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Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist and Jesus and the early Church advocated a Daily ministration for the needy of the Christian community that was dependent on Charity only and it was not like the system of Corban of the Pharisees nor the free bread of Rome. It was their Pure Religion that brought them into a Christian conflict with Public religion and the Covetous Practices of the World.
The word charity is not found in the Old Testament but freewill offerings, offering which appears as Corban in the New Testament and of course sacrifice do appear many times, to say nothing of word tithing which was a form of charity.
In the New Testament we see the word Agape translated as both love and charity. But there is also sacrifice and of course the word gift and give.
Taxation is also a form of sacrifice but it is about and by force and the gifts, gratuities and benefits provided by such legal charity destroys liberty and degenerates the masses. This is why they are identified as the unrighteous mammon, the dainties of rulers, the wages of unrighteousness, and the One purse by of those greedy for gain who that through their covetous practices are snared as merchandise by the tables that should have been for their welfare.
Pure Religion was providing for the care of the needy unspotted by the world of force.

Fervent Charity

1 Peter 4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

The root cause of all violence, oppression, depression, corruption, and despair in society today is our dependence upon the modern welfare State which is the antithesis of what Moses and Jesus, and all the prophets taught the people to do.

In one of Paul's letter he informs the Collosians that covetousness is idolatry. In this statement he is also identifying idolatry as fornication which is a metaphor for worship, uncleanness which is in a moral sense having impure or selfish motives. The Greek word translated "inordinate affection is Pathos which is distinguished from the Logos of Christ. This thing clled idolatry is accompanied not only by a strong desire but an "evil concupiscence that overcomes reason, e.g.the logos.

Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Paul will go on to emphasize in in the same chapter that charity is above all things. In Corinthians he not only warns us to not be partakers those benefits and dainties of rulers redistributed from the temples of idols but we should not even touch them. He goes on to warn the Corinthians about their tables as he did in Romans to not be partakers of their tables just as David warned the people and Proverbs and all the Prophets before.

Remember that Paul calls out the Corinthians that they give less than many telling them that with out charity you have nothing and charity is not just about giving things but about love which is sacrifice and needs to be our motivation in all things.

Even the Corinthian historian Polybius warned 150 years before Christ, "The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch."

Will of the masses

There is no will among the masses to divest society of the education to "legal charity". It can only be done through fervent charity one individual at a time

Fervent Charity is the antithesis of legal charity which degenerates society, injures the family, and demoralizes the people. Fervent charity strengthens the poor and humbles the rich. It breaths life into care which is the heart of a free society. Without a daily ministration of fervent charity the social bonds of society which only come with the perfect law of liberty will decay and break among those have an appetite for the dainties of rulers. The table of men who exercise authority is a snare and is always making the whole of society vulnerable to ruin.

Christians took care of all the social welfare of their society by Freewill offerings. Those offerings were freely and completely given as if they were Burnt Offerings to the ministers or stones of a sacred altar of God. Those lively stones were caretakers of the estate of Christ by His appointment and had no personal estate of their own. What was given to them was given to a sacred purpose trust separate from the world.

Will of righteousness

Their Daily ministration was tended to by a network of Church ministers. They did this by their fervent charity alone, free will giving in The Living Network of Christ;s ministers.

There was lots of Government welfare offered by the Pharisees and Herod and of course Rome had an extensive welfare system managed through their own Temples but you had to sign up under an oath where the contributions were to be compelled by civil law.

While Peter is saying above all things have fervent charity James said above all things swear not

This is where the Christian conflict brought persecution. Christians would not apply to men who called themselves Benefactors but exercised authority, even if it meant death. Modern Christians do that in every country even though it is coveting their neighbor's goods and contrary to the instructions of Christ.

Real Christians strive to keep the commandments of Christ because they actually love the real Christ and His doctrines.

Do the will

So, what can we do to preach Christ in word and deed?

Every congregation who becomes a part of The Living Network is also a part of the Faith Emergency Ministry Auxiliary of the Church, the FEMA of Christ.

To develop your FEMA skills you must practice, develop, and edify the Body of Christ by 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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"Follow me!" —Jesus the Christ.

• One of the most important things to do is to become involved in a network of Charitable Practices. Everyone should want to join a Living Network of Love and Charity.

• If you think you have a calling to be a Minister of God or you might want to dedicate your life to Christ as an Ordained Minister of His Holy Church, contact us to start the process of discipleship and become the benefactors who exercise only love, NOT authority.

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Priests and kings

Understanding the term priest requires that everyone look at the original duties of a priest within societies. Every family had someone who fulfilled the role of priest with in the family.

