"The Real Jesus" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole

0:00 Music. Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, the war goes on. But, Lord, the war has already been won, and we thank you, Father, for completing the work you've begun in all of us as we go forward following you by the power of your Holy Spirit.

0:40 We thank you for the direction that you put your Spirit right inside of us to know the truth, to walk in the truth, to recognize the truth about who you are. And not be deceived by the counterfeits, Father. And I thank you, Jesus. You are the genuine, the real deal. You died on the cross. You are our hero. You shed your blood. You delivered us through your grace and salvation, that we do not obtain that through works, but through your grace, through your goodness. And we thank you now for giving us eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to receive the revelation of your truth and a willing heart to get rid of the junk. We're going to clean the house today, God, and get rid of all these false notions about false gospels and false Jesus as Father God and help us to walk in the simplicity of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

1:27 And we thank you, Lord, for removing the powers of darkness that have blinded our eyes, the scales on our eyes, the strong and familiar spirits that hate the truth, that have set up all kinds of lookalike Jesuses out there. And I thank you, Jesus, for giving us the promise too that no weapon formed against us or our families will prosper or prevail. We petition the high court of heaven for the restoration of our relationships and with one another with peace and goodness and harmony, restoration of health and safety and finances, restoration for your people. Lord God, it is time for restoration as we present ourselves before you and forgive our enemies, Father. Now guide us in Jesus' name, amen. Well, we have to talk about the real Jesus. The real Jesus is really the real deal.

2:09 And yet many people don't know that they're actually following us a fake or a false concept of God. Yeah, who is the real Jesus? Many years ago, way back, there was this television program. It was kind of like a game show, talk show, where there were three different people that would come on, all claiming to be the same person. And the panel, it was up to the panel to figure out which one was telling the truth. Well, nothing's changed. To find the real one. And then at the end of the show, they always revealed the one who was the real. Well, let's make the real Jesus stand up. That's kind of how they ended.

2:50 That's how they would say, may the real, you know, Susie Jones stand up. Matthew 24, the first thing that Jesus warns us about when he warns us about the end which we are near or in, he says to them in verse 4, 24-4 of Matthew, and Jesus answered and said to them, take heed that no one deceives you, for many will come in my name saying that I am the Christ and will deceive many. And then he goes on to talk about wars and rumors of wars. And then he goes on in 23 and 24. He says. Then if anyone says to you, Look, here, here's the Christ, or there, do not believe them.

3:32 For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect. So in other words, looking at the signs, looking at the wonders, looking at the miracles, looking at the healings, looking at all the kinds of the smoke and mirrors, the calling fire from heaven, we know that Satan will be able to do that even as you look in the book of Revelations. So there's really how then do we know the true Jesus from the false Jesus? That becomes the real question and issue. And, you know, Jesus has gotten theologized. That's a good, that's a good way. You know, we got all this theology. Theology means the study of God, and we just, people try to figure them out, and a lot of them slant them in their denominational image. Right, yeah.

4:18 And so forth. Well, they had that problem already back in the book of, you know... In Paul's day. Yeah, and then too, you think of the artists that have depicted Jesus so many different ways, so many different weird ways. And then some people back in the 70s thinking of Jesus, oh, he's just kind of a hippie that kind of cruises around in his sandals. Well, anyway, lots of, lots of things. He's nice to everybody. I think the worst place we have the wrong concept of Jesus is in our own minds, in our own souls. And because, you know, we don't recognize because we're so familiar with these pictures or these ways that Jesus Christ has presented that we don't, and we're so saturated with the false gospels that we don't recognize that Jesus Christ is the gospel.

5:05 It presents to us the gospel of grace and good news. But Paul had this problem too in Galatians and Corinthians. 2 Corinthians chapter 11, he said in verse, well, strength one and two and three, he says, I'm jealous over you with a godly jealousy because I am afraid, verse 3, that I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived or beguiled Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. And then he says, for if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom you have not preached, whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which we have not sent you, or a different gospel which you have not accepted.

