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== Quotes ==

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'''"[[Freedom]] is the [[Exousia|Right to Choose]], the [[Rights|Right]] to create for oneself the alternatives of [[Choice]]. Without the possibility of Choice, and the [[Freedom of Religion|exercise of Choice]], a man is not a man but a [[person|member]], an instrument, a [[merchandise|thing]].”'''<Ref name="archy">[[Archibald MacLeish]]</Ref>
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'''"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."''' <Ref name="archy">[[Archibald MacLeish]]</Ref>

'''"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."''' <Ref name="archy">[[Archibald MacLeish]]</Ref>

"How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith." <Ref name="archy">[[Archibald MacLeish]]</Ref>

"A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man." <Ref name="archy">[[Archibald MacLeish]]</Ref>

"To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers." <Ref name="archy">[[Archibald MacLeish]]</Ref>

"The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse."
<Ref name="archy">[[Archibald MacLeish]]</Ref>

"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
<Ref >[[Archibald MacLeish]]
"In Praise of Dissent". New York Times, December 16, 1956.</Ref>

"What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t."
<Ref name="archy">[[Archibald MacLeish]]</Ref>

"The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent."
Archibald MacLeish (1940). “A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish”, Boston, Mifflin

"If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd."
Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

"Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold."
Archibald MacLeish (1941). “The American cause”

"Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive."
<Ref name="archy">[[Archibald MacLeish]]</Ref>

"Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him."
<Ref name="archy">[[Archibald MacLeish]]</Ref>

"Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question."
<Ref name="archy">[[Archibald MacLeish]]</Ref>

"There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream."
Archibald MacLeish

"We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent."
Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

"Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man."
Archibald MacLeish

"There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass."
Archibald MacLeish (1985). “Collected Poems, 1917-1982”, p.41,

"Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world."
Archibald MacLeish
"The American Cause". Address delivered at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, November 20, 1940.

"A poem should not mean but be."
Archibald MacLeish

"As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief. without moral purpose or human interest."
Archibald MacLeish

"Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing."
Archibald MacLeish

"That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations."
Archibald MacLeish

"Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there."
Archibald MacLeish

In the play '''[https://www.genericradio.com/objects/fall-of-the-city.pdf The Fall of the City]''' by Arch ibald MacLeish:
: The city of masterless men
: will take a master.
: There will be shouting then:
: Blood after!

: The Messenger describes the life of those who have been conquered as one of terror – "Their words are their murderers – Judged before judgment", even as many of them actively invite the oppressor in.

: What is the surest defender of liberty?
: Is it not liberty?
: A free people resists by freedom:
: Not locks! Not blockhouses!
: The future is a mirror where the past
: Marches to meet itself. Go armed towards arms!
: Peaceful towards peace! Free and with music towards freedom!
: Face tomorrow with knives and tomorrow's a knife-blade.

: The man is worn by the knife.

: Once depend on iron for your freedom and your
: Freedom's iron!
: Once overcome your resisters with force and your
: Force will resist you!
: You will never be free of force.
: Never of arms unarmed ...
: Force is a greater enemy than this conqueror,
: A treacherous weapon.

: Freedom's the rarest bird!
: You risk your neck to snare it . . .
: It's gone while your eyeballs stare!

: Those who'd lodge with a tyrant
: Thinking to feed at his fire
: And leave him again when they're fed are
: Plain fools or were bred to it.

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Golem

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[[File:Golem.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The [[Golem]] monster unnaturally born of greed and a lust for power became a [[person]] who could not die while it did the bidding of its creator. Audio [http://www.hisholychurch.net/kkvv/x5%20folder/140222golem01lr.mp3 2014], [http://www.hisholychurch.net/kkvv/020/141004ccc1fr.mp3 audio 2 Contracts, Covenants & Constitutions book], [https://podcast.preparingu.com/key2105/ audio 3].]]

== a Golem ==

The Golem (Hebrew: גולם‎ meaning ‘shapeless mass’) in Jewish folklore is a clay (or out of stone) monster who has no soul but can act like a [[person]] to do its master's bidding. But like Frankenstein monster, the corpus of the Golem can turn on its master and destroy him.

=== Anthropomorphic being ===

A golem is an ''anthropomorphic being'' <Ref>having human characteristics.</Ref> created from clay, The golem is a metaphor that represent ancient [[Contracts, Covenants, and Constitutions|contracts]] which were written on clay tablets and baked to preserve the terms for the life of an agreement which can form an institution. The legend of its rise from service to power and subsequent destruction is an allegory warning what may happen to our own story if we delegate to much [[responsibility]] to our own institutions.

=== Contract makes the Golem ===

Those institutional agreements were sworn to by [[Swear not|oaths]] to hold the parties [[captive]] to the terms of an agreement.

When a man made institution is given power it is given a life by its creators and can become a legal entity. Its status can vary by the laws that enacts it.

=== From servant to monster ===

It can become a great [[benefactor]] of the People who created it but it does not age nor die like its founders.

While that [[golem]] is spawned from the soul of its creator it will morph into a ''monster'' as the [[Fatal Sequence|next generation]] of the [[Human Being]]s who eat of its [[dainties]] progress in their own [[Degenerate|degeneration]].

=== Truth and Death ===

The word "truth", in Hebrew: ''Emet'' (אמת), written across the forehead of the Golem, activates the ''legal corpus'' of the Golem. By erasing the first letter [[aleph]] (א), Emet turns to Met (מת), meaning ''death'', and the Golem is destroyed.

In Jewish legend this clay figure was brought to life by ''magic''. Magic is not seen, but like a binding [[Swear not|oath]], it grants power where there was none before.

The [[Alef]] represents the relationship of God and man. The Golem was created as a servant. Like a corporation it can become like person and Engle the people with the elements of its work.

It can become like the [[gods]] many spoken of by Paul deciding [[good and evil]] as individuals become [[persons]] who are ''[[entangled]]'' in the [[Elements|element]] of its [[world]]. When and dependent services and [[degenerate]].

==SupraNatural ==

[[File:contract.jpg|left|thumb|Ancient Assyrian [[contract]].]]

A [[corporation]] in ancient times was established by a ''contract written in clay'' and sworn to by the creators of it. It did not die, as long as the clay contract existed and could go about as a ''[[person]]'' from ''[[generation to generation]]'', living beyond the laws of nature.

=== A monster possessed ===

Many corporations which go public can be taken over by shareholder elected boards. The creator can be removed and their original intent can be subverted by a parasitical mind or soul and even attack the original creator and all the built.

The corporation can also turn on its creators and become a monster or beast wandering about wreaking havoc and destruction on all creation.

=== Monster and Beasts ===

All government formed by [[CCC|Contracts, Covenants or Constitutions]] may have a ''corporate nature'' to them, and like the [[Golem]], they may become beasts without souls turning on the next generation without mercy.
[[File:Golem2.jpg|right|]]

The [[state]] as a [[corporation]] can grant the power to replicate other ''corporations of the state''. These corporations may eventually become powerful enough to control the state that created them or ride upon the back of the [[Civil government|civil]] power of the [[State]].

== A Golem narrative ==

One early Golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late-16th-century rabbi of Prague. There are many stories that carry the idea of a [[Golem]]-type creature brought to life by ambition and greed, but afterward, they go out of control, destroying their creator like the [[Mark of the Beast|Beast of Revelation]]. The essential elements remain much the same.

A corporation or cooperative is not [[evil]] in itself. But to give it the powers of a ''[[person]]'', independent of those found in a natural people who create it and give it life ... this creates an imbalance in society that may eventually wreak havoc, and devour mankind's natural [[dominion]].

Any consolidation of power and the [[power of choice]] is a dangerous thing. Learning to come together while remaining individuals with an individual right to your personal means of production, i.e. [[Employ|labor]], requires the [[fruit|fruitfulness]] of [[forgive]]ness and [[fervent charity]] and a passion for [[truth]] and the spirit of [[righteousness]].

== Defeating a Golem ==

Nations in the past created voluntary [[governments]] with [[titular]] positions of leadership where all taxes were voluntary, day by day, and all rights to property passed from generation to generation. They did this by gathering in [[Free Assemblies]] of [[Tens]].

Three Audio files 
Taken from [http://www.preparingyou.com/wiki/Audio2014 archive at] 
http://www.hisholychurch.net/kkvv/x5%20folder/140222golem01lr.mp3 
Golem, a creature in Hebrew folklore that was created out of clay, and then animated. A Frankenstein analogy of a corporation. Part of the [[Free Justina]]. [[Conversation with Mosheh]]. Resist not evil.

http://www.hisholychurch.net/kkvv/020/141004ccc1fr.mp3 
Part of the [[CCC|Contracts, Covenants & Constitutions book]]. 

Is the US constitution a biblical document or the ultimate imperial Golem?

http://www.hisholychurch.net/kkvv/020/141004newsrebola.mp3 
Third hour in news series, emphasis on Ebola. Includes a part on Genetic engineering with pots and pans. Golem; Meta-physical parable for a corporation.

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Trusting in the Kingdom

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Free Church Report '''[[FCRTOC|Table of Contents]]''' and [[The Kingdom Study Group|Free Church Report Call Schedule]] Recording #12 [//www.hisholychurch.net/audio/170808trust.mp3 Play or download]
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Trusting in the
Kingdom

The Church was called
out by Christ the King, to care for and feed the congregation of
the people of His kingdom at hand, so that they had no need to apply
to the benefactors of other governments. That “called out”
body is the bondservant of Christ and therefore the servant of the
people. The called out corpus of Christ or ekklesia, also
called the Church, is one form of government where the people
remain free. Their relationship is a unique social contract where the
people may choose daily to congregate but remain in possession of
their rights and responsibilities. This relationship is considered a
form of sacred trust. 


All governments are forms
of trusts, but the Church differs because it does not ever compel
offerings, nor does it guarantee entitlements. The Church is only
sustained by free will offerings much the same as early Israel. What
is given is laid upon the living altar of the Church in a sacred
trust. The public servants of God’s kingdom are bound by Christ
to care for the faithful. They are the incorporation of, by, and for
Christ, who came to serve. The free individuals of the congregation
are linked to the Church and the kingdom it serves by the free will
offering of trust and faith and by that mutual witness. 


The people have no binding
social contract to contribute to the Church other than the covenant
that may be written on their heart by God. The Church also remains
free from any contracts or obligation to the congregation except what
is written on the hearts of the individual ministers by God.

This is a truly free
society whose life blood operates not upon an exercising authority,
but upon a daily exercise of faith and trust, hope and prayer,
charity and love. Societies based on virtue are hard to corrupt.

The individual
congregations remain an unincorporated fellowship, with every man
returned to his family and to his possessions. The Church remains
restricted only by the commands of Christ and the scrutiny and choice
of the people. Together, they are a free body politic formed not by
force, but by virtue of mutual trust in God’s way to
receive, preserve, and propagate Christ’s doctrines and
ordinances.

The people recognize the
ministers of the Church by free choice and contribution. The Church
accepts the election of the people by free choice of assignment, as
we see in Acts 6, chapter 6th.

“And
in those days,... because their widows were neglected in the daily
ministration. Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples
unto them, and said, ... Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you
seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom
we may appoint over this business. But we will give ourselves
continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. And the
saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man
full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and
Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they
laid their hands on them. And the word of God increased; and the
number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great
company of the priests were obedient to the faith...”

The process establishes a
legal entity that may function in the world, but not of it. As a
foreign creation of Christ, it may open the door to a free society
under God, rather than the gods of the world.


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Exiting Babylon

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[[File:tower-of-babel.jpg|right|325px|thumb|'''What is [[Babylon]]?''' What is the "city<Ref name="city">{{05892}}</Ref> and tower<Ref name="tower">{{04062}}</Ref>" of Babel we see in [[Genesis 11]]? Was the "city<Ref name="city">{{05892}}</Ref> and tower<Ref name="tower">{{04062}}</Ref>" like [[Babylon]], a civil [[Systems|system]]? Were they a [[metaphor]] for the '''[[city of blood]]''' spoken of by Jeremiah<Ref>[[Jeremiah 26]]:15</Ref>, Ezekiel<Ref>[[Ezekiel 7]]:23, [[Ezekiel 9]]:9, [[Ezekiel 22]]:2-3 ,[[Ezekiel 24]]:6-9 </Ref>, Hosea<Ref>[[Hosea 6]]:8</Ref>, Nahum<Ref>[[Nahum 3]]:1</Ref>, Habakkuk<Ref>[[Habakkuk 2]]:8, 12,17</Ref>, and even Revelation.<Ref>[[Revelation 14]]:20</Ref>? Which way can we go to be [[Exiting Babylon]]? The word ''[[Babylon]]'' is from the [[Hebrew]] word [[0894|Babel]] meaning ''confusion by mingling''. The [[Babylon]]ian system was a [[One purse]] system based on the [[covetous practices]] of [[socialism]] with [[Nimrod]]'s officers of his [[welfare state]] as the [[Benefactors]] of [[society]]. The way society "mingles" or relates to one another may degenerate them into [[perfect savages]] through becoming accustomed to the [[covetous practices]] of the [[world]]. [[Nimrod]]'s city and tower was to provide protection in the form of a [[social security]] system that would make the people [[merchandise]]. What is [[Mystery Babylon|Babylon]] and which way is the exit? ]]

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=== The way of Babylon ===

Babylon was not a place as much as it was a way but only in the sense that it has become a modern term describing an ancient system that was used to organize people in a society and subsequently regulated then into comfortable submission.

The progression of the life of Babylon's development and expansion as its power and influence magnifier at the expense of personal liberty and the degeneration of the [[social bonds]] which distribute the life giving blood of freedom.

The blood of freedom is sacrifice, not just in the heat of battle against thieves and robbers, oppressors and tyrants but as social capital that sacrifice is the issued currency that nurtures the heart of a free society. Without a [[daily ministration]] through [[charity]] that heart will falter and fail.

Without the daily sacrifice of each soul in society, by individual choice, for their neighbors' welfare and not merely their own, the body of society will wither and die. The [[love]] required in the [[care]] of every family in society brings [[eternal life]] to the flesh and sinew of each community of families from which successive generation shall be born.

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“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”-Plato
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You can only have a free society and a government of the people, by the people, and for the people when people care about their neighbors' rights as much as they [[care]] about their own. Neighbors helping neighbors paves the road to liberty.

The road to Babylon is where the [[masses]] have an [[appetite]] for the [[dainties]] of rulers and the "deceitful meats" they offer at their [[tables]] of [[legal charity]] provided for your welfare are a actually a [[snare]] which will make you [[merchandise]] and [[curse children|curse the next generation]].

The ''Way of Babylon'' returns the people to the [[bondage of Egypt]] bringing them into [[captivity]] where the people sit in darkness and the heart failes, and the flesh corrupts<Ref>.Genesis 6:12 [12]And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
: 1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the [[kingdom of God]]; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
; Galatians 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
: 1 Peter 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
: Proverbs 5:9-13 [9]Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 10]Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; [11]And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, [12]And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; [13]And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!</Ref>, until only [[dry bones]] remain.<Ref>Proverbs 14:30-32 [30]A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. [31]He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. [32]The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
: Micah 3:2-4 [2] Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; [3]Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. [4]Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. </Ref>

Avoiding or exiting Babylon may begin on the same road but in the opposite direction which requires you to go in the [[the way|other way]], which is [[Repent]]ance.

=== Exiting Babylon ===

A lot of people think they are exiting Babylon when they are really just getting lost in the wilderness.

So, what is [[Babylon]]?

If it is more a way than a place, a way of hearts and souls.

Some suggest that Babylon is an ecclesiastical Babylon, a "church" that Jesus did not establish, while others state that, ''"Babylon is a system that encompasses the realm of economics, religion, political and social structures."''

Some suggest that Babylon refers to the "[[World|world]]" or the ''New World Order'' as a system composed of evil rulers and despots who have a Satanic, or anti-Christ spirit.

All views may be correct depending upon where you are standing and at what time you catch site of its image.

[[Nimrod]] was a mighty provider who subjugated the people with offers of various [[dainties]] and [[benefits]], appealing to the [[Slothful|slothful]] nature or the fleshly [[Wantonness]] of the people.

The [[Nimrod]]s of the [[world]], or rulers of Babylon, get people to grant them power as their rulers in hope of obtaining their [[wages of unrighteousness]] and gain promised by [[One purse|their purse]] and [[tables]].

Those benefits are the ''"[[dainties|deceitful meat]]"'' we are warned of in [[Proverbs 23]] that they are a [[snare]] and makes us [[merchandise]] according to Paul and Peter.

Why?

Because to obtain those [[Plutarch|gifts, gratuities and benefits]], these [[benefactors]] must take from your neighbor to provide your social [[Welfare]]. These [[covetous practices]] not only make people [[merchandise]] but [[Curse children|curse their children]] as [[surety|sureties]] for debt and they degenerate the [[social bonds]] of free societies.

Because the people have to ''pledge their service''<Ref>[[Oath of Naturalization]], or apply for benefits as an [[Employ|Employee]] with a [[Mark of the Beast|federal number]], or do any thing to make the State your [[Benefactors|Benefactor]] or [[Father]].</Ref> to obtain those benefits, their rulers and lawmakers are able to borrow funds in their name, which make them [[Surety|sureties]] for debt. Once the debt is established and people have become [[Merchandise|Human Resources]], ''dissolving the bands which have connected you with another''<Ref>"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of ... Declaration of Independence</Ref> is not as easy as it might have been in 1776.

This binding of people together in a ''civil [[cauldron]]'' of [[Bondage]] is a common theme of the [[Bible]].<Ref>[[Micah 3]]:2, 3 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
 [[Leviticus 17]]:12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
 [[Ezekiel 11]]:3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh. 4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. 5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. 6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
 [[Ezekiel 11]]:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. 8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. 9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. 10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 [[Ezekiel 11]]:11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
 [[Matthew 7]]:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
 [[Matthew 10]]:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
 [[Galatians 5]]:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. </Ref>

* So, can we '''Exit Babylon'''?
* How does one do that?
* Do you think '''Exiting Babylon''' will set us free?
* Or will it be a leap into the fire?

People often suggest there is some special paperwork. It is true that paper evidence, which is personal testimony, can play a part, but it is not the essential element that sets us free.

To imagine that you can throw off supposed oppressors or usurpers by filing papers cannot be a Biblical solution.

* Could the Israelites in Egypt throw off the Pharaoh with [[Moses]]'s ''paper work''?
* Did Jesus or John preach to throw off the government of the [[Pharisees]] by ''filing papers''?

The Bible and common sense should make it clear what to do once we understand what we have done, how we got into bondage again.

Going back is simply doing the opposite of what got us here in the first place. Yet, people still want to know how to separate themselves from that [[world]] without fully.

All one has to do is [[Repent]] to seek the [[Kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]] in every aspect of life and every relationship. [[Repent]]ance is thinking differently and the [[Kingdom of God]] is not a place as much as it is a way. In fact it is [[The Way]].

Now [[righteousness]] of God is a matter of a combination of [[weightier matters|justice and mercy]] through [[Charity|giving]] and [[Forgive|forgiving]]. This is the circumcision of the heart which Paul talks about in his letter to the Romans.
* Romans 2:29 "But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God."

God provides for those who love their neighbor as themselves through [[Faith]], [[Hope]] and [[Charity]] according to the [[Perfect law of liberty]]. If we apply, or pray, for benefits from [[Benefactors]] who exercise authority instead of the Lord God of Creation, we become [[Merchandise]] and our children are also bound. It will entangle us in the [[Elements]] of the [[World]] from ''generation to generation''.

[[File:exit.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Freedom is a gift from God. Getting out of [[Babylon]] will not set you free. It is the ''truth'' that sets you free. Knowing the truth about your own [[covetousness]], [[wantonness]] and [[sloth]] is as important, if not more important, than knowing the truth about the [[world]] of [[Mystery Babylon]]. And the truth is, the more you seek the [[Kingdom of God]] and His righteousness the more free you will become.]]

Yes, to be free and out, one must give up ALL [[benefits]] of [[Mystery Babylon]] the Great or the [[Imperial Cult of Rome]] or any system where force is used to obtain benefits ... including, but not limited to:
* Voting or [[1 Samuel 8|electing a new ruler]]
* Accepting [[Welfare]] benefits including [[Public Education]].
* [[Mark of the Beast|Applying for a social welfare]] identification number.
* Use of [[Section 666|that number]] in applying for a licenses/bank accounts/insurance/etc.
* [[Employ|Employment]] with the Governments of the [[World]].

You might still owe income tax, if you were to get some income. So I would not include giving up filing income tax returns if required by law.

But it is likely you would have no income since you could not use your National Insurance Number, or if in the United States, a [[Social Security]] Number or any other [[Mark of the Beast|Mark or number of the Beast system]] which you might be required to have to enter the marketplace. Using that number provided by your respective government, which is linked to the other world governments by international treaties and agreements, would be using a system of [[Corban]] that ''makes the word of God to none effect''.

* Was that God's plan?
* Is there an alternative which we have neglected?
* What is the bigger picture and how do we go about getting Babylon out of us?
* The [[Roots of the Welfare State]] are the offering of [[Benefits|benefits]].
* It is about the [[Father|Paternal nature of government]]. Who is your Daddy?

[[Rome]] had its [[Patronus]] and [[Conscripted fathers]]; its [[Pater Patriae‎]].

Since history repeats itself, there is not much difference between [[Rome vs US|Rome and the United States]].

Both went the way of [[Socialism]], but the [[Socialist]] wants to blame [[Capitalism]].

''Calling no man on earth Father'' was important enough for Jesus to decree that we should not go that way or pray or apply to the '''''[[Fathers]]''' of the earth'' who are the men who call themselves [[Benefactors]] but exercise authority.

Some suggest that you can control your own [[Birth registration|birth certificate]].

Is the answer really just about becoming nakedly [[Undocumented]]?

I seriously doubt that is true nor does it address being a [[surety]].

*Could it be about who your [[Father]] is?
*Who do you pray to, apply to, look to for your security and salvation?

What is the difference between ''pray'' and ''apply'', or ''security'' and ''salvation''? There was no difference to the early Christian. This is what the [[Christian conflict]] was all about.

Over the last half century I have seen many different processes, and almost all of them fail to be righteous in their legal logic. This takes us back to the questions:
*Could the Israelites in Egypt throw off the [[Pharaoh]]?
*Did Jesus or John preach to throw off the government of the [[Pharisees]] or [[Caesar]]?

No... the plan was that you learn [[The Way]] of the [[Kingdom of God]] first, which is a matter requiring repentance.

To be bound by love instead of contract, faith instead of allegiance, and trusting in hope through charity and honor rather than entitlements is clearly a key to the kingdom.

Anyone just wanting to be free can come out and think they are free, but they will come out naked and without the grace of God. Are we not required to love one another? I see few gathering and sharing a provision for a [[Daily ministration]].

I have not examined every process, so I cannot say for sure, but the idea that one can become a government of one, and remove themselves as [[surety]] does not make much sense in any form. There is debt owed to third parties for which US citizens are a [[surety]]. You say you are going to take over control of that surety note, which does not leave you free by any means. It simply means you now personally owe the note, and you are directly answerable to the third party.

It is our own [[Covetous Practices]] that make us [[Merchandise]]. The Bible and common sense tells us they do.

If we have been made merchandise through our covetousness, how do we undo that?

* By refusing to pay the debt we and our parents created by going to [[Public schools]]?
* By divorcing our spouse or abandoning our children and our responsibility to family?
* By letting our parents take [[Social Security]] benefits rather than provide for them?
* By failing to provide a [[daily ministration]] through [[charity]] for our neighbors? ...

