ETHMIdotCom Cross ime Harvest
Login/Singup



 

 

 

Chapter 2 The Body

Forsake not the assembly of believers. Rituals will not

bring grace. Grace comes from the life of the Holy

Spirit within you. The Holy Spirit is reproducing Christ

in your life once you've ask him to enter your

heart. Jesus came to abolish religion. Religion has

birthed wars, built enormous denominations and

churches, while failing to feed the poor. Religion tells

single moms they are in the wrong, but in the word

of God the religious people are called harlots. Religion

speaks grace, but fails to show it, only ridiculing

and torturing Gods followers like John the Baptist,

Isaiah, and all the original disciples of Christ.

Religion never rescues the lost, just controls the

emotions of the followers. Religion chains up the

word of God in unbreakable locks, putting all to anger,

while confusing the wise.

The outward display of perfection can be mastered

with ease, while the inward soul is where your

Christian lifestyle shows. Attending church on Sunday,

then taking the weekend to get wasted, to perform

fornication. This displays what God's enemy is so

viciously working toward on earth in his limited

time. People spend their whole life in

building their castle in the sand. The Holy Spirit

aids in self-control building a strong tower within you

to dominate weakness. The church should function in

grace, not to display perfection, but to aid the broken

hearted. There is no need for Christians to hide

their failure of sin, because we do not depend on

ourselves, but only on Christ. When you oppose

Gods plan, God is jealous in saving your doomed soul.

This is why Jesus hated religion, in the ones who

bragged about keeping the law with complete

understanding. Jesus called these people fools.

The enemy perverts the word of God, while laziness

stops us from devoting our time in the word.

People will always create new creeds as part of the

enemies plan to divide denominations and

conquer the founding formation of the one true church.

Jesus desires the best in your life, besides just

following some religious rules. Love the church,

and the word of God, which will annihilate sin.

If Jesus were to appear at your church, would he be

welcomed in? Religious men called Jesus a glutton and

drunkard. The son of God never evoked

self-righteousness as to be totally correct in oneself or

morally superior. Christ and religion are totally on

opposite ends of the spectrum, never to set

denominational faiths. Jesus consists of the work

of God to heal all, while religion is a manmade enemy

based infecting denominations on working

to divide the one true church. Jesus has completed all

works, making you see grace is what sets us free.

Religion teaches to work harder and faster staying

blind in bondage. Religion has man searching for

God, missing Christ in search to love all men.

Salvation is freely yours; forgiveness by grace is a gift.

Heavens entry in the afterlife is not based on a

person's merits, but obedience in Christ alone.

Grace took away all separation we deserved, by the

blood of Jesus on the cross. Christ hung on the cross in

agony as he yelled out Father, forgive them for

they know not what they do. Lk 23:34

Christ was the final sacrifice of sin on the cross for you.

Christ took your sins and buried them in His tomb,

allowing all in the present world to accept salvation.

Religion is hated, Christ said it is finished Jn 19:30.

Romans 4:5 (KJV)

5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him

that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for

righteousness. God gave the law to be holy and

righteous, but cannot make the believer holy nor

righteous. The law is the old covenant, and we now

live in a new covenant of agreement with God

through Jesus Christ. People attend church feeling

guilt, condemned, and shameful from allowing

condemnation coming over them. Jesus did all you will

ever need done to desire the righteousness of God

by faith. Our task as believers is to only believe Christ

paid the debt for our sins. Your righteousness is

based on not what you have done, but what Jesus has

already completed.

Failure in doing right, does not undo your

unrighteousness with God. Being perfect does not

cause righteousness. Christ called us righteous when

we were ungodly, without our works.

Paul taught the same grace his followers ask is it right

to continue in sin?

Romans 6:1-2 (KJV)

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin,

that grace may abound?

2 God forbid…

Absolutely not. Once the believer understands how

much God loves them, they will not continue in sin.

Before God came to live inside you, you lived in sin.

Now as a believer with the Holy Spirit living inside

you, there is no agreement with your decision to sin.

The Holy Spirit is working inside you to make you

live with authority and self-control, turning away from

sin. When we sin, the Holy Spirit reminds us we

are the righteousness of God, and we learn to start

doing right. Sin will not undo your righteousness,

but will complicate your life. Your decision to sin

always has unexpected natural consequences.

