The Lord gave us a couple of parables that illustrate the far reaching impact of Satan’s counterfeit seed and the tares on the church. Earlier we considered two parables from Matthew 13, the parable of the sower and the parable of the wheat and the tares. We alluded to this again in Chapter 27, “Sowing […]
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Earlier we talked about Satan’s method of attack – to steal and counterfeit the word, producing a harvest of “tares.” In the void produced by carelessness and unwatchfulness (“while men were sleeping”) the enemy sowed evil seed and has produced many tares. As we have seen these tares are a counterfeit of the wheat. They
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PART 4 TO WARN Chapter 17 The Church in the Last days – revival or apostasy? One of the greatest signs that Jesus and the Apostles told us to watch for has to do with the condition of the Church. Jesus, Paul, Jude and Peter all gave us prophetic words concerning the condition of the
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As I close this section on discernment, I’m reminded of Paul’s word to the Philippians. Paul says that we are to let our love abound yet more and more, in “all knowledge and discernment” that we may prove by testing the things which differ and are “more excellent.” This section was about discerning that which
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One question for Charismatics especially is whether or not a prophet is truly of God because the miracles are real. I believe in miracles and the gifts of the Spirit. But God warns about these as well. Moses told the people that even if the miracles that are performed are real, the content of what
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It is critical that we do not make decisions about truth based on how nice the teacher is, how warm the personality is, how “mightily” they speak or how many good things are being done. We are not even to judge based on how we feel while the message is preached (whether we “sense” the
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To be discerning, to speak and act on what we believe to be true and to expose and separate ourselves from error is also considered to be negative. It is in fact negative. However, it is what God’s word tells us to do. God spoke to Isaiah about the people of Israel, calling them rebellious
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We’ve already established that discerning between truth and error is biblical. Consider what John, the Apostle of Love says: 1Jn 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Not every spirit is of God – because many false
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In these environments, the believer is left with two choices. Stay and smile (but shut up), or leave. Unfortunately, to stay and smile and not speak up damages the conscience and quenches the Spirit. It is dishonest, and your Christian church life becomes a game of keeping the peace and acting like everything is okay.
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We cannot necessarily tell the difference between wheat and tares. But we should be well versed in the truth to be able to discern the counterfeit messages. However, the church has not only been taught not to watch. It has also been taught not to know, which ultimately means to not be able to discern.
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