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[[File:turn-around.jpg|left|thumb|Repent!!! Repent!!!]]There are a number of words translated "repent" in the Bible but in the New Testament it is consistently from the Greek word metanoeo<Ref>3340 ~μετανοέω~ metanoeo  from 3326 and 3539; v  AV-repent 34; 34
[[File:turn-around.jpg|right|thumb|When the people stayed in darkness and followed the way of the [[Pharisees]] that made the word of God to none effect, the people did not think correctly about God and scripture.<Br> The people needed to '''[[Repent]]'''... and [[Seek]] The [[Kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]]. <Br>The [[welfare]] of [[public religion]] is not righteous, but are the [[wages of unrighteousness]]!<Br>The inability to make good [[choice]]s in the [[world]] is because the the people live in [[darkness]] because they hate the light. The reason for that hate comes from their [[appetite]] for [[benefits]] through the "[[legal charity]]" of the [[social welfare]] State. <Br>The "right of passage" for all followers of Christ, young and old, is to [[repent]] of thinking that is in opposition to "[[The Way]]" of Christ and God, and start [[seek]]ing the [[kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]] instead of the "[[wages of unrighteousness|rewards of unrighteousness]]".<Br>The [[Church]] established by Christ is [[one form of government]] that does not [[exercise authority]] one over the other. The most predominant form of government throughout history and around the [[world]] was a voluntary system self-organized in patterns of [[Tens]].<Br>Our  review of the book "[[The Psychology of Totalitarianism]]" points to [[the way]] to obtain a state of psychological and spiritual immunity through the practice and process of [[repentance]]. <Br>Repenting in the Greek was "metanoeo"<Ref name="metanoeo">{{3340}}</Ref> which is "thinking differently" but specifically changing the way we think from the thinking of the [[Pharisees]] and others who thought [[legal charity]] through the [[rulers]] who "[[exercise authority]]" was okay and moral. That, of course, as Jesus proclaimed, made the [[Logos|word]] of God '''[[Corban|to none effect]]'''. ]]
: 1) to change one’s mind, i.e. to repent
: 2) to change one’s mind for better, heartily to amend with abhorrence of one’s past sins</Ref> which means to change ones mind.


To change your mind or your thinking will cause you to change what you do and often the way you do it.


We were told to [[Repent]] by [[Baptism|John the Baptist]] and Jesus Christ and to seek the righteousness of God and His kingdom or government which is to say we were to seek a righteous way to govern ourselves in the [[World|world]] but not of it.
== Repent! ==


The people of the [[World|world]] had provided for the needy of society by [[Freewill offerings]] for centuries. Both Judea and [[Rome]] had done this through  the religious institutions they established by charity, being free gifts. Over time those systems changed, evolved and began to operate a different way. They established different [[Welfare types|types]] of systems in order to provide for the [[Welfare|welfare]] of the people.
All the problems of the [[world]] begin with the way we think.  


They built stone [[Temples|temples]] and altered the way they collected the [[sacrifice |sacrifice]] of the people. They called it [[Corban]] but it was making the word of God and the prophets to none effect. The systems they created required that rulers who [[Exercises authority|Exercised Authority]] one over the other to force the offerings from the people.<Ref>1 Samuel 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.</Ref>
To [[repent]] is simply to change the way we think.
 
That is not so easy to do if we are not willing to admit the way we have been thinking may be wrong.
 
If there was a [[shortlist]] of things to do in the [[Doctrines of Jesus]], to [[repent]] would be at the top.
 
But what did it mean to [[repent]]?
 
The [[Christ]], [[John the Baptist]], the [[Apostles]], and all the [[prophets]] have [[warnings|warned]] and [[Told from the beginning|told]] us the [[truth]] about [[The Way]] to liberty under God. Yet, through [[sophistry]] and [[deceive|deception]] the whole [[world]] has believed a [[lie]].
 
It appears that many people who think they are [[Religion|religious]], including the the [[Modern Christian]], have become like the [[Pharisees]] and their [[Corban]]. And they are not willing to see that they are in need of [[Repentance]].
 
'''"[[Protection]] draws to it subjection; subjection protection."'''<Ref>Protectio trahit subjectionem, subjectio protectionem. Coke, Littl. 65."</Ref>
 
The ''means and methods'' through which societies [[seek]] that [[protection]] will determine the outcome of [[liberty]] or [[bondage]].
 
