How Paul Causes Believers to Defy & Shame the Father
When there is a proper hierarchy, the one who is "in charge" can either experience the condition of being loved and respected by those in his charge or shamed, hated and disrespected. There's not much in between, which brings to mind Jesus' famous words:
This goes also for earthly organizations where a leader must be established and followed in order for its mission to be accomplished. Whether or not there will be peaceful operations of that organization is determined by the way those under leadership's charge respond to direction. When those in the organization are in step with the vision and following directions and adding their own know how and initiative to achieve the stated goals, the mission will be accomplished and the leader will experience joy and a proper sort of admiration and pride for those accomplishing the mission. But shame comes when his vision, direction and instructions are not followed and are even openly defied. When one or more in the group break bad and operate outside the stated parameters, it reflects on him, and shame follows.
Shame is also brought on the disobedient ones, at least when and if they realize they've been wrong, but the leader feels that shame almost immediately when those in his charge defy his direction and/or do something to hurt the group.
It's one thing, however, to disrespect those in proper human leadership in our lives (such as when children defy their parents or a wife ignores her husband's wishes in favor of her own), but it's another to defy The Father. This metaphor of the family structure as applies to our relationship to the Father is an even better descriptor because we indeed are His children and we are the Bride of Christ. Just in the name Father we have the metaphor built in.
It's interesting how modern movies and sitcoms make the human father an untrustworthy buffoon and laughing stock while representing the woman as the real leader with the wisdom/intelligence and the children as defiant brats who get away with everything. This is a projection that Satan wants us to place on the Father Himself. His inversion and breakdown of the hierarchy the Father set up for our earthly families rebels against His Word, but against the Word of God overall, and against the authority of the Father. When we break the Father's law with regard to family order this opens the door to demons to tempt us to break every other part of the Father's law. This is why there's so much resulting divorce and adultery, and the children of single parent households have grossly higher chances of becoming criminals and ne-erdowells.
Defiance against a husband and father by both wife and children (especially if the earthly dad is is doing right by the Father himself) ultimately is a type of defiance against our Heavenly Father which spills over into manifold other sins.
But overall, our behavior, that is to say, how we treat the Father and others, when measured against our alignment with His Word/Torah, indicates whether or not we love and respect Him, which is always measured by if we are in obedience to Him. Jesus said,
"If ye love me keep my commandments..." (John 14:15), and,
"He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." (John 14:21), and
"If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me" (John 14:23-24).
Jesus has made perfectly clear that "the how" of what we do to express our love for the Father and his Son Jesus, and this is wrapped up in being obedient to His commandments. Being obedient to the commandments is also how we show love for others as 1 John 5:2 reminds,
"By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."
If our family units are out of order it becomes a truism that a house divided cannot stand. Even if the man acquiesces to the wife and/or children to make a type of (short-lived) peace and the wife and children do take over, as modern fictional sitcoms would indicate we should do, then chaos and tyranny will reign, because Satan's way of inversion inevitably always leads to both. Being that the wife and children are not equipped by the Creator to assume those role of family leader (as Satan is not equipped to be God but still insatiably tries), they can't take on the position of leadership without taking on Satan's characteristics and behaviors, and will drive the family unit into the ground, destruction ensuing.
You can see this phenomena in any organization. When the one who is properly in charge is defied or disobeyed and the overall vision of that leader is overtaken by an opposing set of values and behaviors by those he is over, the original vision then fails, and a new diverting one arises which takes away from the original purpose and whatever profitable outcome it may have produced. Organizations can't operate properly with too many chefs in the kitchen throwing too many conflicting ingredients in the pot. A husband should talk things over with the second in command, his wife, but ultimately the buck stops with him. The wife should follow and promote with the children what the husband/father wants to see happen. This is where Paul goes wrong, and where those who follow Paul's teachings go wrong. They completely miss what the Father has been saying to us and take on Paul's satanic chirpings that cause the people to go after him and ultimately Satan, instead of after the plain teachings of the Father and His Son Jesus.
The Father's proper order is always predicated on the Father's law which was set up for our benefit, and subsequently the leader should (as Jesus did, or the Prophets before Him such as Moses, Samuel, etc.) keep the Father's law for himself in order to be a proper conduit as a leader of others. The most important aspect of all of this is that the Father and His Word (Jesus) are put above all else, by all involved. (Paul demoted Torah and Jesus' Words to that of a curse).
Following the Father's order, with each person in the group assuming their proper role, is where the yoke will be easy and the burden light for all. The biggest burden of all is when we try, like Satan trying to be God, to take on a role that is not ours, or above or below our assigned "pay grade." Covetousness, jealousy and greed always lead to trying to be in position for which we have not been assigned and is what doesn't allow us to accept the peaceful position the Father has ordained each one of us to occupy.
