Protectors of God

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Do you think that God needs your protection?

Have you ever been more concerned with doctrine than with love?  Have you ever argued with someone over what is right, from the Bible or otherwise?  Have you ever attacked someone, either with words or even your thoughts, based on their faith?  Have you ever gotten offended or become indignant over what someone said about Christianity, or your faith, or God, or Jesus Christ?  Have you ever argued with an atheist?  Have you ever been convinced by someone telling you to “watch your witness?”  Have you ever felt the need to make yourself a better example of God to others?  If so, you may be a protector of God.

There was a young woman who attended our home-based Bible fellowship for a while who told us that she had been told at a Christian group she had been a part of to “watch out that you don’t ask too many questions (about God), because you might go to hell.”  I was surprised that anyone would think that God was threatened by a girl asking “too many questions.”

My two youngest daughters were playing rec soccer in high school, when on the sidelines during a game one of their coaches told them that because of what they believed they were going to hell (he was only telling them because he loved them)!  Again I was surprised that anyone would think that hellfire was intended for young people that didn’t quite have every tenet of Christianity down exactly just right.

If you feel a strong need to protect or defend God, or His son Jesus Christ, or the doctrine of your faith, then your God is not as strong as you are, because (you think) He needs your protection!

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work;  (II Corinthians 9:8)

You see, it is God who is able, not you of yourself.  It is God who provides to you, not you who provides to God.  It is God who has initiated your existence, not you who have initiated His existence.  It is God who is responsible for bringing His will to pass, not you.  It is God who protects you, not you who protects God.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.  (Philippians 2:13)

God works in us, we don’t work in God.  The word “defend” is never used in the New Testament, except a single time where referencing when Moses defended his countryman, which resulted in him having to leave Egypt for 40 years!

Jesus never felt a need to protect God.

I can of my own self do nothing …  (John 5:30)

But I have greater witness than that of John; for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me.  And the Father Himself, who has sent me, has borne witness of me.  (John 36, 37a)

Even Jesus, the Christ, the chosen one of God did not protect God; rather, God protected him!

Do you think that I cannot now pray to my Father, and He shall immediately give me more than twelve legions of angels?  (Matthew 26:53)

We become protectors of God, not because we believe God, but because we do not know or believe God or His Christ!

They shall put you out of the synagogues; yea, the time comes that whosoever kills you will think that he does God service.  And these things will they do unto you because they have not known the Father, nor me.  (John 16:2, 3)

Those that feel a need to protect or defend God are simply unbelievers (in that area at least).  They do not know, nor do they understand and believe God.  No person who knows God by experience could ever imagine that that God who they know might need their protection!  How ridiculous!

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.  (II Corinthians 13:8)

The word of God is truth (John 17:17), and nothing can be done by either man or devil to break the truth of God; rather man (who rebels against it) and devil are broken upon it.  Man can benefit from the truth (see most recent study Loins Girt with Truth) can advance the truth, serve the truth, believe and enjoy the truth, but he cannot change or damage or defeat the truth.  And the same is true concerning God.

We can dam a river, dig a different channel for it, but we cannot stop its flow.  We cannot change the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation); neither can we stop the sun from shining, nor the moon from rising, but we can benefit from our understanding of these things.

God does not need nor does He desire your protection or defense of Him or of His Word.  Seek God, understand God, open your heart to the truth of God, believe God, enjoy the working and benefits of God in your life; but avoid any sense of needing to defend him.  God is always on the offensive, never on the defensive.  He is like the wind that can be harnessed to man’s benefit, but never stopped.

Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear (to the point of understanding) it?  When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Does this offend you?  What and if you shall see the son of man ascend up where he was before?  It is the spirit that imparts life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.  But there are some of you that believe not … And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.  (John 6:60-65)

Never think that God needs you to defend Him.  It is your response to His inner working which will motivate and inspire you to serve Him in a most unique way that will reward you in a completeness and in a power which transcends anything the world can offer.  God has so much to offer you, get busy discovering what that is.  Let God defend Himself and you spend your time getting to know Him and His power and watching develop His abilities within you.  Let the whole world crash and burn; it is God’s responsibility to save it, not yours.

The need to protect or defend God comes out of the vanity of the mind which has exalted itself to the throne of God, and which has not humbled itself to the true God.  Our duty is not to the flesh (not family, not job, not hobby, not fear) to defend or protect God, but simply to accept and manifest forth His love.  That’s it.

Owe no man anything but to love one another; for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.  (Romans 13:8)

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