by Gregory Williams
Air Date: May 25, 2019
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00:00 When I say the words “religious service” today, what are you thinking? You know, we sing from the hymnal, we read from the bible and then what? That’s a religious service…we listen to a sermon by a preacher who sits up there and orates for an hour. Then we say, “That’s a religious service.”
00:23 Where’s the service? There was no service. Because the original religious services were actually services—rightly dividing bread from house to house. And those amongst us share what we have extra with those who don’t have enough. That was communion. That was fellowship. It wasn’t going to a pizza parlor and everybody having a big pizza or having a potluck or something like that.
00:53 They might’ve had those things, but all the social welfare for Christians was taken care of through the Church and through the congregations—these “free assemblies.”
01:05 That’s not the case anymore. Today, everybody goes to Caesar. They SAY they have this king, Jesus, but they are not living like Jesus said…they’re not following Jesus. They’re out there praying to the fathers of the earth and to the men who call themselves “benefactors that exercise” authority for their daily bread—for their welfare. They [the fathers of the earth] are even the ones taking care of the widows and the orphans. And they take care of parents while the children say, “Well, I gave to the government they are supposed to take care of you, mom and dad. So if you need help, mom and dad, you go get your Social Security check.
01:47 I knew a preacher who didn’t want to collect his Social Security check. He knew there was something wrong. He didn’t understand all the legalities of it, but he knew something was wrong with it. But he as turning 72. He didn’t need the Social Security, he was making a living—still—supporting him and his wife. He has a bunch of kids. And his kids are saying, “Dad, you should be collecting your Social Security. Put in for that.
02:11 He says, “But I don’t need it.”
02:13 They say, “Oh, yeah, but you could take that money and take vacations and everything. You should be… You have a right to that money.
02:19 What money? What money do you have a right to in Social Security? Because the money you paid in…that’s gone! That ain’t there no more. That’s gone! Men who exercise authority spent that on other people…like heroin addicts and kids who want to go to school for 10 years and still collect Social Security…become perpetual students. I know people like that.
02:45 I know it went and helped old people too. But you’d be shocked to see where most of that Social Security money goes and how it’s spent. Because a great deal of it is spent on bureaucracy…the bureaucracy that manages the system. But it’s right that those priests of Social Security… Because that’s what they are… Because that’s what Social Security is… It’s a religious program. It’s how you take care of the widows and orphans.
03:17 What did James say pure religion was? He said it’s taking care of the widows and orphans and needy of your society unspotted by the constitutional orders and systems of government. Unspotted by the world. Not unspotted by the planet. Unspotted by the constitutional orders and systems of government. Because the word there that they translate into “world”… Right in your concordance, it states that that word means “constitutional order or system of government.” That’s what it means.
03:50 People say, “Oh no, that could mean…like the cosmos…like the stars and the whole wor…” Well, how does the whole world SPOT your taking care of the widows and orphans? How does it do that?
04:09 If you go read our articles and listen to our audios, we’ve shown on that particular word, 700 years before Christ, that was inscribed meaning “the government.” That’s the way the word was used. There were a few philosophers that used it because of the fact that government is an organized system and, in order to explain the movement of planets and the stars and all that stuff, they used that word that means “the organized system of government.” It comes from the word “kosmeo” which had to do with organized troops and soldiers. They used that word in reference to the movement of planets. Because they said, ” those dots up in the sky… there’s a pattern to how they move. And so they used that word “kosmos” to describe that. But, originally, it meant “government.”
05:15 So how does your religion… your taking care of the needy of your society get spotted by government? You depend on a government that uses force to take care of the needy of your society…by forcing the contributions of your neighbor. And then you start getting covetous and envious of rich people.
