Religion or Relationship

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Religion or Relationship
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• Religion
• What comes to mind?
• Service
• Worship
• Prayer
• Fasting
• Baptism
• Action
• Doing

• Relationship
• What comes to mind?
• Family
• Husband/Wife
• Dinner for Two
• Talking on the Phone
• Love Letters
• Spending time together with someone you love.

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• Religion
• Is burdensome (1-4)
• Rules
• Regulations
• Laws
• Hard to bear
• Keep the 10
• Plus 110 more
• Feel enslaved
• Feel burdened
• Escape or run away

• Relationship
• With all
• The Way (Acts 9 19 24)
• Matt 1128-30
• Yoke- ties 2 together
• Side-by-side
• Unencumbered by guilt condemnation
• Walk in Grace Joy

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• Religion
• Seeks to please men (5-7)
• Phylacteries
• Names Rabbi, Father Ph.D. Dr.
• Titles in Public
• Pray (Mt 65)
• Fast (Mt 616)
• Bragging (Holy)
• Everyone less, incompetent, unrighteous, guilty

• Relationship
• Those who seek to please men receive their reward
• People let people down
• Jesus is solid
• Lk 624-31 35-36
• Develop relationships

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• Religion
• Hindrance to faith (13)
• Hypocrites
• Shut the Kingdom of Heaven
• No one enters
• Feel oppressed
• Judgmental and condemning attitudes become
  stumbling blocks to faith

• Relationship
• Hearts are windows to the soul
• Dont judge
• Rom 1413
• Let me tell you of what Christ has done for me!

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• Religion
• Sees Only Peoples Faults (23-24)
• Mk 71-3
• Negative
• Picky
• Strain the gnat but swallow the camel
• Worry about what everyone does or doesnt do
• Why serve God if everything I do is wrong?

• Relationship
• Jesus knows our hearts
• Wants us to be honest.
• Dont try to hide your warts!
• James 47-10
• James 516
• This is were healing begins

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• Religion
• Laws
• Works
• Depends on our righteousness
• Knowing the rules
• But that cant make us holy

• Relationship
• Knowing the Savior
• Faith in Christs righteousness
• Allowing Christ to make us holy
• Grace
• Eph 28-10
• Rom 623
• Rom 413-15 51-2