The Royal Family
Honor Code
Honor Codes are related to
aristocracy. To think like a peasant is to be a peasant. This is why it is so
difficult to explain an honor code system. We are part of a permanent
aristocracy that cannot be destroyed even by petty subjective people. The whole
point of Daily perception is so that we may begin to think like the aristocracy
we are, because until we think like aristocracy we will never act like the sons
of God we are as per Eph. 4:1,2. The worst disaster in the world is to BE aristocracy and not think like it.
Historically, the emergence of greatness requires the maintenance of a system.
The system is the Honor Code and is the Christian way of life; not morality.
Morality is a function of the establishment principles.
I) . All Aristocracies have
standards. These standards are called Honor Codes. Right thinking results in
right motivation. Right function is the basic concept of the Honor Code. It is
based on perception of doctrine which circulates in the soul. The imputation of
Divine righteousness demands advance to maturity. This righteousness is the
imputation of one-half of Divine integrity to every believer.
1)The believer in Christ
is born again into a status quo called aristocracy
2)The church age is the
age of the royal family.
3)Jesus Christ and his
function in the 1st advent is the basis for this honor code.
4) Aristocracy has
standards. These standards are called the honor code.
5) It is the Christian
way of life. It is compatible with 2 things that happened at salvation.
A) Imputation of Divine
righteousness and share the righteousness of Christ.
B) A purpose for the royal family.
6)Right thinking results
in right motivation. Right motivation = right function.
7)For this, there must be
maximum doctrine in the soul
8)Application requires
the filling of the Holy Spirit.
9) It includes the
advance to maturity as the objective.
10) Makes it possible
for every believer to make it to maturity.
II) The Honor Code begins with
recognition of freedom and emphasizes the privacy of the priesthood. There must
be great tolerance for the non-essentials.
1)The laws of divine
est. sponsor the function of freedom in the human race.
2) The purpose of man’s
creation is to resolve the angelic conflict.. It cannot be resolved without
freedom
3) Freedom has 4
principles which are inter-dependent.
4) Freedom, based on
status of volition Live and let live. Legitimate self-determination. Exemption
from necessity and arbitrary control.
Privacy, is the environment for the
function of Freedom. Property should not be confiscated or distributed
5) Spiritual freedom is
an extension of human freedom
6)All must stand or fall
together (property, privacy, feedom)
7) Slavery to false
doctrine (Gal 5:1b)
III) X + Y + Z = agathos (Rom 13:4,
8:28, 12:2,9,21; 14:16; 16:19) agathos = plan of God
IV) Privacy of Priesthood in the
honor code....Live one’s life as unto the Lord (Col 3:17); guarantees that
every believer has a right to as unto the Lord without distraction; to assemble
for the purpose of doctrinal inculcation; personal life is not an issue:
approaching the word with objectivity without censorship; therefore all
condemnation is from God; spiritual privacy is an integral part of the honor
code; I Pet 2:9; II Thes 3:11,12; I
Tim. 5:13; Rom 14:10)
V) Flexibility; distinguish between
the essential and non-essential; doctrine in the soul establishes the norms by
which priorities are rated; Luke 11:27,28 Heb 10:35,36 ; Prov 8:34
VI) Impersonal love is strictly
rational and faces reality. Integrity of the subject. Cannot be reduced to “dog
eat dog” .If you are wronged, you do not lower yourself to seek revenge etc.
Respects imputed righteousness of God in others. Is not overt niceness or
effusive happiness. Rom12: 13:8-10
VII) Honor Code builds integrity but
it does not reject morality (as per anti-Nomianism). We do not include
morality( as in legalism), we exceed it through integrity. Morality as part of
laws of D. est. includes both believers and unbelievers. As such it is not part
of the Christian way of life. Morality does not demand impersonal love.
Anything an unbeliever can do is NOT the spiritual
way of life.
VIII) Hope as momentum and
motivation.
IX) Logistical support is granted to
us all.
The
Honor Code recognizes its objective which is to advance.
X) Demands everything of the strong;
demands little of the weak. It increases with responsibility as goes the
advance. Rom 15 (1-4)
Demands
more of the strong believer than of the weak (Rom 15:1) Strength through
flexibility. Mature must carry a heavy burden of forebearing with regard to the
weak Rom 15:1-4)
XI) The thrust of the honor code
depends upon orientation to authority
XII) Reciprocity in categories (Rom
15:26,27)
XIII) It demands personal avoidance of self-pity or that which would
cause pity in others. It is a vicioius weaknes Rom 12:8,9; 14:8; 13:8
XIV) The imputation of divine
righteousness at salvation eliminates the function of self-righteousness in the
Christian way of life
XV) Maximum function of the honor
code is to risk life for the life of another member of the royal family (Rom
16:3,4) (John 15:12,13) (Rom 5:7)
XVI) The only system that Makes
dying a part of living. This is not human viewpoint. The dying process does not
exclude us from the honor code. Phil 1:20,21
It excludes Christian production as
a means of blessing. Production is not excluded though in the Christian way of
life. It is the result, not the means. Ie.. the function of ambassadorhsip is
not a means of blessing from God.
7)Total dependence on
the integrity of God is hope or confidence.
8) The honor code
relates to the doctrine of divine imputation. It not only relates to doctrine
but it sustains it as well.
9) Related to God, nation
and people. Laissez faire, Laissez passer
is the policy of integrity in the mature believer. It is the function of grace.
Inflexible to essentials. Flexible with non-essentials