DISCERNMENT N°11

 

This teaching is the 11^th part in a series of eleven teachings. To fully benefit from it, you will need to read the ten other parts.

 

CONCLUSION

 

I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts. Psalm 119:99-100.

 

Can demons be delivered?

 

In John 6:70, we read: Then Jesus replied, have I not chosen you the twelve? Yet one of you is the devil! We all know with what power of deliverance the Lord Jesus accomplished His ministry on earth. All those who came to Him with demonic possessions, were delivered. The question we can ask ourselves is that of knowing why Jesus did not deliver Judas Iscariot. The answer is simple: Judas Iscariot was a demon, and not a demonic.

 

It is important at this level, to establish the difference that exists between a demon and a demonic. A demonic, is a person possessed by demons. Such a person can be delivered. Whereas a demon is a seed of satan as we have studied. One cannot transform a seed of satan into a seed of God. That is why Jesus did not transform Judas Iscariot into a seed of God by delivering him. Therefore, a demon cannot be delivered.

 

Yet, thousands of men of God spend their time today doing what they call deliverance, by blindly trying to deliver demons. How these poor pastors suffer, to the point of sweating. Some shout to the point of losing their voices, because they have been taught that it’s by shouting that the demon goes out. Others do deliverance by stages. They do the first step, take a break, continue another day with another stage, and so on. How pitiful it is! The lack of discernment is more than a disease.

 

Consequence on Evangelism

 

Ignorance makes us waste time; the lack of discernment makes us suffer unnecessarily. When we understand this teaching on discernment well, we grasp more easily the meaning of the instructions which the Lord gave us in relation to Evangelism:

 

Matthew 10:5-6 … Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.

 

What Jesus calls here Gentiles or Samaritans, has nothing to do with us. The Lord already had us in His plan of salvation. He rather tells us here about those to whom even if the Gospel were preached, it will be of no use.

 

Matthew 10:14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.

 

Matthew 15:24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”

 

Marc 6:11 And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them.”

 

Luke 9:5 If people do not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave their town, as a testimony against them.

 

You find many Christians today, including pastors, who spend years evangelizing the same people. Others allow in the church for years people who are obstinate and refuse water baptism, saying they want to be patient with them. They will tell you that “god” sometimes needs many years to touch the hearts of certain persons. Understand that they are talking about their god and not our God. Our God says: But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. John 10:26-27.

 

To whom in the Bible did Jesus spend years preaching the Gospel while waiting for him to believe? To which person did the disciples spend years preaching the Gospel while waiting for them to believe? Those who are of the seed of God do not need years, to recognize the voice of their Shepherd. They simply need to hear that voice.

 

Have you seen Jesus even once worried because someone heard the truth and was annoyed? Go through the Gospels. Have you seen Jesus at least once change either His message, or His tone to please the people hearing Him or to put them a bit at ease? Have you seen Him panic when people were unhappy to hear the Truth? As we all read the Bible, tell me. I invite you to meditate with me the following passages:

 

Matthew 15:1-14

 

Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, "Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread." He answered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? For God commanded, saying, ‘Honour your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God" -‘then he need not honour his father or mother.’ Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

 

"Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honour Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’" When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, "Hear and understand: "Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."

 

Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?" But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch."

 

Matthew 23:13-35

 

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

 

Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.’ Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obliged to perform it.’ Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? Therefore he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it. He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by Him who dwells in it. And he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.

 

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.

 

Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’ Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt.

 

Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

 

Mark 10:17-23

 

Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honour your father and your mother.’" And he answered and said to Him, "Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth." Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me." But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!"

 

John 6:23-26

 

However, other boats came from Tiberias, near the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks—when the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they also got into boats and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. And when they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, "Rabbi, when did You come here?" Jesus answered them and said, "Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.

 

John 8:30-32, 37-47

 

As He spoke these words, many believed in Him. Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free....I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you….

 

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do… But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God."

