Add
navigation to this page!
Whom,
do you serve?
By
Michael Didier
Jesus said, “Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One
is your Father, He who is in heaven.”1
Do we choose others in our lives to take the place of our one
true Father? Have we given our heavenly Father’s authority
away to mere men, or even worse women? Are these pseudo fathers part of His perfect
plan for those who say God is their Father?
How many “fathers” can we obey?
Our Father in heaven
has His own societal structure. True authority always flows from
Him, to His Son and from His Son to the man and from the man to the woman. Today this
structure has been thoroughly perverted since we have left the
foundations of our faith, the torah (the instructions) of Moses
and the Prophets. I want you to see and understand through the following examples that our Father in Heaven leads men
in His ways and the men then have the responsibility to lead their
families.
“And
the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
being.”2
Notice, it was man that was created first. It was to Adam that
the commandment was given that He may eat of all the trees in
the garden “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, you shalt not eat of it...;”3
and He “put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”4
Eve was created so that Adam “should not be alone”5
and that he would have a “helper comparable to him.”6
Adam was required to teach Eve God’s commandments, but she “in
time of temptation fall away”7
“and he (Adam) ate”8
after her. They did not obey their Father and fell away.
It
was Noah and his family whom the Father saved from all the
families of the earth because “Noah was a just man and
perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God (He
obeyed).”9
When the Father gave Noah instructions, we are told “thus
did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.”10
Notice he did not do as the rulers of the land commanded or what
his “friends” thought he should do. He obeyed the Father!
Can you hear what his wife must have said? “God told you to
build a what?” But, she followed him, as he followed the
Father.
Abraham
was commanded by YHWH to “Get out of your country, and from
your family, and from your father's house.”11
This “getting out” broke the ties Abraham had with his city,
family, and his birth father. Abraham obeyed the Father and took
his wife, his nephew Lot, all his servants and left. I wonder what Sarah thought about the
whole “leaving deal.” She too had to leave her friends and
family but she followed Abraham as he obeyed the Father.
Moses,
“when he became of age, refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with
the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.”12
When the Father told him to go back to Egypt
to bring His people out of the land, he obeyed
the Father, not Pharaoh. Pharaoh did not like the idea at all and lost
his life because he would not obey the God of Moses.
I would guess Zipporah, Moses’ wife, was not too thrilled
about the whole wilderness deal, but she was there with him.13
Our Father's authority structure here on earth flows from Him, to men
(specifically the father, the head of the family unit), to
women and then to children.
When Moses received the commandments, statutes, judgments and
ordinances from YHWH, they were not given to women but
rather to men. Here are some examples.
Leviticus 18:22 reads, “You
(the man) shall not
lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.
And the following verse says, "Nor shall you (the
man)
mate with any animal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before
an animal to mate with it. It is perversion.” These, as you can see, are
written to the God's men.
In Numbers chapter 30 we have another great
example of the man leading his household. This chapter deals
with the vows the Father’s people make. It starts with these
words. “These
are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man
and his wife, and between a father and his daughter in
her youth in her father's house.”14
The gist of this chapter is that when a man makes a vow it can
not be changed or cancelled. If a women or a daughter make a vow
it will stand also, unless the husband or the father,
when he first hears about it, voids it. If he says nothing, the
vow will stand. The man, as you see here, is the head of the
household. Paul concurs with that sentiment, saying that “the head of every man is Christ, the head of every woman is
man, and the head of Christ is God.”15
Each year, at the feast of Tabernacles (a
required yearly gathering16)
all the males, 20 years and older, were required to appear
before “the LORD” (YHWH) at the temple.17
At this event the High Priest or the King, if they had one
appointed by the Father, was required to read the law, the
“Torah” to all the men in attendance. The father, the head of the household,
was then required to teach his family18
the Father’s commandments. Every 7 years the whole family was
required to appear at this event.19
Moving
on in History. We have a major decline in YHWH's perfect
authority structure. When the Father’s people asked Samuel to
give them a king, he (Samuel) was “displeased.”
