How do we avoid self imposed religion and false humility?

[Ariel82]

Colossians 2
[SUP]13 [/SUP]And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, [SUP]14 [/SUP]having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. [SUP]15 [/SUP]Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

[SUP]16 [/SUP]So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, [SUP]17 [/SUP]which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. [SUP]18 [/SUP]Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not[SUP][d][/SUP] seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, [SUP]19 [/SUP]and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.

[SUP]20 [/SUP]Therefore,[SUP][e][/SUP] if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— [SUP]21 [/SUP]“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” [SUP]22 [/SUP]which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? [SUP]23 [/SUP]These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.






I just wanted to know how can we tell the difference between TRUE religion and rules God wants us to follow and the false ones men and the world and Satan tries to enslave us with?

I remember this verse:

James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.



does anyone remember any others?

 

[justamazed]

By declaring the world and its resources common to all of mankind.

 

[TheAristocat]

[h=2]How do we avoid self imposed religion[/h]
I guarantee you if you follow all of God's laws you're not going to want any extra self-imposed religion.

 

[Angela53510]

How about love?

"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." 1 Peter 4:8

 

[zone]

By declaring the world and its resources common to all of mankind.

huh?
show me Jesus teaching communism

 

[zone]

Re: How do we avoid self imposed religion and false humility?

 

[homwardbound]

Colossians 2
[SUP]13 [/SUP]And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, [SUP]14 [/SUP]having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. [SUP]15 [/SUP]Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

[SUP]16 [/SUP]So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, [SUP]17 [/SUP]which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. [SUP]18 [/SUP]Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not[SUP][d][/SUP] seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, [SUP]19 [/SUP]and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.

[SUP]20 [/SUP]Therefore,[SUP][e][/SUP] if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— [SUP]21 [/SUP]“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” [SUP]22 [/SUP]which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? [SUP]23 [/SUP]These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.






I just wanted to know how can we tell the difference between TRUE religion and rules God wants us to follow and the false ones men and the world and Satan tries to enslave us with?

I remember this verse:

James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.



does anyone remember any others?

You mentioned what are God rules, God has one and it is not a rule or regulation, it is Love that God supplies to you the believer once you consider yourself dead to flesh (sin) and alive to God then one serves God in love unconditional
1 John 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
The better one sees this love of God the more they will just love
Once one sees they are past tense 100% forgiven they automatically forgive
These are not religion of do's and dont's these are responses to the living God Christ.

If one just responds to God that makes God the creator, but if one tries to initiate by doing good then does one think God being the creator (initiator) would respond to the creation. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wait a minute if God ever responded to me by what I was doing or not doing then that would make me God over God. We as flesh and blood do this very thing to others all the time unless we decide to die to flesh and blood here and now, and come alive to the Spirit of God
Just think about it? Are we the creation or the creator, which is which? I think God would rather us be responders to God in praises and Thankfullness to him, than to say hey look at me watch my smoke
Just some food for thought

 

[kardiaoangelous]

James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

We have a sacred service toward God that is not summed up by the word, "religion".

The word "religion" actually means "ceremonial observance", (see Strong's Greek Dictionary word #2356)

You could therefore word Acts 26:5 "Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our ceremonial observance I lived a Pharisee."

Now of course at Galatians 1:13 and 14 Paul actually uses a word which means Judaism and our Bible translate it into our language as "the Jews' religion".

Jesus and all of the New Testament Bible writers sought to move us away from a ceremonial mechanical approach to serving God and to teach us how to worship God in spirit and truth.

Yet, we see that Paul struggled in all the churches with those who insisted upon hanging onto that Old Law ceremonial approach which proved to be man's righteousness rather than God's.

And so it is not surprising that we see James also struggling with those in the congregations he oversaw, who insisted upon the ceremony of that Old Law and even judged and lashed others with their tongues for failing to agree with them.

Thus James tells them, James 1:26-27 "If any man among you seem to be (ceremonious in worship), and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's (ceremonial observance) is vain.
Pure (ceremonial observance) and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."

2357 threskos -- probably from the base of 2360; ceremonious in worship

2360 throeo -- from threomai to wail; to clamor

2356 threskeia -- from a derivative of 2357; ceremonial observance

This is food for pondering. I will not speak what it implies but present it for you at your own discretion to consider.