🎙️ Spiritual vs Religious | Why Following Jesus Separates You From Religion
What’s going on everybody? I’m your host Herb Hill, and welcome back to The Keep It Real Network, where we speak truth with no fluff, no compromise, and no sugar coating.
In this episode, I’m diving into a topic that many people avoid because it makes people uncomfortable: the difference between being spiritual in Christ and being religious.
Jesus did not come to earth to create religion.
He didn’t die so that man could build doctrines, denominations, or traditions.
He came so that we could be reborn through the Spirit and walk in truth.
There’s a major difference between:
Religion — traditions, appearances, titles, and man-made doctrines
Spiritual obedience — repentance, transformation, and following Jesus in truth
Many people think they are following God simply because they belong to a religion. But the Bible shows that Jesus constantly confronted religious systems while calling people into a true spiritual relationship with Him.
This episode also addresses something many believers experience but rarely talk about:
the division that happens within families when someone truly follows Christ.
Jesus warned us that the truth would separate people — even households.
📖 Key Scriptures Referenced (KJV):
Matthew 15:8–9
“This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
2 Timothy 3:5
“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
John 5:39–40
“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.”
Matthew 10:34–36
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword…”
Luke 14:26
“If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother… he cannot be my disciple.”
Mark 3:33–35
“Who is my mother, or my brethren?…
For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”
2 Corinthians 6:17
“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord…”
Luke 12:51–53
“Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division.”
Galatians 1:10
“For do I now persuade men, or God?… for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”
Ezekiel 33:1–9
The watchman’s warning — speaking the truth so the messenger is not accountable for the blood of those who refuse it.
This episode challenges listeners to ask themselves:
Are you following Jesus, or just following religion?
Are you living for truth, or protecting tradition?
Are you trying to please God, or please people?
Jesus did not die so we could become religious.
He died so we could be reborn.
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