Continuing our study of Paul’s message in 2 Corinthians 10 and the practical insights that apply to today’s government systems.
by Gregory Williams
Air Date: December 7, 2019
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Welcome to Keys of the Kingdom. I’m Brother Gregory and again were going to talk about the kingdom of God and were to be talking about it in relationship to second Corinthians chapter 10 and we’ve got the most of Grady is now is looked at Corinthians from a lot of different angles what was Corinth who was in Corinth what was a controversy of Corinth we been gone back a little bit looked at the controversy of between you why was Paul writing the Romans.
First Christians were Jews, Christianity replaced Jewish apostasy, Modern Christianity is equivalent to the Jewish apostasy
[00:01:00] We’ve talked about this a number of places is that the Jews who became Christians were still following Jewish traditions for hundreds of years. A lot of Christians still do it all the stuff they read the Torah. They they kept the food laws. They did a lot of these things because of the personal traditions of those people who had been Jewish for generations and now became Christians. And the reality is is that Christians ought to know all the first Christians were Jewish. They were from Judea they were following Jesus who was a Jew by because he was a citizen, supposedly, of Judea. He was the king of the Jews. And so they had a lot of personal traditions but Christ was explaining in the Gospels what Moses was really teaching because an apostasy form of Judaism had risen in Judea there was actually several different forms of apostasy several different opinions about what Moses was really talking about and they most of them had a wrong was only a minority that could actually understand what Jesus was talking about what the reality is we find yourself in the same place in relationship to Jesus after 2000 years most Christians do not understand most people calling themselves Christians they may not know from one if a Christian is someone who is following and believes in Christ and is coming in the name of Christ and the character of Christ then there’s an awful lot of people out there who say they are Christians and are not really Christians and they don’t really believe in Christ and Christ warned that this would actually be the case the apostles all warned that this would be the case that many people would not be doing what Christ said to do would be doing actually contrary to what Christ said to do would actually be making the word of God did none affect by their traditions by their way but they would be calling themselves Christians I said many would be doing this and NA Peter said they would make themselves merchandise and they would curse their children with debt because of their covetous practices. And Paul goes through long lists of people who may think they are Christians but have no inheritance in the kingdom because of what they’re doing but there are actually people out there claiming to be Christian ministers were going around telling people it doesn’t matter what you do it just matters what you say and think. Even though Christ, who Paul preached first set is not what you say but what you do so is right? Christ? Or the people who are misinterpreting Paul and taking Paul out of the context of Paul taking Paul out of the context of Christ and inventing a false religion they call Christianity. Well, you see, if I’ve got to go around talking about things like that this can be an awful lot of people that are not to like me because I’m saying there saying their Christian I’m saying though you’re not you’re not an actual real true Christian or something that calls himself a Christian but you’re not actually doing what Christ said.
Do you know what Christ said?
[00:04:58] Now the question is, do you know what Christ said? Maybe that’s why you’re not doing it. Because you don’t actually know what Christ said to this is that this is the cleverness of Satan of the adversary whoever the adversary is all the minions of the adversary as they hold up Christ who was someone who came to help people forgive people bless people teach people sacrifice himself or others… And I say yeah that’s a good thing I like that I want to follow that guy. And then you preachers come along who are taught by preachers before them who were taught by theologians before them and heads of seminaries before them… and they began to preach what they were taught Christ was like and who Christ was. But they’re not telling you who the real Christ was and what he really taught. They’re taking the word of that we find in the Bible so Google all the word of God the Word of God is something far more than what you find in the Bible the Bible is a representation of the word of God by men who were inspired by God to write down words. All the translators were inspired all the readers of the Bible certainly aren’t inspired they’d all agree they are all inspired and get yet it’s Christ who says that it’s by that divine inspiration I will build my church. Well, there’s a lot of people who think they’re a part of his church the church established by Christ they think they’re a part of that but they’re not doing anything in Christ that are very little that Christ that you may be nice guys and maybe sweet guys and maybe do things for people they the and and they may be Mabel Cummins a look at all these great things that we’ve done. You know, we’ve gone on these missions that we sponsor these little children on that and we help out people all the time and you know we have a pretty nice family but no they may still be told to get ye from me you workers of iniquity at least that’s what Christ says that he says many this would be many people that would do this. And you based on what I have learned and what I’m sharing with you yeah many is an understatement but they can still repent. The wonderful thing about discovering your wrong is you can do something about it if your wrong and you won’t look at that, you won’t discover that…
Marriage problems are usually rooted in both spouses, lack of forgiveness
[00:07:48] I know people who think you’ll like couples who think you know that my problem is my spouse is not doing what they are to be doing. My spouse has problems and that’s why our marriage is having problems I can almost guarantee you 100% of the time that if your marriage is having problems, both of you have problems it’s almost a guarantee and and the reality is this the fact is we all have problems. That’s almost we all have things in those problems come from what we do not want to see about ourselves we think we know the truth we think we know what’s right. We think we know the gospel and we don’t visit to Mark Twain said, It’s not so much what you don’t know they get into trouble is what you absolutely know that it’s true that just ain’t so.”And that’s what it comes down to with a lot of people studying the Bible and you bring anything into question that they have already accepted as true you think they think you are attacking their faith. You have to stop having faith in what you have gleaned as knowledge from teachers and Bibles and Bible studies… and start looking at all things in new. That’s the instructions in the Bible the tour is true the Bible is true your interpretation of both may not be true and if it’s not true it’s probably has something to do with something you don’t want to see about yourself. You see you cannot conjure up the Holy Spirit to give you divine revelation the Holy Spirit listed where it wills it goes where wills it makes its own choices you can’t make the Holy Spirit come into your heart and mind. What you can do is make room for the Holy Spirit to come into your heart and your mind. And the way you do that is follow what Christ said. What he said to do he said forget so that you may be forgiven Christ the Holy Spirit of Christ the Holy Spirit of God the father wants to come into your heart that you’re not making room for it because you’re full of unforgiveness if your marriage is having trouble it’s because there’s unforgiveness. Almost hundred percent and I’m only saying almost disk as I haven’t seen every single possible scenario seen a lot of is because you lack forgiveness. And when you lack forgiveness the light of the Holy Spirit cannot come into you and therefore you will live in darkness and you will not understand what’s going on with your family with your neighbors with your community with your country you will not understand the items that are going on in the news telling you about this problem and that problem. You won’t understand because you are living in darkness because you won’t see the light and he won’t see the light because in order to see the light you have to forgive others you have to also accept responsibility for what you have done wrong. And you have to forgive yourself. And in order to forgive yourself you have to see yourself in the light that comes when you forgive others see you have these layers of blocking the Holy Spirit from coming into you. You’re keeping the Holy Spirit at bay because your keeping the truth that bake as you don’t want to admit the truth in order to admit the truth about yourself what you need? Humility you have to be willing to admit you don’t have all the answers now I don’t have all the answers now you don’t have all the answers now Christ has all the answers but you have to let the real Christ and not the emotionalize version of Christ.
Why isn’t the modern church doing what the early church was doing?
[00:17:23] So I talk about a lot of things of the early church did that you the modern church is not doing so that you can see all my goodness why are we doing what they did and then you start questioning the ideas that I’ve already got into your head and fill your cop with falsehoods filled your mind with falsehoods you gotta let go of those things they are often your security at my church makes me feel good my my faith makes me feel good but is your faith in God or an image of God that you have created with the help of other false ministers or other people that are diluted. You’ve created this image in your mind of Christ and it’s actually your faith in that image of Christ and not in Christ himself. Because when the M when your faith is really in the real Spirit of God, things really start to change.
