We are surrounded by Marketing Plans.
1. We each have a Personal Marketing Plan. We each advertise the values we embrace. We choose activities, hair, clothes, and products. They show our values to those around us.
2. Commercial Marketing Plans sell goods and services to consumers. Electric cars appeal to one Market Segment. Organic Food appeals to another. Every product and service is presented to carefully identified groups of purchasers by Marketing Plans.
3. Government Marketing Plans justify taking money from taxpayers to benefit government supporters. Government Marketing Plans are the same. “You must believe that we are here to help you. If you obey us, we will not kill you.”
4. Religious Marketing Plans are invented by ambitious men. They are all the same: “If you give me money, I will praise you and get you into Heaven.”
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Two thousand years ago, The Prophesied Messiah appeared. He told us to focus on getting our immortal souls into Heaven. To get into Heaven, we must “love God and your neighbor” more than earthly concerns.
Those in Marketing Plan Establishments saw the threat. Prosperous Scribes, Pharisees, Herodians, and Sadducees were outraged!
“Who does this ‘Jesus’ think He is! The structures around our Marketing Plans must be protected. We have to make a living! We have to kill Him!”
So, they did.
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Jesus promised: “I come to divide.” He did. He put every person on earth into one of two groups. By saying “You are My friends if you obey My commands.”, every person on earth was either:
Among His obedient “friends”.
Or,
Among His disobedient enemies.
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His obedient “friends” obey His Only Church-Founding Decree:
“And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
All must choose. Him. Or, Marketing Plans.
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