AJ King

Witness. Christian. Storyteller. Writer

[Morgan Victoria @MorganHousley1]

Jesus didn't eat with sinners and tax collectors because He wanted to appear inclusive, tolerant, and accepting.

He ate with them to call them to a changed and fruitful life. To die to self and live for Him.

[Oliver Burdick @oliverburdick]

Not all heroes wear capes.

Mine carried a cross.

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The Sermon on the Mount is the most important theological speech ever delivered. Not because it is poetic. Not because it sounds spiritual. But because of what it dares to do. It takes a wrecking ball to every pathway humans normally use to feel righteous about themselves.

Before Jesus ever spoke on that mountain, something shocking had already happened in history. The Law of Moses had done what no other legal system in the ancient world dared to do. Every civilization punished actions: assault, theft, fraud. But Israel’s God went further. He outlawed desire itself.

“You shall not covet.”

No king in Babylon tried to legislate envy. No Pharaoh tried to punish inward greed. No empire in history ever criminalized thoughts. It’s impractical. It’s unpoliceable. It makes zero political sense. Unless the point of the law was never about external control in the first place. Unless the real battleground was always the heart.

That already makes the God of Israel unlike anything humans usually invent. Man-made gods bless instincts. They excuse appetites. They baptize ambition and call it divine favor. But YHWH did the opposite: He confronted the human heart itself and declared it accountable.

Then Jesus arrived.

And instead of loosening that standard, He took it beyond human reach.

“You’ve heard not to murder. But if you hate, you are guilty.”
“You’ve heard not to commit adultery. But if you lust, you are guilty.”

He doesn’t soften Moses. He detonates Moses inside the human soul.

Think about this with intellectual honesty. No religion humans invent works like this. If people build a faith system, they build one they can pass. One that gives moral achievement, self-satisfaction, spiritual status. Something that says, “You can do it if you try hard enough.”

Jesus torches that idea completely.

He shifts the moral courtroom into your conscience. He declares that guilt isn’t just what you’ve done but what you wanted to do. Suddenly no one is innocent anymore. Not prophets. Not priests. Not kings. Not you. Not me. Everyone stands exposed.

And here is the devastating brilliance of it: Christianity is the only religion that intentionally destroys self-righteousness as a design feature. It does not leave pride standing. It does not allow moral boasting. It pushes humanity to the terrifying realization that if salvation exists, it cannot come from human goodness at all.

Which is why the same Jesus who raised the law beyond human reach… went to the Cross.

The God who demanded holiness provided it Himself. The Judge stepped into the judgment. The Lawgiver bore the penalty of the lawbreakers. No tribe invents a God like this. No empire imagines a story like this. No human heart naturally writes a script where pride dies and grace wins.

The Sermon on the Mount did not come to inspire us. It came to strip us.
Then it led us to the only place hope could survive: “It is finished.”

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What made an angel salute poor virgin? 🔥

[Unapologetic @Unapologx]

The battle inside of you is proof that God’s Spirit is at work within you.

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You all need to listen to this powerful sermon by Pastor Dolapo Lawal.

It's called 'Genuine Repentance ' and you can find it on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

[AJ King @davidajstyles7]

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…For a moment, there is a silence
It is the silence of uncertainty
Filled with thunderous heartbeats
A moment of un-faith…

[AJ King @davidajstyles7]

I can guard Joey all day but you know who I can’t guard? THE LORD 😂😂😂😂

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This just gets funnier every time you watch it. 🤣🤣😭

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I beg you all in the Name of God, let’s not forget the 165 Children of St MARY Catholic School still in Captivity by Fulani Kidnappers

Please.

Please.

Lend your voices. Use your platforms. Keep demanding.👏🏾

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Bishop Schneider: "We must worship Christ, not 'Mother Earth', not icebergs, not LGBT ideology."

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On this day in 1998 Dreamworks released The Prince of Egypt, a groundbreaking mix of hand drawn art with early computer effects.

For this 'Parting the Red Sea' sequence it took them months to blend 2D animation with realistic water visuals. 🌊

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The first Christmas was equal parts miraculous and painfully human. The Messengers tells that story through the eyes of Mary and Joseph as they travel to Bethlehem and prepare for Jesus’ birth.

[AJ King @davidajstyles7]

The secret place

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There is no point getting into a relationship with someone you cannot marry.

[Oliver Burdick @oliverburdick]

There is no version of Christianity that permits you to continue sinning just because of God’s love for you.

True love inspires true obedience.

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Nobody Dies for a lie.

[AJ King @davidajstyles7]

@Ryder69396 @sola_chad The language He uses is quite clear, especially to the Jewish listeners. Hence why in the following verses, they were going to stone Him. He was claiming divinity - to be God. The language I AM is translated the same as the voice in the burning bush

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Actually, Solomon’s life and death teaches exactly the opposite of this. Please bear with me let me explain what I mean.

The story of his life and how he ended up actually serves as a deterrence, rather than an endorsement, in why marrying multiple wives and frolicking with many women just simply because you can afford to do so is a very destructive idea.

People only remember Solomon for his wealth, his many wives, his wisdom and his magnificent kingdom but many people are not aware of how badly his life was messed up in the end - basically because of those very many women and the kind of vain sensual sybaritic life he lived.

It may interest you that the life of King Solomon ended up in spiritual decline, enticement to idolatry and an eventual split of his once great kingdom - all direct consequences of his sexual recklessness and endless marriages to many women who ultimately turned him from God.

Long before “polycule” became a buzzword on Nigerian social media, Solomon had something far worse. He had wives, concubines, girlfriends, sarewagbas, and whatever else you can imagine. No matter how wild you think it is, Solomon did it.

Towards the end of his life,
Solomon said "I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil". Ecc2:10. He pursued a life of hedonistic material pleasure -using women as one of the means to this end. Any woman, or anything that promised pleasure, that he could imagine, he chased after. He had the money, the means, the power and the resources.

Yet after a life dedicated to hedonism and self seeking material pleasure, in the very next verse he said:
“Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun” Ecc2:11.

Ultimately what he found after dating and marrying all these women was that it was all nothing but futility and worthless vanity (that only compromised his heart, wrecked his commitment to God, and destroyed his kingdom).

So contrary to popular misconceptions,
The life of Solomon is actually a stern warning that a life dedicated to pursuing material pleasure and vain hedonistic sensual desires can only lead to chaos, regrets, and a destruction of one’s life achievements (which for him was collapse of a once-great kingdom).

So yes if a person is actually wise,
They will not live life like Solomon lived.
That is the whole point of Ecclesiastes.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.