CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT REVELATION IS ONLY A RELIGION

The Church is not established upon her understanding of end time events, but upon her revelation knowledge of Jesus Christ.
The Book of Revelation itself is NOT primarily the revelation of what the end of the world will be like (although we do learn that), but the Revelation and Testimony of Jesus Christ (Revelation 1:1,2). How many of us have been taught that the book of Revelations is mainly about end times?How many of us have been taught that the Book of Revelations  main topic  and point  is the revealing of Jesus Christ as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last, is beyond dispute?
The Church is not built upon Peter the individual,as the Catholic Church believes and teaches, but upon all those who know Jesus Christ by revelation (Matthew 16:17,18). Apart from this we cannot be numbered among the Ecclesia. This IS the Church: those to whom the Father has revealed the Son by the Spirit.
 
Paul, formerly known as Saul, was a self-proclaimed "Pharisee of the Pharisees", religious, devout, learned, and righteous according to the law of Moses, zealous for the things of God and the traditions of the Jews. Yet, we find him to be persecuting the Church of Jesus Christ, erroneously thinking that God was pleased with him. How is it that Saul, with all his learning, did not understand Who Jesus Christ was?The same way that 90%+ of the Church is doing right now! Simply because it had not been revealed to Saul by the Heavenly Father. Indeed, it was the Pharisees and other religious leaders and teachers who rejected the Lord and had Him crucified. They lacked the Revelation, as does the large portion of Churches today. The Pharisees and Scribes had the written Word memorized, but there stands the Word made flesh and all they see is "the carpenter's son", a demon-possessed man, a blasphemer, a magician. This demonstrates how worthless religious flesh and blood knowledge is.That folks is what most of us claiming to be Christians have!
One day the grace of God determined to grant Saul the Revelation of Jesus. That is to say, Saul was not seeking revelation, he believed he had it already. Is that not true of most of us who claims that we have it already? But if many are honest with themselves they find that their lives  still sucks ,because in all honesty their lives from within has not changed, although they have made changes on the outside, they were not done because of any inner change but because it was expected of them to do! When Saul met the Lord, Jesus didn't say, "Why are you persecuting My people?" With the simple words, "I am Jesus, the One you are persecuting," Paul received revelation into the Person of Jesus Christ as well as the Church. To persecute the followers of Jesus is to persecute Jesus Himself. Why? Because Christ and the Church are one!
 
Revelation is the difference between religious activity and true knowing (Matthew 7:23).Calling yourself a Christian these days is almost the same as calling yourself a Republican or Democrat. Becoming a Christian these days is a simple matter, we come forwards during a meeting and we decide to be a Christian, and then carry on with life as usual, we now are saved from hell because we did what we were told to and followed the procedure down to the letter. It has become more of a label for social convenience sake than a true testimony that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, dwelling within  us.That the potential exists for us to do things in the name of Jesus without truly knowing and being known of Him ought to put us on our face before the Lord, praying for experiential knowledge of Him by way of revelation. There's no other way to truly know Him. God has made sure of that.Most teachers are teaching what was taught to them, and their teachers learned it from their teachers, and so on it goes until we no longer have Spirit-birthed revelation, we have third and fourth-generational head-knowledge, yesterday's manna and hand-me-down flesh and blood doctrines. There is an ocean of difference between repeating what you have heard and speaking of what you have experienced! Is it any wonder that there is much learning, but no experiential knowledge of Truth.Paul says once he obtained revelation he had no need to confer with flesh and blood,why? Because the Revelation of Jesus is sufficient guidance. Flesh and blood cannot add to or take away from the Revelation.
When a person has the Revelation of Christ they will gladly and with great joy suffer the loss of all things. A person who has the Revelation will willingly lay down their life for what they have seen (Revelation 6:9;12:11).To be sure, when you really and truly meet Jesus of Nazareth, when you "see" Him for the first time, when He reveals Himself to you, it will immediately put you at enmity with those who claim to see but do not see: mostly, the religious and "spiritual" ones, the denominations and Towers of Babel which dot the landscape of Christendom, the scribes and Pharisees of Organized Religion. From time to time I will visit 'ex-Christian' sites on the Internet, and when they give their de-converting testimony , many times in the response section, some Christian will reply that apparently they never were Christians in the first place, and boy do they (the ex christian) get animated about that, they will say that they had did what all Christians were told to do, repented, confessed, was baptised, and went to church and opened their Bibles from time to time and Prayed to God as often as most of us do, there are even ex ministers and ex-pastors and even ex-bible scholars and ex-Bible translators stating the same criteria of what it means to be come and to be called a Christian. They are right they were as 'Christian' as any of us are, but NONE OF THEM every had a Revelation of Jesus Christ by the Grace of God, and His good pleasure! That is why they are Atheist they understand more than the rest of us who play church, that Christianity the Religion, as is preached and taught today is truly a sham! It's too bad that we can not come clean with the same truth  and understanding as well.

