"Spiritual Discernment And Deception" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

0:00 Music. Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God, we do know that. You've already made that quite clear to us. There is a war going on, and you have already won that war. We thank you for your word. We thank you that you are God, and that everything that you have said actually has come to pass and is coming to pass, and you have the beginning from the end.

0:45 And so we praise you and thank you that your will be done, O God, on earth, in and through us, as it's being done and declared in heaven. And thank you, Jesus, for doing the Father's will by coming to this earth and rescuing us from the snare of death and sin and destruction by paying the penalty, the death penalty yourself. And thank you for giving us power over all the power of the enemy. And I pray, Father God, that people will start using the power and the authority that you've given them, the confidence and the truth, to know the truth and to walk in the power and the freedom and the peace and the joy of that truth and stop stumbling around in the dark. I pray, Father God, that the darkness that appears to be light would now be exposed and that the true light of the living God would shine forth in our hearts through Jesus Christ and by the power of your Holy Spirit that you have actually sent to live inside of us. So thank you again.

1:35 Protect us. We call for the divine protection that no weapon formed against us or our families will prosper. No word said, deed done, action taken against us. Those who work for us, pray for us, and love us, that there would be protections, breakthroughs, answers to prayer, and even covering the financial situations, our assets, our properties, the work of our hands, that you would promote the gospel of Jesus Christ in the earth by the power of your Spirit. Amen. Well, it's interesting, you know, I've had a couple of conversations lately with people who are coming out of kind of a, they're coming out of a light darkness, and a darkness that appeared to be light to them. And, you know, we have many people who are trying to figure out, is this God? Is this not God? Is this the Holy Spirit? Is this the enemy?

2:21 And the Word of God has a lot to say about that. Well, in Matthew 6, 22 and 23, the lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness? Yeah, this is really a deep, it's actually a deep and profound statement. If the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness? If the light, the thing, the revelation that you're following, the thing you think to be true, the thing you think to be as the Holy Spirit and God is not, it's not the true Jesus, it's a false Jesus, an antichrist, and you're deceived by that. How great is that darkness?

3:05 And the Lord has talked a lot about, in the last days, especially about that deception. Yeah. Light, you know, what you think is true, you find that it's really not true. You know, you're convinced that this is right. This is the way to go. This is it. But it's something that's false. And then that's, and you can't be convinced otherwise. Well, that's the problem. People are set and sold on the fact that they think they've got it. And, you know, let's just talk for a minute, kind of zero it down. We know the world is already kind of deceived about everything. And they've got all kinds of demonic narratives they're chasing after. But let's go into the church for a minute with a lot of the movements that have come and gone through the, you know, kind of through the history of the last, I don't know.

3:50 Have several decades, you know, you have all these movements, the new apostolic reformation, the charismatic movement, the healings and all this. Faith. And signs and wonders. Yeah. Signs and wonders. Yeah. Church growth. But all of these things, I mean, a lot of them, just your nominal, I mean, everyday ordinary believers just walk into these gluey, gooey, witchy traps and don't even realize. And then you've got kind of the stampede of everybody, you know, going after it, saying it's the right thing. And there are signs and wonders and false prophecies and angels of light just floating around everywhere in there. And people don't even know there are angels of light. It's interesting.

4:32 There's so many fads, like we mentioned. God emphasizes different things at different times in history. But then we have, there's always some fad. Now, spiritual warfare is a fad. Casting out demons is a fad. It needs to happen. All these things that came out as fads need to be happening. Well, they should have been happening all along. Should have been happening all along, but we jump on the bandwagon of these fads, and sometimes we get on that bandwagon, and it's not a good ride. Right. Well, you know, the thing is, we have to go back to the basics, the foundation, the anchoring, so that we are not driven and tossed with every wind of doctrine that comes by, Jesus said in the last days.

5:17 He said, obviously, the most important thing he said about the last days in his warning, that many would come in my name, Matthew 24, verse 5. Saying to lead us astray. Many would come in his name, saying I am the Christ, and they will lead many astray. Why? Because we're hungry for the Christ. Now, here's the problem. When a fisherman goes fishing, and if he happens to be the devil, he's going to set the hook with what you're hungry for. What are we hungry for these days. Oh, for the Christians, it's the return of the Lord, the presence of God, a word from God, a prophetic word, a move of God. Signs and wonders. Yep, miracles. All of these, they're wonderful things, but when you set them on a hook, they become deadly.

