Don't Let Religion Take All The Oxygen From The Spirit

In Mark Chapter Two we see where the religious establishment were so steeped in their religion and their own stolen authority that they didn't believe they needed a Savior. Their knowledge of the Scriptures was nothing more than a religious badge they proudly and arrogantly wore. Their religion caused them to, eventually, murder Jesus! Nothing has changed. Our religion, of whatever denominational, doctrinal stripe will cause us the become adulterous from our First Love Jesus Christ in favor of a relationship with that religion. It is a dangerous distraction at first, and it becomes bondage removing us from the freedom in Christ because we have rejected the power of the Spirit.