Coronavirus & Spirituality ~ Home Church Guidance (Part -14)

Churches, synagogues, mosques, shrines, and temples, have been among the institutions shut down due to the fear of spreading the coronavirus. What could families do when there is no Church building to go to? They could do what the Early Church did for the first 300 years of Christianity - make your home - your Church! But, should they first leave their Organized Religion!

“I am THE WAY and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me,” (Jn 14:6) 

Jesus is the GOOD WAY and the ANCIENT PATH (Jer 6:16). This may come as a shock to some of you, but Jesus did not come to bring us his new and improved brand of religion called Christianity. He never accepted money for doing religious work (Obeying his father), and he never taught his Apostles to take money to perform religious duties (Helping others). He even commanded them to NOT carry a beggars bag when he sent them out to teach. He did not build the first church building, although he was a carpenter and certainly could have.

In fact, Jesus never stepped a foot into a church building. He never conducted a religious church service, and certainly not on a Sunday morning as he was raised Jewish. You could even say that Jesus had a strong dislike for the religious leaders of his day, as we know that he condemned the Pharisees for keeping their religious traditions of men and he HATED only one thing - the “teachings of the Nicolaitans,” (A specialized professional religious priesthood that ruled over the common Christian).

JESUS WAS A NON-VIOLENT RELIGIOUS RADICAL WHO CAME TO BRING DIVISION

"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a Sword,” (Mt. 10:34)

Jesus did not come to bring peace to ALL Organized Religions on earth. He came to bring us the “SWORD of the Spirit which is the word of God”(Eph. 6:17), which causes relationship divisions between those that accept Jesus and those that follow and obey their Organized Religions of Christianity and all others. Jesus rejected his Jewish organized religious leaders calling them: Hypocrites (Mt. 23:13), Robbers (Mt. 21:12), a bunch of Snakes (Mt. 12:34), and Children of the Devil (Jn. 8:44). He called their missionaries - Children of Hell (Mt. 23:15), and their public church buildings - Synagogues of Satan (Rev. 2:8-9; 3:9). Jesus also hated the non-Jewish “Nicolaitan” religious leader’s teachings and practices (Rev. 2:2-6; 2:14-16) calling them “wicked,” because they claimed to be his Apostles but were not (The False Catholic Apostolic Succession Doctrine). 

Jesus said, "For I came to set a man against his father and a daughter against her mother ... a man’s enemies will be the members of his household,” (Mt. 10:35-36). Here we see that Jesus was quoting from the Jewish prophet Micah (7:5-6). Jewish Rabbis taught that the messianic era would be a time of disharmony in religious families and social relationships because those who followed the Messiah (Jesus) would LEAVE their Organized Religions. Jesus was warning his disciples to prepare for persecution - especially from their own religious family members who are ADDICTED to their Organized Religions of Christianity and others who reject THE WAY.

“Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven Has Come Near,” (Mt. 4:17)

Jesus’ first command when he started preaching was to REPENT - repeating John the Baptist who also was a rebel that opposed Organized Religion (Mt. 3:2). Jesus called John the greatest prophet (Mt. 11:11) because, after 400 years of divine silence, God used John to prepare the Way for Jesus to be the Messiah. John condemned his religious leaders (the Pharisees and Sadducees) as a “brood of vipers” (Mt. 3:7) or a family of snakes. John was essentially calling his church leaders of the day “sons of serpents or devils,” and Jesus also repeated this: “You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil” (Mt. 12:34)? 

In the New Testament, the word translated as 'Repent' is the Greek word “metanoia” which means to make a radical turn (or change in behavior in your life) from serving Evil to serving God. It also means having a change of mind and heart or a change of consciousness (to think differently about something). In this case, the “something” is the Kingdom of Heaven that has come near. The urgency was that Eternity had invaded Time or God had invaded earth in Jesus Christ and man did not need any obsolete Organized Religions anymore (Heb. 8:13). Both Jesus and John are commanding us to REPENT or turn from our ritualistic orthodox religious formalism (all Organized Religions) and to surrender to Jesus our King and High Priest in the Royal Priesthood. John and Jesus’ followers continued to LEAVE their Organized Religions to be baptized in the wilderness.

WHY DOES JESUS HATE THE "NICOLAITAN" ORGANIZED RELIGIONS-?

