BUSTING AWAY from RELIGION

I'm not religious and I'll tell you why. Religion is not a belief system, it is a system that conforms your belief. It is not “freedom,” it is spiritual slavery. Religion is restriction and that is why it means “bond” aka bondage. Yet, when we become religious, we are openly identifying ourselves with a hierarchy of man.  A platform that has removed God. A majority of the Jesus’ enemies were religious. They were so offended at His truth that instead of flexing their mindset (like new wine skins) and receiving truth, they burst with anger and envy at the heart. Total religious error. Religion cannot clean up a man’s internal. It may affect the man from the outside, but it never transitions its way inside. It cannot bring favor eternal. It may impact a mans reputation, but it never influences his character. How can I say this?  Well, religion removes God from His Sovereignty over all; and therefore, Christ character cannot be pulled out of him, because it is man’s standards that are being pushed into him. Flawed can never fix flawed, just as religion can never fill the soul.And that's why I denounce religion and embrace relationship. Relationship with Jesus Christ is liberty from man’s standards of righteousness; and when you get into Him, His righteousness infuses into you.  Saul to Paul is the example.  As Saul, he was the religious bondsman that terrorized the early church, and all for a “system of belief.”  He erred greatly, but God used his err to meet him with the truth intimately. As Paul, he knew something that separated him from his religious associates and made him free from all men (I Corinthians 9:19); and free from systematic slavery.  He knew relationship with God. The reciprocity of communication. The endeavor of fellowship. Paul finally got his relationship with God right and it filtered down into right relations with man.In order to bust away from religion—and no longer burst at the seams of your soul—one must embrace the Divine Designer of the soul.  One must accept God’s Son as Person and personally engage into personality intercourse.  Inside out will be the relational observance, where God again returns to the standard of our character.The only thing religious about Jesus was His consistency, clarity, and constancy.  In layman’s, He was religiousless, or better put, He was "religiously" real.