The Truth About Religion
We have heard the adage, right?
“It’s not about RELIGION, It’s about a RELATIONSHIP!”
Like Jesus didn’t come to start another religion!
Yet how true is that really?
What are we to make of the concept of Religion,
and what does the Bible really say about it?
In this message we look at the Truth about Religion!
The fact is Religion can be TOXIC, but
James talks about a “pure and undefiled religion.”
What exactly is that and what does it mean for you me.
This is a powerful sermon that is rich in spiritual truth,
relevant in application, and surprising in its conclusions.
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James 1:19-27 ESV
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
26 If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless. 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.