Stolen Keys:

“What sorrow awaits you experts in religious law! For you remove the key to knowledge from the people. You don’t enter the kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering.” (Luke 11:52 NLT)

Come on Jesus, tell us how you really feel!

It’s amazing to me that this verse slipped passed the canonical board of the early church, must have been divine intervention. It’s pretty self explanatory really. Let’s read it again “What sorrow awaits you experts in religious law! For you remove the key to knowledge from the people. You don’t enter the kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering.”

The number one rule for interpreting the Bible in the way it was intended is this: Question Everything! This is how you engage your imagination.

So when it comes to this verse, let’s ask ourselves, who are the “experts” in religious law? Answer: Church Leaders. What is the “key to knowledge”? Answer: Your divine awareness (knowing you and God are one and the same). The Bible says in Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” If the knowledge of knowing we are God is removed from us, then the world becomes a scary and confusing place where things happen to us with no rhyme or reason; on the contrary, when we have this knowledge, we begin to realize that life is actually happening through us, not to us.

Let’s ask just a few more questions. How do they remove the key to knowledge from us? Answer: By teaching that God is something or someone separate from ourselves. Duality. When we believe God is a secular entity, then we see him/her as someone/something that we must pray to, but if we are one and the same, then God is someone we pray through. Big difference.

“The kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17:21) But the experts in religious law don’t teach this do they? Nope, they want us to believe it’s somewhere way up in the sky, pearly gates, golden streets, mansions; and here’s the kicker, we can only experience this when we die. Bummer. But if we pay our tithes and offerings and do what they say, we’ll have a shot at it…hopefully.

If the Kingdom of God is within us, then we must enter in through meditation. Period. Jesus said “Take no thought” (Matthew 6:31) That’s it. Sit quietly and take no thought, this is how we enter the kingdom, but once again, the experts in religious law don’t teach us to meditate do they? Nope. Quite the opposite actually. “You don’t enter the kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering.” They’re not entering the kingdom themselves, and so they do their best to prevent us from entering as well; because once we do, it’s mutiny on the bounty!

Grab your keys, let’s go for a ride!

In love and light,

-J