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We were to live by love and charity not by force nor oppression of our neighbor through covetous practices over our neighbors' property through men who called themselves Benefactors but exercise authority[1] like most of the Modern Christians do with their modern Corban.
The early Church "fathers" as some call them had a daily ministration provided by Pure Religion so that Christians did not have to go to the "Fathers" of the earth whose welfare was a snare.
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See also The_Liturgy_of_the_Church.

Liturgy of the lost

What is liturgy today and what did it mean at the time of Moses[2]? More importantly, what was the liturgy of Christ?

The Hebrew word that most often accepted as being synonymous with the meaning liturgy was abodah (עבודה)[2]. The first time it appears in the text is Genesis:

This was Laban saying Jacob will serve him for 14 years total, 7 of those will be working off debt.

In the next verse there are several versions of the root word עָבַ֧דְ ‘abad and the emphasized עֲבֹדָה֙ abodah:

Genesis 30:26 "Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I have served<עָבַ֧דְתִּי ‘āḇaḏtî>[3] thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service <עֲבֹדָתִ֖י ‘ăḇōḏāṯî> which I have done thee."</Ref> referencing the labor of Jacob for Laban when he was indentured to his service<עֲבַדְתִּֽיךָ׃ ‘ăḇaḏtîḵā>.

The next time Abodah or avodah is scene was is Exodus.

All these words include the ideas of labour, service, to do, perform, to work, serve, and even include bondage. And can these words be justifiably equated with the word liturgy under a modern vision of the word?

Messing with the words

Just as the Church of Constantine started to distract the people from the fundamentals of the doctrine of Jesus so that over the centuries ideas crept into the doctrines of men until the masses could not even see enough of the truth[4] to even make a comparison.

Marcel Metzger[5] writes about the "History of the Liturgy", pointing to the differences between the Last Supper celebrated by Jesus and a pontifical High Mass at St. Peter's cathedral in Rome!

But do the pompous priests and bootless bishops have in common with the liturgy of Christ ?

Liturgy is defined today as “a prescribed form or set of forms for public religious worship.”[6]

The words leitourgi and leitourgos are from the Greek words λαός / Laos, "the people" and the root ἔργο / ergon meaning "work". Together their meaning can be “public service” and “public servant” respectively. In ancient Greece this leitourgi or public service was financed by the wealthier citizens or even residents of the different city-states.

At first this giving was common in society but over time as the gap between rich and poor grew, for many reasons, there came about an almost a competition to obtain the prestige as the most generous since generosity was a virtue.

Between the 6th and 4th century BC it became more an obligation. The most generous or most competent would often be put in charge of those funds which could be used for public feasts, public works, athletic competitions, or even military expenses from walls to ships.

Societies were altered by turning a blind eye to practice and authority[1] prohibited by the prophets.

New forms for old

In more ancient times the "liturgical class" could include anyone with a patrimony of 10 talents or as little as three but everyone could contribute to gain a measure of prestige at most every level of society by contributing to the needs of society.

Over the centuries the generosity of this giving would rise and fall and with it pride, jealousy and envy. Euergetism (εὐεργετέω in the Greek) was the practice of wealthy individuals in ancient Greco-Roman society of donating their own money to their communities, but to often in exchange for public honors. This philanthropy included the funding of public buildings, festivals, and even the distributions of food or money in hope of obtaining reciprocal popularity to stabilize their position of power in ancient cities.

Private liturgy

The term Euergetism gradually replaced the liturgical term more as a vocabulary change rather than a practice.

A private euergetism to "do good deeds" was derived from the ancient Greek euergetes meaning benefactor. It was common among the Roman Libera res publica but decreased under the liturgical influence of the Imperial Cult of Rome as funded by the spoils of the Caesars.

Julius Caesar overshadowed that giving with vast sums that came from first selling the wives and children of dead Gauls into slavery for a profit. This amoral practice was overlooked by the "masses who became more and more dependent upon the welfare of the State run temples.

