May 04, 2025

GOODBYE RELIGION
Week 2 - What God Desires MOST
May 4, 2025

Religion… Focus on what we must _____________ in order to ______________ God’s favor.

Religion is always ____________________ in nature.

Luke 15:1 (NLT) Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach.
2 This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them! Luke 15:11-12; 13-16; 17-24; 25-28; 29-31.

Religious People…
_________________ out of ___________________.
Get _______________ when the __________________ doesn't ___________________.

31 “His father said to him, ‘Look, dear son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours. 32 We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is found!’”

Ephesians 2:18 Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us.