Jesus said, "I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be APOSTLES but are NOT, and have found them FALSE," ... "But you have this in your favor, you HATE the practices of the NICOLAITANS which I also HATE," (Rev. 2:2-6; 2:14-16)

The root of the word Nicolaitans comes from the Greek word "nikao" to conquer or to rule over, and "laos" from which the word laity or people come from. A good translation of Nicolaitan is "a priesthood who RULES OVER the people." This professional paid clerical system later developed into the Catholic Pope's hierarchy church leadership of cardinals, bishops, and priests - based upon the false doctrine of Apostolic Succession. The criminal history of the papacy includes an unparalleled record of corruption that spans over 1700 years. The true history of these popes is one of cruelty, moral depravity, debauchery, reigns of terror and warfare. This is hard to believe, but in March of 2000, Pope John Paul II admitted to these past atrocities committed by the Catholic Church (mass murders, and the genocide of non-catholic Christians) and approved the Vatican issued apology titled: "Memory and Reconciliation: The church and faults of the past."

From the birth of Popery in the 7th century (606 A.D.) to the present time, it is estimated by careful and credible historians, that more than 50 millions of the human family (some estimate over 100 million), have been slaughtered for the crime of heresy by popish persecutors, an average of more than 40,000 religious murders for every year of the existence of popery -- Dowling, J., "History of Romanism," p. 541, 542. NY:1871.

Although there has not been any recent evidence of actual executions or massacres by the Catholic Church - leaked Vatican documents from Cardinals and Bishops verify that the same Catholic corruption and cover-up of predator clergy pedophiles, rapists, sex abuse, secret financial frauds, mafia money laundering schemes, and the cronyism, nepotism, power struggles, and blackmail of the Middle Ages has continued to the present day (Frontline: "Secrets of the Vatican, February 25, 2014).

JESUS CAME TO DESTROY ALL ORGANIZED RELIGIONS (The Works of the Devil)

“The one who does what is sinful is of the devil because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work,” (1 Jn. 3:8)

God’s very first prophecy to Satan in the Garden of Eden was that he would raise up a descendant of Eve (Jesus) to destroy Satan’s works (Gen. 3:14-15). The devil’s sinful works from the beginning involved tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden to think that if she disobeyed God - that she would “be like God.” In effect, Satan told Eve that she could become her own god if she defied God’s authority. Thus, we have the beginnings of Human Organized Religions. Satan then ordered his fallen angels to have sex with the beautiful women on earth (Gen. 6:1), and their children (half-angel and half-human) became known as the Nephilim (Greek demigods) who were worshiped by all humans in organized religions starting with the Mystery Babylon Religions at the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:4, Rev. 17:5). “Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the Worship of Angels disqualify you,”(Col. 2:18).

The Apostle Paul in the New Testament book of Colossians (Chapter 2) is informing Christians to not become slaves (addicted) to Organized Religions whose false religious leaders teach that they have a secret knowledge based upon their religious traditions: “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.

“And having disarmed the Powers and Authorities, he (Jesus) made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross,” (Col. 2:15). Who are these Powers and Authorities? Several suggestions have been made (NIV Commentary) including (1) demonic powers, (2) the gods of the powerful nations, (3) angels (highly regarded by the heretical teachers of Organized Religions, and/or (4) the powers of Rome (Catholic Church).

GET FREE FROM ALL ORGANIZED RELIGIONS (Don’t lose your connection with Jesus)

“Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink (Lent/ special diets), or with regard to a religious festival (Christmas or Easter Sun-rise services), a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day (Not going to Church on a Sunday). 

St. Paul said, “These are a shadow (Fake rituals) of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ ... They have lost connection with the head (Jesus), from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow. Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its (religious) rules: “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence,” (Col. 2:16-23).

Don’t be deceived-! Satan has integrated his lies into ALL Organized Religions starting with the Mystery Babylon Religions at the Tower of Babel, Gnosticism combined with Judaism in the above verses, Catholicism, Institutional Protestantism, Non-denominational (Senior Pastor/Pope run churches), and in the end ~ the Ecumenism movement of ALL organized Religions - the return of the Mystery Babylon Religion. 

DON'T SHOOT THE MESSENGER

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you,”(Mt. 23:35)

Jesus informs us that the history of the Organized Religion of Israel (Judaism) is the history of the rejection and murder of the men of God. He knows that now he must die, and in the days to come his messengers will be persecuted, ill-treated, rejected and slaughtered by the Organized Religions of Judaism and Christianity (Catholicism). "Here indeed is tragedy - the nation which God chose and loved had turned their hands against him, and the day of reckoning was to come," (World-renowned Bible scholar - William Barclay).

It was the Organized Religious Leaders of Judaism that rejected and killed all of the prophets that God sent from Abel to Zechariah. Jesus predicted his own death and the death of his followers by these evil Religious Leaders. Most Christians go through life never seriously studying the criminal history of Religions. After all, it was Jesus’ own Jewish Religious Leaders that condemned him and his Apostles to death (Mt. 27:1). Subsequently, the Religious Leaders of the first Organized Religion of Christianity (Catholicism) had between 50 and 100 million followers of Jesus killed from A.D. 606 to the middle of the 19th century for disobeying the Pope (Heresy). The criminal history of the papacy includes an unparalleled record of corruption that spans over 1400 years. The true history of these popes is one of cruelty, moral depravity, debauchery, reigns of terror and warfare.

