Kinism and the Fleshly Spirit
The
church is united on a verbal confession of the truth concerning Jesus Christ, not
upon a carnal man. "Thou Art the Christ [Messiah], the Son of the Living
God," [Matt. 16:16ff] every word pregnant
with meaning, is the foundational truth of the church: One Lord, One Faith, One
Baptism. [Eph. 4]
When
the spirit of the flesh trumps the Holy Spirit, in direct denial of the rite of
baptism which witnesses to a spiritual seed not of the flesh, the church becomes
a tool of the family, to promote itself at the expense of the church. The
world of the New Testament is turned upside down, for the church then exists to
promote the needs of the family and you hear things like, "my church, our
church, my family's church, etc.," rather than the church purchased with
the blood of Christ, the Church of God, the Church of the Firstborn, or even
the church of Ephesus, Corinth, etc., as if the church was an adjunct of the
family and strangers need not apply.
In
short, the family becomes an idol rivaling the family idolatry and worship of
pagans who worship their ancestors, but it is difficult to address because the
idolatry is wrapped in the holy terms of "covenant"
"headship" "Patriarch," disguising the idolatry and self-absorption.
A paranoia which shuts out the "world" develops as the attention
shifts more and more to me and mine.
The
sinful family covers and protects members from church discipline, covering
sins, hiding evidence and often become bullies that mistreat other people and
driving them from the church. The error that the flesh trumps the spirit is at
the core of this heresy for they do not understand the implication of Abraham
building his house upon the promise of God and the son of the Promise rather
than the children of the flesh. It is wicked and presumptuous to think that all
the children of the flesh are the children of promise and the elect of God. Ye
must be born again is still the operative message of the church, no matter what
semen produced you.
But
woe unto that preacher who gives the slightest indication that he suspects that
the children of the patriarchs or even the patriarchs themselves, by their
works demonstrate that they know nothing of God or the life of the
Spirit. Remember, they are family, even if they don't believe any thing
that the church teaches. Semen trumps the incorruptible seed of the Word
of God. 1Peter 1:22 "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying
the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye
love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and
abideth for ever." The soul is purified by regeneration not carnal
conception.
