Ever since I have been a Christian, I noticed that there have been two predominant issues on my heart to continue deeper along this walk for Jesus Christ--1) a constant concern to request everyday to "be filled with the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, very God of God," and 2) an unquenchable thirst for more knowledge and understanding of the Scriptures, particularly the New Testament.
I am discovering that there are other people just like me whose primary concern is to grow closer to the Lord Jesus Christ, sole, sovereign Creator of heaven and earth, and they also cling to the ministers who have this same obsession. I find myself forever calling upon the wisdom of God to lead me, clearly a cry from the Holy Spirit in my heart, and a sickening distaste for the words of those who cannot seem to focus their testimony on God, but rather themselves. I find that there really is an equal lack of limitation to the level that a person can reach into the depths of their own imagination (evil), which is analogous to the depth of the wisdom of God in the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ, his only Son and image.
For those who seek the depths of their own evil imaginings, there is no work of God they do not have a heart to destroy and malign. There is no person submitted to the work of God whom they do not have an uncanny ability to twist into the image of a bad-guy. To some of these evil-imagining experts, even the name of Christ itself has become enmity to these wretched, slobbering, mangy, orphan dogs. The name of Jesus Christ, the essence of eternal life, causes division, and earthy, demonic, and sensual wisdom tells us that all divisiveness is the enemy. Romans is true, when one accepts the lies, they profess to be wise, and become fools in the darkness of their thinking. In asserting this state of being, there is neither room for repentance, nor hope, nor light of any kind, for the wisdom of God, which is light, has become their declared object of hatred. Such prove themselves as the spawn of satan.
I'm glad being filled with the Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus, God of Gods, keeps my eyes attune to these ignorant lies. The destructive nature of faith in people when this wisdom is practiced becomes obvious to any filled with the Spirit of Jesus Christ, who is God the Son. That is why the Scriptures have become such an imperative for me to research--it all stems from the infilling of the Holy Spirit in my life directing me to the Wisdom of God. What better source than the Scriptures?
I truly am thankful for the Holy Spirit's guidance and protection for those whom are his. And that is just the issue--these people profess their connection to godliness, but are denying its power by disconnecting from the first love--Jesus Christ, the resurrection and life. Those who are not of the fold, no matter how hard they try in their flesh, will never hear or see God because they remain blind to Jesus Christ, the only express image of the entire Godhead dwelt bodily. So to compensate for their distance to God's only Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, they erect a substitution of their own image and are filled with the covetous spirit of satan leading them in a self-destructive direction that ruins not only themselves, but all those they lead simultaneously and thereby heaping up the judgment of the fullness of their sin which God directed like a watercourse from the depths of their own idolatrous hearts. The problem does not stem from their actions, per se, but from their identity--they are not of God, but of satan in spirit, and only God can know it and reveal this with time and circumstance.
What then is the answer? Their isn't one. To imply that their is suggests that we are in control of the process. To think that we are in control implies that we take destiny in our own hands to meet God in the clouds--this is heresy--their can be no greater lie, no stronger affirmation of the satanic deception which barred our Edenic blessing from the beginning. No, be who you are, stop pretending, and let God sort them out. That's his job--to use the winnowing fork. Those of God cannot help but draw close to him through Jesus Christ the only truth and life, the only Lord of heaven and earth, and those not of God cannot help but draw farther and farther toward the eternal destruction for which they so crave, taking others with them, as their own father does. Each person has only one nature, and that nature determines who you are and to whom you will draw. Choice is merely the slow and ineluctable manifestation of this nature. You are either blessed or condemned to be nothing more than what you are.
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