Compartmentalization make it easy to trick yourself
[00:13:25] Now the amazing thing about people is what were men especially but men and women are both have a certain amount of compartmentalizing in their minds and even in their hearts and you have chambers in your heart and you have chambers in your mind. Sections in your mind. And you keep think different thoughts there so at the same exact time you can be sincerely desiring to know the truth and sincerely desiring not to know the truth. Because as a part of you that doesn’t want to see certain parts of your heart and your mind. And as a part of you that dies and this can go on simultaneously in you but it creates conflict. But it’s still keeping out the light of the Holy Spirit. I’ve seen this so many times with people who are seen facing this truth and they seem that truth and they seen this connection and they say yeah that makes sense but all of a sudden they get to a point where they cannot see they don’t want to see the more that they’ve had enough they don’t want to see anymore. You cannot this is why Christ gave you another instruction besides forgiving he gave you the instruction of persevering putting your hand to the plow and not quitting. Not forsaking the gathering together as us another thing he commanded you to do. He commanded you to sit down and attends hundreds and thousands he commanded his disciples to make you sit down in the tens, 50 centers and thousands in this this work so that charity amongst you can take place so that forgiveness can take place amongst you.
The real difference between Christians and others in the Roman Empire
[00:15:19] The Corinthians were learning how to do this and Paul was having to write to them about some of their problems and they were willing to see that in the end that’s why such of the Romans when he wrote the Romans, he’s talking about some of their specific problems in specific letters writing to the Romans and the conditions of the Roman. See, 14,000 Jewish families had been cast out of Rome by the Emperor Claudius will those Jewish families were Christians. That’s why he was casting them out because these Jewish Christians are Christian Jews these followers of Christ who was the king of Judea, had this goofy idea that we were not supposed to be taking benefits from men who exercise authority one over the other. Now to Christ that wasn’t goofy to the Christians that wasn’t goofy but to the Romans that was goofy especially to the Roman Emperor and that’s why we had letters going to Roman emperors in the next hundred 50 years from apologists like Justin explaining this is how Christians take care of their religious pious duty. The religious pious duty what is that obeying God and taking care of one another loving God and loving one another. loving one another in charity. Taking care of the needy of society in pure religion. Without the help of men who exercise authority one over the other that was what pure religion was according to James. unspotted by this desire to force my neighbor to take care of me or take care the needy of society that’s a big desire that was prevalent in the Roman Empire at that time they had their free bread all handed out to the temples of Rome which were government buildings… many contributions were free will offerings with many of them were the result of tribute taxes tribute from foreigners, tribute from Romans who had to pay into this.
Politics of the Caesars
[00:17:45] And then if you cross the Emperor Nero and that’s how the first Emperor came about was that Julius Caesar was trying to take on the position of Imperator or for life which would make him the commander-in-chief of the Army and the Navy for life. They saw this is dooming the Republic because it was too much power in the hands of a single individual is a killer and then Octavius in a number of guys rose up to fight those who had killed Julius Caesar. And when he finally defeated them, he got to take the spoils. Because they didn’t have the rules that Moses had laid down they took all the spoils of all those wealthy men that they defeated they talk their chattels and choses in action they took their property, and they became some of the wealthiest men in the Roman Empire. And they took that money and those funds and the and they started redistributing them to the people of Rome and the people of Rome hailed Jew Augustus Caesar who was actually Octavius a hailed Octavius as Augustine Caesar, which meant that he was the Psalter the savior of Rome. And his welfare system would be their salvation in time of need and of course Herod, who came along after this, was setting up a similar system in Judea. And there was rebellion in the Sanhedrin and there was murder of men in the Temple itself.
Details on John the Baptist, Locusts = Carob
[00:19:40] And John the Baptist fled to the desert as a small child was mother Elizabeth and was raised up with the NASA rights who were scenes in in the desert. And he ate cherubs and wild honey it says locus a while honeys but you if you understand the language same word for care of in one language is the word locust in another language so that’s a mistranslation he didn’t eat locus in wild honey always bothered me when I heard that something in me said that the sound right but it was carob and wild honey. So, last night, I had some carob and wild honey in a drink or what have I I don’t know that it made any difference but I I found that fascinating that the I’ve known about for years and years.
Go deeper than the translations by being honest with yourself
[00:20:35] But these are just some the little things but there’s a lot of big things that they don’t you don’t understand because people have sometimes mistranslated. that doesn’t that the translations that are of some of the translations that are available it should be good enough and really are good enough for those who are walking in the spirit. But most people set aside they override with the Holy Spirit is telling them The Holy Spirit to send some wrong with that and they don’t want to look at it because they don’t look at things about themselves you see this is why it’s important to look at yourself. So as the Bible says study to be still study to be still what what what what are they talking about be still and know God. Your mind is going 90 miles an hour it was some of you it may be only going 50 miles an hour but your tires are bald so that’s still pretty dangerous. The reality is is that you need to be very aware of what’s going on in your mind that is not really of Christ. Not according to the character of Christ what’s going on in your life what’s going on the way you relate to other people that is not like Christ like they say what would Jesus do unfortunately most of the people going around saying what would Jesus do don’t know what Jesus did so they don’t know what Jesus would do because most of the people and my life that use that phrase they’re doing absolutely what Jesus condemned the Pharisees for doing they don’t know at because there’s this great strong delusion this apostasy that is going on.
40,000 denominations don’t know Moses so hey don’t know Jesus
[00:22:20] So this is why we were going to Corinthians is why would God do a lot of the Bible and the why we’re looking at the tax and trying to put the text in the context of history in the context of what Paul was really talking about in the context of what was going on in the early church what was going on in the Roman Empire because history is repeating itself and just as the Pharisees and the salads and the Sadducees and many other groups were in apostasy doing contrary to Moses not even really knowing Moses because had they known Moses they would’ve known Jesus the same things going on today with modern Christians we have all these denominations 40,000 different denominations but there is only one denominator and that denominator is Christ so why are we doing contrary to what Christ said how can you be worshiping God and doing contrary to what Christ said to do he said he does the will of my father is my mother and my brother are you doing the will of the father well know most of you are not out there in the world you’re not because the world doesn’t want to do what the father has always told us to do they want to do something contrary will be right back to Keys of the Kingdom.
Boys identifying as girls… and beating up girls
[00:23:56] So welcome back to Keys of the Kingdom. I was the hearing in the news this week and I was like to touch on something that’s actually happening our lease this was of posts floating around in is all kinda goofy stuff going on in the news you’ve got your at you know it’s just bizarre and we see this a lot of people say will how can people even this is crazy! How can I think this way? you like you know 220 pound man out there’s say they are girl and they get the change in the girls locker room disk as they say their girl and my nose are not are all and they get to compete in women’s sports girl sports in high school and they may have men being out girls at the school gymnasium because they say the girls are fighting girls sitting in the hospital because they say to stands around watches it like your girl. You’re twice as big as our airway stronger than her and they do this and people just stand there because they know it’s it’s insane it’s crazy the fellow who thinks he’s a girl is delusional he has the dysphoria about his sexuality that comes from something that it that started weight while started way back but it really got going in the 60s and 70s which is the sexual revolution.
