JESUS is the spiritual word of GOD, all JESUS words are spirit, truth, and life, but there is nothing spiritual about religion or religious folks, for religion kills.
Religion is nothing more than a pretty lie made to look like the beautiful truth, and just like pretty is nothing more than an outward appearance of something or someone that looks pleasing to the eyes from their outward appearance, but within the heart of them lies the ugly truth!~
For neither religion nor religious folks have no real revelation of the truth of GOD’S word in CHRIST JESUS, the love of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, the mercy of GOD in CHRIST JESUS or the grace of GOD in CHRIST JESUS.
And you can discern the heart of them by what they speak, teach, and preach.
For religious folks will always have you looking at yourself, judging yourself, and trying to measure yourself by their religious standards of what a man or woman should or should not be, according to their religion.
Religious people will talk about your sins, your failures, your mistakes, your short comings, and your past, but cannot give cure for your disease, “JESUS!”
And you will know them by their fruit, because JESUS will not be the main focus or topic of their ministry or their teachings, but they will teach about your sins, your life, your failures, your mistakes, your past, and your imperfections, as if they have arrived to the place of perfection in their walk with GOD.
Religious people will tell you everything there is to know about religion, and how to be religious!
They can tell you everything there is to know about what another religious man or woman said, and they quote their sayings word for word, as if they are the way, the truth, and the life.
But they cannot tell you anything about the revelation knowledge of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, the truth of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, the love of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, the mercy of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, or the grace of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, because it’s not in them.
People, don’t let religious self-righteous “NUTS” discourage you from seeking after JESUS with all your heart, mind, and soul, because only JESUS is the way to GOD, the truth of GOD, and the life of GOD, and no man or woman can come to GOD or know GOD, unless they know CHRIST JESUS.
And no matter how good you think you are or how good you make yourself out to be, all your good works put together are like filthy rags compared to the love of GOD in CHRIST JESUS!
For by grace you are saved through faith; and that grace is not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
(Isaiah 64:6) But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
(Ephesians 2:8-9) For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
(Romans 5:6-8) For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commended his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
(Romans 3:23) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
(1 John 1:6-10) If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
(Romans 9:14-33) What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy. For the scripture said unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might shew my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Therefore GOD has mercy on whom he will have mercy on, and whom he will he hardens.
You will say then unto me, Why does he yet find fault?
For who has resisted GOD’S will? Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against GOD?
Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me like this? Have not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? As he said also in Isaiah, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.
People, Neither religion or religious folks can teach, preach, speak or proclaim such revelation knowledge, because it’s not in them.
And that’s why GOD will pass over a million self-righteous religious Christian hypocrites, just to get to one sinner who made a choice to seek after JESUS with all their heart, mind, and soul that they might come to know GOD through the revelation knowledge of JESUS CHRIST, for themselves.
That’s why GOD uses imperfect people to do great things in the kingdom of GOD, because GOD is an expert at making something work that’s not supposed to work, according to religion, and the religious mindset of self-righteous religious men.
That’s why GOD can use adulterers, murderers, tax collectors, rebellious prophets, prostitutes, thieves, and simple fisherman Peter, Mary Magdalene, King David, the apostles Paul, Moses, Jonah, and Samson, because they know GOD is an expert at making something work that’s not supposed to work, according the religion, and the religious mindset of self-righteous religious men.
(Zechariah 3:1-10) And he shewed me Joshua/Reese the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke you, O Satan; even the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
Now Joshua/Reese was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity and sins to pass from you, and I will clothe you with change of raiment. And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head.
So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by. And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts; If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you shall also judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you places to walk among these that stand by. Hear now, O Joshua/Reese the high priest, you, and your fellows that sit before you: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, says the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall you call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.