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HIS SPIRIT will and would never CONTRADICT HIS WORDS , HIS GOSPEL , HIS TRUTH . that is HOW YE KNOW .
TEST the spirits and always test the spirits for many decievers do abound in these last hours upon earth .
And they do wear wool . Test them , BY what is written in the bible my friend .
Love and embrace and feast upon them lovely words , FOR GOD INSPIRED THEM and they are our meat
HIS SPIRIT guides and does lead his sheep . And remember HIS SHEEP Do not heed the voice
of a stranger no matter how much wool that stranger has decked up on the outside .
Leaning on your own understanding of the Bible is not how you test the spirits - and that is according to what is written in the Bible!!
There is a test in the Bible for testing the spirits to see if it is the Holy Spirit who you are hearing from, and that test is not 'leaning on your own understanding of the Bible, but rather it is a test of the spirit which is talking to you - to make sure that spirit is confessing Jesus Christ came in the flesh!!
Therefore the person who tells others to lean in their own understanding of what is written in the Bible is the person who is not testing the spirits like told to do in the Bible. Here is the test:
1 Jn 4:1-3 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;
and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
Now if you are thinking that your own understanding of the Bible is going to keep you from being deceived, as opposed to actually testing the spirits according to what is written in the Bible, it is you who are deceived because of your own pride!
Of course there as a couple of things about that test. The first is the you actually have to be able to hear with your spiritual ears!!!
If you cannot hear or are dull of hearing so spirits come across as a feeling or unction on you, then you can't use that test. Note that John wrote this instruction to the "Beloved" - so it is for believers whom the Lord loves because they actually do listen to Him. Those who pretend obedience to Him cannot use the test!!
And I will also tell you that even using the test is kind of weird. You pick up a spirit talking to you, so you ask it to confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, and sometimes everything goes quite, or sometimes they will flat out tell you "I can't tell you that". Other times they will try to change the subject by just trying to tell you something else - anything else. I have heard them curse at Jesus when asked that question. I have also heard them say, "oh yeah, Jesus came in the flesh', but then many name Jesus have been in the flesh, so I make sure I actually insist on Jesus Christ came in the flesh, because that is who we are talking about. And I myself, actually want to hear them confess that Jesus Christ not only came in the flesh but also rose again.
And that gets down to the reason they don't confess that Jesus, the Christ, came in the flesh. If He came in the flesh, died on the cross, and rose again, they are doomed, guilty, and have lost all hope. And more than that, they are under the command of Satan, and if He was to find out that they said Jesus Christ came in the flesh, then Satan will torture them. It would be something like saying Putin is a bad man, in Russia. If found out, it would not be good for you, and more so in the case of Satan's rule.
So, another thing to know about this test, is that Satan hates it!!! Just using it is like rubbing salt in his wounds - and that applies to the other evil spirits in the world also. So even using the test results in less evil spirits wanting to talk to you, period!
And all this and more will get explained to you, if your are actually taught of God. Now we can only learn so many things and that takes time. So a new believe might not understand all this, which is not only understandable but expected. But what about those posting often on this Christian Forum?
Well - if they are leaning on their own understanding of the Bible instead of trying to be taught of God, they won't lean this, won't actually do what is written in the Bible, but they will be Bible Thumpers!! The orderly line upon line of test that they read a little here and there will become the Word of God to them, instead of Jesus Christ!
They will then come to believe the Bible is the "Good News", instead of understand that Jesus Christ and our now being able to talk back and forth with Him by faith is the "Good News". So they write things like:
HIS SPIRIT will and would never CONTRADICT HIS WORDS , HIS GOSPEL , HIS TRUTH . that is HOW YE KNOW .
TEST the spirits and always test the spirits for many decievers do abound in these last hours upon earth .
And they do wear wool . Test them , BY what is written in the bible
And complete miss the fact they have it all wrong!! "HIS SPIRIT" brings us His words, and Jesus Christ is the Truth, and the Gospel is that we can get to know Him personally!! And that is all in the Bible which 'amigo de christo' calls 'HIS WORDS, HIS GOSPEL, HIS TRUTH. 'amigo de christo', has in fact replaced Jesus Christ with the Bible. Did he not read what Jesus told the Jews?
Jn 5:39,40 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.
That is his problem: He has replaced Jesus Christ and the Good News which is we can come to Jesus and walk and talk with Him, with the Bible and knowing the Bible. And that is not what the Scriptures tell us!! But they do explain that doing what 'amigo de christo' is doing is a problem and a serious problem!!
In the same section of the Bible we find that Jesus was talking to those who do not have His word abiding in them, and they don't actually believe in Him!!
Jn 5:38 “You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent.
We find out this also:
Jn 5: 41 “I do not receive glory from men;
Do you not still understand that God used men to write the Bible? He spoke to Moses and so Moses heard from Him and wrote! But still, He does not receive glory from men!! It is the Holy Spirit who gives Him glory, and that by taking His words and bring them to your spirit. And that is what give you life, not the Bible - which you people fail to understand because they don't actually believe Jesus is there with us all the time with His Holy Spirit!
Jn 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
The Bible is not spirit, it is ink on pages. Yes the Holy Spirit talked to Moses, but then he wrote and those writings were intended to get you to hear from the Lord via His Holy Spirit, just like Moses was doing. But they whom Moses spoke and wrote to did not listen!!!
Deut 8:20 “Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
So, they accuse others ( the saints, like their father the devil) of not knowing the Lord when it is them who don't know Him and don't listen to Him and so they call the orderly lines of text they read a little hear and there the word of God, and that just results in the falling backwards and being taken captive. That too is in the Bible!
Is 28:12,13 He who said to them, “Here is rest, give rest to the weary,”
And, “Here is repose,” but they would not listen
So the word of the LORD to them will be,
“Order on order, order on order,
Line on line, line on line,
A little here, a little there,”
That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.
People, the Bible is not the Word of God, Jesus is. That is His name, according to the Bible, and that because He is with you to talk to you personally!!!
Also, the Bible is not the GOOD NEWS , Jesus is. That is because you can and do know God if you come to know Him. And like knowing any person, we get to know them by talking back and forth with them, not be reading their book. Try reading the book of a famous author then showing up and their door without ever taking back and forth with them and see if they know you. Will you not be turned away as a foolish person?
And your understanding of the Bible is not the Truth!! Jesus Christ is the Truth and that because He has the words of God! His Father gave them to Him, and His Holy Spirit does not speak on His own but takes His words and brings the to you!
Jn 16:13 - 15 “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
“He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you.
“All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.
But the Scriptures are good for reproof, so I use them to reprove the Bible Thumpers so they might repent of their ways and seek Jesus Christ and what He says!! They are the ones who do not believe the Bible!! And how will they believe in Jesus Christ is they don't even believe what is actually written?
Jn 5:46,47 “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.
“But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
Can you not even see in the above verse that Jesus Himself make a separation between the writings of Moses and His words?