Rebirth causes government legal problems
I have been using my God-given name exclusively since 1986. Yet government
agencies are reluctant to acknowledge my new name. Is it because if they called
me by my new name they would also be acknowledging that I belong to another
government and am no longer one of theirs?
Shortly after the airplane crash, one of my pilot friends was approached by
federal investigators who wanted to write to me. "That’s simple," said my
friend. "Just address your letters to Paul Revere."
"We can’t do that," replied one of the investigators. "We’ve got legal
problems with the name."
What legal problems? Simply this: Paul Revere is not their child. He belongs
to and serves someone else. Since he is of another government, they are acting
outside their authority if they attempt to prosecute Paul Revere. The old man
belonged to them, and they have plenty of records to prove it. But the old man
is dead, and the new man belongs to Jesus Christ. Paul Revere has signed no
agreements with the civil government.
If we have died to the principles of this world, yet continue to use the name
the world gave us, the world will keep trying to lay claims upon us. We will
bear upon our shoulders the heavy burdens of their statutes.
To break the bonds and walk in the liberty given us by our new husband (for
we are the Church and the Church is the Bride of Christ), we must take on the
name He gives us and let those who are still of the world figure out what to do
with the old, dead man.
22But Jesus told him, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their
own dead." Matthew 8:22
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