“THE DECEPTION OF FALLEN WORLD-CULTURES OR THE TRUTH: GOD LOVES ME”?
APRIL 24-25, 2019
BY: J.FARRELL FISHER
I BEGIN WITH POWERFUL, CONVICTING WORDS FROM JEREMIAH 9:3-6 AS THE PROPHET OF GOD WAS INSPIRED TO WRITE THE FOLLOWING, HAVING HEARD GOD SPEAK!! AND HE’S TALKING ABOUT “SPIRITUAL ADULTERERS”!! “THEY BEND THEIR TONGUES FOR LIES: THEY ARE NOT VALIANT FOR THE TRUTH UPON THE EARTH; FOR THEY PROCEED FROM EVIL TO EVIL, AND THEY KNOW NOT ME, SAYS THE LORD.TAKE YOU HEED EVERY ONE OF HIS NEIGHBOR, AND TRUST YOU NOT IN ANY BROTHER; FOR EVERY BROTHER WILL UTTERLY SUPPLANT, AND EVERY NEIGHBOR WILL WALK WITH SLANDERS. AND THEY WILL DECEIVE EVERY ONE HIS NEIGHBOR, AND WILL NOT SPEAK THE TRUTH: THEY HAVE TAUGHT THEIR TONGUE TO SPEAK LIES, AND WEARY THEMSELVES TO COMMIT INIQUITY. YOUR HABITATION IS IN THE MIDST OF DECEIT; THROUGH DECEIT THEY REFUSE TO KNOW ME, SAYS THE LORD”
THE RANDOM HOUSE COLLEGE DICTIONARY IN 1975 DEFINES DECEIT AS FOLLOWS: “THE ACT OR PRACTICE OF DECEIVING; FRAUD,CHEATING…AN ACT OR SCHEME INTENDED TO DECEIVE; A LIFESTYLE OF BEING DECEITFUL; FALSENESS; DECEIT,GUILE, HYPOCRISY, DUPLICITY,FRAUD,TRICKERY,…THE INTENTIONAL (LIFESTYLE) OF CONCEALMENT OR PERVERSION OF TRUTH FOR THE PURPOSE OF MISLEADING..”!
DID IT SAY, “A LIFESTYLE OF BEING DECEITFUL”? THE WORLD, YOUR OLD SIN NATURE, AND SATAN HIMSELF ARE EQUIPPING FORCES TO KEEP YOU SEPARATED AND ALIENATED FROM HOLY, LOVING, MERCIFUL, CARING GOD. THE “WISDOM” THAT GRANTS AND GIVES NO PLACE FOR GOD IS SPIRITUAL DARKNESS EVEN UNDER THE SUNSHINE THAT STAYS BRIGHT! THIS IS WHY IN 1 CORINTHIANS 2:14,AND VERSE 16, WE READ: “BUT THE NATURAL MAN RECEIVES NOT THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD; FOR THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS UNTO HIM; NEITHER CAN HE KNOW THEM, BECAUSE THEY “SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED”!”
VERSE 16b THEN SAYS, HAVING ASKED IN 16a, “FOR WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE (GOD) MAY INSTRUCT HIM?”, FOLLOWING WITH VERSE 16B,”BUT WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST!”…THE BIRTHING OF ALL HUMANITY BY GOD WAS GOD’S ISSUANCE OF ‘FREE-WILL’ FOR EVERY BIRTHED ONE IN THE WORLD WHO IS GIVEN THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE: THEMSELVES AS THEIR OWN MASTER, SAVIOR, AND LORD AS THEY SEE FIT, OR CONVICTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEY REPENT OF THEIR SINFUL BENT, ASKING FOR SOVEREIGN BLESSING IN AND THROUGH CHRIST’S CRUCIFIXION, RESURRECTION, AND ETERNAL RULE ON THE THRONE OF GOD AND AVAILABLE FOR THE LIFE, HEART, AND DESIRE OF ONE WILLING TO BE THE SERVANT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,AND-UPON CONVERSION, THEY THEN DISCOVER CHRIST INDWELLS THEM TO BE THEIR SERVANT!
