TEACHING: FREEDOM FROM DEMONIC INFLUENCE — IDOLATRY, REBELLION, AND RELIGIOUS WITCHCRAFT by Dr. Josimar Salum

TEACHING: FREEDOM FROM DEMONIC INFLUENCE — IDOLATRY, REBELLION, AND RELIGIOUS WITCHCRAFT

by Dr. Josimar Salum

In every generation, the battle for the hearts of men has always centered on worship—who we worship, how we worship, and whether that worship is rooted in truth or deception. While many today may reject the notion of idolatry or witchcraft as ancient or irrelevant, the Scriptures reveal that these spiritual elements remain deeply present, often hidden behind religious practices, cultural traditions, and even in Christian rituals void of the Spirit of God.

In this essay the spiritual foundations of idolatry, rebellion, disobedience, and the subtle forms of religious witchcraft are exposed as infiltrated even in modern expressions of faith. 

Rooted in the unchanging Word of God, this study will bring light to hidden strongholds, reveal the danger of man-made traditions, and call every believer to a deeper walk of holiness, truth, and total submission to the Lord Jesus Christ.

This is not merely an academic study—it is a call to repentance, to discernment, and to freedom. As we open the Scriptures, may every form of darkness be exposed, and may the truth of God bring lasting deliverance to those who seek to worship Him in spirit and in truth.

Let the Word speak. Let the Spirit convict. Let Christ reign.

1. Worship Belongs to God Alone

God created man in His image to be like Him and serve Him in all things (Genesis 1:26-27). True worship is not limited to external rituals or internal emotions—it is the complete surrender of life, words, and actions to the LORD. 

As Jesus declared, “The true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24). When this devotion is redirected to anything or anyone other than God, it becomes idolatry—a violation of the first commandment (Exodus 20:3)—and opens the door to demonic influence, for “the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God” (1 Corinthians 10:20).

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image… Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God.”

— Exodus 20:3–5

2. Idolatry Is Spiritual Adultery and Servitude to Demons

In the Bible, idolatry is often tied to spiritual adultery—God sees it as His people turning their hearts away from Him:

“They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God.”

— Deuteronomy 32:16–17

People may not bow to statues today, but they may idolize money, power, people, traditions, or religious symbols, and these can become spiritual gateways to the influence of demonic spirits.

3. Rebellion and Disobedience Are as Witchcraft

Rebellion and disobedience are not minor sins—they are likened to witchcraft and idolatry in God’s sight:

“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.”

— 1 Samuel 15:23

When someone rejects God’s word, chooses their own will, or clings to tradition over truth, they are operating in a spirit of rebellion—which aligns with the spirit of witchcraft, which seeks to control and resist God.

4. Religious Rituals and Traditions Can Be Demonic in Nature

Even within Christian settings, when people engage in empty rituals, traditions of men, or acts that lack faith and truth, they may unknowingly practice forms of witchcraft—offering external religious actions while their hearts remain far from God.

“This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”

— Mark 7:6–7

“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”

— 2 Timothy 3:5

God does not want religion—He desires a surrendered heart, led by the Holy Spirit, not by tradition, superstition, or fear.

5. Path to Freedom: Repentance, Truth, and the Holy Spirit

a) Repent of Idolatry and False Worship

“Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.”

— 1 John 5:21

b) Submit to God’s Word and Authority

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

— James 4:7

c) Reject Christian Traditions and Rituals Not Based on Christ

“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men… and not after Christ.”

— Colossians 2:8

d) Be Filled with the Holy Spirit and Walk in the Light

“If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”

— 1 John 1:7

   Conclusion: Only Jesus Sets Us Free

   Freedom from demons, idolatry, rebellion, and religious witchcraft comes only by the truth of Jesus Christ:

   “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

— John 8:32

   To be truly free, one must renounce all false worship, repent from rebellion, reject religion, and walk by the Spirit of truth, fully submitted to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

#ASONE

THERE IS NO FREEDOM IN ANY RELIGION. Josimar Salum

THERE IS NO FREEDOM IN ANY RELIGION

Josimar Salum

It is not in God's nature to control anyone. Granting Freedom is God's means. The greater the Freedom you have in God, the more submissive you want to be to Him.

Jesus was anointed by the Spirit to set the oppressed free and open the prison for all inmates.

Sinners today leave their lives of oppression and demonic suffering and become evangelicals to continue living under an even greater weight of oppression from an entity they call "god."

Everything is nothing but a personal and human projection, an oppressive religion that took its inspiration from the threat of hell and judgment, which imposes a fear and a dread of sin based on “it may be the consequence of sin”, the curse of the police-priests of the religion who oppress their followers, making them more miserable than they were when they lived in the “world”.

