Thursday, August 14, 2008

Do Not Be Distracted


The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth; He always works with truth. He sends true and mature ministers to equip true Christians for the work of the ministry. The devil sends ministers in satanic churches, in wiccan churches, in the occult, etc., who are obviously not of God by word, power, and manifestation. The big trick, the big deception that the devil uses on untrained Christians is that he sends his ministers disguised as ministers of righteousness into churches of born again and Spirit filled Christians. Those false ministers will talk about Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and other things of the Bible and will even teach some true things from the Bible that some Christians did not know. They will move in power, manifestation, and excitement. Untrained Christians, including ministers, will experience and feel things that they give God credit for but that are not from God. Their services will have times that are called praise and worship. They will develop relationships with Christian ministers, singers, etc., whom they will use to further their cause of deceiving and entrapping unsuspecting professing Christians.
The devil will take a Christian minister who has been around for a long time and use him if he can find a way. For example, there is a living evangelist who is as apt to zealously tell you today that good people will spend eternity with the Lord or that there is more than one way to God as he used to be in telling people that Jesus is the way to God. There are pastors (Baptist, Methodist, Charismatic, Pentecostal...) who got off track a little at a time; it wasn't really too noticeable to begin with. They became well known and respected, but the devil kept working. He had some big things in mind, and he was preparing to use them. A little at a time he kept working until he could use them to support something big that he had planned on for a long time.
We live in a time when the Church needs to be restored and many Christians are born again and Spirit filled within parts of the Church, but they are not properly and/or fully trained. What is a true Christian to do? They must personally know the Word of God thoroughly and rightly divide it, or they will be deceived to some degree at some point. They are to try to warn others, but they must be careful not to get distracted from what God wants them to do. They must not get in the flesh themselves. What the devil is doing can become a distraction. But deceived Christians who will not listen to truth can also become a distraction. When deceived Christians get to a certain point where it is obvious by discernment that they are not ready to listen and be set free, then continue to pray for them, but interaction is a waste of God's time and yours. To be a little more concise, when deceived Christians begin to say that things of the flesh and the devil are of God and change the Bible to justify things, dust your shoes and move on. There are professing Christian ministers and professing Christians that I will not talk with until I see that their eyes are being opened.
True Christians should find God's true and mature ministers and disciples and work together with them to accomplish God's purposes. The internet can become a good place to share the good things of God and His kingdom. The internet can become a good place to develop relationships in Christ that bless the Lord. It can also be a big distraction and a hindrance to God's will and purposes. Which will it be?

2 comments:

Steve Page said...

"Which will it be?"

What other choice is there? "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain."
Steve Page

R. Wayne Wilson said...

If a few with eyes open will get in the gap and cry out, then God will respond. Ask God for His heart for the Church and for the lost. Ask God for His vision of the Church. We see enough of the results of man's various visions all around us.