action and ask two questions to facilitate intentional and specific interaction with our Lord Jesus Christ:

1. Shake-down/up: Find a place of solitude each day and pray your life will be marked with the unshakeable characteristics of the  kingdom of God in Jesus Christ revealed in each verse. For example, “the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Rom.14:17).  Pray you will yield to the Holy Spirit to cultivate and build “joy” into your spirit and responses to life challenges. 

  1. Shake-off: During this season of Lent, what habit(s) can I shed or starve or crucify to redirect my time, my talent and my treasure toward the things of God? For example, ‘shake-off’ the spirit of heaviness and put on the garment of praise!

  1.  Shake-out: (Like a salt-shaker)…Today, help me to speak a word or do a good deed that will strengthen someone to consider Jesus and release  His unshakeable kingdom into their lives?

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Holy Hope!

“See how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope set on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.”

1 John 3:1-3

The First Advent of Jesus Christ was focused on the love of the Father, the hate of the world, sin, righteousness, the children of Light, the children of darkness, the pure Son of God and the devil (1 John 3:4-10).  The devil should be included in nativity scenes, lurking in the shadows of Bethlehem with the body of a dragon and the face of Herod.  In a jealous rage Herod slaughtered all male children 2 years old and younger.  This is right out of the playbook of Satan…genocide…whatever you can’t control and is a threat to your power and control ….steal, kill and destroy.  

However, I want to simply focus on the Second Advent and 1 John 3:1-3 to bring into our view the framework and focus of hope in the midst of our journey, spiritual warfare and adversity!  Check out the simple profound truths that are embedded in the rock of God’s word…

1. As children of God, we are currently being loved PERFECTLY by the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!  No matter how difficult or disappointing your current relationship(s) may be…the simple truth is YOUR truest and deepest  needs are being considered, quantified and satisfied by the Spirit of God the Father (v1a).  

Rejoice and Receive His Love Now! 

2. The world is trying to build your ‘avatar’ through an algorithm.  Your likes, dislikes, shopping trends, reading habits…what we surf on the NET can become a NET and TURF that the devil uses to entangle us and crowd out pure and simple devotion to Jesus.  However, the truth is your new/divine nature from the nature of Jesus is not penetrable or knowable…it is this nature we must cultivate into mature love and godliness. God’s knowledge of you trumps the limited intelligence  the demonic or world may have on you!  The world underestimated Jesus and the very tool of crucifixion became the ultimate instrument of love, releasing forgiveness and reconciliation to the Father, the destruction of the devil,  the victory of the resurrection and the hope of His return. (v1b)

Submit to God, break out of the mold of the world, Resist the devil and he will flee! 

  1.  The resurrection of Jesus is the best forecast of what you and your future looks like! Horoscopes, endless self-help/enhancement books, body modifications, pills, potions, oils etc., will never provide genuine confidence. The best version of yourself will only be realized at the resurrection. When our faith is replaced with the Epiphany of Jesus Christ at His Second Advent, we shall become in that moment similiar to Him.  We will be freed from evil, death, sickness and failure for all eternity!  This is your future. (v2)

Lift up your head, your Redemption draws near!

  1. Hope in Jesus  is the most powerful moral, mental, emotional, physical and spiritual cleansing agent in the known universe!  Biblical Hope builds a Highway of Holiness to immediately access the resources of Heaven’s Throne of Grace and Mercy in time of need. Condemnation builds a mote around a castle of darkness and despair. Healing Hope is like the leukocytes (white blood cells) in our blood. WBC’s are the cells of the immune system that are involved in protecting the body against both infectious disease and foreign invaders. Hope attacks despair, disappointment, doubt, unhinged anger, strife, fear…the list could go on and on!  Have you ever said to yourself, “ When  I grow up I want to be like him/her?”  ‘Confident expectation’ built on the character of God and His word best defines hope.  As the beloved in Christ we don’t embrace ‘luck’ or ‘wishful thinking’ to navigate the disappointments or triumphs of life.  The hope of the child of God is an anchor that is fastened in the heavens, in the throne room of God Himself…and this anchor will hold fast in any raging storm!  We can grow up, change, and transition to a higher level and quality of living by EXCLUSIVELY putting our trust and hope in the Pure One! 

