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"Resurrection" Perfection!/You Shall Condemn! By Pastor Bill Taylor A publication of My Father's House, inc. Volume 9/ Issue 20 Prophecy: Whatever I’ve commanded, whatever I’ve shown you to do, My grace comes with it. I don’t command and not give you the grace to do! When I command, My grace is there. Look unto Christ; I called Him and I commanded Him. And I gave Him My grace, I gave Him My Spirit. But I tell you, He made the choice to take hold of My Spirit and to abide in My commands. And because He did, He overcame every form of wickedness. He’s glorious, He’s holy, He’s awesome in all His ways, and He’s the Captain of your salvation. Now I’ve commanded a glorious and holy bride without spot or wrinkle to be brought unto My Son; and with that command I’ve sent My grace to do it. I say to you that just as My Son overcame by taking hold of My Spirit, you also will overcome as you take hold of My Spirit. As Christ lives in you, you’ll overcome every form of wickedness, because I didn’t command My church to be without spot or wrinkle and not give her the means by which she can attain. My Son justified Me through faith and being perfectly obedient in the Spirit to all I called Him to do. So I say My church, you also will justify Me as your God and your King; and through faith, you too will overcome in My Spirit and you’ll glorify Me in the earth in all that you do, saith the Lord. Prophecy: In the Psalms, speaking of the wicked, it says, “Let his prayer become sin.” I tell you, I often hear prayers that are sin, and I don’t honor them. When you pray for grace to obey because you’ve seen you’ve not obeyed – that prayer is sin. The fact that you’ve recognized you’ve not obeyed means you should be repenting not just praying for more grace. Your lack of obedience firstly is a sin to be repented of. Haven’t I said, “If a man knows to do good and doesn’t do it, it’s sin?” If you can see what’s right to do, the grace is there to do it and it’s sin if it’s not done. I’ve said in the Scriptures if you’d turn at My rebuke I’ll pour out My Spirit upon you. To turn means to repent. But instead of repenting, you cry out for Me to pour out My Spirit upon you. What did I say? Repent and turn and I’ll pour out My Spirit upon you! Then why don’t you admit your guilt? Why won’t you confess your sin? Why don’t you feel godly sorrow? Why do you harden your heart, then cry out to Me for grace to do what you’ve already received the grace to do and refused to do the first time? What makes you think you’ll do it this time? If My grace was there the first time and you didn’t do it, what kind of grace am I to give you now? Am I to come up with a better grace, as if My first grace wasn’t sufficient? I tell you, NO, it’s not My grace that isn’t sufficient, it’s your faith that isn’t sufficient; it’s your love that isn’t sufficient, it’s your obedience that isn’t sufficient, and you need to repent and turn that I may pour out My Spirit and you may receive the sufficiency which I’ve already given but you’ve rejected, saith the Lord. (Prophecies delivered at “My Father’s House”) "Resurrection" Perfection! If, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. (Phil 3:11) In what commonly calls itself Christianity today, there’s not much wisdom and virtually no understanding. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. (Pr4:7) Most “believers” want to know a few things they can do in a legal sense to satisfy God so they can go to heaven. But they don’t have a heart to understand what He’s doing. If they had a heart to understand Him, they’d not be so easily fooled into following doctrines that are even opposed to God’s will. All heresies in some way betray an absolute lack of understanding God; you couldn’t believe such a thing if you knew God. So if you follow a heresy you don’t know God, and for some reason you want to believe things are this way or that because it seems to make things easier on you, but you don’t understand what God is doing. When Ezekiel speaks a prophecy against the ruler of Tyre, we know in some places he’s speaking to a man and yet, in others he speaks to a demonic spirit. You say, “I’m a god,” yet you’re a man, and not a god. (Ezek28:2) So the king of Tyre is a type of antichrist who sits as god in the temple of god, showing himself he is god. (2The2:4) Yet you’re a man, and not a god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god. With your wisdom and your understanding you’ve gained riches for yourself, and gathered gold and silver into your treasuries; Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Because you’ve set your heart as the heart of a god, behold, therefore, I’ll bring strangers (foreigners) against you, the most terrible of the nations; and they’ll draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and defile your splendor. They’ll throw you down into the Pit, and you’ll die the death of the slain in the midst of the seas. Will you still say before him who slays you, ‘I’m a god?’ But you’ll be a man, and not a god, in the hand of him who slays you.” (Ezek28:2,4,6-9) This is God’s curse on a person who’s possessed by the spirit of antichrist. He’s puffed up in his mind, but God will bring him down. Pride causes his fall. How you’re fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you’re cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you’ve said in your heart: “I’ll ascend into heaven, I’ll exalt my throne above the stars of God; I’ll also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I’ll ascend above the heights of the clouds, I’ll be like the Most High.” Yet you’ll be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. (Is14:12-15) In contrast to Christ, Who, being in the form of God, didn’t consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. Jesus humbled Himself, Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name. (Phil 2:6-7,9) But because Lucifer lifted himself up, God cast him down to the lowest hell. Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, “Thus says the Lord GOD: you were the seal of perfection full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.” (Ezek28:12) Here God stops talking to the man and begins talking to the spirit possessing him. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering: the sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created. You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; you were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you. (Ezek28:13-15) Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. (Ezek28:17) Notice satan was perfect in all his ways. God created him perfect. God created man perfect. God created the world perfect. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. (Ge1:31) Most people who profess to be christians today, seem to think when we’re raptured is when we’ll be perfected. God will bring us into a state of perfection by giving us the glorified body. Of course, the battle we fight right now is against sin in the flesh, and in that day, sin in the flesh will be done away with. But the point is, satan had a perfect body. There was no “sin” in his “flesh” until iniquity “arose” in him. The angels that fell with him were created perfect. There was no sin in their “flesh.” Adam and Eve were “sinless” when they were created. So, even if God gives us a sinless body, that doesn’t guarantee we’ll never sin. Being created or recreated “sinless” is not what keeps us from sinning. It didn’t keep lucifer from sinning. It didn’t keep Adam and Eve from sinning. In this life we have to battle with sin in the flesh, and we must overcome that sin or we won’t get the glorified body. Those who think we don’t have to win the battle against sin in the flesh, that God will perfect us by giving us the glorified body miss the point of what God is doing and why. When God created the angels, He made them perfect but He also gave them freewill, otherwise they’d just be robots. God knew in giving them freewill, at some point, someone would decide to use that freewill in a way that was adversarial to Him. It’s not possible God could create such a multitude of beings with freedom to make their own choices and expect nobody would ever disobey Him. So, from the beginning God knew there’d be an adversary. He knew that creating a perfect being doesn’t prevent that being from becoming imperfect. He can start off perfect, but through freewill he can corrupt himself. Because he has the ability to think freely, Lucifer chose to think in a way that was contrary to God. Lucifer wanted equality with God, and he chose to exalt himself. The moment he chose to think that, he was no longer perfect – he’d created iniquity. Iniquity is a spirit that is anti-God – adversarial to God. By his own freewill in choosing to think such things, Lucifer dramatically destroyed his perfection. When he chose to oppose God’s will, he became satan – the adversary. So God removed him from his position. He was cast out of Eden. This isn’t the Garden of Eden in the earth. This is the heavenly Eden. Like the earthly tabernacle was a copy of the one in heaven, (Heb8:5) so the earthly Eden was a copy of the heavenly. And Jesus refers to that casting out of the heavenly Eden when He says, “I saw satan fall from heaven.” (Lk10:18) Thus satan’s first fall occurs before man was even created. And Adam being cast out of the earthly Eden for sin is a counterpart to satan’s fall. Men and satan still have access to God. (Job1:6) But satan is now an adversary. He’s not the anointed cherub anymore and he’s not allowed in Eden anymore. Yet he can come before God. So he’s still making accusations as he did in Job. You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. (Ezek28:12) Satan started with a perfect body, so a perfect body doesn’t prevent you from inventing sin yourself. Sin began in the mind and heart of satan. Adam and Eve were also created perfect, but satan was able to put sin into their heart and thereby corrupt their perfection. Sin enters the spirit and heart first. At that time there was no sin in Adam’s flesh. He fell, not because of sin in the flesh. He fell because he allowed adversarial, sinful and disobedient thoughts to enter his mind and heart. It’s obvious having a perfect body doesn’t cure the sin problem. If a sinless body could keep sin out there never would have been a sin problem in the first place. And those so-called “christians” who think they’ll be perfected when the rapture comes, don’t understand that a sinless body won’t overcome and cleanse the iniquity in their soul. That’s why God won’t give them a glorified, sinless body unless they first cure the iniquity within and crucify the sin in their flesh. “Cleanse the inside first and then the outside will be clean.” (Mt23:26) Why would God give you a clean, sinless body if your soul still has iniquity in it? What good would a sinless body be if you’re still filthy in your heart? If your soul is dirty, you’d still use your body in ungodly ways. The sinless body isn’t a cure to sin, but it’s a reward for those who’ve overcome sin. They’ve overcome sin in the soul, being transformed by the renewing of the mind, (Ro12:2) and they’ve overcome the sin in the flesh by crucifying it and not letting flesh rule. (Gal 5:24) They’ve overcome sin in such a way their whole spirit, soul, and body can be presented blameless in the day of Christ’s appearing. (2The5:23) They’ve been purified, washed in the water of the Word. Is the washing in the water of the Word a cleansing of sin out of your