👉 PART 5 – “The “antichrist” spirit of religion. 👈
There comes a moment in every human life when religion is no longer enough, when traditions no longer satisfy the soul, when outward practices cannot heal the wounds inside. 😞 People attend church for years, read words, sing songs, repeat prayers, (vain repetition)😳(Matthew 6:7) but something still feels empty, incomplete, and distant. If and when they pick up the HOLY BIBLE, they will read and still not understand. They are unable to discern… (Colossians 2:6). The spirit of religion IS the stumbling block. Religion is an open door to the spirits of blindness and rejection of the TRUTH. The heart longs for more. Something deeper. Something real. Something personal. Something living. HIS name, JESUS CHRIST✝️ This moment, this hunger, this ache inside the soul is the place where a true relationship with JESUS CHRIST hopefully begins. Not with perfect knowledge. Not with religious achievement. Not with feigned spiritual performance. But with an honest heart crying inside itself:
I need something real.
I need someone real.
I need the ONE who created me and knows me completely. JESUS !
Here is the important part. When this cry rises from the deepest part of a person’s being, JESUS hears it. JESUS responds to it. JESUS comes near to it. And in that moment, the entire story of a human life begins to change.👍
SCORING ON THE TEST
Every one of these issues has applied to each one of us and probably a number still due because we have not fully submitted to JESUS. Also remember that all these are the fruit of having eaten from the spiritual Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, (Genesis 2:16-17), and it takes a process to break the curse, to be set free from our carnal minds (Romans 8:7), being renewed through a new found humility and obedience to the pulling down of these demonic strongholds. (2 Corinthians 10:4)
THE FORMS OF A RELIGIOUS SPIRIT…(Revelation 2:6,15) which JESUS hates !!
We not only need to keep from being infected by a religious spirit ourselves but we also need to protect ourselves from someone who has a religious spirit. The following are five forms of a religious spirit: a counterfeit gift of discernment, a spirit of Jezebel, self-righteousness, the martyr syndrome,
and self-help psychology. We will cover the first 2 here due to space limitations.
1] THE COUNTERFEIT GIFT OF DISCERNMENT
A religious spirit gives birth to a counterfeit gift of discernment of spirits. This counterfeit gift thrives on seeing what is wrong with others rather than seeing what GOD is doing to help them along. If you checked 4 and 6 on the self-test, you tend to have a counterfeit gift of discernment. Its wisdom is rooted once again in the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and though the truth may be accurate; it is ministered in a spirit that kills. Suspicion, which is motivated by rejection, territorial preservation or general insecurity, causes this counterfeit gift. However the true gift of discernment can only function with love. In (2 Corinthians 11:13-15), Paul warns them about those who minister in a religious spirit that they place a yoke of legalism on the believers. (Jeremiah 10:21,12:10). Religions that are based on works will tend to become violent easily, especially when confronted with those who live by faith. This includes “Christian religions” where a doctrine of works has supplanted the cross of JESUS CHRIST. Those who are driven by religious spirits may try to destroy the true believer by onslaughts of slander.
2] THE SPIRIT OF JEZEBEL…..
The Spirit of Jezebel is a combination of the religious spirit and witchcraft that is the demonic spirit
of manipulation and control. This spirit is often found in deeply wounded people. Every trial in our lives will either make us bitter or better, and the Cross of JESUS will heal every spiritual wound if we willingly turn to HIM.
Those who are deeply wounded who do not go to the Cross of JESUS can open themselves up to these evil spirits.
The Jezebel spirit is one of the enemy’s most potent forms of rebellion and the religious spirit that he uses to keep the church and the world from being prepared for the coming of the LORD thy GOD. This spirit attacks the prophetic ministry through which JESUS wants to give timely, strategic direction to His people. Jezebel knows that and knows the people will be vulnerable to her false prophets, which always leads to idolatry and spiritual adultery. Most don’t even understand what spiritual adultery is !. It is caused by rejecting JESUS CHRIST and by doing so, unknowingly come into the presence of the wicked one because of the embedded spirit of Jezebel.
When there is a void of the true prophetic WORD, the people will be much more prone to the deception of the enemy. A religious spirit produces an antichrist pride, causing the blind to defend their religion, so that JESUS will be unable to communicate with those who are destitute of vision. In (Matthew 15:14), Jesus called the religious leaders of the day “blind guides”. The demonic strategy of the religious spirit is to get the church devoted to sacrifice in a way that perverts the command for us to take up our crosses daily. This perversion will have us putting more faith in our sacrifices rather than in the LORD JESUS and HIS Sacrifice on the Cross at Calvary. It will also use sacrifices and offerings to try to get the LORD to manifest Himself. This is a form of the terrible delusion that we can somehow purchase the grace and presence of GOD with our good works. Read 1 Samuel 15:22, it’s about OBEDIENCE and then direct Relationship with JESUS, no middlemen !
Part 6 will be sent on Sunday (tomorrow). Thank you for participating in your own rescue !
Speaking the TRUTH in Love ❤️
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Last Updated on April 22, 2026 by admin