6:01 And so when people are hungry for the move of God or to see the signs or hear a prophetic word for themselves or whatever, they're biting the hook. They're hungry little fish who are going to get caught on the devil's hooks of deception. And so I always say, well, the only thing that'll keep you from getting caught on those hooks is to be satisfied with, just be satisfied with the Lord, with what's going on, with what He's doing. Don't push the envelope. Don't try to do, try, try, try to be this, do that. Go there, have this, see this happen. Just be and abide. And out of that being and abiding will come a thorough Holy Spirit leading in your life to keep you from biting and all those hooks.

6:43 Go ahead. And a lot of the false prophets in our days, they're riding on the winds and, of popularity and personality. It seems like we get so enamored. And promotion. You know, it's like Paul says, you know, in the Corinthian church they're saying, some are of Apollos, I am of Apollos, and I am of Paul, I am of Christ. They had all these little sects, and they had their favorite preachers. You know, and we can learn from other ministries, for sure, but sometimes we get so, we just bite everything hook, line, and sinker that someone says because they've got a huge congregation, or they've written books, or they're on television somewhere. This is actually a telltale sign that they're not usually of God, because Satan is the God of this world, is how I see it anyway, and he's not going to promote the good things of God.

7:31 He's not going to promote the 100% truth of God. He may promote 97% of it to bring that three extra percentage of poison to bring people astray, because you have to have some bait on the hook, some sugar in the medicine to make it go down. But the thing is, if they're too popular, too well-known, too rich, got $9 million mansions, Jesus said, by their fruits you shall know them. And if you go back and compare these celebrities and characters and personalities with the people who operate out of the book of Acts, well, you could maybe say Peter was a celebrity, but he surely wasn't a celebrity.

8:11 He didn't act like it. He went walking to here and there and did what God said and healed thick and went to prison, got thrown out and released by angels. I mean, that's the kind of testimony, that's the kind of story, lifestyle that I would be looking to hook up with. Yeah, you have to really look. Jesus said at the lifestyle. Jesus said, by their fruits you shall know them by how they live. And take a look. And some people say, well, they live an opulent lifestyle, elaborate lifestyle, basically a self-centered lifestyle. And they say. It's just we're so blessed of God. God wants us to prosper. Certainly, God wants us to prosper and be in health. But there's a point where you trip off into— I deserve. I'm entitled.

8:56 Entitlement luxury because I'm the anointed one of God. And you're saying it's because of God. No, you might be being blessed by the devil, actually, and don't know it. Because there is such a thing as demonic blessings. Just look at all the evil, wicked people out there that are getting blessed for a while anyway. way. They don't seem to get caught and get in trouble. They have all their wonderful things. But what did Jesus say about the rich man and Lazarus? He says to. He says to rich men, in your day, you had the nice things and Lazarus didn't. And now he's enjoying those things and you had your chance back in the day. So the thing is, again, going back to looking, people look superficially at lifestyles, at promotions.

9:37 You know, they're well published. Their books are real red. Everything seems to be going wonderful. And that's, to me, is a red flag. Always, almost always a red flag. you will find the true church of Jesus Christ buried in some, you know, a trench somewhere, underground somewhere, fighting for their life, being persecuted, being chased like they were in the book of Acts. You just start comparing what we have today with what was going on in the book of Acts. Now, in the book of Acts, the day of Pentecost, there's a lot of people that got saved, 3,000, and then there's another 5,000 that got added as they were going and people were seeing the miracles. But this was not, you know, because of PR, press releases, This was because of actual things that were happening and being done.

10:20 And so Jesus said, by their fruits, you shall know them. So this is the absolute bottom line, bottom line. Because here's the deal. By their fruits, you shall know them. There's only two kingdoms. It's either from heaven or hell. The fruit is either from heaven or hell. So by the fruit, an evil tree brings forth evil fruit. A good tree brings forth good fruit. So by looking at the fruit. The true, genuine lifestyle, what are they like when nobody's looking? How do they use their free time? How do you use your free time? And so if the kingdom of God is full of righteousness, peace, and joy, then the fruit out of that kingdom is going to bring forth righteousness, peace, and joy, and comfort, and truth, freedom.

11:07 But if you're reducing the things that are going on and reducing this thought, this presentation, this church, whatever, down to stress, striving, squabbling, division, whatever, then it's not of God. So the thing is, we have to look at the fruit. You say, well, I can't judge anybody. You're not judging them. You're a fruit inspector. You're a discerner. There is a gift called discerning of spirits, and it's not a bad gift. is the one that we absolutely need now because Jesus says if it were possible in the last days that they would even deceive the very elect. So this treachery is going to get so thick, so difficult to discern that even people who are walking with God can be deceived.

