"Spiritual Discernment And Deception" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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Music.

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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, Father God, we do know that. You've already made that quite clear to us.

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There is a war going on, and you have already won that war.

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We thank you for your word. We thank you that you are God, and that everything

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that you have said actually has come to pass and is coming to pass,

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and you have the beginning from the end.

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And so we praise you and thank you that your will be done, O God,

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on earth, in and through us, as it's being done and declared in heaven.

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And thank you, Jesus, for doing the Father's will by coming to this earth and

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rescuing us from the snare of death and sin and destruction by paying the penalty,

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the death penalty yourself.

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And thank you for giving us power over all the power of the enemy. And I pray,

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Father God, that people will start using the power and the authority that you've

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given them, the confidence and the truth, to know the truth and to walk in the

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power and the freedom and the peace and the joy of that truth and stop stumbling around in the dark.

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I pray, Father God, that the darkness that appears to be light would now be

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exposed and that the true light of the living God would shine forth in our hearts

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through Jesus Christ and by the power of your Holy Spirit that you have actually

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sent to live inside of us. So thank you again.

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Protect us. We call for the divine protection that no weapon formed against

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us or our families will prosper.

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No word said, deed done, action taken against us.

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Those who work for us, pray for us, and love us, that there would be protections,

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breakthroughs, answers to prayer, and even covering the financial situations,

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our assets, our properties, the work of our hands,

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that you would promote the gospel of Jesus Christ in the earth by the power of your Spirit. Amen.

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Well, it's interesting, you know, I've had a couple of conversations lately

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with people who are coming out of kind of a, they're coming out of a light darkness,

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and a darkness that appeared to be light to them.

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And, you know, we have many people who are trying to figure out,

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is this God? Is this not God? Is this the Holy Spirit? Is this the enemy?

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And the Word of God has a lot to say about that.

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Well, in Matthew 6, 22 and 23, the lamp of the body is the eye.

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If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.

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But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.

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If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness?

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Yeah, this is really a deep, it's actually a deep and profound statement.

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If the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness?

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If the light, the thing, the revelation that you're following,

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the thing you think to be true, the thing you think to be as the Holy Spirit

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and God is not, it's not the true Jesus, it's a false Jesus,

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an antichrist, and you're deceived by that. How great is that darkness?

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And the Lord has talked a lot about, in the last days, especially about that deception.

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Yeah. Light, you know, what you think is true, you find that it's really not true.

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You know, you're convinced that this is right. This is the way to go. This is it.

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But it's something that's false. And then that's, and you can't be convinced otherwise.

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Well, that's the problem. People are set and sold on the fact that they think they've got it.

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And, you know, let's just talk for a minute, kind of zero it down.

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We know the world is already kind of deceived about everything.

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And they've got all kinds of demonic narratives they're chasing after.

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But let's go into the church for a minute with a lot of the movements that have

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come and gone through the, you know, kind of through the history of the last, I don't know.

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Have several decades, you know, you have all these movements,

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the new apostolic reformation, the charismatic movement, the healings and all this. Faith.

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And signs and wonders. Yeah. Signs and wonders.

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Yeah. Church growth. But all of these things, I mean, a lot of them,

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just your nominal, I mean, everyday ordinary believers just walk into these

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gluey, gooey, witchy traps and don't even realize.

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And then you've got kind of the stampede of everybody, you know,

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going after it, saying it's the right thing.

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And there are signs and wonders and false prophecies and angels of light just

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floating around everywhere in there.

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And people don't even know there are angels of light. It's interesting.

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There's so many fads, like we mentioned.

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God emphasizes different things at different times in history.

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But then we have, there's always some fad. Now, spiritual warfare is a fad.

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Casting out demons is a fad. It needs to happen.

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All these things that came out as fads need to be happening.

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Well, they should have been happening all along.

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Should have been happening all along, but we jump on the bandwagon of these

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fads, and sometimes we get on that bandwagon, and it's not a good ride.

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Right. Well, you know, the thing is, we have to go back to the basics,

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the foundation, the anchoring, so that we are not driven and tossed with every

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wind of doctrine that comes by, Jesus said in the last days.

