Everything Christ Has Commanded is Like a Mirror Before You

James 1:23-25
Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--he will be blessed in what he does.

The perfect law that gives freedom is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. There is none other. He is the perfect law as He came to fulfill the law which He did, when no one else could or did before Him. How does this perfect law give freedom? Freedom from what? This perfect law frees you from a bondage. What bondage? Bondage to the sinful nature of the Devil in you. He gives you freedom from it and gives you the choice to sow His divine nature in your new, born again spirit. You must continue to choose to obey Him till the end. You must continue to obey him till the end. Full blessing from the perfect law will fill you only when you fully obey Him till the end. You can't obey Him today and disobey him tomorrow to receive full blessings from Him for eternity. You have to set your mind and heart to obey Him. till the end. Whatever He has commanded is like a mirror before you. It should show you who you are when you face it. If you are obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in you and when you face the mirror of God and  it still shows that you have the divine nature of Christ being formed in you, you are living a lie. How can that be? You can't be obeying the Devil and yet have the divine nature of Christ formed in you. There is definitely everything wrong with that mirror. That mirror is giving you a distorted image of you. That's not you and you know it. We do have lots of distorting mirrors around that don't show who you actually are.The images on the mirrors show deception or their illusion/delusion. Those mirrors aren't Christ. If you are obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in you rather than obey everything Christ has commanded,, then you should see yourself as that. If you see something else then it's not Christ, the perfect law that gives freedom from all bondage. He will tell as it is, but the Devil will not. If you look into the mirror of the perfect law that gives you freedom from the sinful nature of the Devil and go away continuing to obey it, then why look into that mirror, in the first place? Whom are you trying to fool? If the person holding the perfect law that gives you freedom before you says, "oh no, you are okay, just continue in them", that person holding that mirror before you will be judged by the LORD severely.The point is, why is he or she saying that to you? To keep you in bondage to the sinful nature of the Devil in you, so that he or she has a hold on your life for some selfish reasons? Maybe, he or she has an eye on your money or something else carnal.

Ezekiel 33:18-20
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does evil, he will die for it. And if a wicked man turns away from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live by doing so.  Yet, O house of Israel, you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' But I will judge each of you according to his own ways."

I Will Build My Church

Matthew 16:15-19
"But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?" Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."  Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven.  And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.  I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

The Lord said and He still says, "I will build my church". The church is His body. Who can build His body better, if not Him? The important thing is that the church that He builds "the gates of Hades will not overcome it". What is the 'gates of Hades'? In Revelation 1:18, the Lord Jesus Christ said and still says, "I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades". We all know that when the Lord Jesus Christ, died and was buried, He went to the center of the Earth to visit the Hades where the prisoners of Noah's flood times where kept imprisoned.He preached to them, even though they had perished during Noah's time in the great flood that wiped out the whole Earth and everything in it. Multitudes of people must have turned back to the LORD during that three days and three nights in the center of the Earth, for He had said, "the One who is greater than Jonah is here". Jonah preached and the whole Nineveh turned to the LORD in true repentance. What more when the Son of Man preaches. Multitudes of people would have returned to the LORD. The keys He is talking about in Matthew 16, is the key to bind the sinful nature of the Devil in man and loose the divine nature of Christ to be formed in His called, chosen,and faithful people. Those are the keys of the kingdom of heaven. You have to bind and loose over many, many lives on this Earth. After He had preached and led many to the LORD,He resurrected to life. He holds the key to death and Hades now. Anyone, just anyone can turn to the LORD the moment He preaches. There is no one who cannot be convicted of their sins.There is no one who will not be convicted that Jesus Christ is the only Righteousness of God made known to us. There will be no one who will not be convicted that, if they continue in obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in them, they too will suffer the same eternal fate as the Devil and will be thrown into the same Lake of fire with the Devil. Only those with the divine nature of Christ formed in them will escape the Lake of fire. The gates of Hades, which is actually the sinful nature of the Devil cannot overcome these. They would have overcome all the power of the enemy.Their names will be found in the Lamb's book of life. No one knows whose names are written there, except God the Father. It's the Lamb's book of life because, only His blood can wash away our sins and only He truly came to take away our sins. He became the perfect sacrifice for our sins. He who believes, love and obeys Him till the end will inherit eternal life. No man can steal this glory from the Lord Jesus Christ. The 'rock' He mentioned here is what Peter stood on. Peter is not the rock, What He stood on here, is the 'rock'. That rock is Jesus Christ our Lord. There is no other rock for us. If any other man can become our rock, the Lord Jesus Christ need not have come to this Earth to die for us. So, don't be easily fooled! The whole 'rock' has to be the divine nature of Christ that has to be formed in you fully, or else it would be a shaky foundation! Going to church does not make you a house built on the rock but obeying everything Christ had commanded does. It's the man who puts into practice what the Lord has said that will have his house built on the rock and he will be that church that Christ is building for eternity. So, do not get fooled easily.