Samuel was upset because the Father’s perfect authority
structure was being rejected. He was told to “hearken to
the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they
have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I
should not reign over them.”20
If the Father’s people were to have a king as their father,
instead of Himself, he had some strict requirements concerning a
king21
and warnings about how their lives would change with a king.22
The worst effect of this choice is that they become “his
servants,” not the Fathers.
All
the kings the Father appointed, he also anointed; if He did not
anoint them, He did not choose them either. Some examples of
His anointed kings were Saul,23
David,24
and Jehu25
the son of Jehoshaphat. Even with my few examples of kings the Father
did choose and anoint, he
was disappointed with 2 out of 3; Saul26
and Jehu27
did not obey Him. His king’s were to keep His commandments, Jesus
did, and He will continue to do so.
Second
Kings chapters 22-23 describe Josiah, an eight year old boy who
reigned over
Judah for 31 years. Josiah “did that what was right in
the sight of YHWH, and walked in all the ways of his father
David; he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.”28
What a wonderful testimony for a king! But, it gets better.
The summation of Josiah’s life is described this way. “Now
before him was there no king like him, who turned to the LORD
with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might,
according to all the law of Moses; nor after him did any arise
like him.”29
What made Josiah one of the premier kings to the Father’s
people? He obeyed the Father!
In contrast, let's look at the kings “we choose” that do not even
think about the Father, much more, obey Him. The
Government of Rome, which is what the US
government is structured after, had Caesar as its head. It, like
the “thirteen united (small “u”) States of America”30,
started out as a republic, not a democracy and certainly not a
theocracy. As
Rome
became more corrupt, Caesar became known as "vicarious
pater" or substitute father31;
thus placing himself between the true Father and man
(Satan's ultimate plan). Considered
like God, he (Caesar) was the man who appointed other gods, other elohiym (rulers and judges). These
men, then became the ones who decided how
men should live their lives instead of our true Father.
Sometimes,
we, the Father’s people choose kings like Caesar or make
covenants with those nations which do not obey the Father. This
behavior has always been upsetting to our Creator.
This betrayal is not new, it is what His people have always done,
from the beginning, even until today. “The thing that has
been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that
which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”32
Nothing has changed.
Hosea
describes Israel, the Fathers people this way. “Their drink
is rebellion: they commit harlotry continually: with
shame do they give love to their rulers.”33
Hosea continues speaking, “Set the trumpet to your mouth.
He shall come as an eagle against the house of the
LORD, because they have transgressed My covenant, and rebelled against
My law. Israel
(His people) shall cry unto Me, “My God, we know
You” (“... Lord, Lord haven't we cast out devils in
Your name...”34).
Israel
has rejected the good; the enemy will pursue
him. They have set up kings, but not by me: they
made princes, but I did not acknowledge them.”35
And again Hosea writes, “I (YHWH) will be your king; ... I
gave you a king in mine anger, and took him away in My wrath.”36
James,
the brother of Jesus writes, “Adulterers and adulteresses!
Do you not know that friendship with the world (the "kosmos”)
is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore wants to be a friend of the
world makes himself an enemy of God.
... Therefore submit to God.”38
This ”kosmos” is defined as "an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order,
government."37
The "good news" that Jesus proclaimed was that the
Kingdom of Heaven was at hand. He said repent and believe that
good news. We have a kingdom within us if we have been born of
His spirit and His people follow the "harmonious arrangement"
of that government.
When
the whole multitude arose and led Him (Jesus) to Pilate, listen
to what they (the adulterers and adulteresses) had to say about
Jesus. “And they began to accuse Him, saying, We found this
fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay
taxes to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ, a
King.”39
Now,
look what is recorded in Acts chapter 17. “But the Jews who were not
persuaded, ... dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the
city, crying out, These who turned the world upside down
(perverting the nation) have come here too. Jason
has harbored them: and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of
Caesar (forbidding to give tribute to Caesar), saying
that there is another king, one Jesus (saying that he
himself is Christ a King).”40
"Jason and some brethren" were apparently listening to the same Father that Jesus was
listening to.
When
John the Baptist appeared on the scene from the wilderness he
said, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand!”41
He continued still quoting Isaiah, “Prepare the way of
YHWH; make His paths straight.”42
Jesus too came “preaching the gospel (the good news) of the kingdom
of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom
of God
is at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel (the
good new of the kingdom
of God).”43
Note that "Jesus' gospel", otherwise known as the
"gospel of Jesus", is not about Him. It is the "good new" about
His Father's kingdom.
