Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

Luke.12:4 "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
12:5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.{or, Hell} Yes, I tell you, fear him.

Jesus has in this conversation in the verses above told those listening to watch out for the leaven of the Pharisee's then he warns that nothing will be hid all things done in the darkness by teachers good or bad will come to the light, for he is the light!

1Cor.3:11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. 3:12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble; 3:13 each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is

Now he address the power of false religion why it draws so many people into compromise and blindness, and what is that? Fear of man! Yes the fear of rejection, the soil of weed Christianity. Weed Christian's are fleshly planted by the wisdom of man into a field where God's children are planted from heaven. The power of false religion is the fleshly mind that justifies itself by works done to get glory from men.

Romans 1:23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

John 5:44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

John 7:18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

The fear of rejection from a religious group of individual is so great that weed Christian's reject the Christ, the Spirit and truth from above for approval of men in power. This yeast, which is corruption to the Spirit of truth which Christ warned would corrupts the kingdom of God upon earth until Christ comes back with God's holy angels to remove the weed from the wheat.

Luke 13:21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures{literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel} of flour, until it was all leavened."

1 Corinthians 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Jesus warns all those loving their flesh, and its thinking more than God that false religion can kill only the body, but God has the power to kill both the body and our eternal life. False religion is fierce it is like a dog that will attack you, or swine that eats up all spiritual truth and than turn on you devour what is left of the flesh mind promoting false religion. None of us can change a dog or a pig into another specie, neither can we make weed into wheat by association or putting our pearls before swine. We must accept the truth which is we are saved by Christ giving us a new personality from above, a regeneration in the power from the eternal life found in Christ that indwells us not by our good works, or anything we have done good or bad. But simply as truth states by the love of God.

1 Corinthians 6:11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Hebrews 10:22 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water.

Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

If we could not change ourselves by the power of our flesh, why should we imagine false religion can help us when it is fleshly, born of this world, and its power that comes from laws and rules enforced upon its members? Religion can improve what it is created from flesh, it can control with fear our flesh and makes some improvement upon our character, but God is not reforming our flesh or perfecting it.

John 1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

God has dealt with the flesh condemning it, killing it for us, and we have been raised with Christ seated with him in Spirit and truth. God is perfecting our faith. We have received eternal life, the life of Christ given us by God's Spirit, it is his life that sanctifies us, washes us clean giving us a clean conscience before God; it is not the perfecting of our flesh that makes us clean or righteous. Let us not trade the glory of God for the corruptible things of false religion.

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 5:12 saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!"

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