Where do our Loyalty Lie?
Loyalty
to religious denominational hierarchies is throwing your allegiance
with man-made ideologies and structured organizations that have
usurped the authority of Christ as Head of His Body, and it hinders
the work of God through the Community of the Redeemed, just as
loyalty to the traditions of men make the written word of God of no
effect in bringing people to the fullness of the Godhead as a witness
to the “Living Word” in the Community of Humanity.
It
is slanderous to the Gospel of Grace as to how easy believers become
loyal to the mixed gospel of law and grace by pledging their
allegiance to wolves in sheep’s clothing, rather than pledging
their allegiance to the Lamb of God.
Religion
is a major force of the world system. By definition, it is a system
that is concerned with form, regulations, rituals, ceremony and
tradition, rather than life.”Holding a form of godliness but having
denied the power thereof” (2 Tim. 3:5). Paul clearly writes about
this in Galatians 4:1-3. He referred to the religion of His Fathers
as the elements of the world system and to all who ascribe to it as
“children”...in bondage, under guardians and stewards”.
The
Galatian believers were turning back to the old religious order. Paul
asked them, “Now however, that you have come to know God, rather to
be known by God, how can you turn your back again to the weak and
beggarly elemental spirits? How can you want to be enslaved to them
again?” (Gal 4:-9).
Like
Paul, our summation should be, “May I never boast of anything
except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the World
(system) has be crucified to me, and I to the world (system) (Gal.
6:14).
If
you read this verse in context you will find that it is sandwiched
between two verses dealing with old religious observances of
circumcision and keeping the law. Although Judaism and the Law
originated with God, its purpose was fulfilled in Christ, and
remaining loyal to it distracted people from God’s eternal purpose.
This old religious system was abolished in Christ. Paul warned that
returning to its bondage us rejecting the finished world of Jesus on
the Cross and embracing the world system.
Our loyalty should be to Christ. We are instructed in Scriptures to obey those who have the rule over us but only if we don`t have to disobey Christ to do it. For instance the law of Daniels`s day said nobody was to be found praying but Daniel could rightly break the law here because he had to disobey God in obeying this law.
ReplyDeleteHaving said that if we can find a good denomination or church organization standing for the essential doctrines of the Christian faith we should stand with it and be loyal to it as long as we don`t have disobey Christ to do it.
We are living in a day of great deception with all different types of churches.
We have Emergent churches
We have seeker sensitive churches
We have so called grace churches
We have so called unity churches at expense of truth.
So when I find a church as Christ described in Book of Revelation I thank God for it.(Rev.3:8)
I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.