Julius Caesar, with the reorganization of the military, made the militia superfluous and with the free bread and circuses from the Temples of Rome the masses further degenerated the social bonds of the once free citizens of the Republic. Many of the wealthy objections to the war crimes of Julius Caesar became silent for the euergetism( εὐεργετέω) had become almost a tax which the slaves sold supplemented.

Civil liturgy

When the Welfare State became the provider of a social safety net for society, society began to change. According to modern AI "The "social safety net" in the Bible was based on family and community responsibility, not government programs. It involved provisions for the poor, widows, and orphans through laws and teachings that required the family unit, extended community, and later the church, to provide for the vulnerable."

But the Welfare State was composed of men of civil law who exercise authority.[1] Gleaning Laws, tithing, freewill offerings, the altars of clay and stone, the service of the Levites.[7] Those men were called benefactors[1] and the fathers of the earth[8] which Jesus warned.[9]

When the state becomes your new Father, the rights of the Paterfamilias diminished. There would be a need for Birth registration[10] to make sure you were entitled to the benefits of the Patronus of the Roman State.

“The real destroyers of the liberties[11] of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” Plutarch

The degeneration[12] of the masses and the rise of Rulers was the result of the benefactors who sought to ruin the once free people who inhabited the Republic. Julius Caesar funded the tables of the Imperial Cult of Rome which included their system of civil Corban just like that system set up by Herod and the Pharisees in Judea.

For the representatives of the Senate to become rulers of the people they simply appealed to their appetite for the benefits and dainties and free bread[13] that should have been for their welfare but were a snare and a trap.

The liturgy of liberty

Some Romans who could still remembered the Libera res publica dreamed of a return to the way of liberty that seemed to come with the promise of the gospel of Christ.

Early Christians shared their wealth according to the perfect law of liberty in a sort of viable republic through a system of fervent charity.[14]

The Greek precept of euergetism(εὐεργετέω) was commonly taught by Christ and his followers.[15] But the right of the state was back in the hand of the people who accepted the responsibility of Pure Religion.

Liturgy of Christ was not about singing and vestments and the smoke and mirrors of modern Christendom. It was about the public servants of the kingdom of God operating a daily ministration of Pure Religion under the perfect law of liberty.

The people gathered in tens provided a source of daily bread at the tables of Christ. The alternative “public servant” of the world of Caesar provided the dainties of a leitourgi or liturgy through a form of public welfare at the tables of rulers that historically was a snare.

The people in the early Church of a viable Republic, the Libera res publica of righteousness understood this distinction. Moses also taught it to Israel and John the Baptist, Christ, and His Apostles taught it to the early Christians.

Throughout the ages this fundamental Christian conflict with the tables of the world that men make for themselves has been blurred and forgotten.[4]

The true worship of God [16] was the caring for one another in faith, hope, and charity by service to the people, for the people and of the people[17] which is love.

Rituals and rites

The real rituals and ceremonies of the Church were established by Christ.

The daily ministration through the practice of Pure Religion to care for the needy of society was clearly one of the basic rituals and ceremonies of the Early Church who would not eat at the tables of rulers for their dainties were deceitful meats.[11]

The Church established by Christ followed the rituals and ceremonies of Christ to fulfill His purposes and the righteousness of God.

The covetous practices of force and fear that leads to fealty makes men merchandise are the antithesis of the rituals and ceremonies laid out in the Sound Doctrines of Christ and His Holy Church.

The liturgy of blood or truth

Constantine's church would unmoor the metaphor of those sayings of the prophets and be ever performing their rituals and ceremonies but never coming to a knowledge of truth.[18]

The blind shall lead the blind[4] and they both fall into a pit of bondage. The modern Church no longer teaches that the covetous practices of legal charity through the state is what made the word of God to none effect.

As an example there was a vast difference between the early baptisms by immersion described in the Acts of the Apostles and the baptisms or Christening of newborns in parishes today.

