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Why “GOING-TO-CHURCH”  IS UN-BIBLICAL

**WARNING**

 This article contains comments and Scriptures that may be offensive

to pastors, theologians, and church members.  Proceed with caution. 

Spiritual counseling may need to be administered.

 

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 INTRODUCTION

 It is reported that the great American inventor Thomas A. Edison once said, “Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”

Perhaps the Bereans in Acts 17 were among the 5% that think. They analyzed the details and came to a conclusion. As you search through the following article, could it be that you will be one of the 5% as well?

Be a Berean. (Acts 17:11) Search the Scriptures.  Ask the Lord to give you wisdom and lead you to Truth.

The Scriptures advise us that truth, wisdom, and knowledge must be sought after.  These things must be “revealed” to you.  As the Scripture says, it’s like “searching for hidden treasure.”

Proverbs 2:1 “My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;

Prov. 2:2  So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

Prov. 2:3  Yea, if thou cry after discernment, (knowledge) And lift up thy voice for understanding;

Prov. 2:4  If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

Prov. 2:5  Then shalt thou understand the fear of Lord, And find the knowledge of God.

Prov. 2:6  For the Lord giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

In Colossians Chapter 2, the apostle reminds his readers to “know the mystery of God, that is, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”

There are people sitting in church pews today who think that they already have the Truth and therefore are never in any need to be stirred, moved, or to search and seek after anything!  This is because that many of them sit with an aura of smugness, thinking to themselves that they are “strong Christians” for having found the truth.  “What further need have we to alter our thinking,” they say to themselves.

What a master stroke of deception from the evil one!

 "Search the Scriptures."

Acts 17:11

The words of Hosea the prophet shouts forth as well, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee.”

Hosea 4:6

But listen.  The Scripture also says to “seek for her” (truth and wisdom) “as silver” and “search for her as hid treasure.” Truth and wisdom are HIDDEN and need to be searched for. It takes the spirit of God to put a desire in you to search and to seek out wisdom and Truth.

But alas, many instead will search for what their church and pastors will say; what their favorite commentaries will say; or even will poll their friends and see what they have to say. What an all too familiar and yet, dangerous course to take.

Search the Scriptures to see if these things are so and ask the Lord to give you that desire to know and love the Truth.

A GRIM REALITY

“Pastoral rule and authority,” or as it has been so often called, the "clergy/laity system” that is portrayed in local institutional churches, is being turned upside down and rejected by “former church members” in many places around the world.

Following Jesus Christ apart from churchianity and its institutionalism is becoming widespread in our world today and the stampede seems to have only just begun.

In truth, people who meet together for fellowship in private homes, parks, coffee shops or in some cases, have nowhere to meet or fellowship at all, are not "independent;" or “isolationists;” or “rebels against authority” because no one who is a follower of Jesus Christ is without Headship, which belongs exclusively to Jesus Christ.

Jesus said that we are in Him and He is in us, just as He is in the Father and the Father is in Him. “Abide in Me, and I in you.” “I am the vine, you are the branches.” 

(John 15). Jesus stated that where only two or three are gathered in His name, He is present. (Matthew 18) Interestingly, Jesus never once qualified fellowship or worship as a "Sunday go to church" routine.  Jesus never said that "meetings" are a "pattern" of "being the church."  He never commissioned His disciples to go out into the world and start local institutional churches. He Himself is our great Example for thought, for living, and for the worship of our Creator, the Living and the True God.

On account of this stampede, many so-called pastors are having to find employment outside of the free money of churchianity!

 "Resisters and Rebels"

Yet for many of the hirelings and ministerial impostors that remain, sinister and increased diabolical tactics are abounding.

In some church circles, pastors and their people are dealing with the "resisters and rebels" using the only methods they know how: dirty tactics, slanders, and lies; seeking to embarrass the people and shame them into conformity.  Some clergymen are also admonished and taught that they should have their church members sign contracts, pledge their financial support, and to vow and display their utmost loyalty to the pastors and their institution.  And so, if and when a particular member begins to question or slack off, then these same clergymen will shove in the face of the member their pledge of loyalty and submission and thereby, corral them back in line.

