Reclaiming the Cross Part 1 - Reinstituting Proper Worthship

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There's a deep irony with the "spiritual but not religious" crowd who have a strong dislike for "religious" people.
If you are a Christian who has a high view of Scripture, believes what Jesus taught in it, and lives a life through a biblical worldview with no exception, then you’re “religious.” They’ll compare you to the Pharisees in very derogatory ways. Their way is the high moral ground.
They’ll say things like,
"But I'm a child of God!"
“Look at all the good I do!”
"I'm not a wretch, I’m a good person. Especially compared to some other people! I have nothing to repent of.”
“Jesus isn’t God! Stop making him out to be an object of worship!”
"I actually follow what God says. You're the ones messing it up!"
But do they even know who they sound like?
The Pharisees.
The Pharisees were self-righteous, refusing to come to God because they followed their own man-made traditions. They stubbornly refused to humble themselves before God. They were dead on the inside and had hard hearts because of their pride.
There is hard legalism, where there's a forceful, prideful authoritarian attitude that instills fear and is works based, and cultic. This is wrong and unbiblical.
I'm calling the "spiritual but not religious" crowd "soft legalists." This is trickier. It's not as obvious. They're not harsh (unless they disagree with you.) But make no mistake. They're just as religious.
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HE FOOLED US
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+10%3A11-17&version=CJB
Romans 10:11-17
Complete Jewish Bible
11 For the passage quoted says that everyone who rests his trust on him will not be humiliated. 12 That means that there is no difference between Jew and Gentile — Adonai is the same for everyone, rich toward everyone who calls on him, 13 since everyone who calls on the name of Adonai will be delivered.
14 But how can they call on someone if they haven't trusted in him? And how can they trust in someone if they haven’t heard about him? And how can they hear about someone if no one is proclaiming him? 15 And how can people proclaim him unless God sends them? — as the Tanakh puts it, “How beautiful are the feet of those announcing good news about good things!"
16 The problem is that they haven’t all paid attention to the Good News and obeyed it. For Yesha'yahu says,
"Adonai, who has trusted what he has heard from us?"
17 So trust comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through a word proclaimed about the Messiah.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+7%3A7-12&version=CJB
Romans 7:7-12
Complete Jewish Bible
7 Therefore, what are we to say? That the Torah is sinful? Heaven forbid! Rather, the function of the Torah was that without it, I would not have known what sin is. For example, I would not have become conscious of what greed is if the Torah had not said, “Thou shalt not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of evil desires — for apart from Torah, sin is dead. 9 I was once alive outside the framework of Torah. But when the commandment really encountered me, sin sprang to life, 10 and I died. The commandment that was intended to bring me life was found to be bringing me death! 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me; and through the commandment, sin killed me. 12 So the Torah is holy; that is, the commandment is holy, just and good.

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