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Mark 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition^[1]. 10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: 11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; 13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition^[1], which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye."
The Kingdom of God is an alternative to the way of the world.
Repentance is about changing direction from the way of force to the way of faith. From covetous practices to Fervent charity. From Fear to Hope. From pride and judgment to humility and forgiveness.
People often want the liberty of Paul the Apostle and Peter but they do not want the burden of the responsibility of Pure Religion.
The way of Christ is not the way of the mendicant or modern Church and certainly not the way of Cain, Nimrod or Rome.

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In God’s system based on faith, hope, and charity and the perfect law of liberty, forgiveness and thanksgiving must dominate our hearts. We are bound together by love for one another not policies of rulers and force of arms. In order to paint a clear picture of the kingdom and the Church that serves it we must rethink with prayer and humility what we have come to believe.

The precept and nature of the “Kingdom of God” has been removed from the “gospel of the kingdom”.²⁷⁹ It has become something for the dead, not for the living.²⁸⁰ It is imagined that it comes through observation of rituals and ceremonies.

The kingdom of heaven is within you. It is written on your hearts and your mind by God. It changes you inside and out. The Church was accused of turning the world upside down. The world was a top down rule, the kingdom was bottom up. Each family is an autonomous unit. Scripture was considered to be a manual for a free society.

“This Bible is for the government of the People, by the People, and for the People.”²⁸¹

In God’s kingdom the daily ministration to the needy has always been provided by freewill offerings. Compelled offering was contrary to the the precept of God and the Ten Commandments and forbidden by Christ, who claimed these traditions, also translated as “ordinances,” made the word of God to no effect.

This book is complimented by two other books, The Covenants of the gods and Thy Kingdom Comes. The former speaks of the contractual nature of the governments of the “world” created by men. Such systems of power have done contrary to God’s plan and lead men away from His precepts and out of His presence. We see this from the beginning in the city of Cain, the government of Babylon and Nimrod, in Egypt, and in Rome. We see the remnants of those same systems today, but like the Pharisees we have been taught only a part of a distorted message of God.

The book Thy Kingdom Comes was written to open our eyes to a new understanding of the consistency of God’s message to His people and the world. It tells a history of the Kingdom and its nature and purpose in the everyday life of men and women seeking the liberty which we have in Christ Jesus and God’s kingdom of heaven at hand.

If we are to know God we must understand His Gospel of the kingdom. By understanding what Abraham, Moses and the prophets were teaching the people, we will be better prepared to preach that Gospel of the kingdom and aid man in his search for that kingdom and His righteousness.

This book about the Free Church under God is often the reverse of what you have been led to think. It may turn your world upside down as it turns your understanding right side up. It was compiled in the hope that we may all develop a clearer vision of the gospel of the kingdom and the role the Church played in edifying that kingdom in the hearts and minds of the people seeking His righteousness.

We shall readdress many of these precepts in more detail and in other contexts. It is the mission of the Church to preach the gospel of the kingdom and baptize the people in the truth of His righteousness so that they may be a peculiar people who follow His Holy way.

We are to be the altars of clay upon which the sacrifices of to God are made by showing charity and love for our neighbor. The ministers of the Church are to form the altars of lively stones of Christ feeding the true needs of His sheep because we love Him. We are all a part of a living temple of the Holy Spirit.

To be that which God meant for us to be we must clean our hearts and minds of the corruption of the world. We must strive to set the tables of the LORD which has set men free from Abraham, Moses and Jesus Christ. It is our prayer that all who read The Free Church Report will be willing to look at all things anew with an open and forgiving heart.

Many of the ideas and precepts that you read in this book will seem different, even strange or incorrect. You must look for the reasons we take these positions about the Church and the Gospel of the kingdom. Pray about the difference. The gospel turned the world upside down and required repentance and humility to realize that the Pharisees and others had been lead astray. The same problem exists today with the modern Church.

The truth and ideas expressed in these writings will undoubtedly challenge many things you have come to believe, but we do not do this without offering an adequate substitute.

May you seek the truth and let go of deception, peel back the scales and repent of the errors and stumblingblocks as you seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.

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279Matthew 24:14 “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” Matthew 4:23, Matthew 9:35, Mark 1:14

280Luke 20:38 “For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.”

281The introduction to John Wycliffe’s 1382 translation of the Bible.

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3862 ~παράδοσις~ paradosis \@par-ad’-os-is\@ from 3860 paradidomi the verb which is from the preposition to from 3844 para of and 1325 didomi to give; TDNT-2:172,166; {See TDNT 191} n f AV-tradition 12, ordinance 1; 13
1) giving up, giving over
1a) the act of giving up

1b) the surrender of cities

2) a giving over which is done by word of mouth or in writing, i.e. tradition by instruction, narrative, precept, etc.
2a) objectively, that which is delivered, the substance of a teaching

2b) of the body of precepts, esp. ritual, which in the opinion of the later Jews were orally delivered by Moses and orally transmitted in unbroken succession to subsequent generations, which precepts, both illustrating and expanding the written law, as they did were to be obeyed with equal reverence
- Thayer's Greek Lexicon "a giving over, giving up; i. e.
1. the act of giving up, the surrender: of cities, Polybius 9, 25, 5; Josephus, b. j. 1, 8, 6; χρημάτων, Aristotle, pol. 5, 7, 11, p. 1309{a}, 10.; 2. a giving over which is done by word of mouth or in writing..."
- See also 1325 grant, and 3970 patroparadotos used in 1 Peter 1:18

[tradition-1] 1.0 ^1.1 3862 ~παράδοσις~ paradosis \@par-ad’-os-is\@ from 3860 paradidomi the verb which is from the preposition to from 3844 para of and 1325 didomi to give; TDNT-2:172,166; {See TDNT 191} n f AV-tradition 12, ordinance 1; 13
1) giving up, giving over
1a) the act of giving up

1b) the surrender of cities

2) a giving over which is done by word of mouth or in writing, i.e. tradition by instruction, narrative, precept, etc.
2a) objectively, that which is delivered, the substance of a teaching

2b) of the body of precepts, esp. ritual, which in the opinion of the later Jews were orally delivered by Moses and orally transmitted in unbroken succession to subsequent generations, which precepts, both illustrating and expanding the written law, as they did were to be obeyed with equal reverence

Thayer's Greek Lexicon "a giving over, giving up; i. e.
1. the act of giving up, the surrender: of cities, Polybius 9, 25, 5; Josephus, b. j. 1, 8, 6; χρημάτων, Aristotle, pol. 5, 7, 11, p. 1309{a}, 10.; 2. a giving over which is done by word of mouth or in writing..."
See also 1325 grant, and 3970 patroparadotos used in 1 Peter 1:18

[2] Thayer's Greek Lexicon "a giving over, giving up; i. e.

[3] See also 1325 grant, and 3970 patroparadotos used in 1 Peter 1:18

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