Asleep

Asleep in the pew in every denomination.

People are being put to sleep by a thousand doctrines which have little to do with what Christ told us to do and not to do.

The Gospel of the kingdom is very straight forward and the truth about that gospel is easy to understand if we only have ears to hear and eyes to see.

• "And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." Mark 1:15

"The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:" is the Gospel, the good news.

That good news and the kingdom appointed to the apostles was not just for the Jews but also for the other nations who would seek it and the righteousness of God;

• "And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe." Acts 15:7

Singing, dancing and emotions may all occur in the kingdom but none of them can conjure up the Holy Spirit. We use words like Church and Religion as if they mean the same things that they meant in the days of the early Church. The Modern Christian is not doing what the early Christian in their Fellowships. People often go to churches to have their ears tickled or engage in a sort of Emotional Socialism rather than hear the truth.

Seeking the kingdom of God and the righteousness of God would provide everything for the people so that they did not have to pray nor apply to "the Fathers of the earth" and "the nations of the world".

• "But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you." Luke 12:31

But the Modern Christian is blinded by the teachings of the modern Church because they do not practice the charity and love of Pure Religion. Religion has become what you "think" you believe rather than the faith that compels your actions.

• "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." 2 Corinthians 4:4

The Early Church was not of the world, nor did they seek the benefits of the world. They often suffered persecution in the Christian conflict with other governments, and they chose even death rather than apply for the benefits of the world.

Tickling the ears of the Modern Christians is a lucrative business but it is not the business of the Church established by Christ. We were told "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;" 2 Timothy 4:3. The only sound doctrine of the Church is the Doctrine of Jesus. So why is the modern Church in conflict with what the early Church did? Where is their Daily ministration? The Modern Christians' Corban, like that of the Pharisees, is making the word of God to none effect and their pastors have become workers of iniquity.

But the Modern Christians -- seeking the emotional comfort of self-righteous justification and the entertaining distractions provided by the watered-down gospels of the Modern Church -- remain complacent in their strong delusions.

It has become popular to believe Jesus was poor. It certainly makes the poor feel better. Some how being poor is suppose to make you humble. Would it destroy some vast eternal plan if he were a wealthy man? If we knew Jesus was rich but "made himself poor" according to the purpose of God would it give us a deeper insight into exactly where Jesus was trying to take us and the ministers of His Church.

But then there are those who see the snare of the benefits offered by the world, and they say they do not want them, counting themselves separate. They think they are Exiting Babylon or have come out by avoiding benefits or even taxation of the world, but they have no daily ministration, no appointed ministers like the early Church, and they simply do not gather in the name of God.

They make excuses through their private interpretation of the doctrine of Jesus, so they do not make freewill offerings, tithe nor sacrifice according to the charitable practices of love and charity spoken of by Jesus and His appointed apostles.

God is the same today, and so is His plan for us. Unfortunately many mistake emotion for spiritual truth. They put on an appearance of righteousness like the Pharisees. Many have it wrong, and they remain workers of iniquity, by application and wantonness or by sloth and non-participation. The purpose of the Church and the gospel of the kingdom is not to make you feel good, but rather it is to do good and seek righteousness.

The Modern Church and the Modern Christian and the modern separatists are in Apostasy

Told from the beginning

• We were told from the beginning that the slothful shall be under tribute and that through "covetous practices" we would be made "merchandise" and would curse our children as a 'surety' for debt in a snare, being entangled in a yoke of bondage under the taxation of the world.
• There are few more covetous practices than socialism and the world has been becoming more and more socialist every year. The modern Christian and their Churches are in conflict with Christ and His Church because they are biting one another, serving the Fathers of the earth, and praying to the Benefactors who are exercising authority over one another.
• Christ commanded we turn away from the covetous practices of the world to a daily ministration of sacrifice through faith, hope, and charity like the early Church rather than the ways of force, fear, and fealty of the world of Cain, Nimrod, Pharaoh, the Pharisees, and Caesar.
• The modern Christian has pursued the same Corban of social welfare which made the word of God to none effect like the Pharisees did. Since they have abandoned The Way of the early Church for the wages of unrighteousness becoming workers of iniquity they need to be subject to tribute.

