No Covetous Man!

By Pastor Bill Taylor

A publication of My Father's House, inc. Volume 9/ Issue 18

Know Him!

THIS IS ETERNAL LIFE, that you know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He sent. (John 17:3)

You believe Jesus is all forgiving and loves no matter what

But what about the foolish virgins in whose face the door was shut?

(Matthew 25:1-13)

You adore the Jesus who calmed the storm on the wave-covered ship

But you mock and slander the One who cleanses the temple with His whip

(John 2:13-16)

You imagine a Jesus who is always kind and never says anything “mean”

But you forget when He rebuked the Pharisees for only being outwardly clean

(Matthew 23:25-28)

You love the Jesus who heals the sick, raises the dead and blesses the poor

But hate the One who has His fan in hand to purge His threshing floor

(Matthew 3:10-12)

You invent a Jesus who is popular, courteous, fun-loving and gallant

But you ignore what He did to the man who didn’t multiply his talent

(Matthew 25:14-30)

Be ashamed and repent for this picture of Christ you’ve created

Do not delay, for woe unto you if your repentance is belated

You sing with joy, “soon and very soon we are going to see the Lord”

While hoping in imaginations and leaving the TRUE Christ ignored

You assume this Christ you know will tell you you’ve done well

But in that day, you’ll see the True Christ as He sends you to hell

You can choose to know Him now, or know Him in that day

But by then it’s too late and you’ll be cast away!!!

(Poem delivered at “My Father’s House”)

Prophecy: False Christians say you’re evil because you speak against other churches but thus says the Lord, “You hypocrites! You wouldn’t even be a Baptist or a Protestant if Luther didn’t speak against the false christianity of his day! Now do you call Luther evil for doing what ‘My Father’s House’ does, for doing the very thing that made it possible for you to be a ‘Baptist’ or a ‘Presbyterian’ instead of a Catholic? In every age My church has testified against the false and you’re false brethren in false churches and I will testify against you so My true Christians can be recognized and can see the truth about you and shun you like the spiritual lepers you are,” saith the Lord. (Prophecy delivered at “My Father’s House”)

No Covetous Man!

For this you know, no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who’s an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of God. (Eph5:5) “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, his female servant, nor his ox, his donkey, nor anything that’s your neighbor’s.” (Ex20:17)

But there were also false prophets among the people even as there’ll be false teachers among you. This is the Word of God. Peter is prophesying what he knew would happen and it has! Who will secretly bring in destructive heresies. (2Pe2:1) The so-called “churches” today are filled with destructive heresies; that’s one thing we’re exposing here. God’s true church has always been the pillar and ground of the truth. (1Tim3:15) The true church always testifies against the false because as He is so are we in this world. (1Jn4:17) We’re the body of Christ and Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. (Heb13:8) Jesus hasn’t changed. If Jesus testified the world’s works were evil when He was incarnate, then He still does thru His true body today. Where Jesus is, His testimony is! The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify that its works are evil. (Jn7:7) When so-called “churches” and “christians” hate us, we know with absolute certainty they’re of the world and they hate us because we testify their works are evil. We do what Jesus does because He’s in us. And when Jesus says, “The world can’t hate you,” the false “churches” of today think He’s talking about unbelievers. But He’s also talking about the Jews. It’s the Jews who were trying to kill Him. And the Jews “believe” in the existence of God but they’re still of the world because they haven’t been crucified to the world. And because they’ve rejected the cross of Christ they’re of the world even though they claim to believe in God.

Now in accordance with God’s Word under the New Covenant we can’t truthfully be a believer unless we’ve crucified the flesh. But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (Gal 6:14) If we’ve crucified the flesh and we’re crucified to the world then the things of God aren’t an offense to us and if somebody rightly testifies to us we’re doing something wrong or righteously rebukes us we can receive the rebuke. Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he’ll love you. (Pr9:8) But we see the false churches and false christians hate us for rebuking them, which proves they’re scoffers. And they don’t have Christ in them, since Christ is made unto us wisdom. (1Cor1:30) A scoffer hates one who rebukes him. (Pr9:8) So it’s apparent from their response to honest scriptural rebukes, that these “churches” aren’t of God but they’re false, foolish and wicked; they’re synagogues of satan. You can tell by the way they react to the Word of God. They hate God’s Word so they hate Jesus. They hate Jesus, so they hate us. Jesus said if you were of the world the world would love you. So when you see so-called “churches” and “christians” hugging each other, saying they love each other and fellowshipping even with Catholics; who are idolaters and the “church” of the mafia and the murderers of myriads of true saints, it’s evident they’re of the world because the world “loves it’s own.” Don’t you know the Catholic “church” is a “church” of killers? You know no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. (1Jn3:15) The Catholics were even involved in starting W.W.II; you think Italy could have been allied with Germany without the Pope’s consent? Why are these things covered up? Where do you think the Nazis who escaped went after the war? They went to places like Argentina; Catholic countries where they found refuge. These things are covered up because the world likes to pretend everything is rosy and close their eyes to evil and not rock the boat. But the true church has always stood for truth and fought against the wicked, and exposed them. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. (Eph5:11,13)

False christians call us evil because we speak against “other churches” when every real church has always spoken against the false churches. You couldn’t even be a protestant if Luther hadn’t spoken against the wicked Catholics. Hypocrite! You call me evil because I’m doing what Luther did and you couldn’t be a Baptist or Presbyterian or Methodist if Luther hadn’t done in his day what I’m doing today. That’s why you’re a Presbyterian, etc. The reason you’re in your “church” is because the saints that preceded you did what I’m doing. And then you say I’m evil?  If I’m evil, Luther is evil. If Luther is evil then what are you? Spawn of vipers! Such foolishness; such stupidity; such hypocrisy is beyond belief! Such people hate whatever isn’t like them. It’s a demonic and unreasonable hatred. They have no righteousness. They have nothing to do with Christ! They make rules against anything God does to expose the devil. They protect evil! “Don’t expose sinners,” they say, “Don’t tell on them!” Who came up with that rule? The devil himself; it’s a doctrine of demons. “Don’t tell on me – don’t be a snitch!” Jesus is a snitch. He told on the devil. He told on the Pharisees. I’m a snitch. I’m telling on you, you false christians! And God says, “Cry aloud, spare not; lift up your voice like a trumpet; tell My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.” (Is58:1)

