The Gospel pure and simple.
Fillipe Moreira
Nowadays, we can see a lot of things introduced in the Gospel of Jesus - as if it was possible. We can see many distortions and changes that should have not been made.. A mixed gospel is not the Gospel. The Gospel of Jesus, the Gospel of the Kingdom, is pure and simple.
Nowadays you need to follow a religion to know Jesus. No, religion does not lead to Jesus. Religion comes from the word "religare" in Latin, which means reconnect back with God. But it is not the man who reconnects himself to God. On the contrary, the Bible says: “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.”
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
“Jesus said, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14: 6
We come to intimacy only through Jesus' sacrifice, not through religion.
The Gospel of Jesus is free from all the filth of religion. You don't have to live by absurd rules to know Jesus, you don't have to live by giving all your money to a religious institution to know and be blessed by Jesus. For you to know Jesus, you just need to start a relationship with Him, talk to Him like you talk to anyone.
"Because my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Matthew 11:30
The Gospel of Jesus is smooth and light. Today religions do absurd things with others, including Christianity. We have seen Christians kill each other, act if they were superiors to each other. There is no love, no compassion, just absurd rules and laws! When laws and traditions are esteemed more than relationships you have met the worse of religion.
We have to be as simple as Jesus was, because that is the true and living Gospel. Simplicity. Jesus did say that the kingdom of heaven belongs to children. Look at what the apostle Paul has said!
"“But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your simplicity and pure devotion to Christ.” 2 Corinthians 11:3
"Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”” Matthew 19:14
During my vacation here in Rio das Ostras, Rio de Janeiro state, Brasil I was talking to a 7 year old girl and asking if what she wanted to be when she grow up, she answered that she wanted to be a doctor to take care of her mother when she gets older. We have to be like a child, simple, loving and pure.
I will tell a story that this child participated. A day later it was starting to rain here and that prevented us from going out, walking and enjoying it our vacation. I asked Jesus to let this rain pass, so at the same moment, Jesus spoke to me what to do and quickly I did. As a little girl slept in our room, I asked her that before going to sleep, she could pray asking our Heavenly Father to bless us for the next day to be without rain. I heard her praying and it was so simple and heartfelt that I started to be very happy. And it dawned with a day without rain. That is how we have to be, as children, pure, simple, loving, kind. Because the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
This is the Gospel, pure and simple, Gospel of the heart, without dogmas, without darkness, without religion, only with Jesus.
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