Study on sexual practices and societal collapse
[00:25:27] I just read a study this actually two studies this week that were extensive studies and I didn’t get to read it all, they can find it all online but I read quite a bit about them about cultures. They studied over 86 different major cultures and all of them that had a year they came and went, but all of them had a sexual revolution—with the which is a bizarre term in itself—where they went from a monogamous or or strict monogamous state our culture to you know one that was modified monogamy they went from having no promiscuity before nuptials before marriage to having anything they wanted before the they get married and I was okay and you can have more than one wife just not too wise at a time and then there than they would bring in multiple wives and all the stuff and in every case where they had this sexual change in the culture this revolution in the culture were now was suddenly okay to live with a girl or girl live with a guy and all the stuff and have multiple partners whenever you want when they they did that three generations tops in the culture collapse they were may have been around for 500 years but three generations after this change in the cultural perspective concerning marriage and the sexuality of the community they were they were collapsing as a society and of course we had our sexual revolution in the 60s and 70s and suddenly now it’s okay to live together and getting married ounces a piece paper and getting divorced us of his favorite not true not true having girlfriends and living together and all I can stuff is destroying your society. It’s eating in or eroding away at your society now course every time I have such a thing as this was also a backlash. There’s other people and say no that’s a mistake and I seen that and a lot of times months people have already seen the results in their own family and they changed something in their heart night as they are not going that way you know I’m I’m not I’m not gonna follow that cultural path. And these are cultural characteristics culture matters.
Foundations wrote new history books
[00:28:18] So Paul’s writing Christians, people who have also realized… another thing that destroys society’s stories for years when I was growing up historians were still teaching this on a pretty regular basis it was in the history books written by Charles and Mary Beard and everything the new history books that were brought about Valley by the Carnegie foundation and the Guggenheim foundation and and the Ford foundation and the all these different Rockefeller foundation they brought in new books a hired 50s scholars to write new history books to change the way in which Americans viewed history they include that these information’s and these facts about history but they used to teach it when I was a kid that you know that it was the free right around that destroyed the character of Rome. And, of course, I bring up there 150 years before Augustus Caesar and the birth of Christ Bolivia has who is a historian of the Romans, he was a Greek historian working for the Romans, was saying that yeah this these covetous practices of the people you know living at the expense of others by the property of others. And depending upon taking wife or mother so that they can have what they want will alter society, turn them into perfect savages.
TV shows promoting sexual promiscuity
[00:29:50] If they don’t want to admit that that’s what’s going on in their society, that’s a veil over their mind they will not see clearly to that mail to that dark glass they will not see clearly then they add sexual revolution’s on that and just say, “Well I’ll never get married I want you to my wife but I’ll cheat on my girlfriend you’ve Artie cheat on your wife with your girlfriend you and you used to know that they would understand that today they don’t think anything of it via most of I never seen the show but something to talk about this this week sex and the city I guess is what they call it I can’t remember the name of the actress he was one of the prominent accuracy married to Matthew Broderick somebody like that but anyway that they advocated promiscuity throughout the program and and people who follow that is if that was the cultural norm. That’s the thing… the media do you know TV and movies can alter the course of the culture just they use schools to do this by altering our view of history.
Before modern history books, everyone knew democracy was bad
[00:31:08] Our history was not taught to us by our grandfathers who lived history or our great-grandfathers on the great-grandfather they’ll come to me to find history they’re not gonna learn it in the schools because the schools are teaching they don’t know history. I remember I was talking to one of my grandsons and is now grown up and he was talking about democracy. I said all you want democracy democracies a bad form of government ever knew that before to forward to you if you join the Army before World War II you were taught democracy was a bad form of government in the U.S. Army manual. After World War II, you are taught to democracies a good form of will I mention this to the mother of the that my grandson said while the government you are she thought democracies because that’s what she had been taught in school I had been taught that in school but I’ve done a little studying sense of and stop studying when I left private school I was I was attending St. Joseph’s College when I was 1314 years old but I still and I was taught by people who still could remember what they used to teach us in schools back before the 20s and 30s and 40s when all the changes were taking place in the way in which review history so I was getting bits and pieces that we were using it as a just college the is my second year were using a history book that was clearly H has it was very old history book every ancient since modern times it was probably printed back in the 20s and 30s. And it wasn’t printed by the Guggenheim foundation it it was real history and we were seeing parts a history that when I went and started reading all the history books that they were offering in the schools have read history books that are a show up in your high schools. They don’t show up in your icicles anymore but when they did back in the 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s, I read history books as they were using in the schools, I noticed certain things remiss in that gave you a different picture of culture different view of history and it was changing the way people think.
Republic vs Democracy
[00:33:39] Of course my answer to my daughter-in-law was a Republic a Republic is not the same as a democracy at it today most people think a democracy are is you that the United States is a Republic in a Republic is an indirect democracy a Republic is not a democracy is about but your boating particular leaders who can’t go out and take your rights away that’s that’s what Republic is that’s not what you have today but anyway that’s another whole topic we have lots of videos and audios on that subject you go study those and find out what Republic really was.
Early American churches were call mini republics, Culture of Christ vs Culture of Caesar
[00:34:23] The fact is as the early church was up Republic. The early church in America were called viable room not by about the actual work but met many republics. Because they were operating according to that concept your ministers did not exercise authority over your can that was forbidden by Christ they were actually to provide you with pure religion through faith, hope and charity to your contribution see you had this choice in Rome this is the Christian conflict… We’re to take care of the needy of our society that the culture of Christ by faith hope and charity or were to take care of the needy of our society by force fear and violence according to the culture of Caesar. This was their choice what culture do you want to live by when you live by faith hope and charity you’re going to come face-to-face with that dark veil that is stretched over your mind and you can that Bale can be lifted through forgiveness and giving in to humility and perseverance to love and then the Holy Spirit can enter into you and the light up your life in a way that you begin to see the world with new eyes. And those eyes have to be given to you. I can’t give them to you I can talk about the fact that you don’t have them now if you had them now you would’ve seen a lot of things that I’m talking about.
[00:36:10] But we do want to get the Corinthians 10 we might even get to Corinthians 11 probably will before the days outcomes will have another program this afternoon and you can get on the network and we can we can share all this information with you but if were looking at the Corinthians 10… The first paragraph I entitle it casting down imaginations and disobedience that’s what we’ve been talking about all morning is the fact that many people think they’re following Christ and actually disobeying the commands of Christ. And this what were showing you.
Modern christians take the free bread of Rome
[00:36:48] The early church would not take the free bread of Rome and were persecuted because they would not take the free bread around my questions take the free bread from that take the bread that is provided by men who exercise authority one over the other and they call themselves benefactors but they’re just taken away from everybody else to provide you with those benefits and cry said it was not to be that way with you but it is that way with you you’re not listening to Christ not obeying Christ you’re coveting your neighbor’s good is the agency of government. Paul said, the covetous have no inheritance in the kingdom of God. We’re supposed to turn away from them. But it makes for real small churches.
[00:37:40] But he said a lot of things. So we’ll look at all those things eventually and have many times before. But in the first paragraph is now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ who in presence M base among you Hayes is putting himself in a humble position but being absent and bold toward you so you can be writing a little bit bolder remember 2 Corinthians is Paul light. wasn’t as scolding and although there is certainly he is doing some rebuking in here but I beseech you that I may not be bold but when I am present with that confidence wherewith I think to be bold against some which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.”