They come in secretly with destructive heresies even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. (2Pe2:1-2) True Christianity is blasphemed because of false christians who aren’t holy or upright, and who blaspheme and slander the true Christians and the true gospel. By covetousness they’ll exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment hasn’t been idle, and their destruction doesn’t slumber. (v3) The word “covetous” shows up again and again in relation to false christianity. But concerning the judgment, God has appointed a day, and the wicked are rapidly racing towards it. Just as in the time of Moses God appointed the destruction and carrying away of the Jews to Babylon and spoke of it even from the time He sent the disobedient Israelites into the desert to die with Moses. The Jews were worshipping Remphan and Moloch and God knew this would end badly. So He had a plan to deal with the idolatry by eventually sending His people to Babylon. Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: “Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, images which you made to worship; and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.” (Acts7:42-43)

The Kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman put in three measures of meal until it leavened the whole lump. (Matt13:33) Often leaven is symbolic of sin; but here Jesus says it’s like the Kingdom of heaven. So leaven isn’t always sin. Leaven is yeast and a single cell of yeast when it’s warm and moist and well fed, divides. So 1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 4, 4 becomes 8, 8 becomes 16, 16 – 32, 32 – 64, 64 – 128, 128 – 256, 256 – 512, 512 – 1024, 1024 – 2048, 2048 – 4096, 4096 – 8192. As long as it’s warm and moist and well fed the leaven keeps doubling. In the beginning you can’t even see it, but in the end it expands to fill everything. What God saw in the Jews when He chastened them in the desert is since they wouldn’t obey Him and put away their idols, their idolatrous leaven would get worse and worse until it consumed them. So He had a plan to let Babylon conquer them about the time the leaven reached its fullness. To remove their idolatrous leaven, from the beginning God had a plan that was carried out a thousand years later in the conquering of the Jews by Babylon. Thereby God removed the sin before it completely ruined Israel, or His purpose to bring forth the Messiah thru them. In doing this God saved a remnant. When He brought the remnant back He used Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggi, and Zechariah to clean them up and give them a fresh start as an unleavened lump. But even after that how quickly they deteriorated? Five hundred years later the “leaven of the Pharisees” has taken over and they crucify Jesus. So God destroys them again because of their “Pharisaical leaven.”

The Kingdom of God works the same way. In the beginning you can’t even see it, it’s hidden. In the beginning the Jews secretly worship the star of Remphan. They knew it was sin. They don’t do it in public but hidden in their tents. Yet by the end it’s being done openly and anyone who opposes it is killed. Today there’s a terrible leaven in the false churches because of the many destructive heresies the wicked have secretly brought in. (2Pe2:1) Because this leaven is nearing its fullness, God will judge it soon. But the real Kingdom of God is a leaven that’s also working now. God has a new lump, Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. (1Cor5:7) Today the pure Christian work may seem so small its almost invisible but it will keep doubling until it fills the earth. And we’re that new lump. We’re that new leaven, the real Christians who follow Christ in the Spirit as the Bible says. Though we seem hidden from the world, God will use us to bring forth His glorious church and before He’s done she’ll be a multitude. After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. (Rev7:9)

For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and didn’t spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds.) (2Pe2:4-8) Every real Christian is tormented by the unrighteousness around them. We can’t get along with it. We fight against it and it fights against us. And we must fight not to be taken in by it. But the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, (2Pe2:9) For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who didn’t believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness (2Thes2:11-12) The angels who didn’t keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He’s reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; (Jude6) In Egypt God sent a plague of “darkness” so thick the people couldn’t move. (Ex10:23) Darkness is bondage. It’s a form of imprisonment. Delusion, deception, lies are darkness. They keep you in bondage unless you’re set free by truth which is light.

God keeps the wicked, even “christians,” who don’t love the truth in bondage to delusions. Because they hate truth and want a false “christianity” that tolerates their sin, they’re comfortable with the wickedness around them unlike Lot who was oppressed by it. The real gospel lifts you up to meet the standards of God. False churches pull the gospel down to make it agreeable to men. They claim to be “saved” on their terms not God’s. And they interpret the gospel to be “saved” without being changed or transformed by God’s Word. (Rom12:1-2) They believe they’re “saved” while they’re uncrucified (Gal 2:20), not dead to the world and alive to God (Rom6:11) – not serving the Lord but serving the world. (2Cor5:15) They pull the gospel down to their level and redefine it so they don’t have to crucify the flesh. They make themselves seem “acceptable” to God while they’re in the flesh. Their corrupted “gospel” doesn’t convict them or expose sin. And there’s no power in their gospel because all they’re doing is deceiving themselves into thinking the way they are is okay; God accepts them in their sin. Whereas the real gospel has the power to change men and lift them up into a Christ-like righteous behavior God can be pleased with. So these false christians are very wicked in what they’re doing to the gospel and they’re denying the Lord because He didn’t die to leave men uncrucified and carnal, but to lift men up into a Spiritual life acceptable to God. Such false “christians” even deny the Lord who bought them and bring on themselves swift destruction. (2Pe2:1) The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, (2Pe2:9) For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, (2Thes2:11) because they didn’t receive the love of the truth. (v10)

Recently one of our brethren was talking to his prison’s chaplain who said, “I sin every day. So you wouldn’t consider me much of a Christian.” Our brother answered, “That’s right. I don’t consider you a Christian.” What makes these people think they can be Christians yet sin everyday? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who’s died has been freed from sin. For the death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And don’t present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you’re not under law but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we’re not under law but under grace? Certainly not! Don’t you know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you’re that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. (Rom6:1-2,6-7,10-18) True Christians are slaves to righteousness. We aren’t slaves to sin anymore. But the Baptists and false churches don’t believe that. They don’t believe we can reign over sin in Christ Jesus, (Rom5:17) because it doesn’t agree with their experience.

True faith looks at what God says ought to be and brings it to pass by rejecting what is, in favor of what God says He’ll do. Not being weak in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He didn’t waver at the promise of God thru unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced what He’d promised He was also able to perform. (Rom4:19-21) We don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which aren’t seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which aren’t seen are eternal. (2Cor4:18) But false christians don’t have faith to change things. They believe in what “is” and claim to have “faith” that God will save them “as is,” so they have a “faith without works” which James calls a “dead faith.” (Jas2:20) There’s no power in their false gospel. Having a form of godliness but denying its power (2Tim3:5) describes them exactly! They don’t reign with Christ. Their sins reign over them and conquer them everyday. They never experience the victory of faith. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world-- our faith. (1Jn5:4) Yet they want to think they’re saved even in their wretchedness and bondage to sin. So they rewrite the “gospel” so as to believe they’re “saved” even while sin conquers them, and they’re still obedient to unrighteousness. Since they can’t break the power of sin, grace must save them anyway even as “faithless sinners” because that’s what their experience is. They all think they’re acceptable to God while living in Romans 7 – “I’m good because I want to be good but sin still has power over me.” But they reject Romans 6 and 8, where true Christians are reigning in life with Jesus. (Rom5:17,21) There’s therefore now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. (Rom8:1-2) If you’re walking in the Spirit, you don’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. (Gal 5:16) Anyone who walks in the Spirit isn’t sinning. If you’re sinning, you don’t know Jesus. Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. (1Jn3:6) If you’re not keeping His commandments, and you say you know Him you’re lying. He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (1Jn2:4)  So they deny the Lord who bought them. (2Pe2:1) They deny Him because they sure don’t know Him if they’re sinning. Whoever has been born of God doesn’t sin, for His seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he’s been born of God. (1Jn3:9) We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one doesn’t touch him. (1Jn5:18)

