Problems with the Unholy Trinity

In past history the concept of kingship has been taken to its extreme and shown to be very undesirable – people in extreme power use and abuse other people destructively. The solution offered to counter the problems produced by kingship was the supremacy of law. The Magna Carta demanded obedience from kings as well as others. We are now beginning to see the faultiness of the supreme system of law in the use and abuses perpetrated today. Relationships are meaningless compared to a legalistic observance of law. Arbitrary application of selections of millions of laws is used to subject others to the advantage of those in power. It is the abuses of kingship all over again except the power is diversified into many lawmakers and enforcers instead of a single person. This is even more effective to subvert any resistance for there is almost no one that can be held accountable. The system complexes itself to avoid accountability and has the appearance of virtue. It is so effective and attractive that it permeates both secular and religious thinking.

The reason the pope still resists this type of thinking is because he still craves the absolute power of kingship centered in himself and works to wrest control from lawmakers back into his religious dictatorship.

The third part of this unholy trinity, economy, is the lubricant and motivation for both of the other systems. All of todays laws in our legal system when examined carefully and understood correctly are based solely on economics and greed. Law and economics have developed a symbiotic relationship. We have deified the rule of law and politicians as well as religious people praise it publicly as their god. We scorn and attack cultures and countries that are so “backward” as to adhere to the old kingship model, either by corrupt dictators or religious dictators. We are fighting a war in Iraq to supposedly impose the supremacy of law above the rule of religion and corrupt politicians because we insist that our system (god) is superior to their system (god).

Judgment used to take place in the court of kings, either directly or vicariously. The will of the king or his representatives were the law. This became too subjective and unpredictable so laws came more and more into power. Finally law itself was elevated above kings and the world believed it had found the final solution to problems (sin). Democracy is the great experiment of the worship of law and for many years appeared to be highly successful. But as the evilness of men migrated more and more into the system, lawmaking has become more and more a tool of suppression and division. Morality has declined and religious people still cling to the notion that the solution lies in the system of law. They believe that every evil can be solved by just more rules and they believe that God operates by the same method. It is a strong addiction to an illusion that is fatally flawed at its roots.

All of these systems of the unholy trinity of economics, kingship and law are the counterfeit of God's true system rooted in the family model based on relationships and operated in love and the imparting of life. The counterfeits are based on fear, force and various applications of death. They are ultimately based on Satan's unholy trinity of motives – to steal, kill and destroy, though often masked in robes of righteousness. Jesus came to reestablish the model of heaven – to give life and to increase the imparting of life. He came to destroy the works of the Devil and fee the captives and reinstitute the operation of the relational family system.

Jesus pointed us forward to the final day of resolution when all of the counterfeit systems will be exposed and abolished (1 Cor. 15:24). Men will assume that they can defend themselves and retain life by appealing to the observance of law (Matt. 7:21-23). They assume they can justify themselves by argument of performance like we have always been taught to do in our false systems. However, they discover they are not really in a court of law as they are accustomed to thinking, or even a court of a king who can be manipulated as they have previously been. They are in the presence of a Father who is the essence of reality itself which they have used all their false systems to avoid since the beginning of sin. Arguments, falsehood and all the force of the false trinity are seen in the light of perfect reality to be just a sham, an alternative reality that was simply a fiction all along. Externalism had attempted to replace internal integrity, force had tried to replace joyful submission, economics had tried to replace love, kingship had tried to replace family relationships, and law had tried to imitate the indwelling presence of God Himself in all His creatures.

In that final day of revelation it will be seen that the cross of Jesus was not an achievement, it was a revelation of what God is on the inside.

The Umbilical Cord

When I was in my mother's body I used her blood and nervous system which conditioned and trained me how to think, react and perceive reality. Her emotions became my emotions, her feelings my feelings, her fears and joys mine.

To be born again I need an umbilical cord to God to use His blood and nervous system. I need to have a vital connection with Him/Her so intimate that God's feelings, passions and impulses are reflected and expressed in me.

You are because I AM

When God called Moses in the bush, Moses basically said, “I don't know who I am.” His whole identity and value was now very much in doubt. He used to be very confident and sure of himself, but his value was derived from his position and accomplishments. He was adopted into the royal family of Egypt. He was heir to the throne by law. He was a champion leader who had many military victories to his name. He was capable, efficient, savy, good-looking and proud of himself. He also realized his unique calling to deliver his biological relatives from bondage and likely spent time arranging all the various pieces and advantages of his life into various scenarios as to how this would happen. (We do the same thing with our end-time novels.)

