Pacta servanda sunt

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Pacta servanda sunt, Agreements must be kept.

From the beginning, the leaders in Israel were not to oppress one another or strangers, covet their neighbor’s goods, or do anything that might return the people to the bondage of Egypt. Those precepts of God are imposed upon the Church established by God.

If the members of the congregation do not remain free in their relationship to each other and their ministers, then the perfect law of liberty, their God given rights, and their free souls under God shall diminish. Each man must love his neighbor’s freedom as if it were his own. It is only the corpus of their sacrifice that is entrusted to solemnize the truth of the Church and the right to be ruled by God.

1 Peter 2:16 As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Every organization or government of men has its own rituals and ceremonies, rites and services, forms and protocols. There must be meaning behind those forms to give substance to the whole of their creation. The Church and God’s kingdom have always been established on the same “precept upon precept”. The governments of the world often use the same precepts, too.

The people should never be unequally yoked. Until the days of John the Baptist, men tried to establish the kingdom of God by force. John would only rely upon charity. “Mammon”¹ means a trust or the entrusting of wealth to another. The unrighteous mammon is wealth accumulated by force and fear. Those who seek to live by His righteousness must learn to live by faith, hope, and charity.

In the daily ministration to the people, the ordained ministers each remain autonomous in the exercise of their God-given conscience. By faith, hope, and charity, His kingdom of righteousness comes to life in the world, but not of it. The love of Christ is sealed in the blood of His sacrifice which provides all men their everlasting entrance to His kingdom at hand for those souls who will seek it.

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” Galatians 5:1

Many of the people seeking the kingdom are entangled in yokes of bondage, debt, surety, and memberships. The Ordained Ministers in congregations, living under Christ’s commands, must be unbound in their ministry just as they are bound to Christ. In His Church, the overseers in congregations that may be called orders of the Church neither exercise authority nor stand between God and man’s righteous worship. But they do stand between those men who would be gods over neighbors and brothers. The ordained minister must remain foreign to the world - in it, but not of it.

In this divine arrangement established by God, there is a balance of choice and power.

This divine design of choice in service, of brotherhood and community forges one body, one nation under God conceived in love, propagated by free benefaction, and sealed in hope forever and ever, amen.

“For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many.... But now [are they] many members, yet but one body.” (1 Co 2:12, 20)

The authority by which a corporation or body is formed is the authority of original jurisdiction. Centuries ago, some churches began to incorporate under other authorities so that they might hold property in their own name rather than Christ’s. The Church, by definition, was formed and established by Christ alone, and remains autonomous under the Sovereignty of Christ only if it adheres to His authority faithfully.

The Church is the body or corpus of Christ. The congregations are free souls who follow the ways of Christ under the perfect law of liberty. They may not covet their neighbor’s goods by the agency of institutions of men, but shall seek only to be of service to one another.

Together with the Church, they form a righteous mammon, the kingdom of God at hand.

1“Mammon, an Aramaic word mamon meaning ‘wealth’ … It is probably derived from Ma’amon, something entrusted to safe keeping.” Encyclopedia Britannica.

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