The servant became the Master

[Stewardofthemystery]

In Deuteronomy 15:5-6 The Lord told His people that they would be blessed “if they would carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord their God.”  Part of this blessing included the promise that the children of God would “reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.”  And this promise also included that His people would lend to other nations, but they would not have to borrow from them.

 

But in this day and age we see many wicked nations reigning over the people of God. This was because the people would not carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord their God and therefore the curses mentioned in the law also followed because of the rebellious nature of the people toward following God’s words. Thus we see the nations who were meant to “serve” the children of God instead became their “masters”, and who would also rule over them.

 

This made me think of the founding of this great Nation of the United States, that was founded on the belief in a form of government that was “by the people, and for the people”.  Basically a type of government that would “serve the people”, verses a people that would have to “serve the government’.  Though I’m sure the founders of this country were well intentioned in their desire to have a government which “served the people” this is not exactly what we see today.  What we see today is an ever growing government which is serving its own interests, will, and desires and not that of the common people.  This also goes to show, no matter how great a concept sounds on paper, any form of government established by men can be corrupted, even in the man-made church system.

 

One sign of this self serving style of government is that it passes laws that makes itself “immune” from the laws that it binds and enforces on the common people.   In this we see this self serving style of government is “protecting and serving” itself by making itself not subject to the law it imposes on others. It is a hypocrite who says “do as I say, not as I do.” 

 

This self serving style of government also increases in size, power, and strength by feeding itself off of the wealth of the people.  This is done by imposing laws that benefit the government through mandatory taxes, fees, licenses, registrations, and by adding penalties, fines, and imprisonment on those breaking these many laws; which they mainly enforce on the common people, not on themselves. The more laws a self serving government pass, the more rights and freedoms the common people will lose. And the larger the government gets, the more that it covets to remain in power and to sustain it’s dominance over the people. Thus the more and more it takes from the people who serve it, the more and more it takes from them to remain in power. 

 

It is written the rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is “servant” to the lender. And this is one of the curses God said would befall his people if they would not hearken to His voice. The system that is set up understands this concept of making the borrower “the servent’ to the lender; so it is in their own “self interest” to keep the people in want and also in debt in order to control the masses. Also by keeping the people in want and in debt they enrich themselves by collecting the interest on the debt the servant borrower owes it’s master the lender.

 

Sin is also like a debt that has to be paid, but unlike monetary debt you yourself cannot pay off your own sin debt.  This sin debt has to be forgiven in order for you to be made free and live free from the bondage of sin.  In this we also see how most of the people of the world are not truly “free”, even here in the so called “land of the free”. The people will never truly be free and alive to righteousness until they are made free from the debt of sin; and also made free from the monetary debt they have accumulated by lusting after the things of the flesh.  Just as it is written those who cease from sin will suffer in the flesh.

 

Sin reigning over mankind is also why the wicked now reign on this earth while the righteous man mourns.  Just as it is written, when the wicked rule, the people mourn.  Jesus told his disciples that they would weep and lament, but the world would rejoice, and we would be sorrowful, but our sorrow would be turned into joy.

 

It is also written, when the righteous are in authority, the people will rejoice. Be patient unto the coming of the Lord our Righteousness, and in the time to come when the righteous saints shall finally reign on earth; when the kingdoms of this world shall become the Kingdoms of God and of His Christ.

 

Peace

[D. Adrien]

 At the risk of seeming arrogant, if a Christian is still patriotic towards a nation of this world, they have yet to break through the entire deceitfulness of our adversary the Devil, who prowls about like a roaring lion. The process of seeing is very painful indeed but eye opening. 'Tis ongoing...

[Stewardofthemystery]

This is what the Lord warned the children of Israel when they desired a king to reign over them instead of the Lord.

Samuel 8:6-22

King James Version

6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord.

7 And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, “but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.”

8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

10 And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king.

11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.

12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.

18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.

19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;

20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.

22 And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.”