11:53 And I know that this is the truth because I've had people who talk to me, they come out of these churches where they're falling down and they're freaking out and they're manifesting and they're prophesying and people are lining up and all these kinds of things are happening and really. Find that in the book of Acts. Find any of that really in any of the stories or reports that Paul or John or any of those guys were giving us in the Bible, where people were lining up, falling down, and getting words of personal prophecy. Not that, not, you know, for everything, every good thing that God has, like there are words of prophecy. There are words of wisdom and counsel and words of knowledge. All of that is very true.

12:35 That's why the devil counterfeits it. And so he's not going to counterfeit a $30 bill because there's no such thing, but he's going to counterfeit, you know, true words of knowledge or prophetic words. But the thing is, you know, again, what are you hungry for? Are you hungry for the will of God? Are you hungry to let the Holy Spirit live and move and push His agenda in your life rather than you trying to be good? I think the problem boils all the way down to trying, striving to be good as opposed to abiding and being and following Jesus. There are two different things. The purpose-driven life or the Spirit-led life, it kind of boils down to that. And when you're Spirit-led, you're abiding, you're resting, you're okay.

13:18 You don't need extra spiritual words from somewhere to show you what to do, because you've already been in the Word, you've heard from the Spirit of God, and you're standing in that. The problem is that a lot of us as believers are biblically ignorant, that we We take our food, processed food, we taste artificial strawberry, and we don't even know what a real strawberry tastes like. And so we have to go by God's grace. We get to go. We have to go. We have to know the Word of God. Rightly dividing the Word of Truth, Paul told Timothy—. In other words, don't just carve it up according to your prejudices.

14:01 Don't just see the Word of God through your denominational glasses. Lenses, yeah. See the Word of God for what it is. And just get down before the Lord quietly with the Word of God. Read it, you know. I mean, you can do it on your phone, you know, but there's something important about actually having a book with paper pages. Called the Bible and reading it and meditating on it and studying it and getting to know a little bit. Use some study helps, too, where you get to know the cultural background and context of what's going on in those pages. Well, you know, Moses, in the book of Deuteronomy, as he was kind of departing and giving the last words, his last kind of final warnings to the people before he died, in chapter 13, he was talking about false prophets in verse 1, chapter 13, verse 1.

14:54 If there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us serve them. You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. But if that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to redeem you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk, so you shall put away that evil from the midst of you.

15:54 So, he is saying here, they're going to entice you to go after another god with a sign and a wonder, with something that they're using to deceive you. Something to impress. That's exactly what Paul is talking about. Yeah, in Thessalonians, he says in 2 Thessalonians, he says, chapter 2, verse 3, let no one deceive you by any means, for that day will not come unless there is a falling away first. And the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing that he is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things, and now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time?

16:39 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Now only he who restrains will do so until he is taken out of the and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth. The lawless one... The coming of the law, this one, is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved. So here's the deal. These signs and lying wonders that Moses is talking about are here today, and they're going to be even in the book of Revelations. I know that the false prophet and the beast, they were doing remarkable things. Calling down fires, signs, and wonders to persuade the people that these were the voices of God.

17:22 These were the methods which with God was bringing them to him, but it was not. And then he says, for this reason, God will send them strong delusion because they refuse the love of the truth that they should believe a lie. So first, God will present you with the truth. You don't get the delusion until you reject the truth. And so if you have that strong delusion that they should believe a lie, you're all pumped up with. And that's exactly what Daniel says in the last days. They're going to have cunning words and schemes, and they're going to have lying signs and wonders. He says in verse 8, Daniel 8, 25, a king with fierce features who understands sinister schemes, his power shall be mighty, and through his cunning, the cause of deceit will prosper.

18:08 He will also conceive and corrupt people with flattery. So we see that these fleshly kind of signs and wonders, sparkly things, shiny things, shiny objects, it goes back to looking for pleasant things, looking for beautiful things, looking for a shortcut. A way to avert or avoid the true working of the Holy Spirit in us to grow us up. So these quick fixes, shortcuts, words that, you know, set us, what? Can't the Lord speak to you Himself? I mean, is He not able to give you His words through His Word or through His Spirit?

