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(the Blog post section of this story reads better then this)-  

At the end of my Pastor email signature is a note that says:

“𝓙𝓮𝓼𝓾𝓼 & 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 & 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 is 𝓃𝑜𝓉  (NOT) 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝘰𝘳 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 or 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝒹𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓃-𝒾𝓏𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃) 𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘫𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘮/𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴.”

Now, you may say “that is mean”. But it’s real truth. 

When Jesus came to earth He didn’t pick the religious Priest or Pastors. Instead Jesus picked basically uneducated nobody fishermen. did you know that?

We talk of Church. We look at big church buildings or see Stained Glass or the Pastors nice Robe.

Yet when Jesus taught, He sat the people down in groups of 50. I think that says a lot. 

Notice:

Jesus didn’t try to put all the people together to make a “Mega Church”. Jesus didn’t ask them for money or require them to wear nice clothes.

When you do see Jesus in Churches the Bible, you see Him getting out a Whip and Flipping over tables. He said that Churches were for prayer (Unified talking with Him & singing love songs to him). 

It’s almost hard to believe that in the Bible, the scriptures say - that if I believe in Him, then He (Jesus) holds me and even sings love songs about me, to my ears and heart. 

But you need to understand that this amazing perfect Emmanuel (God with us) - that i killed with my own sins, wants (it starts with) a 1-1 togetherness with me. That comes from a humble honest heart that has repented of its sins and has allowed Him to be in charge of my life and heart. 

And that 1-1 comes before a 1-25 or 1-10,000 group. I don’t need “community”, at least not before confession of my sins and my eyes going from looking at myself - to Him. It is in that private personal 1-1, where Jesus opens up my eyes to my own wicked heart & sins. My guilty impure life that killed His perfect life. My human prideful flesh prefers to talk of my Pastor Ordination papers or big Church building or attendance growth or some stupid religious junk. But there is no perfection in any of that - or me. Only God is perfect. In fact, there is no perfection in or about anything - in this life or world - except Him. 

So to be “unified” and back with the creator of the Universe, then you see, justice for my sins (and yours) has to be paid. Guilty people go (or should) to prison. Yet God paid my own prison price - for my freedom, by taking my place in that prison. The innocent paid for the guilty and suffered.

Yes Jesus was Crucified. You probably heard about that. But as they were killing Jesus they (me) tortured Him by punching His face, stripping Him naked, spitting on Him, then they whipped Him with a Whip that had shredded glass in the whip, so that it tore His skin open and you could see His Kidneys and bones. The Bible says that when they (me) got done torturing Jesus, that He didn’t look like a person anymore. Just a blob of blood. - (yes ohhh yes the Bible honestly shares this truth) Jesus did that for me - to pay for my crimes, so that I am able to out His loving righteous perfection onto others, even myself - and in return for the junk and sins that I give to Him, I add on to it my worry, fear, anxiety, debt, work and family problems and everything stinky and messed up in my life. 

So the trade is made (if you accept His gift by then also admitting your sins) and God the Father sees the perfection and beauty in my life, but but but - not of me, but instead of what came to me and given to me as a gift of Grace from Jesus. God Himself. 

By reading the Holy Love letter (Bible) I learn about Him, life, sin, rejection, and Heaven. 

That brings about a humility were I see, even in my own life, how imperfect I am. I see how my words and actions are selfish. All worldly customary attempts (with Church religion helping) to make me feel - as though I am important. But I am not. 

Yet 2 people cannot sit on the Throne of perfection at the same time. The Throne in my heart, (should I accept His sacrifice), is for Jesus only. My job now is to be on the floor thanking Him. For with that, perfect joy, happiness and Heaven are all given to me - through & because of Him - alone. No baby baptism (babies can’t confess sin) or confirmation or a gold jewelry cross - can help me. Jesus died on wood from a tree that He had made. On it wasn’t gold or stained glass, but just His blood. Let me ask you: If Jesus died in an electric chair today, would you wear a miniature one on your neck? 

Moses didn’t actually even begin ministry until he was about 87 years old, and he stuttered and was embarrassed. Paul (Saul) like Popes, killed Christian’s, before becoming a Christian. Then - without Seminary (cemetery) he began preaching about Jesus. No ordination papers needed by Jesus. Ohhhhh how Pastors & religious schools hate that. 