People are guilty of all of these things many times over and worse.

Refusing to pay debt, or abandoning others to pay the debt accrued by you or your parents is neither righteousness nor love.

Coming out is not where you start, unless you are like the [[Levites]] when the [[Golden calf]] was first set up and you answered [[Moses]]' call to [[come out]]; or unless you are like the [[Ministers]] of the [[early Church]] answering Jesus' [[Ekklesia|call to come follow him]].

Seeking the [[Kingdom of God]], [[Pure Religion]], a charitable [[Daily ministration]] and the [[Corban]] of [[Christ]] is where you must begin, according to all instructions and precedents.

Do you really have the love of Christ?

Are you laying down your life daily?

Do you only love those who love you?

I can assure all that without a [[Daily ministration]] on a broad scale like Israel and the [[Early Church]] or even [[Abraham]]'s altars, there does not seem to be any commonality with [[The Way]] of Christ and the prophets, taken together with a plan to just get out.

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== What debt ==

What debt you may ask?

* Did you go to [[Public schools]]?
* Did you honor and take care of your Father and Mother?<Ref>[[Exodus 20]]:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
 [[Deuteronomy 5]]:16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
 [[[[Matthew 15]]:4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
 [[Matthew 15]]:6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
 [[Matthew 19]]:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
 [[Mark 7]]:10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
 [[Mark 10]]:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
 [[Luke 18]]:20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
 [[Ephesians 6]]:2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)</Ref>
* Did they collect Social Security from a [[Not so Secure Socialism|bankrupt system]]?
* Did they depend on the State and the collective over which it rules for their medical or any other care or benefit while the State was operating in the red [since at least 1933]?

=== Taking bites ===

Anyone receiving government [[Welfare|welfare]] (which includes [[Public schools|public education]], [[Social Security]] benefits, income tax deductions, etc.) is a [[Surety|surety]] for that public debt, together with their children. Just the food given in Egypt on condition put Israel in collective [[Bondage|bondage]] for 400 years.

The debt then was collective, and it is now collective, and it has been for decades, if not centuries.

Moses did not say, "File these papers one at a time and we can get out of here for free."

Jesus did not do that either. He did what [[Moses]] did.

Christ told the people to be friends with the unrighteous [[Mammon]], and [[Moses]] told them to pay their tale of bricks but glean in the field for their straw and other benefits.

And of course then, like now, everyone would pay that debt with their labor, just like they did in Egypt. Then and now we are in a [[Corvee]] system of [[Bondage]].

They do not want you to actually "pay it off". There is a way to do so, but it is not for the [[Slothful]].

[[File:cauldron.jpg|right|350px|thumb| This [[One purse#Civic Flesh pots|city is the caldron]], and we be the flesh.]]
Babylon was a city of [[Nimrod]]. Babylon the Great is at least a ''civil pot'' in which everyone is brought into one cauldron, [[one purse]], by the offer of benefits by [[Benefactors]] who exercise authority one over the other. In that civil cauldron or city, people are found [[Biting one another]] just like the spirits who dwell in hell.

To get out of that place you must [[repent]] of that thinking that took you in the [[Babylon|Way of Babylon]]. Repenting is not being sorry but it requires [[Charitable Practices]], which are the antitheses of the [[Covetous Practices]] that have made you [[Merchandise]] and cursed the people and their children in a Bondage of debt.

It will still take a miracle to be [[saved]].

If people do [[Repent]] and become [[Doers of the Word]] and practice [[Pure Religion]] like the early [[Church]], God will do the rest. There may be some [[Christian conflict]], but that will merely test the [[soul]].

That is where real faith comes in.

But some people do not have as much [[faith]] in facts and the [[hope]] of [[fruit]] by [[grace]] as they have in folly.

Now the system is [[Not so Secure Socialism|failing]].

And people want out.

Will God hear your [[Cry out|cries]]?

[[Israel]] was in [[Bondage|bondage]] in [[Egypt]].

That bondage was the result of coveting government benefits offered to members and their children?

The [[Covetous Practices]] of the parents cursed the children.

They could not just file papers and leave.

They could not just dissolve the bands which had connected them through violent means.

What they did historically was help each other and their neighbors during hard times.

* They learned to live [[Live as if the state does not exist|without the benefits]] of rulers and kings.
* They learned to live by [[Love|love]] and [[Charity|charity]].
* They [[Repent|changed their thinking]] and their ways, which was called repenting and seeking the righteousness of God.

[[Abraham]] built his living [[altars]] of "friends", and then he left Ur with many souls.

[[Moses]] taught the people how to get through the plagues and even help the Egyptians before they were ready to leave Egypt in one day.

[[Baptism|John]], Jesus and the [[Apostles]] taught the people to love one another. "Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others" provided for their ministry to the needy in pure religion with their "substance" long before the coming out at [[Pentecost]].

What they did worked!

We all need some kingdom [[Perspective]].

We need to return together to the ways of the [[Kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]].

== Audios ==

''' Exiting Babylon'''
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''' Rights and Responsibilities'''
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On this edition of the Keys of the Kingdom on Liberty Radio Live Brother Gregory wastes no time rabble rousing and tickling the people's ears by telling them how awful and wicked their elected leaders are for taking away the people's rights and usurping power, but rather Gregory again explains the hard truth that the people freely let their rights go by letting their responsibilities go in order to covet and ask their gods many to steal and kill their neighbor to provide what the people are unwilling to provide for themselves by freely participating in the Babylonian system of [[Corban]] which was also practiced by the [[Pharisees]], [[Rome]]. Phyllis in Pennsylvania calls in to ask questions about how to get rid of State issued driver's license and the other [[benefits]] Caesar or Uncle Sam offers his resident children. Phyllis also asks for an explanation of the differences between commissioned, licensed and ordained ministers. Claude in Vermont calls in with follow-up questions about the State's driver's license and Gregory explains why Pharaoh, Caesar or Uncle Sam will not let someone go just because the individual has filed paperwork telling their [[Gods|gods many]] that they are freeing themselves and cancelling their licenses, privileges and benefits offered by the [[Gods|gods]] many.

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'''Are Christians Idiots? MUST HEAR episode!'''
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1/4: We're to preach gospel of kingdom at hand - and commandments; Even Peter needed help with his unbelief; Effort to keep commandments will show lacks where our belief falls short; We follow Satan from time to time; Know "righteousness of God"; Contracts => Sin of Sodom = poor not strengthened by faith, hope, charity; Gathering to care for one another = coming together in Christ's name/character/spirit; Kingdom of God is devoid of contracts; We're bound by OUR debts; What we're told about bible, and those telling us...all wrong; Scholars disagreeing - BIG clue language is but babble; Chugging up (the[ir]) "belief hill," ignoring the "WRONG WAY" signs; Be like Peter - turn around; They want us (need us)...lazy...and dumb; 2/4: Belief has levels; Loving God/Christ linked to loving our neighbors; Kingdom is 50/50 minimum and needs ministers to effect; Power to force our neighbor, is power to force us; Only salvation is to repent; Belief, not of(from) God, imprisons; Internet, phones, etc. a means to the Living Network; World wants you angry, fearful, hating; Misconceptions connected to translations; Holy Spirit guides to truth; Preconceived notions/degrees of knowledge = degrees of imprisonment; Humility is cure to degrees of unbelief; 3/4: "Strong delusion" begins at Eden; Bible not source of truth; Back in Egypt by apostate ministers; Scribes = accountants; Compelled contributions start small; Jesus in royal treasury, etc. because He's King; Your minister is to whom you tithe; Common word for "ignorant" and "unlearned" not found in [[Acts 4]]:13; Power to heal - tempered by H.S., or else...; Belief (in what?) saves; Deceived. Daily?!; KJV translators taught by post-inquisition "church" run schools; Thayers made changes to his work; Current tax system, etc. evidences turning our backs on God; Only virtuous thrive; True ministers prepare Lord's table - for others; Love for real - forsake not gathering 10s, 100s, 1000s; Idiots vs. Idiotes; Seek!; 4/4: Same message, but in different ways; Call in to radio broadcasts with questions for others' sake; Building codes in bible as examples/application of the 10 kingdom principals; What to say to folks, when - depends; Gambling is coveting; Abraham spent 70 years getting the "many souls" out; What is/how to tell "true love" in self/others; "Sweet in mouth, sour in belly;" Your life is for learning voice of H.S.; We can't get of Babylon if not wanting to set our neighbor free; Your neighbor maybe needs to remain bound!?

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'''Business'''
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Epigenetics, [[John the Baptist]] – “[[Repent]]. Make straight the way (path) of the LORD. Kingdom oriented business. Left hand and right hand of the Kingdom. [[Genesis 48]]:14, [[Matthew 6]]:3. Right hand is the state of the people. Ownership is individual, not collective. [[Bondage]] of [[Babylon]]. [[Jeremiah 29]]:1. The left hand of government is the church. Corban. Caesar was providing welfare. Pharisees, Levites, religion, piety. [[Patronus]] vs. Father in Heaven and hope. Church is the servant of the public. Elders, ministers. Congregations of the people separate from the “church”. [[Covet]]ing. General welfare. Individual welfare. Jeremiah 29:7. Seek the peace of the city. [[Freewill offerings]]. False dreams and schemes. God of Heaven, gods of the world. Seek His peace. [[Repent]]ance, [[grace]], freedom. Do not oppress the stranger in your midst, but care for the family of God first. Business plan. Christ and concern for others must be foundational. Loyalty to what is right over profit. The Kingdom is a [[Capitalism|capitalist]] nation. Skills are capital assets. Caring among congregations. Pool efforts in cooperation of love. Kingdom care. Minister is SBA go-to person. Learn from others’ experience and mistakes. Get business assistance and training. Mutual benefit Business location. Learn to work together with others in a charitable way. Financing your business. Legal structure. Business name. Registrations, licenses, employees, regulations. Be friends with unrighteous mammon. Be a resource but don’t exercise authority.

== Questions ==

People want to know if the [[bondage]] in Exodus was slavery. In one sense the answer is "yes", but in another the answer is "no".

Both slavery and bondage have multiple meanings.

The Israelites in Egypt owned no land except as a [[legal title]], nor animals, nor gold and silver, and one fifth of the time they were slaves for the government, working without pay.

If they left the country they left with nothing.

That was not called slavery by everyone, but it was close enough.

What is so hard to understand about that?

If people would actually read and study the books we offer for free, they could understand the basics that are already provided to anyone who is part of the living network and seeks to be a congregant in a [[CORE]] group.

Like the book [[COg|The Covenants of the gods]]

on page 34

: "There may be another distinction between a slave and a servant, but the distinction is less important to the subject than the Master. The fact is that the Israelites were not slaves in Egypt in the strictest sense of the word. Yet, their burden was just, as if not more disagreeable, and their chains were just as real.

:: “Slaves never became an important ingredient of Egyptian civilization. The large subject population and enforceable [[Corvee|corvée]] system - by which serfs had to work [[Employ|temporarily as slaves]] - made a permanent force of slaves unnecessary.” History of Slavery, Susan Everett. "

The kingdom of God is from generation to generation. Write it down!

So are the kingdoms of the [[world]].

Just as you inherit rights, you inherit bondage.

No legal rambling about contracts and assumptions and presumptions will save you from that inherited bondage.

No hollow claims of believing in Christ will set you free.

Israel was in bondage because their parents volunteered to be in bondage to save themselves.

Therefore their children were born in bondage.

They could not free themselves.

Even God - through [[Moses]], and the same with [[Jesus]] Christ - did instruct people to stop paying taxes because the Pharaoh or Caesar is a fraud and has deceived you and tricked you.

Never does He say to starve the beast.

What they said was you guys need to think a different way. They called that repentance.

They made it clear that you were in [[bondage]] because you [[covet]]ed your brothers' and neighbors' stuff. They made it clear that you would likely do it again, and you have. Now you have to think a different way and learn to care about your neighbor and his rights as much as you care about your own. If you are not coming together to serve others or not striving to create a [[daily ministration]] for others you have not really [[repent]]ed.

If your [[fruit]] of [[repent]]ance is liberty under God, you have the strategy of Christ.

So now go be a doer of the word.

Gather in His character and start caring about one another in real ways that make a difference. Stop trying to save yourself by getting out of the system.

Start seeking the [[Kingdom of God]], the system of God, the [[daily ministration]] of God.

Yes, stop eating at the [[Corban|table of rulers]], if you can. But more importantly, you must start setting the [[Eucharist|table of the Lord]].

* [[Acts 2]]:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, [think differently than what got you into bondage] and be baptized [submersed] every one of you [together in free assemblies] in the name of Jesus Christ [according to the ways of Jesus who came to serve and not be served] for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."

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== What Babylon ==

A question arises "What is [[Babylon]]?" And with an honest examination it is answered with an in-depth study of [[Cain|Cain's]] first city State, [[Nimrod]]'s Babylon, [[Pharaoh]]'s treasure cities and even with [[Caesar]]'s [[Rome]].

All these systems provided for the welfare of the people in a way that made them subject to the state and weak. They brought the people into [[bondage]] making them [[merchandise]], property of the state and would also [[curse children]] for generations.

=== The mystery ===

The [[Mystery Babylon|Mystery of Babylon]] is the secret of how men are brought into [[bondage]] to systems of ''governments of men'' like [[Cain|Cain]], [[Nimrod]], the [[Fathers]] of the earth, and other [[Benefactors]] who ''[[exercise authority]] one over the and through [[Covetous Practices|covetous practices]] and willingness to appease their [[wantonness]] at the expense of others.

The ancient power of rulers who offer their [[dainties]] at the expense of liberty is evident throughout history according to [[Proverbs]] and [[Plutarch]]. It is what they offer upon their civil [[tables]] that should have been for their [[welfare]] but becomes a [[snare]] for the [[masses]] which makes men ''subject'' and little more than [[merchandise]] but also curses the [[curse children|next generation]] with the [[Bondage of Egypt]].

The [[appetite]] for [[benefits]] at the expense of others alters the people and their own thinking such that the ''[[Voice|voice of the people]]'' fail to see that they are ''[[Polybius|degenerating again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch]]''. The truth that they are Babylon is a mystery but revealed only to those who will hear the truth in their hearts and minds which brings us to the question:

* "Are men the property of the state? Or are they free souls under God? This same battle continues throughout the world?" Cecil B. DeMille in "The [[Ten Commandments]]."

If man is the property of the State this would bring us to an even more important question.

What is [[Redemption]]?

=== Redemption ===

: "[[Redemption]] is deliverance from the power of an alien dominion and the enjoyment of the resulting freedom. It involves the idea of restoration to one who possesses a more fundamental right or interest. The best example of redemption in the Old Testament was the deliverance of the children of Israel from bondage, from the dominion of the alien power in Egypt." Zondervan's Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, the word "redemption"

=== Secret sabbath ===

The ways of Babylon were and are to take your "rest" and then owe thy work, your labor... this is opposed to the precept of the [[Sabbath]] which is to do the work first and then receive the reward of your efforts.

The [[Sabbath]] is about avoiding debt from taking [[benefits]] from ''alien powers'' and their [[Gods|gods]] many spoken of by Paul. The [[Sabbath]] is about [[The Way]] not about a day.

* "The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the [[sloth]]ful shall be under [[tribute]]." [[Proverbs 12]]:24

We see this in [[Revelation 18]]:4 "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, [[Come out]] of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, ..." This is not just being called out of sin but being called out of the sin of Babylon.

Babylon is an assembly too, like the [[One purse|one purse of Proverbs]].

God calls men out to be [[Believer]]s and to do according to His way as we see from the beginning:

* "And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do." [[Exodus 18]]:20

One of those laws is that thou shall not [[covet]].

"This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the [[Baptism|baptism of John]]." [[Acts 18]]:25

Ideally, God instructs the people for no man should have to teach his brother for all shall know the [[Father]].

This means that we must see and [[hear]] the [[truth]] when we are shown and told it. This only possible if it is already written on our hearts and minds.<Ref>[[Luke 10]]:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
: Jeremiah 17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
: [[Jeremiah 31]]:33 But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
: Proverbs 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
: Proverbs 7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
: Mark 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
: Romans 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
: 1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
: [[2 Corinthians 3]]:2-3 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
: [[Hebrews 8]]:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
: [[Hebrews 10]]:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;</Ref>

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[[File:tower-of-babel.jpg|right|325px|thumb|'''What is [[Babylon]]?''' What is the "city<Ref name="city">{{05892}}</Ref> and tower<Ref name="tower">{{04062}}</Ref>" of Babel we see in [[Genesis 11]]? Was the "city<Ref name="city">{{05892}}</Ref> and tower<Ref name="tower">{{04062}}</Ref>" like [[Babylon]], a civil [[Systems|system]]? Were they a [[metaphor]] for the '''[[city of blood]]''' spoken of by Jeremiah<Ref>[[Jeremiah 26]]:15</Ref>, Ezekiel<Ref>[[Ezekiel 7]]:23, [[Ezekiel 9]]:9, [[Ezekiel 22]]:2-3 ,[[Ezekiel 24]]:6-9 </Ref>, Hosea<Ref>[[Hosea 6]]:8</Ref>, Nahum<Ref>[[Nahum 3]]:1</Ref>, Habakkuk<Ref>[[Habakkuk 2]]:8, 12,17</Ref>, and even Revelation.<Ref>[[Revelation 14]]:20</Ref>? Which way can we go to be [[Exiting Babylon]]? The word ''[[Babylon]]'' is from the [[Hebrew]] word [[0894|Babel]] meaning ''confusion by mingling''. The [[Babylon]]ian system was a [[One purse]] system based on the [[covetous practices]] of [[socialism]] with [[Nimrod]]'s officers of his [[welfare state]] as the [[Benefactors]] of [[society]]. The way society "mingles" or relates to one another may degenerate them into [[perfect savages]] through becoming accustomed to the [[covetous practices]] of the [[world]]. [[Nimrod]]'s city and tower was to provide protection in the form of a [[social security]] system that would make the people [[merchandise]]. What is [[Mystery Babylon|Babylon]] and which way is the exit? ]]

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=== The way of Babylon ===

Babylon was not a place as much as it was a way but only in the sense that it has become a modern term describing an ancient system that was used to organize people in a society and subsequently regulated then into comfortable submission.

The progression of the life of Babylon's development and expansion as its power and influence magnifier at the expense of personal liberty and the degeneration of the [[social bonds]] which distribute the life giving blood of freedom.

The blood of freedom is sacrifice, not just in the heat of battle against thieves and robbers, oppressors and tyrants but as social capital that sacrifice is the issued currency that nurtures the heart of a free society. Without a [[daily ministration]] through [[charity]] that heart will falter and fail.

Without the daily sacrifice of each soul in society, by individual choice, for their neighbors' welfare and not merely their own, the body of society will wither and die. The [[love]] required in the [[care]] of every family in society brings [[eternal life]] to the flesh and sinew of each community of families from which successive generation shall be born.

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“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”-Plato
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You can only have a free society and a government of the people, by the people, and for the people when people care about their neighbors' rights as much as they [[care]] about their own. Neighbors helping neighbors paves the road to liberty.

The road to Babylon is where the [[masses]] have an [[appetite]] for the [[dainties]] of rulers and the "deceitful meats" they offer at their [[tables]] of [[legal charity]] provided for your welfare are a actually a [[snare]] which will make you [[merchandise]] and [[curse children|curse the next generation]].

The ''Way of Babylon'' returns the people to the [[bondage of Egypt]] bringing them into [[captivity]] where the people sit in darkness and the heart failes, and the flesh corrupts<Ref>.Genesis 6:12 [12]And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
: 1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the [[kingdom of God]]; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
; Galatians 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
: 1 Peter 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
: Proverbs 5:9-13 [9]Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 10]Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; [11]And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, [12]And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; [13]And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!</Ref>, until only [[dry bones]] remain.<Ref>Proverbs 14:30-32 [30]A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. [31]He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. [32]The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
: Micah 3:2-4 [2] Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; [3]Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. [4]Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. </Ref>

Avoiding or exiting Babylon may begin on the same road but in the opposite direction which requires you to go in the [[the way|other way]], which is [[Repent]]ance.

=== Exiting Babylon ===

A lot of people think they are exiting Babylon when they are really just getting lost in the wilderness.

So, what is [[Babylon]]?

If it is more a way than a place, a way of hearts and souls.

Some suggest that Babylon is an ecclesiastical Babylon, a "church" that Jesus did not establish, while others state that, ''"Babylon is a system that encompasses the realm of economics, religion, political and social structures."''

Some suggest that Babylon refers to the "[[World|world]]" or the ''New World Order'' as a system composed of evil rulers and despots who have a Satanic, or anti-Christ spirit.

All views may be correct depending upon where you are standing and at what time you catch site of its image.

[[Nimrod]] was a mighty provider who subjugated the people with offers of various [[dainties]] and [[benefits]], appealing to the [[Slothful|slothful]] nature or the fleshly [[Wantonness]] of the people.

The [[Nimrod]]s of the [[world]], or rulers of Babylon, get people to elect to grant them power as their rulers in hope of obtaining their [[wages of unrighteousness]] and gain promised by [[One purse|their purse]] and [[tables]].

Those benefits are the ''"[[dainties|deceitful meat]]"'' we are warned of in [[Proverbs 23]] that they are a [[snare]] and makes us [[merchandise]] according to Paul and Peter.

Why?

Because to obtain those [[Plutarch|gifts, gratuities and benefits]], these [[benefactors]] must take from your neighbor to provide your social [[Welfare]]. These [[covetous practices]] not only make people [[merchandise]] but [[Curse children|curse their children]] as [[surety|sureties]] for debt but the degenerate the [[social bonds]] of free societies.

Because the people have to ''pledge their service''<Ref>[[Oath of Naturalization]], or apply for benefits as an [[Employ|Employee]] with a [[Mark of the Beast|federal number]], or do any thing to make the State your [[Benefactors|Benefactor]] or [[Father]].</Ref> to obtain those benefits, their rulers and lawmakers are able to borrow funds in their name, which make them [[Surety|sureties]] for debt. Once the debt is established and people have become [[Merchandise|Human Resources]], ''dissolving the bands which have connected you with another''<Ref>"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of ... Declaration of Independence</Ref> is not as easy as it might have been in 1776.

This binding of people together in a ''civil [[cauldron]]'' of [[Bondage]] is a common theme of the [[Bible]].<Ref>[[Micah 3]]:2, 3 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
 [[Leviticus 17]]:12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
 [[Ezekiel 11]]:3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh. 4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. 5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. 6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
 [[Ezekiel 11]]:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. 8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. 9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. 10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 [[Ezekiel 11]]:11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
 [[Matthew 7]]:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
 [[Matthew 10]]:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
 [[Galatians 5]]:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. </Ref>

* So, can we '''Exit Babylon'''?
* How does one do that?
* Do you think '''Exiting Babylon''' will set us free?
* Or will it be a leap into the fire?

People often suggest there is some special paperwork. It is true that paper evidence, which is personal testimony, can play a part, but it is not the essential element that sets us free.

To imagine that you can throw off supposed oppressors or usurpers by filing papers cannot be a Biblical solution.

* Could the Israelites in Egypt throw off the Pharaoh with [[Moses]]'s ''paper work''?
* Did Jesus or John preach to throw off the government of the [[Pharisees]] by ''filing papers''?

The Bible and common sense should make it clear what to do once we understand what we have done, how we got into bondage again.

Going back is simply doing the opposite of what got us here in the first place. Yet, people still want to know how to separate themselves from that [[world]] without fully.