flesh? NO! (1Pe3:21) It’s cleansing the soul, the mind. And so the ones who’ve been obedient to God are those to whom Christ can say, “I find no fault in you!” They’re irreproachable in His sight. (Col 1:22,23) The elect saints are overcomers. They’ve been cleansed of sin in the soul, and overcome sin in the flesh because they’ve crucified the sin in their flesh and won’t let it rule over them. Thus God rewards them in the resurrection, as in saying, “You’ll never have to fight that sinful flesh again. Your born again spirit is spotless, your soul is irreproachable. Now I’m giving you a righteous body as perfect as your spirit and soul.” It’s a fit reward! He who’s righteous, let him be righteous still; he who’s holy, let him be holy still. (Rev22:11b) Whatever you are when time ends, you’ll be that forever. What went on with Adam and Eve and the angels isn’t equivalent to that because they were able to change. Even though they were created perfect, they weren’t sealed in perfection. That they were created perfect doesn’t mean they were complete in every possible way. There was a lack in them that showed up in their sin. Though they were perfect, they lacked a resistance to sin. Remember sin hadn’t been invented yet. And for God to put a resistance to sin in them, He’d have to invent sin; and that’s not something God could do. So, God created them perfect as far as it was possible in the age in which they were created. And God knew that eventually “sin” would come out of the freewill He gave them. But God couldn’t explain to them about “sin,” because to do that is tantamount to telling them how to sin. And He couldn’t put something in them to prevent them from sinning it because that would have violated their freewill. So He had to just let it happen. Yet knowing it would happen He prepared for it. That should give you some insight into the genius of God. He created us anyway even knowing all that would occur. But in spite of the terrible tragedies sin would cause, God had a plan to deal with it that would end in good. And we know all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. (Ro8:28) Because God also knew this; once sin was invented, God would then be able to take perfection to a higher level than was ever possible before. That is: He could take perfection to the place where it has a built in resistance to sin. Lucifer didn’t have that. Adam and Eve didn’t have that. But what God is putting into us is an overcoming Spirit. The righteous will be righteous still, the wicked will be wicked still, (Rev22:11) and the overcomers will be overcomers still! To accomplish this great plan, God had to let perfect beings make themselves imperfect by inventing sin whereby the whole human race fell into sin. But God gave us His grace to pull ourselves out of the sin and overcome the sin, by taking hold of the overcoming Spirit of Jesus Christ. Then He could seal us forever in a freewill that always chooses to obey God, and would never allow an iniquitous thought to rise up again because through Christ we’ve overcome all sinful thoughts and are now sealed in the place of having a recognition and victorious resistance to them. 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. (2Co10:5) God is infinite but sin isn’t infinite. Sin is finite. There aren’t endless new ways to sin. Once we’ve encountered the various spirits and expressions of sin and have overcome them, there’s no more to overcome. We’ve conquered them all! Having become victorious in the trying of our faith, we’ve overcome the lust of the eyes, the sin in the flesh, and the pride of life; everything evil! And once we’ve attained this victory through faith in Christ, and we truly have the love of the Father in our hearts, and the love of the brethren and the love of Jesus, there’ll never be a turning back. So though we have freewill, it will never again be used to oppose God. Remember, we started in imperfection and became perfect, whereas, satan started in perfection and became imperfect. Therefore, our kind of perfection is stronger than sin, whereas in Adam and Eve, sin was more powerful than their kind of perfection. We start in imperfection and overcome imperfection, and in the overcoming we achieve a quality of perfection that can’t be overcome. Whereas, satan and Adam and Eve started with a quality of perfection that was untried and could be overcome. God had to do it this way, so we wouldn’t be robots, but by freewill we’re choosing to obey God in everything because we love Him. By entering into Christ through faith we’ve chosen obedience and we achieve it by overcoming the disobedient spirit. Unlike Adam and Eve, it’s not as though we’ve never been there. “Oh, I wonder what it’s like to sin. I just want to try it to see what it’s like.” We’ve been there! We’ve been burnt by sin! We’ve experienced the pains of disobedience and we don’t want to sin anymore. We’re on a whole different level than Adam and Eve. “Let’s try sin; it looks interesting.” “Not to me it doesn’t; I’m not at all interested.” We’ve been there, done that! We don’t want to do it anymore! Like the prodigal son we want to return to the place of perfect obedience to the Father and stay there. Because we’ve experienced being on the outside, we now long to be inside. In God’s wisdom, it had to happen this way, but to cooperate with His wise plan we must overcome. He who overcomes gets to eat of the tree of life. (Rev2:7) The one who overcomes attains to the resurrection. (Phil 3:11) God counts the overcomer as worthy of the glorified body because he’ll not abuse it as satan did. He won’t do with it what Adam and Eve did. Get wisdom, get understanding! (Pr4:7) Wisdom is the fear of the Lord and obedience to God. Understanding is knowing what God is doing and why He’s doing it. If you understand