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We have seen people joining groups on the [[Network]] in order to be heard or be accepted. They want what they bring to be accepted. If it is not accepted then they feel that they are not accepted because they identify with what they know... or think they know. It may not be healthy or wise to identify with what you know or think you know. Your personal knowledge of what you think to be good or evil, right or wrong, true or false should not be a source for your identity. | We have seen people joining groups on the [[Network]] in order to be heard or be accepted. They want what they bring to be accepted. If it is not accepted then they feel that they are not accepted because they identify with what they know... or think they know. It may not be healthy or wise to identify with what you know or think you know. Your personal knowledge of what you think to be good or evil, right or wrong, true or false should not be a source for your identity. | ||
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Guru
The word Guru is term for "teacher" or "master" in Sanskrit, particularly found in Indian religions. The Hindu guru-shishya is the oral tradition or religious doctrine or experiential wisdom transmitted from teacher to student.
The guru concept appears in many levels of society. If we imagine someone to be smarter or wiser than us, we may follow their suggestions or directives religiously. When we say religiously we are using the word religion in the sense of the definition "what we think about God or a god" or a supreme or superior being, rather than the primary sense of the word religion being "how we perform our duty to God and our fellow man."
If we make or hold someone up as a guru or expert, what they say takes on a virtual validity in our minds without actual proof or even verification. It can take on an almost sacred aura of validity which may be entirely unwarranted. While a guru may be defined as a teacher or guide that you trust, they may not all be as trustworthy as we would like to believe.
To hold someone up as an authority on any subject is to give them a position of power and power corrupts. Yet, such positions of power and influence are commonly delegated emotionally, if not legally, by people who claim they want to be free despite the truth that such positions of power are, in fact, every dictator's delight and every conman's communion or the despots dream.
We have seen people joining groups on the Network in order to be heard or be accepted. They want what they bring to be accepted. If it is not accepted then they feel that they are not accepted because they identify with what they know... or think they know. It may not be healthy or wise to identify with what you know or think you know. Your personal knowledge of what you think to be good or evil, right or wrong, true or false should not be a source for your identity.
The ancient paths
- “Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
- "Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge," Proverbs 22:20
This writing is upon our heart and mind.[1] It is God who gives us His identity through His Holy Spirit as we repent ad seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
The problem is not the world but us, and the knowledge we lack.[2] We have forgotten the ancient ways of God which was the Way of Christ and while many are called few have the heart to see the truth of The Way and follow it in fellowship.
- "Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;" Jeremiah 18:15
Many will say the way of salvation or redemption is here or there[3] but Christ told us the answer[4] and gave us the keys[5] to liberty under God.
Christ had His plan, called The Way which was The Blessed Strategy. We were told we would be entangled again in the elements of the world, become merchandise, curse children and become surety for debt. This would be because of covetous practices and abandoning the way, not because of the conspiracies and subterfuge of the world.
We should not think that we can just claim fraud and set ourselves free any more than Adam could exonerate his own failing by blaming the God and the woman He gave Adam.
We cannot save ourselves with the strategies of men nor our own cleverness. We are to repent and turn that repentance into action. To repent is to think differently. We can forgive so that we may be forgiven. We can gather together in patterns of ten to save others as Christ commanded so that we might be saved.[6]
While we do these things Christ told us to do, and walk in His way we may have to pay our "tale of bricks"[7] and even be friends with the unrighteous mammon[8] Christ came to teach us "the art of being free" if we will have ears to hear and eyes to see and become doers of the will of the father.[9]
I sympathize with those who see the present bondage of the world. I empathize with their struggle and pain but salvation is not by endless repetition [10] of words and phrases of the law but by the whole truth of the perfect law of liberty[11] and seeking the righteousness of God which we have neglected.
Are your assemblies[12] rooted in the way of Christ or have you forsaken the gathering together?[13]
The term perfected[14] is associated with the adoption of Moses and redemption.[15]
Moses was adopted into the family of the Pharaoh and Israel was set free by that adoption but they had to follow the leadership of Moses who redeemed them through that adoption. Moses' repentance from the exercising authority as the Pharaoh and his obedience to God opened a door to freedom and redemption from the bondage of Egypt. Jesus as high priest and King laid down his life so that we may also be redeemed if we are willing to repent and seek His kingdom of God and the righteousness of God.
You may not look to those benefactors who exercise authority but have you gathered to become the benefactors who exercise love?
Are your ministers of the Church/ekklesia gathered in the spirits of just men or those that Covet the wages of unrighteousness?
- "To the general assembly[12] and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect[11]," Hebrews 12:23
Is the ekklesia in one accord doing what Christ commanded and providing a daily ministration based in faith, hope, and charity of the general assembly[12]?
- "Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was <5048> faith made perfect [11]?" James 2:22
Are the general assembly[12] of the people and the Church keeping the word of Christ according to the law of love?[16]
- "But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is <5048> the love of God perfected[11]: hereby know we that we are in him." 1 John 2:5
If we will not live by that love, even love our enemies[17] that they might be saved[6], how can we hope for the miracles of God?
If we will not gather as Christ commanded how can we love one another in the meaningful ways of the early Church?
