ATTITUDES RELATING TO THE TRADITIONS OF MEN

My Dear Precious Child,
    One of the things about which your Brother Jesus Christ chided the Pharisees, Sadducees, scribes and religious leaders is that they often looked at political and religious traditions as being My commandments when they were not.   The Pharisees questioned Jesus Christ why His disciples transgressed the tradition of their elders by not washing their hands when they ate.  Jesus Christ answered them and asked why they transgressed My commandments by keeping their traditions. (Mark 7:1-13)
    For instance, Jesus gave a good example when He said that their practices of washing hands before eating and washing pots and pans for purity and many other traditions were not commanded by Me.  Then He told them that sometimes their traditions make My commandments of no effect such as one commandment they reject which is to honor their father and mother.  He said that  when they give money to the church or temple which should have been used for their parents when they are in need, that is one time they make My commandments null and void by their placing their traditions above My commandments.
  Jesus Christ went on to say that there were many ways in which they placed religious traditions above My commandments and it should not be so.
    It was in that wise teaching that Jesus Christ taught that the political and religious leaders had missed the whole truth by saying, teaching and believing that eating with unwashed hands or from unwashed bowls will make a person unclean, as their traditions insinuated.  He said that what goes in the mouth goes through the digestive system and then into the sewer.  He told them emphatically that it's what comes out of a person's mouth in words with bad attitudes that makes them unclean.  He reiterated that it's from within, from their hearts, and that eventually comes out of their mouths that make them unclean, such as fornication, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, folly and other evil thoughts and attitudes.  He said that it's the things inside of a person what makes a person unclean, not anything that enters the body such as eating in unwashed bowls or unwashed hands.  He knew that it's the devil's influences in their lives which cause them to yield to the evil temptations which produce the actual, real uncleanness in the lives of My children.  (Mark 7:14-23) 
    My Holy Spirit through Paul warned the people in the churches that since they had received Christ Jesus that they should also walk in His teachings.  He told them that they should be rooted and built up in Him and established in faith as they had been taught, always abounding with thanksgiving.   His warning was that they must be careful that any man would spoil them through philosophy and vain deceit after the traditions of men and the rudiments of the world instead of after Christ.  His profession was that all of the fullness of the Godhead is bodily in Christ and there is no other way, that traditions are not commandments, but are mere human requirements sent in order to enslave you to the demon of religion instead of your being yoked to Christ Jesus and follow in His guidance. (Colossians 2:8)
    My Holy Spirit also warned the people in the churches through Peter, saying that they were not redeemed with silver and gold, but through Jesus Christ they were delivered from the traditions of their fathers. (I Peter 1:18)  They were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ Jesus, that in Him is the fullness of the Godhead.  He said that the traditions of men through religion and politics lead you away from Me instead of to Me.
    Religious traditions often replace My commandments and My guidance.  When they do, there is no longer a sacrifice for your sins and you are sinful again because you have returned to religious laws and become cursed in every area of your life.  After My new covenant of the Holy Spirit began ushering My kingdom of God into the lives of My children, the letters to the churches from Paul, John, James and Peter all approach this subject, that some of the people had left the firm foundation of Jesus Christ and had replaced trust in the the Lord Jesus Christ with traditions of men in religion and politics and became cursed because the devil controls both institutions.  
    Refuse to become yoked with traditions of people instead of being in unity with Me in the person of My Holy Spirit.  I will show you complete freedom.  Traditions take you back into bondage to the devil.
    Your Father of Commandments That Bring Liberty