AGAIN, POWERFUL WORDS FROM PAUL IN 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16-17! THIS IS TO PROFESSING BELIEVERS, TO PRETENDING CHURCHES, TO ‘IMITATION’ GOVERNING STATES OR NATIONS! “KNOW YOU NOT THAT YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU? IF ANY MAN DEFILE THE TEMPLE OF GOD,(HIM,THEM,IT!),HIM,THEM,IT SHALL GOD DESTROY; FOR THE TEMPLE OF GOD IS HOLY, WHICH TEMPLE YOU ARE.”
HAVE I HIGHLIGHTED ENOUGH “THE DECEPTION OF FALLEN WORLD CULTURES” FOR YOU? THEN, I WANT TO SHIFT GEARS AND TURN TO: “THE TRUTH THAT HOLY GOD LOVES US”! LOOK AT MALACHI 4:1-2! “FOR, BEHOLD, THE DAY COMES, THAT SHALL BURN AS A OVEN; AND ALL THE PROUD, YES, AND ALL THAT DO WICKEDLY, SHALL BE STUBBLE; AND THE DAY THAT COMES SHALL BURN THEM UP, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, THAT IT SHALL LEAVE THEM NEITHER ROOT NOT BRANCH. “BUT UNTO YOU THAT FEAR MY NAME SHALL ‘THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS’ ARISES WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS; AND YOU SHALL GO FORTH, AND GROW UP AS CALVES OF A STALL.”
HAVE YOU WITNESSED LATELY LIVES AROUND YOU LIKE ‘CALVES OF A STALL’, ALIVE, WELL, JOYFUL, JUMPING, KICKING THEIR HEELS, BECAUSE SALVATION IN AND THROUGH CHRIST DELIGHTS THEM,EVEN HILARIOUSLY,AMAZINGLY,JOYFULLY UPLIFTING THEM EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY?
I TELL YOU, IT’S FAR MORE THAN JUST A “CHRISTMAS SONG” BECAUSE ISAAC WATTS AND GEORGE HANDEL “KNEW” THE BLESSING OF GOD’S AWESOME MERCY AND GRACIOUS GRACE! THE SONG IS IN THE HYMNAL, THE BROADMAN HYMNAL, FROM THE BROADMAN PRESS, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, PUBLISHED IN 1940! IT SAYS: “JOY TO THE WORLD! THE LORD HAS COME; LET EARTH RECEIVE HER KING; LET EVERY HEART PREPARE HIM ROOM, AND HEAVEN AND NATURE SING…
JOY TO THE EARTH! THE SAVIOR REIGNS; LET MEN THEIR SONGS EMPLOY; WHILE FIELDS AND FLOODS, ROCKS, HILLS AND PLAINS REPEAT THE SOUNDING JOY.
NO MORE LET SINS AND SORROWS GROW, NOR THORNS INFEST THE GROUND; HE COMES TO MAKE HIS BLESSINGS FLOW FAR AS THE CURSE IS FOUND.
HE RULES THE WORLD WITH TRUTH AND GRACE, AND MAKES THE NATIONS PROVE THE GLORIES OF HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND WONDERS OF HIS LOVE.”
IN LUKE 19:10 JESUS SAID, “FOR THE SON OF MAN IS COME TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THAT WHICH WAS LOST.” BIRTHED FLESHLY INTO THE WORLD EVERY CHILD IS BIRTHED IN ‘FLESH’, BIRTHED WITH AN INHERITED SIN-NATURE, BIRTHED ABSENT OF THE PRESENCE OF THE RESURRECTED CHRIST, HIS LOVING FATHER, AND HIS FRUITFUL HOLY SPIRIT, DEFINED BY GOD AS LOST, ALIENATED, SEPARATED, IN NEED OF BEING BORN SPIRITUALLY BY GRACE AND FAITH WITH A FREE PASS INTO KINGDOM OF GOD LIVING!
DOES CHRIST JESUS HAVE ENEMIES? YET AT THE SAME TIME DOES HE ALSO HAVE CO-LABORERS, BIRTHED TO BE SOLDIERS OF CHRIST IN THE ARMY OF THE FAITHFUL? HE DOES HAVE ENEMIES, WARRIORS AGAINST HIM, BUT HE ALSO HAS FAITHFUL SOLDIERS THAT BEAR HIS CROSS AND FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH! IN REVELATION 17:14, IT SPEAKS OF HIS ENEMIES, THEN HIS OWN CO-WