March | 2020 | Living in The Spirit

The Lord will allow false teachers and false preachers to succeed for a while in order to test His people. This testing is for our benefit, not His and will reveal to us our own heart. We are the fruit of the ministry we sit under and it is by their fruit that we will recognize false preachers and teachers.

“15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

16 You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” Matthew 7:15-16

Sadly, most modern Christians so little know their Bibles that they do not recognize what is right and what is wrong and in turn zealously support the work of the devil while along thinking they are supporting the work of God. Quite frankly, if God’s people would stop supporting these false preachers and false teachers they would simply die off. Instead, they continue tickling ears and appealing to the lusts of the flesh while cloaking their vain philosophies is Scripture deceiving those who choose to remain ignorant.

“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.” 2 Corinthians 11:13-15

If we don’t think we can be deceived, quite frankly we are deceived. The Word of God is full of warnings of false teachers and preachers. Any gospel other than the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Him crucified is a false gospel. It is accursed. The gospel taught behind so many pulpits today are nothing less than motivational speeches cloaked in Scripture. They point to self will and ability to gain Christlikeness and it is a lie straight from the pits of hell.

It is the work of the Holy Spirit to produce in us fruit unto God. It is HIS ministry that superintends the work of God in our hearts and lives and He will only attend to His ministry when our faith is placed solely and exclusively in the Cross of Christ for all the we need for life and living.

“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” Acts 17:11

Study the Word. We must ALL study to show ourselves approved. If we don’t know the Bible for ourselves, we will not recognize error when it comes riding in on the coat tails of the Truth. The Truth will expel a lie but a lie will corrupt the Truth if allowed to remain. We have a straight stick in which to measure. We have the plumb line…use it.

-Donna Clark Warren

“Knowing” the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Him crucified does not constitute Salvation. There are many here in the United States who believe that just because they know the Gospel that they are Saved. I was one of those people…I know what I’m talking about here. If you asked me if I was a Christian I would assure you that yes I was but I was a Christian in ‘name’ only. I waved the banner but had no fruit.

“5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be Born Again.” John 3:5-7

To enter into the Kingdom of God one must be born of water which constitutes natural child birth, not water baptism is many wrong teach and believe, and one must be born of the Spirit.

Until we ACCEPT Jesus Christ and Him crucified as the ONLY Way unto God and not just merely have knowledge of the Gospel, we will not see the Kingdom of God. We MUST be Born Again of the Holy Spirit; spiritually alive unto God by Grace through faith in the only begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ. It is Who HE is and what HE has done that saves the eternal soul of whosoever will believe from a devil’s hell.

Many who claim Christianity need to examine themselves. Are they a new creature in Christ Jesus? Is there fruit unto God?

You will know them by their fruit. There is a change in their heart. No longer bound to sin, they (we) are indeed a new creature in Christ Jesus.

“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” 2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine the fruit.

-Donna Clark Warren