All one has to do is [[Repent]] to seek the [[Kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]] in every aspect of life and every relationship. [[Repent]]ance is thinking differently and the [[Kingdom of God]] is not a place as much as it is a way. In fact it is [[The Way]].

Now [[righteousness]] of God is a matter of a combination of [[weightier matters|justice and mercy]] through [[Charity|giving]] and [[Forgive|forgiving]]. This is the circumcision of the heart which Paul talks about in his letter to the Romans.
* Romans 2:29 "But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God."

God provides for those who love their neighbor as themselves through [[Faith]], [[Hope]] and [[Charity]] according to the [[Perfect law of liberty]]. If we apply, or pray, for benefits from [[Benefactors]] who exercise authority instead of the Lord God of Creation, we become [[Merchandise]] and our children are also bound. It will entangle us in the [[Elements]] of the [[World]] from ''generation to generation''.

[[File:exit.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Freedom is a gift from God. Getting out of [[Babylon]] will not set you free. It is the ''truth'' that sets you free. Knowing the truth about your own [[covetousness]], [[wantonness]] and [[sloth]] is as important, if not more important, than knowing the truth about the [[world]] of [[Mystery Babylon]]. And the truth is, the more you seek the [[Kingdom of God]] and His righteousness the more free you will become.]]

Yes, to be free and out, one must give up ALL [[benefits]] of [[Mystery Babylon]] the Great or the [[Imperial Cult of Rome]] or any system where force is used to obtain benefits ... including, but not limited to:
* Voting or [[1 Samuel 8|electing a new ruler]]
* Accepting [[Welfare]] benefits including [[Public Education]].
* [[Mark of the Beast|Applying for a social welfare]] identification number.
* Use of [[Section 666|that number]] in applying for a licenses/bank accounts/insurance/etc.
* [[Employ|Employment]] with the Governments of the [[World]].

You might still owe income tax, if you were to get some income. So I would not include giving up filing income tax returns if required by law.

But it is likely you would have no income since you could not use your National Insurance Number, or if in the United States, a [[Social Security]] Number or any other [[Mark of the Beast|Mark or number of the Beast system]] which you might be required to have to enter the marketplace. Using that number provided by your respective government, which is linked to the other world governments by international treaties and agreements, would be using a system of [[Corban]] that ''makes the word of God to none effect''.

* Was that God's plan?
* Is there an alternative which we have neglected?
* What is the bigger picture and how do we go about getting Babylon out of us?
* The [[Roots of the Welfare State]] are the offering of [[Benefits|benefits]].
* It is about the [[Father|Paternal nature of government]]. Who is your Daddy?

[[Rome]] had its [[Patronus]] and [[Conscripted fathers]]; its [[Pater Patriae‎]].

Since history repeats itself, there is not much difference between [[Rome vs US|Rome and the United States]].

Both went the way of [[Socialism]], but the [[Socialist]] wants to blame [[Capitalism]].

''Calling no man on earth Father'' was important enough for Jesus to decree that we should not go that way or pray or apply to the '''''[[Fathers]]''' of the earth'' who are the men who call themselves [[Benefactors]] but exercise authority.

Some suggest that you can control your own [[Birth registration|birth certificate]].

Is the answer really just about becoming nakedly [[Undocumented]]?

I seriously doubt that is true nor does it address being a [[surety]].

*Could it be about who your [[Father]] is?
*Who do you pray to, apply to, look to for your security and salvation?

What is the difference between ''pray'' and ''apply'', or ''security'' and ''salvation''? There was no difference to the early Christian. This is what the [[Christian conflict]] was all about.

Over the last half century I have seen many different processes, and almost all of them fail to be righteous in their legal logic. This takes us back to the questions:
*Could the Israelites in Egypt throw off the [[Pharaoh]]?
*Did Jesus or John preach to throw off the government of the [[Pharisees]] or [[Caesar]]?

No... the plan was that you learn [[The Way]] of the [[Kingdom of God]] first, which is a matter requiring repentance.

To be bound by love instead of contract, faith instead of allegiance, and trusting in hope through charity and honor rather than entitlements is clearly a key to the kingdom.

Anyone just wanting to be free can come out and think they are free, but they will come out naked and without the grace of God. Are we not required to love one another? I see few gathering and sharing a provision for a [[Daily ministration]].

I have not examined every process, so I cannot say for sure, but the idea that one can become a government of one, and remove themselves as [[surety]] does not make much sense in any form. There is debt owed to third parties for which US citizens are a [[surety]]. You say you are going to take over control of that surety note, which does not leave you free by any means. It simply means you now personally owe the note, and you are directly answerable to the third party.

It is our own [[Covetous Practices]] that make us [[Merchandise]]. The Bible and common sense tells us they do.

If we have been made merchandise through our covetousness, how do we undo that?

* By refusing to pay the debt we and our parents created by going to [[Public schools]]?
* By divorcing our spouse or abandoning our children and our responsibility to family?
* By letting our parents take [[Social Security]] benefits rather than provide for them?
* By failing to provide a [[daily ministration]] through [[charity]] for our neighbors? ...

People are guilty of all of these things many times over and worse.

Refusing to pay debt, or abandoning others to pay the debt accrued by you or your parents is neither righteousness nor love.

Coming out is not where you start, unless you are like the [[Levites]] when the [[Golden calf]] was first set up and you answered [[Moses]]' call to [[come out]]; or unless you are like the [[Ministers]] of the [[early Church]] answering Jesus' [[Ekklesia|call to come follow him]].

Seeking the [[Kingdom of God]], [[Pure Religion]], a charitable [[Daily ministration]] and the [[Corban]] of [[Christ]] is where you must begin, according to all instructions and precedents.

Do you really have the love of Christ?

Are you laying down your life daily?

Do you only love those who love you?

I can assure all that without a [[Daily ministration]] on a broad scale like Israel and the [[Early Church]] or even [[Abraham]]'s altars, there does not seem to be any commonality with [[The Way]] of Christ and the prophets, taken together with a plan to just get out.

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== What debt ==

What debt you may ask?

* Did you go to [[Public schools]]?
* Did you honor and take care of your Father and Mother?<Ref>[[Exodus 20]]:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
 [[Deuteronomy 5]]:16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
 [[[[Matthew 15]]:4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
 [[Matthew 15]]:6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
 [[Matthew 19]]:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
 [[Mark 7]]:10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
 [[Mark 10]]:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
 [[Luke 18]]:20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
 [[Ephesians 6]]:2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)</Ref>
* Did they collect Social Security from a [[Not so Secure Socialism|bankrupt system]]?
* Did they depend on the State and the collective over which it rules for their medical or any other care or benefit while the State was operating in the red [since at least 1933]?

=== Taking bites ===

Anyone receiving government [[Welfare|welfare]] (which includes [[Public schools|public education]], [[Social Security]] benefits, income tax deductions, etc.) is a [[Surety|surety]] for that public debt, together with their children. Just the food given in Egypt on condition put Israel in collective [[Bondage|bondage]] for 400 years.

The debt then was collective, and it is now collective, and it has been for decades, if not centuries.

Moses did not say, "File these papers one at a time and we can get out of here for free."

Jesus did not do that either. He did what [[Moses]] did.

Christ told the people to be friends with the unrighteous [[Mammon]], and [[Moses]] told them to pay their tale of bricks but glean in the field for their straw and other benefits.

And of course then, like now, everyone would pay that debt with their labor, just like they did in Egypt. Then and now we are in a [[Corvee]] system of [[Bondage]].

They do not want you to actually "pay it off". There is a way to do so, but it is not for the [[Slothful]].

[[File:cauldron.jpg|right|350px|thumb| This [[One purse#Civic Flesh pots|city is the caldron]], and we be the flesh.]]
Babylon was a city of [[Nimrod]]. Babylon the Great is at least a ''civil pot'' in which everyone is brought into one cauldron, [[one purse]], by the offer of benefits by [[Benefactors]] who exercise authority one over the other. In that civil cauldron or city, people are found [[Biting one another]] just like the spirits who dwell in hell.

To get out of that place you must [[repent]] of that thinking that took you in the [[Babylon|Way of Babylon]]. Repenting is not being sorry but it requires [[Charitable Practices]], which are the antitheses of the [[Covetous Practices]] that have made you [[Merchandise]] and cursed the people and their children in a Bondage of debt.

It will still take a miracle to be [[saved]].

If people do [[Repent]] and become [[Doers of the Word]] and practice [[Pure Religion]] like the early [[Church]], God will do the rest. There may be some [[Christian conflict]], but that will merely test the [[soul]].

That is where real faith comes in.

But some people do not have as much [[faith]] in facts and the [[hope]] of [[fruit]] by [[grace]] as they have in folly.

Now the system is [[Not so Secure Socialism|failing]].

And people want out.

Will God hear your [[Cry out|cries]]?

[[Israel]] was in [[Bondage|bondage]] in [[Egypt]].

That bondage was the result of coveting government benefits offered to members and their children?

The [[Covetous Practices]] of the parents cursed the children.

They could not just file papers and leave.

They could not just dissolve the bands which had connected them through violent means.

What they did historically was help each other and their neighbors during hard times.

* They learned to live [[Live as if the state does not exist|without the benefits]] of rulers and kings.
* They learned to live by [[Love|love]] and [[Charity|charity]].
* They [[Repent|changed their thinking]] and their ways, which was called repenting and seeking the righteousness of God.

[[Abraham]] built his living [[altars]] of "friends", and then he left Ur with many souls.

[[Moses]] taught the people how to get through the plagues and even help the Egyptians before they were ready to leave Egypt in one day.

[[Baptism|John]], Jesus and the [[Apostles]] taught the people to love one another. "Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others" provided for their ministry to the needy in pure religion with their "substance" long before the coming out at [[Pentecost]].

What they did worked!

We all need some kingdom [[Perspective]].

We need to return together to the ways of the [[Kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]].

== Audios ==

''' Exiting Babylon'''
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''' Rights and Responsibilities'''
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On this edition of the Keys of the Kingdom on Liberty Radio Live Brother Gregory wastes no time rabble rousing and tickling the people's ears by telling them how awful and wicked their elected leaders are for taking away the people's rights and usurping power, but rather Gregory again explains the hard truth that the people freely let their rights go by letting their responsibilities go in order to covet and ask their gods many to steal and kill their neighbor to provide what the people are unwilling to provide for themselves by freely participating in the Babylonian system of [[Corban]] which was also practiced by the [[Pharisees]], [[Rome]]. Phyllis in Pennsylvania calls in to ask questions about how to get rid of State issued driver's license and the other [[benefits]] Caesar or Uncle Sam offers his resident children. Phyllis also asks for an explanation of the differences between commissioned, licensed and ordained ministers. Claude in Vermont calls in with follow-up questions about the State's driver's license and Gregory explains why Pharaoh, Caesar or Uncle Sam will not let someone go just because the individual has filed paperwork telling their [[Gods|gods many]] that they are freeing themselves and cancelling their licenses, privileges and benefits offered by the [[Gods|gods]] many.

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'''Are Christians Idiots? MUST HEAR episode!'''
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1/4: We're to preach gospel of kingdom at hand - and commandments; Even Peter needed help with his unbelief; Effort to keep commandments will show lacks where our belief falls short; We follow Satan from time to time; Know "righteousness of God"; Contracts => Sin of Sodom = poor not strengthened by faith, hope, charity; Gathering to care for one another = coming together in Christ's name/character/spirit; Kingdom of God is devoid of contracts; We're bound by OUR debts; What we're told about bible, and those telling us...all wrong; Scholars disagreeing - BIG clue language is but babble; Chugging up (the[ir]) "belief hill," ignoring the "WRONG WAY" signs; Be like Peter - turn around; They want us (need us)...lazy...and dumb; 2/4: Belief has levels; Loving God/Christ linked to loving our neighbors; Kingdom is 50/50 minimum and needs ministers to effect; Power to force our neighbor, is power to force us; Only salvation is to repent; Belief, not of(from) God, imprisons; Internet, phones, etc. a means to the Living Network; World wants you angry, fearful, hating; Misconceptions connected to translations; Holy Spirit guides to truth; Preconceived notions/degrees of knowledge = degrees of imprisonment; Humility is cure to degrees of unbelief; 3/4: "Strong delusion" begins at Eden; Bible not source of truth; Back in Egypt by apostate ministers; Scribes = accountants; Compelled contributions start small; Jesus in royal treasury, etc. because He's King; Your minister is to whom you tithe; Common word for "ignorant" and "unlearned" not found in [[Acts 4]]:13; Power to heal - tempered by H.S., or else...; Belief (in what?) saves; Deceived. Daily?!; KJV translators taught by post-inquisition "church" run schools; Thayers made changes to his work; Current tax system, etc. evidences turning our backs on God; Only virtuous thrive; True ministers prepare Lord's table - for others; Love for real - forsake not gathering 10s, 100s, 1000s; Idiots vs. Idiotes; Seek!; 4/4: Same message, but in different ways; Call in to radio broadcasts with questions for others' sake; Building codes in bible as examples/application of the 10 kingdom principals; What to say to folks, when - depends; Gambling is coveting; Abraham spent 70 years getting the "many souls" out; What is/how to tell "true love" in self/others; "Sweet in mouth, sour in belly;" Your life is for learning voice of H.S.; We can't get of Babylon if not wanting to set our neighbor free; Your neighbor maybe needs to remain bound!?

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'''Business'''
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Epigenetics, [[John the Baptist]] – “[[Repent]]. Make straight the way (path) of the LORD. Kingdom oriented business. Left hand and right hand of the Kingdom. [[Genesis 48]]:14, [[Matthew 6]]:3. Right hand is the state of the people. Ownership is individual, not collective. [[Bondage]] of [[Babylon]]. [[Jeremiah 29]]:1. The left hand of government is the church. Corban. Caesar was providing welfare. Pharisees, Levites, religion, piety. [[Patronus]] vs. Father in Heaven and hope. Church is the servant of the public. Elders, ministers. Congregations of the people separate from the “church”. [[Covet]]ing. General welfare. Individual welfare. Jeremiah 29:7. Seek the peace of the city. [[Freewill offerings]]. False dreams and schemes. God of Heaven, gods of the world. Seek His peace. [[Repent]]ance, [[grace]], freedom. Do not oppress the stranger in your midst, but care for the family of God first. Business plan. Christ and concern for others must be foundational. Loyalty to what is right over profit. The Kingdom is a [[Capitalism|capitalist]] nation. Skills are capital assets. Caring among congregations. Pool efforts in cooperation of love. Kingdom care. Minister is SBA go-to person. Learn from others’ experience and mistakes. Get business assistance and training. Mutual benefit Business location. Learn to work together with others in a charitable way. Financing your business. Legal structure. Business name. Registrations, licenses, employees, regulations. Be friends with unrighteous mammon. Be a resource but don’t exercise authority.

== Questions ==

People want to know if the [[bondage]] in Exodus was slavery. In one sense the answer is "yes", but in another the answer is "no".

Both slavery and bondage have multiple meanings.

The Israelites in Egypt owned no land except as a [[legal title]], nor animals, nor gold and silver, and one fifth of the time they were slaves for the government, working without pay.

If they left the country they left with nothing.

That was not called slavery by everyone, but it was close enough.

What is so hard to understand about that?

If people would actually read and study the books we offer for free, they could understand the basics that are already provided to anyone who is part of the living network and seeks to be a congregant in a [[CORE]] group.

Like the book [[COg|The Covenants of the gods]]

on page 34

: "There may be another distinction between a slave and a servant, but the distinction is less important to the subject than the Master. The fact is that the Israelites were not slaves in Egypt in the strictest sense of the word. Yet, their burden was just, as if not more disagreeable, and their chains were just as real.

:: “Slaves never became an important ingredient of Egyptian civilization. The large subject population and enforceable [[Corvee|corvée]] system - by which serfs had to work [[Employ|temporarily as slaves]] - made a permanent force of slaves unnecessary.” History of Slavery, Susan Everett. "

The kingdom of God is from generation to generation. Write it down!

So are the kingdoms of the [[world]].

Just as you inherit rights, you inherit bondage.

No legal rambling about contracts and assumptions and presumptions will save you from that inherited bondage.

No hollow claims of believing in Christ will set you free.

Israel was in bondage because their parents volunteered to be in bondage to save themselves.

Therefore their children were born in bondage.

They could not free themselves.

Even God - through [[Moses]], and the same with [[Jesus]] Christ - did instruct people to stop paying taxes because the Pharaoh or Caesar is a fraud and has deceived you and tricked you.

Never does He say to starve the beast.

What they said was you guys need to think a different way. They called that repentance.

They made it clear that you were in [[bondage]] because you [[covet]]ed your brothers' and neighbors' stuff. They made it clear that you would likely do it again, and you have. Now you have to think a different way and learn to care about your neighbor and his rights as much as you care about your own. If you are not coming together to serve others or not striving to create a [[daily ministration]] for others you have not really [[repent]]ed.

If your [[fruit]] of [[repent]]ance is liberty under God, you have the strategy of Christ.

So now go be a doer of the word.

Gather in His character and start caring about one another in real ways that make a difference. Stop trying to save yourself by getting out of the system.

Start seeking the [[Kingdom of God]], the system of God, the [[daily ministration]] of God.

Yes, stop eating at the [[Corban|table of rulers]], if you can. But more importantly, you must start setting the [[Eucharist|table of the Lord]].

* [[Acts 2]]:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, [think differently than what got you into bondage] and be baptized [submersed] every one of you [together in free assemblies] in the name of Jesus Christ [according to the ways of Jesus who came to serve and not be served] for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."

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Minister call attendance

2023-07-11T00:36:47Z

PaulBethke: Attendance updates

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Notes:
* There is nothing legalistic about a minister attending the Minister Call.
* Call attendance is only one possible way a minister is staying connected with other ministers (being plugged into the larger body).
* It is every bit as important that congregants hold their ministers accountable as it is for ministers to maintain relationships with each other.
* The call attendance graph is simply a tool that offers a superficial indication of a minister's connection to the larger body. If your minister does not attend the call regularly, touch base with him or her to verify that they are still maintaining a strong connection with the larger body.

== Possible attendees: ==

Gregory Williams - Minister: His Church at Summer Lake, Brother: Order at White Rock 
Paul Bethke - Minister: His Church at Lake Country, Brother: Order at White Rock 
Claude Emerson - Minister: His Church at Skytop Mountain 
Justice Garduno - Minister: His Church Holy Sacrament 
Michael Davis - Minister: His Church at James River, Trustee: Friends of His Church North Dakota 
Caleb Eaton - Minister: His Church at Ouichita, Trustee Friends of His Church Missions, Manager: Mobile Ministries, LLC 
Abraham Vargas - Minister: His Church at The Angels 
Jeffrey Neubacher - Minister: His Church at Great Lakes 
Douglas Scofield - Minister: His Church at New River, Trustee: Friends of His Church Missions 
Claude Memma - Minister: His Church at Blue Lake 
Daniel Willms - Minister: His Church at Sanders 
Tom Creed - Trustee: Friends of His Church Missions, Manager: Mobile Ministries, LLC 
Dan Bezuidenhout - Replaced Claude Memma as Minister: His Church at Blue Lake 
Mark Vernuccio - Trustee: Friends of His Church North Dakota, Replaced Dan Bezuidenhout as Minister: His Church at Blue Lake 
Terry Hardman - Trustee: Friends of His Church at Summer Lake 
Isabelle Evans - Trustee: Friends of His Church North Dakota 

== We have a regularly scheduled Minister's call every Monday. Here is a record of attendees. ==

