Every Christian wants to hear from God Have you heard Christians tell you:
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1. "I was reading the Bible and the Lord spoke a word to me...." 2. "I was in prayer and the Lord spoke a word to me......" 3. "I was in prayer and the Lord spoke a word to me for YOU....." |
Oh yes.... the Lord DOES speak..................
But the Church is in troublous times. Do you know the difference between
the voice of the Lord and
the voice of Wilson?
Who is Wilson?
Wilson is a character in the movie “Cast Away.” The movie centers on a man named Chuck Noland (actor Tom Hanks) whose plane crashed, stranding him on a deserted Island. Having no one to talk to, Noland invented a friend by painting a face on a volley ball. He named his friend “Wilson” and with Noland’s help Wilson gained a personality. Wilson listened to Noland for hours on end and would respond with words of understanding and kindness (Noland gave voice to Wilson). Wilson’s wit and wisdom at times outraged Noland and at times calmed him. In short, Wilson became the “best friend” this cast away needed to keep him company in his darkest hour. At the end of the movie the cast away seizes the opportunity to get off the island on a carefully constructed raft. Wilson was securely tied to the raft, but in turbulent weather broke free and began to float away. By the time Noland is aware of this it is almost too late. As Wilson is carried further and further away from the raft Noland desperately swims after Wilson to rescue him, but realizes he is getting further and further away from the safety of the raft and his own chances of survival. He has to put his relationship with Wilson into perspective and although he is emotionally torn between saving his own life and saving his “friend,” he nevertheless lets Wilson go.
What does this have to do with understanding the voice of the Lord? Because of sin humanity too is in the condition of being alone. Isolated from God, humanity has taken refuge in many philosophies and religions, which took on the voice of Wilson, speaking to the heart of man timeless messages of comfort and wisdom in the hour of need. As the grace of God is poured out upon the earth for salvation people are also experiencing the voice of God. However, after conversion, Christians are not being established in the truth by living apostles and consequently, their past false indoctrination prohibits the grace of God from transforming the soul and they again find themselves isolated from God. Looking for the companionship and fellowship of God they give a “voice” to God through the voice of their own conscience, the voice of their own reason, the voice of their own inclination, and the voice of tradition.
God has reestablished Jesus as the Head of the Body and restored truth through apostles to restore the true voice of the Lord to the church. Christians are now able to depart from the Wilson experiences and distinguish the voice of the Lord with confidence. As the church goes through this transition it may be difficult for some to give up “Wilson.” However, just as Noland, Christians will put “Wilson” into perspective and leave behind their emotional dependency on many voices and yield to the one true voice of God and transition from darkness to light.
Are YOU so sure you know the voice of the Lord?
Are YOU familiar with the 'voice of the inclination'?
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Are YOU familiar with the 'voice of your character'?
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Are YOU familiar with the 'voice of the conscience'?
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Are YOU familiar with the 'voice of reason'?
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Are YOU familiar with the 'voice of tradition'?
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Are YOU aware of the two spirits of influence over man?
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Seducing spirits take advantage of the voice of Wilson. This is why the voice of Wilson is dangerous.
We will cover each of these different voices in segments.
PART 1 --- When God Speaks There is Soundness
PART 2 --- The Voice of our Own Inclinations
PART 3 --- The Voice of the Character
PART 4 --- The Voice of the Conscience
PART 5 --- The Voice of Reason
PART 6 --- The Voice of Tradition
PART 7 --- Two Spirits of Influence Over Man
PART 8 --- The Voice of the Lord
PART 1 ------ When God Speaks There is Soundness
Although God can and does manifest Himself in various ways, He always stays within the boundaries of the covenant so that our experience of hearing His voice also causes us to know Him. This is why God set truth in Jesus Christ, and government through apostles, and pre-set the pattern for our faith in Himself. The manner in which the apostles taught about knowing God and hearing His voice built confidence, stability, and humbleness of mind, confirming Jesus Christ.
There is a religious spirit that works with the tares that has impersonated the voice of the Lord. This voice is full of shadow impressions about the instincts of the soul which confirms the appetites and fears of man. There is no confidence, stability, or humbleness of mind because the voice confirms Adam and not Christ.
