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Many Adversaries! By Pastor Bill Taylor A publication of My Father's House, inc. Volume 7/Issue 6 Prophecy: You know the wickedness of the flesh, My people, that it takes, usurps and strives for what doesn’t belong to it. It goes to the high seat in pride. In haughtiness, the flesh rises into places it doesn’t deserve. But the sin of My church is as she’s called to meekness in the Spirit she’s to resist the power of the flesh. And even as in the law, I said if a maiden who’s betrothed is found with a man in the city they both die because she should have cried out, but if she’s found in the country she’ll live for she cried out but no one heard her. So My church should have cried out to Me when the fleshly have ravished her. For the fact that I call you not to war in the flesh, doesn’t mean you aren’t to war in the Spirit. For had the church risen up against these things and fought this battle in the Spirit, I’d have dealt with those who’ve conquered her and I’d have put them down and cast them away. But My church has refused to cry out to Me. She’s refused to fight in the flesh as is right; but she’s also failed to fight in the Spirit where she should have fought. But I’ll set things in order and I’ll have a church who won’t fight in the flesh but they’ll prevail in the Spirit. So they’ll war in the Spirit to put things in order and we’ll get the flesh out of My church and put the Spiritual back in charge as they ought to be, saith the Lord. (Prophecy delivered at “My Father’s House”) For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. (1Cor16:9) He who says to the wicked, “You’re righteous,” him the people will curse; nations will abhor him. But those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will come upon them. (Pr24:24,25) For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. (1Jn3:8) As He is, so are we in this world. (1Jn4:17) There are many adversaries to the work and to the Word of God and as Jesus had to struggle against adversaries, (Lk13:17) so we’ll have the same struggles. The word “satan” means adversary. Those who work for satan are the adversaries. Anyone who opposes what God is doing is working for satan. It doesn’t matter how much they profess they’re working for God. But what I do, I’ll also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast. For such are false apostles, (adversaries) deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it’s no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. (2Cor11:12-15) For the most part “churches” today refuse to recognize there are adversaries in their midst. The adversaries are claiming to be “christians,” teachers, apostles, and yet they work for the devil. If you were to go to the average “church” today and attempt to uncover these adversaries they’d throw you out and accuse you of being unChrist-like because most “churches” have been taken over by the doctrines of God’s adversaries. They’re being run by the enemies of God. And it’s the righteous who are being censored if they attempt to do what Christ does. In fact “churches” today aren’t behaving at all like Christ because Jesus stood up to the adversaries, exposed them and showed them up for what they were. He didn’t mince words with them – didn’t speak between the lines – tip toe around the subject – pretend they were ok when they weren’t. He didn’t treat them as if they were “christians” in a lesser light. They weren’t in a lesser light and most today who claim to be “christians” aren’t Christians at all. They aren’t in a lesser light. They’re in darkness! They’re sons of the devil. And Jesus warned “If the light that’s in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Mt6:23) There’s great darkness in most “christianity” today, not light! Jesus called the Pharisees “Brood of vipers” and He would say the same of most “churches” today because what’s happening in those churches is doctrines of demons are hatched not the Word of God. “Believers” aren’t obeying the Word of God! The fact that there are adversaries in the “churches” is kept out of the minds of most “christians” today. Rather than being warned about the adversaries they’re taught to regard everyone who claims to be a “christian” as a brother. This is contrary to the teachings of Christ who over and over again exposed that many people who claimed they were of God were of the devil. Jesus could tell this by the desires that they do. You’re of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He’s a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the Truth, because there is no Truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he’s a liar and the father of it. Jesus answered, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It’s My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He’s your God.” (Jn8:44,54) Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He wouldn’t allow anyone to carry wares through the temple. Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations?’ But you’ve made it a ‘den of thieves.’” (Mk11:15-17) The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. (Jn10:10) These aren’t brethren in a lesser light. They’re wicked people who are serving the devil. They’re demonized men stealing God’s temple away from Him to use for their selfish purposes. (1Tim6:10) They’re even resorting to thievery so the house of God has become a den of thieves. Similar things are going on in many “churches” today. And the scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how they might destroy Him… (Mk11:18) They’re obviously adversaries to God. They want to use the temple for their own wicked purposes. Jesus is fighting to bring the temple back to fulfilling the purposes of God, and these adversaries are trying to kill Him. While I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. (Jude3) Today Jesus is still contending for the faith by working mightily through His true believers. And it’s plain to see the people He’s contending against aren’t of God. They’re thieves who’ve stolen the church from God and they’re stealing from the people in the church. Jesus made two violent visitations to the temple with a whip. He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers doing business. When He’d made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Don’t make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” Then His disciples remembered it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.” (Jn2:14-17) If Jesus is in you, zeal for God’s house will be eating you up too. It’s in Jesus! From the beginning of His ministry when He comes back out of the wilderness after being tempted by the devil, He goes into the temple to take it back for God. This is the first cleansing! So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He wouldn’t allow anyone to carry wares through the temple. Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations?’ But you’ve made it a ‘den of thieves.’” (Mk11:15-17) This second cleansing of the temple occurs near the end of His ministry. In the beginning He says, “Don’t make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” But in the end He says they made it a “den of thieves.” His words against the wicked have become stronger. Likewise, God has been showing me for 20+ years the wickedness in contemporary “christianity.” And every time I think, “Wow, how terrible that is.” He shows me it’s even worse. Then He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Turn again, you’ll see greater abominations than these.” (Ezek8:15) Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?” (Mt15:1,2) When these Pharisees test Him, He calls them “Hypocrites!” (v7) He doesn’t mince words with them. He knows they’re enemies! And the scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how they might destroy Him; for they feared Him, because all the people were astonished at His teaching. (Mk11:18) Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven. And He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign… (Mt16:1,4) Jesus isn’t speaking gently! He’s not saying these are brethren in a lesser light who need to be taught better. He’s saying they’re hypocrites – they’re wicked – they’re adulterous. As the battle rages towards the end of Jesus’ life, His adversaries become more and more vicious in their attacks upon Him. Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk. But He outwits them. “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” (Mt22:15,21) The Sadducees came the same day trying to test Him. (v23) And He tells them, “You don’t know the Scriptures nor the power of God.” (v29) Then a lawyer comes testing Him. (v35) He counters by asking them why David calls the Messiah, who’s his son, “Lord.” And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore. (Mt22:46) More often than anything else what the Pharisees accuse Jesus of is “Sabbath-breaking” because He heals on the Sabbath. “Sabbath keepers” are among Jesus’ worst adversaries – tell the Seventh Day Adventists that! The doctrine all Jews are most knowledgeable about is not to work on the Sabbath, but they misinterpret it against Christ! Today the doctrine that’s most commonly misinterpreted is “Don’t judge.” The false “christians” often attack righteous believers on that doctrine in the churches today. Adversaries of God say, “Don’t judge!” And the bible does say we shouldn’t judge. (Mt7:1) And as far as the Jews are concerned the bible says to keep the Sabbath. (Although the Jerusalem Council didn’t require the gentile believers to keep the Sabbath. – Act15:28,29) The question is are you interpreting the bible correctly? The Pharisees aren’t interpreting it correctly. Because of that they’re judging the sinless Jesus as guilty of breaking the Sabbath. But Jesus isn’t breaking God’s law when He heals on the Sabbath. He demonstrates that by showing the leader of the Synagogue is a hypocrite. (Lk13:15-17) Jesus calls him a hypocrite. He doesn’t say, “Oh you poor fellow you’re mistaken. I’m going to teach you better” or “I know your intentions are good but you just need a little more light!” He says, “Hypocrite!” We can say the same about those who forbid righteous judging! A hypocrite is one who accuses others while he does the same thing. Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. (Rom2:1) Jesus doesn’t forbid all judging. He forbids hypocritical judging. Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you’ll see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. (Mt7:5) If the plank has been removed from my eye then I can judge, and by the grace of God it has been. But he who’s Spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. (1Cor2:15) But you’ve an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. (1Jn2:20) Then I can Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. (2Tim4:2) Because God has opened my eyes, I can help my brother to see by righteously judging and correcting him. Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment. (Jn7:24) Did Stephen when facing the Pharisees say, “You nice fellows. I know you’re just trying to do good. I’m going to straighten you out though and give you a little advice?” No! He said, “You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you’ve now become the betrayers and murderers.” (Act7:51,52) Stephen wasn’t being nice. He wasn’t treating them as brethren. He recognized they weren’t of God. They’re adversaries to God and they’ve resisted God. No one who’s of God resists God. “He who’s of God hears God’s words; therefore you don’t hear, because you aren’t of God.” (Jn8:47) These Pharisees who are resisting God are of their father the devil. (v44) Those who are trying to shame Jesus because He heals on the Sabbath are working for satan! They’re adversaries. They aren’t a different kind of “believer!” They’re adversaries to the work of God. And Jesus proves the ruler of the synagogue is a hypocrite by saying, “Doesn’t each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it? So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom satan has bound-- think of it-- for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?” (Lk13:15,16) In other words, “You treat animals better than people.” And when He said these things, all His adversaries were put to shame; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by Him. (Lk13:17) It’s time that the adversaries of God be shamed again. Jesus warns us, “Take heed that you not be deceived. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I’m He,’ and ‘The time has drawn near.’ Therefore don’t go after them.” (Lk21:8) But before all these things, they’ll lay hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons. (v12) Therefore settle it in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you’ll answer; for I’ll give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries won’t be able to contradict or resist. (v14,15) Again Jesus tells us to beware of men (Mt10:17) for many will be adversaries. Paul confirms Jesus’ prophecy when he says, “A great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.” (1Cor16:9) And “Let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs that you stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel and not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a proof of perdition but to you of salvation, and that from God.” (Phil 1:27,28) For if we sin willfully after we’ve received the knowledge of the Truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. (Heb10:26,27) True Christianity faces adversaries. Jesus faced adversaries. The disciples faced adversaries. One of Jesus’ adversaries was Judas. Judas was chosen by Jesus who knew he was an adversary, because Jesus knew God’s plan. God’s plan was His adversaries would be allowed to kill Jesus in order to prove to the whole world that indeed the Jews while professing to be God’s people were actually adversaries and murderers of God. By this God was going to seal the case against His adversaries. Exposing them completely. The Psalmist says a pit is being dug for the wicked. (Ps94:13) In order to dig that pit for the wicked Jesus had to allow Himself to be given into their hands so they’d do with Him as they wished, thus their wickedness would be revealed publicly before all the world and recorded in the scriptures so that we could all see who the adversaries of God are so we can identify them in our own churches, in our own age because they’re the same evil spirits in the children of satan today as they were thousands of years ago. Jesus knew God’s plan included the sacrifice of His Son and the uncovering and condemning of wicked religion – perverted religion – religion that gave lip service to God while it hates Him in its heart and fights against Him with its flesh! The cross exposes and condemns religious flesh; on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh. (Rom8:3) Jesus allowed God to make Him that bait for the trap that exposed the wickedness of the “Pharisee” churches. And for that to happen Jesus had to allow an adversary to be among His apostles. Several times in the gospels Jesus would say things like, “Except the son of perdition, that the scriptures might be fulfilled.” (Jn17:12;6:20) “For My calling to be complete, I must be turned over to evil people and they may kill Me and God may raise Me. (Mk10:33,34) And for that to happen I had to choose a son of the devil to be with us and to betray Me.” It’s amazing how far God and Christ will go to fulfill the scriptures. And it ought to be an awesome lesson to us of how important fulfilling the scriptures is to any true Christian. Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus; for he was numbered with us and obtained a part in this ministry. For it is written in the book of Psalms: “Let his dwelling place be desolate, and let no one live in it;” and, “Let another take his office.” Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John to that day when He was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection. (Act1:16,17,20-22) And they prayed and said, “You, O Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which of these two You have chosen to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.” (Act1:24,25) Judas went to his own place, the place he belonged to! And that’s where you’re going too. You’re going to the place where you belong, so you’d better be careful of what place you belong! Those who belong to God will serve God, will hear God’s Word and they’ll go to the place God has prepared for them. (Jn14:1,2) Whereas those who don’t belong to God have another place prepared for them, a place full of fire and torment prepared for the devil and his angels, (Mt25:41) God’s adversaries, and that’s the place Judas went to. Jesus often battled against adversaries who thought themselves to be the people of God. Jesus said, “You do the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We weren’t born of fornication; we have one Father – God.” Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you’d love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why don’t you understand My speech? Because you aren’t able to listen to My word. You’re of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning… (Jn8:41-44) They were constantly plotting to destroy Jesus. (Mt12:14;Mk11:18) They tried to entangle Him. (Mt22:15) They were continually attacking Him, accusing Him of sin when He wasn’t sinning. “But if you’d known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you’d not have condemned the guiltless.” (Mt12:7) These people don’t know God. They’re trying to condemn Jesus because they hate Him. And if they were of God, they couldn’t hate Him. “If you were born from above, we’d be from the same place. We’d be citizens of the same country. You’d recognize that we’re brethren. The reason you’re an adversary to Me is you aren’t from where I’m from. Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him. (1Jn5:1) It’s no different today. If we are preaching from the bible in the Spirit and people rise up against us then such people can’t be of God – they’re adversaries! It’s not that they’re uneducated. It’s not that they’re ignorant. They’re from a different place. And Jesus doesn’t soften His words towards them when He says, “You’re of your father the devil…” Is that censorious? Accusatorial? Is that unloving? UnChrist-like? How can Jesus be unChrist-like! But I’ve been accused of being unChrist-like when I do what Jesus does. Will “christians” today accuse Stephen of judging when he calls the Pharisees uncircumcised, stiffnecked, always resisting the Holy Spirit? Is that judging? Because when I say such things “church” people accuse me of judging. Many so called “christians” have accused me when I’m doing the very thing Jesus was doing and yet they claim that they love Jesus. They don’t love Jesus. They don’t even know Jesus. The desires of your father you want to do. (Jn8:44) My Father desires that every believer would be conformed to the image of Christ, (Rom8:29) that we’d be perfect and complete in all the will of God, (Col 4:12) that we’d grow into the fullness of the stature of Christ, (Eph4:13) that we’d be pure just as Jesus is pure, (1Jn3:3) that we’d walk in the Spirit, (Gal 5:25) that we’d be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all wisdom and Spiritual understanding and have a walk worthy of Him, fully pleasing to Him, (Col 1:9,10) that we’d fulfill every good thing He desires for us to do and the work of faith with power. (2Th1:11) He wants us to be the spitting image of Jesus. (Col 1:28) He wants us to be a habitation for God in the Spirit. (Eph2:22) He wants to live in us (Col 1:27) and do His will thru us. (Phil 2:13) And He wants us to be holy (1Pt1:15) and sanctified (1Th4:3) and to be perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect; (Mt5:48) to touch not the unclean thing and to come out from among them and be separate, (2Cor6:17) to not love the world or the things of the world, (1Jn2:15) to lose our lives that we might live the Christ life, (Lk9:24) that Christ should be so fully formed in us that we could say, “I don’t even live anymore, it’s Christ who lives in me.” (Gal 2:20) That’s where a real Christian is. That’s what’s in him – that’s what the will of the Father is. He wants us to edify one another in love (Eph4:16) – to reprove, rebuke and admonish. (2Tim4:2;Col 3:16) He wants us to be found working together with Him (2Cor6:1) in the great work of salvation that He’s doing to bring people under submission to God – to bring them into the body of Christ where they can become fruitful branches and bear fruit unto God because they abide in Christ and His Word abides in them (Jn15:7,8) so