I aim to promote thoughtful conversation and avoid causing division. This person's words resonated with me because of my own experience meeting God as a struggling drug addict. I found God in rehab and church basements, prioritizing prayer before anything else. I am grateful to Jesus for sacrificing his life for mine. I would like to hear your respectful thoughts on this person's message. Merry Christmas, sending love to all.
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@BrainStorm_Joe - Joe Rambo
Please know that my intentions are never to upset or divide. But really just to make us think and engage in meaningful conversation.
This guys words resonated with me bc of the way I met God.
I met God as a hopeless, helpless drug addict, fighting for his life. I was abondend by almost everyone. Not a worldly possession left.
I met God in rehabs and church basements. I threw my cigarettes under my bed every night so that I
had to hit my knees before anything else in the morning.
I love Jesus for giving his life to save mine.
What are your thoughts on what this dude said. Please be respectful of everyone's opinions and feelings.
Merry Christmas. All love.
Video Transcript AI Summary
Jesus came to abolish religion and voting Republican doesn't define Christianity. Religion often starts wars and builds extravagant churches but fails to help the poor. It judges single moms and calls religious people whores. Religion focuses on external appearances but doesn't address the core issues. It's like putting perfume on a casket. People shouldn't judge someone's faith based on their social media presence. The speaker admits to struggling with addiction and hypocrisy while pretending to be a churchgoer. The church should be a place of grace and acceptance, not self-righteousness. Jesus and religion are different - religion is man-made, while Christianity is about God searching for humanity. Salvation is through Jesus alone, not based on our own merits. Jesus's sacrifice on the cross is the ultimate act of grace and forgiveness. The speaker rejects religion and believes in the finished work of Jesus.
Speaker 0: What if I told you Jesus came to abolish religion? What if I told you voting Republican Really wasn't his mission. What if I told you republican doesn't automatically mean Christian and just because you call some people blind doesn't automatically give you vision. I mean, if religion is so great, why has it started so many wars? Why does it build huge churches But fails to feed the poor.
Tell single moms, God doesn't love them if they've ever had a divorce, but in the old testament, God actually calls religious people whores. Religion might preach grace, but another thing they practice tend to ridicule God's people. They did it to John the Baptist. They can't fix their problems, and so they just mask it, not realizing religion is like spraying perfume on a casket. See, the problem with religion is it never gets to the core.
It's just behavior modification like a long list of chores. Like, let's dress up the outside, make it look nice and neat. But it's funny, that's what they used to do to mummies while the corpse routes Neat. Now I ain't judging. I'm just saying, put putting on a fake look.
Because there's a problem if people only know that you're a Christian by your Facebook. I mean, in every other aspect of If you know that logic's unworthy. It's like saying you play for the Lakers just because you bought a jersey. See, this was me too, but no one seemed Beyond to me. Acting like a church kid while addicted to pornography.
See on Sunday, I'd go to church, but Saturday getting faded, I didn't know if I was simply created to just have sex and get wasted. See, I spent my whole life building this facade of neatness. But now that I know Jesus, I boast in my weakness because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean. It's not a museum for good people. It's a hospital for the broken, which means I don't have to hide my failure, I don't have to hide my sin.
Because it doesn't depend on me, it depends on him. See, because when I was god's enemy and certainly not a fan, he looked down and said, I want that man. Which is why Jesus hated religion and for Call them fools. Don't you see so much better than just following some rules? Now let me clarify.
I love the church. I Love the bible and, yes, I believe in sin, but if Jesus came to your church, would they actually let him in? See, remember he was called a Then a drunkard by religious men, but the son of god never supports self righteousness. Not now, not then. Now back to the point, one thing is vital to mention, how How Jesus and religion are on opposite spectrums.
See, one's the work of god, but one's a man made invention. See, one is the cure, but the other is the infection. See, because religion says do. Jesus says done. Religion says slave.
Jesus says, son. Religion puts you in bondage while Jesus sets you free. Religion makes you blind, but Jesus makes you see. And that's why religion and Jesus Are 2 different clans. Religion is man searching for god, Christianity is god searching for man, which is why salvation is freely mine And forgiveness is my own, not based on my merits, but Jesus's obedience alone.
Because he took the crown of thorns and the blood drip down his face. He took what we all deserved. I guess that's why you call it grace. And while being murdered, he yelled, father, forgive them. They know not what they do.
Because when he was dangling on that cross, he was thinking of you. And he absorbed all your sin and he buried it in the tomb which is why I'm kneeling at the I'm saying, come on. There's room. So for religion, no. I hate it.
In fact, I literally resent it. Because when Jesus said it is finished, I believe he meant it.