Moses was sure he knew who he was and had some terrific and glorious plans for accomplishing great things for God and for his own people. He was excited and eager to take on the challenge and just knew he was the man blessed with all the right talents and resources. He knew he was called of God and what his destiny was. But he may have been baffled that God didn't seem to be initiating anything as things got worse and worse for the slaves, his own relatives. He may have felt that the opportune time was about to pass unused. His own power and advantages were starting to wane and be threatened by intrigue and politics. Jealous power struggles threatened to soon expose his real identity and jeopardize his assumed identity that had been carefully manicured for decades. If he was exposed as being adopted and his roots linked to the slave people his own life as well as the life of his princess mother might be at stake. The pressure was mounting and the stress was becoming enormous.

Then the very nightmare he feared most happened and even worse, because he inadvertently precipitated it himself. In trying to be the hero he was taught to be and combine it with concern for God's chosen people, his whole carefully constructed and well-groomed identity and all his plans collapsed in shame and disgrace. He was forced to run for his life like an escaping slave instead of a brave warrior.

His real fears and insecurity and immaturity burst out into the open and reality hit him unexpectedly changing his life forever. He stumbled into the wilderness confused, angry, ashamed, fearful and very seriously doubting God's intentions to use him and maybe even God's abilities. He was swallowed in darkness and hopeless despair. Sadness for his family, both biological and adopted, wrapped him like a soggy blanket. Pangs of fear for their safety and regrets for his fault in putting them in danger repeatedly shot through him as his mind raced to make sense out of all this chaos. He became deeply disgusted with himself, with the politically corrupt power system that crushed people's lives without any concern and had now ruined his forever. Where was God in all this? Why didn't He intervene if He was so loving and powerful?

Jethro and his family quietly and patiently molded and trained him into the ways of true reality. They could see him with the eyes of heaven past his cultured and damaged exterior. They cooperated with God in teaching him and training both his mind and his heart to value what is really important and become free from the artificialness of the world's system and its measurements of value.

When God appeared to call Moses to start work forty years later he had completely given up all plans of his own. He had fully embraced a humble shepherd's life and assumed he had permanently sabotaged any plans God may have previously had for him. He now no longer had any of the necessary advantages and leverage of power that he felt was needed to accomplish deliverance. He believed God would move to plan B and find someone else better positioned to bring about His plans.

So when God surprised him by instructing him to move ahead with delivering his people, Moses immediately reminded God of all the above. “you must have dialed the wrong number. I'm no longer the man equipped and positioned strategically for the job. I don't even know who I am anymore.”

God came back with what is most important. “I AM. Your identity is received by connection to I AM which is all of your value. You are the one called and empowered and valued by the One who is the source of all value and identity. You are because I AM.”

Assumed Identity

In childhood we learn to treat ourselves the way other people treat us. Our assumed identity is created by the people in charge of our lives. The rest of our life, especially in adulthood, we present an atmosphere that induces people to treat us the way we treat ourselves.

Control

The body of Christ will only function normally when all of its parts release all control to the head and its communication network. That is how the glory will be displayed. Each individual will be “out of control” so that they can be under the full influence of the control of the Holy Spirit.

To the extent that we insist on maintaining control over ourselves we unfit ourselves for synchronization in the body and usefulness for His glory. When we keep control of our lives and destiny we become indirectly controlled via the sarx by demonic influence to a greater or lesser extent. Or we may think we surrender control to another authority. Any authority other than the real Creator will eventually end us up back under the original source and head of that entity which will trace back to Satan.

To entice people to surrender control to Christ, one must first become enamored and captivated by the beauty, attractiveness and fulfillment that is experienced in realizing and participating in our original design. To have the proper motivation, the attraction must overwhelm the objections. This will free us to operate from love rather than selfish fear which still tries to maintain some level of control. True love allows us to abandon ourselves recklessly into trust in God's absolute care for us regardless of the appearance of our circumstances.

This is the filter that transforms all the “perfection” statements from legalistic demands to urgent appeals to not procrastinate releasing control so we won't miss out on sharing His glory when He is revealed.