Most of the [[Modern Church]]es do seem to be the ''blind leading the blind''<Ref name="Blindlead">{{Blindlead}}</Ref>  when it comes to real repentance and [[The Way]] of [[Christ]] and the [[Early Church]].
 
Since, they are often promoting [[covetous practices|practices]] which [[Corban|makes the word of God to none effect]] and are engaged in [[workers of iniquity|works of iniquity]] and fail to encourage the practice of [[Pure Religion]], most [[pastors]], preachers, and [[priests]] are also in need of repentance but remain under a [[Strong delusion|stronger delusion]].
 
=== Terms ===
 
There are a number of words translated "[[repent]]" in the Bible, but in the New Testament it is derived consistently from the Greek word  ''metanoeo''<Ref name="metanoeo">{{3340}}</Ref> which means "to think a different way" or "to change one's mind".
To change your mind or your thinking will cause you to change what you do and often the way you do it. While being sorry may lead to [[Repentance]], to repent does not mean to be sorry. You can certainly be sorry without repenting. 
 
We were also told to [[Repent|repent]] by [[John the Baptist]] and to make straight [[the way]] of the Lord<Ref>[[Matthew 3]]:3  For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
: Mark 1:3  The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
: [[Luke 3]]:4  As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
: [[John 1]]:23  He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
</Ref> which was a common theme of the first testament.<Ref> [[Psalms 5]]:8  Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
: [[Isaiah 40]]:3  The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
: [[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.
: [[Jeremiah 31]]:9  They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
</Ref> But what would that look like and how would that set you free?
 
Moses set a whole nation free, and Jesus set his followers free indeed. The Way he taught prepared the people for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Could it do the same today?
 
== We the people were warned ==
 
 
* [[Proverbs 1]] warns us not to [[consent]] with those who want to make gain by having [[one purse]] which is the nature of all forms of [[socialism]] in the [[world]] today.
* [[Proverbs 23]] warns us to not eat the [[dainties]] of [[rulers]] who [[exercise authority]] ©or sit at their [[tables]] of the [[unrighteous mammon]] as Christ explained.
* Samuel told [[Saul Syndrome|Saul]] his kingdom would fall because he [[foolish]]ly [[force]]d the contributions of the people like [[Herod]] and the [[Pharisees]] were doing with their system of [[Corban]].
* David warns us in [[Psalms 69]] that their [[table]] which should have been for their [[welfare]] will likely become a [[snare|snare and a trap]].
* Paul repeats the same warning in [[Romans 11]]:9 that those [[tables]] of [[rulers]] with their [[dainties]] are a [[snare]]. They are a [[snare]] because they are based on [[covetous practices]] of the [[world]] and not upon [[love]] that only comes with [[faith]], [[hope]], and [[charity]].
* Peter warned that those [[covetous practices]] would make you [[merchandise]] and [[curse children]].
* [[John the Baptist]] told you to do it by [[charity]] which was the straight way and not by [[force]], Jesus, Paul, Peter, and all the prophets left us [[warnings]] about [[covetous practices]] that makes us [[merchandise]] and [[curse children]].
* Even secular historians like [[Polybius]] and [[Plutarch]] and so many others have warned us about [[benefits]] offered rulers.
* [[Galatians 5]]:15  warned us not to  [[bite]] one another less we be devoured.
* Jesus forbid us to be like the governments of the gentiles who called themselves [[benefactors]] but provided their [[benefits]] by exercising authority.
 
All these warnings and prohibitions oppose not only socialism but any form of government [[welfare]] by forced contributions.
 
=== Jesus presses ===
 
[[Jesus]] Christ also presses the issue of a fundamental need for repentance over and over again in His teachings<Ref>[[Matthew 4]]:17  From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the [[kingdom of heaven]] is at hand.
: [[Mark 1]]:15  And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the [[kingdom of God]] is at hand: [[repent]] ye, and believe the gospel.
: [[Mark 6]]:12  And they went out, and preached that men should repent.</Ref> warning us that without a changing of the mind we will ''perish''.<Ref name="perish">[[Luke 13]]:3  I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.... 5  I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
: [[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.</Ref> Not only were we told to repent but we were also to [[seek]] the [[Kingdom of God]]and the [[Righteousness|righteousness]] of God. The ''straight way'' is the [[The Way|righteous way]] that God has sent His prophets to teach us from the beginning.
 