And the world is still the world, but now religious - decorated with lamps (the established legalisms) and conventional clichés (the idioms of the evangelical: "you're tied up", "go on in victory, the blood of "jesus" have power, get out satan, shalom, peace of the lord, etc.).

It's all just a hypocrisy to maintain themselves with a so-called transformed status, when all they experienced was a botched reform. They live under an infernal charge to stay in the group and to be promoted in it, almost having to sell their souls to the devil again.

The Grace of Freedom in Jesus is that anyone could be whoever they were and strip themselves entirely before the One who not only probes the deepest of hearts, but has the Power to transform any heart, no matter how corrupt. 

Jesus came to give Freedom to the Children of God. And Liberty never matches Religion. There is no freedom in any religion.

#ASONE

TEMPLE. Josimar Salum

TEMPLE

By: Josimar Salum

For years, I wanted to teach and to preach what I was learning from Jesus. He answered, "The time has not come."

The total discovery of the Gospel of the Kingdom revolutionized my life. The seeds of the Gospel planted in me when I was still a child were the foundation for understanding not only the Kingdom but the Church according to Jesus.

When I returned from India in 2011, still on the plane, the Lord said to me, "The time has come to teach what I have revealed to you."

And as soon as I returned I was scheduled to preach to pastors of the BMNET - Brazilian Ministers Network. 

I taught about the temple in the light of the Bible.

One thing had caught my attention on a street in Madurai. I stood at a corner looking directly in front of me, a Hindu temple, a mosque and a Presbyterian temple.

What caught my attention even more was seeing three buildings of great religions in the world, right next to each other. Next to each one a store to sell their religious products. In the Hindu temple, flowers were sold to be offered at the temple. Prayer mats and other items were sold at the mosque's shop. In the store of the Presbyterian church, paintings, Bibles, ornaments and the most diverse books of the Christian faith were sold.

All religions had one thing in common: the temple or a building and a store to sell their religious products.

I preached that morning following exactly the script for rap singer Azorap song entitled "temple." In the end the pastor who was graciously leading the meeting tried to deconstruct the message. But he didn't find verses in the Bible to undo it. On the contrary, in conclusion, he said that in eternity there would be no temple referring to the text of Revelation:

" I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”  He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”  He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.  I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp." Revelation 21:2‭-‬6‭, ‬21‭-‬23 

One of the pastors, my friend, said to him, in a joking tone, for everyone to hear:

"Stop it, pastor, don't say that, you are reinforcing the teaching he shared."

And the meeting ended, everyone laughing, finding it funny, and most of the pastors present never invited me to preach in “their” churches again.

Yes, they do not know that "behold, I make all things new" already happened on the cross of Calvary when Jesus died.

And believers, especially pastors, don't know that Eternal Life has already begun. Hallelujah!

Translated by: Filipe S.S. Gouvea

#ASONE

THE END OF EDEN: THE BEGINNING OF ALL RELIGION. Josimar Salum

THE END OF EDEN: THE BEGNNING OF ALL RELIGION

Josimar Salum

 Man and woman lived in the garden in the most perfect expression of humanity, in complete freedom, in deep communion with God, without rituals, without prayers and without religious obligations of any kind.

 In the Garden of Eden God and man had relationship day and night.

 And, as they had full fellowship with the Creator, they never felt the need to do anything that would draw Him close to them.  God was present, close by, without hindering their freedom.  Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Freedom.

 Although the Scriptures do not say it for certain Adam - man and woman did not pray.  They did not say prayers or pray, they just talked with God as naturally as they talked to each other.

 God was with them all day and not just in the evening.  Praying is not a spiritual activity, praying is talking to God.

 The Kingdom of God in Its Fullness was over the whole Earth and His Will was done in the Garden as it was done in Heaven.

 The man and the woman worked cultivating the garden;  all they did was worship.  Therefore, the end of Eden was the end of worship and the beginning of all religion.

 Jesus and the disciples were born and raised in a religious environment, also rich in traditions, stories and powerful experiences of God's action in the past.  However, neither Jesus nor, after they started following Jesus, neither the disciples followed a religion, that is, they were not part of any.

 Jesus did not practice Judaism.  It is also true that Jesus did not found Christianity.  He did not found any religion.

 The good news that Jesus preached produced the despair of the religious and the joy of the multitudes.  Good news was news of joy, celebration, good surprises all the time.

