Possessions

"The early church was known for how they care for one another. They were focussed on eternity and cared little about possession." Francis Chan, Letters to the Church

Statement about early Christians caring for one another are often true, but the idea that they did not care about possessions is misleading.

While close to the truth, sometimes it can and has led modern Christians into an iniquitous apostasy.

We can see in Deuteronomy 15:11 "For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land."

This verse concerning a command to help your brothers in the kingdom and the poor was not suggesting that covetous practices of empowering men who exercise authority to redistribute wealth through any form of legal charity.

The prophecy concerning the end to our "captivity" was to: "... proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family." Leviticus 25:10

There is nothing wrong with possessions. They allow us to be charitable. Charity is the act of putting a neighbor's welfare before your personal wealth and comfort. Fervent charity is the manifestation of Christ's love on faith. It is the practice of pure Religion in a daily ministration we see in the early Church during [[dearth]s that swept across the Roman Empire.

That practice of pure Religion through charity is the opposite of modern politics in America and the "world" of men today.

Modern Christians have been relying on men in the governments of the world who exercise authority one over the other but call themselves "benefactors". Since FDR the New Deal system of social welfare by the state has become the daily ministration of Modern Christians and has been a table of legal charity which Christ and all the prophets have warned us about as a snare.

Such systems of are forms of "Corban" that make the word of God to none effect as the "covetous practices" of the pharisees, Nimrod, and Babylon that both degenerates and makes us the masses "merchandise" and "curse children".

Having all things common was not a suggestion of socialism or the one purse which runs toward death as woks of iniquity.