The Levites were called out to be the Church in the wilderness to be a priest to the nation. They could only receive a tithe by the free choice of the head of the families of the people. The people held the power of the purse of the nation Tithing In Conscience to the Levites of their choice "according to their service".

The kingdom of God by its natural structure was Elder driven since and elder was the head of the individual family.

This was why the ideas of one purse, or a golden calf, or the appetite for the dainties of the king were so abhorrent to that earlier Church in the wilderness and their prophets before it was corrupted by the ways of Cain's city State, Nimrod's Babylon, Pharaoh's Bondage of Egypt and the Caesars of Rome which we see in the Corban of the Pharisees and Herod.

The Modern Churches' were corrupted by the same covetous practices introduced into America by men like FDR and LBJ through what they called a "New Deal".

These ways of socialism have been creeping into the minds of men from Constantine to Lady Godiva but with the rise of central governments of authority the degeneration of the soul of the masses became vigorous in its decay.

In the Kingdom of God every man as a Husband in righteousness is king in his own family and his Wife is his queen. The layman is king and will remain so if he controls his own wantonness, appetite and sloth.

If the larger society composed of numerous free assemblies is to be a free community under God of heaven, as opposed to, a community of subjects under the gods of the world you must have a servant priest of your individual choosing and daily choice to provide extra family services of that broader community through the fervent charity of your votive offerings.

The priests or clergy of a free society serves communities in a broader network of free assemblies. It is essential in the Doctrines of Jesus that we are required by Him to love not only those who love us but those who we may not even know.

This is what the early Church was doing. This is what Paul and Barnabas and others were doing during those dearths that were happening at that time.

Modern Church including Home church groups have given the duties and responsibilities of the traditional priests or clergy to the administers and clerks of the systems of the world. They exercise authority one over the other unlike the priests or clergy who exercise love and charity in service to the people.

The multitude of sins

Someone on the Network asked:

"Does this include charity expressed in tithings and other contributions...? That is, if the one receiving them is doing the work of Christ of course. Can these expressions of love cover a persons sins...? Is that what this verse means...?"

Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13:3 "And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing."

By this we know that simply giving what we have does not mean that we have "charity" in the sense Paul is using the word. That is because the word we see translated charity is not just about giving.

The word charity is the word translated love more than 86 times and charity only 27 times. It is translated charity mostly when Paul uses it and love when Christ used it.

Paul often mentions love and faith together

So, it is love not merely giving that covers a multitude of sins. Love may include giving and tithing but also includes forgiveness and keeping the commandments.

We see Jesus say in John 15:10 "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love."

And in:

1 John 2:5 "But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him."

1 John 5:3 "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."

Jude 1:21 "Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life."

Coveting and selfishness is one of those sins but so is unforgiveness and sloth. Tithing is evidence of love but it is not proof but fortunately God sees the heart. We only have to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness.

a multitude of choices

The most important thing is to sit down in a network of tens as Christ commanded and start practicing charity. but in those congregations you can learn by going out in your local Community and become diligent in the ways of righteousness.

I. Develop a list of local charities.

• A. Google search “list of charities” city state
  • i. Sort list by type of charity
    • a. Food banks
    • b. Visit the sickness
      • 1. Institutions
      • 2. Private homes
    • c. Clean up areas
    • d. Emergency assistance
    • e. Justice
  • ii. Record names and contact information
• B. Homeschooling families and groups and private schools
• C. Prisons and jails and families
• D. Refuges and Homes
  • i. Abortion prevention and trauma
    • a. Unwed mothers shelters and homes
    • b. Assistance for life
  • ii. Battered and abused
  • iii. McDonald house type
• E. Caregivers, and hospitals
• F. Recovery programs, AA, drugs etc

II. Contact, find out and record information:

• A. When they meet – How often
  • i. Scheduled events
• B. Where activities take place
• C. What their goals are
• D. Meet with the heads of those charities
  • i. Other workers with Group
  • ii. Other volunteers and contacts with Group
  • iii. Develop relationships
• E. Find out what they need most
  • i. What type of services and aid do they need
    • a. What are the qualifications and skills
  • ii. Form strategies to provide what they need.
  • iii. What materials, equipment and goods do they need
    • a. When, amounts, quality checks...