1/1/2018: Caleb, Doug, Gregory, Claude E, Paul 
1/8/2018: Caleb, Tom, Abraham, Claude E, Doug, Gregory, Jeffrey, Paul 
1/15/2018: Caleb, Mark, Doug, Claude E, Tom, Paul 
1/22/2018: Caleb, Daniel, Gregory, Claude E, Tom, Paul 
1/29/2018: Tom, Caleb, Gregory, Doug, Jeffrey, Claude E 
2/5/2018: Jeffrey, Caleb, Claude E, Gregory, Paul 
2/12/2018: Caleb, Claude E, Abraham, Jeffrey, Gregory, Doug, Tom, Paul 
2/19/2018: Caleb, Mark, Gregory, Claude E, Doug, Paul, Jeffrey 
2/26/2018: Jeffrey, Claude E, Mark, Caleb, Gregory, Abraham, Tom, Paul 
3/5/2018: Gregory, Tom, Doug, Claude E, Caleb, Paul 
3/12/2018: Caleb, Jeffrey, Gregory, Tom, Claude E, Paul 
3/19/2018: Caleb, Gregory, Doug, Claude E, Tom, Paul 
3/26/2018: Caleb, Abraham, Gregory, Tom, Claude E, Paul 
4/2/2018: Claude E, Caleb, Mark, Abraham, Doug, Gregory, Paul, Tom 
4/9/2018: Caleb, Claude E, Gregory, Doug, Paul Tom 
4/16/2018: Mark, Caleb, Claude E, Tom, Paul 
4/23/2018: Gregory, Paul, Claude E, Abraham, Caleb, Mark 
4/30/2018: Paul, Claude E, Tom, Caleb, Mark, Gregory, Abraham, Doug, Claude M 
5/7/2018: Daniel, Caleb, Gregory, Claude E, Doug, Tom, Paul 
5/14/2018: Doug, Claude M, Daniel, Paul, Claude E, Tom 
5/21/2018: Abraham, Daniel, Doug, Caleb, Claude E, Tom, Paul, Gregory, Claude M 
5/28/2018: Paul, Tom, Doug, Claude E, Caleb, Gregory, Claude M, Mark 
6/4/2018: Abraham, Mark, Daniel, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Claude E, Gregory, Doug, Mark 
6/11/2018: Paul, Gregory, Doug, Claude E, Tom 
6/18/2018: Abraham, Paul, Tom, Claude E, Abraham, Gregory, Daniel, Mark 
6/25/2018: Tom, Paul, Doug, Claude E, Gregory 
7/2/2018: Mark, Tom, Claude E, Doug, Gregory, Abraham, Claude M 
7/9/2018: Claude E, Gregory, Abraham, Daniel, Mark, Paul, Tom, Doug 
7/16/2018: Paul, Claude, Doug, Abraham, Tom, Gregory, Daniel 
7/23/2018: Gregory, Tom, Paul, Claude E, Doug 
7/30/2018: Claude E, Paul, Doug, Tom, Abraham, Daniel 
8/6/2018: Claude E, Paul, Tom, Gregory, Abraham, Daniel 
8/13/2018: Paul, Tom, Claude E, Doug, Gregory, Abraham, Daniel 
8/20/2018: Paul, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Claude E 
8/27/2018: Claude E, Paul, Gregory, Daniel 
9/3/2018: Gregory, Claude E 
9/10/2018: Paul, Caleb, Tom, Doug, Claude E, Abraham, Mark, Gregory 
9/17/2018: Doug, Paul, Tom, Claude E, Mark, Gregory, Abraham, Daniel, Mark 
9/24/2018: Paul, Claude E, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Daniel, Mark 
10/1/2018: Paul, Claude E, Tom, Doug, Mark, Abraham, Gregory 
10/8/2018: Paul, Claude E, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Abraham, Caleb, Daniel, Claude M 
10/15/2018: Claude E, Daniel, Doug, Paul, Tom, Gregory 
10/22/2018: Paul, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Claude, Caleb, Abraham 
10/29/2018: Doug, Caleb, Mark, Paul, Tom, Gregory, Claude E 
11/5/2018: Doug, Gregory, Caleb, Abraham, Tom, Paul 
11/12/2018: Claude E, Caleb, Tom, Paul, Gregory, Doug, Daniel, Mark 
11/19/2018: Gregory, Claude E, Mark, Paul, Caleb 
11/26/2018: Dan, Doug, Caleb, Mark, Gregory, Tom, Paul, Abraham, Claude E 
12/3/2018: Doug, Gregory, Claude E, Caleb, Paul 
12/10/2018: Claude E, Caleb, Doug, Gregory, Paul 
12/17/2018: Caleb, Tom, Gregory, Claude E, Paul 
12/24/2018: Claude E, Tom 
12/31/2018: Claude E, Tom, Doug 
1/7/2019: Claude E, Abraham, Gregory, Paul, Caleb, Doug, Tom 
1/14/2019: Abraham, Doug, Gregory, Caleb, Dan, Paul, Mark, Tom, Claude E 
1/21/2019: Doug, Gregory, Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Tom, Caleb 
1/28/2019: Abraham, Dan, Doug, Mark, Claude E, Gregory, Caleb, Paul 
2/4/2019: Gregory, Paul, Claude E, Doug, Tom, Caleb, Dan 
2/11/2019: Abraham, Doug, Gregory, Tom, Paul, Caleb, Dan 
2/18/2019: Tom, Abraham, Gregory, Doug, Claude E, Dan, Paul, Caleb 
2/25/2019: Doug, Gregory, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Claude E 
3/4/2019: Mark, Claude E, Gregory, Tom, Paul, Caleb, Dan 
3/11/2019: Claude E, Doug, Paul, Dan, Gregory, Tom, Caleb 
3/18/2019: Claude E, Mark, Paul, Tom, Dan, Caleb, Gregory 
3/25/2019: Tom, Gregory, Paul, Caleb, Claude E 
4/1/2019: Paul, Gregory, Claude E, Doug, Caleb, Tom 
4/8/2019: Gregory, Paul, Dan, Claude E, Tom, Caleb, Doug 
4/15/2019: Claude E, Paul, Mark, Tom, Doug, Caleb, Greg 
4/22/2019: Tom, Paul, Mark, Doug, Gregory, Claude E, Caleb 
4/29/2019: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Caleb 
5/6/2019: Abraham, Claude E, Mark, Doug, Tom, Paul, Caleb, Gregory 
5/13/2019: Paul, Claude E, Gregory, Caleb, Doug, Tom 
5/20/2019: Claude E, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Tom, Gregory, Doug 
5/27/2019: Claude E, Doug, Tom, Gregory, Caleb, Paul 
6/3/2019: Claude E, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Gregory 
6/10/2019: Abraham, Gregory, Claude E, Paul, Tom, Caleb 
6/17/2019: Abraham, Gregory, Doug, Paul, Claude E, Caleb, Tom 
6/24/2019: Abraham, Doug, Caleb, Paul, Gregory, Claude E, Tom, Dan 
7/1/2019: Claude E, Abraham, Tom, Doug, Caleb, Gregory 
7/8/2019: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Claude E, Tom, Gregory 
7/15/2019: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Mark, Gregory, Caleb, Claude E 
7/22/2019: Paul, Caleb, Doug, Gregory, Tom, Abraham 
7/29/2019: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Mark, Caleb, Tom 
8/5/2019: Abraham, Tom, Claude E, Mark, Caleb, Paul, Gregory 
8/12/2019: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Caleb, Gregory 
8/19/2019: Claude E, Caleb, Gregory, Tom, Paul 
8/26/2019: Claude E, Tom, Caleb 
9/2/2019: --- 
9/9/2019: Gregory, Paul, Daniel, Caleb, Claude E, Mark, Doug, Tom 
9/16/2019: Gregory, Paul, Claude E, Tom, Daniel, Caleb, Doug 
9/23/2019: Gregory, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Tom 
9/30/2019: Gregory, Paul, Tom, Daniel, Doug, Claude E, Caleb 
10/7/2019: Gregory, Paul, Claude E, Caleb, Tom 
10/14/2019: Doug, Gregory, Paul, Tom, Claude E, Daniel, Caleb 
10/21/2019: Doug, Paul, Gregory, Claude E, Caleb 
10/28/2019: Tom, Paul, Caleb, Gregory, Doug 
11/4/2019: Claude E, Paul, Gregory, Daniel, Tom, Doug, Caleb 
11/11/2019: Gregory, Daniel, Doug, Tom, Paul, Caleb 
11/18/2019: Doug, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Claude E, Gregory 
11/25/2019: Claude E, Paul, Tom, Gregory, Caleb, Doug 
12/2/2019: Claude E, Paul, Mark, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Caleb 
12/9/2019: Paul, Caleb, Gregory, Doug 
12/16/2019: Claude E, Paul, Caleb, Doug, Gregory, Tom 
12/23/2019: Claude E, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Gregory 
12/30/2019: Paul, Doug, Tom, Gregory, Caleb, Claude E 
1/6/2020: Gregory, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Doug, Claude E 
1/13/2020: Doug, Claude E, Gregory, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Mark, Dan B 
1/20/2020: Claude E, Doug, Dan B, Caleb, Paul, Gregory, Tom, Mark 
1/27/2020: Caleb, Doug, Tom, Claude E, Dan B, Gregory, Paul 
2/3/2020: Paul, Tom, Dan B, Gregory, Doug, Claude E, Caleb 
2/10/2020: Paul, Dan B, Claude E, Gregory, Doug, Caleb 
2/17/2020: Dan B, Tom, Paul, Doug, Claude E, Caleb 
2/24/2020: Dan B, Doug, Paul, Caleb, Greg 
3/2/2020: Paul, Doug, Abraham, Claude E, Tom, Caleb 
3/9/2020: Abraham, Paul, Claude E, Gregory, Tom, Caleb, Doug, Dan B 
3/16/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Dan B 
3/23/2020: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Mark, Caleb 
3/30/2020: Doug, Tom, Abraham, Caleb, Gregory, Claude E, Paul, Dan B 
4/6/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Doug, Tom, Caleb, Gregory, Dan B 
4/13/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Gregory, Doug, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Dan B 
4/20/2020: Claude E, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Abraham, Dan B, Gregory, Doug 
4/27/2020: Claude E, Tom, Doug, Dan B, Gregory, Caleb, Paul 
5/4/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Tom, Gregory 
5/11/2020: Abraham, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Gregory 
5/18/2020: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Gregory, Dan B 
5/25/2020: Doug, Tom, Caleb, Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Dan B, Gregory 
6/1/2020: Claude E, Tom, Paul, Caleb, Gregory, Dan B, Doug, Abraham 
6/8/2020: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Doug, Tom, Gregory, Dan B, Caleb 
6/15/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Tom, Paul, Gregory, Doug, Caleb 
6/22/2020: Abraham, Caleb, Paul, Dan B 
6/29/3030: Doug, Tom, Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Gregory, Dan B, Caleb 
7/6/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Doug, Tom, Caleb, Gregory 
7/13/2020: Paul, Doug, Abraham, Tom, Caleb, Gregory 
7/20/2020: Doug, Claude E, Paul, Caleb, Mark, Gregory, Doug 
7/27/2020: Tom, Caleb, Claude E, Abraham, Tom, Dan B, Paul, Gregory 
8/3/2020: Abraham, Paul, Claude E, Gregory, Caleb 
8/10/2020: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Mark, Caleb, Gregory, Claude E 
8/17/2020: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Caleb, Gregory, Mark, Claude E 
8/24/2020: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Gregory, Caleb, Mark 
8/31/2020: Doug, Tom, Abraham, Caleb, Claude E, Dan B, Mark 
9/7/2020: Claude E, Abraham, Gregory, Paul, Dan B, Mark 
9/14/2020: Abraham, Doug, Caleb, Claude E, Gregory, Paul, Mark 
9/21/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Gregory, Paul, Caleb, Mark, Dan B 
9/28/2020: Tom, Doug, Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Terry, Gregory, Dan B, Mark 
10/5/2020: Claude E, Paul, Mark, Caleb, Doug, Gregory, Dan B, Abraham, Terry 
10/12/2020: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Mark, Doug, Gregory, Caleb, Dan B 
10/19/2020: Abraham, Terry, Paul, Caleb, Doug, Gregory 
10/26/2020: Claude E, Abraham, Mark, Paul, Caleb, Dan B, Gregory, Terry, Doug 
11/2/2020: Tom, Doug, Caleb, Abraham, Claude E, Gregory, Paul, Mark 
11/9/2020: Abraham, Mark, Dan B, Gregory, Caleb, Doug, Terry, Parul 
11/16/2020: Claude E, Paul, Abraham, Doug, Gregory, Caleb, Mark, Dan B 
11/23/2020: Abraham, Paul, Gregory, Mark, Caleb, Claude E, Terry 
11/30/2020: Tom, Caleb, Abraham, Mark, Doug, Paul, Gregory, Claude E 
12/7/2020: Abraham, Paul, Claude, Daniel, Caleb, Doug, Mark, Gregory 
12/14/2020: Abraham, Paul, Claude, Doug, Terry, Mark, Caleb, Gregory, Daniel 
12/21/2020: Abraham, Paul, Claude, Mark, Caleb, Terry, Greg, Doug 
12/28/2020: Tom, Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Terry, Greg 
1/4/2021: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Mark, Claude, Greg, Daniel, Doug 
1/11/2021: Abraham, Paul, Greg, Caleb, Mark, Tom, Doug 
1/18/2021: Abraham, Paul, Claude E, Greg, Caleb, Mark, Daniel, Terry 
1/25/2021: Tom, Caleb, Claude E, Paul, Abraham, Greg, Daniel, Mark, Doug 
2/1/2021: Paul, Abraham, Claude E, Caleb, Greg, Doug 
2/8/2021: Abraham, Caleb, Mark, Greg, Terry, Paul, Claude E, Doug, Daniel 
2/15/2021: Paul, Claude, Terry, Abraham, Caleb, Greg, Daniel, Mark, Doug 
2/22/2021: Abraham, Mark, Terry, Caleb, Paul, Greg, Doug 
3/1/2021: Abraham, Paul, Claude, Mark, Caleb, Daniel; Greg; Doug 
3/8/2021: Paul, Abraham, Doug, Claude E, Daniel, Mark, Caleb, Tom 
3/15/2021: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Greg, Tom 
3/22/2021: Claude E, Paul, Abraham, Caleb, Greg 
3/29/2021: Tom, Doug, Caleb, Abraham, Paul, Greg, Terry, Mark, Claude E, Daniel 
4/5/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Mark, Caleb, Greg 
4/12/2021: Abraham, Caleb, Paul, Mark, Greg, Claude E, Daniel 
4/19/2021: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Doug, Greg, Claude E, Mark, Daniel 
4/26/2021: Paul, Mark, Tom, Caleb, Greg 
5/3/2021: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Terry, Mark, Greg, Doug, Daniel 
5/10/2021: Paul, Abraham, Greg, Mark, Caleb, Terry 
5/17/2021: Abraham, Mark, Caleb, Claude E, Paul, Greg 
5/24/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Terry, Mark, Caleb, Greg, Tom, Mark, Daniel, Doug 
5/31/2021: Tom, Claude E, Paul, Mark, Greg, Daniel, Doug 
6/7/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Mark, Doug, Tom, Caleb, Greg 
6/14/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Tom, Doug, Daniel, Greg, Mark 
6/21/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Mark, Caleb, Tom, Daniel, Greg 
6/28/2021: Doug, Tom, Abraham, Caleb, Paul, Mark, Claude E, Terry Greg 
7/5/2021: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Tom, Terry, Greg 
7/12/2021: Paul, Abraham, Mark, Tom, Caleb, Claude E, Greg 
7/19/2021: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Mark, Claude E, Terry, Caleb, Greg, Tom 
7/26/2021: Paul, Abraham, Caleb, Doug, Mark, Claude E, Tom, Greg 
8/2/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Doug, Paul, Daniel, Tom, Terry, Caleb, Mark 
8/9/2021: Paul, Abraham, Caleb, Mark, Doug, Tom, Greg, Claude E, Terry 
8/16/2021: Terry, Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Doug, Tom, Greg, Caleb, Mark 
8/23/2021: Abraham, Paul, Terry, Doug, Claude E, Caleb, Tom, Mark, Greg, Daniel 
8/30/2021: Abraham, Paul, Terry, Tom, Caleb, Greg, Claude E, Caleb 
9/6/2021: Abraham, Paul, Claude E, Tom, Greg 
9/13/2021: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Tom, Caleb, Claude E, Greg, Terry 
9/20/2021: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Terry, Greg, Claude E, Mark 
9/27/2021: Caleb, Tom, Abraham, Paul, Daniel, Doug, Mark, Greg, Claude E 
10/4/2021: Abraham, Paul, Terry, Greg, Claude E, Doug, Mark, Caleb, Tom 
10/11/2021: Abraham, Paul, Terry, Tom, Doug, Claude E, Caleb, Greg 
10/18/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Doug, Greg, Daniel, Paul, Mark 
10/25/2021: Doug, Tom, Abraham, Paul, Greg, Terry, Caleb, Claude E 
11/1/2021: Abraham, Terry, Paul, Greg, Claude E, Tom, Doug, Daniel, Caley 
11/8/2021: Abraham, Paul, Claude E, Mark, Caleb, Tom, Greg 
11/15/2021: Abraham, Paul, Terry, Doug, Caleb, Greg, Daniel, Tom, Mark, Claud E 
11/22/2021: Claude E, Abraham, Caleb, Paul, Mark, Greg, Terry 
11/29/2021: Caleb, Tom, Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Mark, Doug, Daniel 
12/6/2021: Abraham, Terry, Paul, Doug, Mark, Daniel, Caleb, Claude E 
12/13/2021: Paul, Doug, Caleb, Tom, Mark, Greg, Terry, Claude E 
12/20/2021: Claude E, Greg, Paul, Caleb, Doug, Tom, Terry 
12/27/2021: Abraham, Doug, Caleb, Paul, Mark, Greg, Tom, Claude E, Terry 
1/3/2022: Caleb, Paul, Tom, Greg, Mark, Doug, Claude E, Terry 
1/10/2022: Terry, Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Caleb, Greg, Doug 
1/17/2022: Paul, Abraham, Greg, Terry, Caleb, Claude E 
1/24/2022: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Terry, Doug, Tom, Mark, Caleb, Greg 
1/31/2022: Abraham, Caleb, Doug, Paul, Mark, Terry, Greg, Claude E 
2/7/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Mark, Tom, Caleb, Greg, Terry, Claude E 
2/14/2022: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Mark, Terry, Tom, Doug, Claude E, Greg 
2/21/2022: Abraham, Doug, Claude, Paul, Terry, Mark, Caleb, Tom, Greg 
2/28/2022: Abraham, Claude E, Doug, Greg, Caleb, Paul, Terry 
3/7/2022: Paul, Greg, Tom, Caleb, Terry, Claude, Terry 
3/14/2022: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Terry, Tom, Greg, Mark, Doug, Claude E 
3/21/2022: Paul, Doug, Caleb, Greg, Mark, Claude E 
3/28/2022: Tom, Caleb, Doug, Abraham, Paul, Mark, Greg, Claude E, Terry 
4/4/2022: Paul, Abraham, Tom, Caleb, Terry, Claude E, Greg 
4/11/2022: Abraham, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Doug, Greg, Mark 
4/18/2022: Paul, Doug, Claud E, Caleb, Mark, Tom, Greg 
4/25/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Greg, Caleb, Tom, Claude E 
5/2/2022: Abraham, Claude E, Doug, Paul, Tom, Terry, Mark, Caleb, Greg 
5/9/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Tom, Terry, Greg 
5/16/2022: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Doug, Isabelle, Greg, Mark, Caleb, Tom 
5/23/2022: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Mark, Caleb, Isabelle, Greg 
5/30/2022: Abraham, Paul, Isabelle, Doug, Terry, Greg 
6/6/2022: Abraham, Paul, Claude, Isabelle, Doug, Caleb, Tom, Greg, Mark 
6/13/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Isabelle, Claude E, Tom, Greg, Terry 
6/20/2022: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Mark, Terry, Greg, Tom 
6/27/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Mark, Greg, Claude E, Caleb 
7/4/2022: Doug, Greg, Paul, Claude E 
7/11/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Isabelle, Tom, Claude, Greg, Terry 
7/18/2022: Paul, Abraham, Mark, Caleb, Tom, Isabelle, Claude E, Terry 
7/25/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Tom, TGerry, Claude E, Greg 
8/1/2022: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Doug, Greg, Tom, Caleb, Terry 
8/8/2022: Paul, Abraham, Doug, Mark, Isabelle, Tom, Caleb, Greg, Claude, Terry 
8/15/2022: Claude E, Abraham, Doug, Isabelle, Caleb, Paul, Mark, Terry 
8/22/2022: Abraham, Paul, Michael, Doug, Greg, Isabelle, Caleb, Terry 
8/29/2022: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Isabelle, Tom, Greg, Caleb, Claude, Mark 
9/5/2022: Paul, Isabelle, Claude E, Tom, Doug, Greg, Mark 
9/12/2022: Abraham, Mark, Claude E, Isabelle, Caleb, Paul, Tom, Terry 
9/19/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Isabelle, Tom 
9/26/2022: Tom, Doug, Caleb, Abraham, Paul, Isabelle, Greg, Claude E 
10/3/2022: Paul, Abraham, Caleb, Doug, Claude E 
10/10/2022: Paul, Isabelle, Mark, Caleb, Doug, Claude, Tom, Greg 
10/17/2022: Paul, Claude E, Tom, Doug, Caleb, Isabelle, Greg 
10/24/2022: Doug, Caleb, Tom, Claude E, Isabelle, Paul, Greg 
10/31/2022: Doug, Tom, Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Mark, Isabelle, Greg, Caleb 
11/7/2022: Abraham, Paul, Mark, Tom, Greg, Caleb, Isabelle, Terry, Mark, Claude E 
11/14/2022: Doug, Tom, Paul, Abraham, Mark, Caleb, Claude E, Greg 
11/21/2022: Doug, Caleb, Tom, Abraham, Paul, Claude E, Greg, Terry 
11/28/2022: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Isabelle, Mark, Terry 
12/5/2022: Doug, Caleb, Tom, Paul, Abraham, Isabelle, Terry, Greg, Claude E, Mark 
12/12/2022: Paul, Abraham, Caleb, Isabelle, Mark, Claude E, Greg, Terry 
12/19/2022: Paul, Claude E, Doug, Caleb, Greg, Terry, Tom 
12/26/2022: Paul, Abraham, Doug, Isabell, Caleb, Tom, Mark, Claude E, Greg 
1/2/2023: Doug, Caleb, Tom, Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Isabelle, Abraham, Greg, Terry 
1/9/2023: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Doug, Mark, Isabelle, Mark 
1/16/2023: Paul, Claude E, Tom, Caleb, Mark, Greg, Doug 
1/23/2023: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Greg, Isabelle, Claude E 
1/30/2023: Paul, Abraham, Tom, Isabelle, Doug, Greg, Claude E 
2/6/2023: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Claude, Isabelle, Caleb, Mark, Greg, Tom 
2/13/2023: Claude E, Paul, Tom, Isabelle 
2/20/2023: Abraham, Paul, Isabelle, Caleb, Greg, Tom, Claude E, Doug 
2/27/2023: Paul, Abraham, Doug, Isabelle, Mark, Caleb, Tom, Greg 
3/6/2023: Paul, Abraham, Doug, Claude, Tom, Isabelle, Caleb, Greg, Mark 
3/13/2023: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Isabelle, Caleb, Claude, Greg 
3/20/2023: Abraham, Paul, Tom, Doug, Mark, Greg, Caleb 
3/27/2023: Doug, Tom, Paul, Caleb, Isabelle, Greg, Claude, Abraham 
4/3/2023: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Tom, Isabelle, Claude, Caleb 
4/10/2023: Abraham, Paul, Isabelle, Doug, Greg, Tom, Claude 
4/17/2023: Paul, Abraham, Doug, Mark, Greg, Tom, Claude 
4/24/2023: Abraham, Claude, Paul, Tom, Doug, Isabelle, Greg, Mark, Caleb 
5/1/2023: Abraham, Paul, Tom, Isabelle, Doug, Greg, Caleb 
5/8/2023: Claude, Abraham, Paul, Tom, Greg, Doug 
5/15/2023: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Tom, Claude, Isabelle, Greg 
5/22/2023: Paul, Abraham, Doug, Tom, Isabelle, Claude 
5/29/2023: Abraham, Paul, Mark, Tom, Claude, Isabelle 
6/5/2023: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Isabelle, Caleb, Greg, Tom 
6/12/2023: Abraham, Paul, Tom, Terry, Caleb, Greg, Claude 
6/19/2023: Paul, Abraham, Doug, Caleb, Claude, Tom, Isabelle, Greg 
6/26/2023: Tom, Abraham, Paul, Isabelle, Caleb, Terry, Greg, Claude 
7/3/2023: Abraham, Tom, Doug, Terry, Greg 

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== Ranking participation ==

If individuals who claim to be ministers do not participate in the desire to know the other ministers then they are not really sitting down in "ranks" of 50 and 100 as [[Christ]] '''[[commanded]]''' His [[disciples]] to do.

"Rank" is from πρασιά prasia meaning plots, ranks or divisions. Congregations are symposia or small companies. They are not "ranks" unless the ministers connect their congregations with other congregations

Everything must be voluntary but recognition is also a voluntary choice of the overseers and fellow ministers.

Recognition is based on what we are seeing of the works of our fellow ministers.

It is based on participation in one form or another.

* Are you active in the congregation you serve and in your congregation of ministers and the Church as a whole?
* Are they connecting their congregation with other congregations or isolating their congregations???
* Are they isolating themselves from other ministers?
* Are they working out differences or imposing or projecting expectation in other ministers.

We do not have the right to regulate one another but if we are to be in "one accord" we will be expected to sit down together, openly share our thoughts,... we should be able to speak our minds and free to disagree or agree openly.

What we do and what we choose to not do is our "works".

* Everyone can see these emails. They are a part *of the record of participation.
* There are lots of things to do and letting us know what we are doing.
* Helping maintain the websites,
* Adding substantial material or just making things work is evidence of works.
* Adding more congregants to your local groups.
* Talking with others whole contact and letting us know how that is going.
* Checking on one another and letting us know the results of conversations on church matters.
* If a minister is not participating with other ministers we need to check on their congregation.
* Keeping us as a group informed about the life in your congregation and sometimes the problem is participation in the ranks.
* You can tell us what is going on in your local congregation. If you add the word "Report" with a designation like "HCSL" in the subject line we can add it to your annual reports.

Like the call attendance page what you do or do not do becomes a part of your testimony of participation in the tens and the quest for the kingdom. If you cannot always make the call or have a representative in attendance for you then we would like to see other forms of participation to make up the difference.

If we see a pattern of unwillingness to participate in the pattern of 10, 50, 100 commanded by Christ and followed by the early Church our recognition of an individual as a participating and active minister of the Church falls into question and may be withdrawn.

Template:Bastiat

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[[File:bastiat.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Claude Frederic Bastiat was an economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848. ]]

== Claude Frederic Bastiat ==

Bastiat wrote in his treatise, The [[Law]], "Self-preservation and self-development are common aspirations among all people. And if everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

But there is also another tendency that is common among people. When they can, they wish to live and prosper at the expense of others. This is no rash accusation. Nor does it come from a gloomy and uncharitable spirit. The annals of history bear witness to the truth of it: the incessant wars, mass migrations, religious persecutions, universal slavery, dishonesty in commerce, and monopolies. This fatal desire has its origin in the very nature of man — in that primitive, universal, and insuppressible instinct that impels him to satisfy his desires with the least possible pain."

