Many preachers keep preaching the same things round-and-round again which give people interesting teachings, logical comparisons and the courses of actions that they must take while they are unable to take them for reasons that are never explained to them. Believers never receive the spiritual reality which defines their ability or disability to pursue such courses given to them by such leaders. And many leaders even after years of their sincere efforts are unable or unwilling to stop, pause and see whether any spiritual growth and maturing and any spiritual change in the character of their “sheep” has taken place. Let them take any believer who has been in their congregation for 10-20 years or more, give him the microphone and ask him to testify, to witness about his new spiritual knowledge of Christ; and they will see whether his spiritual intelligence is higher than when he was redeemed. (Heb. 5:12) If they cannot see any spiritual development in their “sheep” then they might be feeding them with spiritually “empty straw”. They may be involved in an “eternally barren” religious merry-go-round that leads nowhere! (Heb. 6:1) Are these harsh words? Is this a rude speech? It may appear to you so, but the knowledge therein is not rude. (2Cor. 11:6)
The ministries that may have started well and with the Spirit of God are not continuing well, rather, they are spiritually deteriorating, and fast! And the Spirit is not with that ministry any more. The reason? The ministers do not see that there are powerful and cunning forces of evil and darkness that can imitate the Holy Spirit! That their “job” is to deceive, derail and hamper by ANY available means ANY spiritual progress of ANY believer and minister, who may be trying to make it. And the Lord is allowing these forces to “do their job” in and among His true believers. Are you shocked to read this simple truth? Well, what is the reality?
The reality is that nobody watches. The watchmen–ministers are not watching, so, instead of becoming more meek and spiritual together with their “sheep”, growing in their spiritual discernment to see these powers, to learn how to wrestle with them in spirit, they are becoming more proud, carnal and more blind. The Devil managed to derail or even reverse their original direction, plan, goal, destiny, which may have started according to the Will of God, but is now ending according to the will of man, or that of the Devil through the man!
The Lord says that it is not just pagans, but some of His believers, including their leaders, that have not received the love of the Truth, that they might be saved in their SOUL though they may be born-again in their spirit. To such the Word says:
“;because they received not the LOVE of the TRUTH, that they (their soul) might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie. That they all might be damned who BELIEVED NOT THE TRUTH BUT HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.” (2Thes. 2:10b, 11,12// Ez. 33:18)
The above Word applies to the believers, who remain wicked and deceived by their like leaders, preachers, pastors, elders and by the LADY MINISTERS, who also ignore the Truth, teaching men, preaching to churches (1Cor. 14:34 // 1Tim. 2:11-15) and thus serving Satan and not the Lord!
These ministers have become masters in using all the right phraseology, all the correct and desirable words that entice people into believing that they are well able to achieve the promises and goals that these false ministers are showing them. They will always smile at you, look very happy and full of joy and the more they talk the more people agree, nod their heads and clap their hands. Yet, there is NEVER ONE WORD spoken by them as to what the True Salvation of a human soul really is according to the Word of God! Not one word!
Too many believers cannot endure the sound doctrine any more, but after their own lusts seek for themselves teachers and preachers that will satisfy their itching ears. “And they shall turn away their ears from the Truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” (2Tim. 4:3,4) And once we believe fables, nothing will help us except possibly FIRE from GOD!
Many Church leaders may not be conscious of the fact that they are not exempt from deceptions and that not everything that comes out of their mouth is “approved by the Lord”. They may not be aware that to “talk about the Spirit” is one thing, and it is a very easy activity; but to be actually “led by the Spirit” is an entirely different matter and a painful activity that requires the death of their flesh on their cross. (Gal. 5:24) The Spirit will never lead their flesh to any truth! The devil is quite able and skillful to lead their flesh by imitating the Holy Spirit, as was already mentioned above. What does it truly mean? The fact that someone preaches from the Bible and tries to explain what God means by that passage does not make that individual His servant! God gives His servants to His Church when they are ready in His judgment after having passed through His testing and FIRES and after their flesh is (sufficiently) burned and crucified! Theological faculties or seminaries can never do this job; academic degrees mean nothing to the Lord as they are not qualifications for His true, spiritual servants. In fact, academic or religious degrees may be great obstacles since God is not choosing His servants according to these human standards. (1Cor. 1:27-29)
Anytime, anywhere the Lord may suddenly ask us a simple question: “The thought that you have, is it from My Spirit or is it from your mind?”Are we able to answer it? NO! What proof do we have that that thought came from His Spirit and not from our mind? Are we able to discern our mind from His Spirit? Are we REALLY? We should be able to do it especially when we believe that our mind has been already renewed by His Spirit. Should this simple question from the Lord not stop us in our way and at least make us ponder things which we might have never pondered in our entire Christian life? And when our mind became “religious”, that is, soaked with the letters of the Bible, then this discernment becomes impossible!
