War and Man's Honour

     In my last post, I delved into a lot of different subjects.  Although firstly aimed at myself, that particular article was really more of a release for me in dealing with some rather troubling circumstances.  This is no pity party, I assure you.  Sympathy isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I’ve found that empathy is much more powerful and healing.  But if any of you readers are the praying type (or meditators, vibe-ers, etc.) pray for peace.  This isn’t necessarily just for me, although I have a plentitude of peace, I could always use more, but more importantly, I think we must develop an understanding that when we pray, we are actually focusing on an intentional release that will consume a realm or jurisdiction that attempts to confuse a person or group of people and bind them in a state of manipulation or subjugation.  The realm or jurisdiction of peace altogether consumes anything lower than itself.  That being said, prayer itself is more than just a verbal declaration, or something we say before we sit down to eat, or on Sunday morning in front of the congregation on Sunday, or to call upon God during troubled times.  All of these practices are good, but if we relegate prayer in any sense of its substance to something that is marked by occasion, we have missed the point.  I would even argue that through this framework we have submitted to being adjucated to a realm of warfare.  To expand the notion of prayer, and to engage with it in the realm from whence it comes (eternity, peace, a realm altogether sovereign over war), this engagement is more of a recognition of the presence of God at all times and in all places, which inevitably will have a myriad of facets and manifestations.  This is why the Apostle Paul can give a command such as “Pray without ceasing” (I Thes. 5:17).  All that being said...the broad nature of my last post issued a rather lively response from readers, requesting that I delve a bit deeper into some of the subject matter.  For once, feeling lead in the same direction, I will make my best attempts here to oblige.   So let’s get to it!

                 

       What is war?  Certainly it can be termed many different ways, but my basic summary of it last week, and what I will be using as my framework for this post is:  “War in its truest sense then, is nothing more than a deceptive attempt to control spiritual atmosphere and thus convince individuals that their lives have no value apart from the ruling group or regime.”  Let me break this down a little bit. 

        

       In order to understand this a bit more clearly, we must understand that a struggle for any type of control, or the desire to control or be in control, ultimately originates from a position of lack.  That is to say that a person, entity, spirit, etc...does not feel like he/she/it has enough of something and thus engages reality from this position.  The conversation usually goes on in the “head” of an individual and sounds something like this:  “I don’t have enough of X, therefore I must do something to obtain more of X.  Since I don’t have enough, something must be controlling me, and since this is what it is like for me, I must engage others the same way.  I’ll control them as long as we all have enough.  But my needs come first.”  This position of lack comes directly from a feeling of shame, or that of something that is being held against a person.  In fact shame, guilt, and debt all have the same root.  Think about that the next time a creditor gives you a call about a bill you allegedly owe them.  But as you see, the problem here is quite simple to solve isn’t it?  You take away the lack and there is no problem.  If there is no need to gain more of anything then there is no jurisdiction for control to be put on display.Why is there lack in the first place?  Sit and think about it.  At the end of the day where did the water, electricity, food, shelter and any other materials come from?  That’s right, they came from the earth and all of it, every ounce of it is free.  Just because some big corporation stockpiles the resources and stakes claims on land, and makes people pay for use, does not negate the fact that all of it inevitably is free.  If this stuff is free, then why do we feel the pressure of lack, or potential poverty?  Why do we feel that ache in our gut when money is tight and we get that bill in the mail?  Because something has been set against us, some aspect of control.  So in our act of payment, we feel we are taking control as well.  But that ache still longs in our gut, and then we get the same bill in the mail next month, and the control we think we’ve exercised seems to be growing less and less powerful.  That is because the thing that has been set against us has convinced us that we owe something.  The whole thing thus spins upon an axis of guilt and dishonour, and your ability or inability to provide payment (atonement via the work of your own hands), and is completely unconcerned with circumstances or the condition of who you are as a person.  Dishonour=inability to pay, which this system deems you an indigent scoundrel of a person.  Once again all of this is based upon your ability or inability to pay for something that in reality is absolutely free. 