Still, no matter where any of us are in the organizational chart, each position is extremely vital and pivotal to the operation of the group. All involved hold great power, to help the organization move forward, either to accomplish its mission or to fail.
One of the main indicators of how things will go in the organization is how the people who are lower in the hierarchy respond to leadership. It's an interesting dynamic because you might think that all the power rests with the leader but ultimately the power rests in the people of the organization and their willingness to be obedient to that leadership. If the "ship's crew" decides to mutiny, the whole vision and mission is lost, and there's not much the captain can do about it once the situation has gotten too far out of hand.
Mutinies lead to lost ships and the resulting loss of life, treasure and peace, and so it is in any organization where righteous leadership is upturned. A big caveat, if you're following an evil leader, you need to pray for deliverance. No need to stay in any organization where following that leader leads to you sinning. Just as when we become born again, we stop following Satan and follow after the perfect Leader: Jesus Christ. He truly is our only Shepherd, but nevertheless, on earth, especially in families, there is a hierarchy and we should embrace our roles. Even the Ten Commandments and the Torah itself tell children to honor and obey their parents, and the woman's role is to follow her husband and act as a help mate to the vision the Father gives Him. Isaiah tells us that it's a cursed people whose women and children lead the men. It was never meant to be so.
One of the Biblical metaphors for the body of Believers is that we are the bride of the Groom, the Bride of Christ. When you think about a marriage relationship in this light, you realize why the woman being in obedience to her husband is proper, just as we should be in obedience to Christ.
From this position, the wife has way more power than she might think even though she is lower in the hierarchy. Proverbs 14:1 says, "Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands." She has the power to build the house or to pluck it down.
But how would she pluck it down? By being belligerent and defiant to her husband and that which the Father leads him to do. If she tries to take the wheel away from the man, who is properly in charge, and steer the ship by her own will in defiance of what the Father is leading him to do, the organization itself will fall apart and the house will certainly be brought down. This is why Solomon said,
"It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman" (Proverbs 21:19).
A husband cannot properly lead such a woman, and because she won't be led and will fight him at every turn, it would be better for that relationship not to be. This is even more important when you consider Believers as being the bride of Christ. When we are in defiance of Him and His commandments, we are exactly as the contentious and angry woman. When Jesus returns, those of us in such a state will be found without "oil" (the Holy Spirit) in our lamps (Matthew 25) because the only way to get the Holy Spirit is to keep the Commandments (John 14:15-30).
One can easily use the same allegory with how children treat their parents: they are supposed to honor and obey both, and for as long as they do not, the house will be in utter disarray and chaos. If the parents can't or won't bring the children into the state of obedience to them and discharge their responsibility, failing to correct them, then the children will raise themselves and that will not go well (until those children make their lives right with the Word).
"The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame" (Proverbs 29:15).
The mother who doesn't correct her child and leaves him to himself will eventually bring the mother to shame because he will eventually break the commandments and so something evil, which will result in shame for their whole house, but especially the parents. Even if the child is raised correctly can break bad, and, if he does wrong he would still bring the parents a type of shame, but they would not bear culpability in that they raised him properly and in the admonition of the Father.
Psychology has classified a disorder among children who are habitually defiant. It's called
One could consider the first king of Israel, Saul, as an example of this behavior even as an adult. After he defies the Father's commands, and blame shifts to the people, and Samuel prophecies that the kingdom will be torn from his hands, he begins his vindictive vendetta against David (who was innocent). Saul brought shame to the Father and even to Samuel who wept over Saul continuously until the Father stopped Samuel from doing so.
King David, as a child of God, also brought shame to the Father in what he did in defiantly committing adultery with Bathsheba and in having her husband, Uriah the Hittite, killed. Nathan said it to David this way,
"And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die" (2 Samuel 12:13-14).
The Father, who loved David desperately, was ashamed of David and what he had done because David had given Satan truthful grounds of breaking Torah by which to accuse David, the Father's beloved servant.
This state of bringing shame to the Father as His children or to Jesus as His bride, should be desperately avoided. But sadly, people who follow Paul and his gobbly-gook doctrines, have been led by him to break the Father's commandments as well, and to bring shame to the Father inasmuch as Paul followers, due to his lies, could care less about the Father's commandments and His Son's instructions and have given the enemies of the Father great "occasion to blaspheme."
