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.

IF YOU ARE DECEIVED

If you are seeking the mind of God, God will bring you back to the truth. It will be a temporary setback.

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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.

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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)

DISCERNMENT

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

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Satan may deceive you for a while. Anyone following Christ is going to have some missteps.

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In our local assembly, we have been discussing how we need to identify with Jesus Christ and not with our fleshly nature. We need to see who we are in Christ. We are members of Christ the body. We see the glory of God in Christ the body–in our brothers and sisters we see Christ. We focused on 1 John 4:1-4. Tonight, I wanted to put some music on my computer. I didn’t know where I had my music files, so I was browsing through old folders. I opened one folder with many mp3 files. I opened a random file and found something I recorded decades ago while riding in my car: D. James Kennedy. He was talking about the same thing. He was talking about the deists who deny that God is alive and active in His people now. The talked about those who don’t believe in divine revelation today. I felt compelled to look up 1 John 4:1-4.

“Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist …”

The Holy Spirit seemed to emphasize the importance of the term “is come.” It seemed He was emphasizing the necessity of recognizing that Jesus Christ not only came in the flesh long ago and far away but that he also is come in the flesh today in His saint. He is Christ in us, the hope of glory. There is a part of the church that denies this. They recognize Jesus as a historical figure and Lord, but they don’t think anyone can know Him in any real sense. When they say, “I have a personal relationship with Jesus,” they don’t mean Jesus leads, teaches, and corrects them moment by moment in every situation. They mean they have made a statement in which they claim to have accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior. It’s more of a theoretical idea.

Yet, in the King James Bible, Jesus Christ IS COME in the flesh. It’s in the present tense. It seems almost awkward and over obviously stated as present tense. No one talks that way. “IS COME!” It’s like super present tense.

I looked up this Scripture is several translations and found that many translations use the past tense. I wanted a confirmation of what I thought I was receiving from the Spirit.

I looked up the verse in the Greek, and “in the flesh” is definitely there.

I looked up the term “is come” in the Greek. It’s a Greek word “erchomai.” I looked up how it’s used in Scripture and found it can be past, present, or future tense. So, I wondered why the translators of the King James Bible made it present tense as Christ in us while other translators made it past tense.

I felt compelled to look at it in context in 1 John 4:1-4. Then I understood.

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”

The King James translators looked at the context. They saw, “greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.” They saw “Christ in us, the hope of glory.” Christ is in us. Christ IS COME IN THE FLESH.

Whoever confesses that Jesus Christ is appearing in those who follow Him is of God. Whoever will not confess that Jesus Christ is appearing in those who follow Him is not of God but is of the spirit of antichrist. This all ties in with discerning Christ the body. When we see Him as He is, a many-membered body, we become like Him. As we all, with the fleshly veil removed from our faces, beholding as if in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are transfigured into the same image from glory to glory by the Spirit of the Lord.

Every member of Christ the body has and is a ministry. The ministry in each member is Christ. This is Christ in us the hope of glory. We need to discern the body of Christ, Christ the body. We need to see Christ in each other. When we pray in Jesus’ name, Jesus is praying through us. He leads us as to what to pray and then prays through us. When Christ tells us what to command and we yield our mouths to Him so He can speak His words through us, He can say, “In the name of Jesus Christ if Nazareth, rise up and walk.” God created the universe with the Word of God. Christ is the Word of God. Nothing can be withheld from Him when He speaks through us.

Would you know if a deceiver tricked you with false revelation? Yes.

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God’s voice will never lead you to disobey any of the Ten Commandments. That makes it distinct from worldly or ungodly voices.

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When you seek God continually, His voice becomes increasingly clear. …

His voice always points the way to righteousness.

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