True religion is built on the word and action which is Faith and Belief.
It is written {15 But if a brother or a sister is n*ked and may be lacking in daily food,16 and any one of you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, but does not give them the things the body needs, what gain is it? 17 So also faith, if it does not have deeds, is dead being by itself {James 2:14-17HRB}
My brethren how many times do we sin by not acting on the knowledge that our brother needs food or clothes. Instead we become religious as we pray, "May You provide for those who don’t have".
Yet you throw food in the bin week in and week out. How will GOD provide for them when you, whom He entrusted to take care of your brother is not doing it? It is written {17 Therefore, to anyone knowing to do good, and not doing it, it is sin to him {James 4:17HRB}
Some hide under tithing to the church as the reason why they cannot give as they give to the church. My brother’s can you show me where God said, "I came and you did not Tithe to the church". There is none but {42 For I hungered, and you did not give Me a thing to eat. I thirsted and you did not give Me a thing to drink; 43 I was a stranger, and you did not take Me in; n*ked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me {Matthew 25:42-43}.
When they inquired when did they not give assistance to him? Christ answered, "If you did not do it to one of your brethren you did not do it to me" (Matthew 25:45) True worshipers are seen by doing things for their brethren for no personal gain.
Are you a true worshiper my brethren? True religion is not going to church and get hyped-up by a preacher with no action, hearing, and hearing and more hearing. You leave the church saying that was so powerful but no action from that powerful message. It is written {22 But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the Word, and not a doer, this one is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he studied himself, and has gone away, and immediately he forgot how he looked. 25 But the one looking into the perfect Law of liberty, and continuing in it, this one not having become a hearer of the word which can be forgotten, but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in his labor.
Some hide under tithing to the church as the reason why they cannot give as they give to the church. My brother’s can you show me where God said, "I came and you did not Tithe to the church". There is none but {42 For I hungered, and you did not give Me a thing to eat. I thirsted and you did not give Me a thing to drink; 43 I was a stranger, and you did not take Me in; n*ked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me {Matthew 25:42-43}.
When they inquired when did they not give assistance to him? Christ answered, "If you did not do it to one of your brethren you did not do it to me" (Matthew 25:45) True worshipers are seen by doing things for their brethren for no personal gain.
Are you a true worshiper my brethren? True religion is not going to church and get hyped-up by a preacher with no action, hearing, and hearing and more hearing. You leave the church saying that was so powerful but no action from that powerful message. It is written {22 But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the Word, and not a doer, this one is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he studied himself, and has gone away, and immediately he forgot how he looked. 25 But the one looking into the perfect Law of liberty, and continuing in it, this one not having become a hearer of the word which can be forgotten, but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in his labor.
26 And if anyone thinks that he ministers to Elohim, and does not restrain his tongue, he deceives his own heart, and his service is in vain. 27 Pure and holy service before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world {James 1:22-27HRB}This is In contrast to the false religion where people goes bragging and showing off what they have been blessed with, be it new cars, new houses or new dresses on the pretext of a testimony.
Some even use the opportunity to gossip about others in form of prayer points as pointed out by my lovely sister Uju from Nigeria.
The Kingdom of God is not about how much one is blessed with but how much one is prepared to share one's blessings with those that do not have {7 Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, that you should bring the wandering poor home? When will you see the naked and cover him, and you will not hide yourself from your flesh? (Isaiah 57:7HRB}You see a man buying a fleet of cars from the tithe and offering money he received, yet members of his congregation have no food and their children are not going to school as they cannot afford to pay only 20 dollars per month school fees, yet they tithe to the church every month.
Their pastor would beat his chest saying, "I am a man of God and I am blessed". Shame on you. Was your blessings not meant to be shared with those who don’t have? A true believer is the one who puts the word into action as a Doer.
The Kingdom of God is not about how much one is blessed with but how much one is prepared to share one's blessings with those that do not have {7 Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, that you should bring the wandering poor home? When will you see the naked and cover him, and you will not hide yourself from your flesh? (Isaiah 57:7HRB}You see a man buying a fleet of cars from the tithe and offering money he received, yet members of his congregation have no food and their children are not going to school as they cannot afford to pay only 20 dollars per month school fees, yet they tithe to the church every month.
Their pastor would beat his chest saying, "I am a man of God and I am blessed". Shame on you. Was your blessings not meant to be shared with those who don’t have? A true believer is the one who puts the word into action as a Doer.
You don't need a law of tithing to teach you to give your struggling brother from the heart neither to give the church, remember James 4:17 Just the knowledge that the place of meeting you use needs rent to be paid or your brother needs food and you do not act, to you it is a sin. But when you give {7 Each one as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or out of necessity, for YAHWEH loves a cheerful giver {2 Corinthians 9:7HRB} Be in a true religion which must be a way of life.
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