To all my fellow ‘freepers’
Christianity was NEVER meant to be a ‘religion’..!!!!
NEVER!!
You see, religion is simply a list of dos and dont’s and morals and ethics and philosophies so on and so forth…
Jesus Christ came to earth, lived a perfect life and died for our sins… On the third day he rose from the dead. If you were to visit his tomb today… You would find it empty!
So, what am I saying?
What am I saying is that Christianity is NOT a religion… It is a RELATIONSHIP! A relationship between a THE risen living Savior and you. The relationship is vibrant… Alive… Full of power… Full of clarity… Full of his light… Full of his healing.
.... If you have this kind of relationship with Jesus Christ… I rejoice with you!
… But if you don’t, it is honestly just one prayer away.
YES, its THAT SIMPLE!!
Simply close your eyes and ask your heavenly Father to forgive you of your sins in Jesus’s name… tell God that you can’t live without Him and his Son… and invite Christ into your life… it doesn’t take organ music playing… it doesn’t take some evangelist asking for an offering…it dosent take some ‘church’ giving their contrived blessing!!!
... all it takes is a humble heart... wanting to know the risen, living “personal Savior”....The Lord Jesus Christ
No “Church” can give HIM to you… and no church or man can take HIM away from you.
God loves you and wants a personal relationship with you…
He proved… Yes PROVED his love for you ...HOW?? ...while you were still drowning in your sins he sent his only son to die for you!!...
...Think of it… you’re SINS… All of them… Jesus Christ took them upon himself… yes! Every single sin .....that you think you’ve done in secret… HE knows about… Christ opened his arms and God His Father POURED EVERY ONE OF YOUR SINS ON HIS SON!!!
...and JESUS, he reached out… And took them on his own body while he hung on the cross… those huge nails were meant for you… you were the one meant to hang on that cross… but now… because of God’s great love… and because Jesus Christ hung and died and bled for you and I… we can have relationship eternally with God the father.
Why?? ....because he loves us!.....when you stand before the throne one day in eternity and you are judged by God the Father… You will stand there alone… but, you can have an advocate…who will be with you then,,,, And you can know that Advocate Jesus Christ right now! All you have to do is ask.
Much love to you.
If it’s not a religion, why does it still retain the Ten Commandments? Why does it still retain the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy? Heck, why is the Bible ITSELF retained as well? Besides, even the New Testament has SEVERAL DOS and DON’TS, including explicit exclusions of certain people from Heaven due to their actions, and these were decreed by Jesus’s own apostles, if not Jesus himself. Don’t believe me? Here’s a passage:
“Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” I Corinthians 6:9
Last I checked, that’s the very definition of “dos and don’ts”