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When will the church of Christ realize that the world will NEVER willingly allow us to obey Christ and His word?

When will the church realize that Christ never called us to comply and submit to the systems and governments of the world?

When will we realize that Christ is the King of kings whose orders make all the others invalid?

When will we realize that Christ called us to a militant faith and not a compliant one? Or have we forgotten that He said that He came to bring the sword as opposed to peace?

When will we realize that miracles started flowing when the church in Acts stepped out of the upper room and started offending the whole system, from Caesar to the ecclesiastical order?

You see, all the systems of the world from capitalism to socialism, left to the right, and any other in between, are human and therefore opposed to Christ and His revelation. They might try to convince us how they are on our side to gain our support but they will never allow us to worship as we would if they get their way. They are only friendly to us when they need our support.

But we can’t be militant unless we get the orders from our commander. And that is what the whole world is united to shield us from getting. Sadly we are playing ball with our enemies all in the name of submitting to authorities. We forget that Paul was severally imprisoned and killed by those authorities he submitted to because they could not compromise Christ’s Lordship over his life and ministry. We forget that Jesus was crucified by the same authorities He refused to offend when He paid tax He took from a fish. We forget that the apostles were killed by the same authorities. And of course we choose to forget that the one who translated the Bible into English was burnt at the stake by the same authorities he was trying to liberate. Refer to my post on Psalm 2 (Enemies)

In short, the church is deceived when we think that we will logically and sensibly have our worship given to us because it won’t. In fact it never will just as it never has.

Sadly, we are limiting Christ’s power by depending on the world to set the rules of our worship as He has never fit in any structure that is not His.

We have no choice but become militant for our faith. We must be radical with what we believe.

And I do not mean talking arms, unless it is the spiritual armor. I mean believing Christ enough to decide that His word is the only word I should be obeying and that any other word not subject to it is illegal in my life, however high it might be proceeding from.

In short, any authority that is not subject to what Christ decrees is null and void in my life, to the point that I am ready to die for it. And that is not a comfortable position to be in.

Will you listen and obey orders ONLY from Christ? Will you subject any other orders, instructions, mandates, etc, to Christ?