False confidence and confusion both come through the shadow leadings of this religious spirit. This seems like a contradiction, how can you be confident and confused at the same time? The confusion arises because the voice changes direction when the inclination changes. What 'the Lord' said one day is changed to say something else the next day.
The tares have taught the wheat to hear the voice of their own inclinations. This is why the truth that is in Christ does not change, and why God uses truth as a whole, not in part, to set Christ upon the throne of the heart, as a foundation for discernment. Unity of faith comes through this door.
PART 2 --- The Voice of our Own Inclinations
WHAT WE ARE 'INCLINED' TO DO:
INCLINE: To bend, lean, or tend; to tend as towards an opinion; to give a tendency or propensity to.
INCLINATION: A disposition which is more favorable to one thing or person than another.
We all have natural inclinations, what we tend to do under certain circumstances, how we lean towards an opinion. In the absence of grace and truth, the senses are trained by the tares to use these 'inclinations' as the voice of the Lord. "The Lord revealed to me.... The Lord said...... The Lord told me......"
There is no direction for the soul concerning the covenant, no direction with the use of the tools of the covenant, no confirmation of Jesus Christ. The tares have taught the wheat how to profane the name of the Lord through these inclinations. When scripture is used to confirm these inclinations, the name of the Lord is again profaned by making what is holy, common to man. Seducing spirits enter into this voice of Wilson to direct the heart into recognition of itself while trying to appear spiritual. This is what a religious spirit does.
PART 3 ----- The Voice of the Character
THE VOICE OF THE CHARACTER ----- This is the voice that speaks to us about who we are. The voice of the character builds the persona of the voice which we are inclined to hear and makes it personal. These are the thoughts that agree with our signature (the map of the soul); these thoughts confirm us, our likes and dislikes. The voice of the character is just like a good friend. [Remember 'Wilson']
When believers speak about knowing Jesus as a friend, it is this voice of the character that they are referring to. Who is more trustworthy than our own voice? This 'friend' knows us intimately, this 'friend' is always there. Heb.13:5 reads, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
The tares have taught the wheat how to use this scripture to confirm the voice of the character, and profane the name of the Lord. This is why the Lord is separating the tares from the wheat. The scripture is true, God will never leave the righteous nor forsake them, but how people are interpreting the voice of the character to be Jesus, and trying to validate that voice with this scripture is false; there is no remission of sins in this voice, but a realization of our own needs and desires, and drives. This voice causes us to see our aspiration and principle as divinely inspired, when they are not.
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The false prophetic movement has tapped into both the voice of the inclination and the voice of the character to try to give direction to faith through the senses. The tares again dominate the wheat and the name of the Lord is again profaned.
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God will not join Himself to us in our character, we must join Him in His. This is why God provided the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the work of regeneration, and the blueprint of truth, and the headship of Christ through apostles, and put grace into the tools of the covenant.
Through false indoctrination the tares taught the wheat how to craft an 'intimacy' with God that centered on themselves. Our relationship with God MUST center on Jesus Christ. If your relationship with God centers on you, the tares have put your faith on the battlefield of the flesh. If your relationship with Jesus Christ centers on Christ, you are on the battlefield of faith.
The adversary takes advantage of this 'best friend' that is crafted from the voice of the character and follows along the same track of thought. Satan can read your signature and say things about you that are true, and speak through people who would not know these things about you, but this is not the voice of the Lord.
Satan does not have to do a lot to deceive the wheat, he just has to make a suggestion that sounds like us, that tends towards the same opinion, script the voice of the Lord, and believers build on that suggestion, and faith is made reprobate.
II Cor.10:18, "For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends."
Those who listen to the voice of their own character are inclined to approve of themselves. Seducing spirits enter into this voice of Wilson to direct the heart into recognition of itself while trying to appear spiritual. This is what a religious spirit does.
Those who listen to the voice of the Lord are inclined to approve of God and follow the inspiration of the Spirit. This is why God gave us the law of grace and truth, which is the law of the Spirit of life, also known as the law of liberty (Jn.1:17; Rom.8:2; Jas.2:12). Do you know God through the law of grace and truth which comes through Jesus Christ?