18:49 And again, you know, the gospel in 1 John, I'm sorry, the gospel in 1 John, the epistle of John, he says that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. So this false light that Paul talks about, even in 2 Corinthians, about the angels of light, the false Jesuses, that Satan himself transforms himself as an angel of light, these antichrist spirits, false apostles, spirits of deception, divination. He says, Satan himself, no wonder Satan himself can present himself as an angel of light. So Satan is trying to also counterfeit light, the light of God. But John says, God is lighting in him. There's no darkness at all.

19:30 And if we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. So, you know, the lightness of God, the light of God draws men to the light and causes us to walk as he walks and in the fellowship with him. And then he says, but if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we'll have fellowship with him and with one another. And that means we're loving one another. And it says the blood of Jesus then cleanses us from all sins. And then he says, he who loves his brother abides in that light. So love equals light, light equals love. So going back to the basic commandment, love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and your neighbor as yourself, brings us back to the fruit of who is really genuine around here, who is really someone I can trust or follow or be comfortable following.

20:20 And it would be someone who is not only walking in the light, having fellowship with God, but is also loving his brother. He who loves his brother abides in the light, 1 John 2.10. He who loves his brother abides in the light, and so there is no cause of stumbling in him. So at this point, when we're trying to discern whether something is of God or not, it's a false Jesus, Antichrist's spirit, we go to 1 John where he talks about, if the spirit confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, he's of God, that's fine. You can do that. But then who's doing that? The Holy Spirit is already abiding in you. His truth is already abiding in you. You've been built by God to know the truth.

21:03 So the Holy Spirit is going to already be putting up red flags and warning you if something is not of God. But most of us have been so numbed out to that, so disregarding of that, so I think we're so beyond those sensitive spiritual issues that we just kind of dive into what everybody else is doing and go to the church and go up front and get slain in the Spirit and all the things that we do. And we think that we've had an encounter with God. You can have an encounter with God driving your car on the way to work or washing your dishes, and it's probably going to be just as sacred and holy and powerful as anything that happens in a church building. And I think in church buildings, I think a lot of religious spirits go there anyway. Well, a lot of things that are going on is sometimes we're at the place where we think that, oh, we've got to have something spectacular.

21:47 We have to, you know, I think what happens is there's been so much deadness in the church that we're looking for, you know, some fireworks. It's like, I've worked hard all week. I want to go and, you know, jump out of an airplane and skydive or something. We want to do something. but the whole normal, Normal Christian life is a life of adventure where you're walking with God every day. The Spirit of God is leading you. He's leading you into truth. And a lot of places, you know, they don't want the truth. I mean, a lot of places, Jesus said, am I your enemy? Paul said, am I your enemy because I tell you the truth? He says, John 8, 45, but because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

22:33 And he says, and if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? He who is of God hears God's words. Therefore, you don't hear because you are not of God. There you go. Jesus had the same problem. He was the Son of God. And a lot of those that we would consider today false prophets would actually confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Yeah, they would. They would say that. So you can say, well, do you believe Jesus Christ is crowned in the flesh? Sure I do. Excuse me. So then they must be okay. Everything they say is okay. They must be a true prophet. Not necessarily so. Yeah, I agree with that because that isn't a fail-safe test.

23:17 Fail-safe acid test. It really gets down to love and love. And by their fruits you shall know them. Yeah, and by this shall all men know your disciples, if you have love one for another. So, that's the real telltale sign is the love you have for one another. And love is following the word. Jesus said, the one who loves me is the one who follows my commandments, follows my word. And here in 1 John, he's got some more stuff that's very interesting. He's talking about the Antichrist, and we all know there's an Antichrist coming, and there's probably these... He's already probably here, and if he's—it's probably got four lined up. If he fails, whatever. There's a whole bunch of them. There's Antichrist. The spirit of Antichrist is a lot, is alive and well everywhere, and it is Antichrist. It is against Christ. It's against the salvation message of Jesus Christ.

24:05 It's against the shed blood. It's against the kingdom of God. It's against the gospel of God. It's against the gospel of grace and good news. But anyway— It's not only anti in terms of opposed to. It's like a substitute. Yeah. An antichrist spirit comes guised as Christ to destroy the work of Christ. That's really a good definition. I'll say it again. An antichrist spirit is a spirit that comes guised or disguised as Christ to destroy the work of Christ. And so in 1 John 2, verse 18, Little children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard, the antichrist is coming. Even now many antichrists have come by which you know that this is the last hour so they were living as if it was the last hour back there 2 000 years ago and they went out from us and they were not of us it says they went out from us but but or you say because they were not of us for if they had been of us they would have continued with us but they went out that they might make manifest be made manifest that none of them were with us or of us paul said the same thing they the people that left him, they were not of him.

