The bands
Bands
- "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 mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
The Declaration of Independence was about the 'dissolving the political bands which have connected the people with another'.
But, what form of government and what bands bring you under the hand of tyrants and despots?
- "The bands of a free society are social bonds of Faith, Hope, and Charity and by nature are the antitheses of the bands of tyranny which are force, fear, and fealty."
- "The former is mutually dependent through the exercise of love and sacrifice by The Way of freewill sacrifice according to the perfect law of liberty and the independent choices of the individuals of society gathered in a fractal network as Jesus Christ and the God of Nature commanded."
- "The benefits provided by the force of governments can only provide the people with the wages of unrighteousness culturing licentiousness and vices among a slothfull people who choose to engage in covetous practices which both curse children and makes them merchandise."
Do you need to dissolve the bands of the welfare state you have been creating for the last one hundred years since FDR and LBJ?
If we repent in mind and deed and go back to loving one another and caring for one another through charity like Jesus told you in the first place will God hear your prayers?
The real Christian conflict was between the legal charity of Rome and the Pure Religion of the Kingdom of God appointed to the apostles and the early Church. That ancient conflict exposes the apostasy of the modern Church and the Modern Christians who follow the covetous ways of the Pharisees and their Corban which 'made the word of God to none effect'.
Rather than seeking the Kingdom of God and his righteousness which was the the way of Christ they have sought the wages of unrighteousness and been snared by an appetite for the dainties and the welfare offered by men who call themselves Benefactors but exercise authority one over another.
To dissolve the bands of tyranny we need to repent and began forging the bands of liberty through charity and love attending to the Weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith which include caring for the needs of our neighbors and the widows and orphans of our society through Pure Religion in matters of health, education, and welfare. We are NOT to provide for the needy of society through the Covetous Practices and the men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other like the socialists do.
The Way of Christ was like neither the way of the world of Rome nor the governments of the gentiles who depend on those fathers of the earth through force, fear and fealty who deliver the people back in bondage again like they were in Egypt. Christ's ministers and true Christians do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people like the corban of the Pharisees which made the word of God to none effect. Many people have been deceived to go the way of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and out of The Way of Christ and have become workers of iniquity.
The Christian conflict with Rome in the first century Church appointed by Christ was because they would not apply to the fathers of the earth for their free bread but instead relied upon a voluntary network providing a daily ministration to the needy of society through Faith, Hope, and Charity by way of freewill offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people through the perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies according to the ancient pattern of Tuns or Tens as He commanded.
The modern Christians are in need of repentance.
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Ancient communities
All communities were survival communities in ancient times.
The natural and gregarious nature of man drew people together. Families and clans were naturally bound by common origins or lineal consanguinity. Bringing a broader group together was often based on common interests or beliefs or stimulated by a common threat.
Different forms of tribal communities and cultures thrived and worked to prosper society and others degenerated and disappeared. Sometimes societies morphed into their very antitheses when new generations forgot the wisdom of their more ancient counter parts.
Most, in the beginning, were voluntary societies. Because of the independence required to survive social bonds and the virtues that nurture them developed over time.
Civil societies were also communities but evolved away from the voluntary society to a more controlled society. While control could be imposed by policy, members would often become dependent upon society itself either because the alternative outside of that society was too difficult or dangerous or because members of society lost the ability to survive on their own.
There are a vast list of societies and forms of governments used to aid in the function of those societies.
The Greek city states, which provided a variety of community forms, Ancient Rome and its evolution into an imperial power. Ancient Israel, the Teuton tribes and confederations all came about, evolved and degenerated over the centuries.
From Cain to Nimrod or Pharaoh to Caesar we have seen civilizations and governments come and go.
What can we learn from their mistakes and policies?
And do we have the humility or wisdom to recognize their errors in our own pursuits and practices?
The sons of Jacob went into the Bondage of Egypt for 400 years until they were ready to learn from Moses through trials and tribulations the way of God and His righteousness.
Jesus would reteach the way of the perfect law of liberty and warn the masses of the error of Balaam, the Corban and leaven of Herod and the Pharisees which made the word of God to None effect.
