Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27).
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as He which has called you is holy, so be holy in all manner of living; Because it is written, Be holy; for I am holy. (1 Pet 1:14-16).
And hereby we know that we know Him, because we keep His commandments. (1 John 2:3).
His commandments are not ritual or sacrifice, but love and truth. This is worship or true sacrifice. How dare people teach the traditions of men and the rituals of the Old Covenant for worship when God requires mercy, justice and knowledge that will help families grow up in the truth and goodness of God?
God has fulfilled His whole desire in eradicating the temple and ritual of the Old Covenant, by sending Jesus to fulfil the law and to live within us, giving us a new nature and writing His law upon our hearts. This is His law: not sacrifice, but faith that works through love.
Preachers who tell others that they must give or fast to get from God overturn the whole message of the prophets. Preachers should be giving the knowledge of God so others may live in His liberty and blessing. Instead of knowledge that delivers, bondage is perpetuated by the ideas of man, garnered from the nations around us.
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About time there were some voices crying out in the wilderness, keep it coming brother....make the way straight...
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