BY THE GRACE OF GOD

I've said it BEFORE and I'm going to say it AGAIN, as led by the Spirit:

Just as sitting in a GARAGE doesn't make you a 🚗, sitting "IN CHURCH," doesn't mean you are truly "IN CHRIST."

That "RELIGIOUS SPIRIT" (which operates though the LAW and a bunch of "MAN-MADE" RULES/REGULATIONS) has so many people DECEIVED!!! They ERRONEOUSLY believe that the "MORE THEY GO" (to the BUILDINGS), the "MORE THEY DO" (for the KINGDOM), the "MORE TIME THEY SPEND" (in the WORD/PRAYER/PRAISE), the "MORE THEY GIVE" (to their PASTORS, etc.), then the "MORE SPIRITUAL/HOLY/RIGHTEOUS" they MUST be.

But what they don't realize is that, even though all of these things can be "GOOD" when done with {PURE MOTIVES}, and as LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD/LOVE; they can be a {WASTE OF TIME}, when done with {IMPURE/SELFISH MOTIVES}, as led by that "RELIGIOUS SPIRIT" and the FLESH! {1 Corinthians 13:1-3}

Pray for DISCERNMENT, and to be SET FREE from that "RELIGIOUS SPIRIT" that is running rampant in the "church." Beloveds, we can't do ANYTHING to "EARN" God's favor/approval/salvation, because CHRIST HAS {ALREADY} DONE IT ALL!

*ALL {WE} HAVE TO DO IS {BELIEVE WITH OUR HEARTS} AND {CONFESS WITH OUR MOUTHS}, THAT JESUS DIED FOR OUR SINS... {ROMANS 10:9, JOHN 3:16} ONCE WE HAVE {SINCERELY} DONE THAT, GOD GIVES US HIS SPIRIT AS A {GUARANTEE} OF OUR SALVATION. {EPHESIANS 1:13-14, 2 CORINTHIANS 1:22} AT THAT POINT, WE HAVE BEEN MADE ALIVE (SPIRITUALLY) AND WE ARE "NEW CREATURES IN CHRIST." {EPHESIANS 2:1-5, 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17} SO THOSE THINGS THAT WE {USED} TO DO, WE WON'T {WANT} TO DO ANY LONGER! HOW COULD WE WITH THE VERY SPIRIT OF {THE ONE TRUE LIVING GOD}, RESIDING IN US?! SO IF WE STILL DO THOSE SAME WICKED THINGS THAT WE'VE ALWAYS DONE, WITH "NO CONVICTION LEADING TO REPENTANCE," {2 CORINTHIANS 7:10} WE NEED TO TRULY RE-EVALUATE OUR STANDING IN CHRIST. TRUE FAITH "PRODUCES" GOOD WORKS}, AND NOT ANYTHING WE "DO" ACCORDING TO THE FLESH (OURS OR ANYONE ELSE'S)! {JAMES 2:17-18} 

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:

{Galatians 2:19-21}- 19 FOR I THROUGH THE LAW DIED TO THE LAW that I might LIVE TO GOD. 20 I have been CRUCIFIED with Christ; it is NO LONGER I WHO LIVE, but CHRIST LIVES IN ME; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by FAITH in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do NOT set aside the GRACE OF GOD; for IF RIGHTEOUSNESS COMES THROUGH THE LAW, THEN CHRIST DIED IN VAIN.”

{Ephesians 2:8-9}- 8 For BY GRACE you have been saved THROUGH FAITH, and that NOT OF YOURSELVES; it is the GIFT OF GOD, 9 NOT OF WORKS, lest anyone should boast.

(emphasis added mines)

#FatherDeliverThemBoundByThatReligiousSpirit #OnlyWhatYouDoSincerelyForChristWillLast!!!

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