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Bob Estey

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The cult has been a major influence in every denomination so the church at large. I even heard some of their lies spoken in a Pentecostal church. I think it is more the Laodecian church era of the "falling away." So we are living in the very last years.

Read and BELIEVE what the Bible says about Jesus especially about sin where most of the doctrines of demons twist scripture.

Romans 8:8-9

8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

Romans 6
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 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. 7 For he who has died has been [b]freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, [c]reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not 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 to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 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. 18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 3:1-24
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know [b]us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.

7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. 11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, 12 not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.

13 Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love [c]his brother abides in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

16 By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall [e]assure our hearts before Him. 20 For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. 22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. 23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.

24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
We know that Satan rules the world (1 John 5:19). Common sense might tell us that Satan would love to lead the church astray. Satan is the most subtle of all the creatures on earth (Genesis 3:1), so he leads many astray. He is the father of lies (John 8:44).
 

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We know that Satan rules the world (1 John 5:19). Common sense might tell us that Satan would love to lead the church astray. Satan is the most subtle of all the creatures on earth (Genesis 3:1), so he leads many astray. He is the father of lies (John 8:44).
Satan rules sinners, but we are NOT sinners if we abide in Christ. We are Christians and verse 1 John 5:18 (one up from yours) says Satan cannot touch us.!

Also another one of my favorites.

1 John 3:8b-9
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
 
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We know that Satan rules the world (1 John 5:19). Common sense might tell us that Satan would love to lead the church astray. Satan is the most subtle of all the creatures on earth (Genesis 3:1), so he leads many astray. He is the father of lies (John 8:44).
Yes and his ministers also can appear as angels of light to deceive .

2 Corinthians 11:13-15
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Proverbs 16:18 KJV: Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

There be some that are so "puffed up " ,thinking they know something of God to the exclusion of all others having knowledge in God.
 

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I would even say in order to repent we must have integrity to tell the truth about ourselves. Integrity of heart is the basis of true repentance. At least, that's what it took for me to experience being supernaturally born again of the Spirit
I would say in order to repent , GOD LED YOU TO IT . And i have proof of this too .
The day GOD drew me to HIM , to CHRIST . GOD led me to repentance . GOD made me aware
that my evil WAS EVIL . GOD gave me a new heart with new desires . GOD led me into truth .
NONE of that was my flesh . That was OF THE LORD . TO HE I SHALL GIVE ALL THE GLORY .
IT is the SPIRIT that convicts us . I truly cannot find one reason that somehow i saved myself
I didnt even lead myself to CHRIST . GOD DID . SO i would say TO GOD BE THE GLORY and that is my song
that i shall sing all the day long .
Paul knew . I laborered more abundantely than they all did , YET NOT I , BUT THE GRACE OF GOD .
paul knew . Now lift those hands , ITS LORD PRAISING and THANKING TIME IN THE BUILDING .
And by the SPIRIT GOD gives the lambs , I WARN others as well . To flee evil , etc .
SEE its the SPIRIT at work IN US . OUR DUTY , OBEY THE SPIRIT and not the flesh . Learn those bibles well .
 
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Yes and his ministers also can appear as angels of light to deceive .

2 Corinthians 11:13-15
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Proverbs 16:18 KJV: Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

There be some that are so "puffed up " ,thinking they know something of God to the exclusion of all others having knowledge in God.
Spot on right sister . And there are many now who work within houses who claim the name of GOD and of CHRIST
but use HIS NAME to teach wicked lies . You are spot on right my dear dear sister .
Lambs gonna stay glued in those bibles .
 

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if GOD were to take HIS HOLY SPIRIT From me . I would be just like i used to be , FOLLOWING THE FLESH
right to the lake of fire . Let us HEED THE SPIRIT .
But as we see its UNTO GOD WE OWE ALL . now raise those hands and let a major praise fest begin unto the LORD .
Let us get well dug in the scriptures . THE LORD is with the lambs . HEED HIM , HEED THE SPIRIT .
Learn the sound biblical doctrine and keep learning it staying refreshed in it daily , in prayer , being hearers and doers of the WORD .