what God’s doing you can see the foolishness of these “churches” who think, “God will perfect us when Jesus comes, or after we die and go to heaven.” They don’t understand, He could have made us perfect in the beginning. He made Adam and Eve perfect. He made the angels perfect. If He just wanted us to be perfect why didn’t He make us perfect? Because that kind of perfection isn’t permanent. He wants us to attain to the “overcoming kind of perfect.” The former kind of perfection is weak and vulnerable. It’s perfection, but it’s not a perfection that can overcome evil. It’s a fragile and easily overcome perfection. God wants us to have an overcoming perfection. And the New Covenant perfection we receive by faith in Christ is an overcoming Spirit that can stand against and prevail over all sin. In the overcoming Spirit we have the ability to protect what by the Spirit has been made perfect. Consider, the power that overcomes imperfection “sin” and attains to perfection “holiness” is certainly able to keep and protect that perfection. For you attain to perfection by overcoming everything that would prevent you from being perfect. And if you can overcome those things in the first place, you can surely overcome any efforts they may make to try to take you back into sin. So those who attain to perfection aren’t just “perfect” but by faith they acquire the power to protect and keep the perfection they’ve attained. We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him. (1Jn5:18) We can be sealed in perfection because nothing can break down the overcoming power that we’ve gained in this experience of defeating sin by faith in Christ. Again concerning this, there’s a part God does and a part we must do. “You come out from among them; you touch not the unclean thing.” (2Co6:17) Then “I’ll be a Father to you.” (v18) In the school of perfection we learn that obedience to Christ always works, and disobedience doesn’t. And all these things are working in us to achieve a victorious perfection; such a perfection as can’t be overcome by sin because in attaining this perfection sin itself has been overcome through the power of the perfecting grace of God. How important is perfection? It’s absolutely essential we attain it if we’re to be found worthy of God’s Kingdom. But what kind of perfection are we seeking? Not the gift of merely being created perfect as the original perfection in Adam and Eve; but we’re headed for something far better. We’re looking for a secured perfection, an unbreachable perfection, a perfection that is as life overcoming death. The life we have in this world is weaker than death and is inevitably overcome by death. But the resurrection life in Christ is stronger than death and has arisen out of death and overcame death forever. So the perfection that arises out of imperfection overcomes sin forever, for it is resurrection powered perfection. When our spirit and soul have attained to that, God will certainly give us a body that’s perfect and sinless. But if our soul still has iniquity in it, what good would it be for God to give us a “perfect” body? Jesus says to people who are casting out demons, “Depart from Me, I never knew you, you workers of iniquity.” (Mt7:21-23) If you’re doing religious works, but inside you still have selfishness and sin, you’re not fit to have a glorious body. You’d misuse such a body. You’d still pursue selfish purposes in your soul even if your flesh didn’t have sin in it. When Adam fell, as his descendants sin entered into our flesh. So our fight against sin has actually been harder than Adam’s; our fight against sin has been harder than satan’s. They didn’t have sin in the flesh. Satan just invented sin in his mind. But we have to overcome something stronger than what overcame him. He was overcome by sin in the soul, but those who go on to perfection haven’t only overcome sin in the soul but also have overcome sin in the flesh. This shows you how much stronger they are than satan who go on to perfection in Christ. How much greater is He who is in us than he that’s in the world! Because what Christ in us has overcome is not just the sin in the soul, but also sin in the flesh. You Shall Condemn! “With everlasting kindness I’ll have mercy on you,” says the LORD, your Redeemer. “For this is like the waters of Noah to Me; for as I’ve sworn that the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, so have I sworn that I’d not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but My kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has mercy on you. (Is54:8-10) And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because when God has mercy, He has reasons. And His reasons are knowable. He always has mercy on the humble, the afflicted. But here Solomon says, “You had mercy on David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart. And You’ve continued this great kindness for him, and You’ve given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.” (1Ki3:6) If God had mercy on David because he walked in truth, righteousness, and uprightness of heart wouldn’t He have mercy on you for the same reasons? “But My kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has mercy on you. (Is54:10) But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. (Eph2:4-7) God has chosen to have everlasting mercy upon His people. In Isaiah 54 he prophesies of the mercy which is fulfilled in Ephesians 2. So Isaiah is a prophecy concerning the church. And the “believers” in the church age who’ve received that mercy are characterized as being “raised together with Christ.” Thus if you’ve truly received God’s mercy in “salvation” you must be demonstrably seated in the heavenlies with Christ. Else if you haven’t been raised with Christ you haven’t been saved nor received the mercy