The poisoned mind

 

In the last days it didn’t say the world would be filled with a spirit of Anti-God but  a spirit of Anti-Christ ..

Acts 14:2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brethren. 

Did you know that your mind can actually be poisoned by others to the point where you begin to then fall under their influence ? 

It’s going to become more and more crucial who we choose to listen to in these last days . 

Remember Jesus didn’t tell us to beware of sinners, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisee and of Herod.

This leaven speaks of an ungodly persuasion that leads to a wrong influence 

The leaven of the Pharisee is legalism or performance based religion.. 

The leaven of Herod is the ungodly political spirit and the spirit of this world 

We must make a choice to have an ear to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying to the church. 

The Bible says that we should test the spirits to see if they are of God or not.. 

Why ? Because not everyone who says they are of God are really of God ! 

Remember in the last days, it doesn’t say that many would be anti God but anti -Christ ! 

We must also be careful about what our children are exposed too as well .. 

who are we allowing to influence our children??? 

Who or what are we allowing to babysit our children? 

I can guarantee you that the spirit of anti-Christ is at work in many ways attempting to poison not only our minds but our children’s minds to bring us underneath his influence not for good but for destruction.

 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; 

because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 

First, just because someone says they are a profit sent from God does not mean they are an actually a prophet  sent from God! 

The devil often shows up as an angel of light !!! 

So heres the test . 

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 

and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. 

And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. 

Many are looking for the antichrist but the spirit of Antichrist has been in the world for a long long time. 

The spirit of antichrist often works through religion.

Just as it did when Jesus walked the earth 2000 years ago, it’s still at work today denying that Jesus Christ is the son of God Who also was the word Who became flesh. 

But Ive got news for you ! not only did the word become flesh but the word then came into your flesh! 

Any spirit that denies that Jesus has come into you or into your flesh is also a spirit of antichrist!

The Bible says in Colossians that it is Christ in you the hope of glory! 

The main message that has been hidden from most of the church through a religious antichrist spirit has been the message of Christ in you the hope of glory or your identity now in Christ! 

The biggest theft in the world today is identity theft !likewise the biggest theft in the church today has also been identity theft

A spirit of antichrist will deny that Jesus Christ has come into your flesh.. it will deny the working of the Holy Spirit within the believer. 

A religious anti christ Spirit will always attempt to make you the main point of reference.. 

It will imply that you must live for God through your own fleshly determination will power  and effort. 

This message is contrary through the message of Christ and of grace.. 

If the message that you were listening to does not point to the finished work of Christ in Christ in you the hope of glory that is your identity in Christ then you need to get your self out from underneath that message because it’s leaven that will poison your mind and put you under a wrong influence and persuasion. 

Not all persuasion is from the Lord.

You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 

This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. 

A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 

Hear what it says here? Just a little bit a legalism can poison your mind! And begin to persuade you in a wrong direction than you have been called!

I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind;   Galatians 5:7-10

God doesn’t want us to have any other mind but the mind of Christ

1 John 4:4-6 goes on to say this 

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 

They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.

We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

You are of God and you are the children of God this did not happen through your perfect performance but through Christ perfect obedience , greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world the Holy Spirit lives in us and we can hear what he is saying we want to be under his guidance and influence and no other.  Rick Sarver 

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