What does “fairness” mean? What is fair and what is not fair? We make a god after our own likeness and call it a fair god. We don’t want to believe that there is a God Who creates billions of people and then when they die He doesn’t give them another life, out of fairness. The god we form in our minds is a god after our own likeness, a god we form after our own beastly nature. Everyone has a version of this god in their own minds, but basically it’s the same type of god. The true God gives life and breath to everything, continually, at all times. We breathe because He is giving us each breath we take. Our heart beats because He is causing each beat. We see with the eyes He has given us. We hear through the ears He has created to hear. We taste, feel, smell every second of every day because He graciously gives it to His creation. But, no one thanks God for these miracles on a daily, hourly basis. We all take for granted what He graciously gives us and He does so without us asking for them. He gives us physical attributes that are unique to just us. He gives us each our own individual characteristics. If I live 1 year or a 100 years it was a grace of God. He as my Creator owes me nothing. He does not answer to me. He does not bow to my wants. He provides for me every day what He has ordained I have or HAVE NOT.
Mat 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
Man was created a beast – a higher beast than the literal animals but still created on the 6th day like all other beasts, Gn.1:26-31. Man was created in the image of God to rule the lower beasts, to have dominion over them. He was created in the image of God in the sense that He rules over all creation. Mankind is given to rule in whatever creation they live in – fishermen, hunters, governors, kings, businessmen, fathers, mothers, etc.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
God created everything and everyone, no person or thing created itself. Therefore, fairness does not come into play. God does what He desires with His creation and does not ask me if I like it or not. Does a child have the right to ask its parents why did you create me the way you created me? It’s a silly question and a very small comparison to how a creature can ask its Creator, why did you make me this way?
“….Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? “
The beast screams at God for killing swaths of people in a single act. It screams about fairness, inequality, human rights as though he is kinder than God, as though the beast has rights outside of its creation. But the beast does not yell praises to God for the amount of people who are born every day, or for the sun rising on another morning and the literally millions of details that go into everyday that keep billions of people alive. The beast focuses only on the unfairness of death. I am not God, nor am I a little god independant from The Only God. If I am seeing this truth then The God has raised me above the beastly nature He created and has called me a god.
“Joh 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken”
Fairness has nothing to do with it. God chooses whom He pleases to know Him and have fellowship with Him, we do not. Out of the same lump of dirt He created all beasts from, He chooses some to know Him and leaves the others in the state He benevolently created them. It’s not about deserving or not deserving. It’s about The Creator’s choice to choose or not to choose one above another. Is it unfair when someone chooses one puppy out of a litter and not the others? Do the other puppies have rights that you violated? Is your choosing one over the others unfair? So, on a much greater scale, God does not owe me an explanation on why He chooses some to know Him and not everyone. To ask such questions is beastly and ignorant of the majesty of God. Do I as an individual citizen of my country have the right to walk into the king’s palace, the president’s office, the governor’s office, the mayor’s office or even the local sheriff’s office and start talking to the ruler himself? No. So, again, if I have been given to understand this principle on such a small comparison, then if I have the spirit of Christ, I can understand it on a much greater scale when it comes to The Creator. We don’t have rights or as some say, “God given rights.” No one has rights. Enjoy what The Creator has given us and thank Him daily, hourly, minute by minute for what He has so benevolently given us. If He has chosen to reveal Himself to you and make himself known, then you have been blessed above all creation. If He hasn’t then you won’t know He hasn’t and none of this will matter to you. It is easy to be kind to your fellow beast when you know that all that you have is a gift, not out of deserving or because you are a better beast than the rest, but because every breath is a gift from God, not a debt you’re owed. We deserve nothing, because we have created nothing.
1Ch 29:10 Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
1Ch 29:11 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
1Ch 29:12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
1Ch 29:13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
1Ch 29:14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
1Ch 29:15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
1Ch 29:16 O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.
The beast in me does not like to hear such things because it leaves my beast at the will of another. It strips me of all worth and all rights. That’s the point. If I have come to see myself as stripped of all rights, then and only then, am I able to worship God in truth and see my neighbor as myself. I cannot force myself to believe this truth but it must be given to me to by God, to rise above the beastly nature and live a life unto God as Creator. All of mankind were created beasts – higher beasts than dogs, horses, serpents, and cows. Yet, we were still created a beast in the image of God to rule and use other beasts as our help meets. God rules all, so when man is said to be created in His image it is the fact that man is given to rule other beasts. To rule and have dominion is an image of God. Mankind is a help meet created by God to bring about His ultimate creation – beings who know Him and can worship Him in truth by ruling their fleshly beast and bringing it in subjection to God by dying to its wants for someone else’s. Not all of mankind will know Him in truth but were created as help meets for the ones who will know Him, as the beasts were created for Adam. Is God unfair because He created everyone a beast and then selects some to know Him and others not to know Him? No. It is His creation not mine. He does what He desires and I have no right to question Him. He does not reveal His plan to me. I am just happy He has chosen me to know Him. What He does with everyone else is His choice and fairness does not play a role in it. Christ is the One Whom God has chosen to create, to use as the One Who will reveal God to us. In Christ is the very image of God. Christ comes to those who have been chosen by God to know God and He reveals Himself to them. He then begins to show us Who The Father is, was and will be. His very life is a revealing of Who God The Father is. He becomes The Head of our body and we begin to have a new mind. Where our beastly mind once was, it is replaced with the mind of Christ. Instead of having a mind of the most subtil creature, a serpent, we have the mind of Christ, Who created the serpent.
Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Col 1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Col 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Col 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Col 1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
The mind of the beast is being removed and the mind of Christ is replacing it. This process is done through trials until we come to see what we are from birth, a beast. Then when we are given to see ourselves as a beast He begins to recreate us into higher beings where we are introduced to God as The All in all. This is played out in our life more than once. God lifts us up and then tears us down in a process of revealing Himself to us. The Spirit of Christ comes to us and gives us eyes to see and ears to hear the Truth that it is God Who is ruling and reigning in our life.
Dan 4:24 This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
Dan 4:25 That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Dan 4:28 All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
Dan 4:29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
Dan 4:30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
Dan 4:31 While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.
Dan 4:32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Dan 4:33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
Dan 4:34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
Dan 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Dan 4:36 At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.
Dan 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Dan 5:18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
Dan 5:19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
Dan 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
Dan 5:21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
Dan 5:22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
Dan 5:23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is,and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
Nebuchadnezzar represents those who are coming to know God as God and Daniel represents the mind of Christ that interprets our misunderstandings or dreams. Not all men are put through trials where they come out the other side knowing God. And, many people raise their hands to themselves and claim their works as theirs and are never broken for it. Only an Elect can come to see the truth. God shows us that we think we run our world and then He turns us over to our flesh where we are driven with the desires of a beastly heart unto destruction. This beastly heart is a heart like everyone else – a heart that desires only things for the flesh – things that are superfical, without love, true love for God and for my neighbor. The beastly nature, created in all of us, cares for its own desires above all others because it believes it deserves it. The beastly nature sometimes acts out of pity for other beasts. But, this act is exactly that, pity, not love. The pity displayed to the other beast is actually for itself, so it will feel better about itself and relieve itself of shame. It is not out of a sincere love for the other beast but as an act of preservation for itself and in turn it gets what it wants, even if all it wants is to feel better about itself. If we are an elect, God does not allow us to stay in this place but creates a sincere love in our hearts for Him and for our neighbor. He puts in us a desire to search for Him with all we have because in Him we have a true life free from “SELF.” This truth is then displayed in how we treat our neighbor. If we know God as our God and as The only God, then that will show in the death of the beast within for the life of the other. We will die to self out of love, not duty, not pity, not works, not self preservation. Instead we die to our own beastly desires so that, in doing so, the other can live by seeing Christ in you.
“And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”
If I am not loving my neighbor as myself then all my acts of supposed love will be empty, pointless noise in God’s
ears.
“I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ”
“Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.”
All doctrines (ideas) that drive us as beasts are based on what the beast gets out of it. Every action of a beast of the field is an action for its own self preservation. To the Elect, those doctrines are being removed from us and we are being changed to act out of love for one another at the cost of our own preservation. We die to self for the life of someone else. Christ is this example. He allowed His own body to be broken for the life of His Elect who did not know Him, love Him, worship Him and who were just as selfish and dead as everyone else. Fairness has no role to play in it. He chooses whom He wills and that’s that, no one can question it. Yet we all do. But, what will that questioning matter in the end?
“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
The above scriptures cover it all. Whoever knows God, knows God because God chose him to know Him, not because of a blood line we were born in, not because my flesh willed it, and lastly not because someone else willed it for me to know God. The Elect know God because God willed we know Him and for no other reason. Fairness does not factor into it. The Elect come to know this truth to such a degree that they willingly lay down their lives for others. The truth breaks you down to such a low place that you cannot but want to become a servant to all. It does not make you look down on others but it does the opposite. It creates a heart in you to love all because you know that what you see in them was in you and by no choice of your own you were changed by the hand of God. If left to myself, I would still be just as dead in spirit as everyone else. It creates a Christ-like heart that dies for the undeserving because I am undeserving. We are beginning to love out of appreciation for what we have been freely given. I cannot work for it. I cannot buy it. And, I, as a beast, cannot create it. It is the Godliest act of love that a new creation can have – to love those who are not deserving of love. It shows a converted heart. What God does with His creation is His business, not mine. I have been called to treat everyone the way I would be treated, with honor and love. Who God saves in the end is His business, not mine. Fairness does not play a role in it.
Joh 21:20 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?
Joh 21:21 Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?
Joh 21:22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, whatis thatto thee? follow thou me.
It’s not about fairness, it’s about changing from a self-centerd beast to a Christ-like being who sees all created by Christ and for Christ, and by Christ do all consist – who they are, where they are, and what they are.
Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Neither fairness nor deserving play a role in whom God chooses. None of us deserve it. This creates the true image of God in the Elect. We rule by serving. To be greatest in the kingdom of God you must be a servant of all with the truth that none deserve it.
Mar 10:42 But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
Mar 10:43 But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
Mar 10:44 And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
Mar 10:45 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
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