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Source: notes by Selwyn Stevens & others from “Freedom from the Religious Spirit.”
by Dr. C. Peter Wagner
THE spirit OF RELIGION – PART 1
(Note – please find the time to read the Enclosed Scriptures)
(2 Timothy 2:15)
We speak of Religion in these terms…👉”The Bondage of Religion through Tradition”👈 “i.e.” (for example), the Catholic Church. But there are many religions, between 4,200 to over 10,000. The top 16 by followers …(Christian) Catholic, Protestant, Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Anglican, Presbyterian, Adventist, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Traditional / Folk, Shinto, Sikhism, Judaism, spiritism. They all practice Traditions and religious rituals. Meanwhile, the True Followers of JESUS CHRIST need not to.
A true relationship with JESUS is not through religion, nor a routine, not a Sunday tradition and not a list of church going activities. It is an every day life-reshaping, powerful, most intimate connection a human soul could ever experience. Many people “know about JESUS”, but only a few truly know HIM. In (John 10:27) “MY sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME”. More on relationship later..
Our Mainstay is Prayer 🙏, Praise and Worship through our Faith and Obedience to the ONE we Love and Follow. Our time is spent In Reading HIS WORD, being fruitful in good works, transforming our lives every day through HIM, becoming those “New Creatures in CHRIST JESUS”, read…
(2 Corinthians 5:17).
There are many under the curse of religion. When you look on our Website “col317.org” under the green header on the right side of the first page, you will see…
“Lies vs Truths” and “Truth you won’t hear in a church” in GREEN, there you will see the Holidays/Rituals that were created by the Catholic Church and others, to deceive the people !!
When Rituals control our Relationship with JESUS, this is Religion. Ritual minus Relationship equals Religion. Most were born under the Curse of Religion. Very few know that he, lucifer, created the religions to destroy the people who participate ! (Isaiah 14:12-17).
Note: To keep from repeating that most awful and wicked name, we will use the first letter of his evil name from now on in brackets [l]
He [l] controls the religions to prevent change and to maintain the status quo by using religion as his device to deceive the masses, (2 Thessalonians 2:3), (1 Peter 5:8).
There are many spirits of religion as we see in the many types of non-Christian and Christian religions both personal and Ministerial in the world today.
It is his [l] demonic spirits that are assigned to distract people from the truth by making us think that we are okay. When we read The Verse (John 8:44), so saith the LORD “You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do.
He was a “murderer” from the beginning (Cain and Abel) and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth In him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it.”
The spirit of religion is one the meanest, foulest, most ruthless spirits that you will ever confront. Now we see why !
He (the devil) comes as an impostor, a “false” angel of light, masquerading as the real thing, cutting off believers from a relationship with JESUS CHRIST and blocking the work of the HOLY SPIRIT through religion. (John 14:26). The fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22) compared to the fruit of the religious spirit (Galatians 5:19-21).
(2 Corinthians 11:14-15) “And no marvel; for satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if “his ministers” also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”
JESUS did not create “religion”, he established the gift of a personal relationship by being able to go directly to HIM, no middlemen. JESUS never built a church (building), (we are HIS church), HE does not dwell in Temples made with Man’s hands (Acts 7:48-49), JESUS did not establish the catholic church. JESUS Taught in the Synagogues to tear down their religion of rejection by the Jews against the Father in Heaven because they would not accept HIM, (JESUS) as HIS only begotten SON. The “religious leaders” would only be found gathered there in the Synagogues.
In the Scripture (Matthew 16:18), The Roman Catholic church grossly misinterpreted what was written and used it for their benefit, which most if not all still believe that Peter was “The ROCK”, and the first Pope (he was not). There are 12 Holy Scriptures disclosing the TRUTH that JESUS CHRIST is “THAT ROCK” (not Peter)… 1 Corinthians 10:4, Matthew 16:18, Isaiah 28:16, 1 Peter 2:6, Deuteronomy 32:4,
Psalms 18:2,31, 31:3, 62:2, 95:1, 2 Samuel 22:47 and Romans 9:33.
Peter never had anything to do with the Roman Catholic Church! … We will have a full disclosure on the Subject later. “Peter was neither the head of nor the first Pope of the Roman-Catholic Church” by the 2nd week of April !
The word of GOD says we can recognize a tree by the fruit that it bears (Matthew 12:33-37).
(2 Timothy 3:1-5) lists 19 manifestations of the religious spirit in the lives of people in the church. “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And
from such people turn away!”
An Example…..
Exodus 20:4 “You shall not make for yourself any graven (carved) image, any likeness of anything that is in heaven above , or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth”.
Walk into most churches and see a cross with the crucified graven image of Jesus (the dead christ) thus breaking the 2nd Commandment of the LORD ! Who would brazenly disobey a Commandment from the LORD our GOD ? For over 1000 years ?
Spiritual blindness in high places ?? But wait, in 2 Corinthians 4:4. So saith the LORD…”In whom the god of this world [l], has blinded the minds that believe not” JESUS is not dead ! HE IS the Living GOD 🙏🙏.
Who approved this ?
The Image of a fish displayed on Bumpers and windows, supposedly representing a
“Christian” ?? (Or that is in the water under the earth).
Who approved this ?
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Ephesians 4:15
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