God wants us to keep away from the natural

consequences of sin, by living the blessed life,

believing for Gods best. People do not go to hell

because of sin. Christ paid for sin on the cross by

washing the believers past, presence, and future sins

once we call on Christ and ask Him to dwell within

us. Hell is for anyone rejecting the payment for their

sins by the blood of Jesus. Sin is not the issue; the

issue is accepting or rejecting Jesus. What is your

decision on Jesus that stepped in and gave his life

and favor for you to not live a life in misery? Satan has

a plan to deceive many by making people think

they can work towards paying a debt in order to stay

out of sin. The punishment of sin is to be eternally

separated from God. Jesus is the only one who can

pay this sin debt. God gave us a conscience to

know sin. The enemy capitalizes on this knowledge to

make us walk in shame and worry for these sins.

Instead praise and worship God for what he has done

in your life through Christ. Sin is not made for the

believer. God is only for us, never against us. Sin is of

the past, but now with the Holy Spirit within you,

He helps you to sin no more. Satan attacks your

righteousness by being the accuser of the

brethren. The believer states he is the righteousness

in Christ, so Satan comes against the believer

accusing them of their past sins. Revelation 12:10 (KJV)

10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is

come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of

our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of

our brethren is cast down, which accused them

before our God day and night.

As a believer in Christ we have authority to talk back to

the devil when we are accused. Jesus paid the full

price to give us this authority, as we work on getting

sin removed from our lives. This is a free gift; all

we have to do is ask Jesus to enter our heart and invite

the Holy Spirit to live within you. As a believer you

have an abundance of undeserved favor from Christ's blessings.

Genesis 2:16-17 (KJV)

16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of

every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou

eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

A covenant is a pledge, vow, and promise to carry out

terms of an agreement. The agreement is to allow

the blessing to flow within you. To not eat of the tree

of knowledge of good and evil was the set law, for

the knowledge of good and evil. The day Adam and

Eve partook of the tree of knowledge, then

agreement was broken, due to separation. God has

always had a plan for His covenants. The old

covenant concealed the new covenant. The new

covenant revealed the old covenant. For you to

look at the old covenant, you have to have knowledge

in the new covenant.

Ezekiel and Israel were lead into captivity so promptly

that they were not allowed to bury their deceased

loved ones. During the night God told Ezekiel in the

evening his wife would suffer a stroke and be

taken by God. Ezekiel was told by God not to mourn for

her death. Ezek 24:15- 17

God told Ezekiel to only go about with his daily tasks as

a priest. Ezek 24:18

The people of Israel ask Ezekiel why he was not

preparing proper funeral ceremonies for his

deceased wife's body. Ezekiel tells the people if they

do not repent to God, then their city, and loved

ones would be destroyed without proper burials as

Ezekiel had experienced . God says when this all

occurs you shall know by these signs, that I am your

God. Ezek 24:19-25

God exposes how religious bondage will have a

stronghold on Israel, by the marriage of Hosea.

Hosea the prophet was commanded by God to marry

Gomer who was a harlot. His marriage provides a

close resemblance to Israel's marriage to God, who

showed Israel was guilty of spiritual adultery.

Hos 3:1

God told Hosea to take Gomer in as his wife, in private

he always referred to her as Gomer. To the public,

she was known as the harlot.

Hosea's book is to show God's people that he never

gives up on us.

Religion portrays the image of what it defines as

godliness, but has no power in backing it up. It

thrives on the concept of attaining right standing with

God through works while downplaying what Jesus

has done for us. Unfortunately religion has caused

many people to actually turn away from God and

the promises contained in the Bible. Religion has been

responsible for so many deaths, destruction, and

strife among people. It is the reason why

denominations cannot get along, and it is what

provokes extremists to carry out suicide missions in the

name of God. Religion is the counterfeit of having a

true relationship with God. Jesus used every

opportunity to blast the religious leaders of His day

for carrying out vain traditions that meant nothing.