All supposed scriptures that institutional church leaders quote to validate their worldly church system should be viewed under the microscope of careful evaluation, because Jesus is not the author of authoritarianism, prison houses, institutionalism, hierarchy, or the "professional clergy" class of people who rule others in the New Testament era.

In fact, in Matthew 23 Jesus Christ severely reprimanded the religious leaders for their customs and traditions which were in total opposition to God and the character of God. The parallel between the religious leaders of the time of Jesus Christ and many religious church leaders today is very striking.

God chooses the foolish things of this world and life to confound those who are wise in their own eyes.  He chooses the weak and the base things of the world. He chooses those that are despised and the nobodies. Remember that Jesus chose "uneducated" fishermen to be His personal disciples, rather than the highly educated professional religionists; by-passing those with their plagues hanging on the wall; by-passing those who attended the ministerial academies of their day.

I wonder if there is a lesson to be learned here from His example.

THE BIG LIE

"…Ye are the temple of God…"

1 Cor.3:16

The very act of actually incorporating under the guidelines required by the government to become a legal, tax free corporation, i. e., a local institutional church with bylaws and a statement of beliefs, necessitates that you separate yourself from the spirit of God.

No New Testament church was incorporated under the Roman government. Being in Christ and/or desiring to worship God is not a matter of incorporation.

How can you issue a “statement of beliefs” that leaves out 99% of God's Scriptures?  God's entire Scripture should be your “statement of beliefs.”

You cannot publish a set of by-laws that does not leave out the spirit of God. God's Words are the by-laws. Every incorporated church in our nation and around the world has some man who is the CEO and head of that church in a legal way.

But on the other hand and in reality, Jesus Christ is the Head and CEO. All New Testament churches were in people's homes. No one ever even thought of “going to church” as we think of it today. The earliest Christians knew and practiced for a fact that, "…Ye are the temple of God…" 1 Cor.3:16

Acts 2:2  And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Acts 8:3  But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.

Acts 12:12  and when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.

Rom. 16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their (Priscilla and Aquila's) house

1 Corinthians 16:19  The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you heartily in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

Colossians 4:15  Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas and the church that is in his house.

Philemon 1:2  ... to the beloved Apphia, Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house

1 Tim. 3:15 But if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God, (God’s family) which is the church (the people) of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

When Paul wrote these words, things were not as they are today. The thought of a church building to go to, and all of the money that goes into such edifices such as salaries, furnishings, etc., never once entered Paul's mind. Taking up a collection of needed items and food to help his brothers did enter Paul's mind.

Incorporating and devoting enormous amounts of money on physical structures was the last thing in the world that should ever have been done. And yet, the institutional church is big business today. And don’t be fooled.  That is exactly what it is all about,

BIG BUSINESS….period!

Can you even begin to imagine Jesus and His disciples putting their messages up for sale, along with all of their other miraculous works and ministry to people’s souls?  Jesus Christ would never, EVER put His material on sale or give His ministry a formal name or even think to register it with Caesar to receive some tax breaks. 

Jesus and His disciples never acted as though they needed the world’s permission to minister the Truth.

Think about it. Isn’t all of what we are witnessing today absolutely ludicrous? Again I say, think long and hard about all of this.

What we are witnessing in today’s local institutional churches is exactly the opposite of Jesus’ example!

And these same people stand in the pulpit, Sunday after Sunday, holding the Bible in their hand and waving their arms around saying, “…Sola Scriptura, Sola Scriptura. The Bible alone is our rule book for all of our ministry and practice…”

Really?

Romans 16:18 For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites and by fair and flattering words, they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded…

Men have been striving hard in getting people to “go to church,” thereby building up their local institutional church empire but Jesus is interested in building up His Church; and the two are not the same!

"..And know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind and naked.

Rev. 3:17

 And I haven't even touched upon what these “Christian, Nicolaitan, Jezebel corporations” teach! But I will deal with this one issue:

Matt. 23:13-14  But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for you enter not in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering in to enter. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, even while for a pretence you make long prayers: therefore you shall receive greater condemnation.