described here. But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, satan! You’re an offense to Me, for you’re not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.” (Mt16:23) Satan isn’t seated in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus. If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. (Col 3:1,2) When Jesus says, “You’re an offense to Me because you aren’t mindful of the things of God but the things of men,” that shows Peter’s mind is on earthly things. Now, what would Jesus say you’re mindful of? What you’re mindful of has everything to do with whether you really have salvation. Those who’ve truly received God’s mercy in salvation have been raised together with Christ and are seated together in the heavenlies in Christ. The proof they’re seated in the heavenlies is they’re not mindful of the things of men, but the things of God. So, all we need to do to determine whether you’re a real Christian is see if you’re really mindful of the things of God, else you’re not seated in the heavenlies in Christ. God has given us many powerful evidences that we may tell who the real Christians are, yet contemporary “Christianity” ignores them while they run around saying, “Don’t judge! How can we know? Only God knows.” God never intended His people to live blindly with no sense of whether they’re fit to enter heaven or not. He wants us to know. And He commands us to watch over each other so we can tell if our brother’s doing well or needs help that we may “save” him. Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. (Jas5:19-20) All it takes to know someone is falling away is to listen to their conversation. Are they concerned about the things of men or of God? If I’m in the Spirit, I’m thinking and talking about the things of God, and if you’re in the flesh talking about things of men, I can’t be agreeable to you. Jesus is in me, and if you’re in the flesh you’re an offense to Him. Peter is an offense to Jesus when he’s mindful of the things of men. When Ezekiel is talking to the prince of Tyre suddenly it isn’t the prince of Tyre anymore. It’s satan he’s talking to. (Ezek28) Suddenly it isn’t Peter anymore. What’s in Peter is satan. So Jesus doesn’t talk to Peter anymore but to satan. But how does Jesus recognize it’s the spirit of satan? “You aren’t mindful of the things of God.” The iniquitous spirit, satan, isn’t mindful of God’s things; isn’t obedient to God’s Word; doesn’t care about God’s plans. Satan is doing his own thing. So where are you? Are you mindful of God’s things or are you minding the things of men? If you’re minding the things of men, we can rightfully call you satan. If Jesus calls Peter satan for being unmindful of God’s things but mindful of men’s – then if you’re minding the things of men, you’re just as much satan as Peter! So, what are you minding? To be mindful of the things of God is the only way you can have Christ in you. If He’s in you, He’s mindful of the things of God and so are you. I will lay your stones with colorful gems, and lay your foundations with sapphires. I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of crystal, and all your walls of precious stones. (Is54:11-12) The New Testament church is the pillar and ground of the truth. (1Tim3:15) This also means she’s filled with the wisdom of God. Proverbs compares wisdom to rubies. So if the true church is adorned by God it’s His wisdom and truths that are her jewels. Only a church filled with God’s truths and heavenly insights can be called “adorned.” If it’s God’s wisdom and truths that adorn the true church with spiritual jewelry, then what is going on in these false “churches” today that are filled with lies; all kinds of excuses for disobedience instead of finding ways to obey God. They aren’t bejeweled but besmirched with spiritual filth. They aren’t what the Bible describes as God’s church. All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children. In righteousness you’ll be established; you’ll be far from oppression, for you’ll not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you. This isn’t talking about heaven, because there’ll be no enemies in heaven. And the righteousness believers are to be established in has to be righteous behavior not “imputed” righteousness. To be taught of God is to be taught righteous behavior until you’re established in it. You don’t have to be taught to be established in “imputed” righteousness since, in the foolish ways most contemporary “churches” believe it, it’s merely a “title” given by God. It’s also a common error in false churches to think the prophecies in the Bible are only for the future, and not for now. The truth is, virtually everything in the Bible is for now. There’s a future fulfillment of prophecy, but the same spirit of antichrist that will manifest in the future is already here now. So the same problems will go on now, and the same solutions will work now. There may be a difference in degree. Things going on now may not be a complete fulfillment of prophecy, but they are similar and equivalent in type. For example, Hitler was a very real type of the antichrist. But he wasn’t the complete fulfillment. Anything God does for His saints in the future, He’ll do for us now according to our faith. He may not give us the final fulfillment, but He’ll give us a version of it. So He’ll establish us in righteousness now if we let Him. Great will be the peace of our children now if we’ll obey Him. Indeed they shall surely assemble but not because of Me. We’ve often seen enemies of God assemble against us, but God isn’t raising them up to do this. They’re doing this on their own. