-ism’s and Schisms

Religious people worship objects and “the unknown god.” There are all kinds of religions in the world, Buddhism, Hinduism, Mormonism, Satanism, Materialism, Alcoholism, Selfism and even Christianism. An “ism” is a doctrine, theory or system whose name ends in –ism. You can make almost anything an –ism but the problem is still schism. You can worship whatever you want but still not know what or whom you worship intimately. Dead religion worships dead things, worldly religion the things of the world, selfish religion is obsessed with self, Creationism with the creation, and even Satanic people are very religious. Christianism worships the images and doctrines of Christ and the kingdom of God system and yet it seems that many still have not become one with God Himself. You’ve heard the old saying, “It’s not about religion but relationship” and it’s true but you can still have some sort of twisted fantastical relationship with someone you don’t really know. How many people seem to have a relationship with some celebrity but don’t really know them? It’s true that person exists but the posters, objects and images are just dead idols and the worship of them idolatry. Has Christianity become your idolatry?

If we’re not careful we will just become like little Jesus groupies following and worshipping someone we don’t even know. God has a mega multitude of fans but why try to just get by with religion or even some sort of relationship when you can actually be His offspring and partakes of the Divine nature. Relationship is still better than religion but what God really had in mind was union. Not just to know about God or even to know God which is better but it can still be like a long distance relationship. But He intends for us to receive Him and be reborn, recreated and regenerated as one of His very own children just like Jesus - to be filled with all the fullness of God through and through, united and one with Him in Spirit True.

Acts 17:22-30
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; 23 for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:

TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.

Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you: 24 God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25 Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.' 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man's devising.
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2 Peter 1:2-4
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
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2 Peter 1:3-4
3 For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).

4 By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.
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1 Cor 6:17
17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
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1 Cor 6:17
17 But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.
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John 17:22-23
22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
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1 John 4:15-16
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. NKJV

John 1:12-13
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
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John 3:5-8
5 Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
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1 John 3:1
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! NIV

Titus 3:4-7
4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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Eph 3:14-21
14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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Eph 3:19
19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!
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