Kung-Fu films - Spiritual lessons
I 've been watching Kung Fu films from childhood. Jackie Chan , Jet li and other obscure but classic actors give
almost the same story repeatedly.
The typical story line goes this way. The hero is a playful young man who knows kung fu but is not a an expert . The bad guy with the long hanging eye brow fights with and kills one of the family members/friend of the hero. The hero seeks to take revenge but get badly beaten up by the bad guy with hanging eye brows. As he lays unconscious , he is saved by a kung fu expert who lives in the forest in isolation. He treats his wounds like a good samaritan and then teaches the hero so that he becomes well trained and disciplined to take on the bad guy and defeat him. The expert puts him through severe discipline and training and prepares him to meet his foe.
The hero meets the bad guy with hanging eye brows and then takes revenge for the death of his family member's/ /friend's death and the film ends.
Spiritual lessons -
1. Devil defeats you easily initially when you are a immature christian.You get badly hit.
2. God then counsels you and trains you to say NO to sin. He puts you through tough discipline and refines you so that you become prepared to defeat the devil.
3. After considerable training in holiness , you start defeating the devil and start living a victorious christian life.
4. As there was no short cut for the hero of the movie but to undergo discipline and training , there are no shortcuts to holiness . Spiritual disciplines are a must . Only a trained ,conditioned and spirit filled Christian can live a victorious christian life.
5. Instead of revenge , the christian wins by forgiving , reconciling and loving the offenders. That needs a lot of training.
almost the same story repeatedly.
The typical story line goes this way. The hero is a playful young man who knows kung fu but is not a an expert . The bad guy with the long hanging eye brow fights with and kills one of the family members/friend of the hero. The hero seeks to take revenge but get badly beaten up by the bad guy with hanging eye brows. As he lays unconscious , he is saved by a kung fu expert who lives in the forest in isolation. He treats his wounds like a good samaritan and then teaches the hero so that he becomes well trained and disciplined to take on the bad guy and defeat him. The expert puts him through severe discipline and training and prepares him to meet his foe.
The hero meets the bad guy with hanging eye brows and then takes revenge for the death of his family member's/ /friend's death and the film ends.
Spiritual lessons -
1. Devil defeats you easily initially when you are a immature christian.You get badly hit.
2. God then counsels you and trains you to say NO to sin. He puts you through tough discipline and refines you so that you become prepared to defeat the devil.
Hero training to win with master
4. As there was no short cut for the hero of the movie but to undergo discipline and training , there are no shortcuts to holiness . Spiritual disciplines are a must . Only a trained ,conditioned and spirit filled Christian can live a victorious christian life.
5. Instead of revenge , the christian wins by forgiving , reconciling and loving the offenders. That needs a lot of training.
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