Are we heading to the Papal system?

We read in Romans 8:7-8, “The carnal mind (thinking of the flesh) is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God”. Galatians 5:17 also says, “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other”. We also read in 1 John 3:8, “For this purpose is the Son of God manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil”.

We who are separated by the Truth are people with different aims and hopes, a different way of living, from those of the world. “We are servants of another kingdom which is not of this world.” John 18:36. We are the representatives of God and His laws in the earth. We are “the tabernacle of witness”. We have been appointed witnesses against human corruption, human intervention and general indifference to His will. We are the children of light and our job is to expose the works of darkness (Eph.5:11).

“Not of the world”. By this we mean, we are out of sympathy with and substantially separated from the system or arrangement of things in which they dwell. We live in a world founded on the thinking of the flesh which is evil in God’s eyes. The religions of this world are false and God-dishonouring when described in the book of Revelation in the awful language of a harlot holding a cup full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication. There is the state church as a daughter of the harlot; that is the Papal and the Catholic Church.

In the scientific and education field many glory in human knowledge and speculation and have no place for God, their theories of evolution making him unnecessary. “As it was in the days of Noah” – very true.

Take our position by nature. Paul wrote about it in Eph.2:1-2, “You were once dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, according to the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience (v.12). You were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise.” Before I put down my pen let us read 1 John 2:27 “And as for you, the anointing which you received of him abides in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you: but as his anointing teaches you all things and is true and is no lie even as it taught you, so you abide in him”.

Bro Charles Daka, (Mufulira, Zambia)