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Loving and Living with Other Knights in the Kingdom
In The Code of the Realm, Hebrews 10:25, the Great King says, Oh Knight, do not give up the habit of attending the banquets and feasts together, as some are doing. Instead, each knight should encourage one another in the Quest.
We are all serfs in the realm, knights of the Great King, brothers and sisters to the Crown Prince, bearers of His Family Crest. As such, the Great King commands us to attend banquets and feastings together. Although some wayward knights believe they can do battle against the dragon on their own, The Great King knows we need each other. We need to draw strength from each other.
In fact, the Great King also tells us, in another passage of The Code of the Realm, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, 12, Two knights are better off than one. If the dragon knocks one of them down, the other can help him up. But if someone is alone and is knocked down by a dragon, it is bad because there is no one to help him. Two knights can resist an attack that would defeat one alone. And three knights sharing jousting techniques with each other are hard for the dragons to defeat.
And the Crown Prince Himself, in the Chronicles of His life, Matthew’s Record 18:20, reminds every knight, For wherever two or three knights have come together in My name, I am there, right among them!
Each of us has had to learn to battle the dragon. And each knight has been given a special jousting technique for that battle. The Great King knows that if we are to be successful in our Quest, then we must meet regularly with other knights to share those techniques with one another. As we are told in the Code of the Realm, The Great King has given you some special jousting techniques; be sure to use them to help each other..., the Accomplished Knight Peter’s Letters to the Knights, 4:10.
But the Realm is large, and the Great King has many knights. For us to be effective in encouraging each other and successful in slaying our dragons, every knight needs to be a part of a small company of knights. All knights love it when the King gathers us all together for a grand ball. But it's rather difficult for all the King’s knights to relate personally to everyone else in the army. But in a small company each knight can share the jousting techniques each other needs and learn how to recognize when another knight needs assistance.
Look at how the King instructs us to conduct each company of knights in the Code of the Realm, Activities of Accomplished Knights 2:42-47. Each knight devoted themselves to learning the jousting techniques of the Accomplished Knights, and to banquets and feasting, and to having an audience with the King. All the knights were filled with awe, and many dragons were defeated by the Accomplished Knights. All the knights were in companies and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together for banquets and feasting. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising the Great King and enjoying the favor of all the knights. And the Crown Prince added to their number daily those knights who were being trained.
Here the King tells His knights to share everything with each other. One thing every knight needs to share is stories of battles with dragons. One great way for each knight to be more successful in the Quest is to tell others what has, and hasn’t worked along the way. Knights need also to share the training each has received. The Great King has given us techniques to use along the Quest. He did not train us in these methods without expecting each knight to pass along those tips to others.
Knights must also show common courtesy to other knights. Does a fellow knight need shelter in the midst of a particularly terrible battle? Do you have provisions to share with knights who have less than yourself? It is both the act of being courageous in battle with the dragon and being courteous to fellow knights that will draw new knights into the Kingdom.
But there is yet another purpose for the banquets and feastings. The words of the Crown Prince recorded in the Chronicles of His Life, Luke’s Record 8:46 state, Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me. And the Accomplished Knight, Paul, wrote in his letter to the company of knights in Rome, 16:16, that we should Greet one another with a holy kiss. Why did the Crown Prince touch people? Why does the Code of the Realm tell us to greet each other with a holy kiss or a warm embrace?
The Great King knows that His knights need the loving touch and contact of each other. Even something simple like a hug can have a great impact on the mental, emotional, and physical health of knights who have been fighting hard against the dragons. The King did not intend us to fight the fight alone. He even refers to the Family Crest, whom He gave to us when the Crown Prince returned to His throne, as a Comfort to us.
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