"Religion Won’t Save You, But Jesus Can"

I’ve had people tell me, “I don’t think religion is for me.”

And you know what? I understand that. I used to say the same thing. Because religion—man-made rules, lifeless traditions, hollow rituals—religion never saved anybody.

But Jesus? Oh, He saves.

The world is filled with people running from religion, but I’m not here to give you religion—I’m here to tell you about the One who came to set captives free.

Because listen to me: Religion didn’t crawl into the dirt for you. Religion didn’t take the whip, the thorns, the nails. Religion didn’t hang on a cross, bloodied and gasping for breath, while the very ones He came to save mocked Him.

But Jesus did.

And He did it for you.

Some of you think you’re too far gone. That your sins are too many, your mistakes too great. You think you’ve done things that can’t be undone, that you’ve crossed lines you can never return from.

But I’m here to tell you—you are NOT too far gone. Because the God who spoke the universe into existence, the God who holds the stars in His hands, is the same God who left heaven to come after YOU.

Not to hand you a list of rules. Not to bind you with chains of religion. But to break the chains of sin.

To call dead men out of graves.

To breathe life where there was only death.

And He is calling YOU right now.

I don’t care where you’ve been. I don’t care what you’ve done. I don’t care if the church hurt you, if religious people turned you away, if you feel like you could never belong. Because Jesus isn’t looking for perfect people—He’s looking for the lost, the broken, the sinners who KNOW they need a Savior.

You think you don’t need Him? Friend, let me tell you something—you don’t just need Jesus, you were MADE for Him.

And one day—listen to me—ONE DAY, every single one of us is going to stand before Him. Every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess. And on that day, it won’t matter how much money you had, how successful you were, or how many good deeds you tried to stack up to impress God.

There will only be one thing that matters: Did you know Him?

Not, “Did you go to church?”
Not, “Did you try to be a good person?”
Not, “Did you follow the rules?”

But Did. You. Know. Him?

Because He knows YOU. And He’s calling your name right now. He’s been calling your name your entire life. Through the pain, through the struggles, through the nights you thought you wouldn’t make it.

This isn’t religion. This is RESCUE.

This is JESUS.

And He’s here.

So I’ll ask you one last time—do you know Him?

Because He already knows you. And He’s waiting for you to come home.

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