Are you a spiritually alive Child of God?

A "living man" is a status in body alone; the courts see you as dead for a good reason

I have had a short break in posting articles while I travelled to the Isle of Skye in Scotland for a “spiritual bootcamp” retreat, and have taken time to integrate what I saw. Christianity was not a religion at its inception, the Bible itself was not an idol — as the New Testament had yet to be written. We are in a period of re-establishment of the church outside of institutionalised worship, which has become corrupted and co-opted by wicked agendas. I was a witness to the immersion of four people along these originalist principles, and observed some consequent events that challenged my assumptions.

While I have not (yet) been immersed, I am on my own spiritual growth journey, and pay close attention to what is going on. I don’t do “woo” and take these matters very seriously. These recent experiences taught me a lot about our relationship to governing authorities, both of the worldly kind as well as in the heavenly realm. There is one key understanding that I want to share here; the remaining insight and detail can wait. It is so important that it needs a freestanding essay of its own, and can be summarised thus:

Our own claims to be free and living, hence not subject to the laws of the dead, are based on a category error. We have conflated and confused being alive in body and spirit, and the difference is fundamental.

All of us are caught up in the grand deception whereby our names are stolen from us at birth to create a doppelgänger corporation that we do not control or directly benefit from. Our status as a living man or woman is downgraded into a dead legal fiction — the person with a title like “Miss” or “Mister”. We are then administered under commercial law, as if we were an inanimate cargo, or a body presumed lost at sea. We can find ourselves in court being accused of victimless crimes — legislative “offences” — and denied our constitutional rights. What looks like public justice is really trust law run amok on behalf of usurers via a private legal cartel.

This is debt slavery via a parallel taxpayer identity, and once you become aware of it then you cannot escape seeing its pervasive normalisation. As individuals we seek a cessation to the predation of our energies, remedy against unfair impositions, and punishment for those who cruelly oppress us. A number of routes are on offer to us: the unjustifiable (vigilantism, revolt, civil war); the legal (use of statutes like data protection and contract law); the lawful (appeals to longstanding common law and constitutional protections); and the military (as enslavement is an act of war). Typically we strive to attain the correct jurisdiction and standing in the legal and/or lawful to effect the just outcome we seek.

In the legal world, the highest standing might come through the Universal Commercial Code, for instance. As beneficiary, we can take back control of our state-created trust, and assert our status as being alive and on the land — not presumed dead and lost at sea. There is nothing wrong with this approach, and some achieve success in it. We might make agreements with authorities, both as roles (like company director or council leader) as well as individual men and women. Courts can then enforce those agreements, and ensure all parties adhere to the letter of the law. The law can be used as a sword or shield, depending on what outcome we pursue.

Yet all are under the law. Whether those laws have hereditary that is Mosaic, Talmudic, Babylonian, Greek, Roman, or something else is not the point. What matters is that we have subjected ourselves to the law, and that the law is needed in order to arbitrate competing claims or harmful wrongs. Should we all live in accordance with the highest possible principles of harmony and peace, then the law is obsolete; we are not outside of the law, but beyond it. In other words, the law exists as a guardian to protect those who operate in self-will. The collective is only under the yoke of the law because it refuses to subjugate itself to divine will.

These themes are specifically Biblical, as stated in Galatians 3:

So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were immersed into Christ have put on Christ.

The faith is in salvation not through your own works, but via submission to divine will. Immersion is meant to declare the transition from your operation in self-will to divine will. The sins that demand remission are the result of a spiritual malady: making yourself the arbiter of what is true and moral. It isn’t the habitual lies, casual sex, or harmful intoxication that are sinful of themselves — indeed, if you were infiltrating a human trafficking criminal gang to save lives, you might need to do dirty deeds to enable a higher and more noble goal. The sin is to put ourselves into position as either a deity or the path to redemption.

When you turn up in court with documents that bear your thumb print, and loudly proclaim that you are breathing and alive, all you are doing is becoming a messy, noisy, smelly underling of “their” law. It is like when airlines transport animals in the cargo hold — they prefer them to be duly sedated! The cargo may be “alive” in this instance, but it is administered the same way as moving fresh seafood or delicate semiconductors. The dog cannot suddenly bark its way into compensation for the discomfort and indignity by which its owner has chosen to operate its life. You are by your own choice and fruits being governed by law (a cargo “dog”), not by faith (God is not cargo), so get over it.

The courts see selfish people operating in self-will day in and day out. We live in a “Beast system” as the public act like beasts, and to a degree deserve the legal and financial treatment they get as a result. Declaring yourself to be part of a freedom movement and “fighting the system” is a pointless and dangerous spiritual conceit, absent submission to divine will. The system is legitimately resolving contention and conflict around the slave class, as those in that class insist on behaving in ungodly ways, and therefore demand the guardianship of the law.

The only way out is to be “beyond law” via acceptance of the promise of the covenant, and reconciliation to the holy (i.e. set aside for a purpose). Back to Galatians, it is absolutely clear, and we are not the first people to confront the limits of the law:

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Now I “get it” what immersion is all about. It is not a token of entry into a religious order, or a doctrine to absolve naughty boys and girls who have partied too hard, or a meaningless affectation with no practical outcome. It is the acceptance (under free will) that we have to be a slave to something, and it might as well be righteousness, as that is the only way to free ourselves from the rule of law. The law is working just fine when it denied you your “rights” as you operated outside of covenant, as those “rights” were all the conception of man. For any rights to be God-given, you have to abandon being Creator or Saviour. Immersion is that transition, and takes you away from the law’s remit.

The break in my writing and posting has been because I am accumulating testimony that has yet to be translated into text. I have not had so many things to write about, so many stories to document, and so many pictures to process ever before. At last I can see how the holy spirit operates through and in us, and brings us alive spiritually, but cannot remain forever if we refuse to submit ourselves to divine will. Immersion is the crucial transition, but is easily misconceived or misunderstood. It does not give us a “get out of jail free” card in the legal system; quite the opposite, as persecution all the way to crucifixion is the default.

What immersion in faith does provide is inner peace, as those wrongs justified by legalism are not on us. It is not the random insane attacker we are fighting against, but the systematic destruction of liberty and life in accordance with false morality that venerates the flesh, the material, and money. Lasting freedom comes from stopping our participation in the legal game, not becoming the most proficient and honourable players. I can now even see how I have at times been part of the problem, and how to resolve it. My calling is to move us all towards a ministry of reconciliation.

Many people are taking the title of “Child of God”, but lack the true status, locating this claim in the odorous breath from their potty mouth, not the sacredness of all life. The best you can ever achieve via this route is sovereignty under jurisprudence, when what we seek is liberation from law via divinity. Eternal life comes in the spirit ahead of the body; freedom is a spiritual quest before a corporeal one. The worldly courts are treating us as being dead and in the waters because most are still amniotic in spirit. Immersion by faith is a necessary, but not sufficient, precondition of emancipation: when submission to divine will is in the heart of the participant, it cuts the shackles to our own rebellion via self-will.

The foot of the Black Cuillin of Skye as the most spectacular immersion site