Mark, using Scripture wrongly to SUIT YOUR OWN agenda I see. What part of the below is not sound doctrine? It's a command! HIS CHURCH knows this...
Matt 10:7 As you go, preach this message: 'The kingdom of heaven is near.'
Yes, He gave the commands to the Apostles. And let us see what He actually meant.
http://www.ocarm.org/en/content/lectio/lectio-saint-barnabas-apostle-mt-10-7-13 speaks to just this verse.
• Matthew 10, 7: The announcement that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Jesus invites the disciples to announce the Good News. They should say: “The Kingdom of Heaven is close at hand!” What does it mean that the Kingdom is close at hand? It does not mean the closeness of time, in the sense that it suffices to wait for a short time and then the Kingdom will come. “The Kingdom is close at hand” means that it is already within reach of the people, it is already “in your midst” (Lk 17, 21).
When you act as your own Pope but bereft of the Church, why then any interpretation that one can come up while chasing the dragon.
Matt 10:8 "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give".
The Lectio says:
• Matthew 10, 8: To cure, to raise, to purify, to drive out. The sick, the dead, the lepers, the possessed, were the excluded from living together with others, and they were excluded in the name of God. They could not participate in the life of the community. Jesus orders to accept these persons, to include them. The Kingdom of God becomes present in these gestures of acceptance and including them. In these gestures of human gratuity is shown God’s gratuitous love which reconstructs the human living together and mends interpersonal relationships.
Bereft of the Church, one enjoys the increasing multiplicity of geometrically increasing interpretations of Scripture. Have a nice big bowl of YOPIOS.