Isn’t God’s Holy Word So Very Perfect....He says it so much better than ours...
1 John 4
King James Version
4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
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The Scriptures are not His Holy Word, but Jesus Christ is. Yet God through Isaiah explained that if you did not listen, then the word of the Lord to you would be those orderly , lines, that you read a little here and there.
Is 28:12,13 He who said to them, “Here is rest, give rest to the weary,”
And, “Here is repose,” but they would not listen.
So the word of the LORD to them will be,
“Order on order, order on order,
Line on line, line on line,
A little here, a little there,”
That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.
Therefore, because they would not listen to Him they were taken captive, just like was written about them!
So the word of the LORD to them will be,
“Order on order, order on order,
Line on line, line on line,
A little here, a little there,”
That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.
And Jesus explained to them:
Jn 5:37,38“And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.
“You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent.
If you had His word abiding in you then you would not have confused Him with the Sacred Writings!
Gal 3:22 But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Therefore you have been shut up under sin, as the Pharisee, Sadducees, and most of the people whom Moses talked to and said:
Deut 8:20 “Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
And Paul testified about a people like that also writing:
Rom 10: 1-9 Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.
For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believe.
For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.
But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),
or ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”
But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
So you say Jesus, but the Holy Word of God to you is the writings, the Scripture, and not Him. That is because you feel that He is dead of in a far off place called heaven, so you don't know that the Word of God we are preaching is found "IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART", because you don't actually believe that you can listen to Him. You pretend obedience, but don't hear with your spiritual ears and so don't understand that the Word of God we preach is Him, and that because He indeed has never left us, and we His sheep hear Him voice, even that small voice we find in our heart, and that often because we realize that He, via His spirit, was getting our attention with what is coming out our mouth. Yet coming out your mouth is that the word of is the orderly lines of text that you read a little here and there, thus telling us who really know Him what has happened to you.
And not you only, because there were many Pharisees, and Sadducees and many Moses and Paul spoke to on this subject, hoping that someday they would indeed humble themselves and turn to the Lord and listen to Him. He speaks to us in the morning when we get up, and a Bible is not needed then. He speaks to us in the shower and we prepare for the day, and the Bible is not in the shower. He then speaks to us as we do sit down with the Bible and pray the Lord's prayer, but He might not even have you pick up the Bible, like a teach might not have you open up the text book for the class. He may have other things planned, like a dream that He gave you that He wants to talk about.
And as for testing the spirit, like explained in the Bible, that calls for the ability to use you spiritual ears. If you can't hear with your spiritual ears then you can't test the spirits as told to!!
1 Jn 4:1-4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
If indeed you do test the spirits, according to the above test then you know that requires actually hearing with your spiritual ears. That is to say that you pick up a voice, usually out of no-where, and so you ask it to confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh because we are testing spirits not people, and then you listen for the response. So you either hear "Jesus Christ has come in the flesh", and usually with a bit more like "He is risen", or "we listen and serve Him", which is what the Holy Spirit is about getting us to do. Of perhaps the voice leaves quickly, as a spirit taking off quickly, or it you might hear, "I can not tell you that", which always seems weird when you pick that up. It is also pretty weird when that spirit gets mad and starts cursing Jesus Christ, but you give not indication of hearing at all, by anything you have written. Your testimony is about reading the lines of text, and not of hearing with your spiritual ears.
So, you quote Scriptures, as if they will save you. You proclaim them, even as the Holy Word of God, failing to understand that Jesus Christ is the Word of God and God's salvation. You have not testimony about Him, Jesus Christ the Lord our God, and so He testifies about you, even though you don't accept it. And we who hear the sound of the wind testify about Him and what we hear, but you do not accept our testimony. And this is explained in the Bible:
Jn 3: 8 “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
and
Jn 3:11 “Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.
So quote Scripture after Scripture, but that will not save you. Think of the Scriptures as the Holy Word of God, but that just shows you don't listen to our Lord and have indeed been taken captive by religious spirits. Tell yourself that you have the Scriptures so that you believe in Jesus Christ, but if you indeed believed in Him you would know that He is the Holy Word of God. Indeed "The Word of God is His name:
Rev 19:13 He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
And if you listened to Him you might hear things like, like
I AM THE WORD OF GOD! THAT IS WHAT THEY CALL ME. FOR WHAT PROPHET EVER SAID ‘THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME SAYING’ AND DIDN’T MEAN THAT I CAME CLOSE? SHOULD I SHARE MY NAME WITH MY CREATION?:
THE SCRIPTURES ARE RIGHT, BUT THEY ARE NOT RIGHTEOUS. THEY HAVE NO ABILITY TO ACT. THEY ARE NOT ALIVE, BUT THE WORD OF GOD IS ALIVE AND ACTIVE.
WE DON’T USE THE LORD TO PREACH THE SCRIPTURES; WE USE THE SCRIPTURES TO PREACH THE LORD!!
So understand comes from His mouth not your understanding!
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