Jesus was the Highest son of David and the anointed king of Judea which is why they called Him Christ. He was also to take the place of John the Baptist as both High priest and King. But again His kingdom of God was not of or like the world of Rome but if sincerely sought would set the captive free.
Jesus as the Christ was not like the Fathers of the earth who called themselves Benefactors and made the people live by force, fear, and fealty. If we are to come in the name of Christ we must think differently, becoming doers of the word and learn to live by faith, hope, and charity by sitting down in a network of tens.
The ancient paths
- “Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.” Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville.
Being a free soul under God the Father rather than being in bondage as human resources or mere merchandise under the rulers of the world or fathers of the earth is a major theme throughout the whole Bible.
The men
From Nimrod, Abimelech, and Terah to Melchisedec, Abraham, and Jacob, who became Israel, the Bible tells the stories of the two different ways for the governance of society to proceed and their alternate but inevitable outcomes.
The means
Both had altars and tables said to be for the welfare of the people but one was a snare and a trap and the other set the captive free.
One provided benefits and dainties of the rulers and benefactors who exercise authority resorting to the use of force, fear, and fealty, while the other provided the care and the blessings of the way through a daily ministration of humble servants through faith, hope, and charity.
The method
The latter is more ancient while the former takes dominion by consent accompanied by neglect and default. But a more primordial jurisdiction born with creation predates the legal systems of men.
While, protection draw subjection, subjection protection, all things converted can be reconverted in merging of things in time and space.
Learning lessons
The sons of Jacob went into the Bondage of Egypt for 400 years until they were ready to learn from Moses what the failed to learn from Israel. What we will not learn from th word of God we will experience through trials, tribulations, and testing from the wrath of God untill we will hear the wisdom of the way of God and His righteousness.
Of death
prophets and historians warned the masses about the error of Balaam, which is the covetous practices of the Nicolaitan, the Corban of the Pharisees and leaven of Herod and which made the word of God to None effect.
If we do not understanding the means and methods of these ways we may not understand the prophets about the snares and traps baited with dainties and promices.
Of life
Jesus taught the way of the perfect law of liberty and the sacrifice of charity.
Understanding these two tables of social welfare, one by charity and love and the other by rulers who an exercise authority determines the level of liberty and righteousness in society.
Jesus was the Highest son of David and the anointed king of Judea which is why they called Him Christ. He was also to take the place of John the Baptist as both High priest and King. But again His kingdom of God was not of or like the world of Rome but if sincerely sought would set the captive free.
Jesus as the Christ was not like the Fathers of the earth who called themselves Benefactors and made the people live by force, fear, and fealty.
Whose name
If we are to come in the name of Christ we must think differently, becoming doers of the word and learn to live by faith, hope, and charity by sitting down in a network of tens.
Writing of truth
- "Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge," Proverbs 22:20
This writing of the truth is not in letters and words upon paper or stone but must be upon the heart and mind[2] of living souls. It is God who gives us His identity through His Holy Spirit as we are willing to repent and seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
The Stumbling block
The problem is not so much the system of the world but us, and the tempering of our knowledge with sophistry and imagination rather than wisdom which we often lack or neglect.[3] We have forgotten the ancient[4] ways of God[5] which was the Way of Christ and while many are called few have the heart to see the truth of The Way and follow it in fellowship and not follow those who think they see but are blind to the whole truth because they believe a lie.
Many will say the way of salvation or what is referred to as redemption is here or there[6] but Christ told us the answer and gave us the keys of the kingdom[7] and to "liberty under God" rather than the "Bondage of Egypt" or "Mystery Babylon" where the people are the merchandise or human resources of rulers or the "Fathers of the earth."
Christ had His plan, called The Way which was The Blessed Strategy that would set the captive free from the Corban of the Pharisees and Herod which oppressed the people. Jesus warned us of this oppression when he metaphorically warned us of the leaven[8] of the Pharisees and Herod.[9]
Entangled again
We were told we would be entangled again in the elements of the world, become merchandise, curse children and become surety for debt. This would be because of covetous practices and abandoning the way, not because of the conspiracies and subterfuge of the world.