These Scriptures confirm the truth of what we say but what they have is experience not truth. Since they don’t have the victory and yet want to believe they’re saved, they must change the gospel to match their experience, then preach their experience instead of the gospel. If you try to teach them what the Bible actually says, they fight against God’s Word using their experience. “Nobody’s perfect. We’re all sinners,” is their experience and it seems true “for them” so God’s Word can’t be true. So without “faith” they can’t change. Whereas we believe the gospel so it changes our experience and because of our true faith we experience the victory over sin which Christ gives in His true gospel. False christians however can’t preach what the Bible really says because it’s in disagreement with what they are. They must preach a “salvation” that matches up with what they are, and they’d rather believe a lie that makes them feel good than the truth that saves but makes them feel “bad.” So God sends them strong delusion to falsely believe they’re saved while they’re on their way to hell. They don’t love truth. They have no faith that God can change them and make them righteous overcomers in Christ. Because they have no faith the truth scares them. When we show them what the Bible really says our truths threaten their false sense of security and they get angry. We shake them up. It’s like we’re pulling the rug out from under them. They’re like “Linus” in the Snoopy cartoon, finding some false comfort in holding onto a filthy blanket. We’re trying to take the blanket away so we can give them a bath but they won’t let go of their filth. These are carnal people full of demons, full of hatred, full of lies the devil puts in them to make them feel good while they’re serving corruption.

Because they hate the truth they persecute the righteous and slander the true Christians who have a real faith for God to make them holy. There’s a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet is not washed from its filthiness. There’s a generation-- oh, how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up. There’s a generation whose teeth are like swords, and whose fangs are like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men. (Pr30:12-14)  And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, the lie that they’re saved, that they’re God’s people when in fact they’re condemned. That they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2Thes2:11-12) They must take pleasure in their sin otherwise they’d stop it. They’d crucify their flesh. When someone says, “I sin everyday,” and we reply, “You ought to repent and stop sinning!” They say, “We can’t stop!” The truth is they aren’t even trying. What hypocrites! What kind of a gospel do they believe? This kind of christianity is so unscriptural it boggles the mind we even have to discuss it. When we encounter such people it’s like we’re talking to monkeys. They’re so blinded by their delusions they’ve lost their minds. Peter says the Lord knows how to reserve the unjust under punishment (2Pe2:9) and that punishment is to believe the lie. To believe they’re saved when they aren’t makes them unsaveable, because an unsaved man knows he’s unsaved so you can preach the gospel to him and he can repent and get saved. But when people believe a false gospel that makes them think they’re saved when they’re not they don’t think they need to be saved so they won’t do anything to get saved. These are the people who are greatly cursed of God; the ones who are under a strong delusion that they’re saved when in fact they’re condemned.  

The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh. You crucify your flesh or you walk according to the flesh because there’s no in between. They despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They’re not afraid to speak evil of  (glorious ones) dignitaries. Do you know I’m a glorious one? God has put me here to do a mighty work for Him, yet these so-called “christians” aren’t afraid to speak evil of me. They continually slander me and those like me. God will reward them according to their works. Whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, don’t bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. (2Pe2:9-11) Everyone in “My Father’s House” who’s fulfilled what’s required to be a real Christian, everyone who’s born-again and has crucified the flesh and is crucified to the world, everyone of you is a glorious one. Those who are still in the flesh aren’t glorious. You must get out of the flesh to be glorious. If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. (1Pe4:14) What am I reproached for? Because I’m saying what Jesus says. I’m reproached for the name of Christ, for the Word of Christ. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He’s glorified. They blaspheme Him because they blaspheme His Word. Jesus warned, “If they call Me Beelzebub what will they call you?” So we know what they’ll do to us. And when they say they love Jesus they lie. They hate Him. They hate His Word. They hate anything He does that’s in disagreement with their traditions and their reasonings of men like, “I sin everyday.” If you do Jesus doesn’t count you a Christian. He said, “My sheep know My voice and won’t follow another.” You’re following sin if you’re sinning everyday; you’re following another. Jesus has made provision for us to get out of sin if we stumble, but we should never accept the idea that we’re just going to sin all the time. We should fight against that with everything in us; fight to be holy. “Be ye holy as your Father in heaven is holy.” If you stumble get up, get cleansed, and get back in the fight. You don’t accept being a sinner; you don’t surrender to it as though it’s not possible to overcome. Who are the people who thought it wasn’t possible to fight? They died in the wilderness. Those who went into the land and fought won the battle. They overcame! Get in the fight, and God will be with you. 

They aren’t afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, don’t bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. But these (are) like natural brute beasts. People who speak evil of us are beasts according to God. They’re not “men” but animals made to be caught and destroyed, they speak evil of the things they don’t understand, They don’t understand the gospel, and when we tell them what it means they mock and they will utterly perish in their own corruption. God says they have no possibility of salvation! And will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse (party) in the daytime. They’re spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you, (2Pe2:10-13) They claim to be Christians, and come to church but they never contribute anything. They’re takers; they never give. “Feast with you” means they take. They must be getting something that pleases their flesh but they’ve nothing useful to give because “Apart from Me you can do nothing” (Jn15:5) and they’re apart from Christ. They don’t have God in them. If they’re in the flesh they’re not in the Spirit. If they aren’t in the Spirit they’re not His. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he’s not His. (Rom8:9) Jesus says, “If you abide in Me and My Word abides in you, you’ll ask what you will, and I’ll do it and you’ll bear much fruit.” (Jn15:7-8) But they don’t abide in Him; they abide in the flesh. They have eyes full of adultery. (2Pe2:14) Do you know how much literal adultery goes on these sinful churches? How much fornication? How many children born out of wedlock? How many abortions? How many divorces? And they claim to be saints? Adulterers and adulteresses! Don’t  you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (Jas4:4) These people HATE GOD. The Bible says so. They can’t cease from sin, This describes the “I sin everyday church.” These so-called christians who say, “We’re all sinners and we can’t stop sinning. We’re just saved by grace!” But Peter says they are WICKED if they can’t cease from sin. They’re NOT CHRISTIANS. They’re NOT SAVED!

