Thread by @GbengaWemimo

What does it take anybody to hate God? or lose their faith in Him? or start ignoring Him, or even come to loathe and hate Him?
It is religion, every religion
Religion is human being's relation to that which they regard as Holy, sacred, absolute, spiritual, divine or worthy of

special reverence. It is also the way people deal with the ultimate concerns about their fate after death.
There is a desire in man to seek God out and worship Him, that desire is innate
King Solomon refer to it as eternity being woven into the fabric or coded into the DNA of

mortals
In Genesis 4:26, we saw the definition of religion "Seth also had a son and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord"
PEOPLE BEGAN TO CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD...
That is religion
You will notice that God didn't respond to them in

anyway
Their lives and conditions were not the better for it.
They felt nothing of God and yet they called and called because the call was to satisfy a yearning in their hearts. They were calling upon the name of the Lord for their own selfish reasons and God ignored them
While

they were calling upon the name of the Lord, they lived reckless and unholy lives
They made unholy decisions
They were wicked and unreasonable & their imagination was riotous
In Genesis 6, while they were still calling upon the name of the Lord, they married fallen angels and did

much evil
At a point God while they were still calling upon the name of the Lord religiously, God saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time (Genesis 6:1-5)
Wow!!!

That men are calling on the name of the Lord does not mean they are holy, righteous, God-fearing or that they even know that God and have a relationship with him.
Recently, we were negotiating with a non-Christian cleric about the purchase of a piece of Land
I called him on the

phone and we got talking
The conversation lasted over three hours
He was an easy man to talk to
He was in his 60s and he had been married thrice and has 13 children
He asked me how old I was
I told him
He said so what do you do?
I told him
He said "I have a son who is slightly

older than you
He is also well to do
I raise clerics every forty days to sit and pray for him that he might prosper in his endeavors
I got curious
What could the son be doing to warrant raising clerics to sit & pray for him every forty days
Why not raise the clerics to pray for

the entire family?
He said the children from his third wife were still in the university and he was approaching his retirement as Deputy general manager of a government parastatal
Money was no longer coming in like before and his son had been the financial backbone of the family

for the past four years
He said such an asset must be committed to God's hand often and constantly so that he will continue to prosper
So I said, "Is he in the US Army?"
Soldiers face danger constantly and my mind could only plot the graph from his words in that direction
The man

laughed and said his son is into the internet fraud
He said it as a matter of fact
He said "He is very good at this internet thing, yahoo yahoo but his own is higher class. He is plugged into the system and he is milking it as much as possible
In the last four years he has built

hotels and other businesses here which his younger brothers (His siblings from the same mother, the first wife) are managing
He is also helping me with the school fees of the ones in private university& he is buying landed properties and keeping them as investments for the future

I was short of words
This was a deeply religious man
A man who was given many religious titles as a pillar of the society
A man who could summon important clerics of his religion to his house for special prayers at will
He didn't see anything wrong in what his son was doing
He

even had the audacity to petition God to protect his son from arrest and any form of "harm"
That is how religion works
Temples will have prostitutes who will have sex with men in the name of cleansing them of their sins
Priests will be given bans to go sleeping around
Popes and

Bishops will have illegitimate children and mistresses
The so called proclaimers of righteousness and judgment would themselves be workers of iniquity
That is religion
That is the outworking of the reality of religion
Every religion is like this
Jesus called the Pharisees white

washed tombs with a clean exterior but rottenness within
The practise of religion in the book of Genesis came to ahead in Genesis 11
Men had called upon the name of the Lord for generations and they were tired of being ignored
Who does God think he is?
How could they be calling

upon his name and offering Him sacrifices constantly for his attention only to get the cold shoulder
The sons of men wouldn't stand for that rubbish anymore
They decided to build a tower that will take them to heaven and dethrone God
Enough was enough!
At it's peak, religion is

the worship of self or other men who disguise as priests of the gods or God
Till this day, many still run to spiritualists, pastors, priests, prophets, clerics, and so on in the name of seeking God's counsel or His face
In doing this, they seek a supernatural advantage over other

men or to subdue a puzzling issue
In religion, god remains elusive and could only be reached through the instructions and shepherding activities of other men
Religion whipped the men at the tower of Babel in line. They were so brainwashed that they worked feverishly and in unity

to achieve their goals
Even God was impressed by their oneness but any gathering that set its purpose against God was bound to scatter
The tower of Babel uprising ended in disaster
God saw that when the desire for divine attention is misplaced, man can so easily become misguided

In Genesis 12, God by himself went to land called Ur of the Chaldees and called out Abram
Notice that it wasn't Abraham that began to call upon the name of the Lord...
It was God that sought Abram out for a relationship
Notice that this is for a "Relationship" not for "Religion"

In religion, man rules over god
Mankind makes all the rules in the name of God
Man determines when to worship God and How to worship God
Man determines what and/or who to sacrifice to make god happy
The god of religion is the devil and his demonic agents hiding in darkness while

their priests (Humans) mesmerize and cajole fearful and brainwashed men into submission
In the relationship God had with Abram, we saw mutual respect, communication, friendship, communion, conversation, and intimacy
The relationship changed Abram
It changed his name to Abraham

It changed his identity to the Hebrew
Abraham believed God's word and he was made righteous as a result
He didn't have to sow seeds or offer sacrifices and he didn't have a temple or a shrine where he offered religious oblation
He was a FRIEND of God who God talked with freely

The same principle was adopted by Jesus in the new testament
He offered friendship and relationship to the sons and daughters of men
He ate with them, drank with them, had deep conversations with them, learned from them and taught them His ways.
There was no intermediary, no gap

no lacuna for anyone to exploit, no intermediary
He offered association, intimacy, and ultimately assimilation
Immanuel -God with us
Religion couldn't stand it
Where would their gains come from if God bypassed them to deal with men directly?
What about the sacrifices and the

offerings
The seeds and the fatlings
What would the priests and religious leaders eat?
It became a battle for relevance and survival
Jesus was offering God to mankind for free
All those who met God that way were cured of sin, guilt, shame, yokes, and heaviness
Jesus was crucified

for being so daring
Everybody expected the brouhaha to die down afterward but a radical and unexpected twist came upon the events
Another like Christ, the spirit of communion and fellowship came upon the church and put religion to the sword
Mankind never recovered from the blow

A new set of being arrived on the scene
The Christkinds, born, raised, and taught by the Spirit
They turned the world of men upside down by the power of the Holy Spirit
Men had been trying so hard since then to put Christkinds under the yoke of religion so that they can control

and milk this new way
They succeeded in many cultures
Bringing their version of Christianity to such places and indoctrinating the people in religion but the spirit will not be silenced and He is awakening and quickening sons all over the world to bring in the sheaves!

Religion is a yoke that offers only empty words while fleecing its prey
Jesus is life more abundantly
Jesus makes the living waters flow out of our bellies
As heirs of his Kingdom, we carry divinity in our genes
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You will become the light
Glory!!!!

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What a blessed fellowship the Holy Spirit gave us in Himself! IN Him we have all things!
Hallelujah!