Metzger[5] also points this out but misses the distinction between the baptism of the Pharisees and Herod that Baptism of John the Baptist which was the leaven of their free bread.

John says he only baptized with water but it is the baptism with fire and the Holy Spirit that is emphasized.[19]

Failing to understand the context of these rituals and ceremonies may make them hollow rather than holy, mindless rather than meaningful.

There was a vast difference between the Corban of the Pharisees and the Corban of Christ, between the "legal charity" of Rome and the fervent charity of Christ's called out, His ekklesia, e.g. His Holy Church.

Even Christening had a purpose that is unseen by modern Christians whose conscience has been seared.

The liturgy of Justin and Pius

The Christian community was well-disciplined and organized from the bottom up with a system of charity rather than forced offerings or taxes.

While the Roman system of political control and its usurious economy was breaking down, those who followed Christ were excluded from the dainties of those civic tables. In about AD 150, Justin Martyr, hoping to clear the misconceptions and prejudices surrounding Christianity, wrote the Emperor Antoninus Pius in defense of the Christian faith and allegiance to Christ:

“And the wealthy among us help the needy ... and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need.” Justin Martyr to Emperor Antoninus Pius (Ch. 65-67) explaining the Daily ministration of the Church which exemplifies the Christian conflict with Rome.

Justin would not trade his faith in Christ for the benefits of Rome because he knew that what they offered for his welfare was truly a snare of recompense. Christians “had fallen into such a folly that they would not obey the institutes of antiquity.”[20]

These were the official temples of Rome which had been established by the government for the welfare of the people and bind their allegiance through dependence upon the State.

Early liturgy of Christ

The Doctrine of Jesus stated direct statement and instruction that have often been supplanted by the doctrines of men. You should not need other witnesses but often do.

As with ministers like Stephen, we also see the Didache stating: [21]

“Therefore, elect for yourselves bishops and deacons worthy of the Lord, men who are meek and not lovers of money, true and approved, for they also perform for you the ministry of the prophets and teachers.” 15:1

The nature of these appointments would remain the same for centuries. In the 10th century, drastic reforms were enforced to “unify the liturgy” of the Church. This authoritarian call for unity under a centralized Church had been creeping into some Church thinking from the beginning, and now it became a rebellion against the gospels.

Liturgy is defined as “a prescribed form or set of forms for public religious worship.”[22]

Yes, it is from the Greek word leitourgi and 'leitourgos [23], meaning “public service” and “public servant” respectively. Liturgy was not about singing and vestments and the smoke and mirrors of modern Christendom.

It was about the public servants of the Kingdom of God operating under the perfect law of liberty in true worship of God[24] by service to the people. Liturgy was the common procedure of God’s kingdom in congregations composed of, by, and for the people.

Forms of this same word defined as public service appear numerous times in the New Testament. Zacharias in Luke 1:23 finishes his "days of his ministration" at the temple.[25] Temples in every nation provided actual service of caring for the needs of society and were government buildings providing public service.

Paul talks about the saints, who were the called out being assisted by the offerings of the people using the term leitourgia[26] in 2 Corinthians 9:12

  • 2 Corinthians 9:12 For the administration of this service <3009> not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;</Ref>

Because the early Church and the early Christians were following the way of Christ they provided their public service through the "sacrifice and service" we see in Philippians 2:17

  • "Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service <3009> of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all."Philippians 2:17

This was by their faith through charity. The public servants of Jesus the Christ did real work and struggle to provide real public service to the people.

In Philippians 2:30 "Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service <3009> toward me."

While this often brought the Church into conflict with Rome and its public service through their temples dependent upon forced offerings and taxation it was a more excellent way.

  • Hebrews 8:6 "But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry <3009>, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises."

The pure religion of the early Church was often sprinkled with the blood of the ministers and the people through persecution just as Jesus sacrificed himself for us.

  • Hebrews 9:21 "Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry <3009>."