 Jesus proclaimed the good news of the Kingdom for all areas of existence.  Jesus was the Holy of Holies, the Ark of the Covenant, the Shekinah wandering among men.  God was not long over cherubim in the holy of holies of the temple of men.

 The Kingdom was the good news.  The Kingdom contrasted with their parents' religion which was only part of that existence.  

All the people lived under the tyranny of the Roman Empire which spread widespread oppression in addition to religious oppression.  The Kingdom was everything.

 Every religion is based entirely on the experience and record of other people's past.  To follow Jesus is to leave the religion of the ancestors to live with Him in the present.

 Following Jesus cannot be a religion because religion conditions the individual's lifestyle.  The lifestyle is set to suit religion.

 Following Jesus is the way of life itself.  It is the walk on the Path in the wilderness.  New thing.  New thing.  What is done here is done anywhere and the temple is just any place no more sacred than any room in our house.

 When Jesus was baptized by John, he resigned and broke away from the religion of His parents.

 When the disciples heard and responded to Jesus' “Come and follow Me”, they naturally left their religious life behind, and it could not be otherwise, to become only followers of Jesus.

 Jesus participated in all the religious festivals of the Jews, but he did not stick to what they represented or meant.  They were shadows of what was to come.  And Jesus was there, he had already come.  He was the final revelation of each of these shadows.

 The "Passover", and it should be the last, which he ate with the disciples before he died on the Cross, was not celebrated as a ritual or as a memorial of the liberation and departure of His people from Egypt simply, but there he inaugurated the New Covenant with His disciples.

 Passover was an Old Covenant festival;  every year Passover was celebrated and a lamb was killed to be eaten whole.  The Paschal Lamb was Jesus.  And He was there.

 The New Covenant has only one Lamb, killed once and forever, who is resurrected.  The Lamb is alive.

 This is so different from the Old Covenant, which required a dead lamb every year.  Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.  It takes away the sin of the world because, having been killed, He now lives.

 #ASONE

What does it really mean to be followers of Jesus Christ only?

What does it really mean to be followers of Jesus Christ only?

Josimar Salum

*We are just followers of Jesus Christ. We follow his footsteps. And if he died, also we died. And if he was resurrected by the power of God, we will also be resurrected at the last day. And now we no longer live for ourselves, but for our God who gave us life when we live for others.*

Anything we do to God that does not bring benefit to someone it is not for Him. Singing, praising, worshiping is really in Spirit and in Truth if we are serving others. There is no worship if we don’t serve our brothers and sisters. Jesus only served all the time. His devotion to the Father was shown with His actions in serving people. 

*We have no temple or altar, because we do not do animal sacrifices. We need not go to the temple or offer anything in any altar because Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.*

Temples as houses of God are an abomination for the Gospel of Jesus. Because people used to go to the temple to find God, now God left the temple (the veil was torn apart) to find us everywhere. 

God was made flesh (Jesus) and walked 33 years in Israel. And people kept going to the temple to find Him. They passed by Him every day, even when He visited the temple and they could not identify Him. 

God did not leave the temple when the veil was torn apart, He left long time ago. The veil was split in two not for Him to come out, but that people could see that the Holy of Hollies was empty. Where is God if He is not in the Holy of Hollies anymore? God is sitting at the table with His disciples and brothers having fun, eating bread and drinking wine. His Church meets at best around a dining table.

Right after the day of crucifixion the priests went swiftly and sewed the veil. This is what Christianity has been doing; sewing and sewing again the veil that Jesus had torn apart.

*We do not offer more sacrifices on the altar, because our life is a sacrifice to God. We give ourselves over to our God as a living sacrifice, the true act of worship is to live for him. Everything we do, we do for the glory of our God. In fact it is not what we do or do not do it is the act of worship, but we ourselves, that is, our life itself, consequently, everything we do is an act of worship. We take care of people, those who are close; all that cross our path. This is worship.  *

We only live for God if we live for one another. There is nothing more abhorrent for God than songs, words and worships that are not backed up by life, by testimony. Matthews chapter 23 explains this very well.

*For the same reason also we do not have priests, because we do not need people to make sacrifices for us on an altar or in a temple, because our life is that it is the sacrifice, the altar is the Cross of Jesus and we are the temple. Alone, individually I am not the temple. Collectively we are the temple. And we are priests, but none of us are a religious authority. We have no one greatest among us, only Jesus Christ. Only Jesus is greater! He is alive among us right here, right now! And we have no holy men in our religion. There are holy men around the world, but NOT holy men of a religion. In fact, we do not have a religion.*

Evangelical pastors and catholic priests are simply priests. They are in front of the people to represent God. As they represent God before people, they usurp the place that belongs only to Jesus. In these terms, as they become mediators between men and God, because they are the ones that bless, pray, and God only speaks through them, they are above all people, they are Antichrists even without knowing.