Bastiat nails it pretty well.

=== Broader paradigm ===

However, Bastiat also stumbles a bit too, as we all do. Bastiat in his reliance on the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil", i.e. our brains and our free will choice to decide for ourselves what is right and wrong, only sees mankind at this physical level or on "this frequency" where our five senses may perceive a limited reality.

If we were to accept existence in spiritual, [[Quantum|quantum]], terms a more inclusive reality may be accounted for. Bastiat fails to grasp the "Tree of Life" "Tree of the Knowledge" paradigm. We were intended, by our Creator, to rise above those baser, primal instincts that Bastiat labels the "nature of man".

Man's true "spiritual nature" is totally ignored by Bastiat, and many other scholars, and not seeing or having our true "spiritual nature" or "spiritual potential" revealed to us is mostly our own faults. If we only focus on the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil", and it becomes our only source, then the "Tree of Life" withers and dies within us.

Bastiat is right on when he writes about the "covetousness" in all our hearts and how we "kill", "steal" and "covet", breaking three of God the Father and Creator's commandments, by using our own created governments to take from our neighbors what we are unwilling to provide for ourselves.

== Law Treaties ==

Bastiat wrote in his treatise, The Law: (Our distinctions in [brackets])

: “It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law [the law of nature and nature's God] into an instrument of plunder. What are the consequences of such a perversion? It would require volumes to describe them all. Thus we must content ourselves with pointing out the most striking. In the first place, it erases from everyone’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice. No society can exist unless the [civil] laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make [civil] laws respected is to make them respectable. When [civil] law and morality [an aspect of natural law, which is written on our hearts our souls] contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect of the [civil] law. These two evils are of equal consequence, and it would be difficult for a person to choose between them. The nature of law [the law of nature and nature's God, written on our hearts, if we will listen] is to maintain justice. This is so much the case that, in the minds of people, [civil] law and justice [natural law] are one and the same thing. There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything [civilly] lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are “just” because the [civil] law makes them so. Thus, in order to make plunder appear just and sacred to many consciences, it is only necessary for the [civil] law to decree and sanction it. Slavery, restrictions, and monopoly find defenders not only among those who profit from them but also among those who suffer from them.”

: “If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”

Focusing on changing the primal instincts of man's flesh is going in the wrong direction. The Messiah put it as trying to get "figs from a thorn bush" and "a dog always returns to its vomit and a pig to the mire". This is played out in our daily lives in one way by "voting", which is basically a belief that if only the "right man or woman", (a clean pig, i.e. a candidate for office cleans up pretty good to get elected) were in the office then things would change, but as soon as the candidate is elected, its back to the mire.

== Whole source ==

The real answers lie in turning around and returning to the true source, which is the Tree of Life and God's form of government and law. But we have strayed so far from the Tree of Life that we don't even think or know there is a real choice. Rather we believe that the Kingdom or government of God is only for when we die and go to heaven - but not here now, at hand, in the flesh, today. This is the most Satanic of all doctrines, but that is what people are fed in the non-profit, tax-exempt organizations of the State that people erroneously call "churches". People are fed the lie that God ordains these man-made governments. No, He doesn't. He only Ordains His own government and allows all the others in order to keep free will choice alive. Man's created governments are for the "wicked and unrighteous", which simply means people that freely choose to go their own way and choose to kill, steal and covet.

Again, this is where Bastiat fails to see the truth. There is a choice. A freewill choice we can all make. But it first requires letting go of all the customs and traditions that we cling to and becoming like a little child again so the Tree of Life can once again begin to grow within us.

As long as we continue to cling to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and we decided what is right and wrong, we will continue to follow our "basic human nature" and try to make laws that impose our sense of right and wrong upon our neighbors. We will continue to kill, steal and covet our neighbor's labor, time and property to provide what we are selfishly unwilling to provide for ourselves.

God the Father has His Way and Law and we are not to add to it or take away from it. His Way and Law are perfect, but as long as we think "we know better and can decide for ourselves" we will continue to feel the sting of death, the loss of rights, the pain and suffering of consequences we have imposed on ourselves, by our free will choices, for breaking and rejecting the natural laws of God the Father and Creator.

Jesus once said we should be tending to the [[Weightier matters]] so it might be a good test to ask yourself if you are tending to the {{Template:Weightier matters}}.

Worship

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[[File:Mammon-The worship of.jpg|thumb|250px| Do you worship in a building? What does the word "worship" actually mean? If you physically bow down are you actually worshiping? Are we worshiping when we kiss the hand of God or prostrate ourselves before men? What does it actually mean to worship or even [[03034|praise]] God? 
Is worshiping what you ''say or sing'' or is it bowing to do the will of our [[Father]] in Heaven who is God?<Ref name="mat721"> [[Matthew 7]]:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
: [[Matthew 25]]:11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
: [[Luke 6]]:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
: [[Luke 13]]:25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:</Ref> 
[[Worship]] was always bowing to the will of your accepted master. The will of the master is to [[love]] your neighbor in [[the way]] God loves you. [[Covet]]ing your neighbor's goods through men who [[exercise authority]] and take from your neighbor is not [[love]]. 
Is worshiping the practice of [[Pure religion]] or the application for the [[wages of unrighteousness]]? 
Is the feeling you get in Church a "renewing of the spirit" or the stimulation of emotions and [[imagination]]? [http://www.hisholychurch.net/audio/181031worship.mp3 Download Recording ] <html><audio controls src="http://www.hisholychurch.net/audio/181031worship.mp3"></audio></html> ]]

== Worship - modern meaning ==

A modern definition of the word [[Worship]] is "the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration". But the word [[Worship]] used to mean ''homage'', even ''submission'', to the will and rank of a superior.

Worshiping God is not about saying or singing words of praise or even just bowing your head and saying "[[Lord Lord|Lord, lord]]" as when you are praying.

If you are not actually doing the will of the [[Father]], who is God, then you are not really ''worshiping'' Him.<Ref name="lord">[[Matthew 7]]:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 
[[Matthew 25]]:11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 
[[Luke 6]]:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? 
[[Luke 13]]:25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:" John 5:30 "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." John 14:23 "J esus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me."</Ref>

== Worship in the Greek ==

The New Testament Greek word προσκυνέω ''proskuneo'' is "used of homage shown to men and beings of superior rank."<Ref name="proskuneo">{{4352}}</Ref> It has to do with doing the will of someone seen as a superior like a ruler or judge.

There other Greek words that can mean worship.The word [[idolatry]] comes from the Greek word ''eidololatria'' (εἰδωλολατρία), a compound of ''eidolon'' (εἴδωλον "image/idol") and ''latreia'' (λατρεία "worship").

The Greek word ''latreia'' is said to mean "worship, service paid to the gods, hired labor".<Ref name="latreia">{{2999}}</Ref>

The verb ''latreuo'' is defined as "to serve, minister to, either to the gods or men and used alike of slaves and freemen".<Ref name="latreuo">{{3000}}</Ref>

We can see these words for [[worship]] used by Christ during His own [[temptations]]:

<blockquote>
[[Matthew 4]]:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, [[Satan]]: for it is written, Thou shalt '''[[worship]]'''<[[4352|proskuneo]]> the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve <[[3000|latreuo]]>.
</blockquote>

This means if you labor for men who are ''[[gods|ruling judges]]'' like in the days of [[Pharaoh]], [[Caesar]] or any government-provided "labor" like in the days of [[Egypt]] that labor would be a form of [[worship]] as the word was used at the time the Bible was written.

The Greek word ''latreia''<Ref name="latreia">{{2999}}</Ref> is related to ''latron'' (n.) "pay, hire," ''latris'' "servant, worshiper".

The term worship could also include "praise and thanksgiving". While praise is a form of homage the word thanksgiving in Greek is [[Eucharist]].

There is a difference between the word ''Worshiping'' today defined as ''feeling or show reverence and adoration'', and the Greek and Hebrew words which meant ''homage and obeisance'', i.e. doing the will of someone with superior rank.

While singing and praising God in a group may make us feel good, by itself it ''is not really worship'' as the word was used at the time the bible was written. The words worship and religion both are words of action.

Changing the definition of the word today can deceive the people so that they think what they are doing is real worship when it is not. This changing of the meaning of words like [[Religion]] and [[worship]] is a very deceptive and dangerous form of [[sophistry]]. [[Religion]] is not just what you think about God or the Church you go to and [[worship]] is not a good feeling that comes over you when you go to Church and say you love God. Both religion and worship require the performance of a duty to God and therefore your fellow man. You have to be a [[doer]] of the word. You cannot perform that duty effectively as a body unless you gather together in [[tens|the pattern]] [[commanded]] by [[Christ]].

Christ made it clear in the ''parable of [[two sons]]''<Ref>[[Matthew 21]]:28 "But what think ye? A [certain] man had [[two sons]]..."</Ref> that the true son is not the one who says he will do his fathers will in homage but the one who actually does it. If you are not doing what Christ said to do, which is the will of the [[Father]], or if you are doing something contrary to what He said, then saying ''Lord Lord'' is not ''worship''.<Ref name="doer">[[Matthew 7]]:21 ¶ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the [[kingdom of heaven]]; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work [[iniquity]]. 24 Therefore whosoever [[hear]]eth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a [[foolish]] man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. 28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at [[Doctrines of Jesus|his doctrine]]: 29 For he taught them as [one] having authority, and not as the scribes.
: [[Matthew 25]]:11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
: Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? 47 Whosoever cometh to me, and [[hear]]eth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: 48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. 49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
: [[Luke 13]]:25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: 26 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. 27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all [ye] [[workers of iniquity]]. 28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see [[Abraham]], and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the [[prophets]],in the [[kingdom of God]], and you [yourselves] thrust out. 29 And they shall come from the east, and [from] the west, and from the north, and [from] the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.</Ref>

There are many people that think they are worshiping God but they are actually worshiping in vain<Ref>[[Matthew 15]]:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
: [[Mark 7]]:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.</Ref>

Jesus even warns that "many" will think they are coming in His name but they will actually be [[workers of iniquity]].

=== Religious worship ===

We should not imagine that praising and singing in Church is worship no matter what it makes us "feel" like. Jesus made it very clear that without diligently [[doer|doing]] what Christ said to do there is no true worship.

''Religious Worship'' must include the idea and practice of a [[worship service]] which would be the antithesis of the [[covetous practices]] we see in the [[world]]. What are [[Worship service]]s and what are their real value to society?

People are so stuck in the religious rut of modern superstitions they fail to do what Christ commanded us to do.

People think [[Religion]] is worship as ritualistic worship like clapping, dancing, singing and praising. Religion is from the Greek word ''Threskeia'' which is what you do and not just what you ''think'' about God or gods. [[Pure Religion]] was how you voluntarily do what is needed to take care of your obligation to God and your fellow man, which is to love him or her in a way that contributes to his or her welfare.

Worshiping in [[Pure Religion]] is caring for the needy of society without the assistance of the [[world]] nor those who are often called the ''[[Fathers]] of the earth'' or the [[Benefactors]] of the [[world]]. But their [[welfare]] is by force, not charity like [[John the Baptist]], [[Jesus]] and the [[Apostles]] like [[Paul the Apostle|Paul]].

The [[Modern Christian]] may even think the word ''threskos'' has to do with fearing which some say derives from ''threomai'' meaning ''to tremble'', but more modern scholars link it with ''therap''- meaning to serve. Christ said he came to serve and if we are to come in His [[name]] we must do the same.

The word ''therapon'' meaning Servant [Noun] and akin to ''therapeuo'', "to serve, to heal, an attendant, servant," is a term of dignity and freedom, used of [[Moses]] in [[Hebrews 3]]:5. The word ''therapeia'' meaning ''Heal'', ''Healing'' and is also akin to the same word ''therapeuo'', primarily denotes the ideas of "care, attention."

The [[Religion]] of Christ is caring about one another in a way that strengthens the people in [[The Way]] of Christ. It is bowing and bending to His ways of righteous and [[charitable practices]] of [[love]] and [[forgive]]ness.

This makes sense according to the context of James and the fact that mindless rituals made no sense in early Israel nor the [[early Church]], nor the activities of Jesus nor would they bear [[fruit]]. Jesus said we should seek the [[Kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]] and if we are not seeing a system of social [[welfare]] operating by [[charity]] alone we are not worshiping Jesus nor God the [[Father]].

Some know that religious worship is real care for others yet people fail to do that which was called for and make [[False religion|false religious]] rites out of what are not elements of His gospel...

: [[Galatians 4]]:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

== Worship in the Old Testament ==

The Hebrew word החש ׁ ''shachah'',<Ref name="shachah">{{07812}}</Ref> translated ''[[Worship|worship]]'' in the Old Testament, could mean "bow down" or "bow to the will of a superior".

''Shachah''<Ref name="shachah">{{07812}}</Ref> החשׁ which is translated worship 99 times, but bow 31 times, bow down 18, obeisance 9, reverence 5, fall down 3, themselves 2, stoop 1, crouch 1, misc 3. It is defined "to bow down" "before superior in homage".

If a person or individual is not doing the will of Jesus according to His teachings on things like [[love]] and [[charity]], [[Religion]] and [[Corban]], [[forgive]]ness, [[faith]] in God and [[allegiance]] to Christ<Ref>Acts 17:7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of [[Caesar]], saying that there is another king, [one] Jesus.</Ref> then they are not [[worship]]ing Him no matter how loud they shout or sing.

Giving [[allegiance]] or pledging allegiance to, paying homage to a superior, a lord, a [[gods|god]] is the ''[[idolatry]]'' of the [[world]] especially if it is done through [[covetous practices]] to obtain the [[benefits]] and [[Knife|dainties of rulers]] who call themselves [[benefactors]] but [[exercise authority]] over your neighbor instead of [[love]] through [[charity]] which is the [[flesh and blood]] and [[Eucharist]] of Christ.

Who do you really worship?

Is it God the [[Father|father]] who art in heaven or is it the [[gods]] of the "[[world]]" Jesus's kingdom was not a part of and the "[[fathers]] of the earth" who is the [[Patronus|patronus]] of the new [[Rome]] who bestows [[Plutarch|gifts, gratuities and benefits]] which are the [[wages of unrighteousness]]?

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== The following is from "Worship Study" ==

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|From the book [[FCR|The Free Church Report]]
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| A modern definition of the word [[Worship]]: the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity.
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| * the acts or rites that make up a formal expression of reverence for a deity; a religious ceremony or ceremonies. adoration or devotion comparable to religious homage, shown toward a person or principle. honor given to someone in recognition of their merit.
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| '''BRITISH''' "used in addressing or referring to an important or high-ranking person, especially a magistrate or mayor."
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| '''Old English''' ''weorthscipe'' ‘worthiness, acknowledgment of worth’
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| The [[early Church]] was taking care of all the social [[welfare]] of Christians through a [[daily ministration]] of [[charity]] which was [[pure Religion]] but [[Modern Christians]] pray to rulers who provide social [[welfare]] through [[legal charity]] by taking from our neighbors in [[covetous practices]] that makes them [[Merchandise]] and [[curse children]].
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| The [[Christian conflict]] was refusing to participate in the [[tables]] of [[social security]] through the authority of civil government were a "[[snare]]" and because those systems "[[Corban|make the word of God to none effect]]".
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| The people were gathered together in small groups of [[tens]] choosing their Ministers as Christ [[commanded]].
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| Is "Worshiping God serving God? Would include serving God by serving others.<Ref name="serve">[[Luke 4]]:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, [[Satan]]: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.</Ref>
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| See discussion [http://preparingyou.com/wiki/Talk:Worship]
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|* What is the "[[Worship_Services_of_the_People]]"?
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In a Jewish worship service the ancient blessings of praise
and thanksgiving to God such as Sh'ma, Amidah (Standing
Prayer) or Tfilah (The Prayer) are often recited and Psalms
might be sung.

The modern Christian worship
service often includes singing both traditional Christian hymns
and choruses or more modern renditions of songs and praises,
scripture reading and a sermon.

Such communal activities give
participants a sense of fellowship and solemnity but is this what
worshiping is about? Does God want singing and praise or justice and
mercy?
<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“Justice and judgment [are] the
habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.”
Psalms 89:14
</BLOCKQUOTE>
In the military the day starts
with a pledge of allegiance and solemn raising of the flag. It is
common to see several hundred men marching in cadence singing in
union. Are these also forms of worship? Could we also include as
worship the staid rising to sing the Star Spangled Banner at
political conventions or ball games or rising for a judge at his
entry into the courtroom?

<A NAME="W0230400"></A><A NAME="FOOTNOTE 1"></A>
The word worship in modern dictionaries is defined,
"The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a
sacred object." Before early Americans came from England it was
common to use the word worship, "as a form of
address for magistrates, mayors, and certain other dignitaries."<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote1anc" HREF="#sdfootnote1sym">1</A>
Nothing has contributed more to the
control of the mind of man than the ability to alter the meaning of
words. Words may be changed but the original meaning is for ever
locked in time and history.

A little over a hundred years
ago, in Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary the word worship is
found defined, "homage rendered to God which it is sinful
(idolatry) to render to any created being (Ex. 34:14; Isa. 2:8). Such
worship was refused by Peter (Acts 10:25,26)<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote2anc" HREF="#sdfootnote2sym">2</A>
and by an angel (Rev. 22:8,9)".<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote3anc" HREF="#sdfootnote3sym">3</A>

<A NAME="FOOTNOTE 2"></A>Easton
says worship is homage which is "Ceremonial acknowledgment by a
vassal of allegiance to his lord under feudal law." This seems
closer to the meaning of the authors of scripture than singing on
Sabbath or Sunday. What any word means in a Biblical sense is
dependent upon the meaning and intent of the author and does not
change with modern opinions, philosophies or doctrines.

The word worship in the New
Testament is consistently from the Greek word proskuneo<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote4anc" HREF="#sdfootnote4sym">4</A>
which is formed from two words, the preposition unto or to and the
word for dog. It literally meant “meaning to kiss, like a dog
licking his master’s hand.”
<H3 CLASS="western">Worship in the Old Testament</H3>
The Greek word proskuneo
is consistently translated worship in the New Testament but
since Jesus did not preach in Greek we may assume that proskuneo
is simply the Greek substitute for the Hebrew word translated
worship. But there is not just one Hebrew word translated into
worship and the words that are translated into worship are not
consistently translated the same..
One Hebrew word translated
worship first appears in Genesis 22:5, "And Abraham
said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the
lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you."

We are to believe by the
traditional translation of the text that Abraham is going off to
worship God and make a sacrifice of his son as he believed
that was the will of God. Here the word worship was shachah
which means "to bow down" in the sense of obeisance
as in the recognition of rank. This is not the first place shachah,
[hxv
Shin, Chet Hei],
appears in the Testaments.

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“And
he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and
when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed
himself toward the ground,” Genesis 18:2
</BLOCKQUOTE>
The Hebrew word we often see as
worship is also translated bow 31 times, bow down
18, obeisance 9, reverence 5, fall down 3 times
and themselves twice, also stoop and crouch once
each. The same three letter word in Hebrew [7811,
hxv Shin,
Chet Hei] is also translated swim.
This concept of bowing toward
the ground as a form of worship is a way of recognizing rank
which is the essential quality of the homage as expressed with
the Aramaic word sagid, dgo ,
[Semech, Gimel, Dalet] is
translated into worship<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote5anc" HREF="#sdfootnote5sym">5</A>
in Daniel but is defined "to prostrate oneself, do homage."
The same three letter Hebrew
word [dgo Semech,
Gimel, Dalet] appears in Isaiah and are given a different
Strong's number [5456] translated “fall down” in
relationship to false gods. If you exchange the Dalet with the letter
Nun, you get the Hebrew word for governor and ruler. Exchange the
Dalet with a Reish and you get the Hebrew word for shut up,
enclose or imprison.
We also find the word worship
as in worshipers of Baal in 2 Kings to be from abad, dbe,<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote6anc" HREF="#sdfootnote6sym">6</A>
meaning to labor but more in the sense of "to be
compelled to work" or " to be enticed to serve." Even
the word Baal means "lord" and again expresses a
superior rank with subordinate service as a form of compelled duty or
worship. Cain was a tiller of the ground<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote7anc" HREF="#sdfootnote7sym">7</A>.
The ground he compelled into his service was Adamah, translated as
land, earth, ground, but also husbandman and country. Was Cain the
ground or forcing other sons of Adam to labor for him, to bow, down,
to pay him homage?

Shachah, hxv,
is seen in the ten commandments associated with service and again
translated bow down. Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down
thyself to them, nor serve them: …

Rank, homage, service are
political concepts and of course Biblically speaking Abraham was
leaving City or Civil States of Ur and Haran to be free of paying
homage to the gods of the city. He chose to pay homage to the
God of Creation, God the Father. He even established “altars”
of living stone so that the people may live according to the perfect
law of liberty.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote8anc" HREF="#sdfootnote8sym">8</A>
In the Old Testament the words
"gods" and "God" are translated from the single
word 'elohiym in the plural. 'Elohiym is defined
"rulers, judges" and "occasionally applied as
deference to magistrates"<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote9anc" HREF="#sdfootnote9sym">9</A>
while in the New Testament the word God is translated from the Greek
word theos which figuratively means "a magistrate."
Emperors and Presidents often hold the office of Apotheos, appointer
of gods,<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote10anc" HREF="#sdfootnote10sym">10</A>
because they are the appointer of judges within their jurisdictional
states.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote11anc" HREF="#sdfootnote11sym">11</A>

The most common word translated
into worship in the New Testament is proskuneo. It does
not mean bow down but rather to kiss the hand. This
translation does not do justice to its meaning. Among the Orientals
it did include the idea of falling upon the knee and is simply a
token of reverence by kneeling or prostration to do homage (to
one) or make obeisance. Proskuneo was a word used of
homage shown to men and beings of superior rank. But obeisance<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote12anc" HREF="#sdfootnote12sym">12</A>
alone is not enough for rulers for there is no profit in bowing
alone.
The word latreuo from
latris (a hired menial, employee); is also translated worship
and worshiper in the New Testament and means to serve for
hire and also includes the idea of homage.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote13anc" HREF="#sdfootnote13sym">13</A>

What worship truly means in the
Bible has a common theme and significance. It has to do with homage
and rank of a superior and inferior citizens of a political state.
Jesus and John the Baptist preached a kingdom not a religion.

At the time of Christ there was
a complaint of the Helenization of the Jewish traditions. In Plato's
Laws On Musical Worship for Apollo he states,

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">"In order, then, that the soul of
the child… obey the law… I say, to produce this effect,
chants appear to have been invented, which really enchant, and are
designed to implant that harmony of which we speak."
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western"><A NAME="FOOTNOTE 3"></A>"And
similarly the true legislator will persuade, and, if he cannot
persuade, will compel the poet to express, as he ought, by fair and
noble words, in his rhythms, the figures, and in his melodies, the
music of temperate and brave and in every way good men."<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote14anc" HREF="#sdfootnote14sym">14</A>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
I suspect that the modern
transformation of the word worship from a political act of
homage and recognition of superior rank is a completion of that
ancient demagoguery of the Greeks. Certainly the modern preaching has
more in common with the Greek orators than the question and answers
coming during the New Testament sermons.