John’s doctrine doesn’t agree with these wicked churches when they say, “We can’t stop sinning.” They’re faithless liars to say such things. Whoever abides in Him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. (1Jn3:6) He who says, “I know Him,” and doesn’t keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him (1Jn2:4) Their wicked doctrines are meant to beguile unstable souls. They want to win people over to their lies. Who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness. (Jude4) This means they define “grace” as permission to sin and not be punished. For they have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. (2Pe2:10-14) These aren’t Christians, they’re curstians. They’re accursed because they have covetous hearts. And Peter warns by covetousness they’ll exploit you. (2Pe2:3) There’s a very strong connection between being covetous and being accursed. Now the city shall be doomed by the LORD to destruction, it and all who are in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live. And you, by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. (Josh6:17-18) The warning is if you covet something accursed and take it, you become accursed too. This happened with Achan who’s called the “troubler of Israel,” because his covetousness caused Israel to be cursed when he took forbidden spoils and caused God to give Israel up to defeat in the battle of Ai. Another place we see one of God’s curses concerns Jericho. “Cursed be the man before the LORD who rises up and builds this city Jericho; he’ll lay its foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest he’ll set up its gates.” (Josh6:26) Jericho was rebuilt in the reign of wicked King Ahab. In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation with Abiram his firstborn, and with his youngest son Segub he set up its gates, according to the word of the LORD, which He’d spoken thru Joshua the son of Nun. (1Kin16:34)

Hiel didn’t know a curse would come upon him for rebuilding Jericho because he lived in apostate Israel. This is the danger in not knowing God’s Word. Do you think if he’d known about the curse he’d have proceeded with a work that would kill two of his sons? Not likely! Hiel thought he was doing God a favor in rebuilding Jericho but he didn’t really know God. He’s had what he thinks is a good idea, and ignorantly stumbles into a tragedy for himself and his household because he’s following his own understanding of what good is but he’s ignorant of God’s will. For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. (Gal 2:18) God destroys Jericho but you’ll build it again? I’m going to build up the flesh after God has crucified the flesh? Then you’ll be accursed. The curse comes on one who does something against God. Since God tore the city down He must want it to be destroyed. Now you’re going to build it up? Then you’re working against God’s will. A curse always comes on someone who does what God says don’t do. So Achan becomes covetous and takes of the accursed thing and that curses the whole nation. Likewise God sends an angel of death against Balaam because Balaam disobeys God and tries to curse Israel. Then God’s anger was aroused because he went, and the Angel of the LORD took His stand in the way as an adversary against him. And the Angel of the LORD said to him, “Behold, I’ve come out to stand against you, because your way is perverse before Me. Your donkey saw Me and turned aside from Me. If she hadn’t turned aside from Me, surely I’d have killed you by now, and let her live.” (Num22:22,32-33)

If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let’s go after other gods-- which you haven’t known-- and let’s serve them,” you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. (Deu13:1-3) This qualifies as unrighteous deception or a lying sign or wonder. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders. (2Thes2:9) It doesn’t matter the sign is supernatural, what matters is if it’s according to the Word of God. And with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth. (2Thes2:10) They won’t listen to the Word of God, so God lets them be deceived. For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who didn’t believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2Thes2:11-12) Strong delusion is a form of darkness. The angels who didn’t keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He’s reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; (Jude6) It’s of God’s “curses” to keep His enemies in darkness until He destroys them. Now it’s a wonderful thing when God works a miracle but not all miracles are from God. A lying sign or wonder is a miracle that contradicts God’s teachings. For example, the very demonized Catholic church is filled with miracles concerning Mary and other so-called saints, which Catholics worship idolatrously. It’s not uncommon to see supernatural manifestations of demons in idol worship or witchcraft, voodoo, etc. So when there’s a so-called “miracle” concerning Mary worship, it’s unrighteous deception worked by satan to take people away from Christ into idolatry. There’s one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, (1Tim2:5) Not the woman Mary! When God works a miracle it always confirms His Word. And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, confirming the Word thru accompanying signs. (Mk16:20) When satan works miracles it always opposes God’s Word.

It’s important to know God’s Word and not to judge what’s of God just by supernatural events. Because the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deu13:3) If you love the Lord you’ll keep His Word and you won’t be running after false gods like Mary and worshipping idols. Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he’ll keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We’ll come to him and make Our home with him. He who doesn’t love Me doesn’t keep My words; and the word which you hear isn’t Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.” (Jn14:23-24) You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice, and you’ll serve Him and hold fast to Him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams (who wants to lead you astray) shall be put to death. (Deu13:4-5) Heretics and apostates don’t merely destroy men’s bodies but they work with demons to destroy men’s souls. In the Old Testament God commands, Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. In the New Testament How much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who’s trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” It’s a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. (Heb10:28-31) If anyone comes to you and doesn’t bring this doctrine, don’t receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds. (2Jn10-11) If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who’s as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him; but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, (Deu13:6,8,9) See how that relates to He who loves father or mother more than Me isn’t worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me isn’t worthy of Me. (Matt10:37) You can’t put love for your friends or family ahead of God. You can’t allow anyone to take you or others away from God and then say you love the Lord. Under the New Covenant we don’t put people to death but we convict them. We strike them with the sword of God’s Word and show them they’re spiritually dead. That means if they don’t repent they’re dead to us and we treat them as though they’re dead. We separate from them, shun them and disfellowship them from the church. That’s what you must do too. When we cut them off from the church, which means they’re excommunicated, they don’t have access to God’s eternal life. That’s how such people must be treated even if they’re family. You cut them off from your society; you don’t fellowship with them because they’re trying to take you or others away from God. If you love God you’ll not be a party to it.

So all Israel shall hear and fear, and not again do such wickedness as this among you. If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the LORD your God gives you to dwell in, saying, “Corrupt men have gone out from among you and enticed the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ which you have not known.” (Deu13:11-13) What if you hear of a church or denomination (which is a gathering of people much like a city) in which corrupt men have enticed the inhabitants (members) saying, “Let’s go serve other gods, let’s go worship Mary?” Then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination was committed among you, you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city (church) with the edge of the sword-- utterly destroying it. (v14-15) Under the New Covenant we don’t literally destroy them. We use the Word of God to expose them for what they are – apostates, idolaters, heretics. And we utterly destroy any foundations they have to call themselves true Christians. They’re not Christians, they’re curstians. And you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and completely burn with fire the city and all its plunder, for the LORD your God; and it shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again. (v16) Remember the curse on rebuilding on Jericho. You don’t re-associate with a heretical church after God has exposed it. It becomes anathema maranatha. (1Cor16:22) It’s to be disregarded, disfellowshipped forever. People can leave a false church to come to the true. But the name of a heretical church is forever a blemish – it’s never again to be considered a place acceptable to the believers.

