By Sam Adeoye
This world of ours would have been the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in the world. The worse thing that had ever happened to mankind is the creation and establishment of all religions and it’s pathetic to see how it had divided us instead of uniting us. We all claimed to serve God and yet we condemn one another, hate one another, attack one another and even kill one another. For what purpose place?
Whatever made you to fight another person for not believing in what you believe in simply means that what you believe is false, manipulative and questionable. God gave every man the free will to decide what is right and best for them, that is why Moses said in Deut 30:19-20 saying; ‘I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
You don’t access the heavenly blessings when all you do is to condemn others for not been of the same religion as you are; you start to hate them, attack them and even kill them and you’re calling yourself a flower of God hating and killing a fellow human being as you? I’m sorry to say, you’re not a follower of God, but of Lucifer, the blood sucking demon that was casted down from heaven.
It breaks my heart whenever I see the evil religion had caused among us all and yet majority of us are still blind to the fact that the worse enemy of mankind is not the fellow mankind, neither is it the Devil, Satan or Witches and Wizards. No! The worse enemy of our world is religion and is killing some of us with no understanding of life and the purpose of destiny.
We judge and see everything through the lens of religion and anything and anyone that does not fall into our expectations is an enemy of God. Our religious attitudes had made us to become a judge over others; believing that we have the right to judge anything and anyone; and false teachings of Apostle Paul in 1 Cor 6:2-6 that says; ‘do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge? I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren? But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers! Had made us to be so arrogant and blocked head; when Jesus Christ expressly made it clear in Matt 7:1-5 saying; “judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.’
He did not stop there; Jesus Christ said the same again in Luke 6:37; “judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.’ But you see, the religious greediness and manipulation habits will make the religious leaders to keep reminding their followers about Luke 6:38 that says; ‘give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” But will not remind them of Luke 6:37 that says; “judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.’ Many people will not make eternity because of the things they heard and believe that are wrong and evil in the sight of God.
Tyranny is the worst enemy of mankind; and religion is nothing but tyranny. Tyranny is, oppression, dictatorship, autocracy, domination, despotism, totalitarianism, cruelty, oppressiveness. These are all the characteristics of a slave master, the colonial lord. Whose habits is to grab your land and resources be it human, mineral and ways of life in exchange for something worthless to your making simply because you are ignorant, stupid and totally unaware of who you are and what you’re meant to be. So they brainwashed you to be what you are not and give you a false identity that makes you act like a Puppet. You’re a fool my friend. A big fool. And to the best of my knowledge, of all the tyrannies that affect mankind in the entire world, the religion tyranny is the worst. And whether you believe it or not, you’re a slave to your choice of religion and Apostle Paul made this clear in Rom 6:16 saying; ‘do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?’ I love the way GNT translation puts it saying; ‘surely you know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to obey someone, you are in fact the slaves of the master you obey — either of sin, which results in death, or of obedience, which results in being put right with God.’
Apostle Paul said in 1 Cor 7:23; ‘you were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.’ In as long as you continue to believe in lies of men and placing religion above humanity, you’re a slave and you have no other choice than to obey your master the religious leaders.
Reading 1 Cor 7:23 you will think that Apostle Paul mean well. Maybe he did. But the truth is, religion is a deadly thing. First, they bate you by telling you things you need to hear to make you comfortable, relax and committed to them. Then the moment they have you loyalty and commitment they take charge over your life. It is at this point that Eph 6:5-8 come to play where Apostle Paul said; ‘bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men, knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.’ To drive this point home, he repeated the same in Col 3:22-25 saying; ‘bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality.’
This act of human manipulation is what Robert Greene described in his book the 48 Laws of Power as the power to conceal your intention. He went further to say that you must learn to; ‘keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, he said; they cannot prepare a defense. Guide them far enough down the wrong path, envelop them in enough smoke, and by the time they realize your intentions, it will be too late.’ That is it, ‘too late’ meaning your life is gone. Nothing is left for you to live for.
So many lives and destines are ruin today as a result of total commitment and loyalty to a religion and a religious leaders all in the name of serving God. You don’t need any religion of any kind to serve God. So many people are serving Jail terms because of their financial commitment towards their religion and their religious leaders. Everything had become the animal farm where some animals are meant to lead and others are meant to follow even when they have something much more tangible and valuable to offer.
Funny enough, there are so many religious followers that are more intelligent, smart and even far productive than their religious leaders. But the system of religion had rendered them incapacitated to the point that they cannot ask questions or verify the claims of their religious leaders. Their only duty is to obey even when the religious leader is wrong. For me, that is foolishness. No man has an answer to everything. Not even Jesus Christ with all His anointing and He made this known in John 8:28 when He said; ‘I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.’