The Greek verb leitourgeo[27] meaning to "to serve the state at one’s own cost" also appears in

  • Acts 13:2 "As they ministered <3008> to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them."

And also in Paul's letter to the Romans

  • Romans 15:27 "It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister <3008> unto them in carnal things.

He is speaking of their daily duty to minister in

  • Hebrews 10:11 "And every priest standeth daily ministering <3008> and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:"

This is because religion was a duty to God and our fellowman in hope of the Holy Spirit as we see in

  • Romans 15:16 "That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost."

That spirit needs to be entering into us and writing upon our hearts and minds.

  • 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;"

Christ taught and even commanded a different way of public service through charity and faith instead of fealty and force to the little flock he appointed the kingdom to so that we might repent and seek His kingdom of God.

The free systems of tens, hundreds, and thousands, bound together only by brotherhood and love, had been the predominant form of successful voluntary government throughout man’s history. Similar cell patterns were evident in the persecuted Church immediately following Christ. This was the prophecy and plan of God for his called out Church and throughout Europe during the first Millennium until the rise of kings crowned by an apostate church which murdered millions of true Christians.

The crucial ingredient to their success was the implementation of the Ten codes of God’s law summarized in the virtuous application of Christ’s two commandments. Love God and His ways with all that you think and do, and actively love your neighbor's rights to his property and family, his life and liberty as much, if not more, than you love your own. The Church that comes together according to these ancient patterns and righteousness can overcome all tyrants, despots, and enemies of freedom and liberty under God. They may be sustained by their love in famine and blight. They may exit bondage and prosper in the wilderness. They can weather the greatest storms and cataclysms of history, both past or future. They can and will inherit the earth with the humility of their love in daily sacrifice, which is the communion of Christ. [see Chapter 4 of Thy Kingdom Comes.]

  • “And in that day seven women [churches] shall take hold of one man [Christ], saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.” Isaiah 4:1

Disconnectedness to do your own thing goes contrary to the communion of Christ. The seven women have a liturgy in selfishness. The women admit reproach, but they do not seek the righteous way of repentance. Their aim is to do the same as they did in their former life-situation. It appears they would compel that one man to serve them and to hide their sin.

God’s ministers and all those people who seek His kingdom, who minister one to another, do not exercise authority nor compel the service and labor of their neighbor; they act in accordance with the manner and means of the liturgy of Jesus Christ, and they must not forsake the coming together for the assistance of the congregations of the People and the Church. They are to worship and pay homage to the God of us all, and to our King, Jesus the Messiah, through an active network of faith, hope, and charity, which is love.

Eucharist is the Greek word for being thankful for the opportunity of giving, which is the Communion of Christ in us.

Our bread is shared; it is cast upon the waters. Justin explained this food to 'help the needy' is called the 'eucharist'. Thankful givers supplied the food when they assembled together on Sunday. This was the welfare assistance in God's kingdom, and thankful needy ones receive it. The needy ones did not pray to Rome for assistance. They sought the communion of Christ, which was nutrients flowing to the portion of the body of Christ that had need.

This interacting and nurturing by the eucharist, which for the sake of liberty was of and for and by the people, was the liturgy, and this is the worship of God.

Certain men crept in unawares

Jude 1:4 “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”

When the people depended upon the offerings of charity of the Church rather than the compelled contributions of Egypt, Rome, Judea or Babylon, etc, they found they must change. They have a new master they pray to. That master operates a system based on love, not force. John the Baptist and Jesus offered a different way than the world at that time.[28] It is a different way than the world at this time. It is The Way of Christ.

Over the ages, the actual corporeal and incorporeal service of the church to the people became little more than superstitious religious ceremonies designed to give the people a feeling of being justified in the delusion that they were worshiping God. In truth they were actually sacrificing upon the altars of the Nicolaitans.[29] This is the error of Balaam and the antithesis of Christ and is the door of deeds that God hates.[30]

In the early centuries, the people were dependent upon the network of the Church to sustain them in the hard times of Roman and Judaic collapse. Today, many Churches preach tithing, but they send the people to benefactors who exercise authority one over the other, contrary to the precepts of Christ.

