RELIGION VS SALVATION Those who believe in a religion take the initiative to serve what they think is a god, while those who believe in CHRIST serve GOD after they have been prompted and touched by GOD. For this reason, I say that one should not be in a hurry to serve a god that is a fiction, to serve a mere religion. We serve GOD only when HE, by HIS SPIRIT, is within us. If we serve GOD without GOD first living in us, we are into religion rather than into salvation. Figuratively speaking, many people today hang the sign “Christian” outside, but inside they are engaging in a religious enterprise. They are Christians in their own minds, but in reality they are only religious. What is it to be a Christian? A Christian is one who has CHRIST living and working in him by the SPIRIT, and is moved by the HOLY SPIRIT to serve GOD. A religious person, on the other hand, is one who believes he is serving a god and desiring to do what he thinks his god would want him to do. This is the situation of many professing Christians today. They are professing Christianity, but they are not born again. They’re not saved, so they don’t know CHRIST, and they have no idea of how to serve HIM. They accuse true Christians, born again Christians of being religious or legalistic because they keep the commandments of God. God has written these commandments upon their hearts at the time they were saved. They continue on working out their salvation enduring until the end. The same shall be saved. Religious unsaved people cannot follow CHRIST because they cannot hear HIM. Therefore, they are self-willed, and the real GOD cannot use them. They are useless. However, in the experience of genuine Christians, the LORD is the ONE who guides them in everything. They simply say, “Yes. Amen.” The LORD is their guide and their GOD. This is completely different from the way of religious people. The Bible says we must be born again and led by the Spirit of God that lives in them and works through them. IF YOU ARENT TRULY SAVED. ASK GOD TO OPEN YOUR UNDERSTANDING, TO SEND YOU HIS SPIRIT TO DRAW YOU UNTO HIM TO HIS TRUTH. Joh_6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. REPENT AND BE HUMBLED BEFORE HIM, SHAMED OF YOUR OLD SINFUL WAYS AND ASK HIM TO FORGIVE YOU, SAVE YOUR SOUL, MAKE YOU A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST AND LEAD YOU SPIRITUALLY THROUGH HIS WORD TO ALL TRUTHS. GOD WANTS TO USE YOU AS A VESSEL TO CARRY HIS TRUE GOSPEL MESSAGE TO THE LOST AND DYING SOULS OF THIS WORLD. YOU CANNOT DO THAT UNLESS YOU ARE SAVED AND BORN AGAIN AND HAVE CHRIST LIVING IN YOU. GOD BLESS.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:39:41 +0000
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