5:50 In other words, at first you accepted it right, and now you're being deceived into believing something different. He says, you may well fall for it or put up with it. Then he goes on in verse 13, he says, for such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. Because why? Because the devil knows we all want. The truth. We want righteousness and goodness. And so Satan is deceiving, using our innate desire for goodness to deceive us into believing lies about goodness, about having to be good, to do good things to be good. But anyway, no wonder he says, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

6:37 Yeah, transform themselves into ministers of righteousness. The Bible talks so much about pretenders. Jeremiah 23, for example, about false prophets. Ezekiel, I believe it's 34, talks a lot about false prophets. People that come and claim to bring the word of God, claim to bring the truth, and they don't. They absolutely don't. And then he says, they claim to be speaking from the Lord, but God says, I haven't spoken to them. They've heard nothing from me. They're speaking according to the imaginations of their own heart, or we could say even the theology of their own study.

7:22 Here's a double problem then, because we've got preachers out there who are parading around, pretending, peddling the gospel, using the gospel of Jesus Christ for their own gains. And that's what Paul is talking about in 2 Corinthians 11. But then you also have the problem with the innate, the inner concept of Jesus Christ. Who is he and how do I hear? How do I know that I'm listening to the right Jesus inside of me? So we have the outside where people are preaching a false gospel. Anyway, going back to Galatians chapter 3, Paul does not mince his words. He says in verse 1 of chapter 3 of Galatians, O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? This is the New King James. Thank you.

8:04 That you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified. This only I want to hear or learn from you. Did you receive the Spirit, with a capital S, by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish, having begun in the Spirit, the truth? Are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain, if indeed it was in vain? Therefore, he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? He's making an argument here against, you know, the striving, the works, and he's pushing things back into, it's got to be done through the Spirit of God.

8:46 But you can't be doing things through the Spirit of God if you don't know who Jesus Christ is or the Holy Spirit or recognize them. And so, so if somebody's coming preaching another Jesus, you know, whether it's you're picking it up through your, your, the churches, you're going to the things you're listening to online or whatever, of the YouTube videos, if they're preaching, but we say, okay, there's a simplicity that is in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Many of the gospels have complicated the way that we are to be reconciled with God. They've used works. They've used rituals. They've rewritten and set up denominations. They've made different commandments. They've used theology. They've used all kinds of things to create an anxiety in us that, I don't know, am I doing it right? Is God mad at me?

9:29 I broke that commandment. Now what's going to happen to me? There's just all of this fear and confusion, which are two fruits from which kingdom, heaven or hell? They're from hell. And so the simplicity, the goodness, the peace of God is a guide. The true peace, reconciliation, rest, those are the fruits that we're looking for when you're walking with Jesus Christ, even though you may be all beat up with all kinds of trials. Does that make sense? Yeah, that certainly makes sense. You know, we have this idea that we get our ideas about Jesus. We get them if you maybe went to Sunday school and you had a flannel board Jesus.

10:11 Right. I mean, and basically— Well, that's a good beginning. I understand people are trying to just, you know, teachers are wanting to communicate that Jesus Christ is a real person and he came here and all that kind of stuff. But then what has to happen in our hearts is that who is he really? You know, I mean, there's books about him. There are songs about him. But who is he to me? My focus has got to be. I will study those Gospels. This is why I tell people, when you first come to know Christ, don't necessarily go into Romans or even the Gospel of John. It's good because it reveals Jesus as the Son of God.

10:55 But really getting into, I like to tell people to get into the book of Mark where you see the fast-moving action. Jesus in action. Jesus Christ in action in his ministry here on earth. Who is he? What's he doing? What's he up to? How does he respond? What's his attitude? How does he relate to people? So we have to go basically- Back to the book. Back to the book, back to the basics and say, okay, this is who he is. Amen. This is who he is. Well, what Satan has tried to do, obviously we don't realize in this war that Satan is, one of his strategies is to create counterfeits and complicate things.

11:35 So if things are being complicated, removed from the simplicity. He complicates everything. God says there's one new commandment, and that is that you love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and your neighbors yourself. But the enemy will put zillions of commandments and rituals and things. And also the way of salvation. The enemy ties that up with you getting rid of your sin and being good and doing all of these magical things that will get you into heaven. But Jesus Christ, the one true Jesus, is the one who died on the cross. He is the way. He is salvation. He is our relationship. He's the way back to God, back to reconciliation. And he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So if we're following another Jesus, a different spirit, a different gospel that Paul is warning us about, these false apostles, they're everywhere. They're pretenders. We know this.

