Autonomous Christianity is about the INDIVIDUAL answering for themselves individually with their own Personal relationship with King Jesus and the Father “on earth as it is in heaven” and “in the same manner as He walked” with the Father to show us all how it all works (Matthew 6:8-15; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 Corinthians 4:1-5; Romans 14:4; Ephesians 5:13-17).

Still, individuals make up His collective “church” identity and have what I like to refer to as Strategic Alliance relationships with each other as the Head of the Church (Jesus Personally relating to and ruling “first place in everything”) leads each individual “member” of His Body by His Spirit to do or accomplish multitudes of collective missions as He leads them and guides them to accomplish “on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21).

There are only two potentially tricky places in our lives where the COLLECTIVE identity can sometimes appear to be more important than the INDIVIDUAL identity. Don’t be fooled. Even these important relationships have to answer to the ONE who rules “first place in everything” (Colossians 1:13-18). These two relationships are well known as:

• Parents and their relationship with their own children in their own Household and who are authorized by God to essentially “win” and not lose every argument with their own children living in their own Household (even though Parents don’t always use this authority to help children learn lessons on their own too when it is wise to do so – like God our Father perfectly does it with us too) until they grow up and have their own completely INDIVIDUAL life well prepared and trained to do so by their loving Parents. How come the arguments get more intense during teenage years? You guessed it! They are getting closer to “leaving the nest” to become adults and that means all the INDIVIDUAL responsibilities that entails. A Household, as I am defining it, includes the so-called “Nuclear” Family (Father, Mother and Kids) as I believe God created Family with its unique highest Authority and Responsibility to function and succeed in real practice “under God” always ruling the adult Parents “first place in everything”. Family is where children from newborn baby to young adults benefit from Parents “ruling” their own children and teaching them the basics of “life” and all that it can mean. Parents rule their own children seeking “the will of My Father who is in heaven” for wisdom, guidance and help with life’s many general and specific spiritual and earthly navigation problems and obstacles. Parents teach kids to “problem solve” life whenever those problems come and how to RECEIVE the blessings given by God in every season of life (1 Corinthians 2:12). Parents paradoxically answer to God for their kids even as each kid, of course, must first answer to God for their own INDIVIDUAL actions toward God and others too. Like I said, God (King Jesus and the Father by His Spirit) rules EVERYTHING and EVERYONE “first place in everything” “on heaven and on earth”. This includes all that goes on in the Home life. The proof of Jesus’ highest Authority and Responsibility is revealed in part in Revelation 20:11-15 and Matthew 16:23-28; 28:18-20. The promise of God is this: obey your parents as long as you live in their Household and it will “go well with you on the earth” (Ephesian 6:1-4). Disobey them and it won’t. God did not promise they would be perfect like He is perfect (like Jesus explains in Matthew 7:11) but when you honor your Parents you are honoring God’s command and He will “fix” any mistakes in your life and “cause all things to work together for good to those who love Him” (Romans 8:28).

• Work (Job) relationships between Owner/Manager and delegated Authority and Responsibility to their workers. This relationship is explained in some detail within the “job descriptions” Owners/Managers create for and delegate to their workers during Work hours.

Paul acknowledged these two important exceptions to INDIVIDUAL Authority and Responsibility in Ephesians 6:1-9.

Just before Paul’s message in Ephesians 6:1-9 was his important message for any Marriage relationship between two INDIVIDUALS becoming ONE in unity in God and where the ideal standard relationship was like Jesus with His Church (Ephesians 5:25-33 – read this FIRST before also reading Paul’s teachings in Ephesians 5:21-24 which won’t be understood without first understanding his message in Ephesians 5:25-33 and Jesus’ view of “unity” in other places like John 15:1-8 and 17:20-26.

Isn’t a Marriage relationship just as “tricky” as a parent to child (and child to parent) relationship? You may argue that and I get your point, but the way I have learned it in REAL PRACTICE is that one INDIVIDUAL Spouse isn’t really going to “do” much at all WITHOUT the other INDIVIDUAL Spouse choosing to freely “do” it too by either 1.) hearing the SAME Spirit “revealed” “will of My Father who is in heaven” (an absolute value discerned by BOTH and not just one only) or 2.) at least some sort of compromise about something important yet non-absolute value (mixed or pure non-absolute value) like decisions as Parents where the children will go to school when various options are available or like where to go on their next romantic “get-away” as a Married couple. Both absolute and non-absolute parts of the relationship are FREELY CHOSEN by two INDIVIDUALS (Ephesians 5:13-17).