     

       Then why all of the shortages, why are things so “expensive” why are there so many people starving and dying?  Certainly this is a much longer answer that would fill millions of pages of discussion, but the short answer is war.  The very moment when something is being held over or against a person, the realm in which war exists becomes operative.  The physical acts of war are manifestations of processes enacted long ago against and within the mind of mankind.  The thought life of humanity is the access point at which contradiction may be implanted.  Man to the core of his being (a divine creature made in the image and likeness of God), is good.  But Man can believe otherwise about himself, and thus believing ill of himself, easily views the rest of his peers in the same light.  When man believes he is bad, he must do something to remove the bad, or try to cover up (atone) for the evil deeds he believes he has committed.  Man forgets where the bad came from, where the idea that he was bad originated.  This was not something that was with him at creation, this idea of debt, separation, dishonour and the need for atonement or covering was not something that originated within himself.  No, it was whispered to him from something other than himself. 

      

        Let’s go back to the creation narrative for a little more insight.  In Genesis 1:25, we see that God has created everything according to its kind and has spoken to the substance from which everything was made in order to bring things to life.  (For more detail on this check out Andre Rabe’s book, Imagine).  In 1:26 God speaks to himself and says “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness:  let them have dominion...”, point being, that God spoke to the substance of Himself to create mankind, whereas with the fish he created the water, then spoke to the water, etc.  So Man is created in the image and likeness of God and from the very substance of the Creator Himself, and then man is granted dominion.  Man is given license and creative power to rule the earth, but since he knows nothing of lack, nothing of contradiction, nothing of competition, poverty, shame, he knows nothing of good or evil, his ability to rule and reign upon the earth, to have dominion or to domicile, is derived from a place of presence rather than a place of process that says he must do X,Y and Z in order to have A,B, and C.  In this place, Man simply is. 

       In Genesis 3, the narrative takes on a different tone.  Throughout the first two chapters we see a creation unfolding followed by the establishment of Adam as Man.  In Chapter 2, Adam and God are directly communicating and any other words offered are Adam’s naming and his declaration of Woman.  What I’m trying to draw out here, is that there is an uninterrupted communication between man and God, and that we see nothing else coming in and attempting to influence Mankind.  But at the beginning of Chapter 3, the narrative gives sharp detail to a particular beast of the field, the serpent.  Then we see that the serpent (something outside of man) speaks to Eve.  This is the first time in the history of creation that it is recorded that something other than God himself is speaking to Man.  The first words out of the serpent’s mouth are laced with deception when it speaks, “ Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?’”  While technically , this is true, the spirit behind it is completely different than when God speaks in 2:16-17, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat.”  The serpent’s use of language twists the intention of God and makes the assertion appear as an accusation through focusing the intention of the statement on the negative.  The way that the serpent words its question is presumptuous.  The serpent can only operate out of a presumption because the serpent does not have FIRSTHAND knowledge of what God spoke to Adam.  The presumption twists God’s original affirmative statement, and makes God’s word appear as if multiple trees and most of the garden has been withheld from man, rather than just one. 

       The serpent’s accusation now attempts to hold something against man.  What Man failed to realize in this moment, was that Man was still in the power position.  An accusation operates much like a contract.  There is an offeror, in this case, the serpent, and there is an acceptor, in this case, Eve.  In any contract, the acceptor is the one who holds all the power.  If the acceptor does not agree to the contract, then BOOM, the whole thing is null and void and has no jurisdiction.  An accusation works the exact same way.  The accusation is made, the offeror hoping that jurisdiction will be granted by the acceptor based upon agreement to the accusation.  To reject an accusation is simply to not agree with it, or to take it further, to agree with what God says about you.  But here, in the unfolding of Creation, Mankind agrees with the accusation which is something that exists entirely outside of himself thus granting jurisdiction to something that God originally gave Man dominion over.  Man is now ruled by that which he is supposed to rule over.