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake. (Is54:13-15) And we’ve often seen God bring our enemies down. It’s God’s solemn promise to bring down our enemies. God will do this for His saints today just as much as for His saints in the future. No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. Notice it says YOU shall condemn! This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from Me,” says the LORD. (Is54:17) God’s saints are manifestations of His righteousness. What they do is done at His direction, so when the enemy comes against them the enemy is coming against God’s works. It’s the heritage of God’s servants to condemn them. If you belong to Christ every tongue that tries to condemn you, you will condemn it! And that shows you to be an “overcomer!” You aren’t overcome by the wicked who come against you, but you overcome them. Your tongue will overcome and condemn their tongue. This plainly shows us the saints are to be aggressive, not passive in fighting against the lies, the attacks and the slanders of the wicked. We’re not waiting for the cavalry to come over the hill and rescue us from the wicked. We are to stand against them ourselves and expose them and bring them down for their lies. If you’re of God, you’re the one who’s to put the wicked in his place and shame him. God says He’ll use your mouth to close their mouths. That’s God’s will, His way and His godly order. Whenever the Pharisees came against Jesus, as when they accuse Him for healing on the Sabbath, what does He do? They try to condemn Him but He ends up condemning them! Every tongue that rose against Christ in judgment, He condemned! “You hypocrite, don’t you water your donkey on the Sabbath? If your ox falls in a pit on the Sabbath won’t you get him out? How much more valuable is a man than an ox or a donkey?” Jesus’ mouth always overcame them. And they’d walk away ashamed and humiliated in front of the people. That’s how God intends we overcome also. When people come against us they’re coming against God who’s working in us. But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear. Meekness doesn’t mean weakness; it means being dependent upon God and not self confident. Having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. (1Pe3:15-16) You’re the one who’s to put them to shame by speaking a righteous defense against their wicked accusations. God will give you a mouth and an answer to demonstrate you’re right and they’re wrong! When the wicked Jews brought false charges against Stephen, his defense is, “You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.” (Acts7:51) Who’s condemned here? Is Stephen condemned or are the wicked Jews condemned? Whose mouth condemned them? Stephen brought true charges against them and they stuck. Their false charges against him were as nothing. And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come?”--as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just. (Rom3:8) Here Paul speaks of being attacked by slanderers but who does God condemn? Their condemnation is just! The slanderers end up being condemned, not Paul. We’ve been suffering the slanders of a false, antichrist “church” whose members make up rules contrary to God, and then wickedly try to enforce those rules upon people like us over whom they have no right or authority whatsoever! For example, they interpret meekness in such a way that they wouldn’t allow us to reprove or rebuke because they say rebuking isn’t meek! Yet, the scriptures say, Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. (2Ti4:2) God commands us to reprove and rebuke! So those wicked false christians do violence to the Word of God by using something God says in a way God doesn’t intend it, in order that they may try to prevent us from obeying something else God says in the way He does intend it. So false believers who don’t know the Bible think we sin because we’re not meek in their eyes; according to their unscriptural interpretation of meekness, and they condemn the innocent. Was Jesus meek when He chased the moneychangers out of the temple? Is Paul meek when he tells Titus to rebuke the cretans sharply? When you’re rebuking somebody sharply, does it look like you’re meek? You can’t define meekness in such a way it makes Jesus, Paul, or Timothy guilty of sin. You can’t enforce a rule on us that God doesn’t enforce on His Bible saints. You must look at the things God has commanded us to do in reproving and rebuking, and adjust your definition of meekness to permit those things which God permits. But the false church isn’t wise enough to do that. They’re very foolish, which proves they don’t have God. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God (1Co1:30) Their religion is of man, not God! Their interpretation of the Bible comes from man, not God. They’re continually accusing the righteous of sin because we don’t do it their way, but their way isn’t God’s way. And in saying this, I’ve just condemned those who’ve tried to condemn me, thus fulfilling Isaiah 54. I’ve proven from the scriptures that my meekness is acceptable to God and they’re the ones who are disobedient, ignorant, proud, haughty, and judgmental. They say, “Judge not” (Mt7:1) but they interpret “judge not” in such a way as would prevent us from obeying what Jesus commands in the very same chapter, “Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing. You will know them by their fruit.” (v15-16) They accuse us of sinfully “judging” if we inspect fruit. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars. (Rev2:2b) You can’t interpret “judge not” in such a way that it prevents us from obeying God in testing to see who are true or false apostles, or even true or false brethren! True Christians are commanded not to fellowship with false brethren. