When we walk with Christ we can think with His mind which exposes the family cult that seeks to control the thinking of each one in the cult.
The fear of being treated with contempt and not being accepted by the group drives the members of the cult to remain with those who pretend to have our interest at heart but really care only about controlling those in the cult.
Cult leaders are all about control over the members of their cult. They may even think they are doing good but in reality they have no faith at all that other members of the cult are capable of coming to their own conclusions about life to make their own decision about the course of their life.
There is pride and arrogance involved in the thinking within the cult, which is dominated by the dilution that they are the only ones doing life right and everyone else not in the cult is the enemy. This is the mentality that drives the ultra-protection by isolating those in the cult from anyone who thinks differently from them.
Pride is when someone thinks too highly of themselves and arrogance is when someone thinks they are better and more deserving than others.
In a cult the leader of the cult does not allow any difference in thinking within the cult, monitoring the adults in the cult while punishing those who dare to think on their own. These leaders are nosy, bossy and rude to anyone who is brave enough to seek their own path. This is why Christians are so hated by the cultic systems, they reject the lies of the cult and live according to the principles and commands of Christ Who lives in them.
The fear of loss of connection with the people in the cult runs high since they were trained from childhood not to cross the leader and the other flying monkeys within that system.
We see this in family cults, church cults, and even in other institutions that assert their own ideas as the only ones allowed. Even the community around us has a prescribed way of thinking that will punish anyone who has a different idea of life than society has.
Cults are all around us, they are oppressive and mean-spirited as they dominate those who are too weak to make a break from them and live as Christ commanded.
Manipulation, covert rudeness, and isolation are the tools on the cult leaders' belt, they are always instructing and refuse to listen, the only recourse is to escape their dominance and walk with Christ in boldness.
Proverbs 3:5-6
"5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight."
Following people, following a cult leader or anyone else will lead those who follow them into an abyss of oppressive treatment as well as judgment over things that are not sins, but just personal choices. These cults judge the smallest matters as evil while ignoring the sin of arrogance and oppression within the cult.
They make rules God never made and punish anyone who violates those rules. They are the height of legalism and often violate much of the word of God while they adhere to their own human rules to keep everyone in the cult in line.
Our walk with Jesus Christ is free and not burdensome. We do not worry that someone may step out of line because we know those who have the Holy Spirit will hear from Him. If someone sins we lovingly and gently speak with them to bring them back to obedience to Christ, but never over man-made rules executed by those who think they need to help God out by making regulations and directives that God never commanded.
1 John 5:2-4
"2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. 4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith."
Those in the cult will only listen to the leader, they will never be allowed to discern truth on their own or hear it from anyone outside that cult. They will not permit the cult members to question one another, teach one another or encourage one another unless it meets with the approval of the cult leader, even if the leader is wrong and they often are wrong because they see themselves as an authority above that of the Holy Spirit.
Any leader who counts themselves as the only one with the truth is usurping the Holy Spirit. Anyone defying the leader by obeying the Holy Spirit will be punished through exclusion and shunning.
The best thing that can happen to the one who thinks with the mind of Christ is to be excluded from the cult, then is when their freedom to think with the mind of Christ begins.
John 16:13 "
"But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."
Never allow any cult leader to oppress you and never remain with those who are cultic if you can get away.
