Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 03.03.2002
The Owner of man
Sometimes it is said: "You cannot own another person." Can anything exist without the owner? The ownership seal of your Creator can be found in you. Examine yourself and you will discover it. Maybe you don't examine, because you don't want to discover it. You prefer to think that you own yourself. If you don't permit anybody to own you, you yourself will actually own nothing.
Owner's right and duty
Every product has its owner. A factory owns the products that it has made. It has product liability also when a shop or a consumer owns its product. A manufacturer can withdraw its product from the market and transport it to a dumping area. It has the right and the duty to do it for the sake of the trademark's reputation and the safety of consumers. So, would not the Designer and Creator of man have the same right?
God owns man whom He has created. Many are asking why He has not yet "withdrawn from the market" the product named man, because it obviously is a defective product. He has promised to throw the defective creations into the dump that has the name Hell. He has a good reason why He has not done it yet. He has planned for man the possibility to avoid the dump through new spiritual birth.
Everyone has a possibility to find the new covenant with God and to become a better creation. It depends on your choice does He own you through Adam or through Jesus Christ. In any case He owns you in Adam.
Every product has its owner. A factory owns the products that it has made. It has product liability also when a shop or a consumer owns its product. A manufacturer can withdraw its product from the market and transport it to a dumping area. It has the right and the duty to do it for the sake of the trademark's reputation and the safety of consumers. So, would not the Designer and Creator of man have the same right?
God owns man whom He has created. Many are asking why He has not yet "withdrawn from the market" the product named man, because it obviously is a defective product. He has promised to throw the defective creations into the dump that has the name Hell. He has a good reason why He has not done it yet. He has planned for man the possibility to avoid the dump through new spiritual birth.
Everyone has a possibility to find the new covenant with God and to become a better creation. It depends on your choice does He own you through Adam or through Jesus Christ. In any case He owns you in Adam.
Denying the ownership
Mankind rebels defiantly against God. The Made One says to its Maker: "My maker doesn't exist. I have been evolved by chance. Only I own myself, nobody else." This defiance of a modern man comes up very well in his standpoint about marriage. Just about their spouse they say again and again: "You cannot own your spouse." However God has created marriage to be an ownership. Through it He makes it known to us that He owns us
Mankind rebels defiantly against God. The Made One says to its Maker: "My maker doesn't exist. I have been evolved by chance. Only I own myself, nobody else." This defiance of a modern man comes up very well in his standpoint about marriage. Just about their spouse they say again and again: "You cannot own your spouse." However God has created marriage to be an ownership. Through it He makes it known to us that He owns us
Marriage is an ownership
God owns the whole man, but spouses own each other only physically. Jesus says: "Haven't you read", He replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female', and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one." Matt.19:4-6
You see that their unity is not based on the harmony of souls but on the unity of flesh, although the unity of souls would be a good additional benefit in a marriage. They own the bodies of each other, but not more. Apostle Paul gives us the same word of God: "The wife's body does not belong to her alone, but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife." 1Cor.7:4 Therefore a marriage is valid as long as the body lives, and not as long as the souls love each other.
The reputation of a marriage as an ownership has been spoiled by the men who have treated their wives as slaves. Enslaved wives have rebelled against men and "owning each other" has been declared a bad thing. The ownership has been tried to be replaced by feelings of love, although they cannot be the base of a marriage.
The power to live together without a marriage comes from the attitude that says you are not allowed to own each other. This attitude has also produced a lot of divorces, because so many think that feeling keep a marriage in power. Losing the feelings of love doesn't dissolve a marriage, because God has made the marriage to be a lifetime ownership. Only the death of the spouse dissolves a marriage.
Many say to this that a marriage of separated spouses cannot have any meaning, because it doesn't work in practice. Therefore they think that a divorced one can get remarried, though the former spouse still lives. To these remarried people John the Baptist gives the following word of God: "It is not lawful for you to have her." Matth.14:4 Because they don't understand that a marriage means owning they believe that their marriage ends when their life in the same bed ends.
If someone steals my car and succeeds to register it to his own name, this does not make him a legal owner of my car. In the same way it happens with her who gets married with a divorced man. She is not a legal owner of her spouse.
God's law is in power for everybody, although they try to replace it by their own law. One day people will be judged according to God's law, not according to any law directed by any parliament. God owns all people, although they don't live together with God. God owns you, although you have no positive feelings about Him.