We should not think that we can just claim fraud and set ourselves free any more than Adam could exonerate his own failing by blaming the God and the woman He gave Adam.
We cannot save ourselves with the strategies of men nor our own cleverness. We are to repent and turn that repentance into action. To repent is to think differently. We can forgive so that we may be forgiven. We can gather together in patterns of ten to save others as Christ commanded so that we might be saved.[10]
While we do these things Christ told us to do, and walk in His way we may have to pay our "tale of bricks"[11] and even be friends with the unrighteous mammon[12] Christ came to teach us "the art of being free" if we will have ears to hear and eyes to see and become doers of the will of the father.[13]
I sympathize with those who see the present bondage of the world. I empathize with their struggle and pain but salvation is not by endless repetition [14] of words and phrases of the law but by the whole truth of the perfect law of liberty[15] and seeking the righteousness of God which we have neglected.
Are your assemblies[16] rooted in the way of Christ or have you forsaken the gathering together?[17]
The term perfected[18] is associated with the adoption of Moses and redemption.[19]
Moses was adopted into the family of the Pharaoh and Israel was set free by that adoption but they had to follow the leadership of Moses who redeemed them through that adoption. Moses' repentance from the exercising authority as the Pharaoh and his obedience to God opened a door to freedom and redemption from the bondage of Egypt. Jesus as high priest and King laid down his life so that we may also be redeemed if we are willing to repent and seek His kingdom of God and the righteousness of God.
You may not look to those benefactors who exercise authority but have you gathered to become the benefactors who exercise love?
Are your ministers of the Church/ekklesia gathered in the spirits of just men or those that Covet the wages of unrighteousness?
- "To the general assembly[16] and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect[15]," Hebrews 12:23
Is the ekklesia in one accord doing what Christ commanded and providing a daily ministration based in faith, hope, and charity of the general assembly[16]?
- "Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was <5048> faith made perfect [15]?" James 2:22
Are the general assembly[16] of the people and the Church keeping the word of Christ according to the law of love?[20]
- "But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is <5048> the love of God perfected[15]: hereby know we that we are in him." 1 John 2:5
If we will not live by that love, even love our enemies[21] that they might be saved[10], how can we hope for the miracles of God?
If we will not gather as Christ commanded how can we love one another in the meaningful ways of the early Church?
- "No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected[15] in us... 17 Herein is our love made perfect[15], that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect[15] in love." 1 John 4:12
- "I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect[15] in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24
- Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." John 17:23-26
Voluntary society
Is the communion of a free society through charity or force?
Jesus was "another king" of a Society and community that made it possible for the people to survive and thrive during the decline and fall of the Imperial Cult of Rome.
History repeats itself but we have to understand its truths.
Abraham's society of friends and their Lively Stones of a Living Altar, before the witness of Melchizedek the righteous king of peace, were able to stop and defeat overnight an army from other societies that was ravaging local city states like perfect savages. They had formed an intentional community according to the perfect law of liberty. There are many mysteries revealed if we will have the patience to look and the courage to open our eyes and our hearts and our minds.
A voluntary society is one in which the right of the individual to make choices remains intact and un-infringed as long as they do not injure the rights of another.
The power to choose resides in every individual within the social structure of a family through which rights may be inherent.
All righteous government is by the consent of the individual. There are many forms and means whereby that consent may occur through Natural Law.
In society there are standards, customs, and common practices established to protect those rights including prohibitions against stealing, killing or doing anything that may directly and or indirectly deprive other members of society of their right to pursue their own liberty to choose.
"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.
People living close to nature may be more aware of the cause and effect written in Nature itself which may be recognized as Natural Law.
They may also perceive because of this natural cause and effect that certain behaviors are more desirable to maintain a stable society that is capable of defending its members from threats both foreign and domestic. Those behaviors may be described as social virtues.
Such societies must reward virtue and discourage negative or non-virtuous behavior that may be called social vices. Lack of the practice of unselfish virtue may weaken individuals, breaking down the family, from which society is born, and undermine the social bonds and thereby degenerate society as a whole. When there is a degeneration of social bonds that should make society strong and viable against the forces of nature, usurpers or tyrants, the whole of society is threatened.