Fruits of the flesh in the modern church
[00:38:43] Now Paul had a big long talk about walking according to the flesh walking according to the spirit what are the fruits of the flesh what are the fruits of the spirit. He talks about the fruits of the flesh as what I see in the modern church all the time the lasciviousness wantonness desire for benefits at the expense of their neighbor they is go to church to feel good and to get justified.
Transgender readings in library and other bizarre behavior
[00:39:11] Some of the bizarre things we see today that the the weather they call it transgender readings in the yellow story hour in the where they got guys dressed up and bizarre transgender outfits talking to five-year-olds and seven-year-olds in the library you know my son was this so having dinner with another one of my sons and their wives and sitting in a restaurant and three guys come in you tell me the story the other night three guys came in and they were one was clearly stoned. They were all strange out-of-towners and one of them that the kids were sitting at a table coloring right next to the table of the parents and the he came over and he says all those your pictures oh well you want to see them in the pictures on my phone and he reaches over and he starts to show them pictures on his phone. My son could see the phone and he recalled of the guy in the guy didn’t respond and finally had to get a little louder hey now and the and they guide perked up. And in my son is shook his head in gesture to them with his head get away from those kids guy moved away but that’s bizarre! The idea that you can just go up to other people’s children and start showing them pictures on your phone you don’t even know those kids you don’t know the parents you have an even made any contact with them but people think that’s okay.
Mandatory vaccinations, changing sexuality of children, strong delusions
[00:40:58] Massively now, we have people voting to force you to give your children to give him vaccinations force your children to take medical there was a case just recently where a husband and wife were divorced and the wife wants to take one of her twin sons whose slight five or seven and change into a girl. Of course, he won’t be a girl. the chromosomes are all going to still be mail chromosomes and you know and I can show you history of people have done this in the past where a child was had a physical problem that doctors as well as just change it to a girl and was an infant and they perform the operation they think I destroyed that boy absolutely destroyed that boy that he was raised as a girl he wasn’t a girl he was a boy had mail chromosomes flowing through his body and they were trying to chemically change this. It’s is a horror story of abuse and in I think have been candid originally but anyway the fact is there taken a perfectly healthy boy she wants a girl and a boy said she’s going to change them with an operation. That, right in front of your eyes, right in the news this is child abuse of the most extreme has going on psychologically and physically going to child of the abuse a child in case some of you didn’t know the judge ruled that she couldn’t do that he’s been recused and it looks like she’s going to get to do it this is how bizarre we become wife because were under strong delusion there’s no extent to how far this delusion can go e-reader headed towards worse things than this all these things were hearing about in the news and worse things than these that hearing about is are going to be taking place in your life or you’re going to be going the other direction and all the things that you hear about Christ doing you will do and greater things than that you shall even do.That’s what Chist says.
Necessity of “walking in the spirit.”
[00:43:18] But the modern church isn’t going that way. They’re going another way. And people can’t see it because they’re under the strong delusion so we have to turn around and learn what it means to walk in the spirit and and understand what it means to walk in the flesh and then by what they’re doing you know who’s walking in the flesh and was walking in the spirit now there will be some marginal people in there that may be a little bit more difficult. But if you’re walking in the spirit you’ll be able to tell but people are still eating of the tree of knowledge thinking they’re going to find their way to the Holy Spirit you cannot find your way to the Holy Spirit by eating of the tree of knowledge you find your way to the Holy Spirit when you willingly let God write upon your heart and mind when you’re willing to receive that revelation and you will not receive that revelation unless you’re willing to see your problems and many fled the garden because it was light in the garden there was an angel of light there in the garden and that drove them out because to be in that light would make them have to see what they were in denial of Adam.it’s not my fault it’s the woman you gave me and I’m telling you today the bondage of the world today the entanglement in the bondage of the world today that we see today everywhere the delusional role false religion that people are excepting everywhere as a result of the fact that you’re still blaming others for your particular status today. It’s you you have to change but that’s good news because you can change you cannot change yourself with your own will but if you set years will aside and say the prayer of Christ not my will but thine and begin to do what Christ clearly said to do. And you’ll find it hard at times but when you find it hard at times is because you’re still addicted to the world. And now you can repent you can change your mind if you let Christ come in to make that change is you don’t know which way to change but Christ and show you even read the Bible. But that’s still the tree of knowledge. ultimately you have to eat of the tree of the spirit have to learn to walk in the spirit.
If you love Christ, you keep his commandments
[00:45:53] So walk according to flesh… Verse 3: “For the though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of the strongholds casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God. The knowledge of God is not information about God the knowledge of God is knowing God. And allowing God to come in your heart and write upon your heart and your mind. Everybody has experience that a little bit but everybody needs to experience that a lot. Every day as you walk through life. If God is in you guiding you in your accepting the guidance of God he’s writing upon your hearts in your mind you’re not going to want to do all these things the rest the world is doing people are going around saying oh yeah he’s a sinner guy he murdered yeah but he say because he accepted Jesus as personal Savior if you really accepted the real Jesus as your personal savior you’re not gonna be going around murdering and abusing, and robbing, and coveting… you’re going to be keeping the commandments. If you love me, you will keep my commandments if you’re not keeping the commandments that’s a pretty good sign that you don’t really love them enough to let him into your heart.
Phobias and misplaced love
[00:47:35] You fear what you will see when the light comes in. And a humble heart will accept that life. he will accept what he sees about himself when he left that light in you angry with your spouse your short with your spouse you neglect your spouse you neglect your children you lose your temper… Maybe you have a bad temper. Where is that coming from? You have a fear of spiders, you have a fear of elevators, you have these phobias, and you know where they, why am I afraid of that no let’s miss place confusion the other the people love their dogs and their cats and their pets and all these pads as he does all time with people at their out there in the poor areas of the community it’s over there the other valid and yelled their life is a mass the kids won’t have anything to do with them but they love all their patents in the passages dragging their health down using up their money but they love their bats because they had they feel like you have to love something. It’s just huge hole in the heart of they don’t love something in it so much easier to love a dog or cat a goat than to love your children because your children are much more complex and therefore the love will your children or design to point out your weaknesses a woman is designed to show a man his weaknesses. And a real man can also help the woman. They can be a team. But they what they don’t most people to have any clue how that even works but the more you’re willing to see about yourself more you will be able to understand how that works.
The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand
[00:49:35] Casting down imaginations… that is an interesting idea because that’s what most people are worshiping in their churches. They’re worshiping the imagination what they imagine Christ to be sane or be like her ear and then they want to conjure up pictures of heaven that I’m going because this is not my home Christ redeemed the world this is our home we’re supposed to be magnifying Christ in everything that we do in this world this is our home the kingdom of heaven is at hand is now you go when you die if you’re not thinking about heaven here you’re not gonna be in the kingdom of heaven there this is where we the rubber meets the road. This is where Christ came to redeem. We’ll be right back.