Matthew 7:21 – 23

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

If you notice in the verse above that these Christians were doing all the right stuff , and yet Jesus Christ does not even know who they are? Why is that? They were considered evil doers, really? aren't they preaching and healing and doing miracles? It is evildoing if we do not have Revelation Knowledge of Christ ,acting like Christians is not true Christianity, it is having a Revelation of the King of kings and Lord of lords, and if that is not our experience, then we are wasting our time playing church, because getting people saved is not the deal , introducing others to the fact that life without Christ is meaningless is the deal, when we realize our need, then  our need, will be met in Him. 
Once our eyes are open to see God as/in Jesus, we will naturally fall down to our knees in awe and worship.
I, speaking from my heart can honestly say that I have not Seen  this Jesus, I have only head knowledge of this man but no revelation as a gift of God that he was not just man but God . I know that the 30+ years of Bible study, and listening to Preaching and teaching, that I can safely say I have NOT had such a revelation of Jesus!. I have not eyes that see, truly see, and ears to hear that truly hears the Revelation of Jesus, I have had religion taught to me, but I can truthfully say, that God has not graced me with the Revelation of Jesus, and that my friends has been MY personal problem, I will not  and have not gotten very far on faith alone, because it has not done a thing for me yet. But I know that I know, that when God by His Holy Spirit gifts me with that Revelation then and only then will I be a Christian and then and only then I will be truly born again, and then and only then I will be known to Him, but until then, I am just playing church and tossing around some words and teaching here and there, and definitely doing nothing to furture the kingdom of God. I know , flesh wise, that there has to be more to life than my life I am living now, there has to be more to Jesus Christ than I have experience thus far, how do  I know that ? It must be a revelation from God, because I do know from experience that all my years of learning the Bible has led me no where and left me with an empty religion, and a religion , I know I do not   want.
 
God, what a sham my life is! Forgive me for living such a wasteful life. God I know there must be more to it that what I have experienced thus far.  I know I do not know you or Jesus Christ, and unless you by your grace reveal him to me, I literally have nothing in this world that is worth my time and effort. If Christ be true, reveal Him to me and to the rest of the world.

True Freedom and Liberty

What is true liberty? It starts with Religion, yes, Religion, it is the foundation of all true liberty that we have as living souls, if we do not have the freedom to believe or not, as we choose, then we are never really free in any other sense of the word.It is our 'beliefs' that truly maps out our paths in how we live and work in this world. Our beliefs shape every aspect of who we are and how we relate to others, our beliefs are who we truly are in this world.
The true test of freedom and liberty in any country or government is the freedom to believe or not in God.
True Religious Liberty is the God-given and indefeasible right of every human being, to worship God or not, according to the dictates of one's own conscience; and, as long as we do not infringe on the rights of others, we are all to be held accountable to God alone, for all our religious beliefs and practices.

THE UNIQUENESS OF CHRISTIANITY

Christianity is different from other religions in that the prime suspect, God resides within the believer or follower in this religion through His Holy Spirit.In most other religions ,the gods either represents the forces of nature, or are no better than their followers ,in fact many are worse than ordinary humans ,the gods have many moral dilemmas and are definitely not perfect beings, or they dwell somewhere outside of the follower, or they are some universal unknown consciousness without personhood.Not so in Christianity God came down to us in the form of a man Jesus Christ, experience the human condition, and did something about it, you just can not compare that with any other gods. Within Christianity, the believer is transformed not by what they try to do to better themselves but they are transformed by God Himself from the inside out. Other religions have all kinds of rituals, and ceremonies, or works that one must do to appease their gods or to be accepted, even in many denominations within Christianity that do not understand that there is nothing we can do , nothing at all to change our nature into something that is holy without the Spirit of God doing that for us.In Christianity God is interested in each person and enables each person to live as God would have us live as holy unto Him. In Christianity we have a written code inspired of God to assist us in all of our endeavors, a word that assist us in knowing how God works in the world and within individuals. By the word, the Bible, we are given the needed information into what the will of God is and who God is. We do not have that in other religions.

Many would say that the bible keeps God in a box, but what the bible does is show us that each individual character that is written about within the bible, was dealt with in ways that were unique to them. God requires the same from all of us, but the ways and means of carrying that out is unique to each believer. Some are told not to do some things, others are not. The Christian path is molded to the unique personality of the believer and their personal walk, and development on their journey.Christianity is not a one size fits all conformity that many believe it to be. Yes we are asked to conform to the image of Christ, but in ways that are unique to each of us individually . Yes all the laws apply to us in that we do not murder, commit adultery and so forth,but the amazing thing is that God transforms us with our person-hood still intact, we don't lose our sense of self and who we are, but that Who we are is changed for the better ,our personality ,our laugh, our mannerism, those things that make us who we are remain but are perfected and molded into the perfection of God that we were always meant to be. In a marriage a man and woman commit to be in relationship with each other the ideal is that we are in partnership with one another but we are not to lose our identity within the relationship , but that the 'relationship' becomes our purpose together.The wife should still have her personality and the husband has his ,but they join together and each fills in where the other may lack to make a whole unified being.

You just do not find this sort of relationship with God in any other religion. Within Christianity we are co -labors with Christ, we are in partnership with Christ,we become a unified being with Christ.

