Spiritual Discernment And Common Sense
There is and has always been a movement against that which is GOOD and PERFECT. In the book of Genesis we are given how it all began, how it was ALL PERFECT and COMPLETE, and the persons involved in how it fell to where we are. Elohim had created everything perfectly through Jesus as we read in Colossians, BUT WHAT WENT WRONG? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? To say Christ has saved you, you MUST NEEDS believe all that is written, for Jesus is the Word, the Logos, not just the chapter 8 of Romans, not just the John 3:16, not chop and shop verses of scriptures building an HUMANISTIC religion to suit our own conscious or behavior. To do the before mentioned, is a carbon copy of chapter 3 of Genesis, which placed US in this entire predicament, and the Christ on the cross. YES! God is love as American Christendom so often screams and God is HOLY, JUST, FAITHFUL, and TRUE. "It is oft said, I believe I am saved by grace through faith..." (Ephesians 2:8 KJV) and Jesus said "WHOSOEVER BELEIVETH in HIM shall have eternal life..." (John 3:16 KJV) BUT I DON'T BELIEVE GOD WANTS ME TO BE UNHAPPY, I DON'T BELIEVE GOD WANTS ME TO STAY IN THIS MARRIAGE, I DON'T BELIEVE GOD HATES HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR, I DON'T BELIEVE GOD WANTS ME TO HAVE A MODEST BANK ACCOUNT, I DON'T BELIEVE GOD WANTS ME TO HAVE AN OLDER CAR. I DON'T BELIEVE GOD... I DON'T BELIEVE GOD... I DON'T BELIEVE GOD.
See the emphasis? Purposeful in the two specific verses, yet purposeful in the following treatise of "I don't believe God" statements. Oh you'll believe Him for salvation, prosperity, and whatever suits the earthly desires but reject what He has spoken on His other desires. HIS DESIRES! NOT YOURS, BUT HIS... We see this heart, mind, and behavior so perfectly illustrated in the following passage:
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3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." (Genesis 3:1-24 KJV)
See how subtle the enemy operated? See a parallel for American Christianity? See the parallels for "BUT I DON'T BELIEVE GOD?" The problem lies in verse 1 of chapter three of Genesis, and HAS NOT CHANGED ONE IOTA SINCE THE FALL! "YEA HATH GOD SAID?" Four words of the enemy's twisting of scripture, for he knows it better than any man, and will use the human flesh and mind, chop and shop of scripture passages to combat you and blaspheme God every opportunity he can get! (Roaring lion concept and truth Peter warned of, and the thief who seeks to kill and destroy just like Jesus said in the Gospels.) Even Jesus said to His Disciples (people who lived according to ALL His teachings, not just select things of teachings (read John 6, and pay special attention to the 66th verse of that chapter, to see who His true Disciples are.) In the following passage Jesus tells His Disciples His instructions about going into the Judean country preaching the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Remember He came to the lost sheep of Israel first, then the Gentiles:
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10 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
9 Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
11 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
12 And when ye come into an house, salute it.
13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
18 And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." (Matthew 10:1-28 KJV) Jesus gave specific instructions, and told them and by default US to be, "WISE AS SERPENTS yet harmless as doves."
Notice in the following passage Jesus doesn't tell the so called devout believers in God to search only the book of Romans, Pauline doctrine, New Testament, some of the scriptures BUT search the scriptures! Imperative declarative statement, implied instruction. Yeah, it's that simple for you spiritualist out there. If Jesus spoke and speaks it, He meant and means it. If it IS WRITTEN, it is not to be watered down and rewritten. How can man rewrite the LOGOS? LUDICROUS and idiotic to even attempt, or justify that. That is HUMANISTIC and SATANIC to do so. Read this excerpt from brother Paul Washer:
"The church by large has missed the point with regard to the cross."
"If you stick Benny Hinn here and me right here and if you can pull both of us apart and if you ask Benny Hinn why he believes all the stuff he does and the facts that he makes millions of dollars and he will only stay in five star hotels and all this different things. If you ask him why he does what he does that he will tell you: "Because that is what the Bible teaches." And if you ask me, I will say: "He is completely wrong! And if you ask me why, I will say, "Because this is what the Bible teaches." Now the question is, both of us using the Bible as our authority, so who is right? You know that is the big question, who is right? Well there are two things you must look at. One of them is called context, and the other is called history.
First of all I want you to understand something. If the Bible says, or if it makes the statement the barn is RED, it means the BARN IS RED! I'm so tired of speaking on university campuses and hearing students say:
"Oh that's just your interpretation." And I say: "Well here interpret it grammatically, not according to YOUR spirit, not according to the, just grammatically. Like you would in an English class. What is it saying grammatically? That's the first one. The second point is this. We have over 2,000 years of Christian history. Ok? 2,000 years of Christian's writing. Thousands of, no millions of books.
Now if I teach something on the Cross of Christ, and you compare what I teach to 2,000 years of Christian history, then you've got to decide who is right? Well obviously 2,000 years of preserved Christian history and teachers are right. Whenever someone teaches you something one of the good things to do is compare what they are saying to 2,000 years of Christian history. If nobody agrees with them, they are probably wrong, aren't they? And IF we Americans come up with some new theology, or new method or way of doing Christianity, yet it disagrees with 2,000 years worth of Christians from all over the world, who is probably wrong? We are! You see, and that's why I say today, that on the teaching of the Cross, most of the messengers are COMPLETELY MISSING THE POINT!" Brother Paul Washer
So Beloved of Christ, I ask you this question is the barn red?
If you truly have Christ in you, and you IN CHRIST, then you already knew the answer to this well before the pictures, Paul Washer's sermon, you heard and saw it in the Truth of the Scriptures. Love in Christ, Jason. Share this truth with other Believers, for the LORD would not have us ignorant, nor deceived, we are speaking about the Gospel and Christian living here!
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