PART 4 ----- The Voice of the Conscience
THE VOICE OF THE CONSCIENCE -------- This is the voice that speaks to us about good and evil. The conscience weighs them both, but not equally because there is no equity outside of Jesus Christ who ministers to us and mediates the covenant through the law of grace and truth.
Some televangelists have become very comical in presenting the voice of the character with the voice of the conscience. They do what comedians do in the world, they take every day human failings and shortcomings and pit them against life's situations. And then the voice of Wilson comes as the voice of the Lord to add the comic reproof as the lessons of life are learned. This is not regeneration. This is not why Jesus shed His blood.
When we feel the conscience agreeing with these comic situations, we are ALSO agreeing with what that voice says, we have all heard the inner thoughts of reproof.
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The tares have made a gospel out of this voice of Wilson and taught the wheat how to script that voice by saying, "The Lord spoke to me and said ........," and they begin to confirm what they have weighed as good or evil in their eyes, and profane the name of the Lord by using scripture to back up the voice of the conscience.
When other believers follow suit to confirm this voice because the voice of THEIR conscience is saying the same thing we see that their fellowship (communion) is centered on this rather than Christ. Seducing spirits enter into this voice of Wilson to direct the heart into recognition of itself while trying to appear spiritual. This is what a religious spirit does.
Again, the false prophets confirm this voice to each other through false prophecy and say, "Thus saith the Lord.............." What believers are confirming is Adam's struggle against evil, his struggle to do good; Jesus Christ is not being confirmed, and faith is absent. "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin," Rom.14:23.
The tares have taken faith and placed it OUTSIDE of the covenant where faith in God through our Lord Jesus Christ is not possible. This is why they need the voice to confirm where they are, they don't have the blueprint of truth as a compass.
The tares use this voice because they are unwilling to restrict their faith to the things that came from above, they have cast off the first works of faith. Because the tares placed faith outside the covenant, they have committed spiritual adultery. "Without faith it is impossible to please God," Heb.11:6.
PART 5 ----- The Voice of Reason
THE VOICE OF REASON ------ The voice of the conscience is also called 'the voice of reason' because it calls upon the believer to reason within himself concerning the power of his will to choose good or evil without the tools of the covenant (wherein is the law of grace and truth, the power of the gospel).
This voice of reason is thought to be the voice of the Lord because the scripture says, "Come now and let us reason together says the Lord," Is.1:18. But this reasoning of the conscience does not confirm God, it confirms our struggle against evil, our desire to do good, and addresses our inclinations towards both.
This is why Satan is so successful with the spiritual comedians. They are bringing the believers through what they think is a process of spiritual resolution with the word of God, taking the voice of reason, scripting the Lord's voice to is, and calling this the walk/journey of faith. This is not spiritual warfare, this is a sad portrayal of human suffering because of the scars of iniquity. Seducing spirits enter into this voice of Wilson to direct the heart into recognition of itself while trying to appear spiritual. This is what a religious spirit does.
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Remember that Satan can also quote scripture, but not confirm or conform to the plan of God. The plan of God is NOT resolution through the voice of reason. The plan of God is your redemption through the spiritual things of Christ.
When there is a resolution to a struggle in a particular area of your life, when you have found a 'moral center', you think you have done the will of God, having heard His voice to do good. Yet you have not glorified God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
The tares do not know that God does not merely want us to do good, but He desires to author a divine change in us through a process which He orchestrates to birth the virtues of Christ within us. The workmanship must be of God in order to glorify God.
Because the tares don't follow the law of grace and truth, because they have crafted a voice from their inclinations, character, conscience, and reason, the witness of the Spirit is absent, and they are confessing this void by saying, "I want to get closer to God."
Those who worship God in the temple of Jesus Christ abide in Him and the witness of the Spirit is living and present. There is that repeated contact through the tools of the covenant and Jesus is mediating the covenant and the believer is experiencing the equity in the inner man, the enlarging of their heart, illumination, peace, uniting us with God in thought and in feeling, grace is embodied in wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, we are released from our principle and boast, and the Spirit is sowing temperance within us.
No believer who experiences THIS on a daily basis as well as experiencing the powers of the world to come ever says that they want to get 'closer' to God. That is the cry of the tares. The wheat know how to conform to Jesus Christ through the record and confirm Jesus Christ through the witness.