Luke 6: 47-49
"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice.  He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.  But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete."

Discrimination is a Deadly Disease

Colossians 3:5-11
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices  and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

Discrimination is a deadly disease from the sinful nature of the Devil in you. Whether you discriminate others based on their race, caste, status, gender, age,physical or mental disability, poverty, nationality or on being social outcasts like prisoners and prostitutes, you have acted out of the sinful nature of the Devil in you. You have no right to behave that way. Until you put to death the sinful nature of the Devil in you and be filled with the divine nature of Christ, you will always be struggling with this sin. You may claim you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, but if you practice discrimination of any sort stated above, you are still a slave yourself to the sinful nature of the Devil in you. You can only be freed from this sin, when you decide to put to death the sinful nature of the Devil in you. You must not leave your 'house' unoccupied after that. You must fill it with the divine nature of Christ through your obedience to everything Christ had commanded, guided closely by God the Holy Spirit. It would be difficult to do this, but you have to, if you want to be freed from obeying the urges, evil desires and passions of the sinful nature of the Devil in you. You have to "carry your cross" and put it to death once and for all. Let's say, if you refuse  to put to death the sinful nature of the Devil in you, even after being warned and rebuked sternly like this, this sin of discrimination will mature within you to bring about more repercussions of this sin, as  we witness today. It will get worse by the day. Stop this now! You can only stop this by putting to death the sinful nature of the Devil in you. There is no other way! If everyone in this world were to put to death the sinful nature of the Devil in them, then there would be no discrimination. All discrimination comes from the sinful nature of the Devil in you. What are you going to do about it? Don't play with the fire of discrimination. That fire will burn you. No matter who you think you are, you have to still put to death the sinful nature of the Devil within you. We will continue to hear of it's deadly repercussions all over the world, if you do not take responsibility and put the sinful nature of the Devil to death within you and fill your born again spirit with the divine nature of Christ. Act now, before it's too late! What is faith without action? I'll show you what is faith with action- put to death the sinful nature of the Devil in you today and obey Christ  for full Christformation.

Acts 10:34-36
Then Peter began to speak: "I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right. You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.

From THE EARLY DAYS of My Walk with the LORD

Colossians 3:1-4
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

From the early days of my walk with the LORD, the passage above has been my actual motivation to draw near to Him. I always sought the LORD about it's deep meaning. I knew I had to obey Him fully to understand this deep truth about my position in Christ. I also knew that this passage is going to shape my entire walk with Him on this Earth. The struggles were there all the time in understanding this passage clearly. This question always popped up in my mind,"how to?", whenever I tried to understand it's true meaning. It took me years of walking closely with Him to understand this truth. The day I was revealed that my position in Christ my Lord had everything to do with my obedience to Him in these verses, was the day I began my earnest search. "Set your hearts on things above.....set your minds on things above" where Christ is seated at the right hand of God says it all. What's there for us at the right hand of God, where Christ is seated? One, we are hidden with Christ in God in the highest position and the Devil can only roar at you from below. Two, we set our born again spirits (new-self in Christ) and the renewed mind which is transformed into the mind of Christ, fully obedient to everything Christ had commanded so that our imperishable body being constructed at the right hand of God is fully Christconformed too. This body is hidden from everyone's view, except God the Father and His Christ. Only The LORD knows how much our imperishable body is Christconformed now. No one else knows. The Book of Life will be opened to show what had transpired secretly in the sight of God and His Christ.We bet you, there will be terrible gnashing of teeth by those who have been thinking that they were greater on this Earth, to find out that they have all the while been detestable in God's sight.

