Body-Politic and the Way of Lawlessness

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They (the Tulsa 6) have now formed a very effective "super-dooper-holiness voting caucus" within the UPCI. One is now left to wonder how things will unravel in light of this supposed high road to greater and stronger holiness stance within the denomination. They are proud to lift the banner higher, to raise the standard of holiness from the mire of Tampa. Certainly, their names will go down in history.

There can be no doubt...the UPCI as a political animal has a huge political quandry on its lap that will not be worked out with a few phone calls and a few letters. The level of debate within the house has now been raised several decibels which is not likely to subside within the foreseeable future. I fear that it will only grow louder.

The tsunami is not so evident out at sea but quickly becomes manifestly destructive when it comes home to shore, as it is sure to do in rapid and successive waves. The old mama lion may not be on her deathbed as another has claimed it to be, but certainly she has a huge toothache and a thorn in the paw as well.

Everyone determined to take the highroad is admirable. Sooooo admirable. But look, in the world of politics, everyone starts out on the highroad but always end up in the ditch, slinging mud. It never fails.

It's the nature of the BEAST. Politics has its roots in the world's governments. World governments have their power derived by conquest or it is created by and has its powers conferred upon it by a greater government which gained its powers by armed revolt or violent conquest. This is the genesis of all politics. Its fruit is politics, the art of compromise accepted by ballot. The root of ecclesiastical government emerge from deep within the soil of the state by which is derives its power to exist.

Politics is the fruit of the tree. It is the way of the world. It is known as worldliness...but people love it. The definition of iniquity is not always sin. Sometimes it is not sin at all, but just plain old lawlessness. In otherwords, it is outside the dominion (kingdom) of God's laws. Anything that operate, has life, have its power, recognition and authority outside the laws of the Kingdom of God is INIQUITOUS. All who repent, God says that he will remember their sins AND iniquity no more. Sins and iniquity are not always the same.

The slick, cool hand of the art of politics is a bloody hand. It is the cause of far more souls lost to eternity than can possibly be saved, even with the finest oratory for the good.

Can you imagine Jesus telling a bunch of preachers who did everything in his name...who called him LORD by revelation, who cast out devils, prophesied in his name, did many wonderful works, obviously had the Holy Ghost and were Oneness...TO DEPART FROM HIM AS WORKERS OF INIQUITY. That blows your mind. How can it be? They were sinless but full of INIQUITY...the way of the world, outside the laws of the Divine Kingdom.

Please don't tell me how annointed are men who are fast, persuasive ecclesiastical operators of the art and science of the politic. That annointing will profit nothing when Jesus says, "Depart from me ye WORKERS of iniquity, I NEVER KNEW YOU." Just another way of saying, "You operated outside the bounds of the laws of the KING-DOM...the DOMinion of God.

Something to think about.