My question now is, who is teaching the religious leaders all the lies and manipulations they are teaching all across the world? Because I can’t understand why God will say to one religion sect not to kill and to another to kill whoever does not believe or practice in their religion. I can’t understand why the God all religions in the world are claiming to serve is loving God that loves all His creations passionately and the people that are claiming to be serving this same God are filled with hatred towards one another. Something is definitely not right and it is not from God, it’s from the heart of mankind which was described to be desperately wicked in Jer 17:9 when Prophet Jeremiah said; “the heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked; who can know it?’
Let’s explore this Jer 17:9 further with other translations.
“The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out. TMB
“The heart is more deceitful than anything else and mortally sick. Who can fathom it? CJB
“The human mind is the most deceitful of all things. It is incurable. No one can understand how deceitful it is. GWORD
“The heart is the most deceitful thing there is and desperately wicked. No one can really know how bad it is! TLB
“Who can understand the human heart? There is nothing else so deceitful; it is too sick to be healed. GNT.
The most dangerous human being is the person whose heart had been manipulated religiously to believe that everything that is written in the religious texts are true and are from God. God is not a blood sucking demon like your religious ritualists and blood sucking demons who will encourage you to kill anyone that is not of the same religion with you. This was made clear in Lev 17:14 when Prophet Moses said; ‘you shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.’ And also teaches you to hate someone because the person doesn’t belong to your religion. You are also a killer and this was made clear in 1 John 3:15 when Apostle John the younger brother of Jesus Christ said; ‘whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.’
Religion teaches that the way to see God in your religion is to shut the Eye of reason. Meanwhile, Apostle Paul said in Phil 4:8 that; ‘finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy — meditate on these things.’
Once your sense of reasoning is taking away from you, then your life is gone. You’re a living dead. Any religion that decide and dictate to you how you must live your life has already had you locked up in emotional and mental prison. So bad, that is where the larger percentage of mankind are right now. The very reasons why so many people are so useless to themselves. Even when they have all the potential to be great.
Any religion or religious leader that thinks or believed that your opinions does not matter in matters that concerns your life and destiny is working against the faith. It is also expedient that the religious leaders respect the opinions of their followers just as Apostle Paul said in Eph 6:1-4 that; ‘children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.’
Now, the law that says ‘honor your father and mother that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth” is not a law meant for the parents in the Lord. That law is strictly for your biological parents whom most of you had relegated to the back and some totally forget about them and place their religious leaders whom they tagged their spiritual parents or fathers above them. You are sick. As a matter of fact, you are under a curse. Parents in the Lord or spiritual father or mother is a scam. Jacob cursed Reuben his biological son, Prophet Moses, Reuben’s parent or father in the Lord blessed him but Reuben still remain under a curse till date.
You’re a fool if you think that God will keep blessing you and increasing you when you keep honouring your parents in the Lord and you keep treating your biological parents as trash. Is it your parents in the Lord that took care of you from the Cradle to your adulthood? Is it your parents in the Lord that sent you to school and paid your schools fees? Is it your parents in the Lord that paid for your medical and hospital bills to keep you alive when you are sick as a child? The system of parental in the Lord is a system of reaping where your religious leaders had not sown. That is stealing.
Religion and religious teachings is one of the reasons why so many people are filled with wrong ideologies about God, life and the opposite sex. To keep people in control, religion and religious leaders create fear in their followers rather than faith in God and in themselves. For example, one of the laws of Moses which was claimed to be the laws of the Lord says in Ex 20:14 that; “you shall not commit adultery.’ But the man Moses that gave the law had Two Wives. King David had Seventeen Wives and Two Hundred sex partners. King David was so bad with women that he killed Uriah after sleeping with his wife Bathsheba. King Solomon had Seven Hundred Wives and Three Hundred sex partners. The question then is, is God playing animal farm game with us? Why will God punish some people for committing adultery and pardon others for doing the same?
Aside from the wickedness from the part of humankind, I’m yet to see a person that God killed or punish for having multiple wives or husbands. The woman at the well Jesus Christ said to her in John 4:17-18; “you have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.” This is a Woman living with a Man she was not legally married to and still Jesus Christ did not condemn her or told her to pack her things from the Man’s house as any religion and the religious leaders of our day will say. An ideology that had destroyed so many beautiful unions.