Greg’s experience at St. Joseph’s College, Questioning your teachers and modern churches
[00:50:34] Welcome back. We’re in Corinthians… 2 Corinthians chapter 10. In that verse 5, we’re reading, “casting down imaginations.” and that’s what we’ve been talking about is that people imagine that they know what the Bible is talking about because they’re told this by men who should know but have actually crept in and presented to you a strong delusion probably some of them were just diluted by their professors I mean I remember when I was being taught different things, I would ask, “But what about this? What about…” I just innocently assume it did make sense it had to make sense to me and you know I in the theology classes all it up into my senior year when I went back to regular private schools that the they were they were shaken by the fact that I would ask these questions but I had a little bit more knowledge than some of my teachers by the time I was back in regular school because I was no longer attending that St. Joseph’s college but had done all the studying prior to that because at you whenever I would do things I would do it intensely a man be working late at night and taking a flashlight into the dormitories I could read and study the things I was trying to make sense out of the world and just wasn’t adding up things didn’t fit and I had to fit is like a puzzle I guess I was a little OCD about that but eventually when I came out here to the desert and started to learn to study to be still on a more regular basis following sheep on the desert then you carry in my Bible with me in my pack and and and pondering these things and praying about it I began to realize they lied some light overtly some live because they had received a lie and this is a strong delusion that they might believe a lie and that’s what the modern church is. It’s a lie. And it’s a product of imagination It’s not a product of the spirit.
How to tell you’re not a Christian
[00:52:45] That word “imagination” is actually composed of two words in one of his low-dose locus most is is the word and it has to do it can be translated thought her imagination but it has to do with reckoning computations. You figured it out or somebody figured out for you and taught you these answers no you don’t figured out that’s not how Christ Christ does not build his church by flesh and blood and walking in the flesh is not the answer is walking in the spirit. He builds it by revelation that revelation must come by the spirit and that’s what they mean when they talk about him writing upon their hearts and upon their minds and this is where you should be at and all I can do is present evidence that it is not where you’re at because you have accepted things that are clearly a lie. of the life show you these facts to show you that the modern church this is it’s okay to go to men who better call themselves benefactors but exercise authority even though Christ said it is not okay are doing contrary to Christ very simple if your desiring benefits from men who exercise authority one over the other to force your neighbor to contribute to your welfare you’re not a Christian and I I say you can’t be a Christian and a socialist and in the news this week at least somebody sent me some information on the subject there was a new word and had to look up the word in its transfer is of they say is not socialism is a war between socialism and capitalism of course it’s not because socialism is a political system in capitalism is not a political system of capitalism is this a private ownership of your possessions what you produce is yours and of course that was the prophecy of the Messiah would return every man to his possession so that the Messiah as a catalyst to return you do your possessions, your possessions to you and your family to you and your you actually own your family they can come in and force your family to yell change it SAG serve injected with toxins or they couldn’t do these things but we don’t war against flesh and blood. Who’s going to stop them? Us? A few handful of people.
Vaccinations, Law against forced vaccinations in 1916, Changing History
[00:55:26] Now I’m all for people want to go up there and advocate that we don’t have a no forced vaccinations actually came across this week so he asked me a question about a particular measure that passed in 1994 in Oregon. And they said whoa what will you want to know some about it Wilhite I know because I’ve done my homework I ate just with my phone I found the link that shows you how many people voted all the stuff on measures expected 1994. But couldn’t find the measure first I found this by big long list of all the measure sixes but there’s different ones every year or every couple years and so had to go all the way down to the bottom for some reason is his way down at the bottom of the list is that they’re going to try to overrule that particular measure another long story go read her article on Article 2 Section 22… dishes show you what, strong delusion people are under the try to drain the swamp and nobody’s willing to pull the plug but the reality is is that there was a measures six in 1916 that did not pass and it was to make a constitutional amendment that nobody can force your children to take vaccines this controversy was back in 1916 the course in 1908 the Carnegie foundation and the Guggenheim foundation and the Ford foundation and the Rockefeller foundation were all meeting to decide how we were going to change the way which Americans view history. Well they also contains way which Americans view a lot of things. And the fact is is that he could do that because you are not walking in the spirit even back then. Now there were some undoubtedly but they want they would see the whole truth of your Willie filled with a whole spirit of God but they don’t see it and you have while talk about in particular people but they just won’t see it.
Casting down imaginations, Why you aren’t saved
[00:57:27] So this transferism is where the that you know they define it is where you have the government transfer some of the wealth of the rich that have too much in somebody’s opinion to the poor who don’t have enough welders transfer resume in the kingdom of God to but the one who decides what’s going to get transferred is the one who produced it and it’s called charity meal call transfers and we call it charity and we take care the need to charity if you don’t take care of the need to charity you will end up perfect savages and go under tyranny under a despot under another king won’t be King Jesus because King Jesus transfers them is to charity all the things of the world there transfer resume is to force and so of you think that’s okay you’re going to end up under a tyrant Paul knew this Polybius knew this Christ knew this John the Baptist knew this and this is what they were preachy but is not what your imagination has been telling you and the people feed your imagination but Paul is talking about taking down that imagination and add to setting it aside that we don’t live by that imagination’s face is casting down imagination and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God which is the modern church is done and bringing into captivity that you every thought to the obedience of Christ were to cast down that imagination so that we are in captivity to Christ instead of in captivity to the world but if you’re not willing to do that if you’re not willing to admit the truth then you’re going to be in trouble and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled policy talk about you’ll be obeying he thought about you all works obeying is not about your works is that God owes you salvation God’s not gonna owe you salvation is nothing you can do that God will owe you salvation. It’s always going to be a buy by grace but if you’re not showing the fruits of the spirit in the form of the what you’re doing, you’re are not saved you need that I’m giving you that heads up you be wanting I’m say because I accepted Jesus in my heart but the evidence is that you have not because of what you’re doing. Aand Paul is very clear about that. He says you have no inheritance of your doing this big long list.
Christianity is not about outward appearance
[01:00:23] And he goes on in the next chapter which I entitled, “Not Outward Appearance.” You can go see all this on not preparing you.com or seven do ye look on things after the outward appearance of the Pharisees were doing quite suckers that all dressed up they look nice their ball on their incense in their they’re going around in there smiling and you know now they are aware and $1500 suits or $2000 suits and they got their ties and are ergo I see some ministers now there were blue jeans does work you or like the people I I do wear blue jeans to I wear all kinds a close but I don’t wear $2000 suit I don’t even drive a $2000 car in the you I got my my suit at Goodwill as though I mean I’m pretty thrifty have had to be begin order to take the time to do this study so that I contain tear down the vein imaginations you think is Christianity is not Christianity was daycare all social welfare of Christians to faith open charity and not taking any of the free benefits of those men who exercise authority and call themselves benefactors but are simply in the business of transfer is a then not Christians wouldn’t do that and that’s why they were persecuted and we show this in the article on Christian conflict. or so of you don’t believe that go read the article show me where morale you are emails out there you can come and show me where you can call me even and and show me where I’m wrong I’d like you to do put it in writing because I noticed that when people try to prove you wrong… as soon as you so we’ll know that’s not true this is that you in any thwarted their argument with actual facts they jump over to another topic and and then you prove that wrong and they jump over they just they won’t face the truth they don’t want to face the truth to put it in writing must take a look I put it in writing we’ve got you hundreds maybe thousands articles out there. And and we’ve got hundreds and hundreds of audios out there so by mom showed me Joey put it down and write I don’t I challenge you.