In Christianity God is lovingly concerned with our welfare, and is interested in all aspects of our being.God accepts us as we are, we do not need to change one thing about ourselves to make God love us, we come to God as we are, and we thank God that He does not leave us in that condition but perfects us as we continue on in relationship with Him until we die. Christianity is truly a unique experience with God, and no other religions come close to it.

for what it is worth,

blessings

WE HAVE BEEN SET FREE FROM RELIGION.

Christian religions ,it would seem to me,depends on the religion of Christianity, for their existence, but True Christianity has never needed or has it ever depended on religion to keep it afloat. Christ said that "He alone is the way," He was not declaring a new religion! Nor did He ever mention that he was ever going to do so. He never stipulated that to believe in Him, that we must be Catholic, Protestant, Baptist, or any of the many denominations that have built their religions around HIM. to find the truth. Jesus Christ did not die for a religious cause. He died to lift all of His physical creation out of its darkness and to bring us, as human beings, closer to Him. For we have already been reconciled to God, it is just that many do not know this, and religion will keep many in the dark chains of ignorance about this, claiming that we must live a certain way, that we must strive on our own to be what we or the church thinks we should be, and that we must follow their dogma, doctrines, and traditions in order to please God and be who God would have us be, by our own pitiful efforts.

Many believe that once someone becomes a Christian , that they can no longer do that which is wrong, or sin. But you see Christianity is not living by the principles of right and wrong, good and evil. But rather , it is about life from the inside out! Watchman Nee, in his book The Finest of the Wheat, Volume I (pp 220-221) said "What is Christianity? Christianity is life. It does not ask whether a thing is right or wrong. It asks instead what your inner life says: it is a matter of how the new life which God has given us addresses the situation." The Christian life is about allowing the Spirit of Christ within to address all the situations we face in life, it is about yielding our wills to do that which the Spirit of Christ within leads us to do in each circumstance we are in. The Christian Life is about relearning and renewing our minds and thoughts to the truth of who we are now in Christ, not our bodies which belong to this world and which gets glorified at the resurrection at Christ physical return, but in our spirits which have been made alive and resurrected with Christ at His Resurrection 2000 years ago! and our spirits ,now are being formed into the image of Christ now in the progressive revelation we are now receiving in Him. It's about 'reprogramming' from the physical worlds identity, to the spirit's true identity found only in the life of Christ which dwells in every believer.We now are free from having to do anything to please God from our own self effort. God is well aware of our weaknesses, and as we become aware of our weaknesses, Christ will become more formed within us to do the Work that God would do through us.

We have been set free from all those religious rules and laws, oughts, shoulds, could's, that choke and chain us like slaves to a religious prison cell.

We have been taught that everything written in the Hebrew Scriptures is a complete and total revelation of who God is, but then Jesus/Yeshua Christ comes around to set us free from bad theology to reveal the true heart and Spirit of God. Jesus spent a good deal of time showing us the Father, and the Religious Leaders of that day as well as many today in the Religion of Christianity do not like the God as Jesus shows us he is and that is why true spirit believers in Christ will suffer as he did by their hands.
The real and true essence of God's character is love. The demonstration of His love is that He has provided a plan of salvation and reconciliation for all humanity through the death on the cross of His son Jesus Christ. He will ultimately achieve His desire of reconciliation with all people.In each of our spiritual journeys, our understanding of God will continue to evolve, not because God changes, but because in this journey we can only understand Him as He reveals Himself to each of us in the context of our personal lives and our personal growth. We know that we are limited in our understanding of God and are aware of our individual shortcomings. Therefore, we must strive to cherish the liberty granted to all of us by God and honor the ability of each and every one of us , to hear what God is speaking to him or her on an individual basis, affirming both our liberty in Christ and our accountability to each other in accordance with the Word of God. The primary mission of the 'church' which is the body of believers,is to encourage all people to participate in this glorious salvation and reconciliation given to us by and through Christ,during our lifetimes. [2 Cor. 6:2; 1 Tim 2:4; 1 Tim 4:10; 1 Tim 2:6]

The Scripture which was recorded by mortal and imperfect men both before and shortly after the time of Christ. Is divinely inspired and serves as the record of God's revelation of Himself to humanity. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It was authored by the Holy Spirit of God, to reveal His plan for the salvation and reconciliation of all humanity to Himself. We must believe that it is true and inerrant but only as it is interpreted through the person and work and LIFE of Jesus Christ who Himself is the revealed Word of God. We must never shove it down any ones throat, but keep in mind that it is only by and through the Divine Holy Spirit that the dead words are given and made alive to those who will take the time to meditate and contemplate , prayerfully digest it's words.

Christ came that we might have life and have it abundantly. He came to free us from the impossibly heavy weight of performing the laws and traditions and the responsibility of achieving righteousness through our own will and human effort. The Christian life is the process of yielding to the gentle work of Christ, which brings rest and peace and joy to our lives. [Galatians 5:1; Romans 8:2; Philippians 2:13; Galations 3:3; John 15:10-11; Colossians 3:15; Matthew 11:28]