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He said, obviously, the most important thing he said about the last days in

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his warning, that many would come in my name, Matthew 24, verse 5.

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Saying to lead us astray.

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Many would come in his name, saying I am the Christ, and they will lead many astray.

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Why? Because we're hungry for the Christ.

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Now, here's the problem. When a fisherman goes fishing, and if he happens to

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be the devil, he's going to set the hook with what you're hungry for.

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What are we hungry for these days.

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Oh, for the Christians, it's the return of the Lord, the presence of God,

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a word from God, a prophetic word, a move of God. Signs and wonders. Yep, miracles.

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All of these, they're wonderful things, but when you set them on a hook, they become deadly.

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And so when people are hungry for the move of God or to see the signs or hear

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a prophetic word for themselves or whatever, they're biting the hook.

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They're hungry little fish who are going to get caught on the devil's hooks of deception.

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And so I always say, well, the only thing that'll keep you from getting caught

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on those hooks is to be satisfied with, just be satisfied with the Lord,

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with what's going on, with what He's doing.

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Don't push the envelope. Don't try to do, try, try, try to be this,

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do that. Go there, have this, see this happen.

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Just be and abide. And out of that being and abiding will come a thorough Holy

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Spirit leading in your life to keep you from biting and all those hooks.

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Go ahead. And a lot of the false prophets in our days, they're riding on the winds and,

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of popularity and personality. It seems like we get so enamored. And promotion.

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You know, it's like Paul says, you know, in the Corinthian church they're saying,

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some are of Apollos, I am of Apollos, and I am of Paul, I am of Christ.

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They had all these little sects, and they had their favorite preachers.

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You know, and we can learn from other ministries, for sure, but sometimes we

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get so, we just bite everything hook, line, and sinker that someone says because

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they've got a huge congregation, or they've written books, or they're on television somewhere.

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This is actually a telltale sign that they're not usually of God,

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because Satan is the God of this world, is how I see it anyway,

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and he's not going to promote the good things of God.

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He's not going to promote the 100% truth of God.

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He may promote 97% of it to bring that three extra percentage of poison to bring

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people astray, because you have to have some bait on the hook,

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some sugar in the medicine to make it go down.

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But the thing is, if they're too popular, too well-known, too rich,

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got $9 million mansions, Jesus said, by their fruits you shall know them.

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And if you go back and compare these celebrities and characters and personalities

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with the people who operate out of the book of Acts, well, you could maybe say

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Peter was a celebrity, but he surely wasn't a celebrity.

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He didn't act like it. He went walking to here and there and did what God said

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and healed thick and went to prison, got thrown out and released by angels.

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I mean, that's the kind of testimony, that's the kind of story,

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lifestyle that I would be looking to hook up with.

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Yeah, you have to really look. Jesus said at the lifestyle.

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Jesus said, by their fruits you shall know them by how they live.

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And take a look. And some people say, well, they live an opulent lifestyle,

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elaborate lifestyle, basically a self-centered lifestyle. And they say.

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It's just we're so blessed of God.

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God wants us to prosper. Certainly, God wants us to prosper and be in health.

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But there's a point where you trip off into— I deserve. I'm entitled.

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Entitlement luxury because I'm the anointed one of God.

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And you're saying it's because of God. No, you might be being blessed by the

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devil, actually, and don't know it.

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Because there is such a thing as demonic blessings. Just look at all the evil,

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wicked people out there that are getting blessed for a while anyway. way.

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They don't seem to get caught and get in trouble. They have all their wonderful things.

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But what did Jesus say about the rich man and Lazarus? He says to.

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He says to rich men, in your day, you had the nice things and Lazarus didn't.

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And now he's enjoying those things and you had your chance back in the day.

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So the thing is, again, going back to looking, people look superficially at

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lifestyles, at promotions.

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You know, they're well published. Their books are real red.

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Everything seems to be going wonderful. And that's, to me, is a red flag.

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Always, almost always a red flag. you will find the true church of Jesus Christ

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buried in some, you know, a trench somewhere, underground somewhere,

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fighting for their life, being persecuted, being chased like they were in the book of Acts.