[01:02:55] So anyway, it says in that verse 7: “Do ye look on things after the outward appearance if any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s belongs to Christ let him of himself think this again and the number times all the apostles all the authors in the epistles of the Gospels are warning you even cry should warning you think again take another look that as he is Christ even so are we Christ’s. For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority and we can look at that word authority and minute which the Lord has given us for edification and not for your destruction I should not be ashamed that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by the letters.” as you write these letters I don’t want to upset you with these letters but I’m I’m going to rebuke because as many as I love I also rebuked for his letters say they are weightier and powerful. But this bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible. Let such an one think this that such as we are in word by letters when we are absent such will we be also in deed when we are present. So he talks about when he comes in that what I’m writing you I must say the same thing when I get there but he’s putting it down in writing which we just talked about you think I’m wrong put it in writing show me we actually have a number of people that…
Darwin Fish and other detractors, Romans 13
[01:04:54] Somebody came across one of the websites and we had what we we we show you that that these people who criticize what were doing. And one person came across it on online that that particular website remember what the name of it is but it involves Darwin Fish. and he is as this is all lies of anybody seen as well we have hours of broadcast going to all of his items we have pages that explain all this goes through in detail where he is absolutely wrong and come back and refuting the things that we said but it will we have a number of people their retractors and we’ve got you we’ve actually included some of them and somebody was quoting one of articles on Romans 13 in an article that he was writing for somebody I knew Rockwell or somebody maybe news reviews but anyway he was quoting our article and somebody criticized his article. And, of course, we’re one of the sources are our research is one of the sources of that article well he and he was ahead of a seminary he’s in the book the Higher Liberty we take is either we go and we let we address it and his argument just completely falls apart his argument was a non-argument but to the person who hasn’t done their homework could have easily been deceived by his argument because it sounded reasonable but the facts don’t bear him out a game or what was that they had to do with that the use of the work X to see you and he was saying that though this word was use the data and I’m and I showed him no that’s not the way the world was use and we actually quote poets authors teachers of the time scholars of the time, well-known scholars of the time, philosophers of the time and their specific definition of that word ecstasy we show you that he says no this is what and he said the Greeks of that time he was trying to you insinuate that all know that we have to look at the way that word me as if he knew what he was talking about he didn’t know he’d been taught falsely. I’m not picking on the guile that is mentioned in that the book but I sent him what I wrote in the book. never got word back because he can’t refute the facts. Facts do matter.
Turn around and start doing things the way the early church did them
[01:07:32] That’s an important thing for us to understand when we’re… that the and that’s what I am bringing out the fact the facts are not going to give you a relationship with God but they’re going to possibly cut or hack away at the root problem which is your relationship with the world and with the people that have taught you that have been teaching you stuff that just ain’t so. And we need to turn around from those people who are teaching you would just ain’t so and find out what is so. Then we can go and study to be quiet do those things forgiveness, giving, sacrifice, caring about others hearing the cries of others you want God to hear your cries you have to hear the cries of others can’t just go off like some sad to and contemplate it in the hills and just care about yourself. You actually have to go out and care about others in an early care about others you have to hear others in the best way to hear others in the care about others is the way Christ commanded us to do it. And he commanded us to do it by sitting down and attends 50s hundreds and thousands and that’s the way the early church was organized and if you’re not organized that way you’re not doing it the way the early church was doing and you may need to turn around and do it that other way.
Authority vs Liberty
[01:08:07] I’m looking here for that particular quote that was in verse 8… 2 Corinthians chapter 10, verse 8… otherness and it is what I thought it was I wanted to double check before I told you this this is being thorough because I would want to mislead you I can make mistakes I do misspeak at times so did Moses but when he writes it down he tries to get it right but the word there he says our authority he sorry about any talking to them is they have authority to not just his authority but our authority. What word is that has to word they use in Romans 13 ecstasy of the word of talking to you about that word ecstasy a in Romans 13 is actually at times translated liberty because that’s what it means is liberty so he’s actually talking in there so we read that verse 84 though I should boast somewhat more of our liberty which the Lord has given us for edification. That’s where given liberty regularity just can’t do anything we want were going to were given liberty to go out do it Christ wants Christ was you love one another you have the liberty, especially in the United States, of freely assembling and living by faith hope and charity you do it right now.
You can creat you socialist group now
[01:10:50] I talked in some of the last programs that we did at all was the one just before the one before that they talked about socialists… people that want to be socialists in the United States according to the laws of the United States you can become a socialist right now and live a socialist lifestyle right now and you do it by getting together with all your other by socialists in your forming a cooperative or even a corporation or religious order because of religion socialism is a religion you get chosen as a religion is a religion you get when you have no religion. You have no faith hope and charity you end up with socialism and that liberty is so you you have the liberty to go have faith hope and charity and live by that that’s the liver you have you don’t want to live by faith hope and charity just like author and and somebody just mentioned somebody we knew from Wisconsin for years ago used to call up and keep me on the phone for hours. He did things to that that were of service and then a lot of times when I’m on the phone I would just using headphones and I was doing other work in this listening to but he would not sit down and attends hundreds of thousands he was so full of anger at the system wrote a big long thick book… I have it over here. and a lot of the stuff in the book is true but is missing some of the truth of Christ and that’s what a lie is that the definition of alive you leave out elements of Christ, what you’re teaching is a lie we are given liberty to live by faith hope and charity if you want to live by socialism you can form a religious society right now that operates in a socialist passion for whatever purpose it you want and you can enter into that. Then you can add and I actually could I like it name them to the can’t remember their name but I I know of groups of doneness they end up in disaster, because they’ve left out some really important elements of Christ.
Higher liberty, right to choose, you can’t have love without liberty
[01:12:58] Christ actually created a socialist organization. I shouldn’t say socialist… Because it really a socialist but a a system where the church owned all things in common the church being the ministers of the church owned all things in common but they own all things in common in a system where they could not exercise authority one over the other all socialist states exercise authority one over the other so he’s creating a system is not really socialist but it could appear that when asked why some people see this on all things in common they can crisis socialist absolutely not so but the ministers would own all things in common but they can exercise authority one over the other so how did you form rank in the church it was a rank of authority wasn’t RK was authority one over the other so how was the rank in the church he was the greatest servant of servants of servants. And we explain all this and you read about it elsewhere but we want to get through this I Corinthians and then maybe we’ll do Corinthians 11 this afternoon I doubt we’ll have time to get into it but is important that you look these things over and see you wouldn’t know that that word authority there is the same word that they translate power elsewhere in the same where they translate liberty elsewhere. But that word was the strongest word in the Greek language for liberty for the right to choose is still defined that way in your Strong’s concordance. It’s it’s your right to choose Christ gave us a right to choose of how we were going to exercise transfer is a we get to choose the way in which we help society that that’s why he gave us liberty. So that we had the liberty to love without the liberty to love the liberty to choose to help this person or help that person or contribute to this cause there is no real love if you don’t have the right to choose you cannot exercise love love requires, by its nature, sacrifice that sacrifices in the form of charity and maybe you give up time you make about moneymaking property may but it’s charity it’s your choice if the liberty to choose yourself this is the nature of the church so how can you be a part of his church if you’re going out and asking other man who set a different kind of table to force your neighbor to contribute to your welfare the welfare of others. You want to create social welfare schemes where the government has the power to take away from your neighbor to give to the needy of society know that is not that is antichrist you’re not a Christian and not following what Christ said to do your following your vain imagination. And I’m tearing it down so at this is good news folks because now you’re hearing the good news. And Annie’s telling you that I’m telling you this in the letter that cars they already got to know what modern Christians don’t even have an inkling of this and sometimes cases but he’s telling them how this works how the Christianity is functioning what were supposed if were walking in spirit we would be doing this if were not willing to do this were not walking in spirit were walking the flesh if you’re desiring you’re afraid to give up those benefits of those men who exercise authority and I understand that will be a process you’re not really following Christ will be right back.
