Friend

Someone wrote a person on the internet who had written them with ALL CAPS to make a point and in their response they made reference to John 15:15 saying:

• Since we ARE friends, defined by Jesus: " I CALL you Friends;

for ALL things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you" Jn.15:15.

But John 15:15 actually says:

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. John 15:15

It goes onto say in verse 16 and 17:

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

I may have many friends but they may not be in the sense that Christ used the term here which is the Greek word philos you, and ordained you" where he makes a point of describing with two verbs that He, the Christ, picked and appointed these men of His little flock to a particular position for a purpose:

"go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain:"

and then gave them a direct order to:

"love one another."

You cannot really love someone on an email group and less you dilligent desire to make your relationship more substantive and real there will be little or not fruit, certainly not any lasting fruit.

Jesus had come to take the kingdom from those who were not bearing fruit and not doing the will of the Father and were serving the Fathers of the earth and delivering the people back into bondage.

The Greek word nation in Matthew 21:43 was ethnos which was commonly translated "gentiles".

He also made it clear in Luke 12:32 that He was going to be appointing that kingdom to His little flock. These words in John 15:15 through 17 are clearly about that appointment to the Apostles to which he gave specific instructions about what to do and not do.

Knowing these instructions helps you distinguish between those who were and are appointed by Christ and those who are not. If they make you feel good or saved or tell you want you want to hear they may not be of Christ nor His friend.

Christ made it clear that it is "by their fruits" you will know them.

Matthew 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

The verses between also show how important this idea of bearing fruit is to Jesus and The Way he was teaching His disciples.

Matthew 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

We see similar references in other Gospels:

Luke 13:9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

John 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

The modern Church divides the Modern Christians by thousands of denominations and doctrines that clearly do not follow the early Church.

The modern Church and ministers send the people to Benefactors who exercise authority one over the other. They send the people to the Nimrods and Cains of this World. In fact those Ministers of the modern Church are almost always very much a part of the World and dependent upon the World for its daily bread.

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.

Jesus warned the Pharisees that had set up a Daily ministration based on forced offerings of the government rather than Freewill offerings or what we call charity. These were the Benefactors who exercised authority one over the other like Nimrod and Cain and at that time by Caesar and Herod and now by the elected leaders of the Template:World everyone has come to depend upon. The early Christian Church no longer depended upon or apply nor prayed to these Benefactors. They provided for one another through Charity and Love.

This meant they had to graft to one another in a network of voluntary charity. This was a different way of thinking and acting.

THIS WAS REPENTANCE.

Modern Christians have returned to the mire of such welfare systems, to the Corban of the Pharisees that makes the word of God to none effect and are not bearing the Fruit of repentance.

So, again it may be said to the modern Christian and their Churches as in Matthew 3:7,8:

"But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:"

Today the whole World is in a bondage of debt and their Children are cursed with paying that debt. This is because of our Covetous Practices which have made us Merchandise. This has all come about when the Modern Church was preaching a watered down Gospel that does not bear fruit nor does it provide salvation. In truth it makes many Workers of Iniquity and not Doers of the Word which produces no Fruit nor Righteousness.

We are not repenting unless we come out of the thinking and doing of the World "religiously, legally and financially". This means you cannot forsake the coming together for the purposes of the Church and should start earnestly seeking the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.