His Holy Church has no authority to dictate a ‘unified liturgy’. That is to say, we cannot compel the manner of public service, like other governments do, nor can we exercise authority over the choice and liberty of each other.

The church does have an obligation to care for the needs of the flock of Christ, the people hearing His voice, and the ones seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness. It has a mission to serve the people so that they need not pray to the benefactors of the world. What we write is about that network used by Abraham, Moses, and Jesus Christ to edify the Kingdom of God which is within our reach.

Every man and woman must strive to follow the precepts of Christ in protecting one another as God’s altars of living earth. The ministers of the Church---who set aside some of their personal liberty to serve God by serving His people---are the living stones of His altar, performing an important function of representation. His Church must preach the kingdom of love and liberty. It is to facilitate the communion of the people in faith, hope, and charity, so that they learn and live the gospel of the kingdom as free souls under God. We must all unlearn the ways and the practices of the world that are contrary to the ways of Christ and His Holy first century Church. Worldly ways have crept into our thinking over the last two millennia.[31]

We must examine the meaning of phrases like worship services, kingdom of God, first century Church, congregations of the people, and pure religion. We must look at the particular directives of Christ and show true faith in the whole gospel of the Kingdom.

We are told that we should not be like The governments of the world who call themselves benefactors and public servants but who rule over the manner and means of the sacrifices of the people by ruling over the people and the people ruling over their neighbor, exercising authority in the provision of their own welfare. Such welfare has always been a snare and a stumbling block for the people, from David[32] to Paul[33] and even down unto this very day. Through covetousness, such systems make the people little more than human resources,[34] slaves to serve the will of despots and tyrants.

The leaders of the Church are the antithesis of such institutions of men which exercise authority one over the other. They show their faith in Christ by their provision of good service.[35]