We know Satan has gone before the Father to bring accusation against us, as he did with Job (Job 1 and 2) and as it is written of Sata in Revelation, that he accuses the brethren before the Father night and day. When we actually do sin, we are giving him a truthful basis for which to speak against us. Satan doesn't even have to lie about us to the Father when we do wrong, and that shames the Father because we are supposed to be his children, his servants, we are supposed to obedient to Him.
I can see the Father's eye lids drop closed and his head hung low at the hurt of knowing that those He's supposed to trust as His servants sin against His word. It's so sad and I am so ashamed myself to have so often been a part of shaming Him in any way. We all should be ashamed that we brought Him shame through sin. Maybe then we all could be rehabilitated to doing right again.
But we can't do that as long as we follow Paul and the teachings of Acts. Paul and Acts literally lead believing Gentile converts to shame the Father by teaching them that they can determine their own way of doing things, within the confines of the things Paul says we must do such as obey man implicitly, calling them ministers of God (Romans 13) while saying we are bewitched to follow Torah (Galatians 3) and that if we don't keep the his own personal list of dos and don'ts (Galatians 5) we will go to hell.
Examples of this are many: Paul will tell you (and Hebrew Believers - Acts 21) that the everlasting covenant of circumcision (Genesis 17) has been done away with and that you're bewitched if you do it, even though he circumcised Timothy (Acts 15).
Paul will tell you not to be concerned with keeping the Father's Sabbaths, that no one day is more important than another, even though the Father sanctified and hallowed not only the weekly Sabbath (Exodus 20), but all the Feast Days, too.
Paul will tell you that you can disregard the Father's laws with regard to eating of clean and unclean animals. He says you can eat whatever you want and you are not to judge anyone for eating what you think the Father says you can't.
Paul will tell you how you can eat things sacrificed to idols, too, while these things have been forbidden by the Father from the beginning and are why the first two commandments are even in place. (Thou shalt have no other gods before me, thou shalt not make any graven image...). Jesus Himself rebukes those who do so in both Revelation 2:14 and 2:20, making it a salvation issue.
Paul leads his readers to believe that as long as you "receive Jesus" you can determine as to what degree you honor these things based on your own conscience, and along with that states that we are not "judge" one another's decisions in regard to this, even implying that the person you are judging is the Father's servant and only the Father can judge His servants.
This completely belies the fact that we are supposed to know right from wrong, based on the Father's Torah law, and be able to judge a person's fruits as to whether they are loving the Father by keeping His commandments, as well as to be able to determine if we should have fellowship with people who choose to break the Father's commandments.
Paul also constantly speaks of maintaining unity, but what the devil is trying to do through Paul is bring all Believers to the lowest common denominator, not criticizing the breaking of the Father's laws, and instead become little satanic Aleister Crowleys, a 19th century satanist who wrote, "Do what thou wilt is the whole of the law." In these instances Paul echoes those sentiments.
Paul also belittles in every instance those who are concerned with honoring the law by saying that they are the weak ones, or that they have a weak conscience. He implies the stronger conscienced person is the one who can break the Father's law without guilt or shame, and thus the one who does feel the guilt has the weaker.
This, obviously, is an inversion of what is true, that is to say, the person with the stronger conscience would be the one WHO DOES NOT WANT TO HURT THE FATHER BY BREAKING THE COMMANDMENTS. The one who doesn't feel guilt about breaking them, rather than having a strong conscience is the one who is hard hearted, stiff necked and cruel to the Father for doing so.
So Paul's inversion teaches us to be a disbodient and rebellious children to the Father, and as the Bride of Christ, a disobedient and rebellious wife (metaphorically speaking) to the Messiah.
And in being so we bring shame to that relationship. We honor the Father and His Son Jesus with our lips by saying we are Believers and that we love Him, but with our behavior and actions in defying His commandments we show that our hearts are far from Him and bring great shame upon Him.
Belligerent and rebellious children are a shame to their parents and beligerant and rebellious wives are a shame to their husbands. With Paul's demonic help, many who call themselves Christians are a shame to the Father and His Son Jesus: in every single way.
In the mighty name of Jesus, may we all see the truth of this and repent, and then find it in our hearts to make things right, to take in the Father's law, the Torah, the Prophets, and the words of Jesus Himself, and make our lives right so we can be pleasing in His sight. May we ignore the false prophets that lead us away from obedience to the Father and His Son Jesus' commands and become those servants who wait on their Lord to do Him good all the days of our lives. May this also be reflected by the peace that results in our homes as we order ourselves correctly within the hierarchy the Father has created for us. If we are right toward the Father, our families should have peace, too. Those who rebel against the Father is why Jesus didn't come to bring peace but a sword to families. Without the rebellion against Him there would be no division.
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