SUMMARIZING THE VOICE OF REASON
The voice of reason, as the voice of the conscience, confirms the desire to profit from interpersonal relationships, and confirms the desire to be a better adjusted person, but does not provide the remission of sins that Jesus paid for with His blood, does not provide Jesus' mediation because the tools (works of our first love) are absent.
The tares can 'talk' about dying to themselves through Christ, but the true witness of the Spirit is absent. They are mimicking precept and line and going through the process of resolution with no divine change.
Prov.22:2, "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; but the Lord ponders the heart."
The voice of reason is the voice of Wilson because it is the voice of man, it reflects upon our own experiences, it is NOT reflecting on the covenant, or the law of grace and truth.
The voice of reason contributes to false revelation. People want to base revelation from God upon their own reflections; they have learned to weigh one experience against another.
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As a child grows he learns by trial and by error, by reasoning within himself concerning his experience. Does the child say, "The Lord showed me not to put my hand in the fire?" No. This is the voice of reason, the voice of experience. When the child learns by trial and error not to lie and steal because it is wrong does he say, "The Lord showed me it's wrong to lie and steal?" No. The conscience has been formed by society to object to this behavior (Rom.2:14).
"But you have not so learned Christ," as the apostle Paul said (Eph.4:20). When we are born again God sets a whole new path for our experience called grace. This is the voice of the Lord.
The child who is in covenant with God learns the fear and mercy of the Lord by keeping the law of grace and truth. The Spirit bears witness to Christ causing regeneration and the renewing of the mind, and the child learns to adorn the doctrine of Christ, reflecting on this pattern, not precept and line.
Christians have been taught to hear the voice of the conscience and the voice of reason as if it is the voice of the Lord, based upon the same concept of learning through experience. This is called the TRADITION OF MAN. The tradition of man is NOT the tradition of faith, and does not bring remission of sins.
GOOD NEWS!!!
Our faith is joined to God through the things from above and we experience freedom from the power of sin, and glorify God through the fruit that is born in the inner man.
Because the voice of reason reflects upon our own experiences God had to create a whole new experience for us through the gifts, the calling, and the manifold graces of God; through prayer, preaching, and prophecy; through government, truth, and Spirit. These things make us bondmen to Christ.
MY SHEEP KNOW MY VOICE:
The tares are full of false confidence and will quote, "My sheep know My voice......." The confidence is not in truth, but in how familiar they are with the voice of the conscience and the voice of reason, the voice of their own character which they are inclined to hear. This is the voice they KNOW with confidence, but this is not the voice of the Lord.
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People can feel the inspiration of the moment, and think that God was in the inspiration. When they read the Bible for example, they feel that they are also inspired, they think that at the moment they are reading the inspired scriptures, all that goes through their mind while processing those thoughts are also inspired.
This is what is falsely term as 'revelation', but it is NOT the revelation of the Spirit of God. This is why there are so many interpretations of scripture which do not agree. People are interpreting scripture according to the inclination of their own soul which has been sown with man's traditions. This is how you identify the tares from the wheat.
PART 6 ---- The Voice of Tradition
THE VOICE OF TRADITION ---- When the tradition of man became the voice of the Lord, the name of the Lord was profaned. The Scribes and Pharisees did not accept Jesus as the Christ because the voice of their own tradition, (indoctrination) mixed with pride, did not allow them to see.
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No
Do
you hear this voice telling you who is of God and who is not of God according to
your own traditions?
Truth did NOT come through the conscience; truth came through a VESSEL. John the Baptist preached, Jesus preached, Jesus' apostles preached. These were chosen vessels.
This is why that same voice of the conscience cannot teach truth or discern truth from error. You did not learn the Lord through these traditions, but through a form of government. "How shall they hear without a preacher?" Rom.10:14,15.
Not all those who preach are called to preach. Doctrine comes through apostles. The vessels of unrighteousness, the vessels Satan has prepared with the false gospel, the tares that Satan has sown among the wheat, these preach another Jesus.
When the voice of tradition is louder than the grace of God, grace is rejected because it AFFLICTS the conscience and CONVICTS of faithlessness. This is why the Scribes and Pharisees were so angry with Jesus and wanted to stone Him. They could not merely reject the truth, they had to kill the messenger. All of Satan's seed do the same.
