“Because
once you truly dismantle the COVID story, you are forced to confront a much
harder truth. That governments cannot be
trusted. That politicians cannot be
trusted. That doctors and public health
institutions cannot be trusted. That the
media cannot be trusted. That universities, international bodies, and pharmaceutical
companies cannot be trusted” [1]
---Credited
to a Doc Malik
Here is an even harder truth:
The reason why all of these things cannot be trusted is
not because these institutions are inherently corrupt in and of themselves, it
is those who operate these institutions who are inherently corrupt. These institutions are only as corrupt as the
people who oversee and operate them. If
you want these institutions to operate in an honorable, respectable, and
beneficial manner, then you have to cleanse them of the people running these
institutions but even that is just not enough.
You have to attack the inherent corruption at its very
source which is the inward nature of man itself. Otherwise, even if you successfully remove
the filth from out of the aforementioned institutions, the same filth will
return unless the inward nature of mankind is transformed into that which is
less corrupt and that takes more than just political reform or even a cultural
reform:
This is going to require a spiritual transformation and
the only way for that to happen is when people recognize and admit that they
are inherently corrupt and that is corrupted condition of their nature is what
makes them not as good as they think they are.
That doesn’t mean that mankind does not have the capacity
to do that which is good and right or that they are incapable of doing so. That does not mean that mankind is not capable
of being morally upright if they choose to be, but what it does mean is that is
that their corrupted nature which is ever present within them will always hinder
their efforts in pursuing goodness.
Even if the outward performance may appear flawless, that
does not mean that the attitude of the heart is what it should be, that does not
mean that those apparent acts of goodness are done with the right motives, and
that does not necessarily mean that the nature of the thoughts are pure.
And it is due to the inherent corruption of our very
nature that we all have within ourselves inclinations to do evil; it is just
that some of us choose to give in to those inclinations more often than others,
but what we all give into things that we ought not to from time to time and to some
extent. But those who take pleasure in
doing evil and pursue self-serving and self-centered ambitions are going to
inevitably give into the inclinations of evil more often and to a much greater
extent than those who take pleasure in doing that which is good.
But if it were not for the fact that we have instilled
within us a sense of moral agency, each and every one of us would give
ourselves over to our inherently corrupt nature far more often than we do
now. Our moral agency takes the form of
what we might call a conscience from which we receive some sense of right and
wrong, however muddied our sense of it might be, but it is due to this
understanding, as well as for the sake of conscience that we see the need to
have in place moral laws and governing authorities in place to restrain evil
behavior and the passions of an inherently corrupt condition and if it were not
for the presence of inherent corruption, we would have no need of laws or
governing powers to maintain order because law and order would already reign
within us because we would be intrinsically good instead of evil, but such is
not the case with humanity.
In order to understand how it is that we all fall short of
the goodness that we aspire to attain (some more so than others) is if we are to
take some to examine ourselves, not before the law of man, but before that law
which does not come from man nor is any invention of man but which can only
come from the Lord God who made the heavens and the earth, for as He is the
Creator of Heaven and earth and the establisher of those laws of nature by
which all things are held together and maintained, so He is also the source of
those moral and spiritual laws by which we are universally governed.
No one likes to be lied to.
No one likes to be defrauded.
No one likes to be stolen from.
No one wants to share their intimate partner with another
person.
And everyone will claim to agree that murder is wrong.
Granted that not every society will agree on what
constitutes theft, murder, adultery, and there is dispute as whether or not
there are any circumstances under which lying would ever be justified, but they
will all basically agree that these things are wrong and it is this commonly and
universally shared basic understanding of right and wrong by which we are held
back from becoming worse than any beast but these restraints do not eliminate
from us that inwardly corrupt nature that resides within each and every one of
us. They are just simply designed to
keep in check that nature and to bring lawful order to the world but they can
never inwardly transform us; they just control how we behave and a change in
outward behavior is not enough to bring about the inward change that would be
needed to bring a meaningful and lasting change in our culture and that is what
needs to happen if we are to bring meaningful and lasting change to the
institutions that have failed us.
I
have previously written a number of blogposts explaining why it is never enough
to simply attack the manifested corruption which is symptomatic but that the
manifested corruption has to be attacked at its very source and its source is the
inward corrupted nature within mankind and if that does not change, then neither
will the nature of the institutions to which we have looked to meet our needs,
for guidance and counsel, and to direct the course of our society itself and we
will only just keep bailing out the filthy water only to have more filthy water
pour in after it.
If
we want to get rid of the filthy water and place clean water in its place, it
is not enough to just bail out the filthy water, nor is it even enough to
unplug the drain or to fix the breaches through which the filthy water is pouring
in though these be very important measures.
We must remove the corrupt fountain and replace it with a pure fountain
and that can only happen if we are willing for the corrupt fountains within our
minds, hearts, and souls to be removed and replaced with fountains of purity and
the only one who can instill within us fountains of purity is the incorruptible
and pure God who had initially made all things, including mankind, pure and without
corruption which was once the nature of the world when He had created it before
it fell into the fallen and corrupt state by which this present world is defined.