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--not even to eat with such a person. (1Co5:11) So, am I sinfully judging if I examine a “brother” to see if he’s covetous? How can I obey God if I can’t do this? Then how can these foolish false brethren accuse us of sinfully “judging” when we’re obeying what the Bible commands us to do? It’s obvious that those who do this are misinterpreting the scriptures, and they’re the ones who are wicked not us! They’re the ones who don’t know the Bible and need to be ashamed for wrongfully dividing the Word. (2Ti2:15) Because I don’t obey their erroneous interpretation of “judge not,” these fools think I’m sinning – that I’m ignorant of the Bible – when the truth is, I’m well aware of the few scriptures they think they understand but very wrongly interpret. While they’re completely ignorant of the many other scriptures I do know and rightly interpret. Thus their condemnation is just. They are presumptuous fools who think they’re “christians” when they aren’t. They’re hypocrites who break their own laws against judging by sinfully and wrongfully judging me. And they disobey Jesus who says, “Judge not lest ye be judged,” by unrighteously judging me when, in fact, I’m obeying the scripture and they are disobeying. So here I’ve just condemned those whose tongues rose up against me. And it was my privilege, even heritage to expose and condemn them. God has given His saints the privilege of doing that. Because these fools wickedly rose up first to wrongfully judge me, therefore, I have the privilege to righteously “judge” and condemn them. And many of our Glory of His Grace books are a fulfillment of that. Isaiah says it’s the heritage of God’s servants to condemn every tongue that rises against them; and that’s what we’re doing. I’m condemning every tongue that rises against me. God has given me the grace and the anointing to do that, and I’m fulfilling scripture when I do that! God has ordained the wicked will be exposed and condemned by the very ones they’re trying to condemn. Not by somebody else; not by some stranger coming to the rescue. He wants the one who wrongfully condemns you to be condemned by you. Which means, if you’re a true Christian you’ll be an active participant in the condemnation of the wicked. Do you see your calling in this? If you’re of God you must be equipped to condemn those who judge you? And if you read the Glory of His Grace with a heart to understand, you’ll be pretty well equipped. Because these Glory of His Grace books are given to us by God for the purpose of exposing and condemning false christianity while also demonstrating the awesome superiority of true Spiritual Christianity. In every Glory of His Grace book you’ll find many godly truths that can be arrows in your quiver to use against God’s enemies. Heretics all follow the same pattern; they use the same paltry arguments and you can know what they’re going to say even before they say it. So with the help of the Holy Spirit and God’s Word rightly divided, you can become very skillful at dealing with the heretics. God can make you mighty to expose them. He can equip you powerfully to show them they’re truly fools who don’t know the scriptures, and they’re the sinners who are wrongfully judging. They’re the slanderers of the righteous; servants of satan who follow after lies. You’re of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there’s 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. (Jn8:44) Because they can’t overcome the Spirit by which we speak, they attack us personally, even as the wicked Jews couldn’t overcome the wisdom by which Stephen spoke, so they attacked him physically. They couldn’t attack his doctrine because his doctrine is sound. They couldn’t attack Jesus’ doctrine so they even quit trying. And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore. (Mt22:46) That was the last time they tried to argue with Jesus. “So how do we get rid of Him? We can’t defeat Him by debating doctrinal issues. We’ll have to smear Him, slander Him and accuse Him of sin so we can kill Him.” They accused Jesus of sinning because He healed on the Sabbath. They accuse us of sinning because we don’t love the way they define love. We expose false christians and churches by name! “That’s not love,” the wicked say. “You can’t use names; that’s evil speaking!” No, it’s not evil speaking. If it’s evil speaking then Paul was speaking evil when he said, Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. (2Ti4:14a) Paul names names. John names names, I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, doesn’t receive us. Therefore, if I come, I’ll call to mind his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words. And not content with that, he himself doesn’t receive the brethren, and forbids those who wish to, putting them out of the church. (3Jn9-10) It’s not sin to name a sinner and warn people to beware of his evil. But many modern churches have defined it as sin because of their false definition of evil speaking. Here’s a godly definition of evil speaking: In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. (1Pe4:4) “Evil speaking,” is to accuse someone of being evil when they’re doing good! Why are they speaking evil of you? Because you stopped chasing women with them, you stopped gambling with them, running to bars with them, because you stopped betting on football games, drinking beer and cursing the opponent’s team! You stopped doing all the wicked things they do and they think that’s terrible of you. You must not “love them,” and you think you’re “holier than thou.” So they call you evil because you’re good; that’s evil speaking! I’m not calling good evil when I expose the false churches. I’m accurately describing their sin, and warning the true brethren to beware, and it’s not evil to do that. Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.” Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame. (1Co15:33-34) It isn’t any more evil than for a detective to say, “Mayor Smith took a bribe!” if he has real evidence. Or for a policeman to say, “John Dillenger robbed the bank. Be on the lookout for him.” Is that evil speaking? If it’s true, it’s not evil. Or to say, “Hitler is a murderous dictator and needs to be stopped.” Is that evil speaking? For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain. (Tit1:10-11) Heretics destroy souls and it isn’t wrong to identify them and warn people to beware of them. Those who think that to name someone who’s doing evil in the church is sin are fools. Those who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear. (1Ti5:20) If I’m exposing a wicked person so others won’t be hurt by him, or if I’m exposing a false prophet so innocent people won’t be misled by him, I’m doing good not evil. There needs to be a lot of exposing done in the false churches today. And God is with me anointing me when I do this. The wicked false church around us thinks it’s a sin because they don’t know sin from righteousness. And this is their problem; they don’t know God. As God prepares to send the Chaldeans upon disobedient Israel He says, They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. (Hab1:7) To the Jews that should have been a terrifying warning! The root word for holiness “hageousmos” in the Greek means “awesome, dreadful.” To fulfill His judgment God is sending an awesome and dreadful people. God could also be speaking of His holy people when He uses such language. God’s holy people should be awesome and dreadful because they have the presence of the awesome and dreadful God. So no weapon formed against God’s awesome and dreadful people can prosper. The awesome and dreadful God will cause every enemy to fall for our sakes. In fact, the fall of our enemies proceeds from the condemnation we bring upon them by testifying against them. In other words, God has ordained that I’ll bring you down if you come against His work in me. I’ll prove to everybody you’re the sinner, not me. God has given me the grace to do that. Because I’m a servant of the Lord, it’s my heritage to bring down every tongue that rises against me in judgment. It’s my God-given privilege to do that. It’s of my credentials in Christ to do that. It’s in my anointing to do that. It’s His promise to me as a servant of the Lord that no one will rise up against me and get away with it. And if you’re a true servant of God, these things are true for you too. You’ll bring your enemies down with your own tongue! God guarantees this to us. The false churches have their man-made rules and they think they can convict us by their rules. But what God says in judging Israel is, “My army will pay no attention to your rules. Their judgment and their dignity don’t come from you. Your opinions mean nothing to them. They have a different set of standards that has nothing to do with yours. You won’t be able to reason with them according to your ideas because they don’t like your ways. They won’t pay any attention to your rules! You won’t get them to behave in a manner consistent with what you call dignity because they don’t believe in what you call dignity. They have their own dignity that comes from Me. What they like may seem nasty to you, but they have a different set of standards than yours and your standards will be of no consequence to them or help to you when My army comes upon you.” Now, I have a different set of standards than this false “church” around us and their standards don’t affect me, because my standards come from God. I have no respect whatsoever for the man-made “standards” of these false christians. My judgment and my dignity comes from Christ. And the people whose judgment and dignity come from Christ are a holy people and a terrible people and an awesome people. They have the power and anointing of God on them; they are dreadful and you don’t want to mess with them because they’ll overcome you. As God’s people it’s our heritage to condemn every tongue that rises against us in judgment, and in the Name of Jesus we do! Amen. Prophecy: You think you become a mighty church, a mighty people of God by wishing the enemy away; by ignoring the enemy; by hiding from the enemy; by letting someone else fight the enemy for you so that you don’t have to fight the enemy? I’ve called My church to be a Spiritual church, saith the Lord, and I will have a Spiritual church. I tell you, a Spiritual church is a mighty church. A Spiritual church is a victorious church. A Spiritual church is a true habitation of God in the Spirit. A Spiritual church is a temple of God where My will is done and only My will is done. But a Spiritual church doesn’t become Spiritual unless it overcomes the enemy. To be what I’ve called you to be you must be mighty warriors; a people who set their heart to overcome and not be overcome; a people who trust in Me to lead them to the victory because you will be superior to other churches, because you will have defeated the very enemies which they couldn’t overcome! It’s because you have overcome what others couldn’t overcome that I can bring My children to you to teach them how to overcome. And it’s only the church that overcomes every enemy that can be called the victorious church. The call I have upon you is a call to be victorious over everything that satan can bring against you. To defeat every weapon he has! That’s what makes you a people of My glory who can lead others to victory. For that reason I allow you to encounter everything the devil has. I allow him to come against you with everything he has because I’ve called you to overcome everything he has and thereby to become My victorious church to My glory, thus saith the Lord. (Prophecy delivered at “My Father’s House”)
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