Any system, culture, custom, or practice which may restrict, relieve, reduces the responsibility of the individual may, and often does degenerate the life and viability of the spirit of liberty living in that individual and eventually even their perception of truth.
While a voluntary society is concerned with protection of the rights, health, and prosperity of all, they must also be aware of the need of morals, education(the accumulation of knowledge and skill), and the promotion of the general character of their fellow neighbor, both near and far.
They also know that they must express with some consistency concern for the well being of the poor amongst them, foreigner or sojourner who comes into contact with them, and even to the point of extending justice and mercy at times to their enemy.
While the needs of the many may seem to outweigh the needs of the one the sacredness of individual and that right to choose should outweigh the desires of the many or the rights of all will soon fall into condemnation and peril.
Social forces
Some societies where people care about themselves more than their neighbor will be tempted to insure what had been social bonds through contractual bonds including oaths of fealty, national allegiance, and systems of one purse. The Golden calf of the Bible was an example of consolidating the control of the wealth of society in the hands of a few.
Such systems do create the bands of a society but also produces fealty and with that power may become centralized and in the hands of the few, or in a democracy in the hands of the many at the peril of individual choice and liberty.
In a voluntary society there would be no taxation or tribute, no mandatory service nor systems of corvee. There would be no king to exercise authority and therefore no legal charity nor Corban provided by forced compliance.
All societies and members of society may have needs as individuals or families. It is the means by which society attends to these social needs which determines the nature and strength of its social bonds and therefore the health and liberty within society. It has been long understood that there is a human responsibility in every individual to attend to the honest needs of their fellow man.
We see this cause and effect expressed in the golden rule, in the sayings of wise social reformers like Moses and Jesus and others we think of the promoters of religion[22] who said "love thy neighbor as thy self".
Religion in ancient times was often expressed in symbols and personalities through stories and myths but in essence it was defined as how you love the character of the Creator of life and how you cared and loved your neighbor as yourself. Pure Religion in the Bible was how you fulfilled that duty to your fellow man of justice and mercy without the use of force, or oaths of fealty the the governments of the world.
We are warned in the New Testament that we must not engage in covetous practices or we will become merchandise and curse children, our own and our neighbors. "Judge not" lest ye be judged suggests that if you judge it is okay to take from your neighbor then it must also be okay to take from you.[23] Both early Israel and the early Church understood that desiring benefits at the expense of others was desiring the reward of unrighteousness and would lead us back into the bondage of Egypt.
It would seem that the Modern Church is ignorant of the truth of the Gospel of the Kingdom which can set the living free in real ways today.
The religions of the world are suffering from their own Mass Formation Psychosis. It would seem that before "fake news" there was the "fake good news" that has caused false religion to justify the covetous practices of public religion and the welfare state.
Christ was clear that we were not to go to the governments and rulers who "exercise authority" one over the other even though they called themselves "benefactors".
It is the means of social welfare that will predetermine the out come of liberty in society through cause and effect built into Natural Law of the universe.
Proverbs tells us to put a "knife" to our throat before we eat at the table of rulers. Christians would not eat at that table of Rome because they knew if they bite one another they would be devoured. The early Christians would not eat the free bread of welfare state which was the Christian conflict with Rome. They knew it was a snare and a trap.
Polybius even told us before Christ that the masses would become perfect savages if they did not curb our appetite for benefits at the expense of our neighbor and the future of their children.
Whatever actions taken, as a society or nation, is the result first of individual choice of the exercise of charity and sacrifice rather than any form of collective or legal charity.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Matthew 20:25-26 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: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Mark 10:42-43 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:
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. - ↑ 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;
- ↑ Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."
- ↑ Remember the ancient ways
- Job 12:12 "With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days understanding."
- Psalms 77:5 "I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search."
- Proverbs 22:28 "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set."
- Isaiah 3:5 "And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable."
- Isaiah 51:9 "Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Art] thou not it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?"
- Jeremiah 18:15 "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;"
- ↑ The Stumblingblock
- Leviticus 19:14 "Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I [am] the LORD."
- Isaiah 57:14 "And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people."
