Beware of religion ...

[bropro]

And don't forget Judas Iscariot. He went to church/synagogue with Jesus every Sabbath day.

Gary

[JohnD]

Religion is a weakness in humanity allowing Satan through many various means unfettered access to the soul.

[JohnD]

One of the many reasons God gave humanity Judaism,

is to show us that IF a religion could save... and IF a

religion was what he wanted... Judaism would be it.

But as the writer of Hebrews repeatedly stated

religious Judaism falls short of saving anyone and is

not what God wants.

God wants a relationship with each and every one of his

people (individually). Judaism is only a means to the Christian

end. A necessary step to prepare and wean humanity away from

religion.

[JohnD]

Perfect example (even under the Old Covenant / Law) is King David a man after God's own heart.

David was a sinner, imperfect, and not religious. He trusted God above all else knowing that

whatever he encountered in his life and not matter how short he fell from God's ideal Law,

God himself would make up the difference in David's life and salvation.

In other words, Grace.

Grace is not only unmerited favor, but trust and reliance in the God who grants it.

People like to feel beholden, like we can make restitution, or perform somehow to help the

process along**. This had to be driven from humanity by the Law.

Grace is allowing God to be in absolute control.

 

** This and the pomp and circumstance and pageantry are the fuel that drives religion... a thing even Hitler the accursed knew to exploit in his rise to power

[JohnD]

Dare I say it?

The pomp and circumstance and pageantry of religion fuels many Christian denominations... Roman Catholicism being the chief architect of them.

[steve morrow]

GODS  GRACE  ---  not according to man

 

JOHN 1:17  for the law came by moses  --but grace and truth came by  JESUS  CHRIST--

ACTS 20:24  but none of these things move me neither count I my life dear unto myself so that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry which I have  --received of  THE  LORD  JESUS--  to  --testify--  the gospel of the  --GRACE  OF  GOD--

COLOSSIANS 1:5  for the hope which is laid for you in heaven whereof you heard before  --in the word of the gospel--

--1:6--  which is come unto you --as it is in all the world-- and bringeth forth fruit as it does also in you since the day you heard of it --AND  KNEW  THE  GRACE  OF  GOD  IN   TRUTH--

2 PETER 3:18   --BUT  GROW  IN  GRACE  --  and  in the knowledge of our  LORD  AND  SAVIOUR  JESUS  CHRIST--

 

1 CORINTHIANS 3:10  according to the grace of  GOD  which is given unto me as a wise masterbuilder I have laid the foundation and another buildeth thereon  ---but let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon---

--3:11--  for other foundation can no man lay than that is laid  --which is  JESUS  CHRIST--

ROMANS 5:2  by whom also we have access by faith  --into this grace--  wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of  GOD

 

*******PSALM 127:1  except  THE  LORD  BUILD  THE  HOUSE  --they labor in vain that build it--  except  THE  LORD  keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain *******

1 PETER 2:5  you also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house --an holy priesthood-- to offer up spiritual sarifices--  acceptable to  GOD  by  JESUS  CHRIST 

 

ACTS 20:32  and now brethren I commend you to  GOD  --and to the word of  HIS  GRACE  --  which is able to build you up  --  and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified--

TITUS 2:11  for the grace  --OF  GOD--  that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men

--2:12--  --TEACHING  US-- that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly  ---  in this present world

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST

 

 

[Sower]

On 5/9/2022 at 8:39 AM, George said:

Many turn from Jesus because of a bad experience with religious people. But know this, Jesus also had a bad experience with religious people.  He was killed by them.  Religion will not save you.  Only Jesus saves!

I try to share the gospel to anybody the Lord brings my way during these uncertain times.
The total I have saved so far, zero.  Jesus saved, all those who heard the word and believed.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Having a form of godliness, (religion) but denying the power thereof: from such turn away"
2 Timothy 3:1-5

 

 

[R. Hartono]

God is not found in religious robe or religious buildings. He is found in hearts that forgive and share.