"From such withdraw" is a
command similar to many other commands in the Bible. Job 28:28
states that wisdom is the fear of the Lord and understanding is to
depart from evil. To be sanctified and separated from evil is the
goal of the Christian life. I Timothy 6:3-5 states that the Word
of Christ commands us to withdraw from all people professing Christ who
refuse to teach exactly what Christ commands in verses 1 and 2.
St. Paul and St. Peter both insist that even evil slave masters are to
be highly honored and obeyed because Christ commands it. The
words "from such" includes all professors who fail to require honor and
obedience be given to all those whom Christ has chosen to bestow his
authority on. Jesus Christ has given husbands the authority and
the duty to command their wives. Jesus Christ gives the authority
and the duty to Kings and civil magistrates to command the people in
their jurisdiction. He has likewise given authority and duty to parents
to command their children. We know this to be true because Jesus
said in Matthew 28:28: "All authority in heaven and earth is given unto
me... teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you."
The United
States of America celebrates its birthday on the 4th of July.
Abraham Lincoln said in his Gettysburg address that in 1776 our nation
was conceived in liberty. However in 1775 and 1776 John Wesley
and his appointed successor John Fletcher both wrote extensively
arguing against Lincoln's position. In "American Patriotism
Farther Confronted"
Fletcher writes in the second sentence of
his
preface: "The duty of paying taxes to the protective power, is so
strongly connected with Christianity, that the Colonists must
practically give up the Scriptures, or submit to the reasonable demands
of the British legislature." Likewise in his "Vindication of
Wesley's Calm Address" he states that the principles the colonists
were
contending for were unscriptural. John Wesley in his "A
Calm
Address
to our American Colonies" concludes that the liberty the
Colonists were fighting for was liberty from God and His Law.
John Henry
Hopkins the head bishop of the Episcopal Church wrote in 1864 that the
subversion of the scriptural, ecclesiastical and historical teaching on
the righteousness of the Master/slave relationship in this country
began with the anti-Christian sentiments found in the Declaration of
Independence. In the Declaration of Independence a direct attack
on the authority of Christ is made. America has laid its
foundation on the principle that all authority to command another
person comes through the consent of the person being commanded.
This principle gives the person being commanded authority over the one
commanding. This is a satanic perversion of the authority
that Christ imparts to the husband, father, king, and slave master
etc. When one considers the huge influence that the Freemasons
exerted over the founding of the United States and that many
denominations of Christians have insisted that Masons worship Satan it
is not hard to figure out that this country is founded on a principle
that completely reverses God's order of authority. The Colonist's
motto was "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." Jesus
said: "Take up your cross daily and follow me." These two
statements are in direct opposition to each other.
Please read
the following rebukes against the Colonists by the first two leaders of
the methodist church. If Wesley and Fletcher are right then the
principles of a leveling democracy we have been and continue to fight
for are
subversive of orthodox Christianity. We must confess the sins of
our fathers and put our faith in the "blood of Christ which redeems us
from the vain conversation received by tradition from our fathers."
