RELIGION KILLS
THE HOLY SPIRIT BUILDS
Brother James, OIC
Jas 1:25-27 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
I know above anything else Satan has tried to use to destroy Gods Will in my life is religion. The word religion was applied more times than any where to the Jews Religion.
The Jews were keepers of the Law, a Law God gave to revive sin in the heart of man until the redemption paid in full by Christ. The Pharisees were the epitome of the law, judging self righteously everything out of the sight of their eyes and the hearing of their ears but never with the Grace of God in the Love of Christ with Righteous Judgment. Today this unrighteous evil judgment abounds in the Americanized Church. They do this not discerning Christ’s Body and are asleep to Truth and are in sickness often:
1Co 11:27-29 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
One of the biggest misconceptions of this scripture is that it is only pertaining to the actual partaking of the Sacrament of Communion. Which does but is inclusive of fellowship in the Body. Who is Christ’s Body then. This is what Jesus says:
Mat 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
The Pharisees who are the epitome of everything wrong in the Church today were described by Jesus like this:
Mat 23:23-29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
When you can love The Least of these without prejudice and hypocritical judgment then
The Kingdom of God will be close at hand in your life until then your Religion is useless.
Awake to true Righteousness which is not of the Law but Faith in Christ Who taught us to Love like this:
1Co 13:7 -8 (LOVE) Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Love others today not in word nor hypocritical deed but in Spirit and Truth and the Holy Spirit will buil your house into truly a Holy Temple fit for God.
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