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You just start comparing what we have today with what was going on in the book of Acts.

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Now, in the book of Acts, the day of Pentecost, there's a lot of people that

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got saved, 3,000, and then there's another 5,000 that got added as they were

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going and people were seeing the miracles.

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But this was not, you know, because of PR, press releases, This was because

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of actual things that were happening and being done.

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And so Jesus said, by their fruits, you shall know them.

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So this is the absolute bottom line, bottom line.

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Because here's the deal. By their fruits, you shall know them.

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There's only two kingdoms.

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It's either from heaven or hell. The fruit is either from heaven or hell.

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So by the fruit, an evil tree brings forth evil fruit.

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A good tree brings forth good fruit. So by looking at the fruit.

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The true, genuine lifestyle, what are they like when nobody's looking?

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How do they use their free time? How do you use your free time?

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And so if the kingdom of God is full of righteousness, peace,

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and joy, then the fruit out of that kingdom is going to bring forth righteousness,

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peace, and joy, and comfort, and truth, freedom.

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But if you're reducing the things that are going on and reducing this thought,

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this presentation, this church, whatever, down to stress,

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striving, squabbling, division, whatever, then it's not of God.

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So the thing is, we have to look at the fruit.

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You say, well, I can't judge anybody. You're not judging them.

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You're a fruit inspector.

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You're a discerner. There is a gift called discerning of spirits,

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and it's not a bad gift. is the one that we absolutely need now because Jesus

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says if it were possible in the last days that they would even deceive the very elect.

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So this treachery is going to get so thick, so difficult to discern that even

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people who are walking with God can be deceived.

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And I know that this is the truth because I've had people who talk to me,

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they come out of these churches where they're falling down and they're freaking

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out and they're manifesting and they're prophesying and people are lining up

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and all these kinds of things are happening and really.

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Find that in the book of Acts. Find any of that really in any of the stories

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or reports that Paul or John or any of those guys were giving us in the Bible,

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where people were lining up, falling down, and getting words of personal prophecy.

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Not that, not, you know, for everything, every good thing that God has,

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like there are words of prophecy.

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There are words of wisdom and counsel and words of knowledge. All of that is very true.

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That's why the devil counterfeits it. And so he's not going to counterfeit a

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$30 bill because there's no such thing, but he's going to counterfeit,

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you know, true words of knowledge or prophetic words.

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But the thing is, you know, again, what are you hungry for?

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Are you hungry for the will of God? Are you hungry to let the Holy Spirit live

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and move and push His agenda in your life rather than you trying to be good?

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I think the problem boils all the way down to trying, striving to be good as

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opposed to abiding and being and following Jesus.

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There are two different things. The purpose-driven life or the Spirit-led life,

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it kind of boils down to that.

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And when you're Spirit-led, you're abiding, you're resting, you're okay.

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You don't need extra spiritual words from somewhere to show you what to do,

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because you've already been in the Word, you've heard from the Spirit of God,

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and you're standing in that.

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The problem is that a lot of us as believers are biblically ignorant,

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that we We take our food, processed food,

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we taste artificial strawberry, and we don't even know what a real strawberry tastes like.

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And so we have to go by God's grace. We get to go. We have to go.

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We have to know the Word of God.

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Rightly dividing the Word of Truth, Paul told Timothy—.

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In other words, don't just carve it up according to your prejudices.

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Don't just see the Word of God through your denominational glasses. Lenses, yeah.

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See the Word of God for what it is. And just get down before the Lord quietly with the Word of God.

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Read it, you know. I mean, you can do it on your phone, you know,

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but there's something important about actually having a book with paper pages.

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Called the Bible and reading it and meditating on it and studying it and getting to know a little bit.

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Use some study helps, too, where you get to know the cultural background and

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context of what's going on in those pages.

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Well, you know, Moses, in the book of Deuteronomy, as he was kind of departing

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and giving the last words, his last kind of final warnings to the people before

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he died, in chapter 13, he was talking about false prophets in verse 1, chapter 13, verse 1.

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If there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you

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a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass,

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of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods which you have

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not known, and let us serve them.