       In this context, now mankind has entered into a covenant/contract/agreement to have the knowledge of good and evil lord over him rather than lording over these concepts himself, for in order to have this “knowledge” Man himself must arrive at a decision that either he is “good” or “evil” and all of his actions from this point on are to be judged from that perspective.  But we see very clearly, that in Genesis 2:24, before submitting to the rule of knowledge, Adam was, “naked but unashamed.”  Later on in 3:10, Adam attempts to hide himself from God (just as when we try to hide ourselves from our true identity or place of origin), and he tells God that he is scared and that he is scared because he is naked.  God asked in verse 11, “Who told you that you were naked.”  See, the problem is not whether or not Adam/Man was naked.  There was no problem.  The issue/problem/sin/distance/contradiction arose when Man’s perspective was changed through the making of value judgements based upon “the knowledge of good and evil.”  Now all of the sudden Adam/Man judges himself based upon this supposed knowledge, which comes from a paradigm that does not come from a lens of truth.  This is a realm of black and white that makes no room for color and thus no mercy, compassion, or creativity.  Adam now finds shame in his nakedness, because his own judgment of himself is condemning.  It is here in this realm of conflict that violence enters the picture. 

       Violence?  Wait?  I thought that started with Cain and Abel...Nope.  Since Adam/Mankind could not cover himself, God had to cover him.  So God killed some animals to clothe Adam and Eve, and thus the blood of these animals (and their skins, literally) were used to cover the sin of mankind. Here the realm of violence is born, but its initial blood letting is merely the culling of an animal here and there.  The problem is that animal flesh expires quickly, as does the garments made from their hides.  Thus more of them must be killed to cover Man, and Man’s mind becomes callous to the shedding of blood.  Although The Law (the Ten commandments) has yet to enter the scene, Man has already been subject to a rule of law.  An infraction of law, even if it is a law/rule that exists in a person’s mind, must be corrected or balanced out.  This initial knowledge of infraction, which is Adam’s belief that he was naked, and therefore was in lack, created a debt in the mind of Man.  Once a belief in debt is established it creates a cycle of perpetual need to be covered.  Extrapolate this belief and the struggle for resources results in the shedding of the blood of billions. 

     But there is an interesting scenario that occurs in Genesis 4.  God speaks to Cain and reminds him/Mankind, that Man indeed still has authority over sin.  In 4:6-7, God speaks to Cain, The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?  If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”  Once again there is a lot to unpack in this exchange, but the point I want to draw out, is that despite The Fall of Man, despite everything that Cain’s father and mother subjected creation to, God still offers Cain the power of dominion to rule over sin/debt and any consciousness of it.  If Cain ruled over this according to his design (and against the example set by his father, Adam), then peace is granted and the idea of debts/atonements, etc., loses its.  But instead, Cain agrees with the lower jurisdiction, the realm of violence where his shame and PERCEIVED failure must be covered.  In engaging this conflict, the blood of Abel is used in Cain’s attempt to gain his own power and honour back.  The problem with this is that Mankind has never been the provider of his own honour; therefore, Mankind can never be the one to restore honour to himself via the work of his own hands.  Honour can only be restored from and through the point of origin which is with God in eternity. 

                A perceived eternal debt can only be discharged through the eternal worth of man being restored from his point of origin in eternity.  The reminder of Man’s original birth (See John 1, James 1:27, Genesis 1:26-27, Ecclesiastes 3:11) renews Man’s mind, removing his amnesia and displacing him from this realm where war/atonement is necessary.  These being only temporary remedies, no longer make any sense from an eternal perspective. 

                

 I hope to delve into these concepts at bit further in later posts.  We have just scratched the surface, but I pray these will spark seeds of thought and contemplation within you. 

                

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You Are the Wealth of Nations.

       To speak a thing is to somehow give consent, license and acknowledgment to a substance that has beckoned to take up residence in your members.  This is the power of life and death that the tongue possesses.   To speak is to name and to provide a framework and method of transmission to something that beforehand although real, was only contained to the realm of the evidence of things unseen (Hebrews 1:1).  There is faith on both ends of the equation.  It is through faith that things are created, by the naming of such things.  When Adam named the animals in Genesis, he was actually exercising faith through the manifest creative light of God flowing through him.  It was his inheritance and birthright, and at this point in the unfolding of humanity, this was the only reality Adam had been exposed to:  Divine union with his creator, and being in a state of no separation, there were no limits to his creative expression.  So thus Adam named the animals (Genesis 2:19), and assigning to each a nature imparted through the sovereign power given to him through The Father.   