The way of [[socialism]] is not [[the way]] of [[Was Jesus a socialist|Jesus]]. In fact, [[Corban|Jesus even opposed all forms]] of [[welfare]] provided through [[force]]d [[Offering|offerings]] by way of [[taxation]].
 
== Thinking differently ==
 
The [[Kingdom of God]] operated in a different way than the kingdoms of the [[world]]. Israel was to operate as that righteous government of God sustained by [[freewill offerings]] given in [[charity]] to public [[titular]] servants who did not [[exercise authority]] one over the other but served a [[network]] of [[free assemblies]] bound, not by [[CCC|contracts, covenants and constitutions]], but by a system of [[love]] for neighbor as much as you love yourselves.<Ref>[[Leviticus 19]]:18  Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.</Ref> This is why there were commandments not to kill, steal or even [[covet]] anything that is your neighbors. But Israel and many of the Jewish sects had perverted and abandoned the way of the Lord taught by [[Moses]] and were [[Corban|making the word of God to none effect]], causing the nation to bear no [[fruit]]. Because of their sinful and [[covetous practices]] Jesus as the [[Christ]] was going to take<Ref>[[Matthew 21]]:43 Therefore say I unto you, The [[kingdom of God]] shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.</Ref> the [[Kingdom of God]] from them and appoint it to another group, His "[[little flock]]".
 
The people of the [[World|world]] established by [[Rome]] had provided for the needy of society by [[Freewill offerings]] for centuries. Both Judea and [[Rome]] had done this through the religious institutions which they established. These institutions were originally dependent upon [[charity]] alone through the [[Freewill offerings]] or gifts of the people, for the people and by the people. These institutions were religious because [[Religion]] was how you ''performed your duty to God and your fellowman''.
 
Over time, those systems changed, evolved or devolved, and they began to operate in a different ''way'', according to the way of [[force]]. They established different [[Welfare types|types of social welfare systems]] in order to provide for the people of their organized society, which was also organized in another way.
 
== The way of bondage ==
 
 
Through a variety of [[Social compacts]] men were granted an authority to exercise authority one over the other, make laws and [[force]] the contribution of the people. In theory, those men were the [[Benefactors]] of society who controlled these [[Roots of the Welfare State|institutions of social welfare]] through which they gained more and more power over society and the persons who were the members of those societies. According to [[Polybius]], the people developed an ''"[[appetite]] for [[benefits]] and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force"''. This new way of thinking justified a covetous approach to a form of civil welfare until the people "accustomed to feed(ing) at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence..." Both [[Rome]] and Judea created similar systems of welfare which depended upon "a rule of [[force]] and violence" which not only altered the minds of the people but became a '''[[snare]]''' and a trap.
 
They built stone [[Temples|temples]] funded by [[tribute]] and [[taxation]] of their neighbors, and this altered the way the people [[sacrifice |sacrificed]] for their neighbor. They no longer lived by [[faith]], [[hope]], and [[charity]] but by [[force]], fear, and [[covet]]ousness. These [[covetous practices]] degenerate the people, make them [[merchandise]] as they are entangled again in the [[yoke]] of [[bondage]], [[curse children]] with trillions of dollars in debt; and will cause the people to eventually perish<Ref name="perish"></Ref> in spirit and in the flesh unless they repent and think a different way.
 
== The way of life ==
 
How did so many of the Jews and the people of the [[world]] end up needing to repent or perish?<Ref name="perish"></Ref>
 
This all came about at the time of Rome and Herod because men with all ''deceivableness of unrighteousness'' many unmoored the meanings of the ancient text from their [[metaphor]] and [[allegory|allegories]] ''because they received not the love of the truth''<Ref>[[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.</Ref> and cunningly devised new unrighteous ways using the ancient names so that the people might believe a lie.<Ref>[[2 Thessalonians 2]]:11 And for this cause God shall send them [[strong delusion]], that they should believe a lie:</Ref>
 
They called their new system by the ancient name [[Corban]], but this ''new deal'' was making the word of God to none effect. The systems they created required rulers who [[Exercises authority|Exercised Authority]] one over the other to [[force]] the offerings from the people, which was called [[foolish]] by Samuel<Ref>[[1 Samuel 13]]:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done [[foolish]]ly: 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.</Ref> and forbidden by Christ.<Ref>[[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.
: 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.
: [[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]].</Ref>


: Christ said it was not to be that way.
: Christ said it was not to be that way.
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: To not covet our neighbor's things.
: To not covet our neighbor's things.
: We were told not to make agreements and covenants with unbelievers.
: We were told not to make agreements and covenants with unbelievers.
: That means if we repent we will stop coveting and start practicing [[Pure Religion]].
: That means, if we [[repent]], we will stop coveting and start practicing [[Pure Religion]].


