The Ways of a Real Jedi

The Force in Star Wars® is a make-believe supernatural power that created all things. It is said that the mysterious ways of this Force can be learned and its powers used. Luke Skywalker, a Jedi Knight, learned the ways of the Force and used its power for good. Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith, used this power for evil.The Bible tells of a True Force

The Bible tells us that, aside from the make-believe Force of Star Wars, there is a True Force, who is the God of the Bible. He is the Creator of all things (John 1:3), the one God who is revealed to man in three persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 13:14).

If you are a real Jedi—a JEsus DIsciple—this article will be helpful to you, in that it touches upon truths about the True Force, about His Jedi, and about the ways of both.

The True Force

His nature
“God is love” (1 John 4:8). “God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all” (1 John 1 :5). “God is a consuming fire” (Hebrews 12:29) whose purity and righteousness demands the destruction of sin and sinners. “God is spirit” (John 4:24). God will always exist (Psalm 139:712). God is all-powerful (Jeremiah 32: 17, 27). God is all-knowing (1 John 3:20). God is all wise (Acts 15:18). God knows the future (1 John 3:20).

His morality
God is good (Psalm 136:1), and hates sin and sinners (Psalm 5:5, 6). God is holy (Revelation 4:8), impartial (1 Peter 1:17), just (Psalm 89:14), patient (Exodus 34:6,7), loving (1 John 4:8,16), merciful (Lamentations 3:22,23), truthful (Psalm 117:2), vengeful and wrathful toward His enemies (Deuteronomy 32:34-41). God’s ways are good (Psalm 136:1), perfect (Psalm 18:30), learnable (Psalm 86:11), righteous (Psalm 145:17), unlike man’s ways (Isaiah 55:8,9), everlasting (Habakkuk 3:6), inscrutable (Romans 11:33), righteous and true (Revelation 15:3).

The True Jedi

A True Jedi—JEsus DIsciple—is one chosen by God to become a new-hearted, new creation. That is, to become a "new man" species of humanity, a holy or righteous child of God who is no longer animated by natural life, but rather the eternal life of Christ Jesus. For further reading on this website: The Christian's New Heart.

This promise of God has been fulfilled in every true Jedi:

"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statues, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances" (God, from Ezekiel 36:26, 27).

"And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.... You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Jesus, from Mark 12:29, 30).

Walk in God’s ways
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments” (John 14:15). “His commandments are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3).

The Bible also tells of an evil or paraforce

He wants to become God
This paraforce, called Satan, the devil, and the Fallen Star, wants to make himself like God (Isaiah 14: 12-14) and is waging war against God (the True Force), His Son Jesus Christ (the Bright Morning Star), and all Jedi (JEsus DIsciples).

Satan is our enemy
The ways of Satan are harmful to us and never good. He hates us and wants to keep us away from God, truth and goodness (Revelation 12:7-12).

“Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour” (1 Peter 5:8).

Satan’s ways lead to hell
Satan’s evil and deceptive ways lead to unhappiness in this world and eternal suffering in hell (2 Thessalonians 2:12).

We were born under the evil power of Satan, who, for a short time, is the ruler of the world order (John 12:31),

We were born with:
Bodies that will die (Hebrews 9:27); spirits that are dead [separated from God] (John 3:1-7); souls that cause us to have evil thoughts and to do wrong (Romans 7:14-25).

God has provided a way to make our mortal bodies immortal, our dead spirits alive, and our sinful souls righteous.

Jesus is the only way to God

“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life;
no one comes to the Father, but through Me’ “ (John 14:6).

Jesus died in our place
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).

Jesus rose from the dead
“Christ died for our sins...He was buried...He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures...He appeared to Peter, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred...” (1 Corinthians 15:3-6).

At some point in life, a True Jedi recognizes that Christ Jesus is his Lord and Savior, and begins living in the truth and reality of that relationship.

“Everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die [spiritually, and therefore never separated from God]” (Jesus, from John 11:26).

Jesus is the source of eternal life
Through Jesus Christ, we experience spiritual rebirth (John 3:1-21), with His eternal life (1 John 5:11-13); and, when He returns, we will receive supernatural bodies (like His) that will never die, never be injured and never become ill (1 Corinthians 15:54, Revelation 21:3,4).

And the witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life (1 John 5:11-13).

Christ in you
If you are a True Jedi, you can know that the Spirit of Christ dwells in your heart (Ephesians 3:17).

You in Christ
Likewise, you can know that Christ took you out of Adam’s family and placed you in Christ Jesus and His family (1 Corinthians 15).

You have been saved from sin, the curse of the Law, and death
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death” (Romans 8:2; see also Revelation 1:6).

Jesus Christ will open the door of your heart to fellowship with Him
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock;” says Jesus, “if any one hears My voice and opens the door. I will come in to him” (Revelation 3:20).

Confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior
Tell Jesus, by talking to Him through prayer, in your own words, that you acknowledge Him as your Savior, Lord, and Life.

You are a member of “The Way”—the spiritual body of Christ, the true Church (see Acts 9:2; Romans 2:6). And remember that Christ lives in you, that your sins are forgiven, and that you have eternal life based on the New Covenant promise of God’s Word, the Bible.

The Ways of a Jedi

God’s ways can be learned and applied so that we might live holy lives as real Jedi saints, and thus glorify Christ through our lives.

(For further reading on this website: The Ways of the Heart).

Study the Bible
“All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16).

Walk in the Spirit
“When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth...and He will disclose to you what is to come” (John 16:13). “Walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh” (Galatians 5:16).

Follow godly counsel
“Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days” (Proverbs 19:20).

The Return of the True Force

Jesus Christ is coming back to planet earth:
“This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go to heaven” (Acts 1:11).

The whole world will see Him
“And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory” (Luke 21:27).

He will come for His Jedi
“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thessalonians 5:16,17).

Jesus will destroy Satan’s works
“The Son of God appeared for this purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8) and thus end the spiritual Star Wars.

Jesus will give new bodies to all His Jedi
He will give new “glorified” bodies such as His own to those believers who are alive when He returns, and to the dead in Christ who have been with Him in spirit (1 Corinthians 15).

Jesus will rule the world in love and peace
“And the government will rest on His shoulders; and His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6).

May the True Force be with you!

Frank Allnutt