                We have the creative light of eternity pouring through us (Ecclesiastes 3:11).  From this position, whether or not we are aware, we are participating in the creation and shaping of our perceived reality through our speaking.  Affirmative statements can agree and stand in the truth of who we are.  Indeed, we shall know the truth and the truth shall set us free, as John 8:32 states.  It is coming into agreement with truth that manifests through the active measure of faith in us, catapulting us into humility and the momentum of our true identity.  Yes, I said humility, although by worldly standards, true humility may have an appearance of arrogance.  Think about it—walking around stating that you are the same as your creator, you are one with omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, light and most importantly love, may offend a few people.  But this is the nature of who you are to the core.  I suggest you try it.  Just as God presented Jesus to the world and said, “this is my beloved son in who I am well pleased,” (Matt. 3:17), The Father holds you in the same esteem.  If this wasn’t the case, why would Jesus give us the mandate that we would do even greater works? (John 14:12)  Having this as your paradigm completely changes reality.  You are now free to be okay with thinking that you are an awesome person, and you no longer have to agree that you somehow have a debt to pay.  True humility in this light, is agreeing with what you know to be true.  To speak any less of yourself is prideful, and is nothing more than an attempt to attach a nature to yourself and others for which you were not designed. 

                In the naming of things, we can speak affirmation to what we know in truth, and thus life flows from us abundantly because we understand our union in eternity with Jesus Christ.  These words of life are never accusatory, and will encourage, build up, celebrate individuality and launch people into the boldness of their destiny.  Where life is more life abounds.  On the other side of the coin, where there is accusation, belittling, where there is more emphasis placed on being “right” than there is on truly hearing a person, where the individual is not celebrated and the direction of a group is deemed more important---in all of this there is death.

                To give access to something that did not have a root of origin inside yourself, a stray thought or word, etc, is to speak into reality something that does not have any life of its.  Jesus teaches that the Kingdom of Heaven is inside of you, it is not merely observed (Luke 17:20-21), meaning that anything coming from the outside in does not have original residence with you and thus asks for your consent to empower it.  This is why Satan is always referred to as the accuser.   When an accusation is made, it comes from outside of the person.  The person is now in the place of accepting or rejecting the accusation.  If the person accepts, now this lie, the entity of separation, has been given access and can use you as conduit to further propagate the lie through all kinds of gross manifestations.  These kind of words are manipulators, hijackers and parasites that leech off of your value!  A lie has no value of its own, no life of its own, that’s why it has to use fear and intimidation to scare you into agreement.  To me this brings a new element to when the Apostle Paul encourages us to rejoice in times of trouble and contradiction.  For if we are in the midst of lies and contradiction, we can flip the coin on its head and understand that this stuff is only coming against us because WE ARE SO UNBELIEVABLY VALUEABLE. 

                Humanity, every human being, you and I, we are the most wealthy beings in existence and are the only ones who have been divinely infused with the authority to wield the power of and steward the creative light of God.  But POWER IS NEVER THE POINT (Please read I Corinthians 13 for more on this).  LOVE IS THE POINT, and ironically the love is the source of power.  If any manifestation is not rooted in love or informed from this source and perspective, then the power must be derived from somewhere else.  All things are held together by Him, but the human being can allow lies, distractions and other spiritual entities to hijack his thoughts about himself and thus man's power is stolen and channeled towards other ends, ends that inevitably do not have the individual man’s nor humanity’s best interests at heart.  This being the case, I can hold no man subject to a lie about himself (to do so is to name him other than who he is) even if his deeds are increasingly evil.  These deeds are not a reflection of who he is at the core, but are simply manifestations of the confusion he has allowed to overtake him.  It is neither my job or yours to point out the wrongs or sin in someone’s life, but rather to speak to who they really are.  This is otherwise known as the “ministry of the word of reconciliation” (II Cor 5:18).