- Jeremiah 6:21 "Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish."
- Jeremiah 18:15-17 "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; To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
- Ezekiel 3:20 "Again, When a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand."
- Ezekiel 7:19 "They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity."
- Ezekiel 14:3 "Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them? 4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; ... 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:"
- Zephaniah 1:3 "I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD."
- Romans 9:32 "Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone <4348>; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone <4348> and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed."
- Romans 14:13 "Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock <4348> or an occasion to fall in [his] brother s way."
- Romans 14:20 "For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man who eateth with offence <4348>."
- 1 Corinthians 8:9 "But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock <4348> to them that are weak."
- 1 Peter 2:8 "And a stone of stumbling <4348>, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed."
- ↑ False Christs
- Matthew 24:5 "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many."
- Matthew 24:11 "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many."
- Matthew 24:23-24 "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect."
- Mark 13:21-22 "And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not: 22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if [it were] possible, even the elect."
- 1 Corinthians 15: 15. "Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not."
- 2 Corinthians 11: 13. "For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light."
- 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: 5. To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you."
- 2 Peter 2:1 "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction."
- 2 Peter 2:2 "And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 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."
- 2 Peter 3: 16. "Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know [these things] before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness."
- ↑ Matthew 18:18 "Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 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."
- John 5:34 "But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved."
- Romans 10:1 "Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved."
- 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."
- ↑ Exodus 5:8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.... 18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
- ↑ Luke 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. 10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?
- ↑ 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.
- John 5:20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
- John 14:12 ¶ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
- ↑ Matthew 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 5048 ~τελειόω~ teleioo \@tel-i-o’-o\@ from 5046; TDNT-8:79,1161; {See TDNT 785} v AV-make perfect 12, perfect 4, finish 4, fulfil 2, be perfect 1, consecrate 1; 24
- 1) to make perfect, complete
- 1a) to carry through completely, to accomplish, finish, bring to an end
- 2) to complete (perfect)
- 2a) add what is yet wanting in order to render a thing full
- 2b) to be found perfect
- 3) to bring to the end (goal) proposed
- 4) to accomplish
- 4a) bring to a close or fulfilment by event
- 4a1) of the prophecies of the scriptures
- 4a) bring to a close or fulfilment by event
- oikos teleios is the perfect marriage in Rome. “perfect community” (koinonia teleios) ,
- teleio ,a can be a complete adoption and has been asociated with redeemed.
- Philo writes (Mos. 1.19). "And the princess, seeing him so advanced beyond his age, conceived for him an even greater fondness than before, and took [adopted] him for her son, having at an earlier time artificially enlarged the figure of her womb to make him pass as her real and not a supposititious child” (LCL, trans. F. H. Colson)."
- 1) to make perfect, complete
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 3831 ~πανήγυρις~ paneguris \@pan-ay’-goo-ris\@ from 3956 and a derivative of 58; n f AV-general assembly 1; 1
- 1) a festal gathering of the whole people to celebrate public games or other solemnities
- 2) a public festal assembly
- ↑ Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
- 2 Peter 2:15 "Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;"
- Isaiah 54:7 "For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee."
- ↑ 5047 ~τελειότης~ teleiotes \@tel-i-ot’-ace\@ from 5046; associated with 5048; TDNT-8:78,1161; {See TDNT 785} n f AV-perfectness 1, perfection 1; 2
- 1) perfection
- 1a) the state of the more intelligent
- 1b) moral and spiritual perfection
- 1) perfection
- ↑ Colossians 3:14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness <5047>. Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection <5047>; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
- ↑ Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
- Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
- Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
- ↑ Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
- ↑ In the Tao Te Ching, Lao-Tzu wrote, "The world can be turned over to the man who loves all people as he loves himself." Buddha too said "If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another." and "Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful." and finally echoing John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Buddha stated, “Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.” The Hindu says, "Do naught unto others which would cause pain unto you." (Mahabharata 5, 1517.) Even Islam says "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself." (Sunnah Hadith.) But then men who do not love their fellow man the same as their tribe come and change the meaning of "brother" and Religion.
- ↑ Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
- Luke 6:37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
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