That is the effect of today's incorporated legalized churches. Do these “local

institutions”  think this is what they are doing? Of course not. They are "compassing heaven and earth to make millions more proselytes."

Here is how these churches feel about the lies they are portraying to the world:

Rev 3:17  Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods (have the Truths of God's Word) and have need of nothing; (But what is the Truth of their spiritual condition?) and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind (to the Truth) and naked:

This is their great deception and purpose. A few might actually "bring some to Christ," but then they see to it that you remain "a child," a "carnal...babe in Christ," "no better than a servant."

Gal 4:1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

Gal 4:2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

Gal 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world (the doctrines of these incorporated churches in direct contradiction to the words of Christ)

Paul reveals the Adversary's tactics in his letter to the Corinthians:

1 Cor. 1:1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

1 Cor. 1:2 Unto the church (the ecclesia) of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

These Corinthians, just like every one of the assemblies mentioned in the first three chapters of Revelation, are "sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints." But as Christ pointed out repeatedly, there is a vast spiritual gulf between the "many called (and the) few chosen" out of those called.

So what is the best that can be said of these "many called?"

1 Cor. 3:1  And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

1 Cor. 3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

1 Cor. 3:3  For you are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?

1 Cor. 3:4  For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

God’s called out people are not to be part of today’s religious world systems, including man’s local institutional churches.

God's faithful are "few and scattered," but they are out there scattered all around the globe!

THE HEBREWS 10:25 HOOK

Ministerial mind controllers are quick to let you know that God does not want you to "forsake the assembly" and will often quote Hebrews 10:25.

They stipulate that God has a law that requires there to be some kind of an official assembly (HALL) that all Christians in the vicinity must be a member of, support, and attend.

This, all under the threat of God's wrath. Their assembly (HALL) is usually referred to as "the local institutional church." Pastors, preachers, and all church officials in these "local churches" have used Hebrews 10:25 to intimidate, to threaten, and to cajole members to attend and support every "service and every meeting of their church."

The beaten-down sheep are admonished to "come, every time the doors are opened." They are afraid to do otherwise, for they have been conditioned to believe that missing a "church service" or “church meeting” could be a sign of backsliding, putting you in danger of God’s displeasure and possible fury.

And don’t forget; there’s also the prayer meeting, the special conferences; the seminars; the retreats; offerings for this and offerings for that; etc., etc.

The religious institutional system will see to it that you are always busy; making them the number one priority in your life. And the world wonders why family life and marriages are in disarray?

Some obligingly go to "services/meetings" when they do not feel like going, but go under the threat of recrimination.  Many church leaders and teachers know that Hebrews 10:25 is not speaking about “going to church,” but,….BUT, because they NEED the physical presence and the financial support of the members, particularly and predominately for their own livelihood, they "fashion" the interpretation of this passage into a “religious hammer” by which they clobber believers into submission.

The Scripture quoted in Hebrews doesn't say that it is sinful not to “go to church” Sunday morning, evening, and Wednesday night.

The Scripture quoted in Hebrews doesn’t even contain the word “church” in the passage! In fact, using Young’s Literal Translation, the word “church” is never mentioned, not even once, in the whole book of Hebrews!

Not only that, remember that when this was written, believers (the Body of Christ) did not even have "church services" or even church buildings, for that matter!

Some obligingly go under the

threat of recrimination.

When you read the whole chapter, or even better yet, the whole book of Hebrews, it will become evident that the Lord is not telling you to be more “visible and faithful church goers!”

What we are being told here, as through the entire book of Hebrews, we are being encouraged to draw near to God without fear, by a "new and living way", through Jesus Christ our High Priest, Who has already assembled us together as the house of God, leading us into the Holy of Holies.

Assembling together and worship

Is Heb. 10:25 telling us to “go to church” and listen to a polished orator or watch the performance of a ministerial academy-trained entertainer once a week?

Can we follow the directives of Scripture if we only "go to church," and once a week at that!!

Do people need to “go to church” in order to follow the Biblical commands to exhort one another and discuss the Scriptures?