Today many “protestants” are raising the abominable Catholic cult back into association with denominations that used to detest them. The harlot Catholic church should be left as a dung heap, abhorred by all real Christians. Now the descendants of the great reformers are realigning with the very organization that murdered and martyred their forefathers. Can you rebuild what God tore down and not be cursed? God separated His people from this wicked Catholic cult – now you want to reunite to what God has cursed? That church shall not be built again. (Deu13:16) Don’t be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.” Awake to righteousness, and don’t sin; for some don’t have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame. (1Cor15:33-34)  

Covetousness is such a common sin that many people think of it as trivial. Most so-called believers today are guilty of covetousness even on a continual basis. Yet God counts it as one of the really big sins, listed in the 10 commandments. Covetousness is the most common reason why “believers” become cursed when it causes them to take of the accursed thing. Covetousness tempts people to receive bribes to pervert justice. Covetousness entices people to take unjust plunder. It leads to thievery, whoredom, and murder. Covetous people make illegal deals to advance themselves and by covetousness they’ll exploit and do harm to others. When Jesus says, But whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say, “The very dust of your city which clings to us we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, the Kingdom of God has come near you.” (Lk10:10-11) What He’s telling that city is, “We’re not after anything of yours and you’re treating us like you think we’re thieves who’ve come to covet and take what belongs to you. The truth is we’ve come in love and peace to save your souls and only do you good, but you’ve treated us as wicked, covetous men, who you think covet what’s yours. Now look, we don’t even want your dust because we’re not covetous people.” But I say to you it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that city. (Lk10:12) The false church is covetous. The Pharisees are covetous; Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard these things, and they derided Him. (Lk16:14) The true church isn’t covetous; But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought the gift of God could be purchased with money!” (Acts8:20) In the battle of Jericho when the city is destroyed and the plunder is burned, that’s a sure indication that God’s people didn’t attack the city to rob it, but to fulfill a judgment of God – “We’re not taking a dime out of this. We’re doing this in righteousness; we’re not doing this to put money in our pockets.”  Throughout the ages many evil regimes and governments like the Jews in Jesus’ day, and the Catholics when they had governmental power, would confiscate the goods of excommunicants; take their money and their property. Often they’d excommunicate people just to rob them. The Romans also did a lot of that to the Christians. (Heb10:34) The Nazis did that to the Jews. Whereas when the true church excommunicates it does so righteously, without taking anything from the offender. And that’s the whole point; we’re not doing this to enrich ourselves at someone else’s expense. In fact often we’re giving up the “offerings” of the excommunicated. But we’re protecting the righteousness of God. We’re defending the holiness of the church. And we don’t want a dime, not a shoelace, nothing, not even the dust of your city. It’s important for God’s honor that you don’t take forbidden plunder. If you throw the wicked out, throw their money out with them.

But he who’s Spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. (1Cor2:15) The Spiritual man isn’t covetous so his judgment isn’t perverted by selfishness and lust. Every believer who desires to obey God and be of sound judgment must beware of covetousness. (Lk12:15) If you’re covetous you’re like Achan desiring things you shouldn’t have, and willing to dishonor God and endanger God’s people to please your selfish lusts. It’s a protection against the curse to not be covetous. Then to Adam He said, “Because you’ve heeded the voice of your wife, and eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it:’ What you see here is covetousness. Adam wanted and took something God said not to take. Covetousness was in man’s first sin! Cursed is the ground for your sake. The curse comes on Adam for his covetousness. In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Because of the curse Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth, and in the sweat of your face you shall eat bread. (Gen3:17-19) The curse causes everything to be difficult and vexing; nothing comes easy. Now the blessing on the other hand is a land of milk and honey. It’s a place where things aren’t difficult. The cows and goats produce milk, the bees produce honey and all you do is gather it, like the manna that came with no sowing or reaping. Such blessings come when you get into the Spirit, then you’re out from under the curse. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse. (Gal 3:10) Those who are under law will be laboring in toil and in sweat. Where Jesus says, “Come unto Me you who labor and heavy laden,” (Matt11:28) Jesus breaks the curse. “My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matt11:30) Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit thru faith. (Gal 3:13-14) So legal religion is labor but Spiritual Christianity is peace and joy. The Spirit makes the desert a fruitful place; it blossoms like a rose. Where the Spirit comes things grow and you get bounty and abundance of blessing without excessive ardure. The blessing of God is the opposite of the curse!

Jesus took a curse He didn’t deserve which gives Him the right to take a curse off someone who does deserve it. When we come to Him in true faith and make Him our Head He takes the curse off us. So we’re not under the curse if we’re truly in Jesus. But those who are in a false gospel can’t be in Jesus because “If anybody preaches any other gospel than this one let him be accursed. And so I say again, if anyone is preaching a different gospel let him be accursed.” (Gal 1:8-9) Whoever is in Christ is delivered from the curse. Whoever is accursed is therefore not in Christ. So we don’t curse the foolish “churches.” They’re already cursed. They bring God’s curse upon themselves because they preach a different gospel than the true. They’re automatically under God’s curse when they preach a different gospel. And you can see it in their lives. You can see them losing their children to the world and sin. You can see the continual vexation in their homes and businesses. They don’t have God’s peace. You can see the foolishness in their behavior and speech. Christ isn’t made unto them wisdom. They’re not His. You can see they don’t understand the things of God. God doesn’t speak to them. God doesn’t lead them. They live worldly lives with a façade of religion sprinkled on top like parsley on a potato but it isn’t real. Their religion isn’t useful. It’s fruitless and just for show.

What happens to Cain when he kills Able? So now you’re cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. (Gen4:11-12) Adam’s curse, the curse of “flesh” means those in the flesh must labor continuously just to make a living. But now Cain has become a murderer. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. (1Jn3:15) Cain’s curse is his labors are fruitless. The earth is now barren to him no matter how hard he works. As sin increases the curse increases. And for every sin there’s an appropriate curse. Then Noah said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant he shall be to his brethren.” (Gen9:25) Ham, son of Noah and the father of Canaan, had disrespected his father. “Honor thy Father and Mother.” So this curse came upon Ham’s descendants. Canaan shall be a race of the lowest class of slaves. “A servant of servants.” This shows us “curses” can be hereditary. Some can be under a curse because of what their ancestors have done. In the flesh we’re all under Adam’s curse. But we’re not all under Cain’s curse nor Canaan’s curse. So there can be notable differences in the ancestral curses unsaved people carry. But the way to escape these curses is to find a new life in Christ. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it’s written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,” (Gal 3:13) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he’s a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2Cor5:17) You must renounce your ancestry and be joined to Christ if you wish to escape these ancestral curses. O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, “Surely our fathers have inherited lies, worthlessness and unprofitable things.” (Jer16:19)

If you’re under the law you’re under the curse. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.” (Gal 3:10) The Galatians had been Christians but in returning to the law of “circumcision” for righteousness, they came back under the curse of the law.