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This is the spirit of Cain who murdered his brother because God did not approve of his sacrifice when Cain offered it outside of the restrictions God had set. He was jealous of Abel whose faith was perfect.
I Jn.3:12, "Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous."
Let not your faith be as Cain's faith.
Because of the affliction of grace upon the soul, the tares think that the grace of God is the devil. They have not found the grace of God AGREEABLE to the conscience. They will say, "This does not bear witness with my spirit." What they mean is, "This doesn't bear witness to my theology."
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Grace lays open the conscience as truth bears upon the soul, and this can be a frightening experience to the proud in heart. Their false confidence is shaken as the Lord uses His two-edged sword to pierce asunder the soul and spirit to discern the thoughts and the intents of the heart. God gives more grace to those who humble themselves and accept the grace of God, to nourish and water the soul.
The tares resist the grace of God because the traditions that they championed as God have been exposed as being outside of the covenant of God. Those who are in anguish of heart because the grace of God has exposed their hypocrisy attempt to turn and rend those who carry the grace of God in truth.
To the pure in heart, the light of God is welcome. God is laying open to view the true purpose of Jesus Christ, and our need to conform to His Spirit in order to benefit from His redemption. Those who are seeking Him and crying out for understanding are given a heart to perceive and will gladly lay their crown (principle and aspiration) at the foot of the cross.
Those who resist the grace of God weigh truth as offensive to them. They may say, "This is not for me," or, "This is not of God," or, "This does not sit right with my spirit." "This is of the devil." They feel that these kinds of terms frees them from responsibility, or give them spiritual credibility, but it does not. God does not confirm our faith through these voices, our faith is confirmed through the things of Jesus Christ.
When the traditions of the tares are violated by the grace of God, Their anger and aggressive behavior shows that there denial did not create equity in their heart, and that they can find no rest from the pricking and conviction of grace. Just as the Scribes and Pharisees, each time the grace of God is rejected, the heart becomes more hardened, and the soul becomes embittered. They try to find relief by plotting murder to remove the stain from their pride. They turn the grace of God into a lie to build a testimony (false justification) for their indifference to God.
GOOD NEWS!!!
God is separating the tares from the wheat and releasing the wheat from the burden of the tradition of man and the burden of the voice of Wilson.
PART 7 --- Two Spirits of Influence Over Man
TWO SPIRITS OF INFLUENCE OVER MAN:
Testament of Judah ---- [The two spirits]
T/J 3:46-50, "Know therefore my children that two spirits wait upon man. The spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit."
The apostle Hermas also said the same thing:
II Hermas (command) 6:7, "And now says he (the angel of the Lord speaking to Hermas) understand first of all what belongs to faith. There are two angels with man. One of RIGHTEOUSNESS, and the other of INIQUITY."
The apostle Paul said in Rom.6;16, "Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?"
It becomes very important to know the difference between the voice of God and the voice of Satan. By this I mean, the voice of the angel of righteousness, and the voice of the angel of iniquity.
The angel of righteousness brings us the thoughts of Christ which confirms the foundation of truth, and the Holy Ghost within uses these thoughts to conform our will to His, and we have peace.
II Hermas (command) 6:8 - 10, "And I said unto him (the angel of the Lord), sir, how shall I know that there are two such angels with man? Hear says he, and understand."
"The angel of righteousness, is mild and modest, and gentle and quiet. When therefore he gets into your heart (the influence of that voice), immediately he talks to you of righteousness (to confirm the covenant), of modesty, of chastity, of bountifulness, of forgiveness, of charity, and of piety (the virtues of Jesus Christ)."
"When all of these things come into your heart, know then that the angel of righteousness is with you. Wherefore harken to this angel and to his works."
ANGEL OF INIQUITY:
verse 11 - 15, "Learn also the works of the angel of iniquity. He is first of all bitter, and angry, and foolish; and his works are pernicious, and overthrow the servants of God (when you feel completion and pleasure in these expressions). When therefore these things come into your heart; you shall know by his works, that this is the angel of iniquity."
"And I said unto him (the angel of the Lord), sir, how shall I understand these things? Hear, says he, and understand. When anger overtakes you, or bitterness, know that he is in you (these thoughts are beginning to dominate to form fruit within you)."