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You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams,

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for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your

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God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments

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and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.

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But if that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death,

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because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God who brought

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you out of the land of Egypt to redeem you from the house of bondage,

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to entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk,

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so you shall put away that evil from the midst of you.

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So, he is saying here, they're going to entice you to go after another god with

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a sign and a wonder, with something that they're using to deceive you.

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Something to impress. That's exactly what Paul is talking about.

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Yeah, in Thessalonians, he says in 2 Thessalonians, he says,

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chapter 2, verse 3, let no one deceive you by any means, for that day will not

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come unless there is a falling away first.

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And the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts

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himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped,

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so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing that he is God.

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Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things,

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and now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time?

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For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work.

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Now only he who restrains will do so until he is taken out of the and then the

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lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of

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his mouth. The lawless one...

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The coming of the law, this one, is according to the working of Satan,

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with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception

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among those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the

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truth that they might be saved. So here's the deal.

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These signs and lying wonders that Moses is talking about are here today,

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and they're going to be even in the book of Revelations.

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I know that the false prophet and the beast, they were doing remarkable things.

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Calling down fires, signs, and wonders to persuade the people that these were the voices of God.

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These were the methods which with God was bringing them to him, but it was not.

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And then he says, for this reason, God will send them strong delusion because

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they refuse the love of the truth that they should believe a lie.

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So first, God will present you with the truth.

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You don't get the delusion until you reject the truth.

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And so if you have that strong delusion that they should believe a lie,

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you're all pumped up with.

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And that's exactly what Daniel says in the last days. They're going to have

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cunning words and schemes, and they're going to have lying signs and wonders.

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He says in verse 8, Daniel 8, 25, a king with fierce features who understands

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sinister schemes, his power shall be mighty, and through his cunning,

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the cause of deceit will prosper.

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He will also conceive and corrupt people with flattery.

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So we see that these fleshly kind of signs and wonders, sparkly things,

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shiny things, shiny objects, it goes back to looking for pleasant things,

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looking for beautiful things,

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looking for a shortcut.

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A way to avert or avoid the true working of the Holy Spirit in us to grow us up.

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So these quick fixes, shortcuts, words that, you know, set us, what?

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Can't the Lord speak to you Himself? I mean, is He not able to give you His

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words through His Word or through His Spirit?

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And again, you know, the gospel in 1 John, I'm sorry, the gospel in 1 John,

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the epistle of John, he says that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

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So this false light that Paul talks about, even in 2 Corinthians,

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about the angels of light, the false Jesuses, that Satan himself transforms

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himself as an angel of light, these antichrist spirits, false apostles,

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spirits of deception, divination.

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He says, Satan himself, no wonder Satan himself can present himself as an angel of light.

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So Satan is trying to also counterfeit light, the light of God.

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But John says, God is lighting in him. There's no darkness at all.

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And if we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness,

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we lie and do not practice the truth.

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So, you know, the lightness of God, the light of God draws men to the light

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and causes us to walk as he walks and in the fellowship with him.

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And then he says, but if we walk in the light as he is in the light,

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we'll have fellowship with him and with one another.

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And that means we're loving one another. And it says the blood of Jesus then

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cleanses us from all sins.

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And then he says, he who loves his brother abides in that light.

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So love equals light, light equals love. So going back to the basic commandment,

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love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength,

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and your neighbor as yourself, brings us back to the fruit of who is really

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genuine around here, who is really someone I can trust or follow or be comfortable following.

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And it would be someone who is not only walking in the light,

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having fellowship with God, but is also loving his brother.

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He who loves his brother abides in the light, 1 John 2.10.

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He who loves his brother abides in the light, and so there is no cause of stumbling in him.

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So at this point, when we're trying to discern whether something is of God or

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not, it's a false Jesus, Antichrist's spirit, we go to 1 John where he talks

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about, if the spirit confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, he's of God,

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that's fine. You can do that.

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But then who's doing that? The Holy Spirit is already abiding in you.

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His truth is already abiding in you. You've been built by God to know the truth.

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So the Holy Spirit is going to already be putting up red flags and warning you

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if something is not of God.