they won’t be cut off like the unfruitful trees. (Mt3:10) He wants us to be workers together with Him in the glorification of His bride – cleansing the church of every spot and wrinkle till she is fit for Him to come and receive unto Himself a glorious church. (Eph5:25-27) Every time I bring these Scriptures up in most places where so called contemporary “christians” gather, wicked adversaries of God who claim to be believers rise up and say, “We can’t be perfect, God doesn’t expect that of us, you’re judging me.” And yes Jesus is judging them. He says, “You’re of your father the devil, and we can tell because of the desires you do. You do the things the devil desires to do which are things that are against God and His Word – things that are against the glorious church – that are against the perfection of the bride. How do we perfect the bride? We must expose sin and expel unrepentant sinners. Paul commands us to judge those who are in the church. (1Cor5:12;6:2) But we hear “churchy” people saying, “Don’t judge.” But he who’s Spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. (2:15) Don’t you know the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Don’t you know we’ll judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? (6:2,3) If we’re to judge angels, aren’t we worthy to judge who the true brethren are? We aren’t to fellowship with anyone who calls himself a brother who’s a fornicator. (5:11) How do we do that without judging him as a fornicator? We are commanded not to fellowship with anyone who calls himself a brother yet is a covetous man. (5:11) How do we do that without judging him as a covetous man? How are we supposed to beware of wolves who come in sheep’s clothing (Mt7:15) unless we judge them by their fruit and see they’re wolves? Jesus commends the church at Ephesus because, you’ve tested those who say they’re apostles and aren’t, and have found them liars… (Rev2:2) How do they do that without judging them? How can people who claim to be “christians” rise up against me or real righteous men who are obeying God when we’re commanded to reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering, (2Tim4:2) when we’re commanded to expose sin. (Eph5:13) Light exposes and we’re to expose darkness because we’re light (Eph5:13) – we’re sons of the light (Eph5:8) and we’re to expose the things that are wrong. How do you expose what’s wrong without judging (proving) them wrong and showing they’re wrong? It’s wicked “Pharisees” who rise up in the “churches” and say, “You’re sinning because you’re exposing my sin – you’re judging me!” The bible tells me I’m supposed to expose your sin in order that the church can be purified that she can become a glorious church. It’s commanded that we’re to expose the sin in the church and purge out the old leaven – get rid of the sinners in the church (1Cor5:1-7) – show them what they are so they can repent or be removed. But devils are running the churches saying, “No, you’re sinning because God says not to judge.” These fools have the same spirit as the Pharisee who’s saying Jesus is sinning because He’s healing on the Sabbath. They’re misinterpreting the Word of God. “Does the Sabbath law forbid doing good or evil?” Jesus asked. (Lk6:9) Truly the Sabbath law is to prevent you from doing evil, from working like a slave when they ought to be spending time with God or making someone else work when they ought to be spending time with God. But has the “Judge not” law been made in order to permit devils to do evil and allow evil to go on in the church because we can’t judge?
No, the warning not to judge forbids hypocritical judging in a way that’s evil (Mt7:3-5) but it doesn’t stop us from judging righteous judgment (Jn7:24) in a way that’s good to turn a soul from sin and save him from death (Jms5:20) or to protect the purity of God’s church. (Mt18:15-17) Jesus is allowed to heal on the Sabbath. To do good isn’t forbidden by the Sabbath law only to do evil. Likewise Christians are allowed to do good in judging. And good judging is the kind of judging that purges out the old leaven (1Cor5:1-7) – makes the church pure – gets sin out of the church – saves a sinner from the error of his ways so he doesn’t die in his sin. (Jms5:20) Most of these false “christians” today would accuse Stephen of judging if they didn’t know he was in the bible as a saint. If Stephen came into a church anonymously today saying, “You do always resist the Holy Spirit!” wicked “believers” would rise up and want to hurt him if they could. They’d call him a judge. They’d say he’s censorious and he speaks evil. But it wasn’t Stephen who was sinning. Stephen didn’t sin when he said, “You’re uncircumcised, stiffnecked, rebellious. You do always resist the Holy Spirit.” He was telling the truth. He was exposing the sin of the adversaries of God. Yet he didn’t want to kill them. He even asked God to forgive them. But they killed him. The woman caught in adultery was a sinner. Jesus didn’t disagree with the fact she was a sinner. He didn’t call the Pharisees sinners for calling her a sinner. The fact they said she was a sinner would be considered by many today as “judging” her. Exposing her isn’t a sin. She was an adulteress. The sin wasn’t the fact that they exposed her adultery. The sin was they wanted to kill her. The sin of judging unto death is the sin Jesus is saying you’d better not do. And that’s the very sin these Pharisees performed against Jesus Himself when they killed Him, as they would have killed the woman in adultery and they did kill Stephen. The kind of judging that’s a sin is when you decide the person isn’t fit to live in this world as they judged Paul saying, “Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he is not fit to live!” (Act22:22) The kind of judging the wicked Jews are doing is they’re judging the death penalty is required – you’ve broken their law and you need to die for it. Whereas what Jesus said concerning the woman in adultery is you’re all guilty. Why are you wanting to kill her when you’re just as guilty? Wouldn’t you be crying out for mercy for both her and yourself? Shouldn’t you be recognizing that you are a sinner too? God isn’t saying we must ignore the sin but it’s wicked to call death upon someone because of their sin when you’re guilty too. That’s the kind of judging you’d better not do because if you were to kill that woman in adultery God’s going to kill you for your sin too, because you had no mercy on her. Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you’ll escape the judgment of God? (Rom2:1,3) Jesus admitted she was a sinner when He said, “Go and sin no more.” What He said was, “I don’t condemn you.” The sin in judging is to condemn someone to death. If Stephen had condemned the Jews who killed him, we wouldn’t have had Paul and the wonderful teachings he gave us. Paul deserved death. Paul was a wicked sinner. He participated in the stoning of Stephen. And Stephen called Paul a sinner – called him stiffnecked and uncircumcised – told him he resisted the Holy Spirit but then asked God to forgive him. And God forgave because Stephen didn’t judge them unto death. Stephen didn’t decide, “Like God I can judge when somebody should die for his sin.” That’s what the Matthew 7 sin is when you condemn someone for doing things no worse than you’re doing and so bring judgment upon yourself. Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you’ll see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. (Mt7:5) If I get the plank out of my eye then I can judge my brother righteously, not to kill him but to save him. (Jms5:20) We have a lot of adversaries but some of them might be Pauls. They just don’t know it yet. Still that doesn’t mean we aren’t to tell them they’re sinning. We must expose their sin (Lev19:17) but we don’t ask God to kill them. However, there is a place where someone who’s terribly persistent in wickedness gets turned over to the devil for the destruction of their flesh. (1Cor5:5) So there are some areas where the church can get involved in judging unto death. (1Tim1:20) There is a sin unto death and I don’t say you should pray about it. (1Jn5:16) There’s a place where severe wickedness must be stopped and God says turn them over to satan for destruction. So men ought to fear God – fear being cut off. (Mt3:10) Many “churches” today are filled with wicked people. Timothy says, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm. (1Tim1:7) They don’t understand when they say, “You’re judging me” that they’re twisting the scriptures to make a shield for their ungodly sins. They don’t interpret the bible correctly – they don’t know God. They use a scripture Jesus intended to stop people from killing each other, to oppose and fight against the very things God says we ought to do: Expose sin! And they say, “Don’t expose sin” when God says, “Expose sin.” (Eph5:11;1Cor5) Sin in the churches is to be reproved, and then either repented of or the sinner is to be cast out. And God commands us to do that. (1Cor5) Those who work for the devil, don’t want the devil cast out of the church. The devil won’t cast out the devil. (Mt12:26) But to the righteous who are trying to cast the sin and the devil out of the church satan says, “You’re judging me.” So satan tries to twist the Word of God to make the righteous saint who’s doing God’s work seem like he’s the sinner. These two spirits aren’t coming from the same place. The Spirit who’s cleansing the church by exposing sin, reproving, rebuking, exhorting, admonishing, and bringing conviction upon people who need to be convicted, the Spirit who’s doing that is of God because He’s casting out the devil.
The spirit who’s resisting that is of the devil because it’s refusing to cast out the devil and it’s resisting God. These spirits are so prevalent in “churches” today that for the most part the devil is running the “churches” like a wolf in sheep’s clothing and he won’t let himself be cast out because the members are too deceived by his demonic doctrines to understand how they’ve been enslaved, so in such congregations believers can’t go on to perfection; they can’t obey God and walk in the Spirit – they can’t know God’s voice – so they’ll never become the church without spot or wrinkle while this is going on. (Eph5:27) Some people who pretend to be serving the Lord tell us if we’re to deal with sin in the church, we must deal with it in love in such a way as not to be censorious, then they come against us because they say we speak too harshly. They serve the devil in this too because Jesus speaks harshly. He calls them sons of the devil. (Jn8:44) He calls them brood of vipers. (Mt23:33) He calls them hypocrites over and over again. (v15,23,25,29,etc) He speaks to them very harshly. It’s not sin to do what Jesus does. It’s a sin to hold back your sword from blood. (Jer48:10) It’s a sin not to do what Jesus does. It’s sin to treat people who are sons of the devil as though they’re sons of God (Pr17:13) making them and others think they’re sons of God when, in fact, they should be exposed as not from above but from below. He said to them, “You’re from beneath; I’m from above. You’re of this world; I’m not of this world.” (Jn8:23) Judas fell by transgression and went to his own place. (Act1:25) His own place is below. Jesus went to His place and His place is above. (Jn8:23) Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I’m the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” The Pharisees (who are still arguing with Him) therefore said to Him, “You bear witness of Yourself; Your witness isn’t true.” It’s not necessarily so that because somebody bears witness of themselves their witness isn’t true. It’s stupid to say that! Wisdom might say this, “You bear witness of yourself and that isn’t acceptable by itself because we don’t know for sure if you’re telling us the truth. We need another witness.” You have to test to see if something’s true. Anyone with common sense would understand that but these people are stupid because they’re anti-God so they don’t have wisdom. Jesus answered, “Even if I bear witness of Myself, My witness is true, for I know where I came from and where I’m going; but you don’t know where I come from and where I’m going.” That’s the Truth! “You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. And yet if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I’m not alone, but I’m with the Father who sent Me.” (Jn8:12-16) Obviously Jesus is “judging” them all thru this passage but when He says, “I don’t judge” here He means, “I don’t condemn you to death.” He just said concerning the woman in adultery, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.” (v11) I’m not here to condemn you. I’m not here to call God’s wrath on you. I’m here to try to get you to see the way of salvation and to save you. God’s wrath will come soon enough. The judgment that will condemn and destroy will come in God’s time. If you want to be saved from it listen to what I’m telling you. Get out of your sin and stop telling me I’m judging you when I’m trying to save you by showing you your sin. “Yet if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I’m not alone, but I’m with the Father who sent Me. It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.” “I’m One who bears witness of Myself, and the Father who sent Me bears witness of Me.” Then they said to Him, “Where’s Your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither Me nor My Father. If you’d known Me, you’d have known My Father also.” Then Jesus said to them again, “I’m going away, and you’ll seek Me, and will die in your sin. Where I go you can’t come.” Why can’t they go there? Because it’s not their place. Their place is beneath. His place is above. So the Jews said, “Will He kill Himself, because He says, ‘Where I go you can’t come’?” They can’t understand He’s talking about Spiritual things but now He says it plainly. And He said to them, “You’re from beneath; I’m from above. You’re of this world; I’m not of this world.” (Jn8:16-19,21-23) “If the world hates you, you know it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you aren’t of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” (Jn15:18,19) “Therefore I said to you that you’ll die in your sins; for if you don’t believe that I’m He, you’ll die in your sins.” (Jn8:24) If you don’t believe that I’m He, (the Messiah) you won’t be born again (from above) so you’ll die in your sin and go to your place below because you’re from below. I’m from above. The only way you can go to the place above is believe in Me in such a way as to be born from above. And when you’re born from above it’s going to change your entire nature. Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2Cor5:17) “You’re of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do.” (Jn8:44) You’re from below therefore the things the devil (who rules below) wants to do is what you want to do – his spirit is in you. We can tell what’s in you because what you desire to do comes out in your actions. Desires that manifest in action illustrate the spirit that’s in you and that spirit is antichrist if it comes against the things God wants to do. God wants to clean His church up. He wants to get the sin out of the people. He wants to have a glorious church. (Eph5:26,27) But when I try to do these things if you rise up against me and say, “You’re judging!” or “We can’t be perfect.” (Mt5:48) and you come up with doctrines of demons that are contrary to the Word of God, then it’s absolutely certain you aren’t born again. If you were born again, you would hear the Words of God. (1Jn4:6) You’re an imposter pretending to be born of God in a fake church where the doctrines you follow are from below and not from above: viper eggs! And when someone comes in who knows God and is sent from above, like Jesus, you come against them. He who’s of God hears God’s Words; therefore you don’t hear, because you aren’t of God. (Jn8:47) When people are so deceived as to think they’re saved when they can’t hear God we can’t teach them how to be holy, we can’t teach them how to be sons of God. The only thing we can teach them is that they aren’t saved! We must convict them that they’re actually on their way to hell so they can cry out to be born again. They need to recognize they’re indeed sinners that they have perverted the Words of God – that they must repent and cry out, “God save me.” And by no means should such deceivers be in charge of the church functions or be allowed to influence the churches with their demonic ideas of “Judge not” when they don’t even understand what Spiritual judging is. How are we to test apostles and find if they’re false (Rev2:2) if we aren’t allowed to judge that kind of judgment? Tell me how Stephen isn’t a sinner according to the foolish definition of judging that forbids exposing sin? Explain to me how Jesus Himself isn’t a sinner according to the false definition of judging that forbids rebuking people (Tit1:15) or even speaking the Truth in love? (Eph4:15) If these are the ways you define the “sin” of judging, you make Jesus a sinner, Stephen a sinner, Paul a sinner, me a sinner! Anyone who’s righteous enough to reprove, rebuke, (2Tim4:2) righteous enough to turn a sinner from his way and save a soul from death (Jms5:20) – righteous enough to obey. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. (Eph5:11) Anyone who’s righteous enough to obey God is a sinner according to such definitions of “judge not.” But God knows and I know who the sinner is. You’re the one who judges! You wickedly judge me to be a sinner when I obey God and you don’t even know God – you hide your wickedness, sin and disobedience to God behind a shield of “Don’t judge” while you try to hinder the work we’re doing to help Christ cleanse His church (Eph5:26,27) – you forbid us to obey God when He says to reprove or rebuke (2Tim4:2) or to test all things and hold to that which is good (1Th5:21) – or to test the spirits to see which are of God. (1Jn4:1) You’re telling us not to do any of these things because of your wicked interpretation of “Judge not” which you use to cover your sins so you let devils run the churches and sin run rampant because you’re sons of satan (Jn8:44) not of God. So the Holy Spirit is kept out of the churches because He comes to convict and you won’t let Him convict because you say, “Judge not.” You’re of your father the devil and I won’t be nice to you and I won’t call you a brother because you aren’t a brother. You are an adversary to God. You need to repent or you’ll die in your sins. And though this may be shocking to you. If you don’t believe I’m sent by Jesus Christ to tell you this, you’ll die in your sins! (Lk10:16) Just as much as Jesus said, “If you don’t believe I’m He, you’ll die in your sins.” (Jn8:24) Jesus sent me to tell you these things and if you don’t believe them, you’ll die in your sins. And concerning the so called “believers” in the contemporary “churches” today, most aren’t even born again – most are serving the devil while claiming to serve God just like these Jesus speaks to saying, “You do the deeds of your father.” (Jn8:38) and they say, “Our Father is God.” If God were your Father, you’d understand what I’m saying to you. You wouldn’t fight it. (Jn8:47) Jesus answered, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It’s My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He’s your God. Yet you haven’t known Him, but I know Him.” (Jn8:54,55) I understand what Jesus means when He says, “Don’t judge.” (Mt7:1;Rom2:1) You don’t! And I understand what Jesus means when He says, “Reprove and rebuke” (2Tim4:2) and you don’t! And I understand what He means when He says, “Test all things and hold to that which is good” (1Th5:21) and you don’t understand it. And I know how to test an apostle to see if he’s true (Rev2:2) and you don’t! And yet you judge people like me who are called by God – sent by God – who know God and you say we don’t know God. God is even now showing you, you don’t know God! And you’d better repent quickly or you’ll die in your sins. “He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.” (Lk10:16) “Remember the word I said to you, ‘A servant isn’t greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they’ll also persecute you. If they kept My word, they’ll keep yours also.” (Jn15:20) These adversaries aren’t brethren who have a lesser light because the true brethren hear God’s words. Even if they don’t have the light we have when we who are of God share God’s Word with them they recognize it’s of God and they receive it. And they step out of the lesser light into the better light as that light is shared with them. (1Jn1:7) The people who reject the light are the ones Jesus talks