Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris
This first article lays the groundwork for the whole series. It is not possible for those who seek to serve God to also serve false gods, whether ideologically or physically serving these regimes by voting or taking employment as a solider or police officer or in any other capacity. There can be no neutrality on this issue. They are mutually-exclusive. Men must choose this day whom they serve: God or men. Men are either Christians who regard the Lord as the King, or they are statists who make false gods their kings and saviors. But there is no such thing as a “Christian statist.” All true Christians are anarchists who renounce their allegiance to the kingdoms of the world.
This is follow up on the basic ideas that those who follow the Lord must seek His Kingdom in exclusivity, covering the Biblical calls to avoid the ways of the people of the world, which entails both the statist ideology that makes human kings possible and the practice of statism that actually sets these systems up, builds them, and participates in them.
This one continues the theme of the last, discussing how statism—the worldly ideology that leads men to support human civil government—is a satanic temptation, one which Jesus Christ himself resisted, teaching all of us instead that His Kingdom is “not of this world,” ie., not like the Babylonian, Egyptian, Roman, and American political institutions that operate on violence and exercise authority and rule over other men.
As the title implies, this article covers how men have always neglected all the teachings of God covered in the previous articles, which has led to their bondage and captivity under the systems of men. They have never wanted to hear the words of Jesus that the Kingdom of God is not of this world and that a man cannot have two masters. Instead, they have specifically turned away from this divine counsel and chased after false gods to rule over them instead, and have indeed found themselves ruled.
Since we are dealing with God, the violation of His Law and commands against setting up false human rulers is thus not without consequences. The sin of statism leads to a people becoming tax slaves and cursed with all the evils that human governments bring upon a people as a divine rebuke for their wicked ways. This article covers the evils of state rule that inevitably come upon a people as divine judgment for their sin of pledging allegiance to men and their false kingdoms.
This very short article mentions how being Born Again and becoming a new man in Jesus Christ has everything to do with repenting from the statist ideology of the world and renouncing one’s citizenship to these false kingdoms. No man can say he has come to Christ who, through voting or apologizing for the existence of human civil government, is still seeking worldly kings and kingdoms. This is the fruit of an unrepentant heart that is not waking in the ways of the Lord. This is the mark of the old man that has not yet been shed.
This article goes a little further than the previous one in explaining for the ideology of statism—the idolatrous belief that human civilization government should exist—is an entirely worldly ideology and philosophy that men pick up from the world, and not from God, who is an anarchist and commands His people to have no other gods. Serving God alone thus has everything to do with adopting the Godarchist philosophy that the Lord is the only legitimate King and Ruler.
Notwithstanding all the lessons so far, there are tens of millions of professing Christians—surely the vast majority of all those who are willing to call themselves such—who disagree with this analysis and will attempt to make a Biblical justification for their false idols and false gods. As is common in Scripture, the word of God anticipates these false prophets and false converts and has no trouble showing that many people take the Lord’s name in vain and falsely profess “Christ is King” while chasing after worldly kings and kingdoms. Despite the average Christian who would tell us that we should simply take people’s word for it when they say they follow the Lord (who only tell us this because they themselves are guilty of these charges), the Bible does not force us into a position of taking a man’s word for it, but upholds the idea that actions are more important than words, and the actions of voting and apologizing for presidents says everything we need to know about whether or not a man is a Christian.
In the final article, I make it clear that all those who wish to serve the Lord must repent from public office, resign from their positions, and serve the Lord alone. You can’t serve God and the State. The only sense in which congressmen, soldiers, police, or presidents might be called “servants” of God is by bringing injustices and evils upon a people who refuse to be ruled by the Lord. Other than that, they are walking in the wicked path and living off of property stolen from their neighbors and enforcing the all the man-made decrees that entail everything God says He hates.
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