III. Develop a list of people that want to assist the community charities or individual

• A. Make a list of volunteers
  • i. What are their skills and resources
  • ii. Availability
  • iii. Resources
  • iv. training centers for

IV. Coordinate volunteers and aid to charities and institutions

• A. Sync the assistance of those who want to help with those who need help
  • i. This may require training and preparation
  • ii. Make list of important hints and helps (do and don'ts) for each charity
• B. Resources for materials and goods.
  • i. food doner list
  • ii. Gardners, fruit trees, pantries
  • iii. Gleaners
• C. Follow up with feed back from volunteers
  • i. Connect volunteers as teams and fellowships
• D. Inform the resources of distribution of goods and services
• E. Organize visitors of sick and shut ins to provide continuous connection
• F. Organize assistance for activities for home schoolers
• G. Connect emergency workers with volunteers
  • i. Classes, training, field trips
    • a. emergency,
    • b. health
    • a. gardening???

• 1 Peter 5:2 "Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight [thereof], not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;"

The History of Charity

The beginning of charity is the beginning of sharing. Sharing may always involves sacrifice from one to another without a right of a return yet producing and effect.

Adam and Eve shared the tree of life but also the forbidden fruit. The truth is sharing may have begun with the first two cells who were joined together even before Adam Knew his Eve. The first group of protons and neutrons sharing an electron certainly predated any other sharing. But all life seems to reproduce and flourish through sharing of some sort.

Cain and Able constructed altars where the value of things were transmuted beyond their value to the one making the offer to another. In the story of Cain and Able one ploughs the adamah while the other tends sheep. They both establish altars upon which their sacrifice is burned up to them. One produces a postive outcome while the other does not. The difference may be uncovered through an examination of the Sophistry of the words telling the story.

The counter thesis of sharing is found in the spirit of jealousy and envy and instead of producing life it seems to produce death. We know that like light love can have a positive effect in reality and darkness being merely the absence of light the absence of love which may be called hate seems to produce a negative effect in relationship to reality and the life within it.

The idea of sacrifice is always present in our quest for life and the manner of that sacrifice seems to be a key element in the outcome from the Altars of Clay and stone of Abraham, Moses and the Levites who were God's first born or priest to a nation that was to be priests to the world. This pattern of sacrifice is seen even unto the character and statemnet of Christ concerning love and charity.

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13

Services of the Ekklesia

The "Ekklesia" of Christ was His little flock to whom He appointed a kingdom according to His word. limiting their status, limiting their authority and power requiring them to feed His sheep through pure Religion rather than than the covetous practices of the world not the dainties, free bread, and benefits of rulers..

Bending repentance

In 300 AD the church of Constantine put much of the burden of social welfare back on the people but accepted lavish gifts on church from funds gleaned from war and taxes.

Tao Te Ching

Legend has it that Lao Tzu wrote the Book of the Way of Virtue, Tao Te Ching, and gave it away to buy a way through a narrow pass from his world to the west. When 24 Christian monks came from Persia to China in 635 AD they use the word "Tao" to express the Biblical concept of the "Word," or term "Logos" in the Greek.

Five centuries before Christ the Tao was considered to be the "mother of things". It was omnipoten, unchanging, and eternal. About the same time, the Greek philosopher Heracletus of Ephesus coined the word "Logos" which meant "word" to express not only "order" or "pattern" but to refer to "the underlying principle" or universal source of all things as an expression representing "the primal order" of the universe.

Lao Tzu saw the Tao, like the Logos of John as here from the beginning.

Almshouses

The history of the idea of almshouses reaches back into antiquity and were seen amongs the Essene. But the term as we know it is seen in medieval times when religious orders cared for the poor. The "charitable relief of the poor," was seen as a "religious duty" and those religious orders preformed those duties the institutions "which were given to relieve the poor or needy through charity". See Old English ælmesse "almsgiving" from Proto-Germanic, the "act of relieving the needy".

Originally called hospitals or bede houses, in the sense of hospitality and shelter. The oldest almshouse foundation still in existence is thought to be the Hospital of St Oswald in Worcester founded circa 990.

Almshouses were set up throughout Europe in the Early Middle Ages to provide a place of residence for poor, old and distressed people; King Athelstan of England (reigned 924–939) founded the first recorded almshouse in York in the 10th century.

Lady Godiva saw the gifting of her wealth as a redress of grievances for the kings command to impose a tax to finance the care of the poor. The way of Legal charity is the way of socialism and not The Way of Christ and has been creeping into the minds of men since the days of Constantine but with the rise of central governments of authority the degeneration of the soul of the masses they have become vigorous in their decay and the darkness they bring.

Philanthropy

The word charity originated in late Old English to mean a "Christian love of one's fellows", and up until at least the beginning of the 20th century, this meaning remained synonymous with charity.

