"Familial Headship." What an interesting subject that might be, I thought, were it not so sad. Just as man has degraded every original intention of the Creator, so too do his perversions . . ..
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he shall not depart."
How can a holy scripture make me want to puke? Its because of the countless number of times Ive heard that verse quoted and demonized, err, sermonized rather: reality asks, how can we know which way our children are to go if we ourselves have not the way?
I suppose we could blame it all on the absence of true apostles within the church today.
Or we could blame it on ourselves by not heeding Jeremiahs warning as is expressed in Chapter Three of the book by the same name in the Bible, i.e. we have not turned to the Father with our whole heart in order that he would then feed us with knowledge and Wisdom and, therefor, understanding.
Found within our churches today are what I have fondly/sarcastically come to term "Pharisee children." We have taught our children the fulfilled, OT, misdirected towards us, Jewish law of the Ten Commandments, and wonder why they grow up to be, not those who deeply love the Lord Jesus, and their wives, from a pure heart, but self-righteous, snibbling, stoggily legalistic "Christians" who cannot build Gods Kingdom anymore than we could. As adults they become poor mates, powerless believers, and ineffective parents producing another generation of people who are even more self-serving than the parents - if that were possible.
Does anyone out there want to hear this? Could this in any way fathomable whatsoever be from the heart of our goody-two-shoed God?
If you answered yes or maybe, proceed. If no, go back to sleep and rest up, for tomorrow is Friday and theres much to do: go shopping at the mall, drop the kids off at self-defense class, go out to a nice dinner, pick up the theater tickets, prepare yet another erroneous teaching on the Ten Commandments for Sunday School (in the hopes at least our children might not grow up to be another Columbine shooter and embarrass us by exposing just how bad of parents and believers we are), etc., etc., i.e. all the things "Christian" couples and parents need to do to serve their Lord.
Just what "way should he go"?
There are no longer Ten Commandments required only of the Hebrew race. It failed. There are now Two Commandments required of the human race. Again we failed. We cannot obey them, because we do not appropriate the Graces required to perform them. So how can we, on an ongoing basis, know to remind our children:
"You did something bad today. You cannot be "good." Its impossible. All of us are born into sin, and we will always do bad things and think bad things. You are being punished for doing bad things, but God can also see your heart, and knows even if we as your parents can condition you to not do bad things, you are still going to think bad things. And when you grow up and mommy and daddy are no longer able to condition you and punish you, then you will fall under the authority of God. He, too, has a list of crimes and punishments. They are in place for your protection, as well as the protection of your mate, children you might have, and all other human beings of this planet. You cannot do, or even just think bad things, without it eventually negatively affecting other human beings who God loves just as much as He does you.
"And since God is not here in the flesh to love others, He needs us to do it for Him. If we do not allow God to rid us of those things which oppose His Love, and do not obtain the Graces needed to perform that Love for Him, then we are part of the worlds problem and are living in a constant state of opposing what God wants and needs to do on this planet.
"Johnny and Mary, today you will be punished for what you did. But tomorrow you will likely either do it again if conditions are right, or do something else thats bad, or maybe even repress your bad thoughts for a long time. But eventually they will slowly destroy your life. the only hope we have as people is to turn to the Heavenly father in utter failure of our attempts to be good, ask Him to show us those bad things in our heart, so we can then call upon Him in faith believing for that which we need to change."
Brethren, theres nothing new under the sun. Never has been. The patterns the world requires be set in place and obeyed are the same which were already established in the heavens. We are given as an example a Father who established the vision, just like a CEO or apostle, a Son who carried out His plan, and a Middle Manager who keeps it all rolling along on a day-to-day basis. Likewise, the family unit must also follow a chain-of-command.
