From the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Chapter 10. Two Paths
Beams in our eyes
It has been said that men are often cunningly coerced into waiving their rights.1 It is easy to point our fingers at tyrants and despots but isn’t it our own weakness that tempted men to become tyrants. If men want their rights they must accept their corresponding responsibility. It is the lazy larceny in our own hearts that tempts us. Lack of love for our neighbors justifies coveting their substance to feed our own abundant appetites.
The promoters and evangelists of Herod’s kingdom of Heaven at hand offered security by compelling all to pay to the needs of the whole. They followed the traditions of Israel in the washing of new members. They depended upon the consent and submission of the people through application and participation. As this citizenry incorporated their rights in hope of gain, they were enfranchised under the kingly authority of Herod, the Patronus of Judea. They did not listen to Samuel’s chastisement of Saul when he foolishly forced the sacrifice or contribution of the people and returned the people to Egyptian bondage.
And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever. But now thy kingdom shall not continue: 1 Samuel 13:13
Those citizens prayed at Herod’s dead stone altar of authority for their justice and mercy. His government taxed each man and his neighbor to supply the common welfare and the wages of its administers. The multitude of offices funded by the sweat of the common people assured the salvation and grace2 of that authoritarian kingdom but ate out their substance. Because men took God’s name in vain, defining right and wrong by their own appetite they extracted the sacrifice of their neighbor and were delivered into bondage.
God did not create the city of Cain but Cain used God’s law of contract to bind the people into that civil state. Under the gods of Cain men applied and accepted his offer and social contract. The rulers and judges of Cain’s city became gods, ruling judges, of men instead or in place of God the Father of creation. Men were fooled by the sophistry of the devils of the world because of the devilish spirit in their own hearts.
And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, To keep the commandments of the LORD... Deuteronomy 10:123
The law was about where your heart was and not about the ritual and form. Even from the beginning circumcision was not about mutilation but about the hearts of men.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. Deut. 10:16
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1"Because of what appears to be a lawful command on the surface, many Citizens, because of respect for the law, are cunningly coerced into waiving their rights due to ignorance." U.S v.Minker, 350 U.S. 179, 187
2Grace is from charis meaning benefit, bounty, services, recompense, reward.
3Luke 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. [Mk 12:30, Mt 22:37]
