AFA believes that you cannot serve two masters
In order to serve God we can not serve anyone else. At least not in the sense that we serve God. When the Devil tempted Jesus, he offered him the kingdoms of the world. All this if je would serv Satan, This was not a complete submission however. It was simply give Satan honor and Glory. But Christ quoted the Torah stating that is God alone that we serve.
The God of the Bible has an odd identification. "Jealous" He wants mankind's devotion to be above al other things. This is not because God is needy for affection. Instead it is due to the fact that mankind is in spiritual to an exclusive relationship with God. However these needs are not necessarily clearly understood in the human heart. Replacements for a personal relationship with god are often identified as idolatry. Moreover, idolatry is not only a fallacy within man , but an opening for parasites within.
We call these parasites demons.
In the political world there is an effect of the demonic. German philosophers called it Zeitgeist or "The Spirit of the age". When movements grow, the fanatism is quick to stampede across civilization.
In our Americas currency it says "One nation under God". This is so that the nation does not become one nation over God. Government has often been an idol. Whether the start of Babylon through Nimrod or it's ancient peak through Nebuchadnezzar The Tyrant is the idol, while the idol is the Tyrant.
Government is a necessary evil which suppresses the uprising of pure evil.
But this battle must begin in the human heart. If our lives are in submission to God, then we have no other master and have found liberty.
We encourage this privately, but also we opposed the other master publicly. When we see a zeitgeist, for instance communism, we recognize it as such because it declares itself over God denying religious liberty. It is war that we conduct in words and in prayers in hopes of not resorting to the ministry of the sword in war. Christ was never naive, He encouraged his disciples to be armed for the sake of defending their homes. Thought he was strict to discourage them from abusing such power. As long as peace is obtainable we seek it. But this is only won in the victory of the human heart.
as such the Christian must return to the one Lord Jesus and seek no other master, because He is also our friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Monday, November 6, 2023
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