Until we do what Christ said and create a [[Daily ministration]] through [[Charity]] we have not really repented. A hundred years ago the Church was the social welfare of the people. Today the government is doing a form of charity and the Church has abandoned that directive of Christ. Instead of communion the people grow fat and lazy on the free [[Bread and circuses]] of their new [[Father]].
Jesus spoke to the [[Pharisees]] in Luke 3:8 "Bring forth therefore [[fruit]]s 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."


: "Look out kid, it's something you did
We can ask the same things of the [[Modern Christians]] are you ''Bringing forth therefore [[Fruit|fruits]] worthy of repentance, and saying within yourselves, We have Christ and God our father'' while we [[covet]] our neighbor's sweat and toil through the ''[[fathers]] of the earth'' who offer us the [[wages of unrighteousness]].<Ref>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.
: God knows when, but you're doing it again" Bob Dylan
: Romans 6:13  Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15  What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
: 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.
: 2 Peter 2:13  And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
: 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]];</Ref>


In Judea and in the [[World]] the people had shifted in their thinking from systems of [[Corban]] or [[Welfare|welfare]] which operated by free will offerings of the people to ones that operated by forced offerings compelled and imposed on the people by men who called themselves [[Benefactors]] but who exercised authority.
The distinguishing characteristic of [[early Christian]] was their "union and discipline". They not only refused to receive the [[benefits]] offered by the [[Rome|Roman]] welfare system of [[Corban|qorban]], with its compelled contribution and registered membership, but they actually provided a [[Welfare|welfare]] system for all Christians throughout the Empire of Rome and beyond, through a [[network]] of assemblies who were bound by [[faith]], [[hope]], and [[charity]], by way of the [[perfect law of liberty]]. The people who wrote the [http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/boh/bookOfTheHundreds_v4.1.pdf Book of One Hundreds] did not do that. Nor did they organize their churches like Christ [[commanded]] [[His Church]] to [[tens|organize]].


[[Baptism|John the Baptist]], Jesus Christ, The apostles and the [[Church]] said it was not to be that way just as Abraham, Moses and the prophets said in the Old Testament.
== Turning around ==


We were to live by faith, hope and charity and the [[Perfect law of liberty]].
Unless people who claim to be Christians strive to have a [[Daily ministration|daily ministration]] that reaches beyond their local group, then they really are not educating their neighbor nor their children in [[The Way]] of Christ's [[kingdom of God]], and they should not be identified as Christians. Unless people are gathering together to [[Sacrifice|serve and sacrifice]] as Christ did, then they are not coming in His [[Name]], and they are not manifesting the ''fruits worthy of [[repentance]]''.  


Jesus came to change our mind and our hearts so that we might be saved. If we do not repent though we say we believe in Jesus we are false and our fruits will not be liberty but [[Bondage|bondage]].
Until we do what [[Christ]] said -- which includes creating a [[Daily ministration]] through a [[Network]] of [[Charity]] and [[Hope]] -- our [[Faith]] is dead, and we have not really repented. A hundred years ago, the Church was the social welfare of the people. Today the government of the State is providing a form of benefit, not based on charity, but dependent upon [[Benefactors]] who exercise authority one over the other. These are the [[Fathers]] of the earth who identify the people as their children of the State. The people are again entangled in the [[Elements]] of the [[World]]. The modern Church has abandoned that directive of Christ. The [[communion]] of the people is not the [[flesh and blood]] of Christ freely given, but they bite one another, and they are devoured in the process. They grow fat and lazy on the free [[Bread and circuses]] of their new [[Father]].