Think about it! What
did the people, who already said they were the Father’s
people, have to repent of? Is it possible that they served other
fathers besides their Father in heaven and did not obey YHWH's
commandments, His instructions? Is it possible they were serving two masters, one
with their actions and one with their lips?
Jesus’
“good news” about the kingdom is that God can once
again be our only Father and we can be His people.
God’s perfect order of authority can once again be restored.
Isaiah spoke about this same “good news”.
“How beautiful upon the mountains, are the feet of
him that brings good news, ... that says unto
Zion, Your God reigns!”44
That is the “good news,” “our God Reigns,”
or He can!
The
“bad news” came two verses earlier. “Are My people is taken
away for nothing? Those that rule over them make them wail,
says YHWH; and my name is blasphemed continually every day (that is a lot).”45
How are we taken away?
Is it by force? By choice? Or perhaps, by ignorance? Isaiah and Hosea both
shed a similar light on this question. Isaiah says, “Therefore
my people are gone into captivity (why?), because they
have no knowledge.”46
Hosea gives a similar answer. “My people are destroyed for
lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I
also will reject you from being priest to me; (why?)
because you have
forgotten the law of your God.”47
This “going into
captivity,” this “destroying” of the Father’s people is
all do to ignorance, we have forgotten the law of our God.
More truly spoken, we were never taught the law of our God in
the first place. His first commandment is found in Exodus 20,
"You shall have no other gods before me." This
is foundational; What have we done to put ourselves under another
man’s or another government’s
authority instead of our Father’s. The answer
is, we have taking the broad road when we ought to have taken the
narrow one.48
We have made covenants and contracts with the heathen when we
ought to have remained separated, and holy, to our Father. “You
shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.”49
“Unless you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the
land, and they go a whoring after their elohiym (their
rulers and judges).”50
Paul knew our Father's ways, he told the Corinthians in
6:13; "Do not be unequally yoked together with
unbelievers."
It
is our
choices that determine whom our fathers will be. We make choices
every day. Birth
certificates, application for social security benefits, driving
privileges, job applications, voters
registrations, marriage licenses, business licenses and much more are all
“evidence” of our choices. These documents represent the
choices we have made, sometimes with full knowledge, but mostly
choices made in complete ignorance. We have taken the broad road
and done what everyone else has does. After all, isn't that what
we are supposed to do? NO, it is not what we are supposed to
do!! We are supposed to obey our Father who says, “Do not
be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.”51
Paul says, "Were
you called while a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be
made free, rather use it (Do it!).”
Make yourself FREE! Free to serve the King of kings and Him
alone. “You are bought with a price; do not be the slaves
of men.”52
The Declaration of
Independence is the document which declared that all our contracts,
our covenants, with England
were no more. In it we read that “governments are
instituted among men deriving their just power from the consent
of the governed.” Do we have to give our consent to
whomever everyone else does. That would not be consent then,
would it? So, to whom do you give your consent? Most Christians
will say the Father (the Elohiym) but how many masters can we
have? Our actions determine which
father we actually do serve. Either our Father in heaven or the
fathers of the land.
Joshua said it well!
“... choose for
yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods
which your fathers served ..., or the gods of the Amorites (the
US
citizens), in whose land you dwell: but as for me and
my house, we will serve the LORD.”53
He did not say he would obey the “law of the land.” Which by
the way is no where in the scriptures.
For me, my social
security comes from my Father who says, "Do not worry
about tomorrow.”54
My permission to drive comes from my responsibility to "go
into all the world and make disciples in My name."55
My life insurance is actually life assurance! Exodus 23:25 says,
"So you shall serve YHWH your God, ... and He will
take sickness away from the midst of you ... and He will fulfill
the number of your days." My one vote, in this
lifetime, is for King Jesus. “For unto us a Child
is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be
upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful,
Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of
Peace.”56
Since I have been “born again” into a heavenly kingdom,
the old DOB which we receive from the birth certificate (which
most all us have gotten for our children without knowing any
better) is meaningless, for that man was “crucified with
Christ.”57
I married my bride once and for always in a godly covenant,
which He says, “what therefore God has joined together, let
no man (nor woman) put asunder.”58
We
are told in scripture to “Render to Caesar the
things that are Caesar's,” and well we should. If we are
going to live and work in his kingdom and with his numbers, we
must render to that pseudo father the things that are his. By our
covenants we have given him everything, our lives, our families
and our belongings are all his and he can take them at his whim.