25:13 They didn't want to. So the test really is, do they stay with you? If they're of, you know, if they're of God, they'll stay. And you know you're of God. Paul says, he knew who he was. And those who left him, they went out because they were not of us, he said. And what he's saying is the Antichrists were with us. They were with us in the church. He says they were with us. Basically, that's what it says. If they would have continued with us, they went out from where? Us. Us. Who's us? The church. And then he goes on to say in verse 20, you know, they went out. But he says, but you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

25:54 He says, I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it and that no lie is of the truth. So what he's saying there is God has imparted, just like we've said many times, the spirit of God's truth, his identity, his DNA is written in our spirit. So you're in your spirit. You already been created by God, built by God, programmed by God to know the truth. The truth is in you, he said. But the most of the time what was happening, we're not using our spirit software to discern the truth or anything. We're going back to our soul and trying to figure things out with what it looks like, feels like. And then the devil plays through our feelings and our thoughts to deceive us into taking us in the wrong direction. But if his spirit, in 1 Corinthians 2, 9-11, if his spirit is bearing witness with our spirit that we can know what we know, he says, you have the anointing from the Holy One and you know all things.

26:44 Now, we don't know all things, but we do in a way because he said, for what man knows the things of man except the spirit of the man which is in him, but God has revealed those things to us by His Spirit that we might know. So those things that God wants me to know about me are given to me by the Holy Spirit who dwells in me and is sent to lead me into all truth and triumph. Let's ask this question. You know, someone here is one of the things that when I first came to know the Lord, I did not want to be deceived. Even before that, I did not want to be deceived in any way. And so I was on guard about things, and I was ignorant in a lot of ways. But what about people that are listening here today? They're wondering, hey, is this person of God? Is this teacher of God?

27:31 What do you think? You know, once in a while we hear, what do you think of this one, this preacher, this man, this woman? What do we think of that? We're not at the place of just criticizing everybody. Sometimes people that disagree with someone, a godly person that disagrees with another godly person on some issue, will accuse them of being a false prophet. And that's not necessarily the case. It could be, though. So discernment is not just having a critical spirit. It's being able to see what's really going on here. Correct. And so discernment.

28:15 Seeing through things. Right. Discernment is not judgment. If you discern that some brother or sister that loves Jesus, accepted Jesus, you know, et cetera, et cetera, you discern that they're off in their doctrine. They're going after a false teacher. They've been deceived. Even the angels of light, even the antichrist, the antifalse Jesus has come to people and present themselves to that person as Jesus. That is very common, and people don't even realize that because it sounds pious. Well, you know, God said he's going to heal me in the coming days, and I just need to be strong. Well, you know what? That's not even true. God, it could be partially true, but a partial truth is not a truth.

28:58 Jesus said he did heal us 2,000 years ago by his truth. We are healed. And so the thing is, but false Jesuses can ramp up and do all of that to bring people to deception. But here's one of the things that, you know, with answering that question, how do we know? We know that by their fruits, again, we're going back to the idea and understanding that there are only two kingdoms, heaven and hell. There's not a third kingdom of I don't know. There's not a third kingdom of mental illness and aliens and bad luck. Everything has to fit into one of two kingdoms. And so when someone is coming at you with a word, they're speaking words to you, or maybe you're hearing words come out of your own mouth, you can allow the Holy Spirit to discern those words by saying, okay, I'm going to ask a simple question. Who said that?

29:49 Who said that? Is that word, the fruit of that word from heaven or hell, is the fruit of that word condemnation, criticism, bitterness, rejection, betrayal, unloving? Or is the fruit of that word loving and kind and encouraging? Because there are many people that speak the demon, the devil, the lying spirits, the bitterness, the anger, what do you want to call them? You can call it bitterness, you can call it a demon of bitterness, it doesn't matter, it's the same thing. That spirit of bitterness or resentment or rejection or cruelty or a condescending or entitlement or whatever it is will be coming out of the mouth of the person and you're hearing it and you're recognizing it's hurtful.