- "No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected[11] in us... 17 Herein is our love made perfect[11], that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect[11] in love." 1 John 4:12
- "I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect[11] in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24
- Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." John 17:23-26
The need
- “everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure” ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Especially if it means that you've been had.
But is the problem that you've been fooled?
It is hard to admit that you've been bad.
Many choose to remain a cad[18]
People want to come out of Mystery Babylon by Exiting Babylon. But we should be thinking of Saving Babylon or at least the people in it. Christ came that the whole world might be saved. But again people feel a need to have others see their view—their stuff rather than The Way. There may be truth in "their stuff", but the Gospel—the whole gospel—is the answer.
We are going to have lots of people who come with their own agenda or baggage in the Network. We do not want to help them carry it. We want to help them set it down.
We need to keep focused so they do not distract the groups and congregants or scare people off with confusion and babble.
We were told we would be snared, entangled in a yoke of bondage, made surety because of covetous practices. No one can change that without changing the things that got them here.
- “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."[Goethe]
False Redemption
We recently had someone promoting UCC forms as a solution which produced an interesting discussion on one of the Network groups. While he was well informed, there were issues of disagreement. Where us repentance in such a theory.
Our intent is not to disagree and should not be to coerce the thinking of others but to merely bear witness to what we are seeing as the whole truth and congregate as a people to provide for it.
This may lead to a passionate discussion and no one should take offense at the free expression of ideas. But they often do.
I tried to explain that, though we may seem iconoclastic, our intention is to help, not hurt, the individual. Removing the splinters and beams from eyes so that we may see again can be painful.
I also researched them too along with many other people.
I have personally known many of these "gurus", including George Gordon and have been on stage with him when he was first getting started at the Barrister Inn with Bob Holstrom. Bob Holstrom dropped by and stayed with us every time he returned to the US.
Pieces of the puzzle
We personally know lots of people who have been held up as gurus and geniuses because they have lots of puzzle pieces. Yet, they have no real solution. Some often con people out of money and/or team up with people who promote their material for personal emotional support. Many of them are simply repeating things they have seen or been told and want to believe to be true. If you research their claims and information you can find holes in them that rival the Grand Canyon. But people will often cling to what they hear from these gurus with a religious fervor.
There is no perfect answer. The truth is we need to walk in the Spirit of Christ or we will fail.
I want to help those people too, even though they have not really taken the time to see the big picture and lots of the stuff they press will actually keep us from what will make a difference.
But there are many more on the scene today, too numerous to mention here.
- Many people deal with law, courts, rights and offer numerous solutions or procedures in dealing with what appears as injustice in the minds of the people. The strategies differ with the views and opinions of men and women like:
- David Zuniga
- LB Bork
- Edward Mandell House
- Richard Cornforth
- George Gordon
- Bob Holstrom
- Karl Lentz
- Peymon Mottahedeh
- Mark Passio
- Mark Boswell & William Moffitt
- Anna Maria Riezinger
- Larken Rose
- Bob Schulz
- Marc Stevens
- Marcus
- Bill Thornton
- Robert Burk
- the American states assembly
- Then there the "unknown authors" or those theories with "many authors" or just many names like:
- Steven AKA Steven Americo, James, Mark James
- David Merrill Van Pelt AKA SFBFKADVP
- The Matrix and the U.S. Constitution, supposedly written by an unknown author, is full of facts; but the author literally does not have a leg to stand on.
- UCC Redempton advocates
- Many others with a plethora of Guru theories may have bits and pieces of truth. They vary in a variety of critical points but all seem to fall short in their approach if we look at the few successes in man's quest for freedom as a society throughout the ages.
I do not even bother keeping a record of them all for there is an endless stream of theories. It is really not about the individuals but about the religious acceptance of what some say is true.
Many of these theories have shady origins and quickly fall apart under real investigation.
It is the religious fervor that is so hard to battle because people cling to arguments that place the blame on others rather than our own actions even though it is our actions that we can do the most about.
Crown Templar
Someone else posted some of Nasara's stuff[19] on a group about the Crown owning everything...
Someone tried to play it down and rightly so. There is some truth in it but, as we know or should know, this problem is rooted much deeper. This has been researched and is refuted at another webpage by Larry Becraft who I also know and, yes, he is a member of the BAR.
I know this Crown Templar stuff was promoted by David Merrill who has had a huge following off and on. He is also called David Merrill Van Pelt. He also goes by SFBFKADVP...
I have never met David but have seen his work for more than a decade. He lived in Colorado and was claiming to be a "private banker" who was feeding the Montana Freeman fiasco. And has been arrested in relation to some of the Freeman checks. He told me once he had a cure for SARS which ended up being the frequencies generated by his "paper work" with a special seal... I ran into him again on a email group that asked me to participate and, at the time, he had a case filed where he appeared to be suing as Christ concerning his moped or scooter. I never could follow that. His mom is old, in her 80's now, and once got a court restraining order against him. I also tracked his address down to what seemed to be a private mental ward or what had been one at one time.
Others offered land patents for big money but their clames were lies and they got lots of money. When we exposed the falseness of their claims no one wanted to believe the facts because they wanted to believe the lie.