“Cursed is the one who makes any carved or molded image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.” And all the people shall answer and say, “Amen!” (De27:15)An idol is a false god. Today many “believers” have a false concept of God and Christ in their minds; not formed of stone, but an image created by their imagination. And it’s idolatry for it’s the worship of a “false” god, not the true. Therefore they’re under a curse who “imagine” God to be different than He really is for they’ve “molded” a false image in their minds. But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that’s in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we haven’t preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you haven’t received, or a different gospel which you haven’t accepted- you may well put up with it! (2Cor11:3-4)

Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt. And all the people shall say, “Amen!” Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor’s landmark. And all the people shall say, “Amen!” Cursed is the one who makes the blind to wander off the road. And all the people shall say, “Amen!” Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the stranger, the fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, “Amen!” Cursed is the one who lies with his father’s wife. And all the people shall say, “Amen!” (Deu27:16-20) God continues to expose many other accursed forms of behavior. Then, Cursed is the one who attacks his neighbor secretly. This includes slandering your neighbor. And all the people shall say, “Amen!” Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, “Amen!” Cursed is the one who doesn’t confirm all the words of this law. Which means if you don’t say “Amen” to all these curses you’ll be cursed. And all the people shall say, “Amen!” (Deu27:24-26)

If you don’t obey all the words of the law you’re cursed. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it’s written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.” (Gal 3:10) Those under the law have to obey every jot and tittle of the law or they’re cursed. But if we truly obey Jesus Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law thru the body of Christ, that you may be married to another-- to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. But now we’ve been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. (Rom7:4,6)  Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it’s written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit thru faith. (Gal 3:13-14)

The following occurs when David is fleeing Absalom –Shimei said thus when he cursed: “Come out! Come out! You bloodthirsty man, you rogue! The LORD has brought upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you’ve reigned; and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son. So now you’re caught in your own evil, because you are a bloodthirsty man!” (2Sam16:7-8) David knows these things are happening to him because of his sin with Bathsheba and Uriah. So he accepts Shimei’s ravings against him even though his curse is based on falsehood. You can’t curse what God has blessed and regarding Saul’s house what Shimei is saying isn’t true. Several times David spared Saul’s life and only tried to do him good. So Shimei’s cursing unrighteously and what he’s saying isn’t true. If people are really doing evil, a prophet may curse them in righteousness. But Shimei isn’t righteous in what he’s doing here and one day he’ll die because of it – executed by Solomon. (1Kin2:36-46) Balaam also died for his attempt to curse what God hadn’t cursed. (Num31:8)

Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It’s God who justifies. (Rom8:33) When someone attempts to curse what God hasn’t their curse comes back upon themselves. Be tender hearted, be courteous, not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing you were called to this that you may inherit a blessing. (1Pe3:8-9) As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; as he didn’t delight in blessing, so let it be far from him. (Ps109:17) If you bless you’ll be blessed, but if you curse unjustly you’ll be cursed. If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who’s testified falsely against his brother, then you’ll do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you’ll put away the evil from among you. (Deu19:16-19) Shimei is bearing false witness as he curses, so he reaps what he sows. He dies for his curse. He’s the “blood thirsty” man who lusts for David’s blood and brings destruction upon himself. Note that Shimei’s curse is not calling evil on David but it’s falsely expounding on what David is experiencing. He slanders David calling him names and then says God is doing things to David for reasons that aren’t true. According to the Bible then a curse isn’t always a calling forth of evil but it can be harmful speaking as in misinterpreting a situation to cause someone to think God is against them. For when someone is mistakenly convinced God is cursing them – they may lose their faith and be vulnerable to attacks of the devil. Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy against them, “And will you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, killing people who should not die, and keeping people alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies? Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life.” (Ezek13:17,19,22) Ezekiel curses the false prophetesses who are a “curse” to God’s people. So you can “be a curse” without actually speaking what is usually recognized as a curse. Any lie is a curse. Balaam died for his evil intent even though God turned his cursing into a blessing. Balaam still intended to curse. (Num22-24;31:8)

Nehemiah is an example of a righteous man cursing the wicked. So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.” (Neh13:25) Contrary to God’s commands these disobedient Jews were intermarrying with pagans. When Nehemiah sees their sins, he’s righteously indignant and he wasn’t sinning in this. Thus I cleansed them of everything pagan. Then he says, Remember me, O my God, for good! (Neh13:30-31) Why can Nehemiah expect God will remember him for good? Because he contended with the sinners to correct God’s people and turn them from their sins. This is similar to the incident at Baal Peor. Now when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them thru, the man of Israel, and the woman thru her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel. “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal.” (Num25:7-8,11) Also when Jesus cleansed the Temple. (Jn2:14-16) 

Jude says, “Contend earnestly for the faith.” (Jude3) Generally speaking Christians are a people who bless and not curse. With it (the tongue) we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. (Jas3:9-10) But it’s possible for the Spirit of God to speak curses thru a true believer. Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought the gift of God could be purchased with money!” (Acts8:20) Then Saul, who also is called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord? And now, indeed, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time.” And immediately a dark mist fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand. (Acts13:9-11) The Holy Spirit has used both Peter and Paul to curse the wicked. But also scripture teaches we’re not to greet, shake hands with or in anyway be party to anything that’s connected to the accursed gospel. (2Jn10-11) We can’t curse what God has blessed but we also can’t bless even by cooperating with something God has cursed. When someone is a personal enemy to us we can pray for God to bless them. We may do for them what Jesus did for us and ask God to forgive and such. But we can’t be a party to promoting a false gospel because a false gospel destroys men’s souls, and we can’t “bless” that.

When you’re blessing someone who’s done evil and overcoming evil with good you may save a soul. But if you’re blessing a false gospel or helping someone who is promoting a false gospel, you’re helping satan take souls to hell.  There’s a difference! There are two sides to this in the New Testament – bless those who curse you; but have nothing to do with those preaching or following an accursed gospel. If anyone comes to you and doesn’t bring this doctrine, don’t receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds. (2Jn10-11) You’re not overcoming evil with good by helping someone preach a false gospel. Don’t lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people’s sins; (1Tim5:22) Don’t become associated with another preacher or church until you know it’s God’s gospel they’re preaching or you’ll share in their sins if you help them promote a false gospel. So whatever we do in the sense of blessing those who curse us it can’t be the kind of a blessing that helps them do evil. When you understand this rightly you’re not asking God to bless them as they sin and leave them in their sin, but to truly bless you must ask God to convict them of their sins and turn them away from sin. To bless those who curse you, is to say, “God open their eyes. God convict them, and cause them to repent!” And not, “Lord, prosper them while they’re doing evil.” That’s not the blessing Jesus intends. If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted myself up when evil found him. (Indeed I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for a curse on his soul). (Job31:29-30) The sin is to ask for a curse on someone’s soul. But it isn’t a sin to ask God to remove mountains that are in the way of the gospel or interfering with the will of God. And most often those mountains are people who oppose God’s work. It’s righteous for us to ask God to deal with such people and get them out of our way as we do the will of God, but we’re not asking for a curse on their soul. We’re asking for a blessing on the gospel in the sense of removing whatever hinders it so God’s work may go forward for the elect’s sake.