 

As you have noticed by reading the passages above, when the Lord preached the Gospel, He did not beg people to accept it. He was not surprised to see several people rejecting His Gospel, and He did not worry to see people going away while murmuring. He knew that all those who were of His Father, could not reject His Gospel. He also knew that those who were not of His Father, could never appreciate the words of His Father. Evangelism was thus easy for Him. He did not suffer unnecessarily, because He had discernment.

 

Do not forget that the Gospel is a treasure, it is in fact the greatest treasure that man can have on this earth. When you preach the Gospel, you should not then give the impression to those to whom you preach that they believe for your sake. Do not give them the impression that they believe to do you some favour. Each one believes for his own salvation. No one believes for the other. Those who want salvation must believe, and those who want hell, are free of their choice. You should therefore not make people believe that you are forcing the Gospel on them. Just preach, with the aim of giving to those who want to repent, the opportunity to do so in order to escape from eternal fire. Remember all the same that nobody is obliged to believe, and each person is free to lead his life as he sees fit. The aim is eternity. Each person will bear the consequences of his choice in the next days. And the Lord who created us, knows that His true Children will recognize His voice, when His Gospel is preached to them. Avoid then forcing the Gospel on those who do not want it, and do no longer deceive yourselves by preaching the Gospel to the same people for years, believing that it takes years to convert a man. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is for those who are of the seed of Jesus Christ, and they accept it without difficulty.

 

I heard a pastor one day giving an abominable testimony, saying that he preached the Gospel to a woman who did not want to believe. Later on the woman came to the church, they preached everything to her but she still refused to believe. They left that woman in the church, and encouraged her everyday; she spent six years in the church, and finally, after six years, she believed. And that blind pastor gave this testimony to glorify himself of the fact that he was doing a very good work as a pastor.

 

That is real seduction. Beloved, I warn you against these types of satanic testimonies. That is pure seduction. It is with this type of seduction that these pastors of satan induce Children of God to believe nonsense. Once you teach them what is written, they tell you that such pastor or such “man of god” had one day given a testimony that… For them, testimonies come before the Word of God. I will still end by this marvellous passage of 2John 8-11 Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.

 

Final word

 

Beloved, at last, time has come, whereby, “you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not”. Malachi 3:18.

 

With the trumpet being ready to sound, the Lord is purifying His Bride, and is preparing her for the great day, for that glorious day. All those who are of the seed of God are waking up; they are getting ready for the meeting with their Master. By so doing, all are running away from the seduction that is practiced and lived daily in apostate assemblies and churches, in churches founded on greed and false doctrine.

 

Do not be astonished that while you are waking up, while you are revolting against the abomination that is practiced in broad daylight in the so-called christian milieu, others around you are rather at ease in these satanic structures and actively combat the Truth.

 

That should not surprise you, because the Lord warned us. Such are workers of evil, sons of perdition, they are the wicked. They are all darkened in their understanding (Isaiah 6:9-10) and none of them can hear the signal of God, as the Lord reveals to us in Daniel 12:9-10:

 

He replied, “Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end. Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

 

Many brethren rebuked me by saying that I should have started by this teaching, and I know that many among you will ask me why it is only now that I give you this teaching.

 

Beloved, as I have mentioned at the beginning of this teaching, the battle has not been easy. When one starts a work like this one, which denounces the works of the devil from every angle, satan does not let go. That is why you should pray a lot for us. You true Children of God, if you want to see the work of God advance, you should constantly fast and pray for the few men of God who still want to serve God without compromising, and who expose their lives by committing themselves to the way of the Truth. Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God. 2Corinthians 2:17.

 

Satan and his agents were always after me so that this work should never be done, so that this teaching should never be available to you. But if in their pride they can declare themselves strong before us, we in our humility, can declare them Weak before our Master Jesus Christ. Is it not written that the one who is in us is greater than the one who is in the world? 1John4:4.

 

Beloved, to end this teaching, I again bless the Lord Jesus Christ for His great faithfulness. With full confidence, I can say like our brother Job: I know that my redeemer lives, and that at the end He will stand upon the earth. Job 19:25.

 

 

 

May the grace be with you all who belong to our Lord Jesus Christ! Amen!