The verse in Hebrews 10:25 also says to "exhort one another" but this is also found in Hebrews 3:13, where it says we are to "exhort one another daily."  If people claim to obey Hebrews 10:25 by "going to church" one day a week, how do you also fulfill the command to exhort one another daily, when you see other believers primarily once a week?

It’s all unscriptural nonsense, perpetrated in order to hold the whole system together.

For, PASTORS KNOW that if the places of worship were taken away and believers truly worshiped in spirit and in truth, the whole system would fall apart!

Acts 7:48 "Howbeit the most High dwells not in temples made with hands;"

Acts 17:24 "God...dwells not in temples made with hands;"

Just what exactly is “worship?”

We have this perfect example in John 4, where the Samaritan woman says to Christ, “Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”

Jesus answered, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father. (not in this Temple or that Temple or this church or that synagogue)

But the hour comes, and now is, (because He is already calling out His disciples) when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers. God is Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

That’s how they will worship.

We are to worship IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH, and let me be quick to add that this kind of worship should take place in our lives, EVERY DAY…ALL DAY LONG!

What word defines worship?  Is it singing?  Praying? Praising? Giving your tithes? Going to Sunday school?  Keeping the Sabbath? Being circumcised?

What one word defines exactly what worship is and without it, there is no worship?

Could it be, “Obedience?”

Worship is obedience.  If you are not obedient; if you are not believing and following Scripture; if you are not truly living for and following the Lord, forget it, you are not worshipping God, no matter how long and far you wag your tongue.

I know people who are as lost as my dog, but wonder of wonders, how they “worship the Lord every Sunday!”

Really?  “…In vain do they worship Me…” Matthew 15:9

No. Obedience is how you worship God.

And why call ME, Lord, Lord, and DO not the things which I say? Luke 6:46

 … Why do you call Me that (Lord, Lord) and you don’t DO (obedience), what I say.

 It’s all about obedience. 

How do you worship God in the New Covenant? Do you need a “church building?” Do you need an actual spot; a particular plot of ground to arrive at?

Do you need some type of assembly hall? Do you need an institutional priesthood? Do you have to get in your car and make a journey to a certain centralized location?

It is virtually implied that those who do not "worship" in a certain location; at a certain place (subordinate to a priest); at the designated time, it is implied that these people do not believe in "assembling" together. This is altogether false.  Do you see what a totally asinine, let alone unbiblical, statement that is?

To say that someone is violating Scripture unless they also "go to church" in the building of an ecclesiastical corporation with a credentialed seminary graduate in the spotlight, is simply preposterous, a remnant of Roman Catholic teaching.

There is not a shred of evidence to support such an ecclesiastical requirement, and the whole of Scripture goes totally against it. The movement in the Bible is away from ceremony; away from a special ordained priesthood, away from pomp and show.  Rather, it’s toward decentralization, an every-believer priesthood, and a return to direct communication with God through His Spirit, with One Mediator, not four or five or six!

On the other hand however, vain and false worship is everywhere and highly visible.  True worship is rare and hidden from carnal sight.  Vain and false worship is often visible because the worshippers seek to be seen of men and to have the approval of men, but true worship is for the praise of God and Him alone. 

Vain and false worship is built upon having a “time” and a "place" for people to come to so that the works of men may continue to be carried out.

True worship doesn’t take place just because you attended your local institutional church.

These are great truths that the vast majority of church members have not grasped to this day!

THE BIG TRUTH 

"Heretics," “Reprobates,” “Turncoats,” “Apostates,” 

The plain truth is that institutional churches, their pastors and church denominations fear the loss of control, power and free money, when believers finally see the Light and exit churches to follow Christ without professional clergymen.

Pastors and institutional churches would have people believe that following Jesus Christ is something done within the confines of institutional churches. There will no doubt be criticism from the religious leaders of many churches, which is the same scenario that happened to Jesus and His disciples in their day.

Any time controllers of people feel threatened with loss of status, power, prestige, control and free money, there will inevitably be persecution against the belief that voids the control.