about in “And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (Jn3:19) When the light comes it exposes (Eph5:13) – it exposes the sins which are the things that need to be corrected. Light convicts sinners. But when the light comes these wicked people say, “Don’t judge me” and they run from the light. “And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” And by this we know they aren’t born from above. By this we know they’re adversaries to the light because if anyone is of the light he comes to the light. But he who does the Truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they’ve been done in God. (Jn3:21) So those who are of God will receive correction. Only if you endure correction, chastening, are you legitimate children of God. (Heb12:8) When the light comes, which includes reproving and rebuking, the real children of God know it’s of God. They receive it from God and let God cleanse them. They come to the light so that the things that don’t agree with God can be washed away and cleansed out of them so that they can make sure that what they are doing is right in God’s sight. (Jn3:21) These are the ones who really have everlasting life. These are the ones who believe in Jesus and listen to all He says. (Act3:22) Those who say, “You’re judging me” are John 3:19. They are condemned already because the light came and they ran from it. They’re illegitimate. (Heb12:8) They aren’t children of God. They’re children of the devil pretending to be children of God just as Jesus faced a people who said Abraham was their Father but they were of their father the devil (Jn8:44) because Jesus knew the spirit they were of. We know what you are by the spirit that’s in you. The spirit you’re of puts its desires in you. Desires that are of God will manifest in actions that are agreeable to God’s plan and purpose. If Jesus is in you, you’ll be purifying yourself just as He is pure. (1Jn3:3) You’ll be helping the church become without spot or wrinkle – helping the brethren get the sin out of their lives – helping them learn to walk in the Spirit – to be sons of God because only those who walk in the Spirit are the sons of God. (Rom8:14) If on the other hand you’re resisting correction – you’re resisting admonishments, rebukes, reprovings, if you are resisting what God is doing to perfect His church, obviously you aren’t working for God or with God but you’re against Him. And for just that reason alone we know the spirit in you is an adversary –from beneath –not from above. If you can’t understand the words of men who are truly called by God and know the Word of God then we know for sure you aren’t of God because we know we are of God. God talks to me, He’s sent me, and He’s opened His Word to me in many infallible ways that I can see how one scripture agrees with another and then another from the beginning to the end of the bible. God has given me many more proofs than I need that what He’s showing me is of God. It doesn’t mean you’re going to believe me. It doesn’t even matter to me. It does matter to you because if you don’t believe me, you’ll die in your sins because God didn’t send me here to give you an alternate route to Heaven. As though your way is ok but here is another way. There isn’t an alternate route. There’s only one way. And if you don’t get on the route that I’m on, you are going to hell because there’s only one route. And the reason Jesus sent me (excepting the atonement) is the same reason the Father sent Jesus because most of the “church” in Jesus’ day was off the road and He had to call them back. And if they didn’t believe what He was saying, they WOULDN’T BE SAVED. They’d die in their sins. God didn’t put me thru all I’ve gone thru to bring this Truth out to the “churches” today just so they’d have an alternate route. They aren’t on the road to salvation. They’re off the road. And they’d better believe God has sent me and start checking the scriptures out and they’d better start praying and seeking the Lord and find out what God says on these subjects or they’ll die in their sins. You’ll die in your sins just as much as these Pharisees who didn’t believe what Jesus was telling them because it’s not “every road leads to Heaven.” There’s only one. And the Baptists aren’t on it – the Presbyterians aren’t on it – the “Faith movement” isn’t on it – the Mormons aren’t on it – the Jehovah Witnesses, the Roman Catholics aren’t on that road. Unfortunately today even most of the Pentecostals aren’t on that road because it is a holy road. (Is35:8) It’s a road where you don’t love your life in this world – you don’t love the things of this world – you don’t walk in the flesh – you crucify that flesh and you walk in the Spirit. (Gal 5:24) It’s a road where you’re doing the will of God and not just talking about the will of God. (Heb10:9) Where the desires in you are the very desires that are in Jesus. (Gal 2:20) Where you’ll stand up for Him so He can stand up for you. (Mt10:32,33) It’s a road where you’re busy fighting the good fight of faith – where you’re involved in the perfection of the church because she’s our ship and ark of salvation. The church is our ship to carry us into God’s Kingdom and we’d better have a good ship because we’re going thru some storms so we need a sea worthy ship. We aren’t interested in repairing the world. It’s going down. We’re interested in perfecting the ship that’s helping to save us – our ark. We’re making sure our ship is well caulked, has good sails, and is going to steer well. Our church is the ship that through faith in Christ is going to save us and our brethren. We’re interested in getting people into that place of salvation in Jesus Christ in His body where He’s the Head, the Captain of our ship, where His Spirit is the wind in the sails, moving us towards the Heavenly Kingdom. That’s our life. We have no use for this world, and no real Christian has any use for it. We’re here to get people out of the world and into the way that leads to Heaven. And we have many adversaries – for that reason we’d better be very alert and stay very close to God – for that reason we must beware of men (Mt10:17) – for that reason we need to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves (v16) – for that reason we need to stay in the Spirit. (Rom8:1,13,14) And for that reason we aren’t going to pretend that adversaries are brethren. They aren’t. Adversaries work for the devil. They claim to be brethren but they transform themselves as angels of light while they’re ministers of satan. (2Cor11:13-15) They’re opposed to God’s purposes and they don’t rightly understand God’s Word. They misinterpret it and they try to twist it to stop God from accomplishing His purposes. We’ve exposed these adversaries over and over in our Glory of His Grace books and in the things we’ve dealt with in “My Fathers House” church. We’re often criticized by people who think we’re exposing the adversaries too