What if I told you, Jesus came to abolish religion?
What if I told you getting you to vote republican, really wasn’t his mission?
Because republican doesn’t automatically mean ‘Christian.’
And just because you call some people ‘blind,’ doesn’t automatically give you vision.
If religion is so great, why has it started so many wars?
Why does it build huge churches, but fails to feed the poor?
Tells single moms God doesn’t love them if they’ve ever been divorced.
Yet God in the Old Testament actually calls the religious people whores
Religion preaches grace, but another thing they practice.
Tends to ridicule Gods people, they did it to John the Baptist.
Cant fix their problems, so they try to mask it, not realizing that’s just like sprayin’ perfume on a casket.
Because the problem with religion is that it never gets to the core,
It’s just behavior modification, like a long list of chores.
Let’s dress up the outside, make things look nice and neat… It’s funny, that’s what they do to mummies, while the corpse rots underneath.
Now I ain’t judging, I’m just saying, be careful of putting on a fake look: because there’s a problem if people only know that you’re a Christian by that little section on your Facebook.
In every other aspect of life you know that logic’s unworthy, It’s like saying you play for the Lakers just because you bought a jersey.
But see I played this game, too; no one seemed to be on to me, I was acting like church kid, while addicted to pornography.
I’d go to church on Sunday, but on Saturday getting faded. Acting as if I was simply created to have sex and get wasted.
Spend my whole life putting on this façade of neatness, but now that I know Jesus, I boast in my weakness.
If grace is water, then the church should be an ocean.
‘Cause it’s not a museum for good people, it’s a hospital for the broken.
I no longer have to hide my failures, I don’t have to hide my sin,
Because my salvation doesn’t depend on me, it depends on him.
Because when I was God’s enemy and certainly not a fan,
God looked down on me and said, ‘I want that man.’
Which is so different from religious people, and why Jesus called ‘em fools.
Don’t you see, he’s so much better than just following some rules?
Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the bible, and I believe in sin.
But my question, is if Jesus were here today, would your church let Him in?
Remember He was called a ‘drunkard’ and a ‘glutton’ by ‘religious men.’
The Son of God not supported self-righteousness, not now, not then.
Now back to the topic, one thing I think is vital to mention:
How Jesus and religion are on opposite spectrums.
One is the work of God, one is a man made invention.
One is the cure, and one is the infection.
Because Religion says ‘do,’ Jesus says ‘done.’
Religion says ‘slave,’ Jesus says ‘son.’
Religion puts you in shackles, but Jesus sets you free.
Religion makes you blind, but Jesus lets you see.
This is what makes religion and Jesus two different clans;
Religion is man searching for God, but Christianity is God searching for man.
Which is why salvation is freely mine, forgiveness is my own.
Not based on my efforts, but Christ’s obedience alone.
Because he took the crown of thorns, and blood that dripped down his face.
He took what we all deserved, that’s why we call it ‘grace.’
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.
He paid for all your sin, and then buried it in the tomb;
Which is why im kneeling at the cross now saying ‘come on, there’s room.’
So know I hate religion, in fact I literally resent it…
Because when Jesus cried ‘It is finished,’ I believe He meant it.
Hypocrisy is never what God intended.