Philanthropy is consider to be more long-term and strategic and often involves making numerous gifts to help people over a number of years. While charity is focused on providing immediate relief to people and is often driven by emotions, philanthropy is focused on helping people and solving their problems over the long-term.

Throughout history people opposed public assistance arguimg that legal charity or publicly financed social assistance would deprive the philanthropist of this opportunity.

The modern Church began to turn a blind I to the covetous practices of some during the 1800's in America. The early days of that century it was well understood by men like Horatio Bunce and David Crockett that legal charity by the welfare State was not moral.

Crossing congress

In 1827 David Crockett was warned by a private citizen of the State of Kentucky when he ran for Congress that governments are not to be in the business of charity.

The American revolution was not about defiance against the king but rather against his unwarranted usurpations of rights earned.

Today, it is the people who have usurped their neighbor's rights by calling on the government to take from their fellow citizens or borrow against the future of their children so they can have free stuff today.

It is sloth, avarice, and the greediness of our own covetous practices that has ruined the soul of America.

What did Americans think about government supported welfare or any form of legal charity?

Americans used to take care of all social welfare through fervent charity and the idea providing "legal charity" through taxing their neighbor was repugnant and considered sin.

The idea that the government should take care of those in need through taxation was not only foreign to Americans but it was abhorrent to their thinking.

This was all before Americans began to follow the ways of Cain, Nimrod, Caesar, and FDR and the pernicious ways of socialism.

That was when some Americans were still great.

Almost 200 years of steadily moving away from the righteousness of The Way of Christ and disregarding the warnings of the apostles, historians like Polybius and Plutarch, and the wisdom of the prophets society has degenerated into workers of iniquity.

Charity not government made America great

In early America the people were dependent upon the non-profit sector to provide what has now become provided by government taxation.

"In the United States, there is no limit to the inventiveness of man to discover ways of increasing wealth and to satisfy the public's needs. The most enlightened inhabitants of each district constantly use their knowledge to make new discoveries to increase the general prosperity, which, when made, they pass eagerly to the mass of the people" (Alexis de Tocqueville 1840, 594

The idea that we should tax our neighbor so we may enjoy free education or other public service was not an American idea or practice but actually shunned and even counted as immoral.

Alexis de Tocqueville went on to write, "Americans group together to hold fêtes, found seminaries, build inns, construct churches, distribute books, dispatch missionaries to the antipodes. They establish hospitals, prisons, schools by the same method. Finally, if they wish to highlight a truth or develop an opinion by the encouragement of a great example, they form an association" (Tocqueville 1840, 596).

In fact he clarified that, "No country in the history of the world has so creatively and effectively combined philanthropy and government service. . .When we as individuals, however, volunteer our hard-earned dollars to advance society by freely giving from our own pockets, government taxes us less. The government gives us a tax deduction. As a matter of public policy, the law of the land rewards us for taking a personal role in the advancement of society. We are able to give less to Caesar when we give more to others. This is uniquely American and profoundly important. . .In America, government sees philanthropy as a partner. And you can even use your tax deduction to contradict government. If you believe the direction headed by Caesar is wrong, he will still give you a tax deduction when you freely finance the opposite direction. . . nonprofit board. . . members serve as an extended form of representative democracy. These individuals have been empowered to spend what otherwise would have been Caesar's to spend." ( Michael Marsicano, . Philanthropy Distinguishes America . 10 January 2003 2003).

The social bonds of free society requires that the common welfare be provided through personal sacrifice because, "The love and respect of your neighbors must be gained by a long series of small services, hidden deeds of goodness, a persistent habit of kindness, and an established reputation of selflessness" (Alexis de Tocqueville 1840, 593).

Alexis noted what truly made America great, "I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support" (Tocqueville 1840, 594-595).

In America became affluent and wealthy beyond their memory, "And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost."

"American moralists do not claim that one must sacrifice oneself for one's fellows because it is a fine thing to do but they are bold enough to say that such sacrifices are as necessary to the man who makes them as to those gaining from them. . .They do not, therefore, deny that every man can pursue his own self-interest but they turn themselves inside out to prove that it is in each man's interest to be virtuous" (Tocqueville 1840, 610).

When living was hard, and striving and struggle was the price to pay for it life was appreciated and precious.

"Enlightened self-love continually leads them to help one another and inclines them to devote freely a part of their time and wealthy to the welfare of the state" (Alexis de Tocqueville1840, 611).

Public schoolsfunded by the government rather than the individual charity and philanthropy of the people opened America to the degeneration of the masses. FDR and LBJ just swing the door to the abyss wider with each generation.

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