It is time we really repent and begin attending to the {{Template:Weightier matters}}.
: "Look out kid, it's something you did
 
: God knows when, but you're doing it again" Bob Dylan
 
== Appearances ==
 
* Matthew 3:2  And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
* Matthew 3:8  Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
* 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:
* Matthew 4:17  From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
* Matthew 9:13  But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
* Matthew 11:20  Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
* Matthew 11:21  Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
* Matthew 12:41  The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
* Matthew 21:29  He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
* Matthew 21:29  He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
* Matthew 21:32  For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
* Matthew 27:3  Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
* Mark 1:4  John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
* Mark 1:15  And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
* Mark 2:17  When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
* Mark 6:12  And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
* Luke 3:3  And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
* 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 5:32  I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
* Luke 10:13  Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
* Luke 11:32  The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
* Luke 13:3  I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
* Luke 13:5  I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.


* Luke 15:7  I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
In Judea and in the [[World]] the people had shifted in their thinking, from systems of [[Corban]] or [[Welfare|welfare]] which operated by free will offerings of the people, to ones that operated by forced offerings compelled and imposed on the people by men who called themselves [[Benefactors]] but who exercised authority.
* Luke 15:10  Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
* Luke 16:30  And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
* Luke 17:3  Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
* Luke 17:4  And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
* Luke 24:47  And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
* Acts 2:38  Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
* Acts 3:19  Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
* Acts 5:31  Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
* Acts 8:22  Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
* Acts 11:18  When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
* Acts 13:24  When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
* Acts 17:30  And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
* Acts 19:4  Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.


* Acts 20:21  Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
[[Baptism|John the Baptist]], Jesus Christ, the apostles and the [[Church]] said it was not to be that way, just as [[Abraham]] who would not take a thread by the power of force<Ref>Genesis 14:23 That I will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:</Ref>, and [[Moses]] who also set up living [[Altars]] to receive [[freewill offerings]], and all the prophets who said, throughout the Old Testament, not to [[covet]] they neighbor's goods.
* Acts 26:20  But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
* Romans 2:4  Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
* Romans 11:29  For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
* 2 Corinthians 7:8  For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
* 2 Corinthians 7:9  Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
* 2 Corinthians 7:10  For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
* 2 Corinthians 12:21  And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
* 2 Timothy 2:25  In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
* Hebrews 6:1  Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
* Hebrews 6:6  If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
* Hebrews 7:21  (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
* Hebrews 12:17  For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
* 2 Peter 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
* Revelation 2:5  Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
* Revelation 2:16  Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
* Revelation 2:21  And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
* Revelation 2:22  Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
* Revelation 3:3  Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
* Revelation 3:19  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
* Revelation 9:20  And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
* Revelation 9:21  Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
* Revelation 16:9  And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
* Revelation 16:11  And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.


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We were to live by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]] and the [[Perfect law of liberty]].


Jesus came to ''change our mind and our hearts'' so that we might be [[saved]]. If we repent of the ways of [[Nimrod]] and the [[Fathers]] of the earth who offer [[benefits]] at the expense of our neighbor, then we will need to gather together in true [[faith]], bound by the [[hope]] and [[love]] of Christ. If we do not repent, though we say we believe in Jesus, we are false and our fruits will not be liberty but [[Bondage|bondage]].


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It is time we really repent and begin attending to the {{Template:Weightier matters}}

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When the people stayed in darkness and followed the way of the Pharisees that made the word of God to none effect, the people did not think correctly about God and scripture.
The people needed to Repent... and Seek The Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
The welfare of public religion is not righteous, but are the wages of unrighteousness!
The inability to make good choices in the world is because the the people live in darkness because they hate the light. The reason for that hate comes from their appetite for benefits through the "legal charity" of the social welfare State.
The "right of passage" for all followers of Christ, young and old, is to repent of thinking that is in opposition to "The Way" of Christ and God, and start seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness instead of the "rewards of unrighteousness".
The Church established by Christ is one form of government that does not exercise authority one over the other. The most predominant form of government throughout history and around the world was a voluntary system self-organized in patterns of Tens.
Our review of the book "The Psychology of Totalitarianism" points to the way to obtain a state of psychological and spiritual immunity through the practice and process of repentance.
Repenting in the Greek was "metanoeo"[1] which is "thinking differently" but specifically changing the way we think from the thinking of the Pharisees and others who thought legal charity through the rulers who "exercise authority" was okay and moral. That, of course, as Jesus proclaimed, made the word of God to none effect.


Repent!

All the problems of the world begin with the way we think.

To repent is simply to change the way we think.

That is not so easy to do if we are not willing to admit the way we have been thinking may be wrong.