The people who seek the righteousness of Christ and His kingdom care for the welfare of each other through the bonds of love, in a network of charity ministered to by those living stones of God’s altar of their choosing. Through a process of forgiveness and a communion of thanksgiving, the Holy Spirit shall write the liturgy of God on the minds and hearts of the whole body of Christ, providing salvation in this world and the next.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Not exercise authority
    Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
    Mark 10:42 "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:..."
    Luke 22:25 "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:..."
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 05656 ^הדבע^ ‘abodah \@ab-o-daw’\@ or ^הדובע^ ‘abowdah \@ab-o-daw’\@ from 05647; n f; AV-service 96, servile 12, work 10, bondage 8, act 2, serve 2, servitude 2, tillage 2, effect 1, labour 1, misc 5; 141
    1) labour, service
    1a) labour, work
    1b) labour (of servant or slave)
    1c) labour, service (of captives or subjects)
    1d) service (of God)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 05647 ^דבע^ ‘abad \@aw-bad’\@ a primitive root AyinBeitDalet; v; AV-serve 227, 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
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to labour, work, do work
    1a2) to work for another, serve another by labour
    1a3) to serve as subjects
    1a4) to serve (God)
    1a5) to serve (with Levitical service)
    1b) (Niphal)
    1b1) to be worked, be tilled (of land)
    1b2) to make oneself a servant
    1c) (Pual) to be worked
    1d) (Hiphil)
    1d1) to compel to labour or work, cause to labour, cause to serve
    1d2) to cause to serve as subjects
    1e) (Hophal) to be led or enticed to serve
    • Also see the verb 05648 ^דבע^ AyinBeitDalet;
    • The word worshipper does not appear in the Old Testament except as a translation of abad which clearly means to serve. The word for worship is shachah. Study Aboda
    • ע Ayin also U. Divine Providence "eye" or "fountain" of five states of kindness or severity. AlefYodNun or nothingness as opposed to AlefShin something [eye, watch] (Numeric value: 70)
    • ב Beit Purpose: God's Dwelling Place Below - a house or God's house here. [household, in, into] (Numeric value: 2)
    • ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)
    • Genesis 2:5 till; Genesis 2:15 dress; Genesis 14:4 king Bera served (עָבְד֖וּ) <05647> Chedorlaomer and then rebelled <04775>. The text include 0853 ’et- אֶת־ which is untrànslated but modifies serve. "Though silently rendered in most English versions, its presence guides readers to recognize what, precisely, is being acted upon, thereby sharpening narrative clarity, reinforcing covenantal specificity, and underscoring theological emphasis."
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 False prophets and Guru theories
    Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see."
    Isaiah 30:20 "And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed,..."
    Matthew 13:13 "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand."
    Matthew 15:14 "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."
    Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recoveing of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
    John 9:39 ¶ "And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind."
    Luke 6:39 "And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master."
    Acts 13:11 "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand."
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 French priest of the the Diocese of Strasbourg who wrote "History of the Liturgy: The Major Stages"
  6. ↑ The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
  7. ↑ According to works
    Numbers 7:5 "Take [it] of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service."
    Exodus 25:2 "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering<08641 תְּרוּמָה‎ tëruwmah>: of every man that giveth it willingly<05068(נָדַב nadeb) יִדְּבֶ֣נּוּ yiddəḇennū> with his heart ye shall take my offering<08641 תְּרוּמָתִֽי׃ tərūmāṯî>."
    1 Samuel 8:8 "According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee."
    Proverbs 24:12 "If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider [it]? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth [not] he know [it]? and shall [not] he render to [every] man according to his works?"
    Jeremiah 25:14 "For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands."
    Matthew 16:27 "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works."
    2 Corinthians 11:15 "Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works."
    Revelation 2:23 "And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works."
    Revelation 20:12 "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works."
  8. ↑ Fathers of the earth
    • Matthew 23:9 "And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."
    • Matthew 6:8 "Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."
    • 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."
    • Matthew 12:50 "For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."
    • Luke 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to [our] father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
    • Luke 11:2 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.
    • John 4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?" See Beersheba.
    • John 8:39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
    • John 14:26 "But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."
    Romans 8:15 "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."
    2 Corinthians 6:18 "And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."
    1 John 3:1 ¶ "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not."
  9. ↑ Beware of that leaven
    Matthew 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees... 11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? 12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
    Mark 8:15 "And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod."