Go Daddy fights me every week as I try to write something to share with you. They (go daddy) put onto my paid for page, with their own words - of how the Worlds religions give people “inner peace”. What a farting joke. Because you see, in truth, without God, there is no such thing as “inner peace”. The inner part - of me - has Satan and his wicked demons trying to have me rule my own life. Well that sucked and I lost. My awards, trophies, degrees, press clippings, and everything in my life has no eternal value. 

Other pastors tell me they don’t (or won’t) read my sermons, stories or Devotionals. I get it. It convicts them. It shows them that this current religious church crap is just a meaningless revolving weekly scripted empty performance play or show (with added coffee & donuts at the end). 

Without Gods Grace and the gift of humility, I would want like them, to stay in the fantasy religious church world that I have made up. 

I want to imagine that for your weekly money tithe - given to me - that I have given you a good performance along with the paid performance of “Bobby our Church band leader” and his replaying of his Taylor Swift or Elevation Church music. We can’t worship sing old time Hymns or Psalms like Jesus did - can we? We must have loud music, colored lights and entertainment. That’s just how God wants Church - right dear Pastor? 

I will tell you of a reality that was not a performance. Not too long ago, during a prayer meeting (better and more Biblical than a Church service) a large number of Pastors and Christians sat praying. A servant of God (Leonard Ravenhill) said “here we are all praying. But in the last year, which of you has gone to the whore/prostitute drug house next door to here, to tell any of them about Jesus? (Same today as 99% of Churches, these supposed Church saints (they are not Saints) have never visited a Nursing Home 45 seconds from the Church building). 

Well at this prayer meeting a very famous pastor fell to the Church floor crying in repentance for his pride. He admitted (confessed) his sin, his heart and his life changed its reality. 

But we don’t hear that. We don’t talk about those kinds of stories. A Pastor above all others, confessing to the people beneath him, that he is a human sinner? As they say in Brooklyn “forget about it”. 

But that is - yes is - what God wants. That is why that only He, that is perfect, can be the atonement for our sins. 

The beautiful truth is, that God wants you. And Church in the Bible is called the “Fellowship of the Saints”, (not fun playhouse of the Aint’s) where saved - born again souls, with Jesus living in and through them, minister Gods love and teaching, even miracles - to each other. The Pastor is really not that much as the super star or even needed that much, except to “be amongst” the people - and not to be at a podium above them. 

Well, Andy, umm what about having disciplined order without the craziness of people just walking around? Well, telll me where people paid money to sit orderly in chairs at Jesus death? Or the order of any of crowd at any of Gods miracles from the Red Sea to the red blood stained cross? Tell me? 

is God- God ? Can God create a world, heal people and do anything He wants? 

God brought chaos into order as He created this world, yes even your bodies cells as He (sorry demon Kamala Harris) creates life and ends life. It’s HIS choice, not yours. 

As I see Church in my vision and dreams, I see people at Church sitting at circle tables of 10 and while eating they share the Bible and pray and maybe even sing. 

I see the Pastor going around the room sitting at each table for a bit and even speaking of his own faults, mistakes and sins, and having these other people- pray for him. What a Biblical example. For this man, this pastor or priest - is not above them, but equal with them - as sinners needing a Savior. 

Are you getting it?

Look: 

1. Got 50 bucks in your wallet? Don’t give it to the Church for new rugs or new furniture, or to the Pastor for his new Mercedes, but as God privately shows you - give the money / that God gave you - secretly to the lady on the other side of the room, who quietly is afraid, but faithfully praying, of the fact that she does not have enough money to buy food today at the Grocery Store - for her and her baby. Let God do amazing miracles, supernaturally, through the natural you, who is now filled a dead person, living with Christ in you. Are you getting it? 

In Gods truth, without Jesus, I suck. I messed life up, even if you or I think - that it is only a little bitty part, it still was big enough part that - made up the Nails that killed Gods only Son. 

On top of that, for worthless me, God just keeps giving & giving to me, even the gift of a great wife and kids. All of which I do not deserve.  

Today, near my house is a new Hindu temple where they worship the snake god. They have millions of fake gods, all I guess in “Go Daddy’s, CNNs and other worldly false religions and their promoters. Even down my other street is the Buddhist temple and their gold plated fat god figurine. Or Mohammed who had 23 wives and 3 were under 11 years old and one of his wives actually killed him. 

