Misplaced Righteousness

The moment I opened Misplaced Righteousness... As I read the opening statements at the beginning of the book, I realised that the book was written from that place of honesty and such a genuine desire to teach truth to a dying world and a misguided church.  The language is simple, the font style appealing and the truth is not masked by intellectual verbiage...   I discovered that this book would challenge its readers...  You will either accept the challenge and embrace change or reject the challenge and find yourself without excuse before Almighty God.  I believe that it was written to answer the cries in the hearts of many who have become frustrated with religion, but are unaware that God always had a different plan...  That God's plan was never to meet man through religion, but through relationship. An entire chapter in the book is dedicated to explain why God takes no part in religion.  The book states emphatically that "God is about relationship... that of a Father with His children."

Misplaced righteousness is for the person who is longing for tangible, measurable, undeniable change... It reveals the folly and trickery of religion as it skilfully counterfeits genuine relationship and reconciliation with the true, living and loving God.  The book asked the question...  And you can answer it in your heart... "Has not religion tampered with the mind, corrupted man's thinking, and hampered his relationship with his Maker?" It continues... "Religion is grievous to God- not because God is affected by it, but because His children are affected by it. As the loving Father that He is, He grieves for His children, knowing that they have chosen the way of separation from Him by choosing religion instead of Him."  This excerpt can be found on page 25.

The religious formula is flawed . . . It is a placebo and has no power to save us from the worlds’ deadliest disease, sin.  Misplaced Righteousness reveals that there is a demonic spirit called a Religious Spirit that was released by hell to control all religion . . .  The book states "God and Jesus Christ did not introduce religion to man. It is religious spirits, assigned by Satan, that have incited man's imagination to invent this counterfeit called religion." An excerpt from Chapter 10, “Religious Spirits.”

Misplaced righteousness is for the believer who has lost his way... who has been deceived into exalting his own apparent righteousness, not realizing that man's righteousness is like filthy rags to God...  It is for the Christian who has misplaced the mission of Jesus Christ, which is restoration, reconciliation and redemption, and has instead embraced an unholy position of judging and condemning fellow believers and unbelievers alike. The book exposes these traits as self-righteousness... And I quote "Self-righteous individuals often step beyond the boundaries that the Word of God has given to men.  They step into areas that Jesus Christ and the Father have reserved for themselves.  This presumption causes men to see themselves as judge, jury and executioner of others." Page 52. This in a nutshell is misplaced righteousness and it exists in the Counterfeit Church.

Christians should not read this book with an aim to point fingers at those they identify as religious. Instead, we need to examine ourselves to see if this venomous philosophy has seeped into our lives and has caused us to be more interested in practices and traditions than relationship or Christ's Christianity. Chapter 13 tells us exactly how to return to Christ's Christianity as we turn our backs on Misplaced Righteousness.

This book has been released at this time to bring redemption to the redeemed . . . lest we find ourselves crying Lord, Lord and become heartbroken when His reply is "depart from me, ye that work iniquity".  I believe this book is an end-time depiction of the sop that Jesus lovingly extended to Judas, in an effort to win him over before the devil completely consumed his heart.  The church needs to embrace this book.  Those in search of truth, the whole truth, need to embrace this book.  Those who have been disappointed by religion, and have sworn to walk on the opposite side of anything that sounds godly, need to embrace this book.

Let me end with one final quote . . . "For a person to live and die and to not know his Maker, God and Father, is life's greatest tragedy.  Yet equally tragic is a life lived, presumably serving God, but actually in the deception of error." Page 102.

Review Written By: Rev. Jacqueline Martinez