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Date Posted: 07:58:10 12/20/02 Fri
Author: tamarisk
Subject: Sola Power
In reply to: Oh Double YAH??????? 's message, "TAMARISK!!!!!" on 18:02:20 12/19/02 Thu

Lettuce look at the common misinterpretion of your typical 501 c 3 church and pastor.

Rom 13:1-4
1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
(KJV)

What is at stake here. The apostle had taught us, in the preceeding chapter, not to avenge ourselves, nor to recompense evil for evil; but, lest it should seem as if this did cancel the ordinance of a civil magistrate among Christians, he takes occasion to assert the necessity of it, and of the due infliction of punishment upon evil doers, however it may look like recompensing evil for evil.

We are to overcome evil with good. Doing good to your enemy is to feed him and give him drink. Feeding and giving physical drink?? NO! Giving the enemy the spiritual truth according to the Holy Word of G_d. In, "so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head."

Isa 6:6-7
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
(KJV)

Here we have a great revelation of truth by the prophet. We all have reason to go before the Lord, in prayer, because of uncircumsized lips. G_d sends His angels to minister to those of a righteous heart and lips. The "live coal" here is not meant to hurt but to cleanse the lips, for the truth comes from purification by fire and, then, water.

Your typical Pentecostal has it backward. They believe in Baptismal Regeneration, a perversion of Acts 2:38, that the act(man's work--works done in this manner can produce good or bad results) of immersion in a baptismal tank with the evidence of speaking in unknown tongues, produces salvation. This is where the Fowler type fruits and nuts, have NOT fallen too far from the RC tree.

Back to Romans 13. Lettuce look at the word minister.

1249 diakonos (dee-ak'-on-os);

probably from an obsolete diako (to run on errands; compare 1377); an attendant, i.e. (genitive case) a waiter (at table or in other menial duties); specially, a Christian teacher and pastor (technically, a deacon or deaconess):

KJV-- deacon, minister, servant.

So, tell me Fowler Jack, does Frank Keating, George W. Bush, John Ashcroft, the many thousands of judges in the judicial branch of goobermint today, measure up to G_d's standards?

I have friends in an Ohio prison who, during their trial, the judge cleared the courtroom from all spectators and conducted the rest of the trial in secret. They got 10 years in prison for "sending forms through the mail." You only get the amount of justice you pay for. This is what you should expect when entering into the King's Court. You are in the King's Court by virtue of your selling out the the IRS through purchasing certain rights through your 501 c 3.

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