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As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7. Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
*Moving From Religion to Relationship*
*Colossians 2:6-7*
\\ Today I would like to fix your focus and motivate your mind to becoming more and more like Christ.
Today, we as a people, we as a nation, we as a country have gotten too far away from the true and living God.
Today, our focus is on prestige, power and on position.
While many of us are looking to gain power for ourselves, our children are fussing, fighting and killing one another.
While we are looking to gain prestige among our peers, our communities are being raped and robbed of it safety.
While we are looking to gain position, we will use any and all methods necessary to gain notoriety above our counterparts.
I’m telling you today, we are failing our children.
All week long, I’ve been listening to different speeches by Martin Luther King.
And I must say that although we have made progress in civil rights, we are letting his dream die.
I just thought I needed to say those things before I really get into the sermon today.
For years now, many of us have been coming to church.
We get up each Sunday morning with our minds on coming to church and having a good time.
All that we are really doing is jus coming.
I must say that in our coming to church, many of us have become so programmed, we have become so predictable, that is seems like much of the stuff that we are doing is just for a show.
It seems that we are not real in the professions that we are making.
It looks like much of the service that we are giving is so rehearsed that it’s not real service.
That is because many of the “church folks” who got good religion and they have become satisfied.
That’s really what Paul meant when he said in Romans, “they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God”.
Really what he was saying was that, many people want to worship God, but they don’t want to do it God’s way, they establish their own little way and become comfortable in doing so.
We ought not to be so predictable this morning.
I don’t know if you notice me like I notice you.
But I can just about tell who’s going to say Amen, and when you are going to say it.
I can just about tell you who’s going to stand and who will continue to sit all through service.
I can just about tell you who’s going to sing in the choir, and who’s going to pray and the content of their prayer.
You just about know how devotion is going to go.
You just about know how the collection is going to be.
You just about know much of the thing that the pastor is going to say, and when he will say them.
Doesn’t this type church really put many of our people to sleep?
There is nothing really exciting about it.
Everybody has become so predictable.
That is because many “church folks” got a religion instead of a relationship.
Now let me carry you to the dictionary and define the word “Religion” for you.
One of the meaning of this word is; “*/A personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs and practices/*”.
Are we practicing church or are we being the church.
There is a difference.
Now there is nothing wrong with having a system, but there are a few words in this definition that disturbs me.
The first word is “set”.
There shouldn’t be anything set for us when it comes to worshipping God.
Because, as Christians we are to be led by the Spirit.
We can’t have a set service if we are being led by the Spirit.
The next word that bothers me is “attitudes and practices”.
Now, the bible says, “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?
even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God”.
How can we have an attitude of our own and practice the things that we always done, if we are being led by God’s Spirit?
When you think of the word “religion” you really began to place yourself back under the Law from which Christ have made us free.
You begin to develop a practice instead of participating in a promise.
You begin to come to church because you feel like you have too, not because you want too.
It is a duty for you and not a delight.
Believe it or not, many of us today have developed a practice.
Some of y’all will only come to church at 11:15.
Some will only come on certain Sundays.
Some will never come back to even services.
Some will never attend Bible Class.
When you become so predictable, you’ve got to wonder within yourself, are you really real in what you are doing for Christ or are you just going through what you’ve practiced most of your life.
Now, let’s look at the word “relationship”.
Webster says it means, “*/The state or condition of being related or interrelated/*”.
It means connecting or binding participants in a relationship.
It means that you are “locked in” and you interact with the Spirit of God, as the Spirit of God interacts with you.
It means that you can talk to God, and you can listen while God talks to you.
And there are many people in today’s world that don’t even know how God is speaking.
He is speaking through His Spirit that gives us guidance to His written word.
Now His Spirit lives within us.
And so many people wishes or want to hear Him Speak out with an audible voice.
Many folks today want God to speak through the thunder, or they want to see a burning bush that is not consumed by the fire, but God’s is a Spirit, and we that worship Him MUST worship Him in spirit and in truth.
That must mean that when He speaks to us, He speaks to us spiritually.
God speaks to the heart.
That why you will hear me tell you when you are engaged in a personal problem, the first thing that you need to do is pray and ask God for leadership.
And then you must listen to your heart.
God speaks to the heart.
As Christians, we are to walk in the light of what His Spirit leads us too.
If we are indeed His children, we ought to be walking in the light of God.
If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship {which is basically the same as a relationship} with one another.
When we can’t get along with one another then we only have a religion.
You come to church all the time, but you still can’t get along with nobody here, you’ve ain’t got nothing but a religion.
You are coming because you feel like it’s right to do.
We are to come here with our hearts geared on worshipping Him.
We’ve been commanded to assemble ourselves together.
But when you come here, who do you get together with?
That’s when you will know that you’ve moved from a religion to a relationship when you come here with your mind on worshipping Him.
In this section of your text this morning, Paul was writing this letter to Colosse and was sent from Rome along with the letter to the Ephesian and the letter to Philemon.
Now, Paul was encouraging them to continue in Christ.
This morning Johnson Creek, if we are going to continue, we must continue in Christ.
We don’t need to continue on practicing our evil little deeds like we’ve always done.
We need to move to a new and better relationship with Christ.
Paul says, “Since we have received Christ Jesus our Lord, so walk ye in Him”.
If we are going to be Christians, we ought to act like Christians ought to act.
We ought to treat one another like Jesus treated other.
We don’t have any business coming here mad at one another.
We don’t have any business coming here fighting one another.
We don’t have any business coming here pulling one another down.
We don’t have any business coming here stuck on ourselves.
This thing is all about Jesus.
It has nothing to do with you.
You are only coming here to give Him thanks and praise for all the things that HE has done for you.
So Paul tells us how we are to act.
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