Are we to swear by our temples (religion or church) because we think our church is one of the biggest and richest?
Now, to the more important question: Is Christ Our Lord �accusing� in his judgment of what then was His own people�s religion? Not in principle! He was being truthful in saying that they were in the business of making people feel guilty and un-righteous because of not being faithful to pay tithes to the RELIGION or SECT, rather than to God Himself. In their Self-Righteousness they have one thing on their mind! Do you pay your tithes?! Their mind resolves around worship, but at the heart of that is mammon! Your question should be this: �Whose storehouse is it and what would God Himself do with the money? I can assure you this: it not to be used on anything but to feed the poor, and to give Knowledge of the Word for their hearts along with clothing and shelter for their bodies!
Luke 16:13 (KJV)
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
You may want to go back and read this if this idea seems strange to you:
Jeremiah 7:4 (KJV)
Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these.
Do you see the false concepts of some men? In their day it was the Temple and now in the days of the Gentiles, it�s the Church. �It�s the Church of the Lord!� The ritual:
rit�u�al�ism (r�ch��-�-l�z��m) n. 1. The practice or observance of religious ritual. 2. Insistence on or adherence to ritual� of having a church, going to church, in light of the concept�.
Ministers by RITUALISM stand and pretend to have heard God and at the same time wonder why their own children are not in church. They preach �if you don�t join us, you won�t BE SAVED��.and in the long run are making the GRACE of God NON EFFECTIVE! In other words� if you put your trust in those words� you are worshiping the ideas of men�s overview of what Church IS rather than obeying the Truth in Spirit or Character of Our Lord Himself by the principles of Righteousness taught in Gods Word!
The so called MODERN Christian Churches fill the very heavens with their songs for Love for God and His Only begotten Son, only to TURN and throw out the principles / truths believers are called to walk in by their trust in God.
Want to test for �Falling Away� in you Church? See how it stands on Homosexuals or adultery. What did the Apostle Paul say do?...
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