SEDM and Famguardian
I knew some of the people at SEDM in their earliest days. They merged with Family Guardian Website. It does have a huge amount of plagiarized material including my own writings and videos. The Famguardian Site by Chris Hansen who called me many times in the past but some documents seemed falsified on that site.I believe they could get you in a lot of trouble. I do not know what they are all actually doing now. You do not even get to see them. We are very visible and we have thorough information well footnoted.
I do not recommend most of these sites and WARN of misleading content scattered through out. I do not like to gossip about people but I have been around for a long time and have seen lots of people hurt, robbed and misled.
Christ is The Way. We must conform to His truth, His teachings, and He will set us free.
Others
I also knew the "Informer" years ago and he takes you along paths of truth and then makes leaps in logic that will get you in trouble.
I also know Ben Williams, nice guy, who has come and met with me years ago and while he and Lawful Path which is Gregory Allen all have some truth we are trying to take people to the next level and many of these are all rabbit trails from which there is little time to return from and some will get you lost all together.
I was there when Paul Revere and the Embassy of Heaven Church went to court and also at Indianapolis Baptist Temple. Lots of adventures and lessons learned but the Gospel of the Kingdom is simple.
Guru constructs and theories
I will admit these guru constructs and theories may, at times, have some validity to them. And some of the gurus themselves are very smart. But it is wishful thinking to place blame on others. That does the most damage. There is no stronger chain than pride.
What does this mean?
It means there is a lot of stuff out there that is not entirely true and people cling to it with the same religious fervor as church-going religionists.
Once people identify with some of this stuff it is hard to show them anything that counters it and they become fixed in a rut of denial. It takes people down roads and paths from which there is often no return in this life. It squanders our time and resources. It has nothing to do with our personal repentance or virtue and is based on pointing out the secret conspiracy of other evil people rather than what we have done and been a part of.
Ultimately this is a spiritual journey. We need virtue to be free.
There is no value in being free if we do not use that freedom to tend to the weightier matters and righteousness. This means we need to focus on the simple directives of Christ. Love the God of righteousness and each other.
Do not let the truth—or what others think is true—make you angry. This is your quest for truth and righteousness. You cannot have one without the other and they always involve loving one another.
We need to start getting serious about being doers of the word... seeking the Kingdom of God... gathering together in the righteousness of God and the love, service and sacrifice of Christ for one another. All the other things will take care of themselves.
It is not about what you think but what you do.
Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
What makes you merchandise and curses children is our covetous practices.
What sets the captive free is [[pure Religion|reversing that process.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
- ↑ Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."
- ↑ Matthew 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
- Mark 13:21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
- ↑ Mark 13:23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
- ↑ Matthew 18:18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
- John 5:34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
- Romans 10:1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
- ↑ Exodus 5:8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.... 18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
- ↑ Luke 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. 10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?
- ↑ Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
- John 5:20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
- John 14:12 ¶ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
- ↑ Matthew 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 5048 ~τελειόω~ teleioo \@tel-i-o’-o\@ from 5046; TDNT-8:79,1161; {See TDNT 785} v AV-make perfect 12, perfect 4, finish 4, fulfil 2, be perfect 1, consecrate 1; 24
- 1) to make perfect, complete
- 1a) to carry through completely, to accomplish, finish, bring to an end
- 2) to complete (perfect)
- 2a) add what is yet wanting in order to render a thing full
- 2b) to be found perfect
- 3) to bring to the end (goal) proposed
- 4) to accomplish
- 4a) bring to a close or fulfilment by event
- 4a1) of the prophecies of the scriptures
- 4a) bring to a close or fulfilment by event
- oikos teleios is the perfect marriage in Rome. “perfect community” (koinonia teleios) ,
- teleio ,a can be a complete adoption and has been asociated with redeemed.
- Philo writes (Mos. 1.19). "And the princess, seeing him so advanced beyond his age, conceived for him an even greater fondness than before, and took [adopted] him for her son, having at an earlier time artificially enlarged the figure of her womb to make him pass as her real and not a supposititious child” (LCL, trans. F. H. Colson)."
- 1) to make perfect, complete
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 3831 ~πανήγυρις~ paneguris \@pan-ay’-goo-ris\@ from 3956 and a derivative of 58; n f AV-general assembly 1; 1
- 1) a festal gathering of the whole people to celebrate public games or other solemnities
- 2) a public festal assembly
- ↑ Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
- 2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
- Isaiah 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
- ↑ 5047 ~τελειότης~ teleiotes \@tel-i-ot’-ace\@ from 5046; associated with 5048; TDNT-8:78,1161; {See TDNT 785} n f AV-perfectness 1, perfection 1; 2
- 1) perfection
- 1a) the state of the more intelligent
- 1b) moral and spiritual perfection
- 1) perfection
- ↑ Colossians 3:14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness <5047>. Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection <5047>; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
- ↑ Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
- Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
- Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
- ↑ Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
- ↑ cad, a man who behaves dishonorably, especially toward a woman.
- ↑ The material was a copy-and-paste from this webpage although it can be found many places.
Primary author: Brother Gregory