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But most of us have been so numbed out to that, so disregarding of that,

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so I think we're so beyond those sensitive spiritual issues that we just kind

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of dive into what everybody else is doing and go to the church and go up front

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and get slain in the Spirit and all the things that we do.

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And we think that we've had an encounter with God. You can have an encounter

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with God driving your car on the way to work or washing your dishes,

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and it's probably going to be just as sacred and holy and powerful as anything

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that happens in a church building. And I think in church buildings,

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I think a lot of religious spirits go there anyway.

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Well, a lot of things that are going on is sometimes we're at the place where

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we think that, oh, we've got to have something spectacular.

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We have to, you know, I think what happens is there's been so much deadness

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in the church that we're looking for, you know, some fireworks.

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It's like, I've worked hard all week. I want to go and, you know,

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jump out of an airplane and skydive or something. We want to do something. but the whole normal,

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Normal Christian life is a life of adventure where you're walking with God every day.

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The Spirit of God is leading you. He's leading you into truth.

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And a lot of places, you know, they don't want the truth.

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I mean, a lot of places, Jesus said, am I your enemy? Paul said,

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am I your enemy because I tell you the truth?

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He says, John 8, 45, but because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

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And he says, and if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

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He who is of God hears God's words.

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Therefore, you don't hear because you are not of God. There you go.

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Jesus had the same problem. He was the Son of God.

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And a lot of those that we would consider today false prophets would actually

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confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Yeah, they would.

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They would say that. So you can say, well, do you believe Jesus Christ is crowned

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in the flesh? Sure I do. Excuse me.

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So then they must be okay. Everything they say is okay. They must be a true

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prophet. Not necessarily so.

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Yeah, I agree with that because that isn't a fail-safe test.

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Fail-safe acid test. It really gets down to love and love. And by their fruits you shall know them.

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Yeah, and by this shall all men know your disciples, if you have love one for

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another. So, that's the real telltale sign is the love you have for one another.

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And love is following the word. Jesus said, the one who loves me is the one

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who follows my commandments, follows my word.

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And here in 1 John, he's got some more stuff that's very interesting.

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He's talking about the Antichrist, and we all know there's an Antichrist coming,

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and there's probably these...

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He's already probably here, and if he's—it's probably got four lined up.

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If he fails, whatever. There's a whole bunch of them.

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There's Antichrist. The spirit of Antichrist is a lot, is alive and well everywhere,

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and it is Antichrist. It is against Christ. It's against the salvation message of Jesus Christ.

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It's against the shed blood. It's against the kingdom of God.

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It's against the gospel of God.

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It's against the gospel of grace and good news. But anyway— It's not only anti

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in terms of opposed to. It's like a substitute. Yeah.

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An antichrist spirit comes guised as Christ to destroy the work of Christ.

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That's really a good definition. I'll say it again.

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An antichrist spirit is a spirit that comes guised or disguised as Christ to

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destroy the work of Christ.

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And so in 1 John 2, verse 18, Little children, it is the last hour,

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and as you have heard, the antichrist is coming.

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Even now many antichrists have come by

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which you know that this is the last hour so they were living as

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if it was the last hour back there 2 000 years ago and they

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went out from us and they were not of us it says they

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went out from us but but or you say because they were not of us for if they

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had been of us they would have continued with us but they went out that they

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might make manifest be made manifest that none of them were with us or of us

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paul said the same thing they the people that left him, they were not of him.

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They didn't want to. So the test really is, do they stay with you?

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If they're of, you know, if they're of God, they'll stay.

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And you know you're of God. Paul says, he knew who he was.

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And those who left him, they went out because they were not of us, he said.

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And what he's saying is the Antichrists were with us.

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They were with us in the church.

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He says they were with us. Basically, that's what it says. If they would have

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continued with us, they went out from where?

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Us. Us. Who's us? The church.

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And then he goes on to say in verse 20, you know, they went out.

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But he says, but you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

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He says, I have not written to you because you do not know the truth,

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but because you know it and that no lie is of the truth.

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So what he's saying there is God has imparted, just like we've said many times,

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the spirit of God's truth, his identity, his DNA is written in our spirit.