Those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by Him shall be cut off. (Ps37:22) How serious it is to be cursed, it’s absolutely deadly. You rebuke the proud-- the cursed, who stray from Your commandments. (Ps119:21) Pride goes with straying. No one has to curse the false “churches,” they’re proud and the proud are already cursed. They curse themselves by doing that which brings the curse upon them. They’ve touched the unclean thing. They’ve blatantly disobeyed, arrogantly defied God in things they consider “unimportant” but which God considers so important they actually bring God’s curse on them. And we must not be a party to what they’re doing. Don’t share in their sins. Isn’t it strange how these cursed churches want everyone to join with them? They all want to hold hands with one another. Do you know why? Because the devil wants to put everybody under their curse. He wants to work thru them to seduce you so you’ll join with them and be a party to their sins. Why do they want to connect with everyone so badly? It doesn’t make sense. I’m content to be disconnected from churches that would only be a distraction to me. I must keep myself unentangled to do what God gives me to do. Look at all the activities, all the energy they expend and all the things they try to do to get connected; all the “churches” uniting together. Does that help their members be more Christ like; does it do anything for their Spirituality? No! What each “church” should be doing is getting their own people washed in the water of the Word. They should be teaching their own people to walk in the Spirit. Instead of helping their own members become mature Christians they think getting all the churches together is doing something wonderful for God. Jesus is more concerned about having a clean church, a glorious church without spot or wrinkle, a Spiritual church than having a “large church.”  Building up a big number of people, a big organization is what “man” is about. (Gen11:4) It’s not what Jesus is about. Christ is making His church holy – perfecting the saints in faith, love and obedience. (Eph5:11-16;5:27)

Having power politically because we have so many numbers isn’t doing anything for the “believer” in the “connected” church; it’s not making him holy, or helping him know God. But it’s doing something for the devil because as soon as you shake hands with the Baptist church you’ve become a party to their sins. You just did what 2^nd John 10-11 said don’t do. You’ve greeted someone who’s brought another gospel. When you shake hands with them you become a party to their sin because instead of rejecting what they’re doing and standing up for truth – you’re accepting what they’re doing, approving it, and by making them feel accepted, even encouraging them to do it. For he who greets him shares in his evil deeds. (2Jn11) If you don’t want to be a party to these people’s damnation then don’t help satan deceive them. Show them their problem. Tell them they’re not saved. Speak the truth in love. If they can see the truth about themselves, they may be convicted and repent. Don’t deceive them and others by treating them as if they are brethren when they’re not.

Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause shall not alight. (Pr26:2) No one can curse something that doesn’t deserve to be cursed. If a curse comes on someone there’s a reason. They’ve sinned in some way. There’s therefore now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. (Rom8:1) There can be no sin in a Spirit led saint so there’s no curse on a Spirit led saint. It’s important to understand if something like a curse is affecting your life you need to look for the cause of it. If you’re stepping on a nail, you can’t think God is blessing you because if He were, He’d keep you from stepping on that nail. Then you need to pray and ask God why it happened; why are you being “cursed?” God’s blessing will keep you safe. Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place, No evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; (Ps91:9-10) If something has happened that’s hurtful and it isn’t in the category of persecution or affliction for righteousness sake, then why did it happen? What have you done that’s violated the righteousness of God and removed His protective covering? The curse without a cause shall not alight; means there’s a reason why harm comes upon you.

Remember the famine that came on Israel because of Saul killing the Gibeonites. Israel made a treaty with the Gibeonites and Saul broke that treaty. Then in David’s time a famine comes upon Israel and David goes to the Lord asking, “Why has this curse come upon us?” God shows him it’s because of what Saul did to the Gibeonites. David then has to go to the Gibeonites and make peace with them. So they ask for the sons of Saul and they kill the sons of Saul. (2Sam21:1-9) That’s how the land was restored from the famine. Whether what the Gibeonites did was righteous or not, God backed it up! God arranged for them to be avenged because there was a treaty violation and the Gibeonites had a right to justice. God brought this injustice to light by causing a curse of famine to come on Israel – the purpose of that curse to get David’s attention that something’s wrong. Look at the pestilence that came upon the nation of Israel because David numbered them. (2Sam24) Because of David’s sin, he had to choose a punishment. So he chose a three-day plague. The curse of the plague came because of the sin. There’s always a reason why curses come. A curse without a cause does not alight.

The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, because they’ve transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left. (Is24:5-6) This is prophetic of what God will do in response to the lawlessness of the end time. The more sinful our society gets the closer we are to seeing this fulfilled. “For My sword shall be bathed in heaven; indeed it shall come down on Edom, (Edom is a type of the flesh) and on the people of My curse, for judgment.” (Is34:5) The “judgment” of the “cursed” always ends in their destruction.

And say to them, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant’” (Jer11:3) Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the LORD.” (Jer17:5) Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood. (Jer48:10) Recently in a service at “My Father’s House,” the Lord gave a prophecy saying preachers in the false church try to convict people for not believing in Jesus, but they don’t want to make anybody who’s a “believer” feel uncomfortable about being worldly; pursuing selfish interests, cares of this world, deceitfulness of riches, etc. You’ll not hear many sermons in such “churches” about “christians” being involved in worldly sporting events, excessive shopping, faddish styles and such. Because false prophets don’t want to upset people in “church;” they only want to preach about the people who aren’t believing and get them into church. Once they’re in church they don’t want to upset them so they do “hold back their sword from blood.” And they do the works of the Lord deceitfully. Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” (Acts2:37) Conviction is supposed to hurt!

