Pure Religion of Christ
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| Duty is what you ought to do. |
| The church in the wilderness previously, called out by Moses had some of the same duties as the early Church called out by Christ. |
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| Does the voice of the people mentioned in 1 Samuel 8 run a republic or a democracy? |
| What are the five limitations for a godly Republic in the old testament for a leader elected by the people? |
| Of course what is Religion including Public religion? |
| * Did Jesus, Abraham and Moses appoint altars of stones, Lively_Stones_of_a_Living_Altar? |
* Why was the some praise the “the union and discipline of the Christian republic”?
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| : What does it mean for Pure religion to be unspotted by the world? |
| * What did the governments of Cain, Nimrod, Pharaoh and Saul have in common with modern governments? |
| * What does the error of Balaam and the Nicolaitans have in common and why does God hate their deeds? |
| * Why does an appetite for benefits from rulers who call themselves benefactors become a snare and a trap that makes you Merchandise. |
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Pure Religion of Christ vs. Impure Religion of Nimrod
The duties that befell the first century Church appointed by Christ and the church in the wilderness previously, called out by Moses, remain in precept the same. The nature of man’s sin and the systems he creates with his own hands to supplant God’s Kingdom and relegate the gospel to a secular religion also remains the same. The apostasy remains the same and so does the solution, repentance.
Abraham, Moses and Jesus were in agreement. If we will put on the full armor of God there is a path and a power that will lead the faithful to jubilation and liberty. We must realize that there are different positions and statuses dictated by God to edify His purposes upon the face of the earth. There are things the Church and its ministers may not do and there are things they must do as they repent from error and iniquity of the world. Their righteousness must exceed that of the apostasy of the Pharisees.
Abraham and Moses appointed living altars of clay and stone. The people ordered themselves in a practical way by a free choice. Contributions were voluntary. The early Christians were no different.
In Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, he praised “the union and discipline of the Christian republic.” He also pointed out that “it gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman Empire.”180
The early Christian community was literally a republic that was recognized by Rome through the proclamation nailed to the cross by order of the Proconsul of Rome, Pontius Pilate.
All pure republics composed of free men and women living under the perfect law of liberty, “Free from things public” contain and promote the essentials of pure religion.
Pure religion181 that does not defile God and the Father is to care for the needy of your society who are afflicted, without participating in systems of the world ruled by benefactors who exercise authority182 over the contributions of the people. The nation is robbed of charity. Neighbors covet their neighbor’s goods.
If a man no longer has a free choice he has lost rights endowed by God. All rights are first vested in the offices of Man. Men rule over men when the personal rights and liberty of some are diminished. Such men and women are in essence a “conquered people”. This is the meaning of the Greek word Nicolaitan and the word Balaam.183 This is what God hates. God wants men to have a freewill choice.
“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.”184
If men are subject to the will of others they are not able to follow the will of God. He is not a free soul under the God of heaven, but subject under the gods of the “world”.
The definition of pure religion given to us in James 1, requires that our care of the needy of our society be unspotted by the “world”. The word unspotted is from “aspilos”185 meaning “free from censure, irreproachable” and the word “world”186 is from a Greek word defined as “an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government.” The word is from the Greek word “komizo”187 which means “to care for, take care of, provide for.”
All people have a divinely imposed responsibility to care for the afflicted in their society as well as the stranger in their midst. The kingdom of God is a righteous kingdom and accomplishes this divine duty in the manner of John the Baptist and the good Samaritan which is charity, and, of course, Christ and His Church.
We are told by Christ to not be like those benefactors in other governments who exercise authority over the people and force contributions from our neighbors even if it is for a good cause. That was the way of Cain and Lemech, Nimrod and Pharaoh.
In Genesis 10:9 we see Nimrod called “a mighty hunter before the LORD”. The word “hunter” is from tsayid, which is more often translated “provision, food, food-supply, or victuals”. Nimrod hunted the souls of the people by being a mighty provider instead of the LORD. This is why David warns us about a table that should have been for our welfare, but was actually a snare and Peter tells us that our covetousness shall make merchandise of us. This offer of benefits by men who force contributions has been a source of sin and error, recompense and bondage throughout the Bible, from Cain to the foolishness of Saul.188
The error of Balaam189 and the way of the Nicolaitan which “God hates” are respectively the Hebrew and Greek words for the “conquered people.” The Nico laity were the people who lost the right to choose what and how they would contribute to the needs of society. They became merchandise,190 instruments, a thing. They became little more than human resources of those benefactors who exercised authority. Like the dog returning to his vomit and the pig to his mire, the people returned to the bondage of Egypt and the ways of Cain, Lemech, and Nimrod, Saul, Rehoboam, Caesar and Herod..
This is all contrary to what Christ told the Church in Matthew 20:25, Mark 10:42, and Luke 22:25. It was called a rejection of God when the voice of the people in 1 Samuel 8 elected Saul to rule over them. It was called foolishness in 1 Samuel 13:13 when Saul forced the contribution of the people. It was called a sin in 2 Samuel 24:10 when David instituted a draft so he could take the sons of the people and make his instruments of war.
People eat with rulers with an unrestrained appetite191 devouring those benefits supplied by the blood of their neighbor. They are gathered together as surety for the treasure cities of rulers who exercise authority.192 Their right of choice is conquered by their own covetousness for benefits supplied for their welfare193 and they are caught in the net of their own making.194 They are not bound by love, but by lust and greed, coercion and force. People abandon the gifts and ways of God when they fail to gather in congregations of free association. If the people will not be ruled by God they shall be condemned195 to be ruled by tyrants. The slothful shall be under tribute and the covetous shall be made merchandise, only those who are diligent in their striving for the kingdom of God shall bear rule of themselves under God.
Footnotes
180Rousseau and Revolution, Will et Ariel Durant p.801. fn 83 Heiseler, 85.
181James 1:27 “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.”
182Luke 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:”
183See Appendix 2 of The Free Church Report.
184Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. (1892 – 1982)
185 784 aspilov aspilos 1) spotless 2) metaph. 2a) free from censure, irreproachable 2b) free from vice, unsullied
186 Strong’s No. 2889 kosmov kosmos probably from komizo; AV - world (186) - adorning (1) [187] 1) an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government…
187Strong’s No. 2865 komizo {kom-id’-zo} from a primary komeo (to tend, i.e. take care of); 1) to care for, take care of, provide for
1881 Sam 13:13 “And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.”
189Revelation 2:14 “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.”
1902 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.”
191 Proverbs 23:1-4 “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.”
192Proverbs 17:18 “A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.” Proverbs 22:26 “Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.”
193Psalms 69:22 “Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.” Romans 11:9 “And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:”
194Proverbs 1:17 “Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.”
1952 Corinthians 3:9 “For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.”
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