Christians without borders, aliens in any land
Oct 7, 2015 01:25:50 #
1Peter2:3: I urge you as aliens and strangers in the world
No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier (2 Timothy 2:4).
Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. James 4:4
My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight John18:36
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15
"So what exactly does being worldly mean? We hear it in church all the time. This is the best definition that I have seen which I found in my Bible Dictionary
"Being worldly can be defined as partaking in the values, desires, perceptions, attitudes, and behavior that characterize unredeemed human cultures. The worldly person is one who is squeezed into the mold of the kosmos i.e. the world system or the worlds way of thinking, in contrast to one whose whole world view has been transformed by God (Rom 12:2). Worldliness is not necessarily a matter of participating in questionable activities or adopting certain styles of dress or appearance, as some christians in every generation have supposed. It is rather the acceptance of the values and assumptions of a society that has no place for God."
https://realchristianity.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/what-does-being-worldly-mean/
Philippians3:19: whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on worldly things. (20) For our citizenship is in heaven
The kingdom of God has no borders. To create or choose to live in a worldly border is to be fenced off from the kingdom of God.
There is no dual citizenship: that is a house divided. (Mark3:25)
Christians do not have nor should they be concerned with their rights. Religious freedom is only in Christ, in whom we are to live and move and have our being. No government can grant or take away that freedom. The Christians persecuted and murdered by Rome knew that freedom.
We have no rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: we are slaves to Christ. All is in his hands, not any Constitution.
Carl Knott:
"On the other hand, consider the gospel. How many of the basic problems of mankind does the gospel solve? Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things have passed away, behold, all things are become new (2 Cor. 5:17). What can repair marriages? The gospel. What can reform prisoners? The gospel. What can affect employer/employee relations? The gospel. What can guarantee the care of the elderly and sick? The gospel. Every time a person gets saved he becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit, and not only changes inwardly, but outwardly as well, and so his change affects those around him, permanently. Consider, then, which is the best investment of time regarding the world and its problems: Politics or the gospel? Politics cannot save souls or produce a truly better world to live in.
More laws! Better laws! Enforced laws! More law enforcers! they cry to us. Well, if these are the tools of the politicians, then they only make loud confession that politics is not working, or else why would such things be needed? You cannot eliminate sin or wickedness by legislation, but you can by salvation. Eliminate sin - that is a feat that the best of political scientists is absolutely powerless to achieve.
"No true Christian is in favor of any form of humanism or its creeds. On that we are agreed. However, it is a favorite approach of Christian political activists to alarm the Christian community with reports/statistics of how the humanists are taking over the government and what will happen as a result. They propose that we should all go to the polls and vote for the pro-Christian candidates to prevent this. The idea is to organize Christians as a powerful voting block. To this end they even produce reports and voting guides for Christians, giving the profiles of the views of different candidates on the issues. For example, they said we all should have voted for Reagan because he is for prayer in public schools and against abortion. So in not four, but eight years of President Reagan, which of those two very specific issues has been solved? What they couldn't tell you is that the President wouldn't do anything about those items, but that he would subject himself and the affairs of the nation he represents to such occult influence as astrology. That is just one example. However, the main problem is not the surprises that elected officials produce, but the basic idea of fighting humanism in government by what amounts to a Christian version of humanism - producing a man/men who have the answers. Does man have the answers?
No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier (2 Timothy 2:4).
Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. James 4:4
My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight John18:36
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15
"So what exactly does being worldly mean? We hear it in church all the time. This is the best definition that I have seen which I found in my Bible Dictionary
"Being worldly can be defined as partaking in the values, desires, perceptions, attitudes, and behavior that characterize unredeemed human cultures. The worldly person is one who is squeezed into the mold of the kosmos i.e. the world system or the worlds way of thinking, in contrast to one whose whole world view has been transformed by God (Rom 12:2). Worldliness is not necessarily a matter of participating in questionable activities or adopting certain styles of dress or appearance, as some christians in every generation have supposed. It is rather the acceptance of the values and assumptions of a society that has no place for God."
https://realchristianity.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/what-does-being-worldly-mean/
Philippians3:19: whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on worldly things. (20) For our citizenship is in heaven
The kingdom of God has no borders. To create or choose to live in a worldly border is to be fenced off from the kingdom of God.
There is no dual citizenship: that is a house divided. (Mark3:25)
Christians do not have nor should they be concerned with their rights. Religious freedom is only in Christ, in whom we are to live and move and have our being. No government can grant or take away that freedom. The Christians persecuted and murdered by Rome knew that freedom.
We have no rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: we are slaves to Christ. All is in his hands, not any Constitution.
Carl Knott:
"On the other hand, consider the gospel. How many of the basic problems of mankind does the gospel solve? Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things have passed away, behold, all things are become new (2 Cor. 5:17). What can repair marriages? The gospel. What can reform prisoners? The gospel. What can affect employer/employee relations? The gospel. What can guarantee the care of the elderly and sick? The gospel. Every time a person gets saved he becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit, and not only changes inwardly, but outwardly as well, and so his change affects those around him, permanently. Consider, then, which is the best investment of time regarding the world and its problems: Politics or the gospel? Politics cannot save souls or produce a truly better world to live in.
More laws! Better laws! Enforced laws! More law enforcers! they cry to us. Well, if these are the tools of the politicians, then they only make loud confession that politics is not working, or else why would such things be needed? You cannot eliminate sin or wickedness by legislation, but you can by salvation. Eliminate sin - that is a feat that the best of political scientists is absolutely powerless to achieve.
"No true Christian is in favor of any form of humanism or its creeds. On that we are agreed. However, it is a favorite approach of Christian political activists to alarm the Christian community with reports/statistics of how the humanists are taking over the government and what will happen as a result. They propose that we should all go to the polls and vote for the pro-Christian candidates to prevent this. The idea is to organize Christians as a powerful voting block. To this end they even produce reports and voting guides for Christians, giving the profiles of the views of different candidates on the issues. For example, they said we all should have voted for Reagan because he is for prayer in public schools and against abortion. So in not four, but eight years of President Reagan, which of those two very specific issues has been solved? What they couldn't tell you is that the President wouldn't do anything about those items, but that he would subject himself and the affairs of the nation he represents to such occult influence as astrology. That is just one example. However, the main problem is not the surprises that elected officials produce, but the basic idea of fighting humanism in government by what amounts to a Christian version of humanism - producing a man/men who have the answers. Does man have the answers?
Oct 8, 2015 01:21:25 #
Wow, no comments. It is probably as that coward and no mercy, armagedden (however he misspells it), says.
Oct 8, 2015 01:24:27 #
Be shallow like armagedden; read it for the author. Let it thus stand, unchallenged, as a eternal testimony of truth, Thank you.
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