A religious spirit is any spirit that fights against the grace gospel of God in
our lives and the finished work of Jesus through His death and resurrection in
fulfilling the eternal plan of God for the Community of Humanity.
The
Pharisees were obvious examples of people who have religious spirits. Religious
spirits are very destructive to our intimate relationships with God. If you want
a true intimate relationship with your heavenly Father, then you don't want to
be influenced by religious spirits!
Religion and spiritual relationships
don't get along, and this is why religious spirits will work diligently to
hinder true meaningful spiritual relationships between God and His
children.
Two behavioral manifestations of religious spirits are, one
person may be plagued with feelings of never being good enough for God, while
the next person may be infected with self-righteousness and false holiness. Both
of these are diabolically apposed to our relationship with God and with
people.
Some of the characteristics of a religious spirit that opposes
the gospel of grace are; judgementalism, self-righteousness, religious pride,
sin consciousness, criticism, legalism, perfectionism, segregation,
denominationalism, man-made tradition, unbelief, false holiness, maintaining
salvation by works, guilt, condemnation, fear of losing salvation, fear of God
(unhealthy, scared feeling), intolerance, etc.
- Glenn Regular
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