12:25 You know, God has given us a gift called the discerning of spirits. And in the discerning of spirits, the Holy Spirit inside of you is going to put up a little red flag and say, I don't know about that. That doesn't quite sit right with me. So pay some attention to that because it could very well be the Holy Spirit setting up a warning because of these pretenders. But these deceitful workers of iniquity can do, they can transform themselves and look like apostles. And many, Jesus said again, Matthew 24, do not be deceived. That's the telltale sign, that's the main first point of his telling us about the end days, the end times, would be the pervasion, the prevalence of perversion, of deception.

13:14 Yeah, twisting the gospel, though what perversion is, it's something that's, if something's perverted, it's something that's twisted. It's not in its original shape. It's not in its original form. Or being used in its original purposes. And sometimes we just have to think, you know, we have to kind of manufacture all these teachings and thoughts about Jesus to make him more exciting, more palatable, more relatable. Well, we can do that, but it gets down to really the hard core of the Word of God, the Gospels of Jesus Christ. And of course, Paul, you know, expanded the gospel.

14:00 He basically said, okay, not expanded it. Brought out the implications of the God. What does it mean that Jesus Christ died on the cross and that we put to our faith in him? So the details of that come out through his epistles. Well, we know because Satan is a counterfeiter and that's the best way to deceive people, especially people who are looking for the real. They're going to be, you know, allured into the other. Jesus Christ is the embodiment of the gospel of grace and good news. He is the Savior. He is the way of salvation. There is no other way to God except through him. He is the gospel that reconciles human beings back to the Lord God of all creation.

14:43 But Satan, because he's cooked up all these versions and strenuous steps and self-abasing and sacrificing, everything works to obtain salvation, but all of them leave with an emptiness and no guarantee or peaceful assurance that they have been accepted by God. So this is, you know, a lot of the denominations, they will give you all a big list of works to do and church commandments and everything, but they will not guarantee, they will not guarantee that this will get you into heaven. And I think a lot of people just accept the fact that, well, I'll never know for sure because I can't know for sure because the church says I can't know for sure.

15:23 But that is not what the Bible says. The Bible says, yes, you can know with the peace of God, the Lord God, you know, walking in relationship with him, you can know that you know that you know that God is good and with us. So one of the questions then becomes, well, how do I know if I've got the true Jesus? How do I know if I got the right one? Well, the simplest answer is by his fruit. And Jesus said to himself, you shall know something by its fruit, whether it's from heaven or hell, because there are only two kingdoms. And so by its fruit, if you're not following a Jesus that's compassionate, that's forgiving, that's understanding, that's kind, that's gracious.

16:04 If you're not following a Jesus that's going with you through your trials and afflictions, you are not following the one true Lamb of God, the Son of God, Jesus Christ. So you're following some, you know, if the Jesus in your life, you imagine him being there with you, standing there, watching over you, whatever, and he's not stooping down as the good shepherd and lifting you up and carrying out of that briar patch or that pit. If you, a lot of people are stuck in their trial because they say, yeah, Jesus is, is Jesus with me? Yeah. But when they ask what's he doing, he's standing there. He is not, that's not what the good shepherd does. When he goes to look for that lost little lamb, he is probably, you know, girded his, pulled up, girded his loins, and he's trucking through the muck, and he's not giving up, and he's going here, he's going there.

16:50 And when he finds that little lamb stuck in the briars or, you know, in the pit or terrified or— He doesn't stand there and hold out his arms. Like the paintings. No. And this is the imagination. We cast the false Jesus concept of that imagination of the false Jesus onto this situation. Our Jesus, the one who died for us, is going to bend down on the ground, put his knee on the ground, pull you up out of that place, that pit, and rescue you and carry you if he needs to, carry you back to wherever it is to get you fixed and restored. And so, you know, a lot of times when I'm doing inner healing and counseling with people and praying, they'll have some Jesus that will come up.

17:30 And at that, I'll say, what's Jesus doing? And they'll say, he's standing there. And then I'll say, I command that Jesus to take off his mask. That's just the way I say it. You don't have to say it that way. And when I say that, I say to the person, now what is happening? And they'll say, I am confused. And confusion is not from heaven. Not from God. So therefore, you already know that that is a false Jesus. And many people are being tormented and bullied and religiously controlled through fear through these false Jesuses, whether they come through their denominations or they come through an internalization of a false Jesus. So, you know, if you're listening to those false Jesuses, you will think that this problem, this burden that you're carrying is yours to carry because of the argument the accuser has made against you to justify what he's doing by getting you to accept guilt and agree with him that you deserve to be punished.