Matthew Chapter 23, where Jesus rebuked the

Pharisees for saying one thing but doing another and

for following blindly after the Law-based traditions

to only make the Pharisees to look good. Religion is

made up of man's ideas, interpretations, and

prejudices actions based on selfish desires, attempts to

control others, and a stubborn determination to be

right. Religion completely takes God out of the

equation and replaces Him with the god of "self" in

the form of self-effort, self-righteousness,

and self-gratification. This religion is exposed as Secular

Humanism, which is the belief that human morality

and self-fulfillment reigns without the need for a

belief in God. True Christianity is not a religion;

It is a relationship with Christ!

Now, more than ever before, people need to hear the

truth about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a

message of hope, not condemnation; liberty, not

religious bondage; grace, not self-reliance. Most of

the things we have grown up hearing about God are

completely incorrect! We have come to relate God

as an angry taskmaster who is waiting for us to mess

up, so He can strike us down. We have gotten so

far away from what Christianity really is about that we

have presented a picture of God that actually turns

people away from wanting to know Him. It is time for

us to turn back to the Gospel, and share the truth

about the love and grace of God with the whole world.

Religion has placed ideas that are simply wrong.

Carefully look at the religious misconceptions heard

and through research, discover the truth about what it

means to have a real relationship with Christ. It is

through a personal relationship, not religion, that we

are empowered to do the miracles Jesus did and more.

Everything you need in this life is found through

Christ. His grace is more than enough for you—

to achieve every aspect of your life.

Nicodemus was a member of the Jewish Sanhedrin

and a very wealthy and powerful man in Jerusalem.

John 3:1 he knew Christ was a teacher from God by

Christ's miracles and God being with him.

Nicodemus ask how a man accepts salvation?

Christ answered what his mission on earth was for.

Except a man be born again he cannot see the

kingdom of God. To be born again is to accept Christ

into your heart, allowing the Holy Spirit to change

your life in serving Christ. Religious mindsets cannot

comprehend this. Religious denominations have set

their own creeds into church member's minds,

with no biblical scripture to back the thought process at all.

New birth in salvation is essential to enter the kingdom

of God. Jn 3:5-8; Jn 3:3

Christ explains how God speaks to the believer who

has been born again through The Spirit.

As a natural man hears the wind, so the man born

again hears the voice of the spirit. Jn3:8

Christ told Nicodemus surely he should know this,

because he was one of those who taught the

people as a Rabbi. Jn 3:9

Nicodemus should have warned the people to steer

away from a religious mindset, instead focusing on

new life through the one true Messiah Jesus Christ

who gives us the promise of eternal life. Jn 3:15

Joseph of Arimathaea was also a member of the Jewish

Sanhedrin in Christ day who was a very wealthy

man in Jerusalem. He had the upmost respect,

knowing Christ was sent from God.

Joseph of Arimathaea was called a disciple of Jesus for

his acts in asking Pilot for Christ's body to be

buried in Joseph's personally owned tomb. Mk 15:43

Both of these wealthy men were members of the

Sanhedrin, which secretly followed Christ, for fear

of the Jews reactions in unbelief. Jn 19:38

The New Testament early elders and apostles showed

confession to salvation was for a sinner to ask

Christ into their life to be born again. Acts 4:12

This shows it takes a mature act of faith to believe in

the death and resurrection of Christ, by faith.

Baptism is then performed on the believer as a symbol

portraying a public confession of Christ's death,

burial, and resurrection to be born again.

Religious denominations have fought over proper

procedures of baptism since they were

established. Paul's testimony is an example of this.

I thank God that I baptized none of you, except the few.

1Corinthians 1:14

True salvation comes through accepting Christ in your heart.

No religious denomination nor rituals can be

performed for the proper acceptance of salvation.

Christ proved salvation was through His crucifixion

when he spoke to the thief beside him dying on the cross.

Lk 23:43

The thief crucified next to Christ was accepted into the

kingdom of God without a formal baptism, which

disproves what religious denominations have always

fought over. All the thief offered, was belief that

Jesus was the one true Messiah. This act of faith

allowed him to be with Christ in paradise.

Romans 7:25 (KJV)

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then

with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but

with the flesh the law of sin.

 

Navigate Back to Video