If a marriage has no events of mutual life, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. If a man doesn't observe God in his everyday life, it doesn't mean that God doesn't exist. He owns you although you don't keep in touch with Him.
God owns the whole man, but spouses own each other only physically. Jesus says: "Haven't you read", He replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female', and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one." Matt.19:4-6
You see that their unity is not based on the harmony of souls but on the unity of flesh, although the unity of souls would be a good additional benefit in a marriage. They own the bodies of each other, but not more. Apostle Paul gives us the same word of God: "The wife's body does not belong to her alone, but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife." 1Cor.7:4 Therefore a marriage is valid as long as the body lives, and not as long as the souls love each other.
The reputation of a marriage as an ownership has been spoiled by the men who have treated their wives as slaves. Enslaved wives have rebelled against men and "owning each other" has been declared a bad thing. The ownership has been tried to be replaced by feelings of love, although they cannot be the base of a marriage.
The power to live together without a marriage comes from the attitude that says you are not allowed to own each other. This attitude has also produced a lot of divorces, because so many think that feeling keep a marriage in power. Losing the feelings of love doesn't dissolve a marriage, because God has made the marriage to be a lifetime ownership. Only the death of the spouse dissolves a marriage.
Many say to this that a marriage of separated spouses cannot have any meaning, because it doesn't work in practice. Therefore they think that a divorced one can get remarried, though the former spouse still lives. To these remarried people John the Baptist gives the following word of God: "It is not lawful for you to have her." Matth.14:4 Because they don't understand that a marriage means owning they believe that their marriage ends when their life in the same bed ends.
If someone steals my car and succeeds to register it to his own name, this does not make him a legal owner of my car. In the same way it happens with her who gets married with a divorced man. She is not a legal owner of her spouse.
God's law is in power for everybody, although they try to replace it by their own law. One day people will be judged according to God's law, not according to any law directed by any parliament. God owns all people, although they don't live together with God. God owns you, although you have no positive feelings about Him.
If a marriage has no events of mutual life, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. If a man doesn't observe God in his everyday life, it doesn't mean that God doesn't exist. He owns you although you don't keep in touch with Him.
The new ownership
Is it so that you reject the proposal of God because you think that nobody can own you? Maybe you say: "If God owns me why has He not made me better? Is it my fault, if I am second-rate stuff and therefore easily commit sins?"
In vain you are rebelling against the existence of the evil. Behold, we can't afford to criticise God, whatever He is like! Only senseless person rebels against a superior power. Why do you stay criticising God that you are a sinner, when He is offering you the access to the new relationship with Him? Take your responsibility for your deeds and confess to God your guilt.
God was in Jesus Christ and destroyed our sinful nature in the death of Jesus. If you put the sacrifice of Jesus before God for your own sin-offering, you will get forgiveness. God awoke Jesus from the dead and created for us a new nature in the resurrection of Jesus. If you are set free from your sins and allow Jesus own yourself, you will have a great, eternal future as His own. If you don't allow God to own you in Jesus, you will own nothing, but as a God's own you will own through Him everything.
Why on earth are you still waiting for and hesitating? You have a legal access to the new covenant, because your spouse of the old covenant died on Calvary.
Is it so that you reject the proposal of God because you think that nobody can own you? Maybe you say: "If God owns me why has He not made me better? Is it my fault, if I am second-rate stuff and therefore easily commit sins?"
In vain you are rebelling against the existence of the evil. Behold, we can't afford to criticise God, whatever He is like! Only senseless person rebels against a superior power. Why do you stay criticising God that you are a sinner, when He is offering you the access to the new relationship with Him? Take your responsibility for your deeds and confess to God your guilt.
God was in Jesus Christ and destroyed our sinful nature in the death of Jesus. If you put the sacrifice of Jesus before God for your own sin-offering, you will get forgiveness. God awoke Jesus from the dead and created for us a new nature in the resurrection of Jesus. If you are set free from your sins and allow Jesus own yourself, you will have a great, eternal future as His own. If you don't allow God to own you in Jesus, you will own nothing, but as a God's own you will own through Him everything.
Why on earth are you still waiting for and hesitating? You have a legal access to the new covenant, because your spouse of the old covenant died on Calvary.
The Bible version used in references is NIV