In other words, "I have the money up front, and if you don't like what I have to say, too bad. These verses show very clearly that ekklesia by itself requires qualitative modifiers. The New Testament word translated as “church” is the Greek “ekklesia.” In the Greco-roman world of the New Testament, ekklesia had a specific meaning. We can't. The Roman Church was, in its origin, a Greek community and it introduced the Greek word for Church into the Latin tongue. What you hear from modern pulpits is nothing more than what's called a sophist, which means "one who preaches ethics for payment." See what over 145,000 subscribers are already receiving each day. That's limited liability on their part, that's business, that's commercial activity, that's selling the word of God. In the Old Testament, the phrase "the lord's house" is used three times, and it has to do with a secular lord every time (Genesis 40:7; 44:8, Isaiah 22:18). You'll notice in scripture that Christ and the apostles never went to an "established place" to preach to the people. They got jurisdiction over the Church because he's the one that created it, he's the one that took the word ekklesia to a word that has no substance. Their change has not yet occurred (I Corinthians 15:49-54), but they are already part of the assembly of the firstborn—that is, in God's mind. And we're going to take a look at how the natural man got jurisdiction over that. Kurios, the Greek word for "Lord," is easily recognizable as the root of kuriakos, which means "belonging to the Lord."
I don't want to be paid by fee anymore. In Strong's Greek Concordance, the word ekklesia (word #1577) is defined as "an assembly," and it's from the word "ek," (word #1537) which means "out of"; and the word "klesis" (word #2821) which means "a calling."
If you're living something you can't charge for it, because people see the witness that you bear, because you see and do things differently. The apostles, when they wrote the books of the New Testament, could have used kuriakos, but it appears only twice in the Bible: in I Corinthians 11:20 (Lord's supper) and Revelation 1:10 (Lord's day). The context of Malachi 3 indicates it, but a clearer prophecy of this time can be found in the book of Revelation.
But this other word, dominicum (church), was brought in, which is something completely different from ekklesia.
excerpts are from page three of this publication. Will Christ intervene directly to correct His church? It lacks qualitative implication to anything either carnal or spiritual. The following is what the natural man has jurisdiction over (because he created all of the following characteristics). Ekklesia, then, is more flexible than the English word "church," transcending its narrow boundaries. It does not consist only of those who are alive now, but also includes all that have ever been part of the ekklesia, beginning with the time of God's thought before the foundation of the world. The faithful can see that these others are not very godly. One of the jurisdictions of the natural man is the Church. There is a difference, and its the purpose behind why you're making the statement. Now, we do have guidelines for conduct in the assembly, but those are His guidelines, not ours. They adhere to that particular denomination, not to Christ's words. The people in the Church may be the called our ones, but not the physical building itself. You don't find a "distinct ecclesiastical government" in scripture. It was an assembly in which all members had equal right and duty.