"As also when the desire of many things, and of the best meats, and of drunkenness, and of the love of what belongs to others, pride, much speaking, and ambition, and the like things come upon you."
"When therefore these things arise in your heart, know that the angel of iniquity is with you (the influence of that power of darkness becomes a driving force)."
"Seeing therefore you know his works, depart from them all (don't feed the appetite, reflect with faith upon your spiritual sacrifices), and give no credit to him (don't become indebted to him, to feel want towards it, to desire it); because his works are evil, and become not the servants of God."
"Here therefore you have the works of both these angels. Understand now and believe the angel of righteousness, because his instruction is good."
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Can you recognize the inspiration of the Holy Ghost in these writings, or does Satan have you bound in fear?
The angel of iniquity brings us the thoughts which promote Satan's kingdom. This is what Satan has domain over. The principalities and powers of the air are constantly at war. The 13 princes of Satan's kingdom fight over the souls of men and plunder one another in the spiritual realm. This influence is felt as these spirits try to put in us what is in them. Thoughts of bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, and malice (Eph.4:32) are only seeds.
When we dwell upon these thoughts we are watering them and they begin to grow and dominate our thoughts and create habits. This is what Hermas is bringing out. The angel of iniquity is trying to engraft in us again from Satan's tree. And if we don't use the things for our cleansing (the first works of the Second Covenant which are sprinkled with the blood of Jesus), these spirits begin to dominate and the Holy Spirit is grieved (Eph.4:29,30).
God continues to purge what Satan tries to engraft back within you. We are redeeming the time. In time past we were consumed with the things that Satan sowed in our heart. We were held prisoner to these feelings. Now God is freeing us.
Jn.15:2-4, "Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit. Now you are clean through the words which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can you, except you abide in me."
Again we see that we overcome through the fruit that Jesus sets within us.
Testament of Dan ------- (The desire and disturbing of the heart)
T/D 1:27, "Moreover a two-fold mischief is wrath with lying; and they assist one another in order to disturb the heart; and when the soul is continually disturbed the Lord departs from it and Beliar rules over it."
Rom.6:13, "Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God."
THINK ON THESE THINGS:
Phil.4:8, "Finally, my brethren (as a final thought, after applying ourselves with the tools of God's covenant), whatsoever things are true (of God's kingdom), whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue (what God is nurturing within), and if there be any praise (what God highly values), THINK on THESE THINGS."
Verse 9, "Those 'things' (tools, activity of the Second Covenant which reflect Christ) which you have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, DO, and the God of peace shall be with you."
God fills the soul with peace as we keep our vessel full of faith by keeping our mind and our hearts focused on the things of Christ. This is why the ministering spirits bring to us the thoughts of His kingdom (Heb.1:14). They are called angels of righteousness because they fill us with the thoughts of Christ, bringing this inspiration (grace) to which we yield to (faith).
We go to the assembly because this is the place where we can bring ourselves under this divine influence for our cleansing [like taking a shower]. We pray in tongues because this is the manner in which we can bring ourselves under this divine influence. We study doctrine because through truth we dwell upon the divine pattern for faith. We are humbling ourselves before Him, and taking up our cross.
The more contact we have with these avenues of divine influence during the day, we stay full of faith. It does not take but a moment to stop in your day and reflect upon His grace and truth, and to pray in the Spirit, read the scriptures, and offer the spiritual sacrifices of our faith.
PART 8 ---- The Voice of the Lord
THE VOICE OF THE LORD:
When you feel inspired to go and pray or read the Bible, this is the voice (inspiration) of the Lord. The Lord does not have to script a voice for you as if you are reading lines in a play. You feel that inspiration. That is the voice of the Lord.
When you are edified during prayer and your mind is reflecting on the wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of God, this is the voice (inspiration) of the Lord. The Lord does not have to script a dialogue for you as if you are having a conversation with a friend, you can feel that divine communication bringing equity within. The voice of the conscience is silent, the voice of the character is silent. Only the voice of grace is heard, and peace reigns.