Are you dirty? Do you feel soiled by this world? Are you battle weary? Are you in a job above or below your pay grade?  Has love in and around you evaporated like a dried up reservoir?  Do you think nobody really ‘sees’  or ‘knows, you? 

Let us bow down on our knees, humble ourselves before the Father….Take courage and receive a fresh impartation of hope and love from the Spirit of God. You are perfectly loved, you belong to the family of God, you are known deeply, your potential will in truth be realized…your are pure as the white driven snow of Christmas and your future is filled with an ultimate transformation likened unto the resurrection of our coming Lord Jesus Christ.

“5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us…13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”  (Romans 5:5; 15:13)

Christ in you, the Hope of Glory

-The Apostle Paul

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Unhinged Gratitude

This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. (Hebrews 11:27)

Recent 2020 Earthquake in Turkey

The climate in current American politics is “unhinged”.  Since the advent of a Donald Trump Presidency  into Washington D.C. the word “unhinged” has dramatically increased in the current vocabulary of the day. Trump’s presence and leadership style has for whatever reason upset the status quo of Washington bureaucrats on both sides of the isle.

Unhinged, an adjective, is defined as “highly disturbed, unstable, or distraught”; the verb form of “ to unhinge” may be defined as either “to make unstable” or “to remove from the hinges.” (Miriam-Webster Dictionary).  

The earliest record (1643) we have of the use of “unhinged” flanks the tumultuous days of England that birthed the Puritian movement to flee to America and worship God in a new found freedom. Read carefully the 17th century English media comment on the political climate of the day:

Our sad Case is now such, That we have an Incensed God; an angry King; a threatening Councell; a heady Clergy; a divided Nobility; a discontented Gentry; a distempered People; a distracted Religion; an unhinged State … a defection from the Principles of sound Policy; a Parliament which should be the Redresse of all these, made quite otherwise, to us, by some that have abused it: and generally such a conspiracy; such a complying of ill Symptomes; that even Miracles must be wrought, or else we perish.

— Thomas Povey, The moderator expecting sudden peace, or certaine ruine, 1643

Our day is a similiar repeat of the unrest of our birth mother England.  The difference will be, “How will the church worldwide respond to the 21st century  instability of the USA?” 

We must accept the truth, regardless of who wins the Presidency or the majority in the Senate, the Constitution of the United States and the United States of America is “shakeable”, it will NOT endure, it will NOT stand…it will totter and tip over. On the other hand, the word of God and His Kingdom is firmly enduring forever. 

The Christian should not be surprised by the instability of governments. Consider… the conception of the nation of Israel occurred under a Pharaoh who favored Joseph and his family (Genesis 45:7-10).  Four-Hundred years later…The birth of the nation of Israel happened under a “Pharaoh who knew NOT Joseph” (Ex.1:8).  At the best times, the horse drawn chariots of world governments are escorting us to the Promise Land (Gen.50:9)….in the worst of times, they are hunting God’s people down like animals or criminals in the wilderness, on the streets and even in homes (Ex.14:9).

“Then the Egyptians chased after them with all the horses and chariotsof Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and they overtook them camping by the sea,“

In fact, our gratitude and confidence is built on the expectation that what can be shaken will be shaken.  Our gratitude becomes more focused and our worship is purified when things are falling apart around us! 

The Favor of men will come and go like the rain and sunshine. But God the Father’s favor found in the person of Jesus Christ and His Righteous Kingdom endures all seasons and forever…”to the praise of His glorious grace” (Eph.1:6). 

Those of us, who have come to accept the inevitable disappointment of the institutions of man, will be the most grateful and worshipful.

We must realize the fiery Presence of God will sweep away all the feeble efforts of human institutions to govern the huddled masses. The rejection of Judeo-Christian principles becomes the fuel that feeds our expectation for the ultimate victory of the kingdom of God in the earth through Jesus Christ the Lord of lords and King of kings.

Hebrews 12:25-29 See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven. 26 And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” 27 This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; 29 for our God is a consuming fire.

Thanksgiving Day is around the corner…be sure to discuss with family and friends what you are GRATEFUL for in this season!!

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