A Right Vertical Relationship > Any Religious Experience Or System

You can be confident, free, totally bold, completely fearless, winsomely balanced and spiritually strong.. even when this whacked-world does its very best to try to shame you into silence.

Today I feel for religious people. It's true.. been there. Yes feel empathetic and sorry inside, cuz it's pretty sad for em. When I asked my Muslim friends and they finally got around to answering me ..they really don't know if their Allah (who is not the Bible God. Duh!) will in the end.. even accept them.

Just sayin’. Listen, I can understand to a degree.. cuz I too was raised in a religious home and had no assurance or righteousness inside at all.. until I turned 18 and turned to invite Jesus in. 

Religion says do good, be good!.. always be good and God might let you in. It never gives you the power to, but it does look down on you and give you cold condemnation if you fail. 

But think about it ..who is on their own.. that good? None. And it’s not easy for religious people who go through their entire life having zero assurance, peace or real joy inside.

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”  1 John 4:1

“Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.”  2 John 1:9-11

“And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to [him] for to shew him the buildings of the temple.” Matthew 24:1-51  

There really is a right and a wrong--not at all popular to say. God can empower us to live right, but religion never will.  And everything in this world is tolerated except what we reborn non-carnal Christians believe, because we believe in absolutes.. yes, in what's found in the Scriptures.

There’s a lot more people today associated with “the nones” as they call themselves (having no religion). And they’re simply being honest about simply not associating to any belief. Nominal Christians feel no more need to associate with culturally acceptable Southern Bible belt type of Christianity. And being a real Christian has never been vogue. I’m glad that if the Antichrist is close and he will indeed appear on the scene pretty soon.. but Jesus Christ is even closer. 

Seek the Lord about this. Go check it out ..what really needs to happen before the Rapture of the Church from this earth takes place.. Nothing needs to. No prophecy. All the Bible prophecies have been fulfilled already that need to happen pre-us-getting-snatched-away (up there). 

It doesn’t trouble me at all.. it just means there are more people who’ve now grasped that they don’t at all know the Lord Jesus relationally (He's God’s only provision for people with their sin issues..), and therefore we see more people to tactfully evangelize with truth and love.. His love. Doesn’t the Bible talk about it being just like this in the last days? Sure ..it says in the last days there’ll be a “great apostasy” first. 

"Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." 2 Thessalonians 2:2

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.." 1 Timothy 4:1

Atheists have had a lot of fun laughin’ at us believers...

..you know, mocking us with:  Someone somewhere created everything from nothing.

Guess we should respectfully respond to em with:  Nothing nowhere created everything everywhere from nothing nowhere.

You know, them not believing doesn't make the God who created them and everything.. go away. It also sadly doesn't make their sin-habits and the consequence go away. I feel like I can relate to these friends... do understand em some cuz I was once one of em. Yes, the mocker (me) has become the mockee. : )

I'd say that Mr. Lu-Cifer and his gang of fallen-angel-minions must have been fairly clever to go deceive so many people here, and subsequently putting so many counterfeit believers around us (real haters wearing Christ's name, committed to Westboro Baptist "church-going," (yeah, some look all pious on the outside, but are lost as lizards if ya will on the inside - dead inside), you know, and traditional religious church-goers (merely nominal Christians), and Mormons, and Jehovah Witnesses, those who call themselves "spiritual" but twist or reject the Scriptures and the Bible Jesus, etc). 

That kinda makes it hard to distinguish who the real believers with God's real Gospel Message are huh.  Listen, please don't become all anti-God and Bible just cuz some people refuse to stop and look at the facts, or because gobs of poorly taught.. or refuse-to-believe-and-practice what the Bible actually teaches ..kind of mean religious mobs are on the increase out there.  

The study of hermeneutics shows us there is only one way to properly interpret any literature, so biblical hermeneutics in this illiterate culture is what's needed more than ever before. I remember as a kid growin' up in Southern California how I used to receive the many different types of tracts from people in cults, or from those in Islam, and I'd also look around at all the whacko-dead-money-hungry-religious-church-folk too.. the so called Christians as they'd say.. and I'd get kinda confused about Christianity. 