The key is that we don’t believe WE are God but our UNITY comes when both individuals are “abiding” in God “first place in everything”. Pretty cool description of unity in my opinion! It’s a unity in “spirit” first coming from our Creator and King and He settles any values conflicts in His Way Out (Matthew 6:8-15). When two individuals marry without God, they tend to think of themselves as God the Creator and King. In reality, they are two individuals inventing their own “way” their own “truth” and ultimately their own “life” lived WITHOUT God. You get the point. It can certainly get “tricky” but when we realize it takes TWO INDIVIDUALS to come to agreement to live under the highest authority of their Creator and King, and that ONLY REALLY WORKS when each INDIVIDUAL is willing to honor God “first place in everything” … including their Marriage.

When one spouse dies, the living spouse goes back to being an INDIVIDUAL fulfilled “first place in everything” by their Creator and King either staying INDIVIDUALLY “single” or choosing to FREELY marry again whoever they freely choose. Yes, Marriage is an awesome and wonderful Creation of God our Father lived practically under our King Jesus when being married in Him!

What exactly do I mean?

Listen carefully. When Jesus rules EVERYONE and EVERYTHING “first place in everything” (including a Marriage relationship) then ALL AUTHORITY and RESPONSIBILITY relationships must be “subject to one another in the fear of Christ” who, again, DIRECTLY (not indirectly) by His Spirit rules EACH INDIVIDUAL “first place in everything” and can both correct and encourage in His “way, and the truth, and the life” that He and the Father by God’s Spirit communicates through the back and forth of giving and receiving “the will of My Father who is in heaven” (Colossians 1:13-18 and Matthew 7:21).

This is the “examination” PERSONALLY and DIRECTLY of the Lord of us all each day. His examination occurs at all times in the Spirit of God for a “spiritual” person as Paul explains in 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 and in some detail in 1 Corinthians 2:1-4:5. This ongoing and “daily bread” “examination” of the Lord regarding “sin, righteousness and judgment” in regards to “the will of My Father who is in heaven” (John 15:26-16:15; Matthew 6:8-15; 7:21; 7:12-29) will be completed on the Last Day Judgment in Revelation 20:11-15 (and His second coming He Himself explained in Matthew 16:27-28).

What is the GOAL of all of this back and forth living life under the TRUE King of Heaven and Earth in a “first place in everything” rule in real practice with discernible “fruit” too?

That’s easy.

We are all held to the highest accountability of the King Paul describes in Colossians 1:13-18 as we all are individually living life here “on earth as it is in heaven” (as opposed to how “the world” lives APART from the rule of Heaven) as

• “children of God” (1 John 3:1-10),
• as we are husbands and wives,
• as we are parents and children honoring our parents in obedience to God,
• as children growing up INDIVIDUALLY prepared by their parents to become adults fully prepared to live accountable to God themselves as INDIVIDUALS,
• as workers at work making an income to receive God’s provision in our modern world and modern cultures too.

This brilliant strategy of God ruling ALL of THOSE RELATIONSHIPS “first place in everything” has THE DESIRED GOAL OF keeping anyone from abusing their God given Authority and Responsibility both INDIVIDUALLY and COLLECTIVELY too in a world that hates God and hates His “way” of doing things “on earth as it is in heaven” and that includes His “truth” and His “life” too (1 Corinthians 4:1-5; Romans 14:4 and Revelation 20:11-15; John 10:10). They hate Him. Do you too?

Certain “Christian” “churches” hate what God loves MOST when, for example, these religious organizations claim they are a “family” just LIKE God has created a Family made up of God (#1) a man and woman or Spouses (#2) and their own children (#3). When “churches” or organizations of all kinds (including Work organizations, not just “churches” practice this hijacking of the term “Family” to achieve a higher level of relationship or priority expectation of loyalty) claim to have this SAME “Family” relationship. Some even declare it is more important than God’s created version of Family lived under His HIGHEST “first place in everything” DIRECT Authority! It is clearly a hijacking of Jesus’ “first place in everything” in His Church and God is NOT happy with it at all!

They are simply wrong about their use of the term “Family” and many are even flat out “lying” to other Christians just as Jesus warned “the father of lies” attempts to get any of us to “lie” and “not walk in the truth” of Jesus at any time (John 8:31-55). Too many “Christians” hijack Jesus’ “first place in everything” rule of His Church for the sake of their “church” “family”. Do you? If so, I can help you find His Way Out of any hijacking of His “first place in everything” explained by Paul in Colossians 1:13-18. It always starts and ends by putting Him “first place in everything” (God – #1), then your Spouse relationship (#2), your Family (kids – #3), your Work (#4) and your Neighborhood of relationships (#5 – where any “church” organization or any club with memberships, etc., are lived).

