Righteous Dominion
December 09th, 2019 by Patrick Henry
Righteous dominion is power + love.
Power + Love.
This is the formula. This is the insight I had.
Both are necessary.
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Men among the Saints work for the love but flee from the power. They practice unrighteous dominion because of it. That’s the irony. They maintain their power just because of their ordination.
Oops. “No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood.”
They think that ordination=authority=power.
The ordination makes your power legitimate and loving. It should not be the basis of your power. Imitate Christ.
Rozy
December 9, 2019
Exactly! Those rotten secular elites have a real problem with pride and relying on the arm of flesh to solve problems. They are like Lucifer who wanted to ensure that not one would be lost. I’m reminded of the line from Fiddler on the Roof–“May God bless and keep the [elites], . . . far away from us.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
December 9, 2019
I love power.
Vader
December 9, 2019
“Who ever became more loving at Harvard? Whose heart ever lit on fire working at Goldman Sachs?”
Mitt Romney, quite possibly.
Eric
December 9, 2019
Or, was Mitt more loving and had his heart lit on fire despite going to Harvard or working at Goldman Sachs?
Libcon
December 10, 2019
Clay Christensen was a seventy and was a very famous Havard professor. I’m certain many hundreds if not thousands learned to love more as a result of being there. Google How Will You Measure Your Life and you’ll get a glimpse through some youtube videos of the way he taught. Incidentally, he has a book you can read/listen to by the same title.
Bookslinger
December 10, 2019
The last phrase of the last verse of Sec 121 has a key thing: “… and without compulsory means it [dominion] shall flow unto thee …”
The surrounding words, “everlasting” and “forever and ever,” at first distracted me into thinking that particular phrase describes something in the future, because we haven’t arrived at “forever and ever” yet.
But I have since realized that that final passage describes the _nature_ of how righteous dominion, or influence, operates. That it is the same now as it will be in the future.
And that is, it _flows unto thee_. And without compulsion, meaning it is _voluntary_.
Your dominion, that is your influence, is given to you voluntarily from people who _want_ you to be their influence.
_Why_ do they want to be under your influence? Because they see you exhibit all those righteous/godly things in verses 41 through 45. (There are obvious exceptions concerning agency, of course.)