Israel was a kingdom not a
religion. Judea was the remnant of that kingdom steeped in apostasy
with usurpers occupying the office of the crown and the public
service in the temple. Jesus came preaching a kingdom at hand not a
religion. The worship in the kingdom of Heaven is not merely lip
service or verbal praise and melodious singing, but is a
manifestation of the homage owed the King and His Father.

Homage is a ceremony that gives
evidence of submission but with that submission the people are
required to give their substance to their master or masters, their
law makers, rulers and judges. Religion is an aspect of every
government. It is in essence the caring for the widows, orphans and
needy of society. In the kingdom there is also an aspect of religion
that requires us to accomplish this task with free will offering in
faith, hope and charity. Pure religion<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote15anc" HREF="#sdfootnote15sym">15</A>
is well defined in the bible.
<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western" STYLE="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal">
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep
himself unspotted from the world.” James 1:27
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<A NAME="FOOTNOTE 4"></A><A NAME="FOOTNOTE 5"></A>
Being unspotted from the world is being untouched in spirit and in
truth by the ways of the world. The world<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote16anc" HREF="#sdfootnote16sym">16</A>
was the government of Rome which like Cain now forced the offerings
of the people, like Saul compelled the sacrifice of the people and
like Solomon and Rehoboam oppressed them as if they were whipped with
whips and scorpions.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote17anc" HREF="#sdfootnote17sym">17</A>

Jesus was the king. The Angels
announced it, kings recognized it, shepherds accepted it, the the
voice of the people hailed Him,<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote18anc" HREF="#sdfootnote18sym">18</A>
Rome proclaimed it.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote19anc" HREF="#sdfootnote19sym">19</A>
The only ones who denounced him were the Pharisees and they said they
had no king but Caesar.
As King, He appointed a kingdom
to certain chosen men<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote20anc" HREF="#sdfootnote20sym">20</A>
so that they would serve that kingdom at hand and maintain it. Their
rank in that kingdom is always one of service not exercising
authority.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote21anc" HREF="#sdfootnote21sym">21</A>
They do not receive homage or obeisance which is reserved only for
the Son, the king of the Kingdom and His Father.

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western" STYLE="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal">
“And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down
at his feet, and worshipped [him]. But Peter took him up, saying,
Stand up; I myself also am a man.” Acts 10:25
</BLOCKQUOTE>
From the beginning the true
bondservants of Christ have always refused to receive the homage due
the King. They were true to the commands of Christ as servants of His
kingdom. But there are those who have chosen from the beginning to
dilute, deny and even usurp His kingdom at hand with other ways that
bring the people into bondage and under the ways of the would be
Caesars of the world..

<H3 CLASS="western">Thou hatest the deeds 
</H3>
<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“But
this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which
I also hate.” Revelation 2:6
</BLOCKQUOTE>
What was the doctrine of the
"Nicolaitans"? There was a connection between them and
Balaam. Balaam is from the Hebrew word 'Baal' meaning lord
or master and 'am' references the people. It is
an expression of superior rank over the people contrary to the
directive of Christ, the King.

Nike is the Greek word
for conqueror with nikos meaning victor. Laos
is a word for people. Nicolaitan and Baalam are two different
forms of the same idea. Both include the idea of rank, lordship and
submission to an exercising authority who can judge the people. They
are systems that make gods, or judging rulers, of men, who other men
must pay homage too. Homage being fealty or allegiance.

Cain did the same in the first
city state and the kings of Israel chosen by the people, when the
people rejected God, also forced the homage and sacrifice<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote22anc" HREF="#sdfootnote22sym">22</A>
of the people, whipping them with whips and scorpions.
<A NAME="FOOTNOTE 6"></A>There
is a controversy concerning who is the clergy and laity or people in
the kingdom of Heaven. It is clear by the Biblical text that Jesus
appointed certain individuals to positions of service. Those
individuals also made appointments of ministering trustees chosen by
the people.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote23anc" HREF="#sdfootnote23sym">23</A>
The word clergy is simply the clerks of the kingdom, the
bondservants of the King and public servants of the people. While the
laity are the people who enjoy the perfect law of liberty with its
burden of individual responsibility and its reward of redemption in
spirit and in truth.

The problem arises in
distinguishing the Nicolatian or Baalam system of clergy and laity
from that which was established by Christ. The result of the religious
doctrines that they preach is that the kingdom of God is not at hand. They do
not seem to realize that the kingdom comes when His will is done. It
does not come through observation but it is the fruit of faith and
consequence of charity.
Some religions have a top down
clergy that exercises authority but this is contrary to the
Kingdom of Heaven. “He taught that the authority of kings and
princes was originally derived from the people”<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote24anc" HREF="#sdfootnote24sym">24</A>
How do Kings get their power of authority which originally belonged
to the people by God's granted grace and dominion? They get it
because the people reject God and cry out for rulers who may exercise
authority over them. They covet their neighbor's goods through the
agency of these governmental rulers and judges who they choose for
themselves.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote25anc" HREF="#sdfootnote25sym">25</A>
Through that covetous nature they are made into human resources and
brought into bondage again.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote26anc" HREF="#sdfootnote26sym">26</A>
These worldly institution which men create with their own hands
demand that the people serve them, they oppress their neighbor,
denounce the king, claim no government but Caesar and turn their
hearts from the ways of God.
<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western"><A NAME="FOOTNOTE 8"></A>"And with
regard to our not swearing at all, and always speaking the truth, He
enjoined as follows: 'Swear not at all; but let your yea be yea, and
your nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of Evil.'
[Matt. 5 34-37]. And that we ought to worship God alone, He thus
persuaded us: 'The greatest commandment is, Thou shalt worship the
Lord thy God, and Him only shall thou serve, with all thy heart, and
with all thy strength, the Lord God that made thee.' [Mark 7].”<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote27anc" HREF="#sdfootnote27sym">27</A>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
Here we see Justin the martyr
equating swearing oaths to anyone as a violation of the commandment
to worship God. This is one way governments gain power and men and
society are made weak by their dependency on that government of
allegiance.

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western" STYLE="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal">
“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for
the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:17
</BLOCKQUOTE>
Jesus was not preaching the
religion of heaven is at hand but the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
It is not like the government of the other nations but was and is
very real. It is seldom recognized because it does not exercise
authority one over the other as Jesus forbid.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote28anc" HREF="#sdfootnote28sym">28</A>

The reason early Christians
gathered together was to take care of the business of that government
of God. This is also why they were persecuted out of jealousy and
envy for their liberty. There was religious freedom guaranteed by
Roman constitution so you could look to any government for your
needs. Christ was turning the world right side up and to those who
did not want to change they were seen as turning the world upside
down.

The governments of the gentiles
were top down, but the government of God is bottom up. It begins in
the bottom of every man's heart. It is a system of choice and liberty
where no one taxes you but your own conscience.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote29anc" HREF="#sdfootnote29sym">29</A>
Everyman is king in his own house<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote30anc" HREF="#sdfootnote30sym">30</A>
and priest in his own family.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote31anc" HREF="#sdfootnote31sym">31</A>

<H3 CLASS="western">Jesus came to serve. 
</H3>
<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“… I
am among you as he that serveth.” Luke 22:27
</BLOCKQUOTE>
In
Gibbon's Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, he praised "the
union and discipline of the Christian republic." This personal
discipline included the rights and responsibilities of freedom. It
was a kingdom that depended on faith hope and charity.

He
also pointed out that "it gradually formed an independent and
increasing state in the heart of the Roman Empire." The early
Christian ekklesia was a republic that was recognized by Rome through
the proclamation nailed to the cross by order of the Proconsul of
Rome, Pontius Pilate. When Jesus rose from the dead to stand again
upon the earth, so did his Kingdom. His kingdom now lives in the
hearts of those who follow His way and do the will of the Father and
the Son.

When Jesus said to call no man
on earth Father that was a spiritual and political statement.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote32anc" HREF="#sdfootnote32sym">32</A>
To live in Christ kingdom and return to
the house of the Father in Heaven is a wonderful thing. If we are
really returning to His house and kingdom in spirit and truth then we
should be living under the perfect law of liberty and not the bondage
of Jacob.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote33anc" HREF="#sdfootnote33sym">33</A>
Many people think of worship as
singing or praising Jesus or the Father, but is this true worship or
only lip service. He says:
<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“If ye love me, keep my
commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you
another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the
Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him
not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you,
and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to
you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see
me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know
that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my
commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that
loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will
manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how
is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the
world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will
keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto
him, and make our abode with him.” John 14:15, 23
</BLOCKQUOTE>
Is faith in Christ a hollow
thing or a thing that bears fruit? Homage or worship can be defined
as "a symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and
in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or
coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal;
profession of fealty to a sovereign." Though many people sing
praises of worship, their lives are filled with acts of homage and
worship toward the kings of the gentiles who exercise authority one
over the other. Their lives are like the gentiles and not like the
kingdom of God. These same people also apply or pray at the table of
these gentile rulers who are called benefactors in hopes of
receiving their gifts, gratuities and benefits.

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“When
thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before
thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to
appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful
meat.” Proverbs 23:1-3
</BLOCKQUOTE>
Worship is an act of faith and
expression of acceptance of superior rank of a king or Lord. It is
not originally a religious term. When we truly began to worship the
Lord and King then we may find cause to celebrate and sing His
praises but we are told that his family does the will of the Father.<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote34anc" HREF="#sdfootnote34sym">34</A>

When we truly worship God it is
cause to celebrate, but we should not confuse the celebration with
the act of worship itself.

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western" STYLE="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal">
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33</BLOCKQUOTE>
<H3 CLASS="western">Seek the Kingdom</H3>
The entire Bible is a commentary
on man's political relationships with governments created by the
hands of men. These governments require the service of the people as
human resources, that take their sons and daughters, the first fruits
of their labor, the best of their fields, and rule over them because
the voice of the people rejected God.

From Cain's city to Nimrod's
kingdom, onto the Pharaohs and Caesars of the world men have rejected
God for governments of their own creation and for the benefits they
covet.

To really understand God's
government and the Kingdom of Heaven or a godly government you need
to obtain some knowledge and understanding of governments.

Israel was literally the kingdom
of God on earth. Before Saul and David who was its King? Was it not
the head of every family? How was it ruled? Was it not ruled first in
their hearts and mind by their God given conscience? Where did it go
wrong? Was it not the voice of the people?<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote35anc" HREF="#sdfootnote35sym">35</A>
The people have been told.

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“And
the LORD said… hearken unto their voice… yet protest
solemnly… He will take your sons… he will appoint him
captains over thousands, and captains over fifties… he will
take your daughters… he will take your fields… even the
best of them, and give them to his servants… he will take…
and give to his officers, and to his servants... he will take…
your goodliest young men… put them to his work... ye shall cry
out… and the LORD will not hear you... Nevertheless the people
refused to obey… Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye
every man unto his city.”
1 Samuel 8:8-22
</BLOCKQUOTE>
The centralization of a top down
authority under kings made of flesh and blood was sharply condemned
and warned against by Samuel. The people refused to listen to the
Wisdom of God as they had done from the beginning. Therefore, until
Christ the king came they were set on the road to despotism and
tyranny. People still have trouble living with out rulers who
exercise authority one over the other. This is because they have not
really received the Gospel that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

What kind of Kingdom does God
want for His children?

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western" STYLE="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal">
“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become
the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:” John
1:12
</BLOCKQUOTE>

Some 3,000 years ago Moses managed a society of about three million
people. He was led to organize them by establishing captains of ten
families and captains of ten captains, etc..

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western" STYLE="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal">
“That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their
fathers, who [were] the princes of the tribes, and were over them
that were numbered, offered:” Numbers 7:2
</BLOCKQUOTE>
If the princes of the tribes
were over the people then what was the difference in appointing a
king over the people? The word over in Numbers 7:2 is from
amad dme translated stood
171 times and stand 137 and is almost never translated over
in more than 500 appearances. The same three Hebrew letters are also
given other Strong's numbers<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote36anc" HREF="#sdfootnote36sym">36</A>
which are translated upright or with me.
Amad means “to
stand, remain, endure, take one's stand.” The word does not
really mean over as we often think of a king or a general
ruling over his subjects. It is more in the way of enduring or
standing or endorsing an office of service, respect and duty. Now the
word numbered in the Biblical verse Numbers 7:2 is from paqad
dqp which means to attend to, muster,
number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after, care for.

There were twelve tribes and the
people were gathered together in small groups of tens choosing their
civil and religious leaders from amongst the patriarchs and the
Levites. These leaders were titular because the real authority rested
with the people. God not give them an exercising authority nor the
power to compel the offerings of the people. The people did that
themselves under Saul.
This same pattern of free will
and liberty, chosen but titular public servants of small groups
networked together, was repeated in the early Church. As we see in
the upper room there were 120 families represented by name, and the
twelve apostles, one for each group of ten.

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“And
in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said,
(the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)”
Acts 1:15
</BLOCKQUOTE>
Israel's early Kingdom granted
by God through Moses was a trusteeship under God the Father dependent
upon the good will of the people. It was divided into the civil power
which remained with the families. In fact each family had its own
priest, usually the eldest son. Each family was autonomous but they
gathered together in congregations of people choosing their ministers
from a pool of Levites. The priestly office of the nation bound by
liberty and charity was held by the first born of the kingdom, known
as the Levites.

The Levites took the position of
the first born of the nation when they were called out by Moses. The
Levites managed the altar and the daily ministration of the
government. They were the ministers and clerks. They served the
people and ministered to the kingdom like eldest sons in a family.
The Levites were only tithed to according to their service.
They truly were public servants.

When the people were afraid
everyone would desert while Moses was gone, they devised a common
plan found in many governments of that day and this. They deposited
their family wealth in a central vault controlled by trusted men of
government, in this case it was the the golden calf,<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote37anc" HREF="#sdfootnote37sym">37</A>
Moses understood how it was a wicked thing to bind the people by
anything more than love for one another, a passion for mercy and
justice and the way of God the Father. The Levites were called out by
Moses to serve the kingdom because they had the faith to step out of
that system of social security.

The ministers of the kingdom
belonged to God as His bondservants to hold in trust His dominion on
earth for the service of the people who seek that kingdom. They had
no personal estate and depended upon the people whom they served. The
Church, from the Greek ekklesia meaning called out, was
appointed to that role by Jesus Christ. It was not to be done like what
the Pharisees had put in place. 
<A NAME="FOOTNOTE 9"></A><A NAME="FOOTNOTE 10"></A>
Eventually Israel's civil powers held by the individual Patriarchs
were vested into the trusteeship of the Kings rather than the
individual Fathers of each family. The Romans underwent a similar
process of shifting the manus<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote38anc" HREF="#sdfootnote38sym">38</A>
of the family from the Patria Potestas<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote39anc" HREF="#sdfootnote39sym">39</A>
of the patriarchs to the Senate and then to the Patronus or Emperor
of their nation. This form of centralized government of power and
control is a departure from the system of faith, hope and charity
instituted by God. History, because of the sinful nature of men,
continues to repeat itself.

The priestly offices of public
servant also came under the direction of the high priests through an
adulterous corruption of that office. Following this same path of the
centralization of power is an accompanying neglect of responsibility
by the people to each other.

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear
any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love
thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.” Leviticus 19:18
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“For this, Thou shalt not commit
adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not
bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other
commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Romans 13:9
</BLOCKQUOTE>
Much of this corruption of the
Pharisees at the time of Christ grew with the Hasmonean Dynasty which
led to a corrupted priesthood and civil war. To settle that dispute
some applied to Roman international military peace keeping forces
under Pompey. They willingly agreed to help resolve disputes as to
who should be the rightful King according to Hebraic law and
tradition.

Both the Hasmonean and the
Romans heavily influenced the traditional Separation of Church and
State, religion<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote40anc" HREF="#sdfootnote40sym">40</A>
and defense,<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote41anc" HREF="#sdfootnote41sym">41</A>
along different lines than those laid down by Moses. The Church
gained some power to collect or receive taxes, own land in their own
name and exercise authority, under the Hasmonians while the State
powers, still resting with the king, began to legislate religious
doctrine and institutionalize what was previously systems of charity
under their growing control.

In 78 BC the Pharisees, a
political party, had an ordinance<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote42anc" HREF="#sdfootnote42sym">42</A>
passed requiring the temple tax be paid or the matter was handed over
to the appointed civil magistrates of Judea for enforcement by the
right hand of government. Funds flowed into the government's temple
whether it served the people or not. Now with the top down
appointment of the courts, new legislated statutes and the
fornication of the priests the government served the people less and
the people served the government more.
Much of Israel or the seed of
Abraham had little to nothing to do with the House of David from the
time of Rehoboam. At the time of Herod's occupation of the throne the
problems of the kingdom had become acute. Who should take the
positions of royal trustee of both the civil and religious aspects of
the kingdom of God on earth, High Priest and King. Jesus came to
settle the Issue

Luke 22:29 states, "And
I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;"


Here we see that the Apostles
had a Kingdom appointed to them for the purpose of ministering to
that Kingdom. In God's Kingdom the individual takes on His God given
right to the dominion of his own flesh and blood, body and soul and
also the responsibility that is correlative to that right. The
ministers of the kingdom are answerable to God through the authority
of Jesus the King. They are the bondservants of Jesus Christ serving
His Kingdom by serving the people. To coordinate these individual
freemen into one body politic under the kingship of Jesus the Christ
and God the Father without exercising dominion or authority over them
is the duty and office of His appointed Church. The Kingdom of
Heaven is a palpable reality when one recognizes its auspicious
nature. His Holy or Separate Church, which serves His kingdom, is a
proponent of the divine principles of freedom and an advocate of the
perfect law of liberty and responsibility.

As Jesus came preaching the
Kingdom of Heaven there were a few things He was going to have to do:
“ye shall return every man
unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.”
Leviticus 25:10

Most of the governments of today
exercise authority over men. They are not Christian. They are
governments like the gentiles which Jesus clearly forbid. They are
all in opposition to the teachings of Christ Jesus, the Anointed
King. [Matthew 20:25-27, Mark 10:42, Luke 22:25]

Under the perfect law of liberty
the elder father of each family group was the head of a household and
by the nature of that fact he was an elder. When the Apostles
appointed elders they were not granting the office of elder
they were appointing elders to the office of minister. Those
ministers were chosen by the people. What has become known today as
bishops were chosen by ten ministers. Bishops or overseers were to
stand and serve those original ministers and in turn
ten bishops chose an archbishop.

This system continued for most
of the followers of the Messiah even after Constantine order at Milan
to become Christian, where people picked one bishop for a whole city
and he in turn exercised authority issuing edicts and calling for the
persecution of so called non Christians. That Bishop began to
exercise authority issuing edicts and commands. He considered
a bishop as an "aristocratic figure" and formulated the
Church according to the "ways of Rome issuing decrees, edicts,
and commands" rather than serving as a subject minister and
servant of the people. He was intolerant of other religions and
actually argued in the Roman Senate that all other religions should
be stamped out.

They eventually appointed those
who ruled that new Roman church from the top down with the aid of
their crowned Kings, who were often crowned by the very Church who
was appointed to keep the people free. These so called Christians, of
course, were not a true Christians Church. They were the instituted
Church and manufactured christians<A CLASS="sdfootnoteanc" NAME="sdfootnote43anc" HREF="#sdfootnote43sym">43</A>
with more fear of Constantine than love of Jesus. The system that
grew out of this departure from the "Way of the Lord" was
contrary to the words of Jesus Christ. It was a breach of His trust.

An example of the nature of the
Church was still obvious in 600 AD when the Anglo Saxon had formed a
government with something called a Tithing man who oversaw ten
families, a Hundredsmen who oversaw ten Tithingmen, and an Eoldorman
who oversaw ten Hundredsmen. There were a thousand families known as
Shire under the oversership of an Eoldorman.

This system contributed to a
united society in part because no person was responsible for
communicating directly with more than 10 people and each man was free
to choose the Tithing man of his choice and each Tithing man in small
groups of ten chose their Hundredsman etc.. These small dedicated
often related cell groups made for an independent yet unified force
to ward off almost any hardship, attack or attempted usurpation.

The Kings were crowned by the
vicarious institution of those manufactured christians. The ruling
elite replaced the tithing men with constables who kept the
people as they kept their stables.

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western" STYLE="font-style: normal">“But he
shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return
to Egypt, … Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.”
De. 17:16.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
These religious and civil
leaders brought with them all the disadvantages that Samuel had
warned us of two thousand years before.
<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“And he said, This will be the
manner of the king that shall reign over you:… he will appoint
him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties;…”
1 Samuel 8:11,12.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
We have fallen away from the
teachings of the Bible. Their institution of modern Churches are
barren. Instead of leading people to liberty they have delivered them
into bondage.
<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“While they promise them liberty,
they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is
overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.” 2 Peter 2:19
</BLOCKQUOTE>
The people seeking the kingdom
of God have been influenced by Roman ideas and many of our traditions
have evolved from that influence.

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“But
I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that
hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a
stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things
sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. So hast thou also
them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.”
Rev. 2:14, 15
</BLOCKQUOTE>
Balac was not a religion but a
government system that brought the people to a state of selfish
apathy and wantonness by an exercising authority and covetous vanity.
The exercising authority of rulers, their entitlements, traditions
and doctrines usurps the responsibility of the individual and brings
them into sloth, apathy and avarice.

Religion today has been polluted
by men who desire power and authority over other people, whether in
civil democracies or the church pew. This power and authority was
never intended by the Lord.

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western" STYLE="font-style: normal">“Because
my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and
they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient
paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;” Jeremiah
18:15 
</BLOCKQUOTE>
We may return to the ancient
paths and join together in true worship of our King and Father.
Modern Christianity is the product of centuries of book burning,
prevarication and persecution. We must learn to worship the Father by
paying Him homage and service by caring for His sheep. We cannot
serve two masters nor can we pay homage to one King while we say we
worship another.

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western" STYLE="font-style: normal">“And
he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in
heaven, so in earth.” Luke 11:2
</BLOCKQUOTE>
There should be no king or ruler
for Christians but Jesus the Christ. No Father on earth but our
Father in Heaven. It is that kingdom of liberty under God which is at
hand. It is the justice and mercy of His perfect law of liberty to
which we owe our homage, allegiance and worship.

<BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="western">“In
those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of
Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Matthew 3:2 
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote1">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote1sym" HREF="#sdfootnote1anc">1</A>The
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th
Edition

</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote2">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote2sym" HREF="#sdfootnote2anc">2</A>Acts
10:25 “And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell
down at his feet, and worshiped [him]. But Peter took him up,
saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.”
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote3">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote3sym" HREF="#sdfootnote3anc">3</A>Rev
22:8 “And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship
before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then
saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant,
and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings
of this book: worship God.”
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote4">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote4sym" HREF="#sdfootnote4anc">4</A>4352
~proskunew~ proskuneo defined 1) to kiss
the hand to (towards) one, in token of reverence 2) among the
Orientals, esp. the Persians, to fall upon the knees and touch the
ground with the forehead as an expression of profound reverence 3)
in the NT by kneeling or prostration to do homage (to one) or make
obeisance, whether in order to express respect or to make
supplication
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote5">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote5sym" HREF="#sdfootnote5anc">5</A>05457
dgo c@gid (Aramaic) corresponding to
05456; v AV-worship 12 1 to prostrate oneself, do homage, worship
1a) (P'al) to do homage
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote6">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote6sym" HREF="#sdfootnote6anc">6</A>05647
dbe `abad translated serve 227 times, do
15, till 9, servant 5, work 5, worshippers 5, service 4, dress 2,
labour 2, ear 2, misc 14; 290 1) to work, serve
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote7">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote7sym" HREF="#sdfootnote7anc">7</A>Genesis
4:2 “And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a
keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.”
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote8">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote8sym" HREF="#sdfootnote8anc">8</A>The
book Thy Kingdom Comes by Brother Gregory Williams
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote9">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote9sym" HREF="#sdfootnote9anc">9</A>Strong's
Concordance
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote10">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote10sym" HREF="#sdfootnote10anc">10</A>The
Apothems of Washington

<A CLASS="western" HREF="http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/apotheos.php">http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/apotheos.php</A>
There Are gods

Many  <A CLASS="western" HREF="http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/theosgod.php">http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/theosgod.php</A>
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote11">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote11sym" HREF="#sdfootnote11anc">11</A>Rome
vs. US <A CLASS="western" HREF="http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/romeus.php">http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/romeus.php</A>
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote12">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote12sym" HREF="#sdfootnote12anc">12</A>Obeisance.
A gesture or movement of the body, such as a curtsy, that expresses
deference or homage. <CITE>The American Heritage® Dictionary of
the English Language, Fourth Edition</CITE>

</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote13">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote13sym" HREF="#sdfootnote13anc">13</A>Homage.
Ceremonial acknowledgment by a vassal of allegiance to his lord
under feudal law. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the
English Language, Fourth Edition

</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote14">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote14sym" HREF="#sdfootnote14anc">14</A>Translated
by Benjamin Jowett

</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote15">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote15sym" HREF="#sdfootnote15anc">15</A>Pure
Religion http://www.hisholychurch.info/news/articles/religion.php
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote16">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote16sym" HREF="#sdfootnote16anc">16</A>2889
kosmov kosmos an apt and harmonious
arrangement or constitution, order, government
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote17">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote17sym" HREF="#sdfootnote17anc">17</A>Eucharist
http://www.hisholychurch.info/sermon/Eucharist.pdf
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote18">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote18sym" HREF="#sdfootnote18anc">18</A>Voice
of the People http://www.hisholychurch.info/news/articles/voice.php
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote19">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote19sym" HREF="#sdfootnote19anc">19</A>A
Vision of Redemption

http://www.hisholychurch.info/news/redemption.php
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote20">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote20sym" HREF="#sdfootnote20anc">20</A>Luke
22:29 “And I appoint unto you a kingdom, …”

</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote21">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote21sym" HREF="#sdfootnote21anc">21</A>Luke
22:25-26 “And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles
exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon
them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is
greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief,
as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at
meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am
among you as he that serveth. Ye are they which have continued with
me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father
hath appointed unto me;” also Mark 10:42, Matthew 20:25
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote22">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote22sym" HREF="#sdfootnote22anc">22</A>1
Samuel 13:12 – 15.
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote23">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote23sym" HREF="#sdfootnote23anc">23</A>Acts
6:3 “Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men …
whom we may appoint over this business. “
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote24">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote24sym" HREF="#sdfootnote24anc">24</A>The
life of John Knox by Thomas M'Crie

</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote25">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote25sym" HREF="#sdfootnote25anc">25</A>Judges
10:14 “Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them
deliver you in the time of your tribulation.”
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote26">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote26sym" HREF="#sdfootnote26anc">26</A>2
Peter 2:3 “And through covetousness shall they with feigned
words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time
lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote27">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote27sym" HREF="#sdfootnote27anc">27</A>First
Apology of Justin Chap.16.-Concerning Patience and Swearing.

</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote28">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote28sym" HREF="#sdfootnote28anc">28</A>“But
Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they
which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over
them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so
shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you,
shall be your minister: And whosoever of you will be the chiefest,
shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came not to be
ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for
many.” Mark 10:42 also Luke 22:25, Matthew 20:25
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote29">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote29sym" HREF="#sdfootnote29anc">29</A>Judges
17:6 “In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every
man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.”
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote30">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote30sym" HREF="#sdfootnote30anc">30</A>1
Timothy 5:8 “But if any provide not for his own, and specially
for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse
than an infidel.”
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote31">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote31sym" HREF="#sdfootnote31anc">31</A>Leviticus
25:10 “And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and 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.”
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote32">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote32sym" HREF="#sdfootnote32anc">32</A>Call
no man on earth Father

http://www.hisholychurch.info/sermon/father.php
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote33">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote33sym" HREF="#sdfootnote33anc">33</A>Chapter
4. of the book The Covenants of the gods
Employ vs Enslave
http://www.hisholychurch.info/study/gods/cog4eve.php
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote34">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote34sym" HREF="#sdfootnote34anc">34</A>Matthew
7:21 “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my
Father which is in heaven.”
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote35">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote35sym" HREF="#sdfootnote35anc">35</A>1
Samuel 8 and Voice of the People
http://www.hisholychurch.info/news/articles/voice.php
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote36">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote36sym" HREF="#sdfootnote36anc">36</A>Stong's
numbers dme
05975, 05976, 05977, 05978.
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote37">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote37sym" HREF="#sdfootnote37anc">37</A>Athens,
under the leadership of Pericles, was driven to her golden goddess,
their reserve fund, and compelled to melt it down and coin it into
money Peloponnesian Wars. They eventually minted a plated bronze
tetradrachms in Athens during the hard times which followed the
Athenian collapse, viz. from B.C. 406-393. “In 393 the
wretched bronze money of necessity was cried down, the Town Crier
being sent round to proclaim that silver was once more to be the
only legal tender :” ARIST. Eccl. 819.
Conversion vs. Reconversion

<A CLASS="western" HREF="http://www.hisholychurch.info/study/gods/cog10cvr.php">http://www.hisholychurch.info/study/gods/cog10cvr.php</A>

Money vs. Mammon

<A CLASS="western" HREF="http://www.hisholychurch.info/study/gods/cog11movma.php">http://www.hisholychurch.info/study/gods/cog11movma.php</A>
'''Aerarium ''' (from Lat. aes, in its derived
sense of ``money'') the name (in full, aerarium stabulum,
treasure-house) given in ancient [[Rome]] to the public treasury,
and in a secondary sense to the public finances. The treasury
contained the moneys and accounts of the state, and also the
standards of the legions; the public laws engraved on brass, the
decrees of the senate and other papers and registers of importance.
These public treasures were deposited in the temple of Saturn, on
the eastern slope of the Capitoline hill... In addition to the
common treasury, supported by the general taxes and charged with the
ordinary expenditure, there was a special reserve fund, also in the
temple of [[Saturn]], the aerarium sanctum (or sanctius), probably
originally consisting of the spoils of war, afterwards maintained
chiefly by a 5% tax... The later emperors had a separate aerarium
privatum, containing the moneys allotted for their own use, distinct
from the fiscus, which they administered in the interests of the
empire. '' From a 1911 Encyclopedia
</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote38">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote38sym" HREF="#sdfootnote38anc">38</A>power
of the Father over his wife and his sons' wives.

</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote39">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote39sym" HREF="#sdfootnote39anc">39</A>The
authority a father had over his children and other descendants.

</DIV>
<DIV ID="sdfootnote40">
<A CLASS="sdfootnotesym" NAME="sdfootnote40sym" HREF="#sdfootnote40anc">40</A>Caring
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[[Image:altarabel.jpg|link=Altars|280px|right|thumb|Did Jesus sacrifice his life so you would be saved or so that you "might be saved"?<Ref name="might"></Ref> What is the sacrifice and how does it save? How do you know you know you are not under a "[[Strong delusion]]"? What is the "blood" and how does it save?
[[Cain]]'s city state, [[Nimrod]]'s [[Babylon]], [[Pharaoh]]'s [[Egypt]], and [[Caesar]]'s [[Temples]] of [[Rome]] all had [[sacrifice]] but in the form of [[legal charity]]. But like [[Sodom]] and the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] those systems of sacrifice "make the word of God to none effect".
Were the [[Altars]] of [[Clay and Stone]] an [[allegory]] describing a social structure through [[freewill offerings|freewill sacrifice]] to bind society through [[social bonds]] of [[love]], through the practice of [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]] according to the [[perfect law of liberty]]?]]

== Sacrifice ==

To give up something for the sake of others is to freely give. The essence of [[charity]] and [[love]] is to give by individual freewill choice with no legal obligation applied.

=== As a noun ===

There are a number of different definitions of the word sacrifice as a noun and verb.
One of those definitions might include:

# an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure.
# an animal, person, or object offered in a sacrifice.
synonyms: (votive) offering, burnt offering, gift, oblation
# an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy.
* "we must all be prepared to make sacrifices"
* synonyms: surrender, giving up, abandonment, renunciation, forfeiture, relinquishment, resignation, abdication
* "joining a federation may result in the sacrifice of sovereignty"

=== As a verb ===

As a verb: [[sacrifice]]; 3rd person present: sacrifices; past tense: sacrificed; past participle: sacrificed; gerund or present participle: sacrificing

# offer or kill as a religious sacrifice.
# give up (something important or valued) for the sake of other considerations.

To "give up" or "surrender" is to sacrifice.

== Offerings and sacrifice ==

The offerings of [[Cain]] and Abel were called ''Minchah''<Ref name="minchah">{{04503}}</Ref> meaning "gift, tribute, offering" and were given by Cain and Abel in some manner to God. The word was not used again until Jacob gave Esau his brother a gift.<Ref>[[Genesis 32]]:13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present <[[04503|minchah]]> for Esau his brother; 14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. 16 And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and whither goest thou? and whose [are] these before thee? 18 Then thou shalt say, [They be] thy servant Jacob’s; it [is] a present<[[04503|minchah]]> sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he [is] behind us. 19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. 20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present<[[04503|minchah]]> that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me. 21 So went the present<[[04503|minchah]]> over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.</Ref> We will see this word used again when Joseph's brothers bring him a gift to appease him.<Ref>Genesis 43:11 And their father Israel said unto them, If [it must be] so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present <[[04503|minchah]]>, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:</Ref>

The first time we see the word [[burnt offering]]<Ref name="olah">{{05930}}</Ref> used is when Noah brings an offering<Ref>[[Genesis 8]]:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings <05930> on the altar.</Ref> to an altar.<Ref name="mizbeach">{{04196}}</Ref>. The term olah, translated [[burnt offering]],<Ref name="olah">{{05930}}</Ref> will be used again by Abraham and Isaac but also throughout [[Exodus]] and the [[Torah]].

The word ''mizbeach'' is always translated altar<Ref name="mizbeach">{{04196}}</Ref> and is from Zabach meaning ''to sacrifice or offer''.<Ref name="zabach">{{02076}}</Ref>

Sacrifices that are called [[burnt offering]]s have a purpose and a functional value within society.

=== Kinds of sacrifice ===

There are two kinds of sacrifices. There are those we are forced to make or force others to make and then there are those sacrifices we choose to make out of love for others.

=== Saved by the blood ===

The sacrifice of Christ was a voluntary sacrifice of Himself that others "might be saved".<Ref name="might">John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him "might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."
: [[John 5]]:34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved."
: [[1 Thessalonians 2]]:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, ...: 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost."
: [[2 Thessalonians 2]]:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."</Ref>

People often turn the "sacrifice of Christ" and "the blood of Jesus" into a repeated sound bite, a religious chant, just hollow words often used to merely conjure up an emotional feeling or mental verification of their own self-righteousness. But they do not understand the true meaning of His [[blood]] nor even have the conversation that they might be saved.<Ref name="might"></Ref>

They want you to repeat those favorite ''religious phrases'' because of the ideas they associate with them. That is often merely their faith in an idea or their [[ideology]] or a religious doctrine resulting from their [[private interpretation]], but that may not be a [[Sound Doctrine]].

If they did understand the true meaning of ''His blood sacrifice'' they would [[repent]] of their own selfish deeds of [[iniquity]] and [[covetous practices]] which have always [[Corban|made the word of God to none effect]]. They would [[repent]] and [[seek]] the [[kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]].

But we do not see them doing that. They do not even want to have the conversation about what that looks like or what it does not include.

They do not become [[doers of the Word]] nor ''keepers of His commandments.''<Ref>John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
: John 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. </Ref>

Many [[modern Christians]], instead of laying down their life daily like Christ taught, remain [[workers of iniquity]], often [[bite|biting]] one another, saying "[[Lord Lord|Lord, Lord]]", but not doing what Christ said to do. They do not want to see the truth about themselves nor that voluntary sacrifice made by Christ so that they "might be saved"<Ref name="might"></Ref> but they only want to say the words, reciting their favorite religious phrases which have become a [[stumblingblock]] and a [[snare]] because those words and phrases are the [[idols]] of their [[false religion]].

They say they accept the ''blood of Christ'' but in truth they are far from Him. They go to blind guides for they prefer the darkness over the light of truth.

They take His name in vain when they say they are Christian but choose to not do as he said. The sacrifice of Christ is real but their faith in it is false. We know this by what they do, by their [[covetous practices]] and by their hatred of the light of the truth.

=== Sacrifice the lie ===

Like the [[Pharisees]] who said they had [[Moses]] but who did not know him, the [[modern Christian]] says they trust in the blood of Christ but still won't let go of their [[Corban]], their [[entitlements]], and their [[cities of blood]] in order to attend to the [[weightier matters]] through the daily [[sacrifice]] by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]].

Can we give up the [[idolatry]] of modern [[religion]] to receive the truth of the gospel of the [[Kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]]?

Can we give up our will in order to do God's will?

Can we give up pride for humility?

Can we give up comfort and convenience for righteousness?

Many people give up [[Rights|rights]] in exchange for [[Benefits|benefits]] and eat the [[dainties]] of rulers at his [[table]] which has always [[degenerate]]d the [[masses]] and is a [[snare]].

=== Blood is life ===

In some ancient cultures domestic animals were part of the life blood of society.

The phrase ''life blood of society'' is a metaphor that expresses the idea that owning domestic animals is an essential element to survival in society.

Were the [[Altars]] of ancient societies and the ritual killing of animals just an [[allegory]] and [[metaphor]] of customs that actually had a practical social purpose? Were the altars of [[Clay and Stone]] symbols of systems that provided a social service that bound society together?

This was understood by the [[Essenes]] who read the [[Torah]]. They understood the [[Sophistry |Sophistry of Sacrifice]].

Even the sacrifice of the [[Red Heifer]] was merely a [[metaphor]] for foreign aid.
The only true sovereign is God but God has given us choice from the beginning. We may eat from, or be guided by, one of two [[Trees]]. One is the Tree of Life and the other of our own Knowledge of Good and Evil. [[Gods]] are ''ruling judges''. Will we wait upon the LORD or serve other gods by making [[CCC|Contracts, Covenants and Constitutions]] with them to obtain their [[Grace]] and [[Benefits]]?

If we join "a federation [which] may result in the sacrifice of sovereignty", our personal right to [[choose]], or our liberty of choice we may be required to [[sacrifice]] or [[employ|serve]] the ''[[gods]] many'' of the [[World]]. That service and [[fealty|allegiance]] comes in many forms including taxation, military service, and even service in ''civilian work projects''.

Have we sacrificed our God-given liberty for the comfort and [[dainties]] provided by rulers - the [[wages of unrighteousness]]?

Have we looked to be [[Saved by]] [[Benefactors]] of the [[World]] and the ''[[Fathers]] of the earth'' who with [[One purse]] take from each of our neighbors bringing us closer to damnation as [[Merchandise]] through our [[Covetous Practices]]?

Have we returned to the [[Bondage]] of [[Egypt]] in a [[Corvee]] system through a [[Corban]] that makes the word of God to none effect like the ''pig returning to [[the mire]]''?

== Saved by ==

What are we really [[Saved by]]?

Christ died that we "might be saved"<Ref name="might"></Ref> but not without our [[repent]]ance.

Do we have real [[Faith]] in Christ without [[Probity]] of [[The Way]] of Christ who came to serve and save others?

Are we gathering to save others or just ourselves?

Do we [[love]] others as much as ourselves? Do we value other people's life as much as we value our own?

Is not our [[Faith]] dead without the works of Jesus Christ in our life?

If we do not daily [[sacrifice]] for others in service of [[righteousness]] then we do not have true [[faith]] in Christ or [[The Way]] and we are not saved by His [[grace]].

== God will give ==

[[Exodus 6]]:4 "And I have also established my covenant with them, to [[give]]<Ref name="nathan">{{05414}}</Ref> them the land of [[Canaan]], the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers."

The word ''give''<Ref name="nathan">{{05414}}</Ref> in verse 4 appears in a variety of forms throughout the Bible. In [[Deuteronomy 7]]:3 we see '''Marriages'''<Ref name="marriages">{{02859}}</Ref> is not ChetTavNun חָתַן‎ chathan but is TavTavChetTavNun תִתְחַתֵּ֖ן ṯiṯ-ḥat-tên which is about making [[CCC|contracts, covenants and constitutions]] with them in ''[[Spirit and Truth]]'' because of the ''[[double Tav]]''.

In [[Deuteronomy 7]]:5 we see a word for ''destroy'' but not from ''shamad'' ShinMemDalet<Ref name="shamad">{{08045}}</Ref> nor ''Abad'' AlefBeitDelat<Ref name="Abad">{{06}}</Ref> nor ''charam'' ChetReishMem<Ref name="charam">{{02763}}</Ref> which are the most common Hebrew words translated ''destroy''.

Here the word destroy reated to [[altars]] ''nathats'' formed with the Hebrew letters NunTavTzadik.<Ref name="NunTavTzadik">{{05422}}</Ref> But in the text we see tit-tō-ṣū (תִּתֹּ֔צוּ) formed with the letters '''TavTav'''TzadikVav, again containing the '''[[Double Tav]]''' which means to not just ''destroy'' the form of their altars with violence but with the "[[Spirit and Truth]]" which only comes with faith in [[The Way]] of God which is the way of [[righteousness]].

In [[Mark 7]]:10-13 We see [[Corban]], or (Sacrifice), should be a gift to God through charity as explained by [[John the Baptist]], not by [[force]] like [[Herod]] and the [[Pharisees]]. Even [[King Saul]] [[foolish]]ly thought he could obtain the sacrifices of the people by [[force]] and reap the same results; that is to say ( רצון לתת Ratzon La’Tet), "by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free of charge.” But Samuel told him that was [[foolish]] and for that reason his kingdom would not stand.

To take away the right of your neighbor to choose to give in the liberty of true [[charity]] is the [[foolish]]ness and [[covetous practices]] that will entangle the people in the [[yoke of bondage]].<Ref>[[Galatians 5]]:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.</Ref>

There are well over a hundred variations in the Hebrew text for this word ''give''<Ref name="nathan">{{05414}}</Ref>. In [[Exodus 6]]:4 and 8 we see the word La’tet is written Lamed-Tav-Tav לתת, also with a ''double Tav'' and us said to mean ''to give'' which includes the will ''to receive on condition''. We see the words ''I will give'' assigned the Strongs number [[05414]] which is normally ''nâthan'', NunTavNun<Ref name="nathan">{{05414}}</Ref> but in the text of verse 8 we see a second variation of La’tet appear as ''wənāṯattî'' with the letters VavNunTavTavYod (וְנָתַתִּ֨י) with another ''[[double Tav]]'' which means that Israel must be willing to accept the gift on the conditions of their conformity to the [[righteousness]] of God in "[[Spirit and Truth]]".

Minister call attendance

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Notes:
* There is nothing legalistic about a minister attending the Minister Call.
* Call attendance is only one possible way a minister is staying connected with other ministers (being plugged into the larger body).
* It is every bit as important that congregants hold their ministers accountable as it is for ministers to maintain relationships with each other.
* The call attendance graph is simply a tool that offers a superficial indication of a minister's connection to the larger body. If your minister does not attend the call regularly, touch base with him or her to verify that they are still maintaining a strong connection with the larger body.

== Possible attendees: ==

Gregory Williams - Minister: His Church at Summer Lake, Brother: Order at White Rock 
Paul Bethke - Minister: His Church at Lake Country, Brother: Order at White Rock 
Claude Emerson - Minister: His Church at Skytop Mountain 
Justice Garduno - Minister: His Church Holy Sacrament 
Michael Davis - Minister: His Church at James River, Trustee: Friends of His Church North Dakota 
Caleb Eaton - Minister: His Church at Ouichita, Trustee Friends of His Church Missions, Manager: Mobile Ministries, LLC 
Abraham Vargas - Minister: His Church at The Angels 
Jeffrey Neubacher - Minister: His Church at Great Lakes 
Douglas Scofield - Minister: His Church at New River, Trustee: Friends of His Church Missions 
Claude Memma - Minister: His Church at Blue Lake 
Daniel Willms - Minister: His Church at Sanders 
Tom Creed - Trustee: Friends of His Church Missions, Manager: Mobile Ministries, LLC 
Dan Bezuidenhout - Replaced Claude Memma as Minister: His Church at Blue Lake 
Mark Vernuccio - Trustee: Friends of His Church North Dakota, Replaced Dan Bezuidenhout as Minister: His Church at Blue Lake 
Terry Hardman - Trustee: Friends of His Church at Summer Lake 
Isabelle Evans - Trustee: Friends of His Church North Dakota 

== We have a regularly scheduled Minister's call every Monday. Here is a record of attendees. ==