When you are in the assembly and you are hearing the preaching of truth and God is challenging your truths and there is an awakening in your soul because of grace, and you are drawing upon the anointing of truth, this is the voice (inspiration) of the Lord. The Lord is not scripting a word for word 'speaking' to you, but His voice is heard nevertheless.
When you are in the assembly and you are giving and receiving charity from the foundation of truth, each believer functioning in their spiritual priesthood and Christ is being confirmed through prophecy, this is the voice (inspiration) of the Lord.
The Lord does not find it necessary to speak through the impressions of your signature, nor through the inclinations of the conscience. The conscience cannot give voice to God, but through the witnesses of the Spirit, the conscience begins to agree with God (Rom.9:1).
When the conscience begins to agree with God we see what the apostle Paul taught in I Tim.1:5, "Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience (which holds the witness of God being purged and cleansed by the Spirit and truth), and of faith unfeigned."
Through cadence God teaches you the difference between the influence of the angel of iniquity and the angel of righteousness. At first the little children stumble a lot here, led by the emotions and ego and forte', they still reflect their boast. They 'hear' the voice of their own ambition and flattery; they hear the voice of their own character and conscience.
You will find that you fall into depression and despair when the angel of iniquity is being your 'best friend' again. That voice agrees with your frailty and always seeds in you an additional thought. For example, if it is raining out, Satan will say that you are going to drown. Satan exaggerates and throws fear in the mind. If it is true that you are inclined to be lazy and find it difficult to motivate yourself to pray and read the bible, then the angel of iniquity agrees with this thought and adds one of his own which implies that you will always be like this, you cannot change, this is why you fail, this is why people resent you, This is why opportunities passed you by....... etc.
Now what are you doing?
Reflecting upon the past. Now all the angel of iniquity has to do is open the books in the library of the conscience to find all the information that you will be inclined to agree with. This deepens the sadness, depression, and guilt, and shame, and total feeling of hopelessness and helplessness. Now we deny Christ because we are sunk so low it becomes difficult to work with the Lord through the sanctified tools of the covenant.
This is why the apostle Paul said, "Lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees," Heb.12:12.
If we allow, Satan has rule over us.
If we allow, God has rule over us.
It does not matter what is true about you. What is true about Jesus Christ is greater. We are not representing ourselves because we are dead ("I am crucified with Christ," Gal.2:20). We are representing Jesus Christ who is risen from the dead. It is this holy knowledge, this voice of God through truth that has the greater persuasion and power when we let it reign in us.
The angel of iniquity has the power of suggestion (called the "wiles of the devil," Eph.6:11). We cast down these imaginations or strong holds of the conscience by not agreeing to the suggestion (II Cor.10:5). Begin to pray in tongues and reflect upon His grace and truth.
If we agree to the suggestions (does not matter if it is true or not), then we are giving power to that suggestion to grow in us. It is not necessary to 'deny' what we are overcoming, but it IS necessary to AGREE with Christ who says that we are now the servants of righteousness and we have fruit unto holiness (Rom.6:22).
This is not merely confessing bible scripture. We agree with Christ by keeping His commandments. We are speaking of all of the ingredients of the covenant being present, and the function of our priesthood, not just a confession based on the precept and line. A precept and line christian cannot overcome himself, the world, or the devil.
We are speaking of being in covenant with God and using the tools of the covenant, keeping in mind the 3 C's of consistency, communication, and conformity.
We MUST have our senses exercised to discern GOOD and EVIL (Heb.5:14).
We MUST exercise our senses to learn which voice is speaking through our thoughts. Is it the voice of our conscience, or our character (forte', inclination, boast), or the voice of the Lord? The voice of the angel of righteousness or the voice of the angel of iniquity?
In order for you to be able to exercise your senses with the grace and truth of God you will need to be fully equipped with the tools of the covenant and have the full counsel of God regarding the stones of the knowledge of Christ. When these stones are properly set in you then you will be able to function in your spiritual priesthood, and your discernment will reflect the grace of God in truth.
If you try to purloin the knowledge of God, and try to function in your priesthood outside of the headship of Christ through apostles, God will not sanctify your faith.
In Him,
Eric vonAnderseck, Th.D., D.D,
Apostle of Jesus Christ
Chief Apostle of the Second 8th Week
President, Founder
Second 8th Week Ministries, Inc.
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