Measuring oneself with the wrong measuring stick
[01:18:46] In the last paragraph in 2 Corinthians chapter 10, we’re looking at verse 12. It says him the title I put on there is preaching the gospel of Christ and this is what Paul is is doing the same for we dare not make ourselves of the number or compare ourselves with some that come in themselves but they measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves on models themselves are not wise to this other thing is that you what is the denomination of Christianity. It’s Christ. It’s not like I’m pretty good because I’m not as bad as that guy I’m pretty good because we do this this and this I’m pretty good because I wear blue jeans in church when I’m preaching because I’m one of the people I’m humble I’m wearing these humble blue jeans you know where not what not yet because he delighted sepulchers you can do the same thing with bluejeans it’s your you’re dealing with that outward appearance that he was just talking about and he is one of the boasting of this stuff and he does want to be measuring those people see this one things you see on Facebook and some of the social medias that people get in a little bubble of friends who all think the same way and then they see some news item that is coming from the fake news and I believe it because it supports their delusion. And they swam in that delusion they live in a bubble and they compare themselves with each other and they just mutual backscratching society and they are not wise. They can’t learn. they can’t get out of that bubble they become stuck in that bubble of thinking.
Measuring ourselves according to the early church
[01:18:46] He says, “But we will not boast of things without our measure. and that that’s an interesting worded that that without our measure we actually see it here in the next first as well but the word is is not in the Greek it’s not repeated in the Greek. They repeated in the translation, but it’s not but he says talks about but we will not boast of things without our measure looking at ourselves measuring ourselves face it looking how our deeds what were doing art in this what the that the wording is all the time you think you believe Christ did this he did with the Pharisees and we should be doing it every day we should be testing do we really believe… Are the works of the spirit that we are walking by producing the works of the early church are we doing what the early church would been trained up by Christ were doing now churches are not doing that they’re actually doing with the Pharisees were doing and so you have to measure this and that’s why am bringing out the history of what was going on at that time why were Christians being persecuted? Because they would not sign up with the men who call themselves benefactors at work for the other governments is it that’s what Jesus is saying the princes and rulers of those other governments we can show you the quotes that exercise authority one over the other rear benefactor article or exercising authority article… it tells you that that he’s talking about their government and if you’re getting your benefits from that world… that world government that constitutional order and system of government that exercises authority one over the other in this transferism of forcing the contributions of the people you’re going against Christ. You’re going against Moses.
Following Jewish law isn’t the right measure
[01:20:49] You’re not even a Jew according… Ff you ever do is someone follows the teachings of Moses a Jew you are you know you be circumcised and follow the food laws, but you’re not following the basics you’re coveting your neighbor’s goods the men exercise authority and it says in the Commandments of God which Paul never said the Commandments were done away with using rules like circumcision then you don’t have to do that you can do that if you want he is okay you do that on file with Jews want to do all that but you don’t have to do that. That isn’t necessary to do that that you need the circumcision of the heart your you need to be willing to sacrifice and love for one another. But Christ gave you that choice. That liberty. That authority to decide.
How you get entangled in the yoke of bondage
[01:21:45] The world wants to take that authority away from you any of your religion is spotted by the world, it will take that away from you. because that’s how you get entangled in the yoke of bondage. Because you go to the world and asked for benefits. Free school free healthcare free welfare all these wonderful gifts gratuities and benefits that are destroyers of freedom destroyers of the society and in those systems they bring about all these other sexual relations and all these other things these are all signs of the time but people can they don’t understand how this all works they don’t understand marriage works they don’t understand how family works at the number of people as some of them intimately related to me now have come to me and told me took me aside and said we don’t know I don’t know they say speaking for themselves what a family is. I never had a family. And I find this astounding right I know these are a Kodak moment these are Holy Spirit moments why are they coming to me and telling me this I don’t know how family is postoperative and the really it does using idling buddies expert in the field I know some people have learned more than others and I know some people he got a lot more to learn.
Measuring by force or by charity
[01:23:34] But anyway, back to this is that we get through this so he’s talking about these people who live in these bubbles not being wise because they don’t measure themselves against anybody else but themselves. We measure ourselves against Christ because Christ is our denominator he is our denomination but we will not boast of things without our measure. You know…you can you can check us out. But according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us a measure to reach even unto you okay so was the role that God hath distributed to us use must be living by faith open charity by love for one another not by force John the Baptist that best done by force him to do it by Jerry you have asked your share with those that don’t have enough.
Why the early church was persecuted, what made them different
[01:24:16] This is why the church was persecuted. Because that’s the way they were going to do it in pure religion and the world didn’t like that made them look bad in a cast 14,000 Jewish families out of Rome and all the Roman families I still want to live by faith open charity but they can cast them out because they were Romans to Paul’s writing Romans and the Romans are saying they do it is circumcised they say that we had to do that because the actually some of those families were mixed it was families that were cast out when they talk about 2000 getting baptized one day and 3000 the next day or whatever they’re talking about families heads of the family the prison guard you get baptize you in all your family is safe because that baptism was when you said yeah I wanted to live by faith open charity this is this is just the outward expression of your willingness to repent not think like the world to live by force or violence I’m nothing like I said by faith open charity’s you can’t do that as a society is a culture unless you sit down and 1050 centers and thousands which is why Christ commanded it.
Three characteristics to measure by
[01:25:34] So now we’ve got three things that we talked about as a 45 things you have to be humble enough to see that your imagination is not what you should be worshiping you have to be willing to forgive others including yourself are not doing the right according to the ways of Christ you have to give to others and in you can’t get the others less you forgive them so these are overlapping things in the culture of Christ and you have to sit down and attends 50 centers and thousands because he commanded it. and their actual commands for the ministers that Christ also gave to the ministers of Christ black and tell you that most the ministers out there the modern church and I don’t want to hear that that the although they’ll even keep the characteristics of a minister that are mentioned in Timothy and Titus. Much less the requirements specified by Christ for the ministers of the church.
Not depending upon the transferance of the world
[01:26:34] In verse 13 but we will not boast he says without measure without looking at what were doing according to the measure of the rule of God which we have to live by this faith open charity and he says which is also been given unto you for we stood because there was a difference in the ministers of the church and the people there were ministers and there was laity. But that is now waiting to do with salvation that is has to do with your role in society so people’s although that is only for ministers everything but everybody says that they go to the world that to the men who exercise authority for their welfare. They don’t have any daily ministration of the church. they don’t get their daily bread from Christ they get their daily bread for the world. From those men who exercise authority so that they’re wrong. Not boasting is a rate I skip 14. “For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure as though we reach not unto you for we are, as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ and that gospel of Christ is to live by faith open charity and not for severe violence. “Not boasting of things without our measure that is of other men’s labor by having hope when your faith is increase that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly.” We’re not going to get into the transfer is some of the world were not going to say no I don’t collect any Social Security checks. I don’t I don’t go get welfare I don’t go get any of these benefits of the world. But I just have the hope that we will be enlarged and rich where everyone is say there by you according to our rule abundantly. And our rule is that I can’t force you to contribute.
