Willie Martin
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 Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:22 am Post subject: Argument - 5 |
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The Called Out Ones
"For MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN (or called out)."
(Matthew 22:14)
Yahshua is the Shepherd and He calls the sheep. Man does
not decide who will hear the call. It is not our prerogative
to choose the people who will h ear. It is not our fault
that we have the wrong effect upon those who don't. If
people are fighting and quarreling and disregarding
Him...because their impression of Him is wrong, and they do
not really know Him...that is not our fault.
All the division going on is simply Yahweh's judgment
working itself out. The goats are being separated from the
sheep. The dogs and sorcerers are outside the Kingdom and
the Ecclesia (ECC = out: KALEO = call) the called-out ones,
are inside...having been "called" into the Kingdom.
Therefore, Yahshua calls people into the Kingdom. Many are
called...but only a few are called OUT (i.e., only a few
will respond). The ones who respond to the call and COME OUT
OF THE WORLD are the ones who know Yahshua. They are not
being coerced by you or men, or by some Perfect Argument.
This doesn't mean we should stop striving to learn and
share truth. But those who have not already been "called
out" by Yahshua will not have any interest in the gospel of
the Kingdom.
The calling-out model of the Ecclesia is different from the
proselytizing model of the Judeo-Christian church. In the
Church environment you simply memorize what you are given.
You try to fit in or belong to the group YOU decide to
accept a liturgy of some sort as unity through agreement in
church and doctrine...and any disagreement is considered bad
and unacceptable. You go to the Judeo-Christian church to
FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF and others.
Conversely, in the Ecclesia environment you are following
Yahshua, not organizational conformity and acceptance. You
are drawn to the truth, not to what is politically correct.
You are in a growth process, not a process of defending
traditions and past mistakes. You are called OUT from the
herd, not coerced to fit in.
Learning, changing, and the thought patterns of growth are
not discouraged in the Kingdom of God. There we constantly
undergo the change process that is essential to growth, and
they deplore the stagnant pool of the status quo. Once a
truth is established, Yahshua's sheep move on to learn more
truth...rather than constantly rehashing the same material
for 20, 30 or 50 years, glorying in one past discovery. His
sheep are who they are, not because it feels good, BUT
BECAUSE YAHWEH'S SPIRIT COMPELS AND DRAWS THEM.
"No one is able to come to me, unless the Father who sent
me DRAWS HIM." (John 6:44)
We don't volunteer into the sheep fold. We are drafted. We
are drawn into it by another's will...we don't find our own
way. Man's dependence upon Yahweh's call is the part of the
quotation most people forget about.
"YE HAVE NOT CHOSEN ME, BUT I HAVE CHOSEN YOU, and ordained
you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your
fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the
Father in my name, he may give it you." (John 15:16)
But the people in the Judeo-Christian church answer a
different "call"...one that appeals to the pagan, the
carnal-minded, and the spiritually-dead. History bears it
out.
The Judeo-Christian church was initiated to circumvent
God's Kingdom during the reign of the Roman emperor
Constantine in the 4th century A.D. He, being a political
opportunist, used a corrupted form of Christianity (a
Judeo-Christian Christianity) as a tool to increase his own
power and control over his empire. He laid the foundation to
The Official Roman Catholic Church which has been apostate
since its very beginning. And this false Christianity has
been burned into the heads of churchgoers ever since.
The kingdoms and governments of men, by their very nature,
have always been at odds with True Christianity. That's why
Yahshua's people are often "underground." They don't fit
into any state-authorized category or group, so they remain
on the opposite side of the wall from the rest of the world.
"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
because ye are not of the world, but I HAVE CHOSEN YOU OUT
OF THE WORLD, therefore the world hateth you." (John 15:19)
True Christianity is STILL illegal and operating
"underground" so-to-speak today and despite what the
Judeo-Christian and government leaders say. Remember Ruby
Ridge, Idaho and many other such events not so widely
reported by the Jewsmedia. That was the government killing
off True Christians because they refused to follow Satan and
his children.
Paganism was the unabashed religious force behind Rome's
emperors. Constantine took a little different approach. To
make himself more popular with the masses, he issued the
Edict of Milan in 313 A.D., which granted "freedom of
religion" within the Roman Empire. But notice it said
freedom of "religion" not freedom of "Christianity."