Matthew 25:29-30
For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.  And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

The Weapons of our Warfare are not of This World

2 Corinthians 10:3-5
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Firstly, we do not wage war as the world does, even though we still live in this world. You may ask, why wage war in the first place? There is continual war between the Devil and Christ our LORD. This stems from Genesis 3:15 which is a declaration of war by the LORD. There will be continual war on Earth. If you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ but are not engaged in this war, as in 2 Corinthians 6:14-18, and have joined the Enemy's camp for some reasons, then you will eventually end up spiritually defeated. This is so because, there is no victory with the Devil. He stands eternally condemned.You may find living according to the urges, evil desires and passions of the sinful nature in you more attractive, like Eve saw it and recommended it to Adam. Foolish Adam, who had been amply warned by the LORD earlier, got carried away and did not see it as a deception from the Devil! He trusted the words of his new found wife more than his Maker, the LORD GOD. But the war isn't like what we see foolish men .get into all the time. We don't wage war like that because Christ our Lord does not wage war like that. We follow our Good and Gentle Shepherd all the time. He is the commander of the LORD's Army ,as well as our Gentle Shepherd. He always knew how to fight the Evil One. Since the war is not like the world's then, the weapons we fight with are also not like the weapons of the world. The war is different, so are the weapons! We have divine power to demolish strongholds. What are 'strongholds'? Anything that the Devil claims ownership of, when it actually does not, is a stronghold of the Devil. He fights to defend it. Well, in fact, everything that the Devil claims is his, isn't his. He is only a creation of God waiting to be annihilated permanently. How can a creature created by God, fight with it's Creator and get away with it, without being punished eternally? Here the Devil not only fights with Christ our Lord but claims ownership over lives that do not actually belong to him, as his stronghold. How dare he challenge the LORD God Almighty? What role do we play in this war, right here on this Earth, if we truly belong to Jesus Christ our Lord? We demolish strongholds of the Devil over lives of those around us. How do we do this?

We do this by the divine power within us. What is this divine power? This divine power comes directly from the divine nature of Christ formed in us. Of course this divine nature of Christ cannot be formed in us, if we do not have the born again spirit. Only the Spirit of God and His Christ can give birth to this born again spirit in us. This born again spirit in us, must also be filled with the whole divine nature of Christ. This whole divine nature of Christ our Lord does not get formed in us unless we obey everything Christ had commanded. God the Holy Spirit brings into remembrance everything Christ had commanded only when we obey His leading and guidance towards full formation of the divine nature of Christ in us (Christformation) in our born again spirit. God the Holy Spirit then transforms our sinful minds into the mind of Christ according to our obedience to everything Christ had commanded. We can never fool Him with what we sow. We will only reap what we sow with our lives. We can either sow with our life of obedience or disobedience. We will reap accordingly. We can never fool God with this. He can never be deceived, like how sinful men are easily deceived. The divine nature of Christ formed in us brings this divine power within us. We demolish strongholds of the Devil with this divine power within us. The whole divine nature of Christ formed in us is the weapon of our warfare with the Devil. With this divine power formed in us, we can tear down, uproot, overthrow, destroy and demolish the strongholds of the Devil set up by sinful nature of the Devil in man. Practicing the sinful nature of the Devil over the years, centuries, and ages, matures into strongholds of the Devil over lives. We who have the divine nature of Christ formed in us, have the divine power to demolish these strongholds of the Devil. God the Holy Spirit has been sent as our Helper for this! We must obey His leading, step by step till we  have full victory. So what is our advice here for all? Are you struggling with defeats after defeats, in trying to overcome all the power of the Enemy? Commit your life fully to the Great Shepherd and obey the leading of God the Holy Spirit in you towards full Christformation. If you can't fight and demolish the strongholds of the Devil over lives, or their arguments or their pretension, then get behind those who can. Don't try to be a hero when you do not have the divine nature of Christ formed in you. You'll make yourself look like a clown and a laughing stock before the world. There is no known short-cuts for this. It requires a life of total obedience to the LORD. The weapons of our warfare are not of this world. Do you get it! It's in the divine nature of Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ who is the Commander of the LORD's Army is interceding for you that you have His divine nature fully formed in you through your obedience to the leading of God the Holy Spirit within you. So get in line with the Commander of the LORD's Army now. Until you do that, you will remain defeated. Don't put the blame on the LORD for your defeats. You did not obey everything Christ our Lord had commanded. Start doing that now and see for yourself what power He has in store for you! Get in line,before more troubles come! Don't be stubborn and rebellious towards the LORD anymore. You will see this true in your life when you start obeying everything Christ had commanded and not when you keep obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in you.