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So you're in your spirit. You already been created by God, built by God,

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programmed by God to know the truth. The truth is in you, he said.

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But the most of the time what was happening, we're not using our spirit software

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to discern the truth or anything. We're going back to our soul and trying to

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figure things out with what it looks like, feels like.

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And then the devil plays through our feelings and our thoughts to deceive us

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into taking us in the wrong direction.

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But if his spirit, in 1 Corinthians 2, 9-11, if his spirit is bearing witness

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with our spirit that we can know what we know, he says, you have the anointing

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from the Holy One and you know all things.

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Now, we don't know all things, but we do in a way because he said,

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for what man knows the things of man except the spirit of the man which is in

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him, but God has revealed those things to us by His Spirit that we might know.

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So those things that God wants me to know about me are given to me by the Holy

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Spirit who dwells in me and is sent to lead me into all truth and triumph.

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Let's ask this question. You know, someone here is one of the things that when

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I first came to know the Lord, I did not want to be deceived.

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Even before that, I did not want to be deceived in any way.

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And so I was on guard about things, and I was ignorant in a lot of ways.

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But what about people that are listening here today? They're wondering,

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hey, is this person of God? Is this teacher of God?

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What do you think? You know, once in a while we hear, what do you think of this

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one, this preacher, this man, this woman? What do we think of that?

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We're not at the place of just criticizing everybody.

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Sometimes people that disagree with someone, a godly person that disagrees with

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another godly person on some issue, will accuse them of being a false prophet.

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And that's not necessarily the case.

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It could be, though. So discernment is not just having a critical spirit.

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It's being able to see what's really going on here. Correct. And so discernment.

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Seeing through things. Right. Discernment is not judgment.

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If you discern that some brother or sister that loves Jesus,

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accepted Jesus, you know, et cetera, et cetera, you discern that they're off in their doctrine.

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They're going after a false teacher. They've been deceived.

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Even the angels of light, even the antichrist, the antifalse Jesus has come

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to people and present themselves to that person as Jesus.

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That is very common, and people don't even realize that because it sounds pious.

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Well, you know, God said he's going to heal me in the coming days,

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and I just need to be strong. Well, you know what? That's not even true.

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God, it could be partially true, but a partial truth is not a truth.

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Jesus said he did heal us 2,000 years ago by his truth.

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We are healed. And so the thing is, but false Jesuses can ramp up and do all

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of that to bring people to deception.

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But here's one of the things that, you know, with answering that question, how do we know?

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We know that by their fruits, again, we're going back to the idea and understanding

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that there are only two kingdoms, heaven and hell. There's not a third kingdom of I don't know.

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There's not a third kingdom of mental illness and aliens and bad luck.

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Everything has to fit into one of two kingdoms. And so when someone is coming

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at you with a word, they're speaking words to you, or maybe you're hearing words

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come out of your own mouth,

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you can allow the Holy Spirit to discern those words by saying,

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okay, I'm going to ask a simple question. Who said that?

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Who said that? Is that word, the fruit of that word from heaven or hell,

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is the fruit of that word condemnation, criticism, bitterness,

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rejection, betrayal, unloving?

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Or is the fruit of that word loving and kind and encouraging?

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Because there are many people that speak the demon, the devil,

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the lying spirits, the bitterness, the anger, what do you want to call them?

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You can call it bitterness, you can call it a demon of bitterness,

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it doesn't matter, it's the same thing.

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That spirit of bitterness or resentment or rejection or cruelty or a condescending

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or entitlement or whatever it is will be coming out of the mouth of the person

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and you're hearing it and you're recognizing it's hurtful.

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It's not loving. It's not the fruit of love. It's not encouraging. It's from hell.

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It's not in the person. That's my friend. That's my child. That's my parent.

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Yeah, it's your parent, your child, or your friend, but it's also not that spirit

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is speaking through your parent, child, or friend to bring you to a place of

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despair or destruction or discouragement.

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So we have to discern, Jesus said, going back to the light, going back to the

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fruit, the fruit of our lips, what the heart is full of them all speaks.