Paul was running an international welfare system
[01:28:46] And I very seldom talk about contributions but that’s what Paul’s talking about here to the Corinthians in will know this if he if you read the verses before he talks about taking up their collection having the money ready to go to take the money to Jerusalem. And if the guys Cuba Macedonia come with me they’ll be coming with me and we will take your people who are going to be taking contributions thereto with us if you want to go to a song about it he is running an international welfare system every Christian church is running their local welfare system they are taking care of the needy of their society to faith open charity they are not going to the temples of the government of Rome to get their bread their daily bread they have a daily ministration modern churches send all the people to the men who exercise authority which is why you are entangled again in the yoke of bondage so he’s not boasting but he’s hoping in verse 16 to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand. What’s he talking about? We’re supposed to not just love those people in our local home church.
Details about the tens, fifties, hundreds, and thousands
[01:30:13] All the home church group should be out there connecting one another in the tens 50 centers and thousands 10 families in a home church five ERISA 1050 centers and thousands actually tends hundreds and thousands. And the reason they put the 50 and there is a redeeming with 5000 families. at what one Christ commanded this they were doing with 5000 families so 10 families get together, 10 home churches get together and then you end up with 1000 families and then 5000 and if there was 10,000 people there than it would be tends hundreds and thousands and 10,000s. This is the way the church was organized and and that’s why Paul and Barnabas right alibis were taking emergency supplies to an area that was really hard hit and could not sustain themselves without aid from abroad. But that’s what it means when Christ says you can’t just love those who love you you have to love love those people that are far away. You can’t do that effectively righteously in last year sitting down in the tends hundreds and thousands which is why Christ commanded it. But your readers don’t need to teach you that because they take care of you and I’m a needed way and I’m in a place and use them in exercise authority to eat at their table the crisis and can both tables. And I know the minute you will because you haven’t been sitting down and so that repentance is a process. know I always point out this and I think it is really telling 5000 families maybe 20,000 people there Christ is told that there is enough food for everybody is talking about for the ministers because they’re not going to feed all these people there’s enough food for the ministers he has a little bit to give to Christ who is hungry and in Christ says make the people sit down in tens 50 centers and thousands. In ranks upon ranks of tens 50 centers and thousands took a little bit of time me about nobody’s feeding Jesus piece is fasting I guess so may take a couple days to get that organized a result of the megaphones. You got all these people that sit on and organize in this fashion and then so that now there organize and he says okay bring me the food that we do have for the ministers of their their following with Christ is not very much and he says take a give it away as we guide Christ. We can go down and get some more food and and is all we got the giveaways is given away and they give it away and suddenly there’s an abundance. where they come from now the modern church does want tell you how the real church were day that he just appeared out of thin air but that’s not the miracle. There was a miracle that’s not it the miracle was that the people started to share. And they shared so much that there was a surplus left over and the possible sadly this is the kingdom of God is way works it doesn’t work by your vain imagination it doesn’t work by your emotional acceptance of Christ it works because you’ve turned around in your thinking a different way and you have a daily ministration that takes care of also’s welfare of your Christ cultural church. That’s the way works.
Defining “glory”
[01:33:58] He says in verse 16… We’ll go over again… “To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand know if you read the other he was telling him to take up these collections when I got it boasted that this is to help people and other places but he that Gloria let him glory in the Lord for not he that come mended himself is approved but whom the Lord commanded. And how do we know who the Lord commanded well we don’t essay need to know we just need to do know what’s right is talking about glory in the Lord and we’ve talked about that word glory and and what it means and how that fits into you know the the terminology of the day because it’s one of those words like honor and stuff like that that people just don’t quite understand the meaning of that word and so they they put a different definition on but even the word glory is translated boast eight times. It’s also translated rejoice but it talks about two glory weather with reason or without too glory on account of a thing to glory anything that’s a definition a giddy weather talking about is getting credit who gets the credit. You know, if if you give me $1000 and I’m able to help somebody else out by giving them that thousand dollars passing out pay a medical bill do I get the credit do you want to credit who gets the credit who gets to glory. The spirit of this is that God gets the glory is God is working on your heart is Spirit of God working in you. It’s not you. a spirit of God working you have the liberty to choose to let Christ in the spirit of God in this the spirit of righteousness in your heart or not you have the right to choose whether that spirit comes and you are not you can’t make that spirit come into you but you have the right to choose to let that spirit come into you.
Covetous practices have made you merchandise
[01:36:37] What’s keeping that spirit out of you now? Your vain imagination? Your fear of knowing the truth about who you really are. And the fact that you’ve been coveting your neighbor’s goods in your parents of being covered in their neighbor’s goods did the the strong delusion the lie that it’s okay to take your neighbor as long as you do it the minute exercise authority called government? It’s not okay. it’s contrary to the gospel of Christ the good news of Christ is contrary to what John the Baptist was saying it is in conformity to coveting your neighbor’s goods to transferism. It’s the covetous practices that has made you merchandise entangled Ugandan the yoke of bondage and cursed your children with trillions of dollars of debt and every single country in the world is doing this that no matter who you will lack the debt goes up I heard the other day for taxpayers the debt is at least $150,000 per taxpayer right today. And you can even pay that back because you can’t pay a debt with a note which we explain in the Covenants of the gods. You know you don’t have to know all the technicalities of how this works in the world.
[01:38:01] For those who want to learn we’ve got it published. and you can read you the lot of the people I know who bread Covenants of the gods… which is free online but some of gotten hardcopy ritual nor copy out you can download a PDF and take it down to Kinko’s in the the put together and bind it for you five cheaper order from us but that’s up to you I don’t care how you read we there’s nothing you have to sign up for do get access to the whole book and all the books but the guys I know who have those books and read them that many of them have read them over and over again and they say constantly every time I read I learned something new. Because there are layers as layers in the kingdom but is also layers in the lie you see one truth you haven’t seen it all you have to persevere.
Persevere, love those far away
[01:38:58] Back to one of those things in the short list that were going to be talking about it eventually after we get the Corinthians the short list you have to persevere persevere what persevere what Christ commanded what he command forgive give love sit down in the 1050s under the thousands don’t just love those in your little home church but love those who are far away this is the message of the gospel of Christ this is the church established by Christ but it will only be edified if you begin to walk in the spirit and let God write upon your heart and your minds you’re not going to do this and I can do it right because I tell you you can do is right because is written in your heart and written in your mind.
Introducing chapter 11
[01:39:54] The next chapter, chapter 11… We’ll just touch upon that when I get to go through it all we don’t have the time but would to God you could bear with me a little in my folly and indeed bear with me for I am jealous over you with godly jealousy for I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin in Christ for metaphors and this is what EEs is the one reason I always like to go into the next chapter before we finish one chapter that your one recording is these are all linked these are all connected this is all one letter saw one gospel and he’s telling you there is one denominator here and that is Christ Sammy Paul he said has a big long things not be Paul or or Apollo or its it’s Christ is the character of Christ and it has to be Christ spirit dwelling in you writing upon your hearts and mind and if you’re not living according to the ways the hold only church and trying to go that way change the culture of your life that way then you’re not walking in the spirit and you have need of repentance hasn’t need of changing the way you think we’ll see you next week join the network God bless.