2 Peter 1:3-4
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

It's the Devil Who Chickens Out of the Spiritual Test

John 19:8-11
When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, and he went back inside the palace."Where do you come from?" he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. "Do you refuse to speak to me?" Pilate said. "Don't you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?" Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above.Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."

The Devil always chickens out of the spiritual test of might and resorts to physical, emotional, religious, financial means of warfare. The Devil uses his evil children to defend himself. His evil children get wiped out by the LORD in the end. There are some foolish people who still believe that the Devil could 'help' them. How foolish! It was the will of the Father in heaven that the Lord Jesus Christ be the perfect sacrifice for our sins to show the Devil that His Son would not fail Him. His Son would remain faithful to Him till the end, even with the death sentence on the cross. He will not chicken out. He stood the test till the end to show everyone the true power of the living God. The living God has full power over death too. He resurrected from the dead on the third day! He could have like the Devil resorted to physical means with the help of angels or his men but He didn't chicken out of the spiritual fight! He faced the spiritual fight till the end. The Lord Jesus Christ took away the power of death from the Devil which he brought upon Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden by his triumphant resurrection.. Now, the Devil cannot easily deceive those who belong to the LORD. The Devil cannot bring spiritual death to the chosen children of God. The Lord Jesus Christ has put to death the sinful nature of the Devil in those who believe, love and obey Him till the end, like He obeyed the Father in heaven. The Lord Jesus Christ now holds the key to Death and Hades. He could go there and anywhere to preach to those who have been trapped by the Devil with his sinful nature. The Devil has been set the boundary now.The Devil stands condemned forever and ever through the demonstration of God's power in Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ fills the whole universe now! The Devil chickened out of the spiritual fight and resorted to physical, emotional, religious, financial and political means. The Devil was declared the loser and he is the loser for ever and ever. You fight a spiritual fight fighting the spiritual way not physical or other means. You are a loser, if you do that. You have openly declared to God that you cannot fight Him spiritually so you have resorted to physical and other lower means. What a loser! No wonder the Lord Jesus Christ made the Devil  a public spectacle before everyone in heaven and on Earth. God always challenged the Devil to a spiritual fight and the Devil always lost in all the fights because he always resorted to some cowardly means of fighting back. Check history in the Bible and you will learn this truth!

Hebrews 2:14-18
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death--that is, the devil--  and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.  For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants.  For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

God Always Challenges the Devil to Test Spiritual Strength

Revelation 12:7-9
And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

God always challenges the Devil to test spiritual strength and the Devil has never won any of the tests.The Devil will boast of the size he has through his children or minions but he always loses the fight in the end. Let's go through some records in the past, one by one, as a reminder to the Devil and his children. First record is definitely in heaven, as reminded in the passage above. God doesn't have to fight directly with the Devil. He never does that. He doesn't have to because the Devil is no match to Him in power. In the passage above, the Devil and all the evil angels that followed him in that evil rebellion against the LORD had to fight with one of God's powerful angels. Michael led one group of God's angels to fight the Devil who is referred to as the great dragon here. He is a great serpent. You see the Devil is the one who likes to divide a family, community, nation or God's creation in short. There was no division in heaven before Lucifer became the great dragon. He is the cause for all the divisions, factions, dissensions, sects, races, systems and in short everyone on Earth now. There were  divisions among the angels of God in heaven because of this evil, great dragon. He considers himself 'great' but we see here in the passage above that he isn't that 'great' as he claims to be. There was actual fight, actual war, but the 'great' dragon wasn't even as strong as Michael the angel of the LORD, what more the LORD. He was no match for Michael even. "He was not strong enough for Michael" the word of God says. So, the first lesson we learn here is, do not believe it when someone boasts that he or she is great. They could be proven to be the weakest, even without God interfering in the fight or war. Clearly, that was the case here! Because the Devil and the angels that followed him were not strong enough for Michael and his small group of the angels of the LORD, he and the evil angels with him lost their place in heaven. Initially, they had a place in heaven but now and forevermore they don't. That war decided it. Now, because he and the evil angels had lost their place in heaven, they were hurled to the Earth. Now wait a minute, is this why God wants to destroy the present Earth and the heavens? Is it because of the filth that the Devil brings along with him wherever he goes. He leads the whole world now astray with his filthy sinful nature. The easily deceived Adam and Eve bought his filth thrown at them. How foolishly vulnerable were they? They were disobedient to the LORD even when He had warned them strictly not to take upon themselves the sinful nature of the Devil into them. They thought they knew what was good for themselves, actually, they didn't. They were easily deceived! The Devil thought that he had won over the LORD by successfully deceiving Adam and Eve to his evil side. He was pronounced with the 'biggest fight ever' in Genesis 3:15. He is to meet the Greatest. The Devil is to be publicly made a spectacle of eternal condemnation before all the angels and human beings. The Greatest is the Son of God Himself. He will appear to destroy all the works of the Devil on this Earth too. He will take the form of flesh as a human being and it was prophesied as early as in this verse; Genesis 3:15. this was just the second test of strength. The devil and his evil angels were doomed with this first prophecy that came from the mouth of the LORD Himself.

Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

Yes. You Know that He Does Not Hear You Anymore

Amos 8:9-10
"In that day," declares the Sovereign LORD, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight. I will turn your religious feasts into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

Yes, you know that He does not hear your prayer anymore, but it is just head knowledge because you do not fear or reverence Him in your heart. Maybe your mouth says 'yes' but your heart is far, far away from Him. You have fallen deep into your sins. You won't be able to get out from that sinful pit you are in. Even now, you think that your money is saving you. You speak arrogantly because you think you have become rich and no one can shake you. You are terribly wrong! Your money isn't powerful. You will learn it soon!You are fond of giving the glory to money. You are also fond of giving the glory to human strength. You will learn that both aren't that powerful as the LORD. He is more powerful than you with all the money with you and with all the human strength you have. You also arrogantly boast that you are intelligent above the rest. That evil thought, God can frustrate and bring it to naught. He can reduce you to nothing in a moment. Always remember Nebuchadnezzar. They are written in the book of Daniel to remind you who the LORD is and what He could do. Remember also king Uzziah, as what happened to him too, when his heart became exceedingly proud and arrogant, How God reduced him to nothing in the end! You must have the fear of the LORD. If you do not have that in you, it's better that you be removed from this Earth by the LORD. You make a mess of things wherever you go and are. The most hypocritical thing to do will be to pretend as though you have the fear of the LORD, when you actually don't. God says, He knows it when it is hypocrisy. You may go through the motions,day in day out, weekly, monthly or even annually, He knows it when you do things for a show. When these shows go on for a long time, God takes the necessary actions especially when it start hurting others. Here God says, you know that the very light you have during the day I can turn into darkness. I can tell the sun what to do, which you can't says the LORD. Same thing, He can turn what you do in hypocrisy into something you don't like doing- grieving for the lost- a great loss! So, out of fear of what He can do, could you please stop all the hypocritical practices. He doesn't hear your prayers and He isn't interested in your showmanship. He saw too much of it from the Devil. You need humbling not God to hear your prayer. Humbling comes from the nature of Christ formed in you.

Luke 18:9-14
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else,Jesus told this parable:  "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.  The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men--robbers, evildoers, adulterers--or even like this tax collector.  I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'  "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'  "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

Counterfeit River of God

 

1 Peter 4:3-5
For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do--living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you.But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

You want others to jump into the same flood of dissipation you wallow in everyday with the world. right? You don't get your way, so you manipulate the situation, right? You have been telling them that it is the 'river of God' when it is the filthy flood of dissipation, the river that flows from obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in you. It's filthy and you trick them saying it's the clean 'river of God'. How can it be the clean river of God when all those who get a splash of it, live very sinful lives? They are worst than the pagans.No wonder, long, long ago when this flood of dissipation had first started, the LORD commanded us to "touch not this unclean thing" and leave their company. No wonder when we were with them, we felt filthy, instead of wanting to lead a clean life by the power of God's river. If it was truly God's river touching and filling us, we would have been made clean and full of Christ's divine nature formed in us. No instead, everyone was obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in them. It is confirmed now that it was the same flood of dissipation for the sinful nature of the Devil in them that was flowing in disguise of the river of God. It has been a counterfeit river of God that has been flowing all this while. This is what they have been falsely calling the 'river of God'. If it was or is truly the river of God, why were people who attended it continue to become greedier, more covetous, always striving with one another with jealousy and evil envy, growing and maturing in worldly pride and arrogance, enjoying the worldly pleasures at the same time without any qualms? Is this what the river of God was suppose to bring with it? Isn't this the counterfeit and filthy river of the sinful nature of the Devil in man flowing to corrupt everyone more in the disguise of the true river of God? Why were and the people of the LORD still are under this evil influence of the Devil? How come they can be so easily tricked into this? The devil has deceived them. The Antichrist and the many little antichrists who disguised themselves as angels of light have deceived them. The False prophet and the many false prophets have deceived them. The evil Dragon has deceived them. The Devil has counterfeited every thing of God, even the river of God. The people of God are so easily deceived by the Devil  just as they were during the times of Moses, when they were with Aaron while Moses was on the mountain of God. They started practicing idolatry by worshiping the calf. This is still going on today!