When
God had created the world, He had created it to be a place of purity and before
evil had entered into the world, there had existed in the universe a perfect
and uninterrupted harmony between God, man, and nature until one day a spirit
of corruption entered into the world and through subtle deception caused the
first man Adam and the first woman Eve, who was the wife of Adam, to do something
that they had been forbidden by God to do, which was the eating of a fruit from
a certain tree called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, having been
warned of God that in the day that they ate thereof they would surely die.
(Gen. 2:16-17, 3:3)
But
this spirit of corruption led them into that consequential transgression by way
of false assurances and promises of better things that never came to pass (Gen.
3:4-5) but instead, a corruption entered into Adam and Eve that they had never
anticipated; the first sign of it being a shame that came upon their nakedness
(Gen. 3:7) and they were not spared the sentence of death as they had been
falsely assured by that wicked spirit, but instead, the sentence of death was
pronounced upon them just as they had been warned. (Gen. 3:19)
The
corruption that entered into Adam and Eve is what the Bible calls sin and
because of the sin that entered into them, the sentence of death came upon them
and it is sin that the inherently corrupt condition of our nature is called and
the consequences of the transgression that caused sin to enter into Adam and
Eve which then led to their eventual deaths did not stop with just them because
the sin which entered into them was also passed down to all of mankind for all
of us are descendants of that first man and that first woman and because we are
their descendants, we have also inherited the sin that entered into them (Rom.
5:12) and because of that sin which we have inherited, we all sin in some form
or fashion and as a consequence we all die for as it is written, the wages of
sin is death (Rom. 6:23) but sin is not merely confined to outward behavior or
performance or even the words we speak, but it is rather the inherent inward
corruption of our very nature defiling our thoughts, hardening and darkening
our hearts, and corrupting our very motives which is why it is written that we
are not defiled from that which comes from without, but that which comes from
within (Mt. 15:11, 18-20) and which is why it is written that all have sinned
and fallen short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23) which demands of us nothing
less than moral perfection and not just in our outward acts but also in our
inward as well which is why it is impossible by our own efforts and our own
goodness to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, for sin taints, corrupts,
defiles, twists, and distorts more than we can comprehend and the effects of
sin are not merely confined to mankind, but all of creation is subjected to a
curse because of sin which is why it is written that the entire creation groans
and travails in pain to this day. (Rom. 8:19-22)
As
for the corrupting spirit which led Adam and Eve to commit the fateful act that
brought mankind and the entire world into the fallen condition that they are
in, even he did not start out corrupt at first, for he had once been a covering
cherub called Lucifer who had served at the throne of God but was turned into the
source and originator of corruption by his own pride and conceit. In his pride and conceit, Lucifer thought to
make himself equal with God that he might share in the glory reserved to God
alone which then ended with him and all who sided with him being cast from their
places in Heaven (Is. 14:11-21, Ezek. 28:12-19).
It
was in that day that Lucifer became better known as Satan or the Devil and it
was he who is the spirit of corruption which came into our world in the form of
a serpent and accomplished upon it what he could not accomplish in Heaven;
successfully claiming lordship over the world by way of trickery and deceit which
was another consequence of the transgression of Adam (Mt. 4:8-9, Lk. 4:6-7) and
it is this claim of lordship that names Satan the prince of this present world
(Jn. 12:31, 16:11) and it is under his shadowy reign that sin, death, decay,
evil, corruption, injustice, suffering, and pain have abounded and often times
before he destroys, he corrupts as his ways of destroying lives, civilizations,
and souls are premeditated and calculated and often subtle and methodical.
Ever
since Satan set himself at enmity against His Maker, there has been an age-long
warfare between the Spirit of holiness and purity which is God and the profane spirit
of corruption which is Satan and they wage against one another a warfare for
the souls of every person upon the face of the earth daily; one side who wishes
to reconcile mankind back to Himself and the other side who seeks to drag as
many souls into eternal damnation as he possibly can and sides by men are taken;
some choosing to side with God and others choosing to side with Satan.
But
eventually, this age-long warfare will reach its final conclusion and the world
will be liberated from the evil that is within it but that requires the
elimination of all who take pleasure in evil and all who still remain in their
sin but because God is not willing that any should be damned but that all would
come to repentance, (2 Pet. 3:9) He offers redemption to all who are willing to
receive it and submit to His authority and the redemption that He offers is in
Jesus Christ who is our Lord and Savior and the only begotten Son of God, (Jn.
3:16) who came to us in the flesh, (Jn. 1:14) and being without any sin (2 Cor.
5:21) was made that perfect sacrifice (Heb. 7:26-27) that was needed to take
away the sins of the world and because of His perfect goodness, He was able to
offer Himself up on our behalf to satisfy the demanded penalty for all sin and
granting mercy and grace through the shedding of His blood on the cross and
after having died, rose again from the dead three days later that we might be
justified in Him (Rom. 4:25) if we will but call upon His name so that we might
be saved from what would otherwise be a terrifying everlasting punishment if we
will but call upon His name (Rom. 10:9, 13) and believe in our hearts that God
raised Him from the dead (Rom. 10:9) for it is by calling upon His name in
sincere repentance that salvation is granted and our souls made clean from sin
thereby liberating us from the threat of eternal damnation and with that
cleansing comes a new spiritual transformation (2 Cor. 5:17) that causes us to
no longer desire to follow after selfish and worldly pursuits but after those
things that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven,
to
no longer take pleasure in those things that are evil and displeasing in the
sight of the Lord, but in that which is good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to
no longer desire to walk in the lies of this present world, but only in the
truth that comes from Christ Almighty who is the source of all truth, (Jn.
