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[[File:plutarchdestroyer2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|There is a reason why [[Proverbs 23]] tells us to ''put a knife to our throat'' when we ''sit to eat'' with rulers, men who call themselves [[Benefactors]]. We must become the benefactors who exercise [[Fervent Charity]] according to the [[Eucharist]] of Christ in a [[Daily ministration]] of [[Love]]. There is no Grace without that [[Kingdom Love]]. We must give [[Repent]] which means to stop [[Biting one another]] so that we may [[Forgive|forgive]] and love one another.]] | [[File:plutarchdestroyer2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|There is a reason why [[Proverbs 23]] tells us to ''put a knife to our throat'' when we ''sit to eat'' with rulers, men who call themselves [[Benefactors]]. We must become the benefactors who exercise [[Fervent Charity]] according to the [[Eucharist]] of Christ in a [[Daily ministration]] of [[Love]]. There is no Grace without that [[Kingdom Love]]. We must give [[Repent]] which means to stop [[Biting one another]] so that we may [[Forgive|forgive]] and love one another.]] | ||
Today the [[World|world]] has returned to the [[Bondage|bondage]] of Egypt to the vanity of Rome along with its decadence and corruption. The day of judgment is upon us and we have need of repentance. So the answer to to the question ''Who believeth'' is not found in endless repetitions or [[False religion]] but in [[Pure Religion]]. It is found in the answer to the question do you love one another? Do you attend to the {{Template:Weightier matters}} | Today the [[World|world]] has returned to the [[Bondage|bondage]] of Egypt to the vanity of Rome along with its decadence and corruption. The day of judgment is upon us and we have need of repentance. So the answer to to the question ''Who believeth'' is not found in endless repetitions or [[False religion]] but in [[Pure Religion]]. It is found in the answer to the question do you love one another? Do you attend to the {{Template:Weightier matters}} |
Revision as of 20:22, 4 December 2022
Believeth
Do you believeth that Jesus is the Christ?
How do you know that you truly believe?
Does believing just mean accepting a fact as true?
What does it really mean to say that you believeth that Jesus is the Christ?
Are you really a believer or are you just under a strong delusion?
Many will say they believe but will Jesus tell them He never knew them because they are workers of iniquity and not true doers of the word?
So the question is always Who believeth?
Many recite that they believe that Jesus was the Christ and the son of God but they need to understand what that means deep in their hearts and minds and then they will manifest that faith in the fruits of their heart and in what they do.
A difference
What made the early Christians so different and a Peculiar people?
If Christ makes a difference when we receive Him into our hearts we should act accordingly. Otherwise if we continue to sin it would seem that our faith is not complete and we may still have need of repentance. Our true belief will compel our actions and those actions and choice will manifest the righteousness of Christ in all things.
If we truly loved Christ would we not keep His commandments?
We may believe but we may need help with our unbelief.[1]
What would that belief look like today and what should it not look like?
We are told in the context of His teachings and those of His disciples to seek the Kingdom of God at hand and the righteousness of God.
We know that it is written in 1 John 5 "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?"
So, there you have it that every one who believeth loveth him and that claim of loving God includes the keeping of His commandments.
So anyone not keeping His commandments do not really believe nor do they really love Him.[2]
Not kept
It should be abundantly clear that keeping the commandments is the evidence of true Faith and Love and if we keep not the commandments then we know that our love is false and our faith is dead.
Say if we coveted anything that is our neighbors so that we would benefit at his expense that would be violating the commandments of God. If we sent men to our neighbors house who called themselves Benefactors to take away from our neighbor anything that was our neighbors for our own personal benefit that would not be loving our neighbor.
This would mean that we were not keeping the commandments of God and therefore not believing in the teachings of Christ who said it was not to be so with us.
If we did desire benefits from such men or institutions we would have need of repentance because it "is the love of God, that we keep his commandments" and not covet our neighbor's goods.
Today, coveting your neighbors goods in a socialist state is legal and so common that it is hard to imagine a world without thee forced benefaction of the state.
Not warned
Everyone is encouraged by governments and even their churches to take from one another through the process of voting in new taxes, incurring more debt to obtain more benefits at the expense of your neighbor and their children and grand children for generations to come.
Everyone wants free education, free healthcare, free protection and guaranteed Welfare from men who call themselves Benefactors but exercise authority directly opposite the instructions of Christ.
Everyone takes a bite out of one another[3] through these Covetous Practices. This is exactly what early Christians stopped doing. They no longer prayed to the Fathers of the if but their Father in heaven who answered their prayers through their love for one another.
From the beginning we were told not to covet, be not desirous of the dainties of rulers, for their table is a snare and would make the masses into human resources. But the modern Church does not preach the warnings of the early Church.
All the social welfare, the daily ministration of the Believers was by charity and love through faith and hope The would not pray to Caesar for his free bread even in the face of persecution, because all "legal charity" is by the Law of Nature considered covetous practices.
This is what made them a peculiar people. They took care of one another through Faith, [Hope] and Charity and not by forced contributions like the rest of the World.
Return to unbelief
Today the people have returned to the Bondage of Egypt and the Elements of the World. But some rebel and flee and say we will not take the benefits nor pay into such a system because we believe not in the ways of covetousness. But do they believe in love? Do they believe in Jesus? Do they believe in the Blood of Jesus? Are they a part of the Body of Christ?
Where believeth
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.[5]
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.
When Judas was on his way to betray Christ Jesus said to His apostles:
- John 13:34 "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
This was not a new commandment because Moses had already said it[6] but he was giving them an old commandment anew.[7] He was a second witness to the nature of God so that you would know who really believed.
- John 13:35 "By this shall all [men] know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."
So do not tell me you believe but show me by your works.[8]
Today the world has returned to the bondage of Egypt to the vanity of Rome along with its decadence and corruption. The day of judgment is upon us and we have need of repentance. So the answer to to the question Who believeth is not found in endless repetitions or False religion but in Pure Religion. It is found in the answer to the question do you love one another? Do you attend 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.
- 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.[9]
- ↑ Mark 9:24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
- ↑ : Exodus 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
- Deuteronomy 5:10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
- Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
- Deuteronomy 11:1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
- Deuteronomy 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
- Deuteronomy 19:9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
- Deuteronomy 30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
- Joshua 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Nehemiah 1:5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
- Psalms 119:127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
- Daniel 9:4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
- Mark 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
- Mark 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
- John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
- John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
- John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
- John 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
- 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.
- John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
- Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- 2 Corinthians 8:8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
- 1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
- 1 John 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
- 1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
- 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
- 2 John 1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
- 2 John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
- ↑ Galatians 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
- ↑ 5622 ὠφέλεια opheleia [o-fel’-i-ah] from a derivative of the base of 5624 profitable; n f; AV-profit 1, advantage 1; 2
- 1) usefulness, advantage, profit
- ↑ Matthew 6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Mark 11:26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. - ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2537 ~καινός~ kainos \@kahee-nos’\@ of uncertain affinity; adj AV-new 44; 44
- 1) new
- 1a) as respects form
- 1a1) recently made, fresh, recent, unused, unworn
- 1b) as respects substance
- 1b1) of a new kind, unprecedented, novel, uncommon, unheard of
- 1a) as respects form
- 1) new
- ↑ John 10:38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Revelation 2:2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: Revelation 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Revelation 2:13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. Revelation 2:19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. Revelation 3:1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Revelation 3:8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Revelation 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
- ↑ 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.