                This is why identity and the understanding of our identity in the context of reconciliation is the foundation of speaking through faith.  The very act of man killing God was the same act that redeemed all of humanity, thus no man is mere flesh and blood.  Even if we delve into the physical properties of these substances, science has begun to uncover that there is much more than the western mind has reckoned.  Our flesh is good and holy and is infused with the life of the spirit (I Cor.  6:17).  You cannot separate the two.  To do such a thing or attempt it, unleashes waves of destructive anti-matter, which is of the same spectrum of dense frequency that cancerous cells comprised of.  Just as scientists began disassembling the atom, and thus unleashed a great destruction upon mankind, so it is even greater when the value of human life is only relegated to only spiritual counterpoints, and thus the separation of physical and spiritual is sought after.  God wouldn’t have given man a physical body, if man was supposed to beat up his body in order to reconnect with his spirit.  The Father already had legions of angels at his beckoning, and you were and always have been with him in spirit since the beginning.  Being given a physical body infused with the spirit and life of the creator is a beautiful mandate that The Father gave to humanity.  Your physical body wasn't mean to be a limitation.  For in doing so, God has named us his children, and encourages us in our participation in running the family business.  The angels long and rejoice to know the things we know and to see us carry out the tasks set before us and to live out on this earth and in heaven simultaneously, the exercise of our full inheritance (I Pet. 1:12). 

                The attempts to separate the physical body from the spirit (unfortunately, this is exactly what most religions attempt to do) is nothing more than witchcraft that will eventually kill you.  This is a Gnostic idea at best and is the same mentality that Apostle Paul was addressing in The Corinthian letters and in Galatians, specifically.  These people had come out of all kinds of weird ritualistic practices that bolster the spirit but deem the human body as a dirty cask of rags that would prevent one from gaining power in the spirit realm.  They were also being heavily influenced by Gnostic religions that were emerging and combating with them.  Many of these Gnostic religions believed in Christ to an extent.  They taught Christ and were fascinated by his teachings, but the basis or their beliefs were essentially:  spirit is good, flesh/physical nature is evil.  With this mentality the means will always justify the end, because after all, it’s all about gaining power in the spirit realm.  This is why ritualistic abuse and the sacrificing of children was so common among many of the nations listed in the Bible (this stuff is more common than you think and still is practiced today). 

                In my view, I see this as the origin of war itself.  The purpose of war being to buy and sell one group of people for another, have them adjured under one set of rules and ideologies and thus the people caught up in the mix die fighting, or die because they’re unwittingly caught up in the middle of it.  The blood of many people is shed, which doesn’t matter to the regime because after all, the good of the many is much more important that the value of a few measely individuals.  Through the game of war (yes, it’s a game, all of the wars in modern history have been carefully constructed, calculated and carried out), buying power in the spirit realm is sought through the covenant blood of the people who died with their names attached to the so-called “cause”.  War in its truest sense then, is nothing more than a deceptive attempt to control spiritual atmosphere and thus convince individuals that their lives have no value apart from the ruling group or regime.  All of this is demonic in origin, it is strange fire, and its power pales in comparison to what really exists even in one single cell of human life.  The realized individual, in union with The Father has more power in his/her pinky finger than do all the armies of the earth and all principalities and powers.  Therefore, we never have to submit to such authority as our inheritance is already secure.  All enemies have already been defeated (Col. 1:19-20).

                All that being said, your true identity is rooted in love.  In fact, your body, your voice, your presence, all are expressions and manifestations of the very substance of the love that formed you in the beginning.

                All of this, although written for your edification, is more of a note directed at myself.  Sometimes the heart is so overloaded with the unspeakable, that a person may have to stand outside of himself for a while just to get a grasp on what needs to be expressed.  This is an encouragement to myself, but you can apply it to yourself as well:  I know God through all of the confusion, and I know who I am.  

 James 1:25, "But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing."

Look deeply and thus drink deeply.