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So what's going on in the heart, discern it.

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Is it bringing forth in your life some peace or stress? Is it bringing forth

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anxiety or is it bringing forth love?

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And confusion is of the devil. And a lot of times when people have an antichrist

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or a false Jesus speaking through them.

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I will call it out because I know that I've read and I understand and have been

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acquainted with and walking with the true Jesus, Son of the living God.

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Good shepherd, faithful witness for a long time.

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And I know he's not condemning. He's not hateful. He's not bitter. He's not spiteful.

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He's not judgmental. I mean, he will judge. Yes, he will.

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But at this point, he is He's more than gentle to comfort and bring the persons back to truth.

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And so if you see a Jesus acting out of them that's not bringing them hope,

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it's bringing them false hope, it's bringing them discouragement,

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it's bringing them pain or condemnation, that is not the Jesus.

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And so you can say something like I always say, okay, I command that spirit,

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that Jesus, to take off his mask and tell the truth before the living God.

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Are you the true Jesus, the one who died on the cross? and they'll become confused

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or they'll see something happen.

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And I will just, you know, it becomes apparent that they have been listening to a false Jesus.

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And these false Jesuses, Antichrist spirits, they're so clever.

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They're so lookalike. They're so, so, so clever.

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And only sometimes it's only through the Holy Spirit that you can understand

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what it is. And then that means you wait.

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You don't try to drive ahead and figure it out and declare something.

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You wait upon the Lord and ask the Lord to guide you because bottom line,

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then the steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord.

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So if you are in a place, again, what do we got to say about all this?

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That when you break down the commandment, the one commandment,

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the love, love your neighbor as yourself, when it's broken down into its various love components.

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It's going to be something that causes us not to want to steal or covet or defraud

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or lie about our neighbor.

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It's those kinds of fruits, the fruits of love, joy, peace, righteousness.

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That are coming out of that life.

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And we know that God loves us. We know He is not wanting to deceive us.

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He is the one responsible to lead us into all truth and triumph.

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1 John 4, beloved, verse 1, Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits,

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whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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So, Lord, I just pray that you just help us to test the spirits.

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Lord, the spirits. Observing, discerning.

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Discerning, not just by outward appearance, but through the Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit that lives in us knows what's really going on.

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If we'll listen to the Holy Spirit and if we'll judge things or discern things

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by the Spirit and by the written Word of God, we're going to be okay.

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Lord, we don't have to live in some kind of paranoia. It's like,

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oh, man, I don't want to be deceived.

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And is this one bad? Is this one bad? Is this one bad? You know,

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sometimes we can focus, Lord, forgive us for focusing on others' personalities

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and teachers, their servants by whom we believe the true ones are, like Paul said.

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And so let us not just be all taken up with, yes, we appreciate good,

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solid, true prophets, true apostles, true evangelists, true pastors and teachers.

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But, Lord God, help us not to be so enamored. by all these personalities, Lord.

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Yes, Father. We'll be enamored by the personality of Jesus and the Spirit of the living God. Amen.

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Thank you, Lord. We are of God, 1 John 4, verse 6. We are of God.

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He who knows God, he who knows God, hears us.

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He who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of error.

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That's about as simple as it gets. Well, that's what Jesus said,

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too. He said, he who is of God hears my word.

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Amen. He who is not of God does not hear my word. So you become the test of the truth.

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You know, if they're listening to you and you know you're of God and they're

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hearing you, then they're of God. If they're not, they're not of God.

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So, Father, this is not that complicated.

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By their fruits you shall know them, the fruits of love and joy and peace.

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And if they're listening to us and we know that we're listening to you,

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Lord God, then we know that they're of the spirit of truth. So,

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Lord, give us wisdom, eyes to see, ears to hear, and quicken us, Lord God, that we.

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Walk in the counsel of the ungodly, shikori adama shanda, or in the revelation

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of lust and perversion that has overtaken the church.

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Father, cleanse the church and bring us forth into the place of righteousness,

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peace, joy, and truth. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.

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Yeah, and Jesus said, he that believes in me shall not walk in darkness,

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but shall have the light of life. Amen.

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