• Those who come to seek and to save that which was lost do not desire simply to be separate from the benefits, the iniquitous ways and covetous practices of the world. They choose to come together as Christ commanded to serve others by laying down their lives for their neighbors, providing for a daily ministration through the Charitable practices in the sacrifice we see in the early Church.
• If those claiming to be believers and followers of the Christ are not gathering to regularly and freely give and forgive to those near and far, there is no grace nor righteousness.
• Such people are not the children of God nor the servants of Yahweh. They remain slothful workers of iniquity that are fit only to be turned way and shut out like the foolish virgins, for they will Not inherit the kingdom.

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People followed Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist and Jesus. The altars of clay and stone was a way to create the social bonds of free people. The levites led the Israelites. And the early Church followed Christ and His Way, which was The Way, and advocated a Daily ministration that was dependent on Pure Religion through Fervent charity only. This was the Corban of Christ which was not like the system of Corban of the Pharisees nor of Rome or the systems of FDR and LBJ.
The church lost "the way" when it abandoned the practice of "pure Religion" while claiming to be the Church established by Christ. The people developed an appetite for the "wages of unrighteousness" from "public religion" in the days of Constantine. Those new Christians that often failed to fully repent degenerated the moral character of society with the masses of "instant christians".
That new religion of the emperor introduced a new faith with his apostate church replacing the doctrine of Jesus with the "doctrines of men", the Holy Spirit with emotion, the truth with the speaking of "great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage."
They had a form of godliness but denied the power thereof.

Where is your religion

• Where do you find the Daily ministration of the early Church, the Pure Religion of James and the Corban of Jesus?

• Are you following The Blessed Strategy of Christ like the Early Christians?

• Are you following The Way through Love of one another or the way of the world and the Fathers of the earth?

• Do you seek the benefits of bankrupt nations, or do you forgive and seek the benefits of Christ's appointed Kingdom?

• Do you only gather for the comfort it gives you, or do you gather to benefit others?

• Christ came to serve, not be served. Do you desire to be served, or are you coming in His name and according to His character to serve others?

If we desire His Grace but we only love those who love us, then there is no Grace because it is clear we do not really believe in Him.

If we do not Repent of our Covetous Practices and are not diligently gathering together in Free Assemblies of Love for all to provide for one another in Charity according to the Perfect law of liberty then we have nothing according to Paul. According to Luke 6:32 if we only love those who love us there is no "Grace". Christ also said if you do not Forgive neither will the Father forgive you.

It is not enough to hate the deeds of the workers of iniquity, but we must return to Thy first love and thy first work. To break the yoke, we need to return to the ways of righteousness spoken of in Isaiah 58 which are the ways of Christ and the early Church. And His yoke is light for it is carried by our love of one another.

Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist and Christ all created Networks of charity to care for the true needy of society without force which is how they were able to help set people free. Do you gather with His Church to attend to the Weightier matters as Christ said?

• Are you gathering in a Network of righteousness?

• Do you come to love others or just be loved?

• Are your Congregations' gatherings fruitful enough so that no one has to pray to Benefactors who exercise authority one over the other?

• Does anyone in your Free Assemblies have to apply to the Fathers of the earth, or seek their many benefits?

Early Christians found themselves in conflict with these systems of social welfare because they made the word of God to none effect. Christians had repented of their covetous nature when they received the Baptism of Christ. They heard and became Doers of the word not hearers only.

Remember Proverbs 12:24, "The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the Slothful shall be under Tribute."

We know that liberty under God is not for the covetous who are Biting one another but it is also not for the slothful. If we are not congregating together in free assemblies bound together in a broad network by faith, hope, and charity alone according to the perfect law of liberty then we are not truly seeking the Kingdom of God nor His righteousness.

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Primary Author: Brother Gregory