The reason for all these mess is simple, control. Trying to dictate how to live your life and what you must do with your life per time. White wedding or religious wedding is not wedding. It’s purely British culture adopted by religious institutions to popularize their religion and made it known to the wedding guests. Marriage is an agreement between two people whose heart, mind and thoughts are knits together, committing to each other’s success, achievements and visions. Not gathering together folks of vultures with the hidden intentions of devouring you and ruining your life and future.
So many people are wasting away these days simply because of their over commitment to their religion and little or no commitment to their friendship and relationship with others most the opposite sex. Keeping friendship with the opposite sex doesn’t mean that anything sexual is going to happen between you two. Religion is the only reasons why people think in that direction and that is what happened when your mind had been polluted, your brain reprogrammed and your heart darkened.
Even though Apostle Paul referred the darkened of the heart to be of those who are not of the same religion with you in Eph 4:17-19 saying; ‘this I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.’
Funny enough, this description is the perfect image of so many religious people across the world. Most importantly the overzealous ones who believed that they are far better and important than the rest who are not of the same religion or denominations as they are.
You can be a good and even great friend with the opposite sex without any emotional involvement or sexual transactions. You can’t been isolating yourself from people when at the same time wasting away. Even Jesus Christ cannot accomplish his aims and objectives in life without the help and support of His One Hundred, Twenty Disciples. Not just that, even God cannot make anything happen in the earth with associating with mankind. This the Hanani the seer made known to Asa King of Judah in 2 Chron 16:9 saying; ‘for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.’ If God and Jesus Christ could not do anything meaningful here on earth without associating with mankind, what made you think you can?
Despite the fact that some Men grew up among several Ladies; they’re still somehow careful with their friendship with Ladies so that they don’t end up leading them on as people usually say. Meanwhile the Ladies themselves wanted to be led on and become a value added into their lives.
One thing had noticed from that is the fact that, it is not the Ladies that are the problem, many time it is the Men that are the issue; and the issue is emanating from the religious indoctrination they received when they became brain washed with the word Born Again and handed an ideology of “don’t do this, don’t do that”; making them to believe that they are now better than those who are not Born Again. Alas, the real people living real life in every sense and reality of life and God are those we tagged not Born Again. The said Born Again ones are those I considered to be the Born Against; and their ways of life is always to stand and act against you mostly in secret and still be laughing with you in the open.
Now, let’s break down the might behind this word Born Again once and for all and end the lies and the falsehood of manipulations that the religious leaders had attached to it. In John 3:1-8, it was said that; ‘there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 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.”
There are so many things made mentioned here that we need to explore to establish the fact.
Nicodemus is a ruler of the Jews. Meaning he is a prominent leader among the Jews. The most difficult people to place under submission are the individuals that are established leaders in their choice field of profession. They are used to giving suggestions and instructions to others. Controlling people is their ways of life. So, taking suggestions and instructions from others is a no for them. And this Jesus Christ establish after the rich man that came to Him to enquiry about what it takes to have eternal life and Jesus Christ said to him in Matt 19:21; “if you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” In verse Twenty Two of that scripture, it was said that ‘when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Then in Matt 19:23-24 Jesus Christ said; “assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Based on this, it is clear evidence that been born again only qualifies you to see the Kingdom of God not to enter into the same. But in Luke 17:20-21 Jesus Christ said; “the Kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the Kingdom of God is within you.”
Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. So many people misinterpret this verse thinking that to be born of water is water baptism and to be born of the Spirit is Holy Ghost baptism. That is not so and that is not true. To be born of water is to be wash of water by the word just as Apostle Paul admonishing in the husbands in Eph 5:25-27 saying; ‘husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.’
It is about studying the word as it was said in 2 Tim 2:15 that you should; ‘study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
It is about having boldness to enter to enter the presence of God as it was said in Heb 10:19-25 that; ‘therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.’
While to be born of the spirit is to be lead by the spirit as it was said in Rom 8:14-17 that; ‘for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out,”Abba, Father.” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs — heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.’
Now, you cannot be led by the Spirit of God when the word of God had not dwell in you richly as it was said in Col 3:16-17 that; ‘let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.’ Not gossiping and speaking evil of others.
Break yourself free from religion before it destroys you. Born Again or Born Against, your choice. Be friendly with people. Associate with individuals that can add value to you and connect you with the right persons in right places regardless of the choice of religion or denomination. Forget the false believes that you are better than some people. Only God can determine that not your religion or denomination.
Love and respect people no matter who you are or what they are. An insignificant ocean can sink a ship not just a boat. The strength is never in the appearance but in the depth of the same. So also, that a person looks like a nobody doesn’t mean he or she is of no good to you. Use your head my friend, use your head.
My name is Olumide Sunday Samuel Adedapo Adeoye King the Covenant Child of God. Mr. Just