A poem about the power of grace. Preorder My New Book: http://www.notwhatyouthink.tv My FREE audiobook here: http://ow.ly/x7KMX My book (paperback) here: http://ow.ly/vjzAH SIGNED copies of my book here: http://ow.ly/xgi8U Subscribe here: http://ow.ly/t8bDw SPEAKING/SCHEDULING: I'd love to come to your area! Help us out by filling this out: http://ow.ly/c9oJL MY INFO: Facebook: http://ow.ly/bMEPU Twitter: http://ow.ly/bMEQd Instagram: http://ow.ly/nkV7K Site: http://ow.ly/bMERM Email: jeffersonbethke@gmail.com VIDEOGRAPHER INFO: email: matthew@cikproductions.com website: http://www.cikproductions.com Instagram: http://ow.ly/nkVkY twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/cikproductions Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CIKProductions Lyrics of poem: http://ow.ly/bWanb Get my audibook FREE here: http://www.jeffbethke.com/audible A poem I wrote to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion. In the scriptures Jesus received the most opposition from the most religious people of his day. At it's core Jesus' gospel and the good news of the Cross is in pure opposition to self-righteousness/self-justification. Religion is man centered, Jesus is God-centered. This poem highlights my journey to discover this truth. Religion either ends in pride or despair. Pride because you make a list and can do it and act better than everyone, or despair because you can't do your own list of rules and feel "not good enough" for God. With Jesus though you have humble confident joy because He represents you, you don't represent yourself and His sacrifice is perfect putting us in perfect standing with God the Father.
Religious institutions created the bible as we now know it for the purpose of enslavement not salvation. It's(the bible) a very clever compilation of manipulative suggestion that is aimed at naive conscripts just like our video star here. Fear is its backbone, fear that the person who has power over the bible (clergy , the elite ) etc will not hold them in good favor and therefore the created god will not favor them either. It's a manual of control and in the correct hands a very powerful tool for social control. Its trump card is that most humans fear the unknown and what's more unknown and feared than death ! The young man above just like most who subscribe to a religion that is formated in written text forget that the text created the god not the other way round !
what came first the chicken or the egg Mmmm!😉