2 Timothy 3:1-9
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.  People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-- having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

No wonder that these filthy evildoers resent the true river of God that is flowing into this world and attempting to wash away the sinful  nature of the Devil in man and fill them with the divine nature of Christ that He brings along with Him into all those obey His leading.They want everyone to continue living in sins so that they have company till the end. They don't want to be left out, like the Devil is left out of the things of God. They have been insisting of their own ways so that they keep everyone blinded about the true river of God that brings convictions of sins, the righteousness of Christ and the coming judgment. They do not want others to hear, understand, accept and obey everything Christ had commanded.They are in this together, from book publishers to bookshop retailers, from internet proprietors to ordinary users, from so called leadership to their subjects and slaves. They have become scared. They have become scared of their own freedom that they once promoted very confidently. Who has become scared of who now? This is God's doing! You cannot challenge the Lord Jesus Christ. They tried at one time and they failed miserably. He resurrected to life. Now, He is exalted to the right hand side of God the Father and is interceding for His children at this moment. Can you fight Him? Can you go against Him and His perfect will for mankind and get away with it? Think what has happened these past few days and months. Don't try it!. You will be wiped out this time. He is waiting to see what you will do from here on. There is more coming your way. You won't be able to escape what's coming your way. Remember, the seventy year captivity in the hands of the enemy? All your evil boasting will come to a drastic end soon.

Romans 8:30-39
And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?  As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Playing Games with the LORD

Proverbs 30:5-9
"Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar. "Two things I ask of you, O LORD; do not refuse me before I die: Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, 'Who is the LORD?' Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

What is 'playing-games'? You play games, when you pretend to defend your team but give the victory to the Enemy. Why would you do things not commanded by the Master and Lord? Simply because you were playing games with the things of God. You are simply rebellious and disobedient. You haven't changed through the years. You have no fear of the LORD. You will not escape from the LORD when you play games with Him and His revered things. This time you won't escape, maybe you did in the past. Can't you use a little common sense that even a child uses? Why do you degrade yourself so low before everyone's eyes, just because you want to 'play games' with the things of God. You think that you are very clever in your own eyes. But, we think that your thinking  is lower than that of the weakest child around. You do things out of your greed and don't you dare deny it. Your falsehood will be searched out by the LORD. You lie a lot. You add to His words. You dishonor His Name by your cheating ways. You do things God never told you do. You lie because you think that everyone lies like you. You liar! You think that your sins will not be found out, right? Wrong! He knows what you are doing. What corruption you spread to everyone. How you manipulate situations and people to your own advantage. You do this without the fear or reverence of the LORD. You just do not hesitate to misuse His name, as and when you feel like it as long as it benefits you monetarily. The Lord Jesus Christ knows that you are playing games with Him. Why is He silent, right? He has the right time and moment of vengeance for all the things you do. He is waiting patiently so that you will repent in time. It seems like you won't. You are getting worse by the day.As God, He surely knows what to do with you. He has a plan to bring down flat all those who stick up their heads arrogantly.You want your sinful ways, right? That is why you are showing your childish tantrums? You need discipline from the LORD!That's what you need. God needs to demonstrate His power to show all that you are boasting about is nothing in His sight. He will show that what you call power isn't power actually. He will reduce you to nothing because of your pride and arrogance. You prefer to sin and teach others to sin like you, right? You are asking for your way, like a rebellious child. Then be ready for the discipline that's coming!

Revelation 22:10-13
Then he told me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, because the time is near.  Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy."  "Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Who is Arrogant?