But today there seems to be even more of em out there...cuz where in the last of the last days I think. Ever seen those full-on haters out picketing at the funerals of our fallen vets? Such sin! So wrong! God hurts and weeps with those weeping, but not them. The religious leaders of   

Does genuine love for God and people mark you life personally? Just remember if you come across a counterfeit bill, that only means there's a genuine bill somewhere out there. Recall what Jesus said about recognizing them by their fruit. The Bible says, “..the fruit of the Spirit is L O V E, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.” Gal. 5:22-23 nkjv emph mine.

He warned us of fake saints, poser-disciples, and those false teachers saying, "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them. Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” Matt. 7:13-23

Choose to be and live real in the Lord 24/7/365. Living confused or deceived while deceiving others - that's just waste of time. It's a waste of your life and a waste of others lives as well. May I ask... are you an Atheist with some honest questions?  Read...

Ever had church-hurt? Ever been hurt at a sick or a dead church? Ever done the hurting? Well, stop that. Wise up and act accordingly!

You've never "been had" until you've "been had" by a so called church pastor or one who calls you "brother." (and don't get me wrong, cuz many pastors are decent and many churches are as well. Grow in a healthy Christ-honoring W.E.L.L. church - a Worshipping Jesus, Evangelizing, Loving, Learning.. church)

No hurt runs so deep as church-hurt. Some of you right now need to be involved in real healing and restoration, even when some of your so called leaders or alleged elders, keep sayin' that you need to be involved in more serving (of them) and giving to support "the ministry." Yo, just follow and please Christ instead of mere men. "Minister" means servant and his attitude should be humble as he serves, and not be that the people are there give and support his ministry (though we all love to give and serve the Lord with balance). 

"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God."' Rev 2:7

I say.. Turn and join Christ, be on-fire for Him. Yes, more than for anything or anyone else. Be apart of a living Christ-honoring Bible teaching kinda church instead of some lame refuse-to-rightly-apply-the-Bible kinda dead church. Bu..bu.. bu..but Kurt, what's a dead one like? Well, I'm surely not talking about a dead or abandoned building here.

1.)  A dead church worships its past. Don't do that. Why waste your time. Live in the present, set worship of the Lord as your first priority ministry, and plan biblically for the future.

2.)  A dead church is inflexible and no longer open to good kinda change. Why not flex with new technology as a tool to feed, edify people. Why not flex with musical style—styles the people actually like - nothing wrong with that (not talking about lyrics here). But be inflexible applying the basics and with doctrinal Essentials.

3.)  A dead church is stuck in a rut with lazy leadership that's now in cruise control mode. It's way comfortable and uber-easy for em to lead like that, all prayerless. Question: Why would the devil waste any time giving opposition to a church not making any impact...one that's not exalting Jesus Christ, or calling sin, sin.. or preaching and teaching all the counsels of God by the power of God's Spirit? The leaders have allowed spiritual lethargy and apathy to set in and could really give a flip. If the horse has died, just dismount. Bail. Find a church that's alive and sound. 

4.)  A dead church neglects young people. The leaders won't listen to them ..or to anyone. They only want to give attention to the money-people. Some of them love the TV camera more than people. 

5.)  A dead church lacks evangelistic zeal and Great Commission vision. It doesn't happen at home, this soul-winning stuff, nor does it happen across the street or over an ocean from such a church—the leaders also don't example evangelism. It's a turn-off to em. They refuse to couple practical service with reaching out to witness at their own house, globally, or anywhere. "That's not my calling" they say. 

This following passage has always been so interesting to me and should be for anyone who wants to be well. Reminds me of some churches I've visited, "..to the angel of the church in Sardis write, 'These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: 'I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent.'" Rev. 3:1-3  You know that alive and awake; that's much better than sleeping or dead, believer. facebook.com/shareJesus