The Lord says that if you preach or write books just to keep your congregations coming back and the finances coming in, then you are the most miserable servant of God under the sun. This Word from the Lord applies to all of us, this is not my intellectual thought. How do I know this? I will tell you.
First, the Lord builds His Church on totally different principles and in a totally different manner than man tries to do it. Second, the Lord is able to show the spiritual fruit of His work and also the fruit of man’s work and the difference between the two. And third, what the Lord says always comes to pass as opposed to what man says.
The Bible in the hands of a soulish, carnal minister can be a dangerous thing, and we should not blame that minister, who may have no consciousness of it. But we have to point out this extremely important truth and blame Satan for his deceptions, deviousness, delusions, murderous plots and tactics. Many times we live our Christian life as if the powers of evil and darkness did not exist and had no effect on us or had no interest in us! Are we aware of this truth? If we are not, it may cost us our life.
Since Satan knows the Word of God, he is not very disturbed when we preach the Word, teach the Word, study the Word, discuss the Word, publish the Word… but he is in a panic when we start living the Word of God in our earthly life; when we start using the Word to DESTROY HIS DECEPTIONS and powers of evil and darkness and with it his last hopes. THE END OF HIS DECEPTIONS IS HIS END.
To prevent our living the Word of God, which is so tragic to his plans, SATAN SETS UP HIS OWN “CHURCHES”, where he preaches wonderful things from the Bible and wonderful promises from God. He gives people an emotional pep-talk so that they are beside themselves believing that they can do or live what is being said or written! He gives them ecstatic experiences of the “Holy Spirit” where believers laugh uncontrollably, roll on the platforms, shake like sacs of potatoes and sincerely believe that the Holy Spirit has visited them! Is this incredible? It is truly incredible, yet true.
And if you cannot believe that Satan can set up his “church” then YOU are deceived already! The Lord Jesus said clearly with His own mouth that Satan had his synagogue; (Rev. 2:9). Now if Satan can have his synagogue in the Old Testament he can just as easily have his “church” in the New Testament. If people who say they are true Jews and are not make the synagogue of Satan, then people who say they are true believers and are not, make the church of Satan! Are you truly registering this truth in your conscience, mind and heart? ARE YOU? I do hope so! You should read this paragraph 10 times or more and register its truth and impact on your life. But are you by any chance attending one of Satan’s churches, where the Bible is preached and the “Holy Spirit” gives you wonderful experiences? And where Satan dwells among you? (Rev. 2:13) Are you attending one? How do you know that you are not? What proof do you have? If Satan and his devils can dwell in Heaven (Rev. 12:7-9) they can certainly dwell in the Church which is Heavenly! I am hereby only exposing the TRUTH of the Scripture from the MOUTH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. Do you have ears to hear HIS WORD?
IF YOU WERE NEVER BEFORE AWARE THAT SATAN AND HIS HORDES OF DEVILS AND DEMONS ARE STANDING IN THE WAY OF YOUR SALVATION EVEN MAKING YOU PARALYZED TO DO WHAT GOD IS WAITING FOR YOU TO DO (WHAT IS YOUR PART OF SALVATION AND NOT HIS) THEN THIS IS A HIGH TIME FOR YOU TO REALIZE IT AND EXAMINE YOUR RELIGIOUS WALK IN THE LIGHT OF THE SCRIPTURE.
IT IS A HIGH TIME FOR YOU TO STOP BELIEVING EVERY CREATURE THAT COMES TO YOU WITH A BIBLE AND A SMILE. EXAMINE THE LIFE AND THE FRUIT OF YOUR PREACHERS AND TEACHERS AND PASTORS AND ELDERS AND BRETHREN, WHO ALL INFLUENCE YOU AND WHO ALL HAVE THE POWER TO BRING YOU EITHER TO HEAVEN OR TO HELL! DO YOU BELIEVE THIS?
One very important aspect of our TRAGEDY as born-again and baptized believers is that WE QUITE FREQUENTLY CONFUSE THE FIRST ADAM WITH THE LAST ADAM in our Christian life and deeds! Be not offended at this statement, I include myself into it because the Lord had shown me this fact clearly as applicable to all believers. We are advised by Our Lord that we can distinguish the two by their fruit only. (Mt. 7:17–20) But a COMPOUNDED TRAGEDY of many believers is that they cannot distinguish their own spiritual fruit either! Hence, we have to learn this very important lesson from the Lord’s Spirit and it may frequently be a painful lesson. The simplest rule is: In the LAST ADAM (CHRIST) THERE IS NOTHING FROM THE FIRST ADAM! And in the First Adam THERE IS NOTHING FROM THE LAST ADAM! But in the First Adam you may find all the “fruit” of Satan… from the most horrible and disgusting one to the humanly appealing, religious and appearing “goodly”.
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To be continued next week in chapter 7 – part 4
brother Hanola
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