FAITH CAPSULE: Come out of religion into the reality of celebrating Christ. 

Zechariah 9

The majority answers as Christians with no meaning of what Christianity means, the evidence of those celebrating Jesus without knowing Him.
Do you know Him, or do you know about Him?
Acts 11:26 records, “The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.”
Celebrating the season is the character of coming out of religion into the reality of knowing Christ.
The majority celebrate days and seasons in the name of God but do not live life by the word of God and will not count before God because it is empty religion.
Among the challenges for empty religion is rooted in not KNOWING GOD.
Knowing God is not the same as KNOWING ABOUT GOD.
The majority KNOW ABOUT GOD but do not KNOW God.
Do you KNOW or KNOW ABOUT God?
One that does not KNOW God is not with the TRUTH of God, not free to live life for the glory of God.
Jesus warned, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:2)
One who does not know the truth of the word of God will be full of the world with lies to deceive and manipulate.
Are you celebrating the season with not know the truth to live life for the glory of God?
One celebrating the season in the name of God and not knowing God is with the character of twisting the word of God.
Are you twisting the truth of God? 
Believers or unbelievers twist the truth, the word of God, to deceive and celebrates God empty.
Twisting the word of God is adding or taking away from the word of God. 
Twisting the word of God is adding or taking away from the word of God. 
Twisting the truth of God is telling lies.
Twisting the truth is evil that needs to be avoided, not to be part of the way of life.
By the title among believers, your action, and your word, are you responsible for twisting the truth of God?
By telling lies, God is not found and is the reason to give self to the word of God to attain perfection in Christ Jesus, celebrating Him. 
Celebrating God while twisting the truth of God does not listen to the truth of God, giving attention to lying that does not access the power of God. 
Give yourself to the truth of God as a way of living life knowing to celebrate the glory of God.
Twisting the truth of God belongs to the evil one. Deuteronomy 19:19 buttresses, “…so you shall put away the evil from among you.” 
Know the TRUTH and not be twisting the truth by way of life.
Celebrating God is living by the word of God, not of the world.
It is the character of many to live by the word of the tongue, not by the word of God.
1 John 3:18-19 admonishes, “My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.”
Celebrate with the understanding that counts before God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to fill you to know and live by the truth.