Law
I'm going to keep talking about law because it's so pervasive yet invisible to us.
Islam is all law and no gospel. Totalitarian states are all law and no gospel. When you have law minus the gospel you have the formula for the demonic. Because law is then distorted, twisted, and turned upside-down from what it truly is: God's perfect law.
There is no law other than God's law. When we aren't in harmony with God's law (as Adam was in the garden) God's law becomes a curse. And it is used by fallen angels and fallen man to coerce and imprison and destroy. Fallen angels are administrators of false religions. Fallen man administers repressive governments. Fallen humans also control at the social level other humans using finger wagging of various degrees of fierceness. This is all the use of God's law, tbough distorted and twisted, if not utterly turned upside-down.
How does the law have this power? Sin, and the presence of death. The presence of sin in us is the power of the law. The dictator looks at his mass subjects and says, "You know you're guilty. You know you're polluted." This is why the prisoner of the police state goes to his cell or his hanging half knowing he deserves it.
And the existence of death provides fear and a punishment. Mere suffering short of death as well. The prospect of suffering and death gives power to the law as fallen angels and fallen man wield it. And again, the law becomes twisted and distorted as it is wielded by fallen angels and fallen man. Without the gospel it is demonic to begin with.
This understanding of the law is the tangible thing that we live in and under. The smothering thing that weighs on us and constricts and coerces us. The medium we live within. We can't escape it. We can only use the friction from it to develop. And of course as believers we are free of its curse aspect. To develop within it is to follow the commands and teachings of Jesus Christ. Gratitude over resentment, for everything, all the time. Love God, and love your neighbor as yourself. Be awake and love your enemy. Conscious labor and intentional suffering. These teachings are how to do battle with the demonic use of the law against us so as to grow in grace...until glory... - C.
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"We basically walk, wherever we walk, in a dark medium of the distorted and twisted law of God as enforced by fallen man and fallen angels. (Faith in Jesus and His work on the cross frees us and saves us.)"
Also doing battle with it based on Jesus' teaching in the Gospels. Michael Heiser has brought out well in the biblical text that Jesus was doing battle with fallen angels throughout the Gospels. Higher up angels, archangels, fallen, control nations, territories, false religions. They use God's law, perverted. Just as Kim Jung Un. Just as our social set (when we go rogue)... - C.
When Jesus says love your enemy he's teaching us how to do battle with the law as wielded by fallen man and fallen angels. When Jesus says if we are struck on the cheek, offer the other cheek to be struck he again is teaching us how to do battle with the fallen use of the law. Our enemy wants us resentful, imprisoned, destroyed. Jesus says be grateful. There is suffering before glory. Jesus also says be wary as a serpent and harmless as a dove. I.e. we can defend ourselves, and we shouldn't court danger as sport.
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