That Priority Area practice is how it has been revealed to me by King Jesus as I have been made aware of His own Problems with His Church and how to “fix” or solve Our Part to Play in the Problem. We all must do Our Part to Play as His Part to Play is ultimately RECEIVED by us so He Himself can “fix” the important “fruit” Problem He still has with His own Church (Micah 7:1-6; John 15:1-7). How about you?

Here me on this. I am not just talking about having non-absolute “values conflicts” like are quite normal in any relationship.

For example, no matter how much your own INDIVIDUAL values (I help you brainstorm your values here at Pokyra if you are not that “aware” of your values in any real depth) match or don’t match the values of your earthly Owner/Manager at Work, they are normally NOT on the conflict level as an “absolute conflict” of, for example, disagreeing with God Himself.

Most conflicts at Work are disagreements about non-absolute Work related issues and … guess who wins these arguments? You guessed it! The Owner/Manager! And I believe God will be backing up their authority and responsibility in your life even if they disagree with your non-absolute values about how the Work is to be done.

The good news is that although you obviously must “obey” them to keep your collective relationship with them and your earthly Job (Work), know that when the “absolute values” conflicts get REALLY BAD at Work filled with irreconcilable “absolute values” surrounding problematic Authority and Responsibility problems, know that you can always, according to your own “faith” and Personal relationship with God, know that your INDIVIDUAL “self” abiding in Christ can ALWAYS declare as Paul did in Galatians 1:10:

“For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.”

This is a real option for any of you in real relationships that God and His revealed absolute “will” for you says are in clear disagreement with God. It’s where anyone gets the opportunity to share the truth in love and “grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ,” like in Ephesians 4:15.

What is also obvious is that you can choose your friends but you cannot choose your Family. If God is the ONE and only Father of us ALL and some other Christian on the other side of the world or the other side of the street claims to be their “father” of their own group of “Christians,” how dare we claim to be “the family of God” with our man-made organizations and in doing so hijack what belongs to the Father in Heaven ALONE? This same message of warning was given by Jesus Himself in Matthew 23:8-15.

Still, some Christians try to do it every time they refer to themselves as “the __________ family” (just as Jesus just explained in Matthew 23:8-15) trying to create some loyalty authority and responsibility relationship that God never created in the “first place” (Colossians 1:18).

Here me. You cannot “easily” get out of your Marriage relationship without SERIOUS “back and forth” CONSULTATION with the King of Kings (the Christ – John 4:25-26) ruling both Spouses in the Marriage. Still, you certainly can “easily” get another Job without feeling “loyal” to the Owners/Managers when things simply change (with no problems being the cause) or when the problems become REAL PROBLEMS you must seek God’s absolute “will” to help you resolve (Matthew 7:21).

Just as “easy” is to say to Kehrt, “I don’t believe God has me using your services at Pokyra anymore. I will be doing something else as I take INDIVIDUAL responsibility for myself to the Head of our Church, Jesus Christ.”

I will be the first to shake your hand and BLESS YOU out of the relationship in the name of our ONE Father as you live your INDIVIDUAL life with its own Priority Area relationships too.

See how this Personal INDIVIDUAL relationship with God “first place in everything” works with any and EVERY other relationship too?

You will find that not all relationships are treated equal by God.

Regarding a Marriage relationship between a man and a woman (Spouse), know that God is jealous over “what God has brought together let no man separate” (Mark 10:9)! You won’t be getting out of this relationship bound by your own “vows” to God without a SERIOUS Mediation effort from the ONE who said, “With men this is impossible. But with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26).

I’ve seen God do the “impossible” with all kinds of relationships (marriages, children to parents and parents to children … Work relationships, Neighborhood relationships etc.) simply learning to put His words into real practice “… for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” and you can learn it too here at Pokyra (Matthew 7:24-27)!

Again, that Galatians 1:10 example from Paul, who, by the way, just gave us the guidelines for Marriage, Family and Work relationships in Ephesians referenced earlier, STILL CONFIRMED THAT CHRIST JESUS THE KING OF US ALL can render null and void any “men pleasing” relationships that disagree with God’s “first place in everything” rule and relationship with us at any time. That’s how it works in His Kingdom. We live by “every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4).

This brings us, again, back to the INDIVIDUAL MISSION of Christ still being practiced by Jesus’ own Disciples throughout the entire world today.

