I had a significant epiphany about seven years into my walk with Messiah King Jesus. I was so busy fitting God to my understanding that I was blissfully unaware that I had philosophically made myself a “god” in my estimation. God had to deflate my inferiority-complex masking as egoic delusion parading as god-complex supremacy by bringing me to the grassroots of self by facing my unresolved trauma. Man, that was a challenging period in my history. I thank God daily for emptying me of self and teaching me to love myself enough by falling in love with Him- my God, Friend, Saviour, and Truth-Teller. Thank goodness I can be a sinner saved by grace, learning to sin less, and leave the Godliness up to THEE LIVING GOD to work out in me. Pressure off, whew!!! God complex deception is a common plague that crushes society- one that can be traced to the fall of our common ancestors, Adam and Eve, in Eden. Genesis 3 verse 5, “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be LIKE god, knowing good and evil.” God complex is a deception as old as creation itself, one humanity still feasts gluttonously on to this day. Liana Georgoulis, PsyD, Licensed Psychologist, tells us, regarding god complex, “The biggest sign of a god complex is an inflated sense of self. Someone with a god complex has extreme entitlement and arrogance. Signs to watch for include grandiosity, bullying, exploitation, gaslighting, isolation, unsuccessful relationships, and an inability to take responsibility.”- https://www.wikihow.com/Know-if-You-Have-a-God-Complex

One of the major causes of god complex, although it is a spiritual affliction, is strummed into being by the subtle art of codependency. A codependent person tries to fix others to avoid fixing themselves. The deception is that if they heal others, they are a good person worthy of love and validation. God’s, and our, enemy knows that we need to belong, so he fiddles with this need with deception by forcing us to avoid looking into the mirror of our self-loathing and projecting idealism through the lens of our self-glorifying reality-avoidant psyche. Anytime we try to bend the world to revolve around us, we, in effect, are saying, “I am the highest of beingness, and I deserve to be heard as I know better than everyone that has, is, and ever will live.” However, considering that 8 billion people live on our planet, we cannot be the powerful voice of sustainable life, as we each instinctively suffer self-preservation before mutuality consciousness.

When you and I walk in our grandiosity, we will ALWAYS be part of the demise of humanity. Therefore, we need morality that is given by an omniscient external consciousness.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that god complex is destroying society with utter madness and decay. Our fragility and unresolved insecurities are making life unbearable for all.

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And weak men create hard times.”

― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

Having established the case for the need for agency beyond ourselves that separates good from evil, right from wrong, and moral from immoral to be our universal guide, let’s look at how God defines Himself as such a Warrior that brings peace ultimately, but not without the consequence of war by default of our setting ourselves up as adversaries to God Almighty.

Who is more deserving to be THEE LEADER than Messiah, King Jesus?

Colossians 1 vs 15-22:

‘The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him, all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things; in him, all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead so that he might have supremacy in everything. So God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Once, you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s body through death to present you holy in his sight.’

BUT WE MUST NOT FORGET THAT ALTHOUGH JESUS IS EXTENDING GRACE TO US, HE IS COMING WITH WAR……

Isaiah 42 vs 13:
‘The Lord will go forth like a warrior,
He will arouse His zeal like a man of war.
He will utter a shout; yes, He will raise a war cry.
He will prevail against His enemies.’-  https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/God-As-A-Warrior.

We are mistaken to think that Messiah King Jesus is the Prince of Peace through the anthropocentric bias of our perspective, which blinds us to the fact that a supernatural war is happening in our lives. Ephesians 6 vs 12, ‘For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.‘

Prophet Isaiah foretold us, Isaiah 9 vs 6, that although God would become flesh as a child, He is the Almighty who comes with peace, even if it requires war to obtain it, ‘For a child will be born to us, a Son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.’

HOWEVER, WE SEE JESUS THE WARRIOR WAY BACK IN SCRIPTURE…..

The Commander of the Army of The Lord in Joshua 5 vs 13-15 is the Messiah, King Jesus. Jesus has always existed (John 1). As such, being Son is more a practical explanation for the ease of comprehension for God manifesting as flesh to live a human existence to overcome the downfall of humanity created by a human, namely Adam. In so doing, God has reconciled humanity to Himself, and we can be with God or against Him. We, too, must be aware of the consequences of that choice.
It is important to note that when Joshua asks Jesus whose side Jesus is on, Jesus dispels the underlying god complex by correcting Joshua, reminding him that we are part of God’s Story, not visa versa, “No. I am The Lord Of God’s Army. Now I have come. Take off your sandals, as this place is Holy.”

THE QUESTION IS NOT IF GOD IS FOR US; EVIDENTLY, IT IS SO BECAUSE HE CAME AS JESUS; THE QUESTION IS, “ARE WE FOR GOD?”

Paul offers sound advice about avoiding god complex and not setting ourselves up as adversaries against Jesus, who, when He Returns, is coming as The Warrior delivering Peace, but after the foretold coming spiritual war.

“Avoid such people” seems so harsh. Still, contextually when we measure it against God’s Word, which teaches us how to stay protected under God, we see how beautiful our warrior Jesus is that He is coming to destroy evil forever. James 4 vs 4, ‘You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.’ God’s Will is to save us, but He grants us the freedom to choose to not be saved by Him. As with Joshua, we are implored to be on God’s Side.

WHY?