Look: The only “religious” leader that matters, is the only one (Jesus Christ), who was perfect and died for me (the imperfect) and then 3 days later defeated death and Satan, by getting out of the grave to live forever. THAT is my Jesus Christ. The other “religious leaders” are all dead stinking corpses. No life and no victory and no (sorry Go Daddy) inner peace. 

Many of you are asking about my health. Thank you. The last 10 days in the Hospital, as they gave me hourly blood test and their educated opinion on my remaining length of days at life - were horrible. Yet being in the dark day after day & night after night, I began to (God did it) take my selfish eyes off myself and onto asking Jesus (as He said to do) to live His life in & through me. I wasn’t blind, but I actually began to better see spiritually. 

I would sit and hear the nurses, the blood techs, Drs, therapist, all just come and go by.  Filling out their notebooks. I listened to patients in their prison rooms talk through their tears, like a bitter melody, when the only instruments were these lonely patients hearts and their falling tears mixed with their “inner” agony. Their remaining life for too many - has no hope. Flowers die with no sunshine or water. 

So, through Jesus, my hospital time showed me more of my own selfish wicked heart, then the Blood test did about my disease. 

So I prayed and with God in me, I looked for the unknowns, those being paid crap wages and given no honor. I would put money on my food tray to tip the black skinned cafeteria people. I would call the worst nurses, the meanest, fattest, roughest - and tell them that they are beautiful. 

I found the gay administrator and told him that churches and religion often can suck, but God is perfect and loves him. I explained that whether he or me or any others at anytime are in a bar, the alcohol can’t help them or make things in their life better and that when He, the light of God, is brightly shinning, darkness has to flee/leave. Even in his own gay life. He never heard about God like that before. 

I’d tell other Patients that they may be very sick, but to me (with Christ in me) they are perfect. Then Lisa (my wife) showed me that these people were picking up the Christian books I wrote and my cards that Lisa had put onto a table, to take with them. The Nurses station had my Tract Card in the head office. 

Life sucks. This is a mean cruel world with hurt, pain, misery, hunger and broken lives. No Pastor or Church can heal or fix that. Only God can fix that and if needed put ol Humpty Dumpty sick andy - back together again.

God is life, not andy. God through Jesus gives me the health, happiness and Heaven that I don’t deserve. It is Him on the Cross, then in my heart, using me to touch others, that brings the needed salvation & healing - that no drug or hospital can fix in anybody.

With God in me - life is healthy and wonderful. 

Little tidbits:,

Do you know (𝓢𝓾𝓻𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓮) the only people in the Bible Jesus got angry at were the Priest/Pastors? Jesus hates religion!

But He loves you so much, that He allowed Himself to be tortured & killed for you, to pay for your own guilty sins.

My Jesus from the love letter Bible, is the one who saw religious people in a church doing religious stuff and got out a whip and flipped over their money tables! Yeah man - thats my Jesus from the Holy Bible. A real tough man, not that crap that CNN and talk shows push on you - that Jesus was a a little gay man or some type of dashboard Bobblehead. 

Now these words (as I said at the start) may make you angry. But I can back up all that I say with the well written torn up Love Letter that God wrote to me (Bible) that I read and sing to.

As a Pastor said to me “andy, I agree with everything that you say about Jesus. But if I told the people at my Church what you say, then I’d lose 1/2 of my church and they would leave”. 

And I thought, as they leave, they take their money with them. 

So we stay with our pre - scripted orthodox Sunday 2 hour Church performance. The people may end up knowing more the Bible, but they never get close to knowing the true God who wrote the Bible. 

And that is the living Word. The way, the truth and the life. 

Jesus Christ the perfect one who is my great King, Doctor, Lord and Best Friend. And no religion or church or Pastor or anything else, can live on the Throne of my heart and live His life of Love, Mercy and Grace - through me, to touch the hopeless and helpless people all around me. 

It’s all by me humbly letting God rule my heart and life, for His eternal Glory. Yes, it was all wonderfully, beautifully given to me - for free. 

For more stories, devotions or to schedule me to pray or speak at your Church - for free - see AndyLovesJesus.com