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Christ and Liberation 25 by 117%; Buddhism by 63%, and Christianity by a mere 47%. Not only have we lost two thirds of the globe since 1917 to the Marxists, but we are currently losing the religious populations as well. It is obvious that Christians are losing ground, figuratively and literally. The question is: What can we do about it? Even more basic is this question: Are we willing to do something about resuming our God-ordained position as stewards of the Lord’s earth? If you are willing to shoulder that responsibility, then this book is for you. The way to regain the ground we have lost is by becoming knowledgeable and involved in the ordering of earth’s governments, including civil government. Immediately, some Christians will bristle at this suggestion. Nevertheless, politics is simply the organized activity of those who are exercising legal and economic power as citizens of the nations. Since the Lord has given us the task of holding ‘dominion . . . over all the earth” (Genesis 1:26), we are not taking up our assi~ed role as stewards if we refuse to become involved in the activities of governing. I further point out: How can we disciple the earth if we are not involved in running it? Manifesto Politics is ethical. There are good guys and bad guys, for there is right and wrong. Therefore, any authority or power that man possesses is always ethically held. He serves one of two masters, but he always saves. This service is ethical. There is no neutrality. God is the original and primary owner of the earth, no question about it. But he has delegated this ownership to mankind. And the only way Satan could get into power in the first place was by bringing men under him, meaning under him ethical~. They follow him by disobeying God. Do you think that Satan could beat God up and take the earth? Hardly. Could he trick an all-knowing God? Did he cheat God in some sort of cosmic card game? Did he sneak in one night and steal it? This is silly, of course, but I’m trying to make a point. We are not talking about God’s power vs. Satan’s.
26 Liberating Planet Earth Rather, Satan gains earthly power when people agree to do his bidding. What is his bidding? Anything that disobgu God. He isn’t fussy; any old disobedience is fine – or any new disobedience, for that matter. He seeks followers to place under him ethical~. They submit to him. In other words, he makes a covenant with his people. It is a perverse reverse covenant, yet it bears the marks of God’s covenant: transcendence (“Ye shall be as God”: Genesis 3:5), hierarchy (violating the chain of command: disobedience to God), law (abandoning God’s tool of dominion for man), judgment (corrupting God’s court system), and extended power over time (rebelliously claiming the inheritance from God). It is a mirror image of the covenant God makes with His people. This is an important point. Satan is not creative, for he is not the Creator. He is a distorter of the truth. He imitates God. Furthermore, man cannot escape God’s mark in his very being: the image of God. So man is also an imitator of God, and fallen men are like Satan: they distort and twist the truth. But they are not creative. Thus, even in their sin, they reflect God’s standards for man. They cannot escape their creaturehood. They cannot escape their humanity. They remain sons of God, even in hell– disinherited sons. God truly owns the world. Yet Satan truly has power in this world. What makes the difference between them? How does either God or Satan get visibly into authority in the affairs of this world? Through th~”r coumanted followers. God voluntarily delegates considerable authority to men in general, but He specially rewards those who honor Him (1 Samuel 2:30). Satan also delegates part of the power that he possesses, but only for limited purposes. He has no choice in the matter; unlike God, he possesses no original power. Whatever power he possesses comes either directly from God or indirectly from people who have covenanted with him. Then how is the earth to be liberated from the power of Satan? Only through the renewal of men’s characters and the resulting transfer of authority to God’s people. But how can this be done? Aren’t all men under Satan’s power? Didn’t we all sin “in Adam”?
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Page 24 and 25: 1 CHRIST AND LIBERATION All things
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10 THE INEVITABILITY OF LIBERATION
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