“Remember therefore from where you’ve fallen; (who’s heart departs from the Lord) repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place-- unless you repent. (Rev2:5) Once people are in the church the preacher and brethren are to get them perfected in holiness, but in the false churches they won’t do that. They don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings. They don’t want to make anybody feel uncomfortable because they might stop coming and putting their five dollars in the plate. You know, many false churches get rich on a thousand people putting five dollars in the plate. Where God supplies our needs because we have generous givers. In My Father’s House we have saints who’ll put a hundred dollars, two hundred dollars in the offering. Which is having Jesus in you? Five dollars in the plate? That isn’t Jesus. That’s classic Malachi. “But cursed be the deceiver who has… a good offering but sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished—(Mal 1:14) The kind of offering you give to God indicates how you esteem Him. You glorify Him by your offering or you despise Him by your offering. If you give Him a paltry offering He says, Offer it then to your governor!  Would he be pleased with you? (Mal 1:8) Would He think, “This person really loves me! Respects me! Look at how he gives!” Would He feel that way about you or would He say, “I don’t know why you even bother. If you esteem Me so little as to bring such an insulting gift.” The widow’s mite isn’t an exception to this. Her offering was large because it was ALL she had. But when someone has much and gives little that’s not acceptable.

I don’t often preach on money because the covetous false churches over do it so much. But you’re robbing God if you’re not paying your fair share of the church’s expenses. You have to judge what your fair share is according to your income and how much you want to be blessed. But it isn’t charity to give just enough to cover your fair share of the church expenses. That’s just paying for your part in the church; paying for what you’re getting. And the next step after that is if someone is sowing to you Spiritual things you owe them support in material things. (Rom15:27, 1Cor9:9-11) So you owe your pastor support because he works to help meet your Spiritual needs and that’s a work worthy of his hire. (Matt10:10) Just like somebody who works as a mechanic to fix your car deserves to be paid – a man of God who works to perfect your soul, deserves your material support and even more so because Spiritual things are far more important than temporal. And when you’ve paid your fair share concerning these things – you’re just even. That means you’re not robbing God. But you haven’t even begun to get into charity yet. Charity is when you’re giving to the poor or giving to people who can’t give back. Then He said to him who invited Him, “When you give a dinner or a supper, don’t ask your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they invite you back, and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind. And you will be blessed, because they can’t repay you; for you’ll be repaid at the resurrection of the just.” (Lk14:12-14) When you’re giving to the church you’re paying for a Spiritual service the church is doing for you. And if you’re paying less than you’re share you’re robbing God.

Many members in “My Father’s House” are paying more than their share. And that’s where we get into true charity. For example, the money we put into the Glory of His Grace that we offer on the internet or mail to so many people free of charge. That’s true charity! Because many who receive the Glory of His Grace are inmates who can’t give anything we give it to them freely. We’re also ministering in prisons, nursing homes and such as that, where we receive no contributions. Some people think they’ve done God a great service when they put a few dollars into the collection plate and in reality they haven’t even started giving; they’re still robbing God unless they’re paying what would be their justly apportioned part of the expenses of the church. They deceive themselves if they think that’s charity. They’re still in the area where they rob God because they’re taking costly and precious Spiritual things and not paying for them. They get the benefit of being in church without paying the rent. Paul speaks about that some in the New Testament - You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? (churches) You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God thru breaking the law? (Rom2:22-23) This is similar to Malachi, You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me. (Mal 3:9) So you’re under the curse if you’re robbing God. And what’s the sin in Malachi? They’re not bringing their tithes.

Under the New Covenant we don’t tithe. Tithing is of the law and true Christians are dead to the law. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law thru the body of Christ, that you may be married to another-- to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. (Rom7:4) Under the New Covenant we’re given liberty but the liberty isn’t to be used to the flesh. Liberty doesn’t mean you’re allowed to rob the church. Your liberty is to serve one another in love. For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only don’t use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but thru love serve one another. (Gal 5:13) You’re to be led by the Spirit of Christ – not the law – in deciding what is a fit amount of support for you to contribute to the church. He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. (2Cor9:6-8) Abounding in grace is the opposite of being “cursed.” Giving is a matter of conscience but you must be careful because if you’re not giving your fair share as the Spirit leads then your conscience will separate you from God; your heart will condemn you and your prayers won’t be answered. (1Jn3:20-22) You’ll not reap anything good from God until you start doing what your conscience and the Spirit tell you to do. Obedience to the Spirit and your conscience is very much a part of being one God can bless. For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. (1Jn3:20) Having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, (1Tim1:19) What causes people to “rob God” or hold back more than what’s fair is covetousness. So covetousness again leads to the curse.

And Achan answered Joshua and said, “Indeed I’ve sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and this is what I’ve done: When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. And there they are, hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, with the silver under it.” (Josh7:20-21) Achan says, “I coveted the accursed thing.” It was his covetousness that caused both him and Israel to be cursed. If you covet money so much you won’t pay your fair share in the church; that coveting will bring a curse on you too. Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. (Ex18:21) If you want just rulers they must not be covetous. Because a covetous man will take bribes to pervert justice. Good rulers love justice. They hate dishonesty. That’s exactly the character you have in Jesus. One reason He’s the King of kings is because He hates dishonesty. He hates covetousness. Incline my heart to Your testimonies, and not to covetousness. (Ps119:36) A ruler who lacks understanding is a great oppressor, but he who hates covetousness will prolong his days. (Pr28:16) Hating covetousness causes you to be of good understanding and keeps you from oppressing others. The desire of the lazy man kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. He covets greedily all day long. He wants things but won’t work for them but the righteous gives and doesn’t spare. (Pr21:25-26)

Liberality in giving is an essential characteristic of the righteous. To be blessed you must financially contribute to your church and you ought to delight in it. And you ought to delight every time you get some overtime or a raise or such that you can give more to God, because usually the first ministry of righteousness a true believer enters into is financial giving to his church. And if you aren’t faithful in that ministry God won’t bless you in any other. When God first took hold of my heart, I became a generous giver. God delights in you when He sees you don’t covet for yourself but you willingly give for the Kingdom, because that’s what you’re doing if you’re a generous giver. You’re giving up your pleasures and luxuries, perhaps even necessities for the sake of the Kingdom of God. That’s also much associated with crucifying the flesh because there’s something you could have done for your flesh with that money and you’re saying, “No, I rather do good for God.” Being a generous giver is a good indication you’re actually a crucified believer. Remember Cornelius, Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God. (Acts10:4) So if the ministry of giving is going on in you, it’s a good indication you’re a real Christian, particularly if you delight in giving, if you’re really getting joy out of it; if you’re rejoicing, for example, in helping to get the Glory of His Grace out, knowing you’re really helping people. You’re happy to be a part of that. There’s joy in doing good. Then God can bless you mightily because you’re far from touching the accursed thing. He can bless you and make all grace abound towards you and He can give you prophecies and anointings to pray and many other good things.

For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid and was angry, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. (Is57:17) Covetousness is such an iniquity that it causes God to be angry enough to strike. If God is striking you, you’re certainly not being blessed but cursed. To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear?  Therefore I’m full of the fury of the LORD. I’m weary of holding it in. “I’ll pour it out on the children. And their houses shall be turned over to others, because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness<