Religion? Jesus Is the Only Way; Not Religion!

By Reverend Glenn Adams

July 30, 2023

Blessings to those who read and understand this article that it may help you be successful in following the way of Jesus Christ and that it may also help you understand how radical this way of Kingdom living and following Jesus is!!! False pastors and their religion in this nation will not tell you that to follow Jesus Christ is a way of controversy, you will be hated, persecuted, reviled, criticized, you will be sent out as lambs among wolves and hauled before judges and even face death.

We are in a spiritual war not against flesh and blood but against the powers of world forces of darkness and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places and we are to walk in His Spirit as He walks putting on the full armor of God daily in order to fight the good fight of faith!!!!! HATH GOD REALLY SAID?!!! Yes!!, and God warns us not to be deceived and ignorant of the devices of Satan.

Is it any wonder that there is a great falling away from the faith in America in these last days and difficult times? We have corrupted the way of Jesus Christ and many are deceived and ignorant. To say that Jesus loves you and to ask you if you love Jesus, then declare you are “born again” is a lie. Jesus said unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. If the presentation on how to enter the way of Jesus is wrong, then the way you will live that way will be wrong!!!!!

We have presented the way of Jesus to people without them counting the cost and the lie that it is easy to be a follower of Jesus Christ. Very few realize just how radical it is to be to a follower of Jesus. Are you all in with Jesus with absolute obedience, submission, commitment, faithfulness, and allegiance to live this way to face the demonic world and resist this evil coming against us? If you search for your comfort zone or hide to avoid conflicts and controversy to save your life, Jesus said you will lose your life!!!! HATH GOD REALLY SAID?!!! In the Book of Revelation, the first people cast into hell are the cowards!!!

As hard as it is to follow Jesus, we have way too many pastors in our religious institutions in America who preach an easy gospel and are living according to James 3:13, “But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes from above but is earthly, natural, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.

Too many pastors today have one goal. To gather numbers in order to build a mega church, a bigger staff, and more buildings. Did not Jesus say HE WILL BUILD HIS CHURCH?!!! These false pastors have no conviction for Ephesians 4:12, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the Body of Christ until we obtain unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God. If these pastors were sent by God, they would announce God’s word to God’s people but instead they preach their God- loves- everybody- non-threatening sermons. For them to preach truth, the whole council of God, to reprove, rebuke, exhort, repent of sin, and to obey, is too negative.

Their smooth words do not build strong followers of Jesus because they hear words that have no authority, power, or life from God in them. And when the trials of life come (and they will) and the demonic world shows up (and they will) and they are overtaken by Satan, they fall away from what little faith they have!!! Religion never speaks about what is going on in culture, dying to the flesh, renewing the mind, the spiritual war, and how to resist evil. Religion sees no evil and they do not cast out Satan because Jesus said, “Satan does not cast out Satan.”

But God has a faithful Remnant but how strong and effective are we? I see a lot of spiritual activity but no plan. Where are the leaders? Some are busy in resistance to Satan but are we effectively stopping the Global Elites and Klaus Schwab and Satan advancing in our nation? Are we recovering what Satan has stolen from us? What really concerns me is that many citizens are waking up but where do they go and what do they do? That makes planning and organization all the more important!!!

While the Remnant is not divided theologically- we must come together with a plan and organize to be an effective resisting unit and to give those who are waking up a place to belong and get involved. Satan and his forces are unified but God’s Remnant does not talk about unity and becoming organized while the elites and Satan have plans years ahead of us!!! If the Remnant of God ever becomes into unity, then everything we purpose to do will be possible for us.

Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” Paul says in Colossians 2:2a-4, that in Christ Himself, in whom is hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with persuasive argument.

“See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the traditions of men, according to the elementary principles of this world rather than according to Christ.” (Colossians 2:8.) “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and You are complete in Him who is the head of all principality and power. (Colossians 2:9 NKJV)

The Bible, regardless of translation, is very clear that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life and no one comes to the Father but through Him. But the religious systems of this world have developed many different ways to God. If Jesus is the way and His word clearly explains that way, then why do we need all these religious ways in America; the Southern Baptist way, the Methodist way, the Pentecostal way, the Charismatic Way, the independent Way, the Catholic way, and on and on without end?

The problem with the various religious ways to God is they divide us. Paul had that problem in the First Century, he asked, “Is Christ divided?” No, and we are not supposed to be divided. To me it is simple: If Christ is the only way, then if those who follow Christ must follow His way. The Bible says there is only one body. In Matthew 16:18, Jesus said, “I will build My church……” That word church is singular. In Ephesians 5:23, “Christ is head of the church.” Not churches but one church.

Paul says it very well in I Corinthians 1:10, “Now I exhort you brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and there be no divisions among you but you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.” Some of us in America are going to have to adjust!!!!

In the First Century, Jesus went up, the Holy Spirit came down, and the disciples who Jesus had trained, went out to make disciples of Christ. These disciples, were in one accord, made many new disciples. Most of the New Testament is written to the church explaining the way of Jesus and correcting those who had strayed from that way.

Today in America, the way we do church is terribly wrong. How did this happen when Jesus and His disciples have so clearly shown us the way? John the Baptist came preaching repentance – repentance is not going down to the altar crying and confessing your sin – repentance means to change your thinking- the Kingdom of God is near you.