If there was a shortlist of things to do in the Doctrines of Jesus, to repent would be at the top.

But what did it mean to repent?

The Christ, John the Baptist, the Apostles, and all the prophets have warned and told us the truth about The Way to liberty under God. Yet, through sophistry and deception the whole world has believed a lie.

It appears that many people who think they are religious, including the the Modern Christian, have become like the Pharisees and their Corban. And they are not willing to see that they are in need of Repentance.

"Protection draws to it subjection; subjection protection."[2]

The means and methods through which societies seek that protection will determine the outcome of liberty or bondage.

Most of the Modern Churches do seem to be the blind leading the blind[3] when it comes to real repentance and The Way of Christ and the Early Church.

Since, they are often promoting practices which makes the word of God to none effect and are engaged in works of iniquity and fail to encourage the practice of Pure Religion, most pastors, preachers, and priests are also in need of repentance but remain under a stronger delusion.

Terms

There are a number of words translated "repent" in the Bible, but in the New Testament it is derived consistently from the Greek word metanoeo[1] which means "to think a different way" or "to change one's mind". To change your mind or your thinking will cause you to change what you do and often the way you do it. While being sorry may lead to Repentance, to repent does not mean to be sorry. You can certainly be sorry without repenting.

We were also told to repent by John the Baptist and to make straight the way of the Lord[4] which was a common theme of the first testament.[5] But what would that look like and how would that set you free?

Moses set a whole nation free, and Jesus set his followers free indeed. The Way he taught prepared the people for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Could it do the same today?

We the people were warned

All these warnings and prohibitions oppose not only socialism but any form of government welfare by forced contributions.

Jesus presses

Jesus Christ also presses the issue of a fundamental need for repentance over and over again in His teachings[6] warning us that without a changing of the mind we will perish.[7] Not only were we told to repent but we were also to seek the Kingdom of Godand the righteousness of God. The straight way is the righteous way that God has sent His prophets to teach us from the beginning.

The way of socialism is not the way of Jesus. In fact, Jesus even opposed all forms of welfare provided through forced offerings by way of taxation.

Thinking differently

The Kingdom of God operated in a different way than the kingdoms of the world. Israel was to operate as that righteous government of God sustained by freewill offerings given in charity to public titular servants who did not exercise authority one over the other but served a network of free assemblies bound, not by contracts, covenants and constitutions, but by a system of love for neighbor as much as you love yourselves.[8] This is why there were commandments not to kill, steal or even covet anything that is your neighbors. But Israel and many of the Jewish sects had perverted and abandoned the way of the Lord taught by Moses and were making the word of God to none effect, causing the nation to bear no fruit. Because of their sinful and covetous practices Jesus as the Christ was going to take[9] the Kingdom of God from them and appoint it to another group, His "little flock".

The people of the world established by Rome had provided for the needy of society by Freewill offerings for centuries. Both Judea and Rome had done this through the religious institutions which they established. These institutions were originally dependent upon charity alone through the Freewill offerings or gifts of the people, for the people and by the people. These institutions were religious because Religion was how you performed your duty to God and your fellowman.

Over time, those systems changed, evolved or devolved, and they began to operate in a different way, according to the way of force. They established different types of social welfare systems in order to provide for the people of their organized society, which was also organized in another way.

The way of bondage

Through a variety of Social compacts men were granted an authority to exercise authority one over the other, make laws and force the contribution of the people. In theory, those men were the Benefactors of society who controlled these institutions of social welfare through which they gained more and more power over society and the persons who were the members of those societies. According to Polybius, the people developed an "appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force". This new way of thinking justified a covetous approach to a form of civil welfare until the people "accustomed to feed(ing) at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence..." Both Rome and Judea created similar systems of welfare which depended upon "a rule of force and violence" which not only altered the minds of the people but became a snare and a trap.

They built stone temples funded by tribute and taxation of their neighbors, and this altered the way the people sacrificed for their neighbor. They no longer lived by faith, hope, and charity but by force, fear, and covetousness. These covetous practices degenerate the people, make them merchandise as they are entangled again in the yoke of bondage, curse children with trillions of dollars in debt; and will cause the people to eventually perish[7] in spirit and in the flesh unless they repent and think a different way.

