Hi Dennis,
Paul well understood what you've been trying to say.
Repentance is the first step of the walk of faith for all sinners - everybody.
All members of the body of Christ, the congregation of believers, the assembly of God, can minister to the rest of the Body what has been given each one to give. Christ ministers by His Spirit through all members in the Body even as in the natural the head and the lifeblood minister to the rest of the body.
Repentance is an initial experience. All four Gospels and Acts begin with the call to repentance, preparing the way for the Lord. When people repent and are born again, the Kingdom is
no longer near, but within. If the Kingdom is still “near” for you, you have yet to repent and be born again. We perceive your words clearly demonstrate your state and it is one of great darkness. Why? Because you worship yourself, and not YHWH.
Saul was an unbeliever and not in ministry unto the Lord when stopped on the road to Damascus, just as you are an unbeliever who needs to be knocked off his ass.
Accountability is according to God's will. To what man was Moses to give account? Or Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, John the Immerser, Paul the apostle (“Paul, an apostle, not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, Who raised Him from the dead” - Galatians 1:1)?
On the other hand, there is the majority of members who are in submission to ministers of the Body in Christ the Head, such as those you refer to of “the fivefold,” who are called to specific ministries, having spiritual (not carnal) offices. Timothy, elders, deacons and general members of the Body are such examples submitted to Paul, an apostle.
So while all members of Christ's Body answer to the Head, so do many also answer to those Christ has set in the Body, as you don't seem to acknowledge.
While Paul Cohen is submitted to me in the Lord, and we submit to one another, our ministry is appointed from above with an unction you don't discern or know anything of, you not having His Spirit. So while you “think not,” you have nothing to think with; you are not the judge here.
You say you have no head but Yeshua. You do not acknowledge Him at all, and if you say you only heed His Word, it is your own interpretation you heed and not what He means by what He says in the Scriptures. Nor do you hear His Voice - you have never heard it, not being of His fold. You are altogether lost and unclean in your filthy, pretentious rags, Dennis.
You make several needless assumptions. We don't
suggest anything with you as you suppose. You have no power to understand the Word any more than did the Ethiopian eunuch, indeed even less than he. We
direct you in certain terms to repent.
We aren't asking anyone to call us “Rabbi” or “Teacher” or “Pastor,” any more than did John the Immerser, who, by the way, though a mighty prophet anointed of God, did not perform one healing or miracle. Nor was he answerable to any other than the One Who sent him.
So you don't have anyone call you by any title. Big deal. You don't even have the right to claim to believe, much less have spiritual authority.
You walk as a self-righteous fool, ignorant of all of God and His ways, opening your mouth wide to show your abject spiritual poverty and perverseness.
Go your way and do your thing, destroying yourself in your foolishness. We aren't the least interested in tutoring you. What do we have to do with you, pretentious, boastful, deluded man?
Victor