Not only have we missed the Kingdom in our America religious systems but we have missed so much more. How did we get to where our religious systems are not about Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life but we now have many false pastors who are not teaching the whole council of God to the Body of Christ? There is false teaching, there is no correction, and there is no change going on. We remain the same year after year!!!! As a result, we have lost our influence in our nation!!!

God came to earth in an earthly suit and His Name is Jesus. Jesus is the Logos of God and He came speaking God’s ideas to cultivate a Kingdom belief system in us. The only message Jesus preached was about the Kingdom of God. Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is near you. He mentioned the Kingdom of God over a hundred times from Matthew to Acts. He said in Matthew to seek first the Kingdom of God. Jesus explained the kingdom in the parables. He said in Luke 4:43, “I must preach the Kingdom of God to the other cities also for I was sent for this purpose.” He sent His disciples out to preach the Kingdom. In Acts 1:3, after the resurrection Jesus spent 40 days speaking of things pertaining to the Kingdom of God; not the cross, the resurrection or His suffering. These are very important but the Kingdom was the message.

Evidence abounds that Jesus did not come to earth to start a religion called Christianity. Nowhere does Jesus call us Christians. We are sons of God. He came to restore what was lost in the garden because of the disobedience of Adam and Eve – they lost a kingdom – a government, and dominion. Now the question is how did we get so far away from the message Jesus preached -the Kingdom of God “the rule of God” that He demonstrated to us while He was on this earth? Why does Satan rule us today and not God?

Let’s begin here. Everyone has a belief system. Your belief system came from your ideas. Your ideas came from everything you see, hear, and experience in life that you have accepted. Your belief system can come from someone that taught you or a movie, television, or something on a digital devise. If the source of your ideas about God came from false pastors, then your ideas about God will be wrong.

All this leads to your philosophy – your way of thinking. If someone says they have a philosophy about a thing – it is what your belief system thinks about this thing. Your belief system is very powerful. If someone tells you something, you put it into your belief system and it interprets it for you – tells you what to think about that.

Your philosophy forms your state of mind or mentality. Your mentality produces something we see as attitude. Attitude is the manifestation of your belief system or your belief system producing a conclusion. Whether we realize it or not, we are a product of the ideas we have collected over our lifetime and we have turned them into a belief system and we feed everything we see, hear, or experience into that belief system.

The problem is we live our belief system every day and it is very hard to change. Many today in our churches have lived their life with the wrong belief system. They have sat under false pastors and they preach their positive sermons and never challenge you or your belief system. They make you feel comfortable and lead you to believe you have fulfilled your spiritual duties by attending or coming to a building.

They do not equip you to live the life of Christ, to seek first the Kingdom of God, to have a personal relationship with Jesus and to abide in Him. They do not prepare you for the war you are in and how to resist evil. We are not growing in the Lord, being conformed to His image and likeness, we don’t know how to die to the flesh, renew your mind, and take thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ.

You come to church, you never change and you are the same person year after year after year. Then the day comes when you shut the door to your belief system and you no longer receive any new information into your belief system and you remain permanently stuck in your belief system and life. This is where the traditions of men make void the Word of God in your life and your belief system is now what the Bible calls a demonic stronghold.

Once you have those demonic strongholds, you can hear a teaching of truth or a new idea and you will not accept it. You are stuck in time and you think what you know is true and sufficient and you feel no need for study or correction. People will approach you with the Word and tell you the truth but you will smile and agree with them but you will continue to believe what you have practiced for years.

You have been taken captive by the philosophy of men and the empty deception of false pastors. You can sit in a church under a false pastor and your belief system will take it all into agreement and you will feel so good and boast how much you love your good church and enjoy the teaching of your wonderful pastor.

Jesus encountered people like this in Matthew 13:13 in the Parable of the Sower. Jesus said these people while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. And in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled which says, “you will keep on hearing but will not understand and you will keep on seeing but will not perceive for the heart of this people has become dull and with their ears they scarcely hear, and they have closed their eyes lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and return and I should heal them.”

When people who are in these institutional churches in America under these false pastors and have shut down their belief systems and have a demonic stronghold, they will in the last days when the antichrist speaks, their corrupted belief system will link up with the ideas of the antichrist and in their deception, they will take the mark of the beast. These false pastors teach the philosophy of this world system and Jesus said the people who sit under them will become like their teacher.

No matter how hard you try, you cannot live by any other belief system than the one you have created and are living by. You can challenge it but change only comes when your mind will accept truth and you begin living by it. All of us must be on a journey of getting rid of our ignorance and lack of knowledge. God said in Hosea 4;6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.” HATH GOD REALLY SAID?!!!

The knowledge, power, and authority of God is in His Kingdom way. Look at all the false teachers in America and what is happening to our children. We are going the wrong way and there are consequences for our wrong belief systems!!!! Evil never rests and if unopposed, it grows exponentially. If we don’t take a full-frontal-attack on this darkness overtaking our nation immediately and I mean soonest, then God could enable our enemies to complete our judgment!!! God bless, I remain His warrior and watchman, Glynn Adams (Thanks to the many pastors and teachers in the Body of Jesus who have received His revelation and share it. Thanks especially to the late Myles Munroe and his tapes on the Kingdom of God on You Tube)

E-Mail Glynn Adams: glynnadams@sbcglobal.net