Those who place their faith in Jesus Christ and rest in Him, outside of the walls of local church institutionalism are often looked upon and labeled as "heretics," “reprobates,” “turncoats,” “apostates,” and a host of other epithets, some that are unprintable!

What a vicious and a narrow, shallow, empty perspective.

I recently said to one individual with this perverted mindset,

“Do you mean to tell me that you believe Christ would have you reject me, the One whose blood has cleansed me from all sin, and upon Whom I trust, with no other resources to keep me, because I do not believe in your unbiblical local institutional church system? The Scriptures say that whosoever calls on the Name of the Lord

(not your church system), will be saved. Jesus said that whoever came to Him (not to man’s institution), He would in no wise cast out.

Who are YOU to cast out whom HE receives and keeps? Do you not see your duplicity?”

Not surprisingly at all, the conversation abruptly ended, never to hear from them again!

Jesus Christ is Lord, Master, Savior, High Priest, and the only Way, Truth and Life, and He is none of those things because of the institutional church system of this world, but because He is God.

When you think about it, church leaders are really no different than the government’s politicians. Both think they must control others; dictate and legislate in the lives of others, right down to the last minutia. And of course, both think as well that they are entitled to free money at the expense of their private and personal disciples.

Jesus Christ is your Teacher, your Leader and your Ruler and many "Christians" have yet to LEARN, let alone LIVE this truth.

WHY “GOING TO CHURCH” IS UNBIBLICAL

Let me remind some folk that this is not Ken Cascio’s idea, (the writer of this article).  I didn’t invent this teaching and thought process.

I didn’t wake up one morning and say, “Hey. You know what? I’m not believing in ‘going to church’ anymore.”

That’s not the way it took place.

I was a “member of local institutional churches” for many decades. I bought into all of the supposed theology and practice. I believed what I was being told inside these institutions “willy-nilly,” and so because of that, my view of Scripture was skewed in the simple fact that I was reading passages of Scripture with the mind-set of an institutional church member.

I was reading passages of Scripture with the mind-set that when the pastor was speaking, it was the “voice of God” and that God has said that believers “go to church!”

“The Scripture is so clear and plain on this issue,” I kept saying to myself.

But there was a time when the Lord finally opened the eyes and the mind to the Truth.  Some Scriptures were presented to me that I have never really considered before because they were going against “my theology” and “practice.” But after studying, seeking, and searching for years, crying out to God that He might open my eyes and lead me to Truth, this was finally accomplished and I eventually had to throw up the white flag and admit that I was wrong about things!

Perhaps, this might be the same for you.

There comes a time in many believer’s lives when it will become necessary to depart from your religious setting and traditions; get stripped from a lot of institutional church baggage; turn the page and press on afresh in order to receive and finally know the Truth, the Real Truth that will set you free!

Today, with over 30,000 different sects and denominations in Christendom, each one believing that they are the ones with the truth, it is exceedingly crucial for God’s called-out ones to ask the Father to show and deliver them from all the false, religious, institutional church teachings they have swallowed.

And when that time of deliverance finally arrives and you at last, “get it,” that what your teachers told you what the Bible says IS NOT what the Bible says, that moment of Truth is amazing!

“Going to church” has nothing whatsoever to do with God; with Scripture; or with following Jesus.

Jesus is not the founder of “going to church.” God the Father did not send His Son into the world to start a religion and a ritualistic practice of “going to church.”

“Going to church” is a religion and practice created by man in the name of Jesus and is totally different from the actual Truth that Jesus taught.

“Going to church” will always involve idols of the heart.

“Going to church” will always be involved with making a good showing in the flesh, always desiring to be seen of men.

“Going to church” will always be examining others but rarely themselves.

“Going to church” will always be boasting in religious performance, all cloaked in the language of "being holy" and “worshipping God.”

“Going to church” will always produce a “worship” that only draws near with its mouth; honors with its lips; worships in vain; and teaches doctrines that are the commandments of men.

In stark and blunt reality, “going to church” is the morphine that numbs the pain of spiritual weakness and fecklessness.

