TRUE LIFE KINGDOM
Where Jesus Christ is the King of kings and the Lord of lords
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Who needs religions? Can’t sand it!!!
| Posted on October 19, 2016 at 3:00 PM |
Who
needs religions? Can’t sand it!!! I
hope all people get fed up with religions, trying to please God by their own
self-righteousness! All
religions looking up trying to gain God’s acceptance or approval by doing
religious things or good deeds. Religion
is about what others and myself think of me. True
Christianity (relationship with God through Jesus Christ) is what God thinks of
me! True Christianity is about God in Christ reconciling
us to Himself! For He made Him (Jesus Christ) who
knew no sin to be sin
for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. True
Christianity is God who reached down to the lower pit of sin and death and
reconciled us to Himself! And it is not us reaching up trying to gain His
approval! Reconciling: Reuniting, joining. Making us in right
standing with Himself. The
self-righteous (the proud) relies on himself for salvation. The
Humble relies on God's gift (Jesus Christ) for salvation. True
humility is so attractive! It’s like a magnet that pulls you in. Pride
is so disgusting! It drives you away. That's way God’s word says “he resists the proud but gives grace to the humble” We are new creation in
Christ! 2 Corinthians 5:So from now on we regard no one from a human point of view
[according to worldly standards and values]. Though we have known Christ from a
human point of view, now we no longer know Him in this way. Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to
Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a
new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the
previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things
have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life]. But all these things
are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ [making us acceptable
to Him] and gave us the ministry of reconciliation [so that by our example we
might bring others to Him], that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself,
not counting people’s sins against them [but canceling them]. And He has
committed to us the message of reconciliation [that is, restoration to favor with God]. So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His
appeal through us; we [as Christ’s representatives] plead with you on behalf of
Christ to be reconciled to God. He made Christ who knew no sin to [judicially] be sin on our
behalf, so that in Him we would become the righteousness of God [that is, we
would be made acceptable to Him and placed in a right relationship with Him by
His gracious loving-kindness]. The Pharisee
and the Tax Collector The Religious and sinners Luke 18:9 He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves and were confident that they
were righteous [posing outwardly as upright and in right standing with God],
and who viewed others with contempt:“Two men went up into the temple [enclosure] to pray, one a Pharisee
and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood [ostentatiously] and began praying to
himself [in a self-righteous way, saying]: ‘God, I thank You that I
am not like the rest of men—swindlers, unjust (dishonest), adulterers—or even
like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all
that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing at a
distance, would not even raise his eyes toward heaven, but was striking his
chest[in humility and repentance], saying, ‘God, be merciful and gracious to me, the [especially wicked] sinner [that I am]!’ I tell you, this man went to his home
justified [forgiven of the guilt of sin and placed
in right standing with God] rather than the other man; for everyone
who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself [forsaking self-righteous
pride] will be exalted.”1 Peter 5:Likewise, you younger men
[of lesser rank and experience], be subject to your elders [seek their
counsel]; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another
[tie on the servant’s apron], for God is opposed to the proud [the disdainful, the
presumptuous, and He defeats them], but He gives grace to the humble. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God [set
aside self-righteous pride], so that He may exalt you [to a place of honour in
His service] at the appropriate time, casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and
all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with
deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully]. |
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