Is the male head of household any different or of any greater equality in Gods eyes than the wife? No. Jesus fixed that once and for all. Just as the Father is no greater than the Son. But each has their purpose to fulfill. They are still One: they are of the same, or one, mind; they are of the same, or one, heart; they are perfectly equal. But all cannot be about the same business. Each by themselves cannot accomplish the fullness of what they can collectively. So while the earthly mind might intellectually deem the position and duties of one more important than another, in Truth, which is the true reality, each ones duties are perfectly equal in importance to the others. From heavens view, they are, collectively, one.
Of course, just as the rebellious and immature Christian cannot fathom how the Catholic down the street, or the too legalistic Baptist next door, or the liberal mainline Protestant across the alley, cannot possibly have been born-again and is therefor true brethren (even if perhaps the majority who attend their churches are not), and all of the same body, the one body of Christ, so too does God allow our minds to be boggled when we intellectually dissect the Trinity. They are One; we are one: no difference.
Yes, most of us men get married much too young in comparison to our maturity. We are much too selfish and self-centered in all we do. At other times we put our wives and/or children on too high a pedestal, not realizing children must fall in order they learn how to not trip, and wives also have their female egos which oppose the Gospel and must therefor not be fueled.
So how can a loving God possibly expect, much less command, a woman who is equal to be voluntarily in subjection to a husband who is likely a real jack a__? The same way a Jesus-God subjected Himself to the commands of the Father and allowed Himself slain: the unfeigned, supernaturally manifested fruits of the Spirit. It aint heaven yet.
"I can do ALL things through Christ . . .."
"[The supernatural and unconditional] Love [of God] NEVER fails."
". . . let it be the adorning of a Meek and quietspirit . . .[and this goes for you guys, too, for in the SPIRITUAL realm "theres neither male nor female."]."
"Men, love your wives [and stop being such a pompous jerk] . . .."
"Wives, love your husbands [and stop assisting that spirit of error/Jezebel spirit/anti-christ/whatever the name-of-the-month thing by even unconsciously placing upon your husbands a greater burden than they can possibly bear, thereby asking them to supplant God the Father who alone must be your Protector, the Provider of all your needs, etc. For] I am a jealous God" and "you shall have no other gods before Me."
Amen. Amen.
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he shall not depart."
How can a holy scripture make me want to puke? Its because of the countless number of times Ive heard that verse quoted and demonized, err, sermonized rather: reality asks, how can we know which way our children are to go if we ourselves have not the way?
I suppose we could blame it all on the absence of true apostles within the church today.
Or we could blame it on ourselves by not heeding Jeremiahs warning as is expressed in Chapter Three of the book by the same name in the Bible, i.e. we have not turned to the Father with our whole heart in order that he would then feed us with knowledge and Wisdom and, therefor, understanding.
Found within our churches today are what I have fondly/sarcastically come to term "Pharisee children." We have taught our children the fulfilled, OT, misdirected towards us, Jewish law of the Ten Commandments, and wonder why they grow up to be, not those who deeply love the Lord Jesus, and their wives, from a pure heart, but self-righteous, snibbling, stoggily legalistic "Christians" who cannot build Gods Kingdom anymore than we could. As adults they become poor mates, powerless believers, and ineffective parents producing another generation of people who are even more self-serving than the parents - if that were possible.
Does anyone out there want to hear this? Could this in any way fathomable whatsoever be from the heart of our goody-two-shoed God?
If you answered yes or maybe, proceed. If no, go back to sleep and rest up, for tomorrow is Friday and theres much to do: go shopping at the mall, drop the kids off at self-defense class, go out to a nice dinner, pick up the theater tickets, prepare yet another erroneous teaching on the Ten Commandments for Sunday School (in the hopes at least our children might not grow up to be another Columbine shooter and embarrass us by exposing just how bad of parents and believers we are), etc., etc., i.e. all the things "Christian" couples and parents need to do to serve their Lord.
Just what "way should he go"?
