Masses

To keep from becoming part of the degenerate masses you need to understand Crowd psychology and seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness and not the wages of unrighteousness offered by the world.
Mass Formation Psychosis did not begin with the COVID pandemic. Many things were forgotten that should not have been. When James Madison said, “The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government” he was expressing where the soul of a free nation must reside, in the people.
The institutions, corporations, and governments created by the hands of men have no soul but that soul of the men who create or alter them. Before governments will change men must change. The word Repent means thinking differently, a changing of the mind.
Humility is a change of the heart and mind that comes with "sacrifice" and the choices that are exercised in a charitable society.
With the introduction of public schools and other services supported by taxing your neighbor instead of by fervent charity the masses were psychologically groomed for FDRs socialist welfare state.
Eventually, "The masses continue with an appetite"... for benefits and dainties of rulers or the reward of unrighteousness as the New Testament calls them. With seard conscience we justify the force that leads to the fealty to the powers of the world that makes man merchandise.

Masses

"The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch."

Polybius saw the downfall of the republic by way of their free bread and welfare a 150 years before the first Emperor of Rome and 175 years before the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ who opposed these same systems of free bread at your neighbor's expense.

The authoritarian State often uses force and violence to become the Benefactors of the people if the covet what is their neighbors'. They make a social contract where one class of citizen is forced to provide for another class through "legal charity" which is not true charity. The writings of the Apostles warned along with countless passages of ancient writings of the prophets including Proverbs 23 which warned them about what Christ forbid which was the covetous practices of socialist forms of government.

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Are you the masses spoken of by the Historian of Historians?

When any nation or people becomes accustomed to benefits of the state, the dainties of rulers, the benefits of governments that call themselves benefactors but provide everything at the expense of their neighbor and future generations by exercising authority rather than charity through love.

If you believe it is okay to take from your neighbor to get what you want then it becomes okay for your neighbor to take from you to get what they want.

If you have accepted the idea that socialism and its benefits is moral you have accepted a lie that betrays Christ Jesus, Moses, and Abraham.

Once a people accept the idea legal charity through the state is good, then the masses lose the moral authority, power, and virtue to stop tyranny or even recognize it.

If we bite one another then we will be devoured one of another.

If people are seeking the gratuities of legal charity from the rulers who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority one over the other they cannot honestly claim to be Christians who are suppose to seeking the kingdom of God and the Righteousness of God.

Such covetous practices were forbidden by Moses and the Ten Commandments as well as by all the prophets and Proverbs concerning the dainties of rulers, warning that they were a snare.

If you do have an appetite for any form of legal charity you certainly can not honestly claim to be a Jew, nor even a Moslem.

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Are you a part of the "great unwashed" masses of Edmund Burke and John the Baptist?

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Unwashed masses

Edmund Burke first wrote of the "great unwashed" masses in regards to the mobs of the French revolution who desired to throw off their rulers with violence.

Those "unwashed masses" are said to be "The collective group ("mass") of people who are considered by someone to be somehow uneducated, uninformed, or in some other way unqualified for inclusion in the speaker's elite circles."

There are those who imagine themselves to be elite in every generation or nation who desire power over their neighbor or fellowman.

They seldom can seize power unless the people fail to love God and His charitable nature and love their neighbor as themselves.

Washed masses

John the Baptist preached the simple solution to the "great unwashed" masses of his day but the modern Church and its followers have been suffering from the psychosis of the church of [[Constantine] for centuries.

To the early Christians the "unwashed" would be all the people who have not received the "baptism of repentance" which was a part of the process of seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness which leads to the remission of sins.

Filthy masses

"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." Matthew 15:14
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble but what you know for sure that just ain't so." Peter spoke the truth when he said that through covetous practices men will be made merchandise, return to the bondage of Egypt and even curse children as surety for debt.
When you find out that you are those children you must ask, What was Christ's plan to set you free?
What is the Way?
What is the truth that will set you free?
"From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Matthew 4:17  : "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Matthew 6:33

To fail to teach the people that we are not to covet our neighbors goods even through the men of government who exercise authority is the result of the blind leading the blind.

The people accepted the Corban of the Pharisees just as the Romans accepted the free bread of Rome and Americans accepted the New Deal of FDR and the Great Society of LBJ.

Christ commanded that his ministers make the people sit down in groups of ten. The early Church, like early Israel, was organized in these small intimate groups of tens but were also networked together in a broader and even an international network which we see saved during a series of "dearths" in Acts by those ministers of service appointed to be the ekklesia or called out of Christ.

We see the Church and its ministers rightly dividing daily bread from house to house in the temple and also bringing relief all over the known world through ministries of love by men like Paul and Barnabas.

"Love does not begin with the “great unwashed masses” but with one’s neighbor."

Washed individual

The heart of the individual is washed through Christ and sins forgiven as we forgive those who trespass against us and love those who may not love us which is fervent charity and is The Way.

The kingdom of God begins within the heart of the individual and their personal repentance. They must come together in love for one another to seek the righteous way of loving their neighbor as themselves through a system of faith, hope, and charity.

"For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?" Matthew 5:46

The seed of faith is to nourish the social bonds of a free society and draw the Holy Spirit within these intimate groups of tens to bring light where there was darkness. But this love is only the beginning of a testimony of love going out to all the world.

"To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind."

The heart of the individual must be willing to sacrifice for the heart and health of his fellow man. That is religion. And without pure Religion there is no liberty. Edmund talks about the need to be attached to and "love the little platoon" which is why Christ commanded His disciples to sit down in tens. By organize themselves in this network of sharing and caring where each small intimate group of tens are connected to each other small group until hundreds and thousands create a body bound by those social bonds of a free nation.

That is what the Kingdom of God was in the mind of the the early followers of Christ. The network they created by this love made it possible for Paul and the Apostles to send aide during the dearths that swept across the Roman Empire in Acts.

The early Church provided all social welfare through the charity of "pure Religion" rather than the "free bread" provided by the "]]legal charity]]" of the government temples of Rome. The social bonds of Early Christian were strengthened by that daily ministration of fervent charity for those who sought the kingdom of God and His righteousness through The Way of Christ. The Church of Constantine has always rejected Christ's teaching of not praying to the Fathers of the earth who are the ruler who exercise authority one over the other but call themselves "benefactors" because they offer the people the "reward of unrighteousness" through covetous practices.

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