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Commercial Mythology

            Ever wondered why it seems that lawyers seem to be such a big deal?  Most of us heard that when we were growing up, right?  I know I did.  Usually it went something like this:  “You’re really smart.  Study hard, keep your head in those books and make good grades and one day you could be a lawyer or a doctor.”  Personally, all I ever wanted to be was a bird, myself, or the starting firstbaseman for the Houston Astros, who also in the off season was the starting shooting guard for the Houston Rockets.  But for those of us who might not have been deemed that “smart” by our parents/peers/teachers, maybe we didn’t get told that we should be lawyers or doctors.  My point is...why are these considered noble positions in our society?  (If you are a lawyer or doctor, I’m sorry this might sound a bit harsh, I’m not trying to knock you, I’m just exposing the foundations of your profession, much of which you may not even know about). 

            Think about it, though.  What little kid wakes up on a Saturday morning and wants to be a lawyer or accountant or doctor?  NONE OF THEM DO.  The kid wakes up and he/she, wants to be a unicorn, or an astronaut, or a cowboy, or a Robin Hood pirate ninja, that sails around everywhere and does karate, but never has to steal anything because anything he/she wants just magically appears at the thought of it.  But then our parents, society, etc, tell us to be this or be that and then all of the sudden we have an alleged “dream” in terms of a pathway towards a career, that actually had no root inside of our heart of hearts to begin with.  It came from the outside, and through consideration (or lack thereof) and massive indoctrination and distraction, we begin to believe that a so-called dream about a career, or maybe even it’s a job that we do, our identity becomes rooted in it. 

            Why don’t parents/teachers/etc encourage their children to be tree cutters, or landscapers?  One of the most fun jobs I’ve ever had was working for a small company a friend of mine’s dad owned.  We built and framed houses, poured concrete, and did random stuff to improve people’s property value.  Think handyman, but for a contractor.  This job was way more fun than any “profession” I’ve had.  Why wasn’t I encouraged to do this?

            You guys catch my drift, though.  Doctors, lawyers, etc...we are encouraged to pursue these avenues why?  Because these are societal status symbols attached to a value.  Meaning, that if you’re a lawyer, you probably make a lot of $$$.  See my point?  Maybe you can be a defence lawyer, make a lot of $$$ and help people.  A noble cause, right?  Yet, we are encouraged even from birth to be subject to and begin to make value judgements based upon potential to earn $$$.  If ditch diggers earned the same as lawyers/doctors/CEOs, would ditch diggers be considered noble in their profession? 

            I’m just interested in trying to locate when doing a work that provided nothing real and of substance into society became noble, and began to override the craft of a man/woman handling their own matters and providing for themselves?  It seems that there is a massive separation that is illustrated a growth in the current generational gap, in what it means to “earn a living” or “provide for oneself.”  If you’re of similar age to me (20-30, of course there’s a little leeway in that),  you grew up under certain assumptions:  Go to school.  Get good grades.  Get into a good college.  Get a good job.-all of this will lead you to a nice income and stability.  Sounds fun, right? 

            If your experience has been anything like mine, you did all of that, yet the big $ job never happened, and neither did the stable income.  (That’s okay, not knowing how the bills are going to get paid is fun when viewed in the right light.  You'll never get bored, and you can pack up and leave town at a moment's notice.)  For some of you, maybe it has worked out, but after a few years of doing this now you’re starting to get bored and wondering where all your dreams went.  In either sense, one of us is honoured by the generation of our parents, and the other is generally dishonoured and labelled a bum, or lazy, or a moocher, etc.  In the state of who we really are, there is no difference in being between either of us.  As the Paul encourages us in 2 Corinthians 5:16-17, ^“ So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”  In the perceiving of anyone or even any circumstance based upon merely the outward appearance is a crime, that fails to see the heart or the legitimate point of origin of any person or circumstance.  But it is exactly these types of outward value judgments based upon earning potential and the ability to accumulate materials that the system we have bought into calls us to view.  Thus, when we define ourselves this way, we begin to define others the same way and through this perspective confine ourselves to a mere definition, the scope of which only exists in a fake realm of commercial enterprise. 