We are not even dead until Caesar says we are.
But,
what does the remainder of that verse in Mark 12:17 say? It tells us
to render to "God the things that are God's." What if we were to
render our whole life to our heavenly Father? And purposely choose Him as
our master? What if we gave Him our lives, families, work,
homes, lands, possessions, everything? What if we choose like Josiah to
love “the LORD” with all our heart, soul and might?
What is left for Caesar?
Can
we sever the contracts and covenants that we have made with men
that caused us to inadvertently choose another father? Remember
Paul says if you can be free, do it! This 
severance, this choosing
of another master is what happens when we are born again and confess that
Jesus, not Caesar, is now Lord of our lives. We now serve another
king, King Jesus. Jesus came to “preach deliverance to the
captives.”59
Peter wrote, “For if, after they have escaped the
pollutions of the world (the kosmos) through the knowledge
of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in
them, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the
beginning.”60
Instead of coming out of the pollutions of the world His people,
more times than not, go right back to their “vomit,”
and their “mire.”61
So
who does rule in our lives once we take Jesus as
Lord? The answer should be the Father and His Son, unless we have gone back to,
or never left, Egypt
.“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the
land
of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shalt have no
other
gods before me.”62
In Revelation He tells His people to “come out.”63
Isaiah 52 says “Awake, awake,” and “depart,
depart, go out from there.” Hebrews 11 speaks about our true
forefathers. “And truly if they had called to mind that
country from which they came out (Ur, Egypt, Babylon,
Rome, and every country and nation on the earth), they might have
had opportunity to return. But now they desired a better country,
that is a heavenly country."64
We, the people of God, are always called out of darkness,
we are never, ever, called into darkness, into the kingdoms
of the world; we are always called out of them!
John
wrote, “Love not the world, neither the things that
are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the
Father is not in him.”65
Jesus told His disciples, “If you were of the world (the
kosmos), the world would love its own: but because you are not
of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hates you. If they have persecuted Me, they
will also persecute you.”66
We will never experience this kind of persecution until we begin
to live completely for our Father and “come out.” Jesus
promised “you shall be hated by all for My name's sake. But
he who endures to the end will be saved.”67
Being
born again is only the beginning of our pilgrimage with our new
Lord and His Father. It is not until we begin to seek the
Father’s kingdom and His righteous, to “press toward the
mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,”68
that we will be His people and not the worlds. Each of His
disciples must decide to “be not conformed to this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that
good, and acceptable and perfect will of God.”69
Choose
today whom you will serve. Do not call any man on earth
your father! Follow young Josiah’s example and love the Father
with all your heart, soul and strength.
Does
your God reign? Or are you just saying he does? Please do not be
like those who crucified Jesus, myself included. They said, “Away
with him, away with him, crucify him, crucify him, ... We have no
king but Caesar!”70
The
Kingdom of heaven is at hand. The Father’s perfect authority
structure is still available to each man and his family who wishes
to serve Him.
There
are answers to this coming out process. I would count it my great
privilege to answer any and all of your sincere questions
regarding anything I have discussed in these pages. I can help you
be in the world, but not part of it. It is a wonderful journey, an
adventure, which are Father has set before those who love
him. I may be reached at michael at we are israel .org. Thank you
for your time.
13
Exodus 18:5 “And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his
sons and his wife unto Moses
into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of
God.”
17
Deuteronomy 16:16-17 “Three times in a year shall all thy
males appear before the LORD
thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the
feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of
weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall
not appear before the LORD empty:
Every man shall give
as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God
which he hath
given thee.”
18
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 “And thou shalt teach them diligently unto
thy children, and shalt talk of
them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou
walkest by the way, and when thou liest
down, and when thou risest up.”