ARE YOU ADDICTED TO YOUR ORGANIZED RELIGION-?

SATAN ACCUSES AND CONDEMNS the brethren (Rev. 12:10) - those that cannot keep the RULES of his False Organized Religions. Satan's false religious guilt and condemnation (Example: "You will burn in Hell if you don't go to church on Sunday") leads to compulsive religiosity and other addictions as the religious addict seeks to lessen guilt and shame. When a person is excessively devoted to an Organized Religion or surrenders compulsively and habitually to a religious "human" leader - (Pope/Senior Pastor) that pathological dependency on religious rituals (behaviors) results in addiction. This False Religious guilt is what motivates insanity, suicides, and our current worldwide religious “Holy” Wars.

SEVEN (7) SYMPTOMS OF RELIGIOUS ADDICTION

1. The inability to think, doubt, or question religious information and/or Church authority;

2. The shame-based belief that you aren’t good enough or you aren’t “doing it right”;

3. The magical thinking that God will fix you without serious work on your part;

4. Rigid obsessive adherence to rules, codes of ethics, or guidelines (Can’t-miss a Sunday);

5. Compulsive or obsessive praying, going to church or crusades, quoting scriptures repetitiously;

6. Unrealistic financial contributions (Tithing before paying your bills); and

7. Believing that sex is dirty and that our bodies and physical pleasures are evil.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT-?

In the 17th Century, the Protestant Reformation's twofold message was: 1. Come Out of Her, and 2. Be Ordained into the Royal Priesthood of ALL Believers - and millions of revolting Catholics left their Organized Religion of Christianity and became ordained into the Holy Nation. This is what kick-started the Protestant Reformation.

In the 21st Century, it is estimated that millions of true believers in Jesus have also heard the Holy Spirit's calling to "Leave Her" and they have left their Organized Religions of Christianity, because of its hypocrisy (Proclaiming to teach the Bible, but not following its basic principles). However, because of the false religious guilt by paid professional pastors - they have not yet embraced their full calling in the Royal Priesthood. The Royal Priesthood of ALL Believers in the worldwide Underground Church with it's 200 million, has already outnumbered the Organized Institutional Christian Churches in the United States by 2 to 1. Will you leave your Organized Religion?

Jesus said, "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters,”(Mt. 12:30).

Will you join the REVOLUTION and be ordained in the Royal Priesthood?

Like the Apostle Paul, we are compelled by the love of Jesus to share his love and truth. As members of the Royal Priesthood, our hope is that this site would inspire and empower you to “Come Out of Her” and be ordained into the Holy Nation by starting or continuing to participate in the “Underground” Family-Home Church. God created “THE FAMILY” to be the most important institution in society because the home is the one place where it is virtually impossible to put on a facade of religiosity and fake Holiness. “Without Holiness, no one will see the Lord,”(Heb. 12:14). Remember, we are only set apart for God or considered Holy because when God looks at us - He sees Jesus!

"For you are a Holy People, who belong to the Lord your God. Of all the people on earth, the Lord your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure,"(Deut. 7:6).

THE WAY OF GOD

“I Worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of THE WAY,” (Apostle Paul, Acts 24)

Jesus did come to teach us THE WAY of GOD. He taught his Apostles THE WAY to live a balanced, whole or Holy lifestyle that would be pleasing to God. As noted above, he said, “I am THE WAY,” and he told his disciples to follow him. Jesus never taught his followers to join a church by paying weekly dues or tithes to financially support building projects and pastors' salaries. Jesus did tell them to follow THE WAY and they listened to him for over 300 years, even to the point where the only name for his Christian Church became - THE WAY. The early Christians called their distinctive beliefs “The Way” and others referred to those who followed the Way of Christ in their “Underground” house churches as the People of the Way. This is documented below seven (7) times in the New Testament’s book of the Acts which is an accurate historical record of the very first community of Christians:

1. “Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to THE WAY, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem,” (Acts 9:1-2).

2. “He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him THE WAY of God more adequately,” (Acts 18:26).

3. “But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned THE WAY (Acts 19:9).

4. “About that time there arose a great disturbance about THE WAY,” (Acts 19:23).

5. “ I persecuted the followers of THIS WAY to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison,” (Acts 22:4).

6. “However, I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of THE WAY, (Acts 24:14).

7. “Then Felix, who was well acquainted with THE WAY, adjourned the proceedings,” (Acts 24:22).