30:30 It's not loving. It's not the fruit of love. It's not encouraging. It's from hell. It's not in the person. That's my friend. That's my child. That's my parent. Yeah, it's your parent, your child, or your friend, but it's also not that spirit is speaking through your parent, child, or friend to bring you to a place of despair or destruction or discouragement. So we have to discern, Jesus said, going back to the light, going back to the fruit, the fruit of our lips, what the heart is full of them all speaks. So what's going on in the heart, discern it. Is it bringing forth in your life some peace or stress? Is it bringing forth anxiety or is it bringing forth love?

31:10 And confusion is of the devil. And a lot of times when people have an antichrist or a false Jesus speaking through them. I will call it out because I know that I've read and I understand and have been acquainted with and walking with the true Jesus, Son of the living God. Good shepherd, faithful witness for a long time. And I know he's not condemning. He's not hateful. He's not bitter. He's not spiteful. He's not judgmental. I mean, he will judge. Yes, he will. But at this point, he is He's more than gentle to comfort and bring the persons back to truth. And so if you see a Jesus acting out of them that's not bringing them hope, it's bringing them false hope, it's bringing them discouragement, it's bringing them pain or condemnation, that is not the Jesus.

32:02 And so you can say something like I always say, okay, I command that spirit, that Jesus, to take off his mask and tell the truth before the living God. Are you the true Jesus, the one who died on the cross? and they'll become confused or they'll see something happen. And I will just, you know, it becomes apparent that they have been listening to a false Jesus. And these false Jesuses, Antichrist spirits, they're so clever. They're so lookalike. They're so, so, so clever. And only sometimes it's only through the Holy Spirit that you can understand what it is. And then that means you wait. You don't try to drive ahead and figure it out and declare something. You wait upon the Lord and ask the Lord to guide you because bottom line, then the steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord.

32:45 So if you are in a place, again, what do we got to say about all this? That when you break down the commandment, the one commandment, the love, love your neighbor as yourself, when it's broken down into its various love components. It's going to be something that causes us not to want to steal or covet or defraud or lie about our neighbor. It's those kinds of fruits, the fruits of love, joy, peace, righteousness. That are coming out of that life. And we know that God loves us. We know He is not wanting to deceive us. He is the one responsible to lead us into all truth and triumph. 1 John 4, beloved, verse 1, Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

33:37 So, Lord, I just pray that you just help us to test the spirits. Lord, the spirits. Observing, discerning. Discerning, not just by outward appearance, but through the Spirit. The Holy Spirit that lives in us knows what's really going on. If we'll listen to the Holy Spirit and if we'll judge things or discern things by the Spirit and by the written Word of God, we're going to be okay. Lord, we don't have to live in some kind of paranoia. It's like, oh, man, I don't want to be deceived. And is this one bad? Is this one bad? Is this one bad? You know, sometimes we can focus, Lord, forgive us for focusing on others' personalities and teachers, their servants by whom we believe the true ones are, like Paul said.

34:27 And so let us not just be all taken up with, yes, we appreciate good, solid, true prophets, true apostles, true evangelists, true pastors and teachers. But, Lord God, help us not to be so enamored. by all these personalities, Lord. Yes, Father. We'll be enamored by the personality of Jesus and the Spirit of the living God. Amen. Thank you, Lord. We are of God, 1 John 4, verse 6. We are of God. He who knows God, he who knows God, hears us. He who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of error.

35:10 That's about as simple as it gets. Well, that's what Jesus said, too. He said, he who is of God hears my word. Amen. He who is not of God does not hear my word. So you become the test of the truth. You know, if they're listening to you and you know you're of God and they're hearing you, then they're of God. If they're not, they're not of God. So, Father, this is not that complicated. By their fruits you shall know them, the fruits of love and joy and peace. And if they're listening to us and we know that we're listening to you, Lord God, then we know that they're of the spirit of truth. So, Lord, give us wisdom, eyes to see, ears to hear, and quicken us, Lord God, that we. Walk in the counsel of the ungodly, shikori adama shanda, or in the revelation of lust and perversion that has overtaken the church.

35:53 Father, cleanse the church and bring us forth into the place of righteousness, peace, joy, and truth. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. Yeah, and Jesus said, he that believes in me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. Amen. And join us at Life Recovery. Check us out at liferecovery.com. There are lots of articles. There's lots of opportunities. We have a link there for our new team's Setting Captions Free Bible Study every Thursday night live from 6.30 to 7.30, Minnesota time. Central Daylight Time. Yeah, that's what that is. And so join us if you can. It's a simple thing. Just click the link, and hopefully you'll get in. Also, we've got many books, opportunities. How about Spiritual Warfare and How Deliverance Can Change Your Life? Oh, yes.

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