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NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU; GO AND SIN NO MORE

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NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU; GO AND SIN NO MORE

https://freegospelmusic.org/songs/neither-do-i-condemn-you-go-and-sin-no-more/

Someone has slipped today,
Into some fleshly way,
They were off guard somehow.
In condemnation crying now.
Jesus is here today,
Hear Him forgive and say,

CHORUS:
Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more,
Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more,
Lest a worse thing befall you,
Lest a worse thing befall you,
Lest a worse thing befall you,
Go and sin no more.

Those in the depths of sin,
Feeling condemned within,
They try to defend their lust,
But there is one whom they can trust.
Jesus is here today,
Hear Him forgive and say,

CHORUS

Churches in disarray,
Making up their own way,
Rapidly they decline,
With orders and precepts from their own mind.
Jesus is here today,
Hear Him forgive and say,

CHORUS

Some won’t obey God’s word,
Feeling so self-assured,
Letting the world hold sway;
Somehow they thought t’would be okay.
Jesus is here today,
Hear Him forgive and say,

CHORUS

Did you fail to seek His face,
Leaving that secret place?
From His presence did you stray?
Did you let His Spirit slip away?
Jesus is here today,
Hear Him forgive and say,

CHORUS

Did His Spirit urge you on
To levels and heights beyond?
But nay-sayers told you, “No!”
You listened to them and would not go.
Jesus is here today,
Hear Him forgive and say,

CHORUS

Copyright Bob and Kathy Stenson, Freeware. Use it freely.

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Be Patient

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Five things:

First, we don’t know anything about what’s going on. We need to be patient and wait and see. If you are tied into media sources, you are tied into the false prophet system, and you will be deceived. Wait and see. Don’t get impatient with God or with those who are trying to follow God.

Second, some people get the idea that prophets must have reached perfection and never are impacted by human failings. They have a big straight ruler they use to measure everyone else, but they use a crooked and flexible ruler to measure themselves. They place heavy weights on other people, but they wouldn’t even try to lift those weights themselves.

Third, prophets make mistakes. Teachers make mistakes. Christians make mistakes. God doesn’t want anyone to make any mistakes or to ever speak any word or do any act that doesn’t begin with a word from Him and continue with Him saying the words of doing the words through us. Anything else is sin. Anything else is straying from the Path. Anything else will require repentance and forgiveness.

Fourth, some people have a cessationist theology, which is a false, anti-Bible teaching. It is false teaching that causes damage to those who listen to such a teaching.

Fifth, a prophecy might have been inaccurate. If that so, then God didn’t say that thing through the prophet. Just as when you sin doesn’t mean you aren’t a Christian. You can be a Christian and be quite confused and wrong on doctrine. If you have the right Spirit and have enough humility to allow the Holy Spirit to correct you, God will get you to where He wants you.

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Satan Sets the Bar High

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One of the ways Satan works to discourage Christians is to set the bar so high no one has reached a maturity in Christ that can clear the bar. Satan says, “Jump over this or you don’t have a ministry.” Sometimes, Christians with real ministries fall for this and try to clear the bar. They can’t. They may get defensive. They may go into denial. Or they may realize Satan has lied to them and placed before them a falsehood and a false test.

I’ve been involved in prophetic ministry for a long time and those who taught me were involved since before the 1940s. We have learned to follow the New Testament pattern for prophecy. There’s a lot in the New Testament as to how it is to operate. God is going to restore His order. We all have a long way to go to get there. Prophecy must be confirmed by two or three witnesses. “Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.” (1 Corinthians 14:29) This lets you know that every prophecy is not necessarily from God even from genuine prophets. It also indicates that an independent prophet is more likely to make a mistake. God has shown us that apostles make mistakes, prophets make mistakes, teachers make mistakes, pastors make mistakes, and evangelists make mistakes. They have dedicated themselves to their gift to the point that the ministry becomes obvious, but they have not reached perfection. God has told us that prophecy would be the greatest blessing in the church during this hour but also the greatest disorder.
I got a silly message from a Christian woman last night. I’ll just share some of it and show what false teaching can do. First, let me say, the false teacher is far more dangerous than a false prophet. Scripture tells us “you all may prophesy” but “let not many of you be teachers.” God has a reason for saying that.
The main point of this hysterical person was a claim that prophets can never make a mistake or be influenced by their fleshly nature or insert a theology into a prophecy. That claim, of course, is untrue. Here’s a quote:
“People make mistakes, but not the Lord Almighty. Does not the word say we will be held accountable for every word we speak? Did not Yeshua say it would be better had we not been born if we cause one of His own to fall!”
I corrected some of the misspellings and grammatical errors so you could understand what this person wrote. We will indeed be held accountable for every dead work and every idle word. We are all commanded to speak as the oracles of God. The Bible tells us that whatever is not of faith is sin, and faith comes by the word (utterance) of God. God leads us. He speaks to us all the time. Whatever we do or say that He didn’t lead us to and do through us by His grace is sin. It’s off the path. God is so merciful. He’s bringing His church to a place where we will be free from the fleshly nature, free from sin, and free to always to righteousness. This is so foreign to most man-made theology that many can’t accept what God promises through the Bible.
By this woman’s comment (“we will be held accountable for every word”), and the connotation she attaches to it (and if we make a mistake, we are a false [prophet, teacher, Christian]), she has just unintentionally included herself as one of the false ones.
One thing about these people who come with their railing accusations trolling on social media is that they are not only ignorant of Scripture but they are also disconnected from Christ. They may have said the sinners’ prayer at one time. They theoretically understand that Jesus died for their sins and that He’s their Savior and Lord. They are born again, but they never have known Jesus Christ in the way the Scripture speaks of knowing Him. They don’t listen to His voice. They don’t even think that’s possible. They don’t yield to His Spirit so He can say His words through them and do His acts through them. They don’t even think that’s possible. They don’t believe a large portion of Scripture.
Some of what I wrote here may seem a bit strange if you’ve never heard it before. In a post like this, I can’t give you all the Scriptures or explain too much, but I can point you to a free book that gives many Scriptures and gives the explanation that you can evaluate. It’s written in such simple English that a child could understand it.
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If You Want Your Own Way, You Will Be Deceived

