Order is the primary expression of the Creator God; and from this manifested integrity all godly attributes have been designed, both in heaven and in earth. Order is the embodiment of God’s nature, the outcome of all His creative activity and the foundation of His holiness. There is absolutely nothing about Him that is disordered, dysfunctional, dislocated or disarranged; For God is good—absolutely good, eternally good, and morally good; any form or manner of iniquitous rebellion or heinous transgression is diametrically opposed to God and is completely disordered; He is removed from disorder as far as the East is from the West. All disorder past, present and future is the mysterious intent of that serpent of old, called the devil and Satan. The Christ of God is the full and total expression of this holy and esteemed regime. All aspects and attributes of Christ’s divinity proceed as pictorial declarations of this harmonious arrangement, and reflect the multifaceted wonder of this absolute order.
Thus the Creator God is the author and quintessence of perfect cosmos, the designer of absolute flawlessness, the developer of impeccable arrangement and the author of absolute harmony. Because from His essence flows a perfection of character that is modeled by His undiminished love for Himself. Any deviation from this exalted estate is disordered and is not permitted in His presence. Therefore, order is the garment of righteousness; the fabric and purpose of salvation; the motive and stability of His Cross. The spectral extremes of light and darkness, good and evil, truth and error, law and lawlessness, theism and atheism, cosmos and chaos, creation and evolution are but reflections of the absolute disparity that exists between order and disorder.
Nothing godly or holy can be achieved, attained or accessed without divine order. Divine order is the fountainhead from which emanates unity, fellowship and godliness. Divine order is the standard by which everything is judged; everything religious, everything political, and everything domestic. Because His order is His ultimate plan for the earth—that the Kingdom in Heaven must come to the earth—then, all human systems, governments, organizations and communities will ultimately bow to Him and succumb to His authority, ultimately, finally and willfully.
Man was created in perfect order—he lived and breathed perfection with the God who formed him; the God that inculcated His timeless order into him. Thus man became a living soul! Man walked with God, communed with God, was robed with light, covered with righteousness and dwelt in holiness. Every thought that percolated in his mind was a pulley divinely instilled; every motive was a godly design, every action a heavenly fulcrum—he was indeed and in truth created in the likeness and image of his Creator God! When God formed man from the dust of the earth, He made him flawless, without spot, or tarnish or any form of sin—pure were his motives, holy was his attitude and perfect was his character. He was in order and as such, he was godly! Without this divine order, absolute holiness is unreachable; complete righteousness unattainable and total salvation impossible.
When man sinned, he fell from this divinely created order and lost all connection to godliness, a great gulf of thick, inky blackness oozed over his soul, corrupting his thoughts, his motives, his imagination—and man became vulnerably hungry for sin and was immediately naked, blind, deaf and alone. He became so totally blind and that he lost his way to God. Man exists today separated from this holy estate, and has not a clue how to fine it. All his wandering, musing, religions, philosophizing and prognosticating are but exercises in futility. They bring him no closer to this saving order today than they did for the ancient Greeks 2500 years ago, or the Babylonians 3000 years ago or the Antidiluvians 4400 years ago. Man is helplessly lost from this august order and he has no way to discover it, invent it, develop it, conjure it or recreate it.
Man’s greatest need is this divine order. There is no substitute for it, no alternative that can replace it, or no human contrivance that can satisfy it demands. Man is lost—totally lost—without it.
Thus the Creator God is the author and quintessence of perfect cosmos, the designer of absolute flawlessness, the developer of impeccable arrangement and the author of absolute harmony. Because from His essence flows a perfection of character that is modeled by His undiminished love for Himself. Any deviation from this exalted estate is disordered and is not permitted in His presence. Therefore, order is the garment of righteousness; the fabric and purpose of salvation; the motive and stability of His Cross. The spectral extremes of light and darkness, good and evil, truth and error, law and lawlessness, theism and atheism, cosmos and chaos, creation and evolution are but reflections of the absolute disparity that exists between order and disorder.
Nothing godly or holy can be achieved, attained or accessed without divine order. Divine order is the fountainhead from which emanates unity, fellowship and godliness. Divine order is the standard by which everything is judged; everything religious, everything political, and everything domestic. Because His order is His ultimate plan for the earth—that the Kingdom in Heaven must come to the earth—then, all human systems, governments, organizations and communities will ultimately bow to Him and succumb to His authority, ultimately, finally and willfully.
Man was created in perfect order—he lived and breathed perfection with the God who formed him; the God that inculcated His timeless order into him. Thus man became a living soul! Man walked with God, communed with God, was robed with light, covered with righteousness and dwelt in holiness. Every thought that percolated in his mind was a pulley divinely instilled; every motive was a godly design, every action a heavenly fulcrum—he was indeed and in truth created in the likeness and image of his Creator God! When God formed man from the dust of the earth, He made him flawless, without spot, or tarnish or any form of sin—pure were his motives, holy was his attitude and perfect was his character. He was in order and as such, he was godly! Without this divine order, absolute holiness is unreachable; complete righteousness unattainable and total salvation impossible.
When man sinned, he fell from this divinely created order and lost all connection to godliness, a great gulf of thick, inky blackness oozed over his soul, corrupting his thoughts, his motives, his imagination—and man became vulnerably hungry for sin and was immediately naked, blind, deaf and alone. He became so totally blind and that he lost his way to God. Man exists today separated from this holy estate, and has not a clue how to fine it. All his wandering, musing, religions, philosophizing and prognosticating are but exercises in futility. They bring him no closer to this saving order today than they did for the ancient Greeks 2500 years ago, or the Babylonians 3000 years ago or the Antidiluvians 4400 years ago. Man is helplessly lost from this august order and he has no way to discover it, invent it, develop it, conjure it or recreate it.
Man’s greatest need is this divine order. There is no substitute for it, no alternative that can replace it, or no human contrivance that can satisfy it demands. Man is lost—totally lost—without it.
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