IMPRISONED IN THE WORLD

A short blurb from my new book about the True Church:

ON PATRIOTISM TO JESUS

They (Adam and Eve) had been free range animals, going nearly anywhere they wanted to do except one tree that they were not to trespass to go there.

After being expatriated, they were sent to a gigantic prison that God had made for that purpose. They were sent into the world just as England sent their criminals to Australia as aliens from England.

Just as Australia was a huge prison to the English criminals, the world still is a mega-prison wherein the “warden” lord holds us captive. Do you not realize that you are in a prison that God made before time? Look at its environment (Gen 3): 

1.      They hid themselves from the Presence of God like criminals hiding from the law.

2.      They were disciplined for breaking the rules.

3.      They blamed each other as prisoners are wont to do. They both became the “victims.” Don’t blame us!

4.      Where they were going, they would have enmity (dissension).

5.      There would be no truth outside the Garden walls.

6.      There will be sorrow.

7.      The husband would load her down with rules.

8.      Hard work — like a chain gang — would be assigned to the man.

9.      Death would ensue, implying that time would begin in the world.

10.  Eve would be the “mother-father” like in the word “Moab” previously.

11.  They would require clothes in prison… a coat of many colors.

12.  So, you think God’s rule was hard, in your prison, other prisoners will rule over you. 

Do you not understand, we are not free but are in a prison where bars cannot be seen as if there is an electrified fence keeping us in like the beasts that we are.

Church is sanctuary from the world. It is like a prison chapel where we can go for solace away from our strict but unseen “warden” the Devil.

What do you think Jesus meant when He educated a group of Jews who lived by the Law: 

If you continue in My Word, then are you My disciples indeed, and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

They answered him, “We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest You, ‘You shall be made free?’” (John 8:31-33) 

Like the Jews before, Christians fail to understand that the Law does not pertain to us because we are set free from the things of the world. We are like trustees in a prison system. We are free to go wherever we please, so long as we remain patriotic to the Overseer, Jesus.