Mark 16: 15-18
"He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."
There is a marked difference between the demonstration of the Spirit's power,which is,God's power and signs that follow those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and the Heavenly Father who sent him to this sinful earth.All these above can be counterfeited by the Enemy and it's children.Thats what is happenning today.
Signs that follow those who 'believe' can be counterfeited but demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit in us cannot be counterfeited.This is God's power of Christformation in you.You either have it or you don't.Though the Dragon or the 'wolf' may speak with the voice of a 'lamb or'sheep', and try counterfeiting Christformation in them, it will not remain with the 'test of fire' that's coming.
Hebrews 12:25-29 (New International Version)
See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens." The words "once more" indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our "God is a consuming fire."
The sign of those who believe recorded in Mark 15 : 15-18 can be counterfeited.Thats what the Devil and its children have begun to do.The gifts of the Holy Spirit can be counterfeited to make those who 'see' believe in them but they have no power to bring Christformation into them.Christformation can only come if they are born again in the Spirit.The signs can be counterfeited by those who are not born again and have no Christformation in them but they cannot counterfeit Christformation in them.They will be found out.
Te Lord Jesus said "not all who who call me Lord,Lord will be saved"... I will tell them away from me you evildoers for I do not know you".They will try to justify and say that the signs of those who believe have followed them, so, how can you say we do not know you.To that He will answer:The demonstration of the power of the Spirit in your life will make you turn away from all evil doing but you have continued in them.I never knew you because you have never obeyed My Spirit's voice to turn from all evil.I know those who are mine.They turned away from all wickedness when I was invited to be formed in them.Christformation in you is the demonstration of the power of the Spirit of God in your life.You cannot counterfeit Christformation in you.It will be tested to the maximum with the testings of fire.
1 Corinthians 2:4-5 (New International Version)
My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power. God's power is the power of Christformation in us.Thats the power of the Word of God in our life.It's men's wisdom against the Spirit's power.Men have to speak persuasively with the wisdom of this world but God's power brings forth true repentance and Christformation in him.
Healing,deliverance,speaking in tongues and the other gifts are just signs that follow those who believe.Satan and its children will counterfeit the signs but they cannot counterfeit Christformation in them .It will show because it requires aprice to be paid for choosing that way of Christ.
