Our flesh consistently desires to avoid Him and yet our souls know full well we need His blessing, His permission, to enter paradise when we breathe our last breath on this earth - so we concoct a religion that enables us to appear as if we are His people when all the while we are not. We are what Jesus referred to as "hypocrites". Hypocrite literally means "Actor". Is it any wonder actors are so highly exalted and honored in our present day society? We heap adoration and praise, not to mention millions of dollars, on people who make a living by pretending to be someone they're not. And our churches, our denominations, are full of hypocrites - actors pretending to be "followers of Christ" while all the time seeking their own will not God's. Yes, there are wheat among the tares, yes there are people who sincerely love the Lord, who love truth, in these types of churches....but if they do love and follow Him and not man, He will lead them out of religious bondage, out of Christianity as a religion and into the wilderness where He will personally feed them. Even today, when we take communion, each of us takes the bread and wine in our own hand and we feed ourselves (unless you're Catholic...let's not go there now). The disciples took the bread from Jesus' own hand and so must we. We must become close enough to Him that we are able to receive from Him for ourselves "ye need not that any man teach you, for the anointing which YE HAVE RECEIVED OF HIM abideth in you and teacheth you of all things, and is Truth". And may I say - His manna is delicious! Tastes like honey! And it's very healthy too...for your soul to prosper, you must eat of it. Your soul will prosper and be in good health by it. So start learning to feed yourself, hallelujah! You are not dependent on your pastor or any man for survival, for thy "Maker is thine husband"! And He will care for you from the womb to the tomb "which are borne by Me from the belly, which are carried from the womb; and even to your old age I am He: and even to hoar (gray or white) hairs will I carry you: I have made and I will bear, even I will carry, and will deliver you" (Is:46:3&4).....