Following religion is not the same as following
Christ.
Loving religion is not the same as loving Christ!
Those who follow religion have been deceived by
wolves in sheep’s clothing and are followers of man’s philosophies down the
broad road that leads to spiritual destruction and have defiled themselves with
religious harlots.
Religion is led by its own interpretation and
understanding of the “written word” or the words of denominated seminarians,
rather than being led by the “Living Word”, who by the way has never lost His
ability to speak or relinquished His headship of the Community of the Redeemed.
Jesus’ words are still as true today as when He spoke them in the wilderness;
“Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds (present
tense) from the mouth of God.”
Those who follow the Spirit of Christ are like the
wind and follow Him wherever He goes. They are undefiled by the harlot church
and her offspring, who “made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication” (Rev. 14:8). They have not been defiled religion’s harlotry into
following the ideologies of carnal man's fables whose cups are full of the
blood of saints. The followers of Christ...the Community of the Redeemed... are
led by Christ’s life within, they are the Lamb’s wife! Where the Lamb goes, His
wife is at His side.
How do religion defile the Community of the
Redeemed?
William Law born in1687 puts it this way.
“But Christians, seeking and turning to anything
else, but to be led and inspired by the one Spirit of God and Christ, will
bring forth a Christendom that in the sight of God will have no other name,
than spiritual Babylon, a spiritual Egypt, and Sodom, a scarlet whore, a
devouring beast, and red dragon. For all these names belong to all men, however
learned, and to all churches, whether greater or less, in which the spirit of
those world has any share of power. This was the fall of the whole church soon
after the apostolic ages; and all human reformations, begun by ecclesiastical
learning, and supported by civil power, will signify little or nothing, nay
often make things worse, till all churches dying to all own will, all own
wisdom, all own advancement, seek for no reforming power but from the Spirit of
God which converted sinners, publicans, harlots, Jews and heathens, into a holy
apostolical church at the first, a church which knew they were of God, by the
Spirit which He had given them and which worked in them.”
The book of Hebrews issues a sobering admonition,
“Be careful not to refuse Him (Jesus) who is
speaking to you. For if they of old suffered because of listening to man
instead of listening to Him who spoke on earth, much less will we escape
deception if we refuse to listen to Him who now speaks from heaven.
In John four we see the stark contrast of walking
in the Spirit of Truth cast against walking the limitations of carnal religion,
traditions and interpretations of the scripture by men. The Spirit of Truth
brings life wherever He goes. Religion has not the power of truth to bring
life, it brings spiritual death.
It is an abomination that religious men have
codified many of the words of Christ and the apostles into denominated
doctrines, rules and regulations that have become dead letters. The Jews took
the words of Moses and the prophets that pointed the way to the living waters
of the Spirit and the Messiah and got hung-up on interpretations of the letter.
Religious leaders have studied man’s interpretation of the scripture and in
doing so and misunderstand the Christ
their Fountain of Living Waters. Instead, they have hewed out for themselves
broken cisterns that can hold no spiritual water.
- Glenn Regular
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