*We do not have a sacred day. Sunday is not the the Day of the Lord, every day is the Lord's.  Our ancestors had a holy day: the Sabbath. But that was in the time when we needed to go to the temple to take animals so that our priests had to sacrifice them. Now that we surrender to our God as a living sacrifice, the true act of worship is to live for Him. And we live for Him while living for our neighbors in any day, any time.*

Once again, that is the Gospel. “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.” I John 3:16

“Let us be clear: we do not have a religion! We are followers of Jesus, we are not Christians because Christianity is not the religion of Jesus Christ. Christianity is the religion of Constantine, the Roman emperor. Because it was Constantine who began reassembling all that Jesus Christ had dismounted. It was he who began to build temples dedicated to God, officiated a day of the week for worship, invented to worship God is something that is done in temples, appointed priests, and started this mess that we see today. “

All Christian denominations are merely forms of religion. Each of them has their own doctrines, creeds and practices. In the real sense of the words they are really sects and cults, which is to be apart from the main stream (Jesus only). Our brothers and sisters in Christ are part of that, it doesn’t mean they are lost, it means they are not fulfilling the true meaning of the Church and the Kingdom. Gathering apart from these systems doesn’t mean we are right ant they are wrong, we can all be wrong if we come under another cast of leaders and we do not follow these evident truths:

*Jesus taught that we do not need temples, altars, priests, sacrifices and holy days. Ah! He taught that He loved us as we love each other, serve each other, pray for each other, build each other up, comfort each other, support each other and embrace each other. We are not independent, neither we act independently, we depend on God and we are His body as we are individually members of one another. We are His sheep in His Church and we are His disciples in His Kingdom and thus never act independent of each other, we are never alone. Yes, Jesus taught that God is Spirit and they that worship him, must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. Jesus Christ is God.*

Religion is like a wood triangle around the neck by Revee Peter Oliveira

Religion is like a wood triangle around the neck by Revee Peter Oliveira 

Religion comes from a Latin word "religio" meaning, to be bound. 

Like those goats in Haiti with a triangle branch around their neck. 

The goats walk around all day, but every time they try to go through a gate, the wood around their neck gets stuck, and they can't go in. That's religion. 

The pastor is telling people they can not go in another church. So the people walk around starving. Pretty soon, they will be so skinny, they will walk out of that branch around their neck. 

Yeshua is taking the branch out of their neck so they can go and eat wherever there is good food. Then they will be very fat. 

This is a religious goat....

This is a Free goat...

Notice that the free goat doesn't even bother to stand up!

She is resting all the time! She celebrates Shabbat seven days a week. She only gets up to eat more food! 

Look at that religious goat!

She's trying to figure out how to bring more money to the church!

She is thinking: "Maybe I can take a loan from the bank"

Religion is a burden over the people's shoulder.

"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28

5 - Grace Quiz: Sinful cycles of religion by JSalum & Paul Taylor

Sinful cycles of religion by JSalum & Paul Taylor 

Burgeon means sprout, flourish, bloom. 

The old life is fine, the new life sprouts!

The old life is fine for many Christians and it includes all religious obligations. Many live in the same way they lived before. If they were Catholics they use to confess the sins to the priest and the next time they would confess the same sins. 

Many Pentecostals are in the same way! Adventists! And many others! Many are always struggling with the old life while trying to live the new one, as if the new life would be lived by their own endeavor.

They act like this! I have to pray! To read the bible! To come to church every day! If I go to church every day I will be more holy, I will sin less, and so forth.  

There are Christians that if they missed a Sunday service they feel so guilty for the rest of the week!

The old life was a cycle: sinning, asking forgiveness, then sinning with the same sins, then asking forgiveness. And then after they became Christians they sin, feel guilty, then go to the "altar at the church" to ask for prayer, then sin again! What a miserable life! 

Jesus wants to set you free from this cycle! 

Burgeon means sprout, flourish, bloom. 

The old life IS GONE, the new life sprouts!

You don't have to make any effort to bear fruits of righteousness in the same way a mango tree doesn't sweat to bear mangos! 

Dr. Salum, 

You were just describing my life. I was raised to be in church as often as the doors of the church were open. If my family and I were on vacation camping, I would make everyone get around the campfire and we would have our service.  The guilt would be unbearable.  So great to be free and getting freer every day. Amen 

Dr. Taylor

Transforming Series (16): Doing X Just being

I always understand when one of you say that we have to do something or do another thing that  God has commanded us to do! 

