Author: BishopGACox

The Prophet Jeremiah would counsel us to “ask for the old paths” in modern times. This is a symbolic way of expressing the need to remember what systemic orderings must be in place that a nation might rise to greatness; which certainly begins with the need to order the personal welfare of the individual life of every citizen of that great nation.Critical to understand is that in order for a nation to be great, it must be indivisible. For that to occur, its people must first be indivisible (what the term individual implies). Digressing for a moment, it must be understood that a nation can be successful and not necessarily be great. The determining principle of greatness is that a nation order its national spiritual tapestry to comply with the Divine Laws established by the word of God. Failure to do so may allow a nation to be successful in many of its systemic orderings (for a time) and yet fail to be truly great. In time, violation of these Divine Laws will eventually lead to a catastrophic breakdown of even the nation’s most successful systems bringing to pass the word of the Lord when it states, “when sin is finished it brings forth death”. Profoundly, a nation doesn’t determine its own greatness, the Lord does, through principles He established before the first nation was formed. Nationalism outside of this paradigm of thinking is bound for destruction. Continuing with the main line of thought, indivisibility is established in an individual manner when a person decides to order the systems of their lives (eg. decision making, finances, spirituality, parenting, etc.) based upon the principles found in the word of God. When every individual person makes a decision to order their lives in a communal manner, community is birthed; and continuity in this path brings forth the greatness of the community. When communities have continuity in the path of indivisibility a nation is born. The greatness of a nation is born (what the term nationalism implies) when its leaders have the spiritual fortitude and moxy to order the systems of government to first of all, comply with Divine Laws based upon the word of God (eg. taking care of orphans, widows, and the poor) and second of all, issue forth from this divine substratum for the beneficial personal welfare of every individual subject to its ambit of influence without discrimination or prejudice (what the phrase “a preempting guiltiness” implies). As a caveat, a great nation must not destroy the power of its greatness by convicting, sentencing, and executing the divine principles upon which its indivisibility stands. Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany were foolish to think that they could terminate the principles of indivisibility, terminate (literally) an entire caste of their own people, and then expect that their nation would not only live but stand in greatness. The seed of national destruction is in the first step its leaders take toward terminating the principles of indivisibility. If America is to return to greatness, every individual American must begin remembering the old paths and for the younger generation, even learning them. This process begins with asking, receiving, and understanding the divine principles found in the word of God. From this spiritual power of understanding, every American must essentially and then existentially order the systems of their lives based upon the two “Absolute” principles of loving the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength and then loving our neighbor as ourselves. This will rebuild the spiritual as well as the communal tapestry upon which this great nation was founded. We must not complain about the younger generation disrespecting the older, not complain about gun violence, not complain about ghettos and trailer parks, not complain about school shootings, not complain about racism, discrimination, and prejudice, not complain about abortion, not complain about the criminal justice system, about teen pregnancy, about the homicide rate, about the suicide rate, about sexually perversive lifestyles, about financial inequality, about domestic abuse, about abuse of power or leadership, etc. We must not complain and then do absolutely nothing to order our lives in a manner consistent with ridding our nation of these evils bringing to pass the word of the Lord when it unequivocally pronounces: “Their lips are with me, but their hearts are far from me”. We must ask the Lord to renew within us the old paths that created the indivisibility upon which this great nation once stood. This is how America becomes great again and remains that way. (Another Oil Point from Theology Nation)

– Bishop Dr. Guy A. Cox

“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore the eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.> But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” Matthew 6:22-23

These parabolic words of the Lord Jesus Christ stand as a caveat (teaching/warning) to us, against sabotaging our own deliverance.The symbol of the “eye” here represents the spiritual power of understanding within the psychological parameters of the human mind. The symbol of the “whole body” here represents the spiritual essential state (what the term ontological/spirit being implies) in which the human mind lives. Our understanding,( which is a spiritual power of our minds) can be essentially affected by two external spiritual powers which are completely antithetical of each other. One of these spiritual powers is the spirit of Christ (light) and the other, is the spirit of antichrist (darkness) (cf. 1 John 4:1-6). Both of these spiritual powers have the ability to influence (suggestion unto holiness/ temptation unto unholiness) and also to possess (to be “Spirit filled” over and against to be “demonically possessed”) and are always in dialectical tension to one another. When the human mind (through human freedom and choice) wavers between these two dialectical powers for a short period of time, a partial break (what the term neurosis suggests) occurs in the spiritual essential state in which the human mind lives. When the mind wavers for a long period of time a full break (what the term psychosis suggests) occurs (cf. James 1: 5-8). It is this wavering (or what could be termed as a “self eclipsing of the light”) that becomes the centric topic of Jesus’ words in this text. Mankind, globally as a whole, must receive in the spiritual power of our understanding that the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ (Divine Light) has set out to deliver us from the spirit of antichrist (spiritual forces of darkness). We must freely receive this “Divine Deliverance of Light” (what the term salvation implies) into the spiritual power of our minds (what the term believing implies) or risk self eclipsing this Divine Deliverance into the “Light of Christ” and plunging our souls (spiritual essential state) into the depths of eternal darkness. We must stop self eclipsing the Light of Christ in our lives and sabotaging our own deliverance. Jesus stated in the final analysis of this text, “how great is that darkness!” because He wanted us to understand that self eclipsing of His “Light” will plunge our souls into a darkness so great, that it will be eternal; and there will be no exiting from it. The choice is clearly ours. We must repent of our sins (what it means to turn to a new way of living) and receive the Light of the Lord Jesus Christ in the spirit of our minds/hearts (salvation) and be baptized (immersed) in the Holy Spirit in order to obtain “True Deliverance”! (Another Oil Point from Theology Nation)

-Bishop Dr. Guy A. Cox