To: freeus who wrote (64770 ) 9/10/1998 5:24:00 PM From: Don Martini Respond to
OT! Warning! OT! OT! Freeus: What The Book says about paying preachers:"As you go, preach, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, You received free, Give free." [Matthew 10:7&8] Jesus instructing the 12 apostles. If neither Jesus nor the apostles charged for their miracles, should you have to pay me to tell you about them?"You know the way you ought to imitate us, because we did not eat food from anyone free. To the contrary, by labor and toil night and day we were working so as not to impose an expensive burden upon any one of you. ... When we were with you we used to give you this order: "If anyone does not want to work, neither let him eat." For we hear certain ones are walking disorderly among you, not working at all ... To such we give the order in the Lord Jesus Christ that by working with quietness they should eat food they themselves earn. But if anyone is not obedient to our word through this letter, keep this one marked, stop associating with him." The Apostle Paul, who made tents to support himself, at 2 Thessalonians 3:6-14"Her head ones judge for a bribe and her priests instruct just for a price and her prophets practice simply for money ... Saying: 'Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? There will come upon us no calamity' Therefore Jerusalem will become mere heaps of ruins."
