The
fullness and perfection of GOD’s
kingdom does not yet exist on the earth.
Today,
reply is on priesthood, sexual abuse, and the process of sacred law
within the kingdom of GOD. Since the fall of Adam, sexuality is an
aspect of authentic humanity governed more by mechanical process and
natural law than by the indwelling spirit imparted from the makeup of
GOD as life essence.
The justice of GOD as seen provided to the first pair is directed to
preserving life, renewing creation, and making the universe secure.
Those outside the church are cautioned to understand that the
extraordinary goal and process for the body of Christ—to draw
sinners into a saving relationship with divinity—requires
sacred administration, authority, autonomy, continuity, creativity,
discipline, and discretion. More than this, extremes of sacrifice,
fulfillment of promise and prophecy, sharing, and unselfishness also
must appear. For both heaven and earth, the operations of sin may
dominate awareness and self-will (willpower) within created beings
and living creatures. The mindset and mission of the church is to
make divinity knowable, known, approachable, and accessible through
the lifestyles and daily routines of its members. Anointed and
ordained workers are provided to display and make visible inseparable
aspects of divine fullness. Included are commitment, faith,
forbearance, forgiveness, holiness, lovingkindness, oneness without
sameness, personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin. The operations
of the church may not be compared or contrasted with those of the
world as a belief system providing survival made up from secular
organizations, governments, and codes of civil law. The church is to
be acknowledged as a kingdom set apart, and the
new creation of GOD. The
church does not function without law, sacred principles, focused
doctrine, and tested practices. The church has even appeared having
its own courts, inquisitors, prisons, and punishments. It is
written: Ezekiel 18: 20-23, King James Version (KJV): 20 The soul
that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of
the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son:
the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the
wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. 21 But if the wicked
will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my
statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely
live, he shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he hath
committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his
righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 23 Have I any
pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD:
and
not that he should return from his ways, and live? One of the
fighters at “Yahoo! Answers” using the ID “Anonymous” (no
profile information shared) posted the following:
Why
have there been so many instances of Catholic priests being moved to
other places (keeping their jobs) after sexually abusing children?
Do
people in the Catholic church not believe that sexual abuse should be
stopped or at least reported to the authorities?
Are
Christian values more important to them than secular values?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is
this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the
unsearchable riches of Christ; And to make all men see what
is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of
the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus
Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in
heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold
wisdom of God, According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in
Christ Jesus our Lord: (Ephesians 3: 8-11, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Comfort Through New Life (08/22/2019); Responses To
Clergy Scandals (03/28/2019); Challenges To The Church? (03/01/2019);
Appetite and Human Sexuality? (10/19/2018); Thoughts on Sexual
Relationships (03/07/2017); The Cross Condemns Fornication
(05/20/2016); Scandal and Sin Among Believers? (06/05/2015)
“Anonymous”,
for those not belonging to the church and the kingdom of GOD
(misfits; outsiders), the issues of administration and government for
others who are anointed and ordained as priests embrace many secular
elements that foster and continue spiritual confusion. For many the
church is a form of family that encourages and permits the same
flexibility, intimacy, and respect as ones home. Invisible elements
of guilt, purpose, and wrong-doing are not easily separated from
those of the commitment by divinity to those vulnerable to sin, the
provision of divine mercy for those found guilty in judgment, the
continuous divine display of unconditional love, and the certain
truth that divine righteousness will prevail. There are such unseen
features as cause, consequence, effect, hope, and origin.
Priesthood
is not an industry that provides its workers with a “job”,
professional employment, or a guaranteed career. Through the
priesthood things that are immaterial, invisible, yet, active and
present are brought into clear focus. Priesthood is a form of
servitude distinguished through such features as commitment;
conformity to the image of GOD, and the life and ministry of Jesus
Christ; humility; longsuffering; oneness without sameness; and
personhood. Priests and all who follow Christ are to resemble,
reflect, and reveal the character and likeness of their Redeemer and
Savior. Even so, none on the earth are as yet perfected; and all
must be understood as in a process of transformation that will be
complete only at the appearing of the Lord to harvest those who are
his from the earth (we say, the Advent; the Rapture; the Second
Coming).
Men
lose jobs everyday without also losing their homes, their spouse,
their offspring, their ability to function and apply their needed
skill in new settings and situations. Similarly, Christian believers
err, fall short of divine standards, and transgress sacred law on a
daily basis. Even so, the kingdom of GOD is not overturned and
threatened, nor is the word of GOD made vain and bereft of power.
There are provisions from GOD for cleansing, continuing grace,
healing, recovery, and renewal. The process and substance of
divinity has priority for those in priesthood, and makes it that the
“letter” of the law must be applied and read with an awareness of
the spirit conveyed by the law along with divine prerogatives, sacred
precedents, eternal purpose, and the sovereign will of GOD.
Sexuality
is a permanent aspect of human makeup attendant to the flesh in the
same way hunger and thirst exist from birth to death. The expression
and meaning of sexuality changes for us as we advance through stages
of growth and maturity. The priesthood is an appearance of divinity
using human flesh as in the Incarnation; and it would not be correct
to deny priests freedom to express their authentic humanity on the
basis of their connection to divinity. Attacks against the
priesthood and those who serve Christ as apostles, clergy, prophets,
and spokespersons also are to be dealt with among believers as
attacks against the person of Christ. Often, such disguised attacks
appear against the priesthood, against the grace of GOD, and against
salvation for mankind. The element of sexuality alone is not enough
when seeking to compose a “jury of our peers.” While fasting
(feeding on the word of GOD) may be accomplished for as much as 40
days and 40 nights, appetite is not eliminated by imagination, reason
and thought; it is suppressed and answered by operations of spirit
substance imparted from the makeup of GOD. Within the church as a
body, many priests receive chrism that replaces the sexual appetite;
however, others must also endure the same challenges, conflicts,
stresses, and tensions experienced among those to whom they minister
(e.g., bankruptcy, divorce, drought, poverty). King David, King
Solomon, and the Apostle Paul are acknowledged as important examples
and instruments regarding divine instruction on human sexuality.
Also, consider the following that uses language from the Bible, and a
selection from the music ministry of John Michael Talbot:
(1.)
1st John 1: 5-10, King James Version (KJV): 5 This then
is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that
God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we
have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not
the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we
have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his
Son cleanseth us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our
sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not
sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
(2.)
Romans 8: 33-35, KJV: 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of
God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he
that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is
risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
(3.)
Psalms 34: 22, KJV: 22 The LORD redeemeth the
soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be
desolate.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example,
(4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozsJSXJ3gWQ.)
Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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