Ministers are answerable in conscience only to God and the performance of his service. The individual elders give support to their minister “according to his service”:1
Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Numbers 7:5 Take [it] of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.
1 Corinthians 9:13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live [of the things] of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
1In ancient times the high priest of a family was usually the first born son. In this position of advisor and steward to the Family that eldest son is in preparation to be elder of the family and heir to the estate of the family for the good of all. At the time of Moses the Levites replaced the first born that opens the Matrix. After the long apostasy of God’s Kingdom on earth, Jesus entered the world amongst the remnant of the kingdom who were betraying almost every precept of God holding only to a distorted practice of the rituals and customs laid down by Moses.
Jesus as High priest and king appointed the “Church” as the first born of the Kingdom. It is the Church’s job to minister to the kingdom as the original Levites did. The Church is those “called out” to serve the Families of the congregation by uniting them in one body, teaching them with one mind and heart and with the example of Jesus to propagate His doctrines and ordinances.