                YOU ARE NOT A COMMERCIAL ENTITY!  So why would you agree to not only have yourself defined that way, but agree to see others in the same light.  It’s not all your fault.  The system of Western Capitalist Communism Indoctrination has been foisted upon you since before you were born, constructing a fake version of reality upon you, in its attempts to distract you enough to believe in it.  The State wants you to believe only in commercial enterprise and thus define yourself that way as your primary identity.  As I referenced in one of my pasts posts (you can read it here:  http://beardsloveandhappiness.blogspot.com/2012/10/who-gets-your-vote.html) this is why you have a Social Security Number, Driver’s License and any other kind of license.  As far as The State is concerned, you are solely a commercial entity, a franchise of their larger corporation, and thus are subject to all of their rules, regulations, and thus further, your rights are now privileges, and privileges can be take away, taxed, fined, and deemed as deposable, as long as The State is protected.  You are not any of this, nor are you subject to it.  In fact, you are so mysterious and worthy that you are undefinable,  “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit” (John 3:8).  Never allow yourself to be contained to a definition or an idea.  Living beings are not ideas, they are real people in relationship.  An idea is simply that:  it is an idea.  An idea about a person is not the same as actually knowing the person.  The same goes with you and with God. 

                Maybe I haven’t made my point clear enough.  What I’m getting to is that everything we have been taught to be a” good citizen” and even been encouraged in by our parents and grandparents has been grounded in utter trust and dependence upon a system and a group of agencies who do not have our best interests at heart.  This is where the animosity in the generational gap has been the heaviest.  Many who fell in line with the system and received the benefits thereof have encouraged the younger generations to do the same, but when exposed to it, the younger generation:  1.  Hasn’t received any benefits, because in a debt-based society, all the benefits have been sucked dry....and 2.  Has been exposed to the flaws/lies of how they are taught to base their core values in perspective and identity.  Essentially, we have been duped into dependence and thus consented in placing our security and hope upon and into things that are not real.  Once again, and you will hear me say this time and time again:  Any agency, entity, etc...that includes your employer, the government, Social Security...all of these are nothing but stacks of papers.  You are a real person, so act like one.  Real people, living beings do not, nor were we designed to be, dependent upon things that are not real.  The only action or value, the only power anything has is through your consent. 

“Where it concerns a sovereign Elector moving In Law, a license IS a contract In Fact which he may Lawfully refuse as a condition to the free exercise of his Rights and Powers.”—Augustus Blackstone.

      It only through our consent that the system we all complain about so much is allowed to operate.  Even according the so-called laws of our land, our public officials only have the authority that we invest in them.  Do you understand what this means?  You as a sovereign elector have the power to choose what happens and command public officials to serve you.  This is the way The Constitution laid it out, and how we are supposed to operate and function in the realm of the establishment of the United States.  What has happened is that we have traded our sovereign rights, for a reduced qualified elector status and thus subjected ourselves to a majority rule that implicates us in the participation of a mere system.  Now sure, we receive, so-called benefits from the system, but the danger is that in this model you become the corporate property of the majority and are no longer have any right or responsibility to handle your own affairs.  In fact, when you attempt to handle your own affairs, you will be taxed, fined, penalized, thrown in jail and have your property and $$$ confiscated for payment.  You relinquish your responsibility to stand on your own two legs, and thus consent to give administrators jurisdiction to handle your affairs for you.  Basically it’s an agreement that says, “I’m too lazy, or too stupid to handle my own business, so you guys do it for me please!”  Like I said, earlier, it’s not your fault.  These things have been part and parcel of a massive, global indoctrination that has unfolded over several hundred years.  I just want to encourage you to stand on your own two feet, to love yourself and your neighbours and thus you will see that:

    You are second to none!  You are way more powerful and mighty than you give yourself credit for!  Read that again out loud to yourself!  God is your only authority, and He has made himself one with you in effortless union, Colossians 2:9-10, “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.”

In the same vein, next week I will detail, why never to let a lawyer handle your legal matters.  Stay tuned for the next episode.     

Take a hold of the dream you’ve had since you were a child, or even before you were formed in your mother’s womb.

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