    Luke 12:1 "In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known."
  10. ↑ "Birth registration... was first required under Marcus Aurelius, when it was ordained that the father must register the date of birth and the name of his child within thirty days, at Rome before the praefectus aerāriī (governor of the treasury in the Temple of Saturn at Rome)... in the provinces before the tabulāriī pūblicī. In the case of the boy the registering of the name on the list of citizens may have occurred at the time he put on the toga virīlis." Chapter 4. S 97. Diēs Lūstricus. The Private Life of the Romans, by Harold Whetstone Johnston, Revised by Mary Johnston Scott, Foresman and Company (1903, 1932).
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Destroyers of liberty
    "That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.) This would include Julius Caesar and eventually Augustus Caesar which is why Plutarch also reported, “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” This was a major theme of the Bible:
    There were tables of welfare which were both snares and a traps as David and Paul stated and Peter warned would make us merchandise and curse children. Proverbs 23 told us not to not eat the "dainties" offered at those tables of Rulers and Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10 we cannot eat of those tables and the table of the Lord. We are not to consent to their covetous systems of One purse or Corban which makes the word of God to none effect.
    We know when the masses become accustomed to those benefits of legal charity which are the rewards of unrighteousness provided by benefactors who exercise authority and the Fathers of the earth through the covetous practices that makes men merchandise and curse children as a surety for debt.
    • We should know, "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it...". Abraham Lincoln But that alteration must begin with ourselves.
  12. ↑ Degeneration of the family
    • “Even amongst women there were symptoms of revolt against the older order, which showed itself in a growing freedom of manners and impatience of control, the marriage tie was relaxed…" Encyclopedia Britannica ‘57 Vol. 19 p 490.2
    • The “sanctity of marriage had ceased… Abortion, and the exposure and murder of newly-born children, were common and tolerated; unnatural vices, which even the greatest philosophers practiced, if not advocated, attained proportions which defy description.” Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, By Alfred Edersheim, Chapter XI.
    • "Men nowadays no longer secretly, but openly outrage the wives of others, and allow others access to their own wives. A match is thought countrified, uncivilized, in bad style, and to be protested against by all matrons, if the husband should forbid his wife to appear in public in a litter, and to be carried about exposed to the gaze of all observers. If a man has not made himself notorious by a liaison with some mistress, if he does not pay an annuity to some one else's wife, married women speak of him as a poor-spirited creature, a man given to low vice, a lover of servant girls. Soon adultery becomes the most respectable form of marriage, and widowhood and celibacy are commonly practiced. No one takes a wife unless he takes her away from some one else. Now men vie with one another in wasting what they have stolen, and in collecting together what they have wasted with the keenest avarice; they become utterly reckless, scorn poverty in others, fear personal injury more than anything else, break the peace by their riots, and by violence and terror domineer over those who are weaker than themselves. No wonder that they plunder provinces and offer the seat of judgment for sale, knocking it down after an auction to the highest bidder, since it is the law of nations that you may sell what you have bought... Our ancestors before us have lamented, and our children after us will lament, as we do, the ruin of morality, the prevalence of vice, and the gradual deterioration of mankind;" On Benefits (De Beneficiis) by Seneca. See Riots
    • "That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.)
    • “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” Plutarch
    • "The people who had once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else now longs eagerly for just two things, bread and circus games." Juvenal a Roman poet. See legal charity.
  13. ↑ Bread of oppression
    Matthew 16:6 "Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees... 11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake [it] not to you concerning daily bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? 12 Then understood they how that he bade [them] not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
    Mark 8:15 "And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and [of] the leaven of Herod."
    Matthew 16:11 "How is it that ye do not understand that I spake [it] not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?"
    Mark 8:15 "And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod."
    Luke 12:1 "In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."
    Jesus and John the Baptist opposed the leaven of Herod, the Pharisees and of the Sadducees because they misinterpreted the way of Moses and the LORD. They collected the resources for their tables of welfare, their social safety net of free bread and care for the needy of society through forced offerings. Peter, Paul, David, and the prophets have been warned us that such covetous practices were setting a snare and a trap. Herod and the Pharisees had set up a system of legal charity rather than fervent charity which always makes the word of God to none effect so that Christ would say the kingdom of God shall be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits. We should know that their system "degenerates" the "masses" until they become "perfect savages". Legal charity and its benefits and dainties provided through men who exercise authority are the wages of unrighteousness and the covetous practices that makes men merchandise and will curse children.
  14. ↑ “And the wealthy among us help the needy ... and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need.” "Justin the Martyr's Apology" to the Emperor Antonius Pius in 150 AD, (Ch. 65-67)