Then he could deceive people into thinking "Christianity"
was allowed to legally exist side by side with Roman
Paganism. Of course, the authorized forms of "Christianity"
were defined and limited by Constantine. In other words the
Christians were given freedom to join the new Constitution
Church System and call it "chrisitanity"...pretty much the
same as today; however the Jews have pretty well turned it
into a Judeo-Christian Christianity.
With the promise of easier times for Christians they
succumbed to the lure and their new churches were modeled
along the lines of the Imperial administration. They used
Latin terms like "vicar" and "diocese" taken directly from
Diocletian, and emperor who preceded Constantine. Today they
call it a 501(c)(3) church.
Within a few years the Christian Community (the original
followers of Christ) had been overshadowed by the new
"church" establishment. The word "church" came from the
Greek "kuriakos:" which means "the lord's." The Greek
"kuriakos" (the lord's) eventually became the Old English
"kirche," and the Scottish "kirk," hence, the modern name
"church." But this "church" IS NOT IN THE BIBLE.
"The church" as we know it didn't exist before Constantine
invented it. The state churches of Rome belonged to "Lord
Constantine." The state has always been "lord" of the
churches. The state licenses them and their leaders, permits
them to exist, grants them authority to baptize, marry, and
bury their members. The state grants tax-exempt status
(501(c)(3)) to churches, and allows members to deduct their
offerings from their taxable income. The state closes
churches it does not like; as in the case of the
Indianapolis Baptist Temple.
Yes, it (the state) owns the churches. The state is
"kurios" ("lord"), and the churches are "kuriakos" ("the
lord's"). Churches exist by authority of the state; NOT
CHRIST. They get their authority from the same place they
get their form and polity: from their "lord": THE STATE!
Judeo-Christians acquiesced to government, and in so doing
they were boxed into the authorized model...in buildings
that had formerly housed pagan religions; buildings owned
and defined by the Roman "LORD" (the Emperor). Thus, the
building was called "kuriakos" ("church"): i.e., "the
lord's." By 318 A.D., Christian bishops had been granted all
the civil rights and privileges that the Pagan high priests
of Rome held.
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,
prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto
the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do
feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill
them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. The diseased
have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which
was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken,
neither have ye brought again that which was driven away,
neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force
and with cruelty have ye ruled them. And they were
scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became
meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were
scattered. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and
upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all
the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after
them. Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock
became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of
the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my
shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed
themselves, and fed not my flock; Therefore, O ye shepherds,
hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at
their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock;
neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I
will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be
meat for them. For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even
I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a
shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among
his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep,
and will deliver them out of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark day. And I will bring them
out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and
will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the
mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited
places of the country. I will feed them in a good pasture,
and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be:
there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture
shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. I will feed my
flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord
GOD. I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that
which was driven away, and will bind up that which was
broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will
destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with
judgment." (Ezekiel 34:2-16)
In his quest to master the world, Constantine, took another
step to "Romanize" Christianity by convening the Council of
Nicea in 325 A.D. In the Council of Nicea Rome instituted
the Nicean Creed: a document which etched an Official set of
beliefs for church members.
Constantine was Romanizing the Christians in the Empire.
His goal was to unify Pagan and Christian and thus create a
more manageable, unified citizenry. Constantine created "the
church" as an institution wherein Christian and Pagan could
join together under the banner of religion. (It is the same
today with the joining of Judaism and Christianity; hence
the name Judeo-Christianity) Thus, today, churches have
pagan and Jewish doctrines cleverly intertwined with
Christian doctrines...and mot members can't tell one from
another. Mainly because they are too lazy to search for the
Truth.
The church was set for all time when Constantine, on his
deathbed in 337 A.D., in probably an act calculated to
finalize his image with the public, was officially baptized
into the Church by a bishop.
"Christianity" as it is known in the churches is the
product of Constantine The Great; a Pagan Emperor of Rome.
Some people assume Constantine was converted to
Christianity. But that is a gullible assumption. Constantine
was a very good businessman. He could see that...
"Christianity was on the rise, and he simply backed the
winning horse. Historians still marvel at the brilliance
with which Constantine converted the sun-worshiping pagans
to Christianity. By fusing pagan symbols, dates and rituals
into the growing Christian traditions, he created a kind of
hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties." |
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