When a believer begins to take Jesus at His invitation-word to “follow Me” (Matthew 16:24-28 and Luke 9:57-10:24) it is when a mere believer decides to 100% become devoted to Jesus as their Master leaving 0% for the ancient Rebellion in His Kingdom. They are literally (not figuratively) delivered and transferred by the Gift of the King of Heaven to become His devoted Disciple and “child of God” (Colossians 1:13-18; Romans 6:22-23; Ephesians 4:7; 2:1-9; Luke 6:40; Matthew 6:19-24; 1 John 2:25-3:3).

A devoted 100% to 0% Disciple of Jesus learns to focus on their OWN LIFE they are responsible for as if it was just a “part” (yet, for us at least, obviously an important “part”) of a larger “body” or group identity “abiding” in Jesus Christ like a “branch” abides in a “vine” (John 15:1-8). This collective “body” mystery is like many “branches” (including you and me) either choosing freely to spiritually “abide” in Him or not spiritually abide in Him. The branch is designed to be living life ABIDING IN the vine living and bearing “good fruit” from the vines own provision. If not “abiding” in the vine, these “branches” are laying separate from the vine on the ground either dying or already dead just like every “sinner” or “lawless” human who has left God throughout His view of HisStory (John 6:60-71; 1 Samuel 8:6-8).

Do you want to understand the GREAT MYSTERY OF CHRIST revealed to the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 2:11-5:17? Picture a “member” of a “body” spiritually “abiding” in King Jesus of Heaven (John 18:36-38) as its “head” or a “branch” spiritually “abiding” in Jesus as its “vine” and “My Father is the vinedresser” and you are starting to understand one of the most important mysteries of Christ.

When spiritually speaking about the DIFFERENCE of each individual “branch” or “member” Jesus said, “you will know them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:15-20; 13:18-23; John 8:31-32; 13:34-35; 1 John 2:3-6).

Dead or dying branches have … well … you already get the “fruit” parable of Jesus. There is clearly a Big Problem (BP) when no good fruit from God’s Spirit can be found when He Himself, God, examines the “branch”. It’s spiritually obvious to God the “vine” (Jesus) and God the “vinedresser” (Father) who is Spirit (John 4:24) but it requires a learned spiritual discernment from God’s Spirit to our spirit (1 Corinthians 2:1-16) to “see” or “know” the difference in spiritual “fruit” (1 John 3:23-4:1).

Again, Paul explains this important collective identity of what we today refer to as “Christians” in a mystery within his Parable revelation of “the body of Christ” mystery in Ephesians 4:12-16.

The “body of Christ” is arguably a spiritual collection of all INDIVIDUAL “Christians” (followers of “the way” of Christ, both Jew and Gentile – Acts 9:2; John 14: 5-7) whom Jesus views as part of His own Church. By the way, I, Kehrt, will NOT be judging who is “in” or “out” of His Church because I cannot and will not “do” for King Jesus what is alone His to “do”. I mean as He alone manages His own Gift of forgiveness and His own grace and truth Personal relationship with each “branch” or “member” of His Church.

This Personal relationship (I call it PAG#1 here at Pokyra) is ALL you and Him “in spirit and in truth” (John 4:21-26; Matthew 6:8-15)!

Here at Pokyra you are invited to “visit” mine but then go home and build your own with Jesus and the Father “in Spirit and in truth” (John 4:21-26).

I am talking about those INDIVIDUAL “branches” or “members” of His Church He is still leading “first place in everything” and not necessarily your own earthly “church” organization where you get to make up your own rules and possibly even ultimately attempting your own “way” to Heaven and eternal life without His “first place in everything” “rule” (John 9:35-10:10).

What I am saying is that your “rules” inside “your church” may just be different than His own “rules” and His own “first place in everything” AUTONOMOUS Kingly “rule” of what He views as His own “church”. The ONE and ONLY King Jesus of Heaven is still today calling out of the world through Himself and His Gift (D2) … into His own Kingdom … “those who are of the truth” (John 18:36-37) making up His Church.

Believe it or not, His Church He is still leading “first place in everything” is still the ONLY GAME in town from His perspective of our life (Colossians 1:13-18; Matthew 7:21-23).

It’s His Kingdom and His “vine” and His “body” so it just makes sense nobody can “get in” to His “body”, His “vine” or His Kingdom without Him allowing it “first”. You think?

The same thing can be said about the lack or abundance of “good fruit” in our lives too (John 15:1-8; 1 John 2:3-6; Matthew 7:11-27).