strongly and yet every time I meet with God He tells me to be stronger. Well, I’m not listening men. I’m listening to God. God is angry with the devil. He’s angry with people who serve the devil. God wants them exposed, shamed and cast out of His church and we’re going to do it. And these wicked people had better wake up and figure out that we can tell and God can tell that they’re adversaries to God. We can tell by what they believe – we can tell by what they say and do –we can tell by the way they twist the scriptures – we can tell by the way they oppose the things God has called us to do – we can tell by the way they can’t hear us (1Jn4:6) that in fact they aren’t born of God and they’re from beneath. (Jn8:23,47) And if they don’t repent they’ll DIE IN THEIR SINS! And no amount of seminaries – religious diplomas – commentaries and false preachings are going to save them because all the people they’re trusting in aren’t God. God is the only one who can save them and they’d better get right with Christ if they’re to be saved. We can see the very dire straights the “church” is in for not admitting that she has adversaries that are inside. As Jude warns us they’ve crept in unnoticed (Jude4) and in many cases they’ve taken over and they rule and reign in the “churches” instead of Christ so the purposes of God aren’t fulfilled in such churches. Most often today the righteous who are innocent are accused of being guilty and the innocent and guiltless are the ones being condemned. But the scriptures make a clear demonstration of who’s from above and who’s from below – who’s Father is really God and who’s father is actually the devil because it isn’t according to what they say but according to what they do that shows which is which. Now Lord, we pray that in Your mighty power You’ll cleanse the temple again. Come into the church and drive out the merchandisers – the thieves – the sons of serpents – the brood of vipers – the ones who make their proselytes twofold more the children of hell than themselves, that You would put your church back into the hands of those who are born from above. And we praise and thank You for doing it, in Jesus’ name. The weapons of our warfare aren’t carnal. (2Cor10:8) So true Christians never make war in the flesh. They war in the Spirit. But words are Spiritual. Warring with words is exactly what we do. We war in the prayer closet and we war where we can speak. And when we have Christ in us our words are Spirit and our words are life. (Jn6:63) And we’re permitted to speak the way the Spirit would have us to speak, which can be to rebuke them sharply for Cretans are evil beasts, nasty gluttons that need to be rebuked sharply (Tit1:12,13) and so are Americans; evil beasts, lazy gluttons who need to be rebuked sharply that they may be sound in the faith. And we have the right to do as the Spirit leads us. One reason the “churches” have been taken captive is flesh is always pushy and will push to take over. Flesh is of the devil. Spiritual people aren’t pushy, generally they’re meek, and when people in the church act Spiritual on the outside so they aren’t pushy, they may have a false meekness that makes them very much a prey to carnal pushy people. So the carnal people, whose father is the devil, will come in and take over because the “unspiritually” meek people won’t resist them. And this can also be because they’re cowards who pretend to be meek when they’re really afraid to stand up against evil. So the churches are taken over because the carnal people push and usurp and take over and the cowards or people pretending to be Spiritual let them do it because they won’t fight for the church in the flesh but they don’t fight in the Spirit either. Now if the people were truly Spiritual, they’d recognize when flesh comes into the church and they’d pray and tell God what was going on and bind devils and ask God what to do about it, then they’d rise up in the power of the Spirit and reprove and rebuke until the fleshly run or repent. And the churches would stay in the hands of the Spiritual because the Spiritual are fighting with their Spiritual weapons for the liberty to serve God in the Spirit. For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare aren’t carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. (2Cor10:3-5) But that hasn’t been done, so almost all the contemporary “churches” are in captivity because the people haven’t fought their Spiritual battles and they’ve let flesh take over. In this they’re guilty and need to repent. They need to get in their prayer closets and ask God to arm them again for the war and show them how to fight the Spiritual battles so they can get the flesh out of their churches and let God run their church again. And that’s what we’re here to teach them to do – to tell them to do – to admonish them to do – to rebuke them until they do it. Those who have the ear to hear, (Rev2:7) we’re here to give them mighty weapons so they can see how to do it. And God’s granting us grace to do this through the Glory of His Grace and “My Father’s House” as an example of a Spiritual people who’ve taken the church back for God and won’t let flesh take over and who can show others how to get their church back into the hands of God. In Jesus’ name we thank You for it, Lord. Amen. A Parable I saw a convention of the spirits of heretics and false prophets in hell and one of them stood up and said, “How can we protect ourselves from being discovered and cast out of the churches?” And another said, “We will promote a twisted version of the doctrine “Judge not” so anyone who ever thinks to accuse us of heresy or sin will be regarded as a sinful judge – and thereby we will have free reign to corrupt and take over the churches” – and all the wicked spirits agreed to let it be so. And another little one stood up and said, “Yes, and we will also promote “Touch not the Lord’s anointed” in such a way that no one would dare to criticize our leadership in the churches and so our position will be doubly secure.” And so the demons rejoiced that by doing so they should be free to make havoc of the churches. Prophecy: Woe to you who hide in your comfort zone. For this day I’ve raised up a people who are going to shake your comfort zone, who are going to rock your world. I tell you, right now there’s no more time for hiding in your lies, hiding in your pretences, for I’m showing forth the true from the false. And even from this day there’ll be a church that’s clean. There’ll be a church that glorifies Me. And I say to the church which won’t do that, the church that won’t let Me wash her, you’re coming down and you’re coming down mightily. I’m going to shake the earth, saith the Lord. And I’ll shake you out of your comfort zone. And I’m warning you now, repent! Draw nigh or you’ll be destroyed, thus saith the Lord. (Prophecy given at “My Father’s House”)
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