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AND it came to pass that the time of the age of
his ministry arrived; and Jesus went forth
among the people and began to teach them after
he had been baptized by John the Baptist. And the men whom he had chosen to be his
apostles were men who were not accepted by
the church at Jerusalem as being righteous men,
for each of them had in some way alienated
himself from the church of the Jews.
Now, it was this church that sought to
silence Jesus and keep him from preaching
against the words and commandments of the
church that were given unto the people by the
high priests.
For the people were taught that the church was the only true church of God upon the earth,
and that the Jews were an holy and peculiar
people who were the only ones who had been
blessed with the truth.
And the laws of salvation were taught
unto the people according to the precepts of
the leaders of the church. And these leaders
told the people that God would not give any
new revelation unto the world, except it be
given through the leadership of the church
at Jerusalem.
And the people were taught that the Lord
would not allow them to be misled by the
leaders of the church, and that if there was
something that the Lord wanted to tell the
people, then he would only tell them through the
established lines of ecclesiastical authority tha t
were established in the church.
Now, this was the main thing that Jesus
spoke against; yea, in many things he did speak
against the church and its leaders because they
had corrupted the word of God and taught for
doctrine the commandments of men, denying
the power of the Father to teach His own
children, but believing that the Father had given
all His power and authority unto men.
But Jesus taught the people that they were
all children of God, and that they did not need a
church or leaders to go unto the Father and
receive from Him any instructions that He
might have for them.
And Jesus began to usurp, as the leaders of
the church supposed, the authority of the
leaders of the church by teaching these things
to the people. And he taught the people that the
ordinances and doctrines of the church would
not save them, but that the only way that they could be saved was by keeping the
commandments of the Father, which he was
commanded to give unto them.
And he taught the people that he had been
sent by the Father to give unto them these
commandments, and that only by way of these
commandments could they be saved.
And these commandments were not the
commandments of the church, for the church
required things of the people which were not
commandments of God, but were the
commandments of men.