It’s the pill that all-too-many are eager and willing to swallow in order to soothe their defiled conscience, thinking there’re pleasing and worshipping the angry God in heaven.

Remember when the apostle Paul came up to those people in the book of Acts where he says, “…You are worshipping in ignorance at the altar…TO THE UNKNOWN GOD?” (Acts 17:23)  It’s no different today in local institutional churches, for a lot of folk know not what there’re worshipping either!

There are those today who are not worshipping in spirit and in truth.

It’s gotten to the point where “local churches” are nothing more than institutional machines, mechanically and robotically repeating their set of prescribed and pre-planned religious practices in hopes of pleasing an abstract God that some of them might not even know!

It seems like these types of "church services" are nothing but ritualistic funeral memorials held once a week in honor of their ancient dead leader. Since some (perhaps many) don't really know God, they try to please Him from afar by mindlessly performing their repetitive, ritualistic, religious “worship services.”

"And when you pray, do not use meaningless repetition like the pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words."

In many cases, they have no faith at all, yet they are extremely faithful in attendance and in performing dead rituals, but that’s about it.

As long as the people show up, fill the pews, and tithe faithfully, who really cares! It is supposed that when people repeatedly and repetitively show up to their services, “something might eventually get through to them,” is the wishful, institutional thinking and mind-set.

But, Jesus said that a geographical location or appointed structure is completely irrelevant as a condition to worship and serve God and that true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship Him.

“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:24 

Yet, on the other hand, what do we see today?  Do we see worship in spirit and in truth?  Virtually all professed Christian worship in local institutional churches today is NOT in spirit and in truth but in the FLESH and in ERROR! 

Should we be surprised however? No, not really.  What we are witnessing is the fruit of institutionalism. People are very comfortable in their present day, traditional church setting and would rather DIE than to have to their “boat rocked!”

Jesus told the religious leaders in Mark 7:8, “You forsake the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.”

2000 years later, has anything changed?  NOT ONE THING!  Today’s local institutional church system is living proof of that fact.

The local institutional church system, along with all of its so-called leadership, is the single greatest BLINDING factor that influences the masses TO REJECT the Truth!

The “leadership” in these church systems are not stupid. They have made examples of people in the past and they have proven and sent the vividly clear message to their membership that if you dare to take a stand against some of their teachings and practices, the likelihood of YOU ALSO being rejected and becoming an outcast to the church; to your friends; and even to your family is very real.

Unless God Himself works in the hearts, minds, and souls of people, not many “church members” are willing to pay that kind of price to stand up for the Truth!

Whatever “church” you may attend, you will always be surrounded by those who label themselves as “your spiritual overseers.”  These are the people who are the real force you are struggling against and they will see to it, by whatever means they deem fit,  (just like the leaders did in Jesus’ day) to insure that you will always be corralled and imprisoned as institutionalized church members!

But thanks be to the Great God of Heaven, Jesus Christ came to set us free!

“For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.” Gal. 5:1

“For ye, brethren, were called for freedom.” Gal. 5:13

Jesus said, I am the way, and the truth, and the life.

Jesus said, you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Jesus said, If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Free from what? Freed from the bondage of religion! Freed from the bondage of man’s rules, traditions, and institutions!  He came to set us free!

Jesus said that He has come to bring the good news to the poor; to proclaim release to the captives; to give sight to the blind and to set at liberty them that are oppressed. Luke 4:18

You will NEVER, EVER find true freedom in today’s local institutional churches.

It is utterly impossible.

We are to, “…Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you..” 2 Corinthians 6:17;

“..Come forth, my people, out of her, that you have no fellowship with her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.”  Revelation 18:4

No matter how much the religious institution and its teachers weave and mingle the two, “going-to-church” and the Bible will never, EVER mix. 

“Be not deceived.”

“PRIDE” will hinder you from having “ears to hear” and a heart to believe and receive Biblical Truth from the hand of the Lord.

“FEAR” will hinder you from living out and walking in Biblical Truth, knowing the rejection that most assuredly awaits you around the corner.

May the Lord deliver us from these vices and from the dark days that lie ahead.

Ken Cascio wickedshepherds.com

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