Exodus 3:19-20
But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go. 

Imagine the people who the LORD led mercifully out of Egypt "testing and trying" the LORD all along the way after that. They looked helpless when they were slaves in Egypt. Here in the wilderness, after they had known that they were special in God's eyes, they began to "test and try" the LORD themselves. Like spoiled brats, they started asking for their own stubborn and rebellious ways. This is what the LORD got for performing so many miracles that He had never done before for anyone else. How stubborn, how rebellious, how wicked! Unbelief was there in their hearts all the while. Unbelief will eventually destroy you forever. Moses was equated to the leadership of Christ our Lord as a shepherd of God's people, leading them out of slavery from the Enemy. It seemed an impossible task for Moses to do that. He needed a mighty hand to assist Him with this immense task. The LORD intervened and they were delivered. It was just like the Lord Jesus Christ being raised from the dead.It seemed that impossible to lead God's people out of their slavery to the Enemy. Both Moses and the Lord Jesus Christ did it, in the end! But, just imagine that these same people whom Moses had led out safely to the wilderness kept longing to return to Egypt! They didn't mind the slavery and their eventual destruction in the hands of the Enemy, as long as they have their day to day pleasures, urges, desires and passions met. They insisted and fought with God's leader,  Moses, that they wanted their way in this. They found God's ways burdensome. They preferred the slavery! How is it different today? So was Adam and Eve. So were the people when Saul became king. So were they before they went into seventy year captivity during Jeremiah's time. They always wanted and insisted their own rebellious ways. That's how Aaron and the people under his charge started turning to idolatry, then, witchcraft practices, then, sorcery, then, divination and so on. You tell me, who is arrogant? or rather who has been arrogant here?  If Money becomes your God, even when the Lord Jesus Christ had warned you that you cannot serve two masters at the same time. who is arrogant then? Let God be the judge, just like He was in the wilderness. Do you think that they changed their ways after many, many years down the road? No they didn't! This is what it was said about them in the book of Nehemiah, written much later. You tell me now, who is similarly arrogant?

Nehemiah 9:16-18
"But they, our forefathers, became arrogant and stiff-necked, and did not obey your commands. They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them, even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, 'This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,' or when they committed awful blasphemies.

The Lord Jesus Christ repeated these, almost in similar words about them, thousands of years later. In fact, He prophesied about their eternal judgment. You tell me, who is similarly arrogant? 

.Luke 10:13-15
 "Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths.

The Enemies of Christ are Restless Beings

Proverbs 4:14-17
Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way.  For they cannot sleep till they do evil; they are robbed of slumber till they make someone fall. They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

When you mention the phrase 'enemies of Christ' it could even refer to those who still use His name to forward their animosity agenda against Christ our Lord in a very subtle and deceptive way. You hate Him and His ways but you still use His name in pretension. Do you think that He does not know this? Jesus Christ our Lord knows this. Why is He waiting to strike at them, if He knows it, you may be wondering? He has His day of vengeance and retribution. It may be around the nearest corner! Meanwhile, go ahead and keep on testing Him with your deception, if you dare. We know that you are behind all the corruption that's taking place but you pretend like as though you are not. You can fool sinful man like you who obey the sinful nature of the Devil in them but you can never fool the LORD and His people who have the divine nature of Christ formed in them. You will learn this soon. It will be a permanent and painful experience for you and yours when this comes your way from the LORD soon. We rather warn you to truly change your ways now before it comes. Once it comes , you won't be able to change it. It won't be in your power to change it. It will be His power demonstrated fully, this time around. Probably, you have been asking, "who is more powerful all this while", it will be demonstrated before your eyes to show you who actually is. The LORD being quiet will not mean that He is weak. He waits for your sins to reach the heavens. How do your sins reach the heavens. Read the bible history then. You will see it many times over that sin reached the heavens and that's the limit you can go. He is waiting and watching too. He has the right time to act. When He acts there will be no point of turning or relenting. Ample warnings were given before any actions were taken by the LORD. The fear of the LORD will come with it when He acts. Still, there will be some chronically hardened in sins. their pride will come in between them and the LORD God Almighty. Can you match His strength and power? Think for a moment! God who created heaven, earth and everything in  and around it, can you test strength with Him. You'd rather not!

Hebrews 3:7-12
So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert,  where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.  That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.'  So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.' "  See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.