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IF YOU ARE DECEIVED
Satan may deceive you for a while. Anyone following Christ is going to have some missteps. Deceivers come falsely claiming to be speaking by the Holy Spirit, and you may accept what they say. Godly people come truly speaking by the Holy Spirit, and you may reject what they say. If you are seeking the mind of God, God will bring you back to the truth. It will be a temporary setback. If you want your own way instead of God’s way, a deceiver can easily trick you with false revelation.
(Quote from https://realreality.org/downl…/how-god-will-transform-you/)

 

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The Word of God and the Name of Jesus

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God has given us some light on using God’s word and the Name of Jesus. The Name of Jesus is His essence. He has come and is coming to His body in this hour to be manifested in His body. When we do something in Jesus’ name, we aren’t merely repeating magic words: “in Jesus’ name, amen.” The Bible commands us to do everything in Jesus’ name. Everything. That doesn’t mean we keep repeating a mantra. It means we so identify with Christ that He is doing every act and saying every word through us. Our submission to His essence is complete. We are aware of His leading throughout the day, and we are cooperating with His Spirit by yielding the members of our bodies to His righteousness.

When the Bible uses the term “Scripture,” the original language makes it clear that it’s referring to the Bible. When the Bible uses the term “word of God,” the original language makes it clear that it’s referring to God speaking to us. When God speaks, He leads, teaches, or corrects us through the Bible and every means of divine revelation in the Bible. It might be a prophecy. We have prophecy every week in our church services, and every member prophesies in almost every service. The same is true of songs in the Spirit, which are prophecies in song that are given spontaneously. He speaks through a word of wisdom. He speaks through a word of knowledge. He speaks through a still small voice, dreams, visions, and many other ways. In fact, no one can say so much as “Jesus is Lord” but by the Holy Spirit.

Why is it so important and powerful when we listen to His word as He reveals reality to us? Why is it so important and powerful for us to always speak as the oracles of God. We are to only speak His words. That is, we are to yield the members of our body (including tongue and mouth) to His righteousness. We are never to speak our own words. He designed us to speak His words.

Jesus Christ is the Word of God. Some people wonder how Jesus gets into our hearts. Jesus gets into our hearts by the Father speaking to us. That’s the Parable of the Sower. It goes on all day long every day. This is the planting of the seed. God’s purpose: Christ fully formed in you and the deceitful fleshly nature destroyed by the light of His coming (Parousia or abiding presence) in you from glory to glory.

I don’t want to get too deep, but God has a way of doing everything. God’s method is by grace, which is through faith. “By grace through faith” has been repeated so often that most Christians don’t even understand it. It’s very simple. Where does faith come from? Faith comes by hearing the Father speak. The Father leads us, we hear and receive what He says, and His faith comes into us.

Where does grace come from? Grace comes through faith. Faith gives us access into God’s grace.

Faith without works is dead. It never completes what God gave it to do. Where do works come from? God’s grace does the works in us. Works are what God is doing through you in the moment. That’s what righteousness is: God doing His works through you in the moment. This righteousness is by grace, which it through faith, which comes by the utterance of God. That utterance is the Living Word, Jesus Christ Himself. God is planting a seed, but the seen must find good ground. If it finds good ground, God will say His words and do His acts through you.

Why are works important? That has to do with holiness. Holiness isn’t a lot of righteousness. Holiness is a change in what you are. It’s permanent. Righteousness is in the moment. Righteousness is God doing His works through you. And Scripture tells us that righteousness leads to holiness. Why? Because of the planting of the Seed, Jesus Christ. This is what edification is. Christ is built up in you. The most important work God is doing in this hour is to build up Christ in a remnant company of saints who are willing to lay down their fleshly life and take up His life by listening to Him and yielding to His Spirit in every moment and detail of their lives. We all have theological and emotional and intellectual strongholds that have to go. We have to trust Jesus to tear these down and replace them with Truth. Jesus Christ is the Truth. Christ is fully formed in us as we listen to the voice of the Father.

That’s a lot of what God has shown us, and it’s probably enough for right now. There’s more to this.

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Discern When Someone Is Speaking by the Holy Spirit

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DISCERNMENT: Keep your eyes on Jesus. He will give you discernment.

Deceivers come falsely claiming to be speaking by the Holy Spirit, and you may accept what they say. Godly people come truly speaking by the Holy Spirit, and you may reject what they say.

(Quote from https://realreality.org/downloads/how-god-will-transform-you/)

Only by the Holy Spirit can you identify the true or false teachers, prophets, pastors, or spirits. Even the true teachers, prophets, and pastors make mistakes. My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. (James 3:1-2 KJV); “Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way.” (James 3:2 NLT)

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