1/1/2018: Caleb, Doug, Gregory, Claude E, Paul 
1/8/2018: Caleb, Tom, Abraham, Claude E, Doug, Gregory, Jeffrey, Paul 
1/15/2018: Caleb, Mark, Doug, Claude E, Tom, Paul 
1/22/2018: Caleb, Daniel, Gregory, Claude E, Tom, Paul 
1/29/2018: Tom, Caleb, Gregory, Doug, Jeffrey, Claude E 
2/5/2018: Jeffrey, Caleb, Claude E, Gregory, Paul 
2/12/2018: Caleb, Claude E, Abraham, Jeffrey, Gregory, Doug, Tom, Paul 
2/19/2018: Caleb, Mark, Gregory, Claude E, Doug, Paul, Jeffrey 
2/26/2018: Jeffrey, Claude E, Mark, Caleb, Gregory, Abraham, Tom, Paul 
3/5/2018: Gregory, Tom, Doug, Claude E, Caleb, Paul 
3/12/2018: Caleb, Jeffrey, Gregory, Tom, Claude E, Paul 
3/19/2018: Caleb, Gregory, Doug, Claude E, Tom, Paul 
3/26/2018: Caleb, Abraham, Gregory, Tom, Claude E, Paul 
4/2/2018: Claude E, Caleb, Mark, Abraham, Doug, Gregory, Paul, Tom 
4/9/2018: Caleb, Claude E, Gregory, Doug, Paul Tom 
4/16/2018: Mark, Caleb, Claude E, Tom, Paul 
4/23/2018: Gregory, Paul, Claude E, Abraham, Caleb, Mark 
4/30/2018: Paul, Claude E, Tom, Caleb, Mark, Gregory, Abraham, Doug, Claude M 
5/7/2018: Daniel, Caleb, Gregory, Claude E, Doug, Tom, Paul 
5/14/2018: Doug, Claude M, Daniel, Paul, Claude E, Tom 
5/21/2018: Abraham, Daniel, Doug, Caleb, Claude E, Tom, Paul, Gregory, Claude M 
5/28/2018: Paul, Tom, Doug, Claude E, Caleb, Gregory, Claude M, Mark 
6/4/2018: Abraham, Mark, Daniel, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Claude E, Gregory, Doug, Mark 
6/11/2018: Paul, Gregory, Doug, Claude E, Tom 
6/18/2018: Abraham, Paul, Tom, Claude E, Abraham, Gregory, Daniel, Mark 
6/25/2018: Tom, Paul, Doug, Claude E, Gregory 
7/2/2018: Mark, Tom, Claude E, Doug, Gregory, Abraham, Claude M 
7/9/2018: Claude E, Gregory, Abraham, Daniel, Mark, Paul, Tom, Doug 
7/16/2018: Paul, Claude, Doug, Abraham, Tom, Gregory, Daniel 
7/23/2018: Gregory, Tom, Paul, Claude E, Doug 
7/30/2018: Claude E, Paul, Doug, Tom, Abraham, Daniel 
8/6/2018: Claude E, Paul, Tom, Gregory, Abraham, Daniel 
8/13/2018: Paul, Tom, Claude E, Doug, Gregory, Abraham, Daniel 
8/20/2018: Paul, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Claude E 
8/27/2018: Claude E, Paul, Gregory, Daniel 
9/3/2018: Gregory, Claude E 
9/10/2018: Paul, Caleb, Tom, Doug, Claude E, Abraham, Mark, Gregory 
9/17/2018: Doug, Paul, Tom, Claude E, Mark, Gregory, Abraham, Daniel, Mark 
9/24/2018: Paul, Claude E, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Daniel, Mark 
10/1/2018: Paul, Claude E, Tom, Doug, Mark, Abraham, Gregory 
10/8/2018: Paul, Claude E, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Abraham, Caleb, Daniel, Claude M 
10/15/2018: Claude E, Daniel, Doug, Paul, Tom, Gregory 
10/22/2018: Paul, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Claude, Caleb, Abraham 
10/29/2018: Doug, Caleb, Mark, Paul, Tom, Gregory, Claude E 
11/5/2018: Doug, Gregory, Caleb, Abraham, Tom, Paul 
11/12/2018: Claude E, Caleb, Tom, Paul, Gregory, Doug, Daniel, Mark 
11/19/2018: Gregory, Claude E, Mark, Paul, Caleb 
11/26/2018: Dan, Doug, Caleb, Mark, Gregory, Tom, Paul, Abraham, Claude E 
12/3/2018: Doug, Gregory, Claude E, Caleb, Paul 
12/10/2018: Claude E, Caleb, Doug, Gregory, Paul 
12/17/2018: Caleb, Tom, Gregory, Claude E, Paul 
12/24/2018: Claude E, Tom 
12/31/2018: Claude E, Tom, Doug 
1/7/2019: Claude E, Abraham, Gregory, Paul, Caleb, Doug, Tom 
1/14/2019: Abraham, Doug, Gregory, Caleb, Dan, Paul, Mark, Tom, Claude E 
1/21/2019: Doug, Gregory, Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Tom, Caleb 
1/28/2019: Abraham, Dan, Doug, Mark, Claude E, Gregory, Caleb, Paul 
2/4/2019: Gregory, Paul, Claude E, Doug, Tom, Caleb, Dan 
2/11/2019: Abraham, Doug, Gregory, Tom, Paul, Caleb, Dan 
2/18/2019: Tom, Abraham, Gregory, Doug, Claude E, Dan, Paul, Caleb 
2/25/2019: Doug, Gregory, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Claude E 
3/4/2019: Mark, Claude E, Gregory, Tom, Paul, Caleb, Dan 
3/11/2019: Claude E, Doug, Paul, Dan, Gregory, Tom, Caleb 
3/18/2019: Claude E, Mark, Paul, Tom, Dan, Caleb, Gregory 
3/25/2019: Tom, Gregory, Paul, Caleb, Claude E 
4/1/2019: Paul, Gregory, Claude E, Doug, Caleb, Tom 
4/8/2019: Gregory, Paul, Dan, Claude E, Tom, Caleb, Doug 
4/15/2019: Claude E, Paul, Mark, Tom, Doug, Caleb, Greg 
4/22/2019: Tom, Paul, Mark, Doug, Gregory, Claude E, Caleb 
4/29/2019: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Caleb 
5/6/2019: Abraham, Claude E, Mark, Doug, Tom, Paul, Caleb, Gregory 
5/13/2019: Paul, Claude E, Gregory, Caleb, Doug, Tom 
5/20/2019: Claude E, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Tom, Gregory, Doug 
5/27/2019: Claude E, Doug, Tom, Gregory, Caleb, Paul 
6/3/2019: Claude E, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Gregory 
6/10/2019: Abraham, Gregory, Claude E, Paul, Tom, Caleb 
6/17/2019: Abraham, Gregory, Doug, Paul, Claude E, Caleb, Tom 
6/24/2019: Abraham, Doug, Caleb, Paul, Gregory, Claude E, Tom, Dan 
7/1/2019: Claude E, Abraham, Tom, Doug, Caleb, Gregory 
7/8/2019: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Claude E, Tom, Gregory 
7/15/2019: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Mark, Gregory, Caleb, Claude E 
7/22/2019: Paul, Caleb, Doug, Gregory, Tom, Abraham 
7/29/2019: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Mark, Caleb, Tom 
8/5/2019: Abraham, Tom, Claude E, Mark, Caleb, Paul, Gregory 
8/12/2019: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Caleb, Gregory 
8/19/2019: Claude E, Caleb, Gregory, Tom, Paul 
8/26/2019: Claude E, Tom, Caleb 
9/2/2019: --- 
9/9/2019: Gregory, Paul, Daniel, Caleb, Claude E, Mark, Doug, Tom 
9/16/2019: Gregory, Paul, Claude E, Tom, Daniel, Caleb, Doug 
9/23/2019: Gregory, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Tom 
9/30/2019: Gregory, Paul, Tom, Daniel, Doug, Claude E, Caleb 
10/7/2019: Gregory, Paul, Claude E, Caleb, Tom 
10/14/2019: Doug, Gregory, Paul, Tom, Claude E, Daniel, Caleb 
10/21/2019: Doug, Paul, Gregory, Claude E, Caleb 
10/28/2019: Tom, Paul, Caleb, Gregory, Doug 
11/4/2019: Claude E, Paul, Gregory, Daniel, Tom, Doug, Caleb 
11/11/2019: Gregory, Daniel, Doug, Tom, Paul, Caleb 
11/18/2019: Doug, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Claude E, Gregory 
11/25/2019: Claude E, Paul, Tom, Gregory, Caleb, Doug 
12/2/2019: Claude E, Paul, Mark, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Caleb 
12/9/2019: Paul, Caleb, Gregory, Doug 
12/16/2019: Claude E, Paul, Caleb, Doug, Gregory, Tom 
12/23/2019: Claude E, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Gregory 
12/30/2019: Paul, Doug, Tom, Gregory, Caleb, Claude E 
1/6/2020: Gregory, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Doug, Claude E 
1/13/2020: Doug, Claude E, Gregory, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Mark, Dan B 
1/20/2020: Claude E, Doug, Dan B, Caleb, Paul, Gregory, Tom, Mark 
1/27/2020: Caleb, Doug, Tom, Claude E, Dan B, Gregory, Paul 
2/3/2020: Paul, Tom, Dan B, Gregory, Doug, Claude E, Caleb 
2/10/2020: Paul, Dan B, Claude E, Gregory, Doug, Caleb 
2/17/2020: Dan B, Tom, Paul, Doug, Claude E, Caleb 
2/24/2020: Dan B, Doug, Paul, Caleb, Greg 
3/2/2020: Paul, Doug, Abraham, Claude E, Tom, Caleb 
3/9/2020: Abraham, Paul, Claude E, Gregory, Tom, Caleb, Doug, Dan B 
3/16/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Dan B 
3/23/2020: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Tom, Doug, Gregory, Mark, Caleb 
3/30/2020: Doug, Tom, Abraham, Caleb, Gregory, Claude E, Paul, Dan B 
4/6/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Doug, Tom, Caleb, Gregory, Dan B 
4/13/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Gregory, Doug, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Dan B 
4/20/2020: Claude E, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Abraham, Dan B, Gregory, Doug 
4/27/2020: Claude E, Tom, Doug, Dan B, Gregory, Caleb, Paul 
5/4/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Tom, Gregory 
5/11/2020: Abraham, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Gregory 
5/18/2020: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Gregory, Dan B 
5/25/2020: Doug, Tom, Caleb, Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Dan B, Gregory 
6/1/2020: Claude E, Tom, Paul, Caleb, Gregory, Dan B, Doug, Abraham 
6/8/2020: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Doug, Tom, Gregory, Dan B, Caleb 
6/15/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Tom, Paul, Gregory, Doug, Caleb 
6/22/2020: Abraham, Caleb, Paul, Dan B 
6/29/3030: Doug, Tom, Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Gregory, Dan B, Caleb 
7/6/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Doug, Tom, Caleb, Gregory 
7/13/2020: Paul, Doug, Abraham, Tom, Caleb, Gregory 
7/20/2020: Doug, Claude E, Paul, Caleb, Mark, Gregory, Doug 
7/27/2020: Tom, Caleb, Claude E, Abraham, Tom, Dan B, Paul, Gregory 
8/3/2020: Abraham, Paul, Claude E, Gregory, Caleb 
8/10/2020: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Mark, Caleb, Gregory, Claude E 
8/17/2020: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Caleb, Gregory, Mark, Claude E 
8/24/2020: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Gregory, Caleb, Mark 
8/31/2020: Doug, Tom, Abraham, Caleb, Claude E, Dan B, Mark 
9/7/2020: Claude E, Abraham, Gregory, Paul, Dan B, Mark 
9/14/2020: Abraham, Doug, Caleb, Claude E, Gregory, Paul, Mark 
9/21/2020: Abraham, Claude E, Gregory, Paul, Caleb, Mark, Dan B 
9/28/2020: Tom, Doug, Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Terry, Gregory, Dan B, Mark 
10/5/2020: Claude E, Paul, Mark, Caleb, Doug, Gregory, Dan B, Abraham, Terry 
10/12/2020: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Mark, Doug, Gregory, Caleb, Dan B 
10/19/2020: Abraham, Terry, Paul, Caleb, Doug, Gregory 
10/26/2020: Claude E, Abraham, Mark, Paul, Caleb, Dan B, Gregory, Terry, Doug 
11/2/2020: Tom, Doug, Caleb, Abraham, Claude E, Gregory, Paul, Mark 
11/9/2020: Abraham, Mark, Dan B, Gregory, Caleb, Doug, Terry, Parul 
11/16/2020: Claude E, Paul, Abraham, Doug, Gregory, Caleb, Mark, Dan B 
11/23/2020: Abraham, Paul, Gregory, Mark, Caleb, Claude E, Terry 
11/30/2020: Tom, Caleb, Abraham, Mark, Doug, Paul, Gregory, Claude E 
12/7/2020: Abraham, Paul, Claude, Daniel, Caleb, Doug, Mark, Gregory 
12/14/2020: Abraham, Paul, Claude, Doug, Terry, Mark, Caleb, Gregory, Daniel 
12/21/2020: Abraham, Paul, Claude, Mark, Caleb, Terry, Greg, Doug 
12/28/2020: Tom, Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Terry, Greg 
1/4/2021: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Mark, Claude, Greg, Daniel, Doug 
1/11/2021: Abraham, Paul, Greg, Caleb, Mark, Tom, Doug 
1/18/2021: Abraham, Paul, Claude E, Greg, Caleb, Mark, Daniel, Terry 
1/25/2021: Tom, Caleb, Claude E, Paul, Abraham, Greg, Daniel, Mark, Doug 
2/1/2021: Paul, Abraham, Claude E, Caleb, Greg, Doug 
2/8/2021: Abraham, Caleb, Mark, Greg, Terry, Paul, Claude E, Doug, Daniel 
2/15/2021: Paul, Claude, Terry, Abraham, Caleb, Greg, Daniel, Mark, Doug 
2/22/2021: Abraham, Mark, Terry, Caleb, Paul, Greg, Doug 
3/1/2021: Abraham, Paul, Claude, Mark, Caleb, Daniel; Greg; Doug 
3/8/2021: Paul, Abraham, Doug, Claude E, Daniel, Mark, Caleb, Tom 
3/15/2021: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Greg, Tom 
3/22/2021: Claude E, Paul, Abraham, Caleb, Greg 
3/29/2021: Tom, Doug, Caleb, Abraham, Paul, Greg, Terry, Mark, Claude E, Daniel 
4/5/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Mark, Caleb, Greg 
4/12/2021: Abraham, Caleb, Paul, Mark, Greg, Claude E, Daniel 
4/19/2021: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Doug, Greg, Claude E, Mark, Daniel 
4/26/2021: Paul, Mark, Tom, Caleb, Greg 
5/3/2021: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Terry, Mark, Greg, Doug, Daniel 
5/10/2021: Paul, Abraham, Greg, Mark, Caleb, Terry 
5/17/2021: Abraham, Mark, Caleb, Claude E, Paul, Greg 
5/24/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Terry, Mark, Caleb, Greg, Tom, Mark, Daniel, Doug 
5/31/2021: Tom, Claude E, Paul, Mark, Greg, Daniel, Doug 
6/7/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Mark, Doug, Tom, Caleb, Greg 
6/14/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Tom, Doug, Daniel, Greg, Mark 
6/21/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Mark, Caleb, Tom, Daniel, Greg 
6/28/2021: Doug, Tom, Abraham, Caleb, Paul, Mark, Claude E, Terry Greg 
7/5/2021: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Tom, Terry, Greg 
7/12/2021: Paul, Abraham, Mark, Tom, Caleb, Claude E, Greg 
7/19/2021: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Mark, Claude E, Terry, Caleb, Greg, Tom 
7/26/2021: Paul, Abraham, Caleb, Doug, Mark, Claude E, Tom, Greg 
8/2/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Doug, Paul, Daniel, Tom, Terry, Caleb, Mark 
8/9/2021: Paul, Abraham, Caleb, Mark, Doug, Tom, Greg, Claude E, Terry 
8/16/2021: Terry, Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Doug, Tom, Greg, Caleb, Mark 
8/23/2021: Abraham, Paul, Terry, Doug, Claude E, Caleb, Tom, Mark, Greg, Daniel 
8/30/2021: Abraham, Paul, Terry, Tom, Caleb, Greg, Claude E, Caleb 
9/6/2021: Abraham, Paul, Claude E, Tom, Greg 
9/13/2021: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Tom, Caleb, Claude E, Greg, Terry 
9/20/2021: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Terry, Greg, Claude E, Mark 
9/27/2021: Caleb, Tom, Abraham, Paul, Daniel, Doug, Mark, Greg, Claude E 
10/4/2021: Abraham, Paul, Terry, Greg, Claude E, Doug, Mark, Caleb, Tom 
10/11/2021: Abraham, Paul, Terry, Tom, Doug, Claude E, Caleb, Greg 
10/18/2021: Abraham, Claude E, Doug, Greg, Daniel, Paul, Mark 
10/25/2021: Doug, Tom, Abraham, Paul, Greg, Terry, Caleb, Claude E 
11/1/2021: Abraham, Terry, Paul, Greg, Claude E, Tom, Doug, Daniel, Caley 
11/8/2021: Abraham, Paul, Claude E, Mark, Caleb, Tom, Greg 
11/15/2021: Abraham, Paul, Terry, Doug, Caleb, Greg, Daniel, Tom, Mark, Claud E 
11/22/2021: Claude E, Abraham, Caleb, Paul, Mark, Greg, Terry 
11/29/2021: Caleb, Tom, Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Mark, Doug, Daniel 
12/6/2021: Abraham, Terry, Paul, Doug, Mark, Daniel, Caleb, Claude E 
12/13/2021: Paul, Doug, Caleb, Tom, Mark, Greg, Terry, Claude E 
12/20/2021: Claude E, Greg, Paul, Caleb, Doug, Tom, Terry 
12/27/2021: Abraham, Doug, Caleb, Paul, Mark, Greg, Tom, Claude E, Terry 
1/3/2022: Caleb, Paul, Tom, Greg, Mark, Doug, Claude E, Terry 
1/10/2022: Terry, Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Caleb, Greg, Doug 
1/17/2022: Paul, Abraham, Greg, Terry, Caleb, Claude E 
1/24/2022: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Terry, Doug, Tom, Mark, Caleb, Greg 
1/31/2022: Abraham, Caleb, Doug, Paul, Mark, Terry, Greg, Claude E 
2/7/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Mark, Tom, Caleb, Greg, Terry, Claude E 
2/14/2022: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Mark, Terry, Tom, Doug, Claude E, Greg 
2/21/2022: Abraham, Doug, Claude, Paul, Terry, Mark, Caleb, Tom, Greg 
2/28/2022: Abraham, Claude E, Doug, Greg, Caleb, Paul, Terry 
3/7/2022: Paul, Greg, Tom, Caleb, Terry, Claude, Terry 
3/14/2022: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Terry, Tom, Greg, Mark, Doug, Claude E 
3/21/2022: Paul, Doug, Caleb, Greg, Mark, Claude E 
3/28/2022: Tom, Caleb, Doug, Abraham, Paul, Mark, Greg, Claude E, Terry 
4/4/2022: Paul, Abraham, Tom, Caleb, Terry, Claude E, Greg 
4/11/2022: Abraham, Paul, Tom, Caleb, Doug, Greg, Mark 
4/18/2022: Paul, Doug, Claud E, Caleb, Mark, Tom, Greg 
4/25/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Greg, Caleb, Tom, Claude E 
5/2/2022: Abraham, Claude E, Doug, Paul, Tom, Terry, Mark, Caleb, Greg 
5/9/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Tom, Terry, Greg 
5/16/2022: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Doug, Isabelle, Greg, Mark, Caleb, Tom 
5/23/2022: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Mark, Caleb, Isabelle, Greg 
5/30/2022: Abraham, Paul, Isabelle, Doug, Terry, Greg 
6/6/2022: Abraham, Paul, Claude, Isabelle, Doug, Caleb, Tom, Greg, Mark 
6/13/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Isabelle, Claude E, Tom, Greg, Terry 
6/20/2022: Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Mark, Terry, Greg, Tom 
6/27/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Mark, Greg, Claude E, Caleb 
7/4/2022: Doug, Greg, Paul, Claude E 
7/11/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Isabelle, Tom, Claude, Greg, Terry 
7/18/2022: Paul, Abraham, Mark, Caleb, Tom, Isabelle, Claude E, Terry 
7/25/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Tom, TGerry, Claude E, Greg 
8/1/2022: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Doug, Greg, Tom, Caleb, Terry 
8/8/2022: Paul, Abraham, Doug, Mark, Isabelle, Tom, Caleb, Greg, Claude, Terry 
8/15/2022: Claude E, Abraham, Doug, Isabelle, Caleb, Paul, Mark, Terry 
8/22/2022: Abraham, Paul, Michael, Doug, Greg, Isabelle, Caleb, Terry 
8/29/2022: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Isabelle, Tom, Greg, Caleb, Claude, Mark 
9/5/2022: Paul, Isabelle, Claude E, Tom, Doug, Greg, Mark 
9/12/2022: Abraham, Mark, Claude E, Isabelle, Caleb, Paul, Tom, Terry 
9/19/2022: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Caleb, Isabelle, Tom 
9/26/2022: Tom, Doug, Caleb, Abraham, Paul, Isabelle, Greg, Claude E 
10/3/2022: Paul, Abraham, Caleb, Doug, Claude E 
10/10/2022: Paul, Isabelle, Mark, Caleb, Doug, Claude, Tom, Greg 
10/17/2022: Paul, Claude E, Tom, Doug, Caleb, Isabelle, Greg 
10/24/2022: Doug, Caleb, Tom, Claude E, Isabelle, Paul, Greg 
10/31/2022: Doug, Tom, Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Mark, Isabelle, Greg, Caleb 
11/7/2022: Abraham, Paul, Mark, Tom, Greg, Caleb, Isabelle, Terry, Mark, Claude E 
11/14/2022: Doug, Tom, Paul, Abraham, Mark, Caleb, Claude E, Greg 
11/21/2022: Doug, Caleb, Tom, Abraham, Paul, Claude E, Greg, Terry 
11/28/2022: Claude E, Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Tom, Isabelle, Mark, Terry 
12/5/2022: Doug, Caleb, Tom, Paul, Abraham, Isabelle, Terry, Greg, Claude E, Mark 
12/12/2022: Paul, Abraham, Caleb, Isabelle, Mark, Claude E, Greg, Terry 
12/19/2022: Paul, Claude E, Doug, Caleb, Greg, Terry, Tom 
12/26/2022: Paul, Abraham, Doug, Isabell, Caleb, Tom, Mark, Claude E, Greg 
1/2/2023: Doug, Caleb, Tom, Abraham, Claude E, Paul, Isabelle, Abraham, Greg, Terry 
1/9/2023: Abraham, Paul, Caleb, Doug, Mark, Isabelle, Mark 
1/16/2023: Paul, Claude E, Tom, Caleb, Mark, Greg, Doug 
1/23/2023: Abraham, Paul, Doug, Greg, Isabelle, Claude E 
1/30/2023: Paul, Abraham, Tom, Isabelle, Doug, Greg, Claude E 
2/6/2023: Abraham, Doug, Paul, Claude, Isabelle, Caleb, Mark, Greg, Tom 
2/13/2023: Claude E, Paul, Tom, Isabelle 
2/20/2023: Abraham, Paul, Isabelle, Caleb, Greg, Tom, Claude E, Doug 
2/27/2023: Paul, Abraham, Doug, Isabelle, Mark, Caleb, Tom, Greg 

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== Ranking participation ==

If individuals who claim to be ministers do not participate in the desire to know the other ministers then they are not really sitting down in "ranks" of 50 and 100 as [[Christ]] '''[[commanded]]''' His [[disciples]] to do.

"Rank" is from πρασιά prasia meaning plots, ranks or divisions. Congregations are symposia or small companies. They are not "ranks" unless the ministers connect their congregations with other congregations

Everything must be voluntary but recognition is also a voluntary choice of the overseers and fellow ministers.

Recognition is based on what we are seeing of the works of our fellow ministers.

It is based on participation in one form or another.

* Are you active in the congregation you serve and in your congregation of ministers and the Church as a whole?
* Are they connecting their congregation with other congregations or isolating their congregations???
* Are they isolating themselves from other ministers?
* Are they working out differences or imposing or projecting expectation in other ministers.

We do not have the right to regulate one another but if we are to be in "one accord" we will be expected to sit down together, openly share our thoughts,... we should be able to speak our minds and free to disagree or agree openly.

What we do and what we choose to not do is our "works".

* Everyone can see these emails. They are a part *of the record of participation.
* There are lots of things to do and letting us know what we are doing.
* Helping maintain the websites,
* Adding substantial material or just making things work is evidence of works.
* Adding more congregants to your local groups.
* Talking with others whole contact and letting us know how that is going.
* Checking on one another and letting us know the results of conversations on church matters.
* If a minister is not participating with other ministers we need to check on their congregation.
* Keeping us as a group informed about the life in your congregation and sometimes the problem is participation in the ranks.
* You can tell us what is going on in your local congregation. If you add the word "Report" with a designation like "HCSL" in the subject line we can add it to your annual reports.

Like the call attendance page what you do or do not do becomes a part of your testimony of participation in the tens and the quest for the kingdom. If you cannot always make the call or have a representative in attendance for you then we would like to see other forms of participation to make up the difference.

If we see a pattern of unwillingness to participate in the pattern of 10, 50, 100 commanded by Christ and followed by the early Church our recognition of an individual as a participating and active minister of the Church falls into question and may be withdrawn.

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