18:32 So yes, when you sin, we are guilty of sinning. So what does God say to do? Take on more punishment, take on more penalty, take on more penance. What does he say? He says, confess your sin. Admit it. The word confess means to admit. Admit you're wrong. Confess it. Say, God, yeah, you're right, God. I blew it. I listened to a lie. And then repent. But if we're just dragging this burden on and on and think that God is mad at us, he's disappointed with us, he's testing us, he's punishing us, he's teaching us a lesson. All of these are concepts, words, thoughts that have been promoted by the enemy of God.

19:15 Their words, the God of this world has attached to those of us who all live in the snake pit and attached this to our understanding of the true God to try to pervert that. Trying to redefine God according to the personalities of the false savior or a false Jesus. So there's two different parts of what happens inside us with, it seems like. There's two different extremes. One of them is being really nonchalant and just saying, you know, whatever, whatever happens, I know the Lord's with me and I just kind of live a loosey-goosey life through that. Or the other part is being really neurotic.

19:58 It's like, oh man, I breathed the wrong way and now he's mad at me. And some people live in this constant, they're so uptight with Jesus. Well, they have a lot of false doctrines. I mean, like for example, everybody's, well, the story of Abraham, God is testing Abraham's faith. That's not even the truth. I mean, God knows everything. And so therefore he cannot be disappointed because he already knows And so when you're disappointed, you were expecting something you didn't get. So God knows about what's going to happen. God does not need to test, therefore test Abraham's faith. That's the way it's presented. What really is happening is God's being tested by Satan to see if we will believe God or the devil.

20:38 So there's got to be a peace. There's an abiding in Christ. Or you just, yeah, it's not that you just are real nonchalant about sin and just say, well, whatever, I'll do whatever the Lord understands and all that kind of stuff. Sloppy. The other, sloppy, we used to call it sloppy agape. But anyway, and then the other part is when you're at that place where you're always so worried. Well, maybe I disappointed the Lord. I didn't do it quite right. And you're living in this condemnation. The Bible says there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. So who among you here are just enjoying the presence of the Lord?

21:29 Even if you're in a trial. You're in a trial. You know he's there. You know he's kind. He's helping you. He's speaking to you because you're one of his sheep and you do hear his voice. And where you can just live a, like what Watchman Nee called, a normal Christian life. We have no idea, for the most part, what the normal Christian life is. Because most Christians are struggling, as Watchmane said, to get into a room they're already in. And they're anxious to get into a room they're already in. You're in the presence of God. You're with God. Getting closer to God is one of the things we hear people say a lot. But you can't get any closer to God. He's already there with you, inside of you, and all around you. So what you really need is a revelation of that closeness.

22:12 But Matthew, let's see, 11, 28 says, Jesus says his words, Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. So we have to know that many of us are carrying a backpack of burdens and worries and problems and situations and fears and anxiety and things that are not, it's not our backpack to carry. God said it's easy and it's light. He says, I will never test you or tempt you above that I am able to keep you. But with every temptation, I'll make a way of escape that you're able to bear it. That's 1013. I think it's 1 Corinthians.

22:58 And then, so his yoke is easy. He said, I will never leave you. I won't forsake you. I'm not going to let the flood or the fire overtake you. I think that's Isaiah 41 and Isaiah 43. I am for you. I will carry you. Cast your care upon the Lord. He is the good shepherd, seeking that which is lost. He leaves the 99 to go after you because he's not willing to give you up. He's not willing that one should perish. And in Romans chapter 8, after he talks about. How do we know? Many people have this question of, well, am I predestined? Did God pick some and not others? And all that question.

23:39 In Romans 8, starting with 31, he says, hold on one second. He says, what shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died and furthermore is risen, also even is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or the sword?

24:22 Yes, yes, yes. We're all under all kinds of heavy-duty pressures right now. These are our times of tribulation. But as it is written, for your sake, we are killed all day long. In other words, the devil wants to kill us. We are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. The true Jesus, the real Jesus, will not let us be swallowed up or defeated. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers nor things present or things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created things shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. And this is the whole plot and plan of Satan is to make you feel like you are separated, like there is no hope for you, like you are on your own.

