Description to video:
A poem I wrote to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion. In the scriptures Jesus received the most opposition from the most religious people of his day. At it's core Jesus' gospel and the good news of the Cross is in pure opposition to self-righteousness/self-justification. Religion is man centered, Jesus is God-centered. This poem highlights my journey to discover this truth. Religion either ends in pride or despair. Pride because you make a list and can do it and act better than everyone, or despair because you can't do your own list of rules and feel "not good enough" for God. With Jesus though you have humble confident joy because He represents you, you don't represent yourself and His sacrifice is perfect putting us in perfect standing with God!

To every christian and any that will hear. Christianity has been slowly corrupted into this hypocritical strain of self-righteousness. Religious pride blinding conceited Christians into mistaking chastisement for persecution. It's sad to see how christianity today has been convoluted into something so self-centric, with unfounded legalism to placate our abused liberalism. Christianity isn't for making yourself feel better or holier , in fact, the closer to you get the God, the more filthy and unworthy you feel of yourself, for being so undeserving of God's love and grace, and you can't help but reciprocate it.

(And here's a random part. Type a few lines which rhymed so I decided must as well go with some lines since I was kinda bored so pardon it if it's lousy lol ._.)

Redeemed by an act of selfless grace;
now living in pursuit of selfish ways.
Called to love and be His light;
now an act of agape love, hardly in sight.
Accepted, people came as who they were,
now, judgment and hurts fill this world.
Tasked to care and meet people's needs;
now whatever benefits us is the way we lead.
Reached outwards, ends of the world we'd go,
now millions of people, lonely and cold.
Taught to obey, trust, be humble and meek,
now only applies one day of the week.
Prepared and refined, eyes on eternity,
now faithless and blind, lacking maturity.
Christian brothers and sisters, myself alike,
Now ask yourself how much you're Christ-like
You will know them by their fruits,
whether for God, they cared a hoot.

The term "Christians" was used because people then resembled Christ so much. Today, out of the many who call themselves Christians today, only a handful are truly what they meant. The rest of us are just foolish men making merry. I'm not in a place to judge, let yourself be accountable to God.

Matthew 7:15-20
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

Labels: God, thoughts

Description to video:
A poem I wrote to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion. In the scriptures Jesus received the most opposition from the most religious people of his day. At it's core Jesus' gospel and the good news of the Cross is in pure opposition to self-righteousness/self-justification. Religion is man centered, Jesus is God-centered. This poem highlights my journey to discover this truth. Religion either ends in pride or despair. Pride because you make a list and can do it and act better than everyone, or despair because you can't do your own list of rules and feel "not good enough" for God. With Jesus though you have humble confident joy because He represents you, you don't represent yourself and His sacrifice is perfect putting us in perfect standing with God!

To every christian and any that will hear. Christianity has been slowly corrupted into this hypocritical strain of self-righteousness. Religious pride blinding conceited Christians into mistaking chastisement for persecution. It's sad to see how christianity today has been convoluted into something so self-centric, with unfounded legalism to placate our abused liberalism. Christianity isn't for making yourself feel better or holier , in fact, the closer to you get the God, the more filthy and unworthy you feel of yourself, for being so undeserving of God's love and grace, and you can't help but reciprocate it.

(And here's a random part. Type a few lines which rhymed so I decided must as well go with some lines since I was kinda bored so pardon it if it's lousy lol ._.)

Redeemed by an act of selfless grace;
now living in pursuit of selfish ways.
Called to love and be His light;
now an act of agape love, hardly in sight.
Accepted, people came as who they were,
now, judgment and hurts fill this world.
Tasked to care and meet people's needs;
now whatever benefits us is the way we lead.
Reached outwards, ends of the world we'd go,
now millions of people, lonely and cold.
Taught to obey, trust, be humble and meek,
now only applies one day of the week.
Prepared and refined, eyes on eternity,
now faithless and blind, lacking maturity.
Christian brothers and sisters, myself alike,
Now ask yourself how much you're Christ-like
You will know them by their fruits,
whether for God, they cared a hoot.

The term "Christians" was used because people then resembled Christ so much. Today, out of the many who call themselves Christians today, only a handful are truly what they meant. The rest of us are just foolish men making merry. I'm not in a place to judge, let yourself be accountable to God.

Matthew 7:15-20
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

Labels: God, thoughts