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1. Our Legacy with Father God.
Part 1 of 3. “The Great Highjack”
by Richard C. Close, Servant - CEO
Chrysalis Campaign, Inc. www.chrysaliscampiagn.com
@copyright Richard C. Close 2019

2. The unfiltered
Jesus started
out with…
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he
has anointed me to proclaim good news to the
poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for
the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free, -Luke 4:18

3. It started out as a Gospel on how to Love one another.
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By
this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” - John 13:34-35
The Good Samaritan Vasily Surikov

4. Jesus taught a Gospel of grace and forgiveness
“When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any
one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” - John 8:7
TA depiction of Jesus and the woman
taken in adultery Vasily Polenov

5. It was a new Gospel of a God who Loved all people
“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit
and in truth, for they are the kind of worshippers
the Father seeks.”- John 4:23
They Brought the Children Vasily Polenov

6. Yet it was also in-your-face radical
against sin, arrogance, prejudice, greed and violence.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” - Matthew
5:9
Coypel, Charles-Antoine - Fury of Achilles - 1737. Hermitage.

7. So how did we get here?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-22/2nd-night-of-violent-protests-over-charlotte-police-shooting

8. What was so radical about Christ?
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Taught that enlightenment was a personal relationship with God available to anyone.
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Taught that God seeks out a person out of love and that a person attains God out of love. Self
perfection or sacrifice was not a path achieved alone but only by God’s Grace.
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Broke down the walls of religious leadership and institution by teaching a personal
relationship with God through the Holy Spirit.
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The concept of a divine Trinity of three personalities that were in one accord through love. It
was the complete opposite of the human flawed waring Gods of Greece, Rome and Hindus.
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He took the power out of elite authority and handed it to the poor
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He worked with the ones society rejected and even one who killed Christians
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He served, rather than controlled. Never asked for power over his people. His purpose was
to empower people
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He was uncompromising on religious hypocrites and those who commercialize God
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Never asked to build institutions, armies or temples.
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Stood against racial, sexual, class or clan divide
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We have no idea what he looks like, so he can live perfectly inside of us.
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He stopped sacrifices in place of grace, mercy and forgiveness.
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He offered a way for a walking - talking relationship with God while we are alive

9. So they killed Jesus…
and the elite modified his teachings to fit their needs,
(Memeplexes if you want to be technical)

10. What happened to the purity of the Gospel?
Holy Servant changed into Authoritarian Oppression

11. What happened to the purity of the Gospel?
An intimate God changed into a distant God
http://www.asianews.it/files/img/INDIA-VATICANO_-
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Mother_Teresa’s_Message_for_our_Times.jpg
Creative Commons

12. What happened to the purity of the Gospel?
Simple relationships changed into complex traditions

13. What happened to Christ’s teachings?
Small groups of trusted friends changed into Global Commerce
https://www.infoplease.com/us/structures-
buildings/crystal-cathedral
Valentin de Boulogne, 1625–1626

14. What happened to the purity of the Gospel?
House of prayer changed into a house of prosperity

15. Second:Who’s criteria are we
using to judge this behavior?
First:What is inside of us that says
this is wrong?
The Big Questions?
Third: It’s not very loving, is it?

16. So we created a backlash of excuses
“All roads lead to the top of the mountain”

17. Intellectual debates
Relativeness Vs. Right or Wrong
The Infant Cognition Center at Yale
http://campuspress.yale.edu/infantlab/our-studies/
Perry, W. G. (1981). Cognitive and ethical growth: The
making of meaning. In A. W. Chickering & Assoc. (Eds.),
The modern American college (pp. 76–116). San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass.

18. and fake news
“I am the center of my universe”
Bartolomeu Velho, "Figure of the Heavenly Bodies", Cosmographia, 1568 (Bibilotèque national de France, Paris)

19. We all worship something.
The religion of “me.”
“The power for creating a
better future is contained
in the present moment:
You create a good future
by creating a good
present.”- Eckhart Tolle
“Decide what you want,
believe you can have it,
believe you deserve it
and believe it’s possible
for you.” - Jack Canfield

20. 325 AD
Nicene Creed’s
Power Grab
Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine, accompanied by the bishops of
the First Council of Nicaea (325), holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan
Creed of 381
By Unknown - [1],[2], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/
index.php?curid=117976
“I believe in the Holy
Catholic Church”

21. Hey, I thought Martin Luther reformed Christianity
by separating Rome from warping the scriptural
truth of Jesus’ teaching!
Some History

22. Martin Luther 1501AD
1501 AD 95 Thesis Reformation I.0
Made church authority subservient to scripture by
translating the Bible into the language of the German
people. The people soon discovered they were being
manipulated in unbiblical ways.
Gave people the power to learn from one another through a
German bible and were no longer dependent on a priest for
either understanding Christ’s teachings or a relationship
with God.
That people did not have pay for indulgences to be free from
sin, but rather through repentance in a direct relationship
with God.
That the people had a direct relationship with God, Jesus
and Holy Spirit through Love.
That a fearful God and Heaven could no longer be used as a
political ecumenical tool to oppress and steel money from
the poor
The people learned that Cannon Law dogma was a lie.
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder [Public domain]

23. Sadly the Luther Reformation
1.0 did not go far enough.
• Theologians wrote without the guidance of the Holy
Spirit so “is” was alter into “interpretation of” A back
door to social Darwinism and other evils.
• Theologians & Academics paid by politically
powerful used theology to create obedience.
Churches became self sustaining economic models
• Church sects institutionalized and packaged
theology into dogmatic traditions.
▪ Theology schools repeated the theologian concepts
reinforcing dogma. And rejecting those who stray
from the sects beliefs
• Pastors (most meaning well) replicated the
institutional dogma or told parishes what they
wanted to hear, and sometimes both.
• The Holy Spirit became and idea rather than the
living person for Jesus will. Man’s flaws ran the
church, not God, to build flawed churches.
• The seeker’s relationship with the Trinity was
highjacked by the process of institutionalized
Christianity. The way to God was through a priest or
tradition, not a direct relationship.
• Seekers still developed a codependent relationship
with church leaders rather than the Holy Spirit.
• The Holy Spirit seeped back from the church leaving
it spiritually empty.
https://avemariaradio.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/empty-church.jpg

24. Luther was radical, transformative and liberating
Local translations of the Bible and liberating
thought sprang up around Europe and British
Isles resulting in heresy and rebellion.
Luther’s revolution gave back to the people
their relationship with Jesus.
Some History

25. Unfortunately the evil claws of greed,
arrogance and power run very deep.
430 Years Later!

26. Christian Reformation 2.0
1 of 4 The Great Hijacking:
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