Organized
religion has indoctrinated people with so many false doctrines that the
truth of the Bible sounds very strange. … šš§š ššØš® šššÆšš«
ššØšš¢ššš. YšØš® šš«š not deceived šš² šššš¢ššš§š. You
are built—piece by piece—by everything that’s been placed into your mind
since the day you were born. Most people never question it. They never
stop to ask: šš”šØ š©š®š š¢š šš”šš«š… šš§š š°š”š²?
Stay
with me… This may help everything you are witnessing today in religion
and politics make sense. The world is in the middle of the greatest
social experiment in world history. It can be illustrated by drawing a
circle that represents your brain.
Then ask, “What’s in the circle?”
At this point, “Nothing, It’s empty.”
This
is who we are when we are born. We have a mind—the circle—but nothing
has yet been placed inside it. As we grow and move through life,
everything we see, do, touch, taste, hear, and even smell begins to fill
that circle. Everything that enters becomes part of an equation that
shapes our personality, what we believe and who we become.
Then
thoughts and experiences began to flood into the circle. This can be
television, social media, books, music, religion. Then it expands—what
is taught by parents, teachers, family, friends, and organized religion.
These inputs begin to populate the circle and create the narrative
through which we see the world and believe it to be. The issue arises
when multiple sources of information repeat the same ideas. That
repetition creates redundancy, and redundancy hardwires the brain. Your brain is physical, your mind is spiritual. Your brain may reject truth, but your mind can be changed and accept revealed truth by the power of the Holy Spirit.
ššš®š«šØš§š¬ Tš”šš Fš¢š«š TšØš ššš”šš« Wš¢š«š TšØš ššš”šš«.
But
like branches on a tree, some of those connections remain thin and
flexible, while others become thick and rigid. All too often, we rely on
the thick, rigid branches because they make up the largest portion of
the tree. Yet in a storm, or under strong winds, those are the branches
most likely to break.
The
difference between the average person walking through life and a true
warrior is this: š š°šš«š«š¢šØš« šš”šØšØš¬šš¬ š°š”šš
š¢š§ššØš«š¦ššš¢šØš§ šš§ššš«š¬ šš”š šš¢š«šš„š. With
conscious awareness, we recognize how information shapes how we think,
how we feel, what we believe, why we believe it—and ultimately who we
become.
The
simple explanation I want to share with my audience is the exact same
process unfolding on both the national and global stage. Since the days
in the Garden of Eden, the world has been influenced by a powerful
Adversary. Just like a tree, it starts as a seedling. Over time, it
grows. Eventually, it develops thick, hardened branches of man made ideology. And today, that tree has revealed itself as a forest.
A
dark forest of trees—desperate, and at times violent—trying to force
its rigidity and anti-Christian values on every individual, starting
with the youth. Because when the branches are still young, they are
flexible. And so they flood the roots with a kind of ideological
fertilizer—something corrosive—that spreads throughout the entire system
like a parasite.
And once it takes hold, it doesn’t just influence the tree… š¢š ššššØš¦šš¬ šš”š šš«šš.
It rewrites the circle. It reshapes how reality is seen, processed, and
defended. And the person living inside it… š§šØ š„šØš§š šš« š¤š§šØš°š¬
šš”š šš¢šššš«šš§šš. šš”š š¦šØš¬š ššš§š šš«šØš®š¬
š©š«š¢š¬šØš§ š¢š§ šš”š š°šØš«š„š… š¢š¬ šš”š šØš§š š²šØš® ššØš§’š
š¤š§šØš° š²šØš®’š«š š¢š§.
Jesus
came to reveal THE TRUTH, open the eyes of the blind, and set the
captives free. If you have eyes to see and ears to hear, that's the Holy
Spirit urging you to seek first the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness.
Organized
religion ("churchanity") is a hospital for sin sick sinners and a nursery for
baby Christians. The Church that Jesus built is not an earthy
organization; it's a Body of Believers seeking first the Kingdom of
God. As it is written: The general assembly of God and church of the
firstborn are registered in heaven (not a corporation registered on
earth). - Hebrews 12:23
What is a Genuine Relationship With Jesus Christ?
Christians are not "saved" people telling others they need to
"get saved," rather they are one beggar telling another beggar where to
find bread.
A genuine relationship with Jesus Christ requires discipline and maturity. The path to
eternal life is a lifelong process which requires knowing, not just
believing. Simply listening to a preacher talk about God is not
spiritual growth.
Spoon-fed
Churchanity teaches that "born again" is instant and one is "saved" by
simply believing. But is that what the Word says?
Even the demons believe... ~ James 2:19
Baby
Christians can believe all they want, but nothing happens until they
are mature enough to conceive to the Holy Spirit. Jesus was 30 years old
before he requested baptism and received the Spirit of God (which is Holy). ~ Matthew 3:16
Let that sink in. Real Christianity is for
mature people who go through the process of spiritual birth.
If you would like to learn more about a genuine relationship with Jesus, You Are Cordially Invited to Renew Your Strength Bible Study Group... https://mlf1070.blogspot.com/2021/01/renew.html
Renew
Your Strength is not a "know-it-all" type ministry. The
purpose of Renew Your Strength Bible Study Group is to get people to
think about what they believe and why they believe it, not debate who's right or wrong.
Over the years, as Renew Your Strength has continued to
grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, we have
recognized that some of the things we once held as true, in fact, are
not; and therefore we will not “cast in stone” a statement of our
beliefs. We reserve the right to be wrong and to repent of such error
when we discover it.
To
learn the revealed truth of God we must know and understand the true
meaning of the words God inspired to be written. Use Strong's
Concordance to check the original word before it was translated. Do your own research, make up your own mind, rely on the Holy Spirit to guide you. God always gives us a choice. We can choose to believe the Truth of the Bible, or we can choose the lies of the Adversary.