Amazingly, we “Christians” have too often been falsely focusing on church “unity” and Jesus’ concept of bearing “good fruit” based on our earthly, human-made organizations to somehow fulfill Ephesians 4 on our own. But what did Jesus say? He said, “apart from Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). But that doesn’t stop Christians for trying!

I mean that awesome, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible,” reality that all of us must make our reality too (Matthew 19:26). Jesus and Paul described it as a spiritual dimension practice to “preserve the unity of the Spirit” (a “unity” in God’s Spirit and not some human creation or organization). Unspiritual people are still today teaching other unspiritual people as if Christianity was an earthly pursuit and not first and foremost a spiritual dimension pursuit with “God is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:21-26).

Check out what Paul had to say about this on your own in 1 Corinthians 2:1-3:9.

But don’t just take my word for it. Again, what I am describing here as an autonomous individual “individual part” of “Christ” is paradoxically (mysteriously) presented or explained by Paul in Ephesians 4.

Ask Jesus to reveal it to you as He revealed it to Paul and to me too and is still revealing it to everyone He rules “first place in everything” in His “church” today (Galatians 1:11-12; Ephesians 1:15-23; Revelation 2:7).

My role here at Pokyra is much like Paul’s when saying, “Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God” (1 Corinthians 4:1). The autonomous Christian mystery is just one of many important mysteries to be discovered, believed, remembered and RECEIVED here at Pokyra!

Here at Pokyra you will find quickly that I teach the “will of God” or “will of My Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21-27) as being something we each must seasonally, monthly, weekly and daily seek, find and ultimately RECEIVE individually for us and our own own Homes. Like I said, we are “autonomous christians” living SPIRITUALLY with our God Who is Spirit (John 4:24) in any “place” we live our life and at any “time” too.

Don’t get me wrong. We will, of course, still obey Jesus’ commands to “love others” and to “make disciples of all the nations” as Jesus teaches us in Matthew 28:18-20 with all our Priority Area relationships. This means developing healthy and strong relationships with all OTHERS God has put in your life and which we all, by the way, spend most if not all of the real “time” of our life with here on earth.

I will help you understand the priorities God places on these relationships during your training here at Pokyra.

This practically means Pokyra serves first you individually (and your autonomous Personal relationship with God), then your own Home (your own families) and then your own Neighborhoods of relationships in obedience to the Great Commission commandment coming directly from the mouth of our King and Master Jesus.

But no matter how you share it, it has been, still is and will always remain an INDIVIDUAL responsibility mission from our Master and King still leading His own Church Himself “first place in everything” at the beginning, middle and end of each day “at all times in the Spirit (Ephesians 6:18; 5:13-17).

I teach that God Himself is continuing His own AUTONOMOUS focus on His own Children living “normal” life in their own Homes and their own daily routines to “daily” and “at all times in the Spirit” fulfill that awesome mystery of God revealed to Paul. God will fulfill His own promises! This is not even a question.

But His own promise He is still fulfilling for His own might just be different than what you might have expected if you were not truly seeking to “know” and practice your own spiritual life “in the same manner as He walked” (Jesus walked) with the Father and the Spirit for our example of how it all works in real practice and real discernible “fruit” too (John 15:1-8; Matthew 7:15-27; 1 John 2:3-6).

At Pokyra I teach you what I have learned about it all for about 4 decades as a devoted Student of Jesus Christ and teach you how to RECEIVE your own PART TO PLAY in life “abiding” in Jesus (1 John 2:3-6). Like Paul said in Ephesians 4:12-16, the results will be wonderful!

You will run into people like me around the world who have likely known early on in our journey with Jesus that we have a specific “calling” from the King of Heaven to serve both Him and His Church according to the measure He has appointed us.

We answer to Him “first place in everything” because that’s how He is still leading His ONE Church from His throne in Heaven just as Paul explained in Ephesians 4:1-15 and Colossians 1:13-18.

We may have different titles we call ourselves according to our “gifts” from Jesus and our chosen human cultures, but the spiritual callings from Jesus remain exactly the same today as they were when Paul wrote those words in Ephesians 4:1-15.

Paul described our ministries as “equipping the saints” (Ephesians 4:12). If you belong to Him 100% (leaving 0% for the Devil’s ancient Rebellion), you are considered by Jesus as His “saint” whether you feel like it or not!

Enjoy Jesus’ CONTINUEDSTORY He started with His original Disciples and find yourself jumping into HisStory and His own fulfillment of His vision for His “church” found in Colossians 1:13-18 and Ephesians 3:3-15.

Find it for yourself Autonomously with Jesus as a valued VIP “member” of His “church” He is still leading “first place in everything” from His throne in Heaven today!