The way of life

How did so many of the Jews and the people of the world end up needing to repent or perish?[7]

This all came about at the time of Rome and Herod because men with all deceivableness of unrighteousness many unmoored the meanings of the ancient text from their metaphor and allegories because they received not the love of the truth[10] and cunningly devised new unrighteous ways using the ancient names so that the people might believe a lie.[11]

They called their new system by the ancient name Corban, but this new deal was making the word of God to none effect. The systems they created required rulers who Exercised Authority one over the other to force the offerings from the people, which was called foolish by Samuel[12] and forbidden by Christ.[13]

Christ said it was not to be that way.
Told us to live by love and charity.
To not covet our neighbor's things.
We were told not to make agreements and covenants with unbelievers.
That means, if we repent, we will stop coveting and start practicing Pure Religion.

Jesus spoke to the Pharisees in 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."

We can ask the same things of the Modern Christians are you Bringing forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and saying within yourselves, We have Christ and God our father while we covet our neighbor's sweat and toil through the fathers of the earth who offer us the wages of unrighteousness.[14]

The distinguishing characteristic of early Christian was their "union and discipline". They not only refused to receive the benefits offered by the Roman welfare system of qorban, with its compelled contribution and registered membership, but they actually provided a welfare system for all Christians throughout the Empire of Rome and beyond, through a network of assemblies who were bound by faith, hope, and charity, by way of the perfect law of liberty. The people who wrote the Book of One Hundreds did not do that. Nor did they organize their churches like Christ commanded His Church to organize.

Turning around

Unless people who claim to be Christians strive to have a daily ministration that reaches beyond their local group, then they really are not educating their neighbor nor their children in The Way of Christ's kingdom of God, and they should not be identified as Christians. Unless people are gathering together to serve and sacrifice as Christ did, then they are not coming in His Name, and they are not manifesting the fruits worthy of repentance.

Until we do what Christ said -- which includes creating a Daily ministration through a Network of Charity and Hope -- our Faith is dead, and we have not really repented. A hundred years ago, the Church was the social welfare of the people. Today the government of the State is providing a form of benefit, not based on charity, but dependent upon Benefactors who exercise authority one over the other. These are the Fathers of the earth who identify the people as their children of the State. The people are again entangled in the Elements of the World. The modern Church has abandoned that directive of Christ. The communion of the people is not the flesh and blood of Christ freely given, but they bite one another, and they are devoured in the process. They grow fat and lazy on the free Bread and circuses of their new Father.

"Look out kid, it's something you did
God knows when, but you're doing it again" Bob Dylan

In Judea and in the World the people had shifted in their thinking, from systems of Corban or welfare which operated by free will offerings of the people, to ones that operated by forced offerings compelled and imposed on the people by men who called themselves Benefactors but who exercised authority.

John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, the apostles and the Church said it was not to be that way, just as Abraham who would not take a thread by the power of force[15], and Moses who also set up living Altars to receive freewill offerings, and all the prophets who said, throughout the Old Testament, not to covet they neighbor's goods.

We were to live by faith, hope and charity and the Perfect law of liberty.

Jesus came to change our mind and our hearts so that we might be saved. If we repent of the ways of Nimrod and the Fathers of the earth who offer benefits at the expense of our neighbor, then we will need to gather together in true faith, bound by the hope and love of Christ. If we do not repent, though we say we believe in Jesus, we are false and our fruits will not be liberty but bondage.

It is time we really repent and begin 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.

"Follow me!" —Jesus the Christ.

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 3340 ~μετανοέω~ metanoeo from 3326 and 3539; v AV-repent 34; 34
    1) to change one’s mind, i.e. to repent
    2) to change one’s mind for better, heartily to amend with abhorrence of one’s past sins
  2. ↑ Protectio trahit subjectionem, subjectio protectionem. Coke, Littl. 65."
  3. ↑ 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."
  4. ↑ Matthew 3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
    Mark 1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
    Luke 3:4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
    John 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
  5. ↑ Psalms 5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
    Isaiah 40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
    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.
    Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
  6. ↑ Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
    Mark 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
    Mark 6:12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Luke 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.... 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
    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.
  8. ↑ Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
  9. ↑ Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ 2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
  12. ↑ 1 Samuel 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.
  13. ↑ 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.
    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.
    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.
  14. ↑ 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.
    Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
    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.
    2 Peter 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
    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;
  15. ↑ Genesis 14:23 That I will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
  16. ↑ 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.
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