19
Deuteronomy 31:10-12 “And Moses commanded them, saying, At
the end of every seven
years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the
feast of tabernacles, When all Israel is
come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place
which he shall choose, thou shalt read
this law before all Israel in their hearing. Gather the
people together, men, and women, and
children, and thy stranger that is
within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn,
and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the
words of this law. And that
their children,
which have not known any thing,
may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye
live in the land whither ye go over
Jordan
to possess it”
21
Deuteronomy 17:14-20 “When thou art come unto the land which
the LORD thy God giveth thee,
and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and
shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the
nations that are about
me; Thou shalt in any wise set him
king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose:
one from among thy
brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not
set a stranger over thee,
which is not thy brother. But
he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause
the people to return
to
Egypt
, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as
the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no
more that way. Neither shall he multiply wives to
himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he
greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his
kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in
a book out of that which is
before the priests the Levites: And it shall be with him, and
he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn
to fear the LORD his God, }plain to keep all the words
of this law and these statutes, to do them: That his
heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that
he turn not aside from the commandment, to
the right hand, or to the
left: to the end that he may prolong his
days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of
Israel.”
22
1 Samuel 8:8-20 “According to all the works which they have
done since the day that I
brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day,
wherewith they have forsaken me, and
served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit
yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner
of the king that shall reign over
them. And Samuel told all the words of the LORD
unto the people that asked of him a king.
And he said, This will be the manner of the king that
shall reign over you: He will take your
sons, and appoint them
for himself, for his chariots, and to
be his horsemen; and some
shall run before
his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands,
and captains over fifties;
and will set them to ear his
ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments
of war, and instruments of his chariots. And he will take
your daughters to be
confectionaries, and
to be cooks, and to
be bakers. And he will take your fields, and
your vineyards, and your
oliveyards, even the
best of them, and give them
to his servants. And he will take the tenth (we
wish!) of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to
his officers, and to his servants. And he
will take your menservants, and your maidservants,
and your goodliest young men, and your asses,
and put them to his work.
He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall
be his servants.
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye
shall have chosen you;
and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
Nevertheless the people refused to obey the
voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will
have a king over us; That we also may be like
all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go
out before us, and fight our battles.”
23 1Samuel 9:16 “To morrow about this
time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin,
and thou shalt anoint him to
be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my
people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked
upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.”
24
1 Samuel 16:12-13 “And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was
ruddy, and withal of a
beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the
LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is
he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him
in the midst of his brethren: and the
Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day
forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to
Ramah.”
25
2 Kings 9:3-6 “Then take the box of oil, and pour it
on his head, and say, Thus saith the
LORD, I have anointed thee king over
Israel
. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not. So
the young man, even
the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead. And when he
came, behold, the
captains of the host were
sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain.
And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To
thee, O captain. And he arose, and went
into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and
said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God
of
Israel
, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even
over
Israel
.”
26
1 Samuel 15:11 YHWH said, “It repenteth me that I have set
up Saul to be king: for he is
turned back from following me, and hath not performed
my commandments. And it grieved
Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.”
27
2 Kings 10:31 “But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of
the LORD God of
Israel
with all his
heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which
made
Israel
to sin.”
30
Declaration of
Independence
, signed July 4th, 1776 at the 2nd
Continental Congress
31
http://www.hisholychurch.net/sermon/FatherAbba.asp
Gregory Williams
“In
Latin the words are from sui meaning of one's own and juris,
the genitive of jus, meaning
right or law. Sui Juris is one who is capable of
managing one's own affairs. Only the patriarch
of a family is sui juris. The first civil governments
based their civil powers on the law of the
family. The individual citizen would be able to acquire
legal rights by contract but would not be
sui juris.
In
Roman Law Caesar's rights to authority or dominion over
subject citizenry as emperor
stemmed from his position as the "vicarious
pater" or substitute father. The Emperor as father
of the country was one of the few men who was sui juris
as that system devolved into its
centralized imperial position.”
34
Matthew 7:21 “Not every one that says unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which
is in heaven.”
37
“kosmos” #2889 - Thayer’s Greek lexicon Definition:
“an apt and harmonious arrangement or
constitution, order, government”