  15. ↑ Acts 10:38 "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good(εὐεργετῶν euergetōn), and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him."
  16. ↑ What is worship www.hisholychurch.info/sermon/whorship.php
  17. ↑ What is the Bible about?
  18. ↑ * 1 Timothy 2:4 "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth."
    • 2 Timothy 3:7 "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
    • Hebrews 10:26 "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,"
    • Psalms 86:11 "Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name."
    • Psalms 119:30 "I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid [before me]."
    • Isaiah 40:14 "With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?"
    • Acts 24:22 "And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of [that] way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter."
    • Matthew 22:16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any [man]: for thou regardest not the person of men.
    • Mark 12:14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
    • Luke 20:21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person [of any], but teachest the way of God truly:
    • John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
    • 2 Peter 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
  19. ↑ Water ritual of John vs Spirit and fire of Jesus
    John 1:26 "John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; 27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose... 33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost."
    Matthew 3:11 "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:"
    Mark 1:7-8 "And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. 8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost."
    Luke 3:16 "John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:"
    John 3: "5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water (mother’s womb) and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."
  20. ↑ Edict of Tolerance at Nicomedia, Emperor Galerius’ April 30, 311.
  21. ↑ The Didache, meaning teachings, is mentioned by Eusebius (c. 324) as the Teachings of the Apostles following the books recognized as canonical (Historia Ecclesiastica III, 25): ...
  22. ↑ The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition,
  23. ↑ 3011 ~λειτουργός~ leitourgos \@li-toorg-os’\@ from a derivative of 2992 Laos/people and 2041 ergon work, deed, laborer; TDNT-4:229,526; {See TDNT 434} n m AV-minister 4, he that ministers 1; 5 [see also liturgy, 3008, 3009, 3010, & 3011.]
    1) a public minister, a servant of the state
    2) a minister, servant
    2a) so of military labourers
    2b) of the temple
    2b1) of one busied with holy things
    2b2) of a priest
    2c) of the servants of a king
  24. ↑ See Appendix 3 of Thy Kingdom Comes. What is worship.
  25. ↑ Luke 1:23 And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration <3009> were accomplished, he departed to his own house.
  26. ↑ 3009 ~λειτουργία~ leitourgia \@li-toorg-ee’-ah\@ from 3008 [leitourgeo minister 1) to serve the state at one’s own cost 1a) to assume an office which must be administered at one’s own expense ]; n f AV-service 3, ministry 2, ministration 1; 6 [see also liturgy 3011, 3009, 3010.]
    1) a public office which a citizen undertakes to administer at his own expense
    2) any service 2a) of military service 2b) of the service of workmen
    2c) of that done to nature in the cohabitation of man and wife
    3) biblical usage 3a) a service or ministry of the priests relative to the prayers and sacrifices offered to God 3b) a gift or benefaction for the relief of the needy
  27. ↑ 3008 ~λειτουργέω~ leitourgeo \@li-toorg-eh’-o\@ from 3011; TDNT-4:215,526; {See TDNT 434} v AV-minister 3; 3 [see also liturgy, 3008, 3009, 3010, & 3011.]
    1) to serve the state at one’s own cost
    1a) to assume an office which must be administered at one’s own expense
    1b) to discharge a public office at one’s own cost
    1c) to render public service to the state
    2) to do a service, perform a work
    2a) of priests and Levites who were busied with the sacred rites in the tabernacle or the temple
    2b) of Christians serving Christ, whether by prayer, or by instructing others concerning the way of salvation, or in some other way
    2c) of those who aid others with their resources, and relieve their poverty
  28. ↑ Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”
  29. ↑ Nicolaitans are the “conquered people” who have lost access to some God-endowed right of choice.
  30. ↑ God hates the deeds
    Deuteronomy 5:9 "Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me,"
    Matthew 6:24 "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
    Revelation 2:6 "But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate."
    Revelation 2:14-17 "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 ("to permit one’s self to be drawn away by another into idolatry"). 15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
    * The way of the world is not The Way Of Christ but the way of Cain and His city-state, the way of the Corban of the Herod and the Pharisees that makes the word of God to none effect which God hates. These cities of blood, of Babylon and Balaam, of Cain and Nimrod, of Sumer and Sodom, Pharaoh and the foolishness of Saul, and more recently FDR and LBJ and all the welfare States who provide a legal charity of force and fealty making merchandise of the Nicolaitan as they enter the corvee which is a snare and a trap being Greedy for gain.
  31. ↑ Galatians 2:4 “And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:”
  32. ↑ Psalms 69:22 “Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.”
  33. ↑ Romans 11:9 “And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:”
  34. ↑ 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”.
  35. ↑ Luke 22:26-29 “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;”
    Luke 12:37 “Blessed [are] those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.”



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