The differences between religion and the body of Christ keep resurfacing as the restoration process by the Father continues.
If you’ve spent much time in the world of religion you have seen the term “used by God” on many occasions.
The religious indoctrination of most has allowed them to accept the lie of religion.
When was the last time you used your wife or husband?
Do you remember when another person used you?
How did it make you feel being used by another person for their own purposes?
So from the offset, we see the religious system reducing the child to a servant.
Using another person for your own purposes is the trademark of a tyrannical narcissist, not a loving Father.
The religious swell with pride proclaiming how God has or is USING them.
The religious actually keep a tally of baptisms and conversions as if they are on some servant quota system.
Here we see another example of the religious worldview being totally contrary to the body of Christ.
Prideful religious people keeping score of their being “used” by God is just the opposite of being the family of God.
The concept of being a servant instead of a child is religious indoctrination and not pleasing to the Father.
God is the loving Father to His child, not the tyrannical King demanding His subjects serve Him.
Remember the prodigal son?
When the prodigal returned home in humility he was willing to be a servant because of his shame, but what happened?
The prodigal’s father representing God restored the
Prodigal as His son… not his servant.
So the religious pride themselves on being used by God when the Father desires children, not slaves.
Religious pride kicks in and the ministry becomes the focus rather than the Father.
Religion builds its own kingdom with schools and training centers to increase itself.
So we see religion taking the place of relationships.
We see the competition between religions attempting to mass produce conversions and baptisms to add to their prideful scoring system.
What is meant to be a family becomes a production line and many fall through the cracks of religion.
With arrogance and pride the religious “leader” struts like a rooster crowing at his admiring chickens.
The leader prides himself on having been used mightily by God, but he is serving his prideful self and the religious system.
Meanwhile, in the family of God, there is no organized ministry. The cup runs over and the overflow of love from the Father flows from child to child…children not servants.
The religious esteem God as a tyrant that must be served.
The child of God sees their irresistible Father and loves Him with their hearts.
So as the restoration continues the body of Christ is restored at the loss of the counterfeit of religion.
The Father doesn’t want to use us, He wants us to gather into His presence as the children He adores, not the servants He despises.
The prodigal Son was restored, will you accept your acceptance and be restored, or remain as a slave to religion?
The choice is yours.
The calling out and the gather