“Prepare ye THE WAY for the Lord,” (John the Baptist, Mk. 1:3; Mal. 3:1)

The early Christian community did not consider “The Way” to be a new religion, social club or professional organization that they had to join by paying dues (tithes) to and visiting on Sunday morning. “The Way” was a designation to describe their subversive lifestyle. They belonged to “The Way” of God, “The Way” of life that attached them to Jesus. They chose to live “This Way” in their homes and with their families - 24 hours a day and 7 days a week according to his Divine Pattern.

SEVEN (7) STEPS FOR INSTITUTIONAL CHURCHES TO FOLLOW “THE WAY”

“I Worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of THE WAY,” (Apostle Paul, Acts 24:22)

1. Abandon the Church “BOSS,” Pope/Senior Pastor - Moses’ Leadership Model. Start self-governing, independent, consensual and collective decision-making by the entire Home Church.

2. Stop the public Church “BUILDING” meetings. Start gathering together in private homes.

3. Dismantle the “SPECIALIZED” Professional clergy system with sermon based services. Start ordaining every disciple to begin serving in the Holy Nation and Royal Priesthood of ALL believers.

4. Cease and desist the Communion “MAGIC SHOWS.” Start celebrating the Lord’s Supper at weekly pot-luck “Love Feast” dinners with the entire Church family spontaneously interacting.

5. Put an end to “IDOLIZING” teachers and worship leaders. Start empowering each member in God’s family to exercise their individual spiritual gifts to intimately and mutually edify the Church.

6. Stop teaching and preaching tithing which is financial “EXTORTION.” Encourage all to give directly to one another and others of themselves and their spiritual gifts until the need is met.

7. Do not pay salaries to “PROFESSIONAL” Christians. Encourage all to start working for a living and volunteering to minister their spiritual gifts free of charge (Eph. 4:28).

CONDEMNATION OR CONVICTION

Many trusting Christians are lied to by their paid professional Pastors - that there is No Need for their Organized (Church) Religion of Christianity to change because it’s OK to base your faith on the traditions of (Man) Church History, instead of the Word of God. Jesus said, 

"They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.' You have let go of the Commands of God and are holding on to human traditions," (Mk. 7:7-9). Satan accuses and Condemns us to Hell and motivates us with false religious guilt and fear to keep his false religious laws. The Holy Spirit motivates by Love and gently convicts us of personal sin that leads us to repentance to restore our relationship with God (Rom. 2:4). There is No Condemnation in Christ Jesus (Rom. 8:1). 

COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE - "Come out of her, my people ... so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes,” (Rev. 18:4-5). Test Yourself: STOP GOING TO CHURCH AND BE THE CHURCH.

Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE (Starting an “Escape Fire”)

Will you escape God’s Judgement of all Organized Religions? Experienced forest fire-fighters commonly utilize a standard technique called “Back Burning” to survive large fires by starting an ”escape” fire. Martin Luther restarted the Reformation fire of the Royal Priesthood of ALL Believers to help millions of protesting Catholics (Protestants) escape the final judgment fire of the Roman Catholic Church (The Anti-Christ).

Will you start a fire to rekindle the flames of the Royal Priesthood of ALL Believers in your Home Church-?

What could families do when they can’t go to their public church building because of the coronavirus stay-in-your home orders? They could do what the Early Church did for the first 300 years of Christianity - make your home - your Church!

RESOURCES FOR FAMILY-HOME CHURCHES: House Church Central (hccentral.com); Home Church Help (homechurchhelp.com)?; House Church Network (housechurch.org)?; House Church Resource (housechurchresource.org); House 2 House (site.house2house.com); New Testament Reform (ntrf.org)?; and House Church (House-Church.org). For more information see: the-royal-priesthood.com

BOOKS: Written By James Slobodzien

1. Christian Psychotherapy & Criminal Rehabilitation: An Integration of Psychology and Theology for Rehabilitation Effectiveness, ISBN: 1581125399.

2. Hawaii and Christian Religious Addiction: A Survey of Attitudes Toward Healthy Spirituality and Religious Addiction Within Christianity, ISBN: 1581122101

3. Poly-Behavioral Addiction And the Addictions Recovery Measurement System (ARMS): ISBN: 1-59113-690-3.

4. One Holy Nation: A Mystery of History ~ The Lost Tribes of Israel, ISBN: 13: 978-1541394971

5. Hidden Bible Taboos Forbidden By Organized Christianity: ISBN-13: 978-1480135802 

6. SPONTANEOUS-ADDICTION-RECOVERY-HAVE-CHRIST/dp/1791845460

7. THE ROYAL PRIESTHOOD ~REVOLUTION (Not presently published).