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The Corpus of the Free Church

If the Church is the Body of Christ, then the Church is one body, incorporate, under its King.

There are many definitions, types and forms of incorporation. The fundamental aspects of a corporation can be defined as, two or more people, gathered together as one person, for a particular purpose, often a perpetual succession, and appointed under a preexisting authority.

Jesus appointed the kingdom²¹⁰ to the apostles to serve it in a manner not like the kings of the Gentiles who exercise lordship over them; and call themselves benefactors.²¹¹ When the 120 “names” and 12 appointed apostles gathered together in “one accord” and the Holy Spirit came upon them there was a union of one domain with another under the preexisting authority for the purposes of Christ. They were as one body corporate.

The truth of this is verified in the modern legal dictionary within the definition of incorporation, “In the civil law. The Union of one domain with another.”²¹² The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines incorporation in the transitive sense, “to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole.” Incorporation of the Church with the state would make the Church a part of the state and the family of the state. The Church would be of the world and not merely in it.²¹³

There is a separation of Church and the State not only by the State, but by God and Christ. The merging of the Church and the governments of men would be diminishing if not destroying the status of the Church as an autonomous body of Christ. It would be making the Church a part of another government, and void it as the holy body of Christ. Many might object to this line of thinking, but even the state bears witness to the truth of this in many of their own statutes.

Not as a source of authority but only as an example we quote the state of Illinois:

“Any congregation, church or society, heretofore incorporated under the provisions of any law for the incorporation of religious societies, may become incorporated under the provisions of this act, relative to religious societies, in the same manner as if it had not previously been incorporated, in which case the new corporation shall be entitled [to] and invested with all the real and personal estate of the old corporation, in like manner and to the same extent as the old corporation, subject to all the debts, contracts and liabilities. The word trustees, wherever used in this act, shall be construed to include wardens and vestrymen, or such other officers as perform the duties of trustees.” (805 ILCS 110/44) Sec. 44. (Source: Laws 1871-72, p. 296.)

Note that any congregation, church or society who incorporates under the provisions of the state statutes becomes a ‘new corporation’ and will be considered as if it had ‘not previously been incorporated’ by Christ. Everything that once belonged to that previous ‘congregation, church or society’ and the preexisting authority that created that body would now belong under the authority of the State. The State becomes the originating authority of the new incorporation. It is no longer established by Jesus Christ and therefore no longer the Church by the legal definition.

This precept appears to be voiced by the judge in State v. Corpus Christi People’s Baptist Church, Inc.,²¹⁴ when he said, “As the trial judge phrased it-- once the church determined to enter the realm of Caesar by forming a corporation it was required to abide by the rules of Caesar, or in this case, the statutes of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.” The antitheses of this is that if the Church does not enter the realm of Caesar then it is not subject to the ruling of Caesar or “of the world”. This case was concerned in part with the incorporation of the Church by some of the leaders of the Church.

Although incorporation was not done in the formal solemnization common among business even informal acceptance of the supposition of incorporation was enough to subjugate the body of that church. It is irrevocable. We also see this term in the social security regulations for ministers as “an irrevocable election of coverage for all its members.”²¹⁵

The state creates the corporations of the body of the state and Christ created the corpus or the body of the Church. Corporations of the state depend upon the state for its power, character, and therefore their right to act as a body. Everything that belongs to the corporations of the state falls under the authority of Caesar by his grace. The Church is not a body of the state nor can its ordained members enter the body of the state. Its member ministers must also be separate, with full faith and credit in Christ.

The Body of Christ is a creation or creature of Christ:

“Upon the other hand, the corporation is a creature of the State. It is presumed to be incorporated for the benefit of the public. It receives certain special privileges and franchises, and holds them subject to the laws of the State and certain limitations of its charter. Its powers are limited by its charter. It can make no contract not authorized by its charter. Its rights to act as a corporation are only preserved to it so long as it obeys the laws of its charter.” ²¹⁶

• 210Luke 22:29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;

• 211Luke 22:25 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....

• 212Black’s Third page 946

• 213John 17:11-16 “And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we [are]. ...I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.” The word in the Greek text here is defined “an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government”

• 214683 S.W.2d 692 (Tex. 1984);

• 215SSR 81-38: TITLE II:Coverage of Service of members of Religious orders who work for third parties. Http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/45/SSR81-38-oasi-45.html

• 216Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43, 89 (1906); Pinkerton v. Verberg, 78 Mich. 573, 584.

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