25:10 Remember, you know, Satan wants to pull us off into his kingdom to deceive us. He wants to be God. He wants to be your savior. He wants, He knows we love Jesus, we want Jesus, so he's going to fake and pretend to be Jesus, false Jesuses, false saviors. They come by the dozens and they can do their signs and wonders. And remember, that's the last day's warning that Jesus is talking about. Jesus, remember, going back to the good shepherd, he is the good shepherd. He said, I will never leave you or forsake you. I will not leave you alone. If you have the right Jesus, you're going to have the fruits of righteousness, peace, joy, forgiveness, confidence in him, not in yourself, not in your perfect behavior, but confidence in his love, his forgiveness.

25:52 And you then can come boldly before the throne of grace and mercy to present your case, to ask God to help you to restore the things that have been stolen from you, including your children. And we have lots of materials on that. But so we have to recognize you may be giving following, not knowing, but a false Jesus. So command that the Jesus that you're looking at and thinking you're following, command that spirit, if it's not Jesus Christ, to take off his mask and see what happens. And then surrender and say, Lord, forgive me for believing the lies and bring to me the understanding of the true Jesus, which his Holy Spirit is in you. Even though the false Jesuses are there running around in your life, the true Holy Spirit is also there.

26:36 Yeah, that's what Jesus said in John 14, 26 and 27, before he went to the cross. He said, but the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to you remembrance all things that I said to you. So the Holy Spirit working in you is speaking to you. If you're listening, you're listening the words of Jesus, bringing to mind what he has said to you. Not only what he has said to you through the Gospels that we read about, but what he said to you in your own life, in your own heart. And he says in verse 27, peace I leave with you. Yes.

27:19 My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you, but let not your heart be troubled. Neither let it be afraid. So fear and troubling, if those are the fruits of the Gospel you're following. then you're following another gospel. It's a gospel of peace. That's Jesus. It is a gospel of peace. His gospel is a gospel of peace, even though we're in the midst of a terrible, brutal war. Father God, we thank you so much for the revelation of Jesus Christ through your Holy Spirit as revealed to us through your Holy Spirit, Lord. I pray that the sword of your word, which is able to separate even to the dividing of bone and marrow, thought and intention, Soul and spirit will separate from us, from our concepts, from our minds, our hearts, our thoughts, our wills.

28:12 The false Jesuses, the pretenders, the different gospels, the things that are not yours. That is why we're confused. That's why we go in circles. That's why we dig ruts. That's why we're stuck. So those things are not from heaven. So if you're walking in the place of Jesus Christ, it doesn't mean you're going to be trouble-free, but it means you're going to be victorious in the midst of and be able to overcome in the midst of all the trials and tribulations that Satan is trying to throw in your path. So Father God, reveal yourself through the power of your Holy Spirit, through the truth of Jesus Christ, this one and only Son of the living God, to us, to our minds and hearts, and let that be. He, keep our peace, keep us. He is our peace. He is our truth. He is our life. He is our salvation. Lord Jesus, we thank you. You are everything.

28:55 Help us now, Son of God, to sort out and be just delivered from the counterfeits, those who come for promoting false gospels, false Jesuses, and false spirits, Father God, Antichrist spirits, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen. Margie, tell us about the next intensive, the next Setting Captives Free intensive coming up now. It's February 9th through the 15th. So this is, for those of you who are in this area, Minnesota, thereabouts, some come from further, but we do a six-day Setting Captives We address issues of the life-controlling problems, addictions, relationship problems, mental health issues. And also we invite people who want to learn how to do deliverance and inner healing to these camps.

29:47 They're at the Salvation Army, a Northwoods camp. And to get your information, get the registration, get yourself set up for a spot, just call 612-618-5947 and ask for Jerry. That would be 612-618-5947. And the cost is $250. And that includes beautiful meals prepared by a chef, not just a cook. He's a chef and beautiful lodging. And so beautiful environment too, just peace in the Northwoods camp. So again, 612-618-5947. We invite you to come. If you've been there before, we invite you to take a refresher course.

30:30 We're going to be talking and teaching about the basic foundational principles, about the deeper concepts of inner healing and deliverance and also bring people to freedom. Also, I'd like to mention, check out on our website, liferecovery.com, there is a series called The Court of Heaven, Going to the Court of Heaven. God on trial? Well, there's God on trial. There's all kinds of things. Oh, yeah. Yeah, but get our freedom by presenting our case before the court of heaven. So again, be encouraged, be blessed, and we will see you soon. God bless. I have an emergency. What is your location? Music.

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