There are no longer Ten Commandments required only of the Hebrew race. It failed. There are now Two Commandments required of the human race. Again we failed. We cannot obey them, because we do not appropriate the Graces required to perform them. So how can we, on an ongoing basis, know to remind our children:
"You did something bad today. You cannot be "good." Its impossible. All of us are born into sin, and we will always do bad things and think bad things. You are being punished for doing bad things, but God can also see your heart, and knows even if we as your parents can condition you to not do bad things, you are still going to think bad things. And when you grow up and mommy and daddy are no longer able to condition you and punish you, then you will fall under the authority of God. He, too, has a list of crimes and punishments. They are in place for your protection, as well as the protection of your mate, children you might have, and all other human beings of this planet. You cannot do, or even just think bad things, without it eventually negatively affecting other human beings who God loves just as much as He does you.
"And since God is not here in the flesh to love others, He needs us to do it for Him. If we do not allow God to rid us of those things which oppose His Love, and do not obtain the Graces needed to perform that Love for Him, then we are part of the worlds problem and are living in a constant state of opposing what God wants and needs to do on this planet.
"Johnny and Mary, today you will be punished for what you did. But tomorrow you will likely either do it again if conditions are right, or do something else thats bad, or maybe even repress your bad thoughts for a long time. But eventually they will slowly destroy your life. the only hope we have as people is to turn to the Heavenly father in utter failure of our attempts to be good, ask Him to show us those bad things in our heart, so we can then call upon Him in faith believing for that which we need to change."
Brethren, theres nothing new under the sun. Never has been. The patterns the world requires be set in place and obeyed are the same which were already established in the heavens. We are given as an example a Father who established the vision, just like a CEO or apostle, a Son who carried out His plan, and a Middle Manager who keeps it all rolling along on a day-to-day basis. Likewise, the family unit must also follow a chain-of-command.
Is the male head of household any different or of any greater equality in Gods eyes than the wife? No. Jesus fixed that once and for all. Just as the Father is no greater than the Son. But each has their purpose to fulfill. They are still One: they are of the same, or one, mind; they are of the same, or one, heart; they are perfectly equal. But all cannot be about the same business. Each by themselves cannot accomplish the fullness of what they can collectively. So while the earthly mind might intellectually deem the position and duties of one more important than another, in Truth, which is the true reality, each ones duties are perfectly equal in importance to the others. From heavens view, they are, collectively, one.
Of course, just as the rebellious and immature Christian cannot fathom how the Catholic down the street, or the too legalistic Baptist next door, or the liberal mainline Protestant across the alley, cannot possibly have been born-again and is therefor true brethren (even if perhaps the majority who attend their churches are not), and all of the same body, the one body of Christ, so too does God allow our minds to be boggled when we intellectually dissect the Trinity. They are One; we are one: no difference.
Yes, most of us men get married much too young in comparison to our maturity. We are much too selfish and self-centered in all we do. At other times we put our wives and/or children on too high a pedestal, not realizing children must fall in order they learn how to not trip, and wives also have their female egos which oppose the Gospel and must therefor not be fueled.
So how can a loving God possibly expect, much less command, a woman who is equal to be voluntarily in subjection to a husband who is likely a real jack a__? The same way a Jesus-God subjected Himself to the commands of the Father and allowed Himself slain: the unfeigned, supernaturally manifested fruits of the Spirit. It aint heaven yet.
"I can do ALL things through Christ . . .."
"[The supernatural and unconditional] Love [of God] NEVER fails."
". . . let it be the adorning of a Meek and quiet
"Men, love your wives [and stop being such a pompous jerk] . . .."
"Wives, love your husbands [and stop assisting that spirit of error/Jezebel spirit/anti-christ/whatever the name-of-the-month thing by even unconsciously placing upon your husbands a greater burden than they can possibly bear, thereby asking them to supplant God the Father who alone must be your Protector, the Provider of all your needs, etc. For] I am a jealous God" and "you shall have no other gods before Me."
Amen. Amen.