14:6)
no
longer placing our hopes in the things of this present world, but looking
forward to that new and better world to come, (Rev. 21-22)
to
no longer rely on worldly resources, men, or even our own power, abilities,
skills, and wisdom for our needs and provision but upon God who is able to meet
all of our needs, recognizing that the resources of this world and even the
people He brings into our lives are but instruments and vessels through which
God meets our needs and that the skills, power, knowledge, and wisdom by which
we might acquire our provision are provided and instilled in us by God, (Mt.
6:25-33)
to
no longer fear what men can do to us, but rather fearing the God before whom we
will have to one day give an account for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to
no longer look to corruptible institutions within our society for direction and
order in our lives but to God who, by His written Word has given us laws and
precepts to be applied to our lives and which serve to produce and maintain an
ordered life, and who, by His Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon
repentance, establishes in our lives a course and direction in our lives to
pursue for His glory,
to
no longer seek our own glory but the glory of God,
to
no longer rally behind corruptible men, but instead behind the incorruptible
God in Heaven bearing in mind that those men and women God raises up for our
edification are but instruments and servants of His for that respective purpose
to which He has called them,
to
no longer seek to align ourselves with the things of darkness but only with the
things of the light,
to
no longer trust in the wisdom of the world but only on the wisdom and knowledge
that comes from above, (Jas. 1:5) nor depend on corruptible earthly authorities
to swiftly administer justice, but only in the power of God to deliver us from
evil.
And
it is this new inward transformation that reconciles us to our Creator (2 Cor.
5:18) from whom we had once been estranged and just as our souls are cleansed
from sin and our spirits regenerated in Christ Jesus thereby liberating us from
the eternal tormenting punishment that must come upon all who remain in their
sins, so one day we look forward to the liberation of our bodies from death
itself when our mortal and corruptible forms are transformed into that which is
immortal and incorruptible and from that which is imperfect to that which is
perfect (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18) and lastly, creation itself will be
delivered from the curse placed upon it because of sin when it is made into a
new and better world (Rev. 21-22) and liberated from the hand of our adversary
Satan, who presently claims dominion, when he is given his final sentence and
cast into an everlasting tormenting fire prepared for him and his followers
(Mt. 25:41, Rev. 20:10-15) and in that new world which will be made, there will
be no sin, no death, no decay, nor any curse, nor any evil, or violence,
suffering, misery, grief, sorrow, mourning, pain, or hardship of any sort for
all of these will pass away with this present world. Instead, there will only be light, life,
happiness, joy, contentment, peace, and rest before the Lord God Almighty.
If
you have not done so already and sense the call to repentance and transformation,
then I urge you reader to call upon the name of the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness
of sins today. It is but a simple
sincere heartfelt prayer of repentance away:
"Lord
Jesus I need you.
I
realize that I am a sinner
who
has fallen short of the glory of God
and
that my goodness falls short
of
your standard of Moral perfection.
Please
forgive me of all of my sins.
Come
into my heart and into my life
to
be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make
me into the servant and follower
that
you want me to be.
In
your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
Amen."
Know
that God is not concerned with the words that you use to call upon Him
forgiveness, but with the attitude of your heart and if you have, with all
sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive you of your sins, placing your trust in
Him only for your salvation and in nothing else, then your sins are forgiven
and your place in Heaven is certain.
End
notes:
1. Kristin Morgan Post; meme quote credited to a
Doc Malik, WeGo.Social, January 23, 9:17:37
https://wego.social/post/7556503_please-don-039-t-forget-the-main-hill-the-thing-they-039-ve-distracted-you-from.html
Scripture
references:
1. Genesis 2:16-17, 3:3
2. Genesis 3:4-5
3. Genesis 3:19
4. Romans 5:12
5. Romans 6:23
6. Matthew 15:11, 18-20
7. Romans 3:23
8. Romans 8:19-22
9. Isaiah 14:11-21, Ezekiel 28:12-19
10. Matthew 4:8-9
11. Luke 4:6-7
12. John 12:31
13. John 16:11
14. 2 Peter 3:9
15. John 3:16
16. John 1:14
17. 2 Corinthians 5:21
18. Hebrews 7:26-27
19. Romans 4:25
20. Romans 10:9, 13
21. 2 Corinthians 5:17
22. John 14:6
23. Revelation 21-22
24. Matthew 6:25-33
25. Matthew 10:28
26. James 1:5
27. 2 Corinthians 5:18
28. 1 Corinthians 15:51-55, 1 Thessalonians
4:13-18
29. Matthew 25:41, Revelation 20:10-15
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