Yes, we should do what God says. 

But it is not what we do that keeps our relationship with God. It is not even ministry! 

I keep saying that if I don't sing another song in my life, if I don't preach another message or do anything I am supposed to do for God, He will keep loving me the same way. 

My point is that we inherited a religion based on do's and donts. It is a law abiding religion. It is many times legalistic. However it is not about religion, even if all  famous and important preachers tell us it is religion. No, it is about Love,  brothers and sisters! It is about love! 

“For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 NIV

JSalum

The Truth and many new truths!

Josimar Salum

I stated on Facebook: “God bless us with the courage to give up all the myths that were being transmitted to us from one generation to another and all the idols that were petrified as "truth" but they are not”

A beloved friend replied to me:

"One must be careful with "new truths" if there is such a thing over the past two thousand years. There is nothing new under the sun."

Faith in our Lord Jesus is based in our relationship with Him alone and not as a sub product of somebody else faith and knowledge.

It is impossible to downsize Jesus to a simply personage of history. He is seated at the right hand of the Father, alive and well, today!

The Scriptures are inspired by God, all of them, but not all Scriptures are the Word of God. Jesus Christ Himself, He is the Word of God.

The Word was before the Scriptures. Abraham had no access to any written Scriptures, however He believed and followed the Word of God.

We study the Scriptures diligently because we think that in them we have eternal life. The truth is we don’t have eternal life in the Scriptures. We have eternal life only in Jesus and the very Scriptures only testify about Him. (John 5:39)

If I do need Martin Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and others to tell me what is the “truth” (a)I don't need the Holy Spirit who guides me to the Truth; (b)I don't need the Scriptures who testifies exclusively about Jesus and (c)I don't need even Jesus Himself.

Thank God Martin Luther didn't think that 1500 years had all “truths uncovered" so it would not be necessary for him to find "new truths", like salvation by faith, by grace, etc.

One who says the Scriptures is the only source of Faith and Truth should not contradict himself following the theological traditions of men, the tradition of the church and the confessions of faith.

Any theological truth is a system of conveniences. A uniformity of beliefs is meant to maintain a specific group bound as a denomination, a network or a religion cult.

I am not afraid of apostasy as the Holy Spirit is enough to guide me into Truth.

I am not afraid of finding that I have been in many instances so wrong in so many things that I used to carry dearly as Christian sacred truths.

The truth is that there are no truths. There are no old truths. There are no new truths. Jesus said: “I am the Truth.” Therefore the Truth is eternal and attempting to hold the Truth into the “Chronós” is a lost battle.

Theologians always failed as they attempted to crystallize the Truth.

"The Confessions of Faith are the reduction of God’s Word." (José Rego do Nascimento)

The creeds are enclosures of human attempt to “jail” the Word of God. Both are miserable human belief boxes. I have no confession of Faith neither I uphold any Creeds.

Jesus Christ is my Confession of Faith. Jesus Christ is my Creed.

Today as it has been before, Christian Denominations have proved so distant of the Word of God that as result they have been dividing and multiplying since The Protestant Reformation” .

And all of them were born because they found "new truths" in this unending frenzy that suits the desires of religion politicians who divide Christians not because of doctrinal issues but for personal interests. Calvin, Martin Luther and all others had their own.

I want to know nothing but the Truth, the Person of Jesus who lives in Me.

During these 2000 years since the apostles have died many heresies were introduced, and even today Christian denominations are full of heresies.

The main problem for preachers related to the Truth is that the sources of their study have been all along the books of theologians on their shelves, the books they read every day with all kinds of teachings, their own perceptions catalyzed by their experiences in their seminaries, churches and in the environment they have grown within and their own conveniences to maintain their "status quo".

Probably more than 80% of what we have as dearly as truth are second handed interpretations of somebody else and not what we ourselves have concluded as Truth ministered by the Holy Spirit as result of our own investigation of the Scriptures.

The main question is not whether we are going to find new truths after two thousand years after the apostles of Christ died.

Our life with Jesus is dependant upon if we humbly comes back to the Scriptures, if we will repent of our heresies and go back exclusively to the Word of God.

There is no such thing at all of finding new truths. There is just the Truth of the the Scriptures and hidden after thousands of years of apostasy.

The Truth, the Word! ““The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim:

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile — the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in?

And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?

And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?

And how can anyone preach unless they are sent?

As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”, the Good news of the Kingdom, "The Lord Reigns!"