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[ Created: 2022-12-21 10:39:58  Updated: 2022-12-21 11:11:36 Owner: rl ]
Title: A person who is too interested in things that do not involve them    
     
     
     
     
 
    
 
     
     
     
     
 

 

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. -
Don't come under the yoke of sin and suffer for wrong doing.     

And stay out of other people's business.

Christians are forbidden to be busybodies.   Why?   
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. -
Jesus has the power to deliver us from every form of bondage and to empower us to stay out of bondage.     

Notice that He 'makes' us free.     This is because the Old Man is unfixable.     We are Born Again of the Word by the Holy Spirit and so are made free in the New Man which is a New Spirit being.

Being a busybody means that you are attempting to steal another person's freedom.   

Is it legitimate for any person to be a busybody?   Yes, but they should suffer the consequences of being such.   

What do those consequences look like?   They should be excluded from the company of freedom loving people.   

Why then would we elect a busybody to administer over us?   That is the very opposite of excluding them - it is empowering them.   

How foolish!   

The sole purpose of government is described here:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.    Let's take a closer at the preeamble:
more perfect Union
This means to facilitate smooth interactions between the states
establish Justice
This means that it should treat the rights of the weak and strong equally.   
insure domestic Tranquility
This means that peace should be a prime goal.   
provide for the common Defense
This means that it should defend the citizens against foreign invasion
promote the general Welfare
This means that it should support things that favor everyone.   
secure the Blessings of Liberty
This means that stability and adherence to core values be preserved.   
do ordain and establish
This means that the formers of the Constitution instill the Constitution with supreme authority over the government it establishes.   

Nowhere in the precepts of the preamble or the Constitution itself is there provision for denial of freedom by the government it establishes.   Rather, it represents an effort to completely deny the government of having any power to do so.   

So, how did I get off onto the Constitution and government when the topic is busybody?   
If it is unacceptable for a person to be a busybody it is many times worse for a government to be a busybody.   

An individual has limited power to force themselves into the affairs of others.   Whereas the government has unlimited power to do so when it denies the spirit of the Constitution.   

So, here we are being governed by a busybody government.   
Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye?     Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye. -
Edification operates in love.     It happens when we are concerned for the individual as opposed to being concerned about how the individual affects us.     

To attempt to effect change in a person for our own benefit is the act of a busybody.

It is a fact that the people in government have beams in their eyes yet go about trying to cast the motes out of the eyes of its citizenry.   This is an abomination before the Lord and before the citizenry.   

Until we recognize the immorality in our current government and move to eradicate it, we will be unable to experience freedom and abundant life.   
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. -
The thief is Satan who is the inspiration for all the evil in the world.     
Whereas the 'I' is Jesus who offers us Eternal Life and Abundant Life.     

This verse is a powerful statement contrasting the nature of the enemy with the nature of our Lord Jesus Christ.     

Note that the enemy takes by force what is ours, while we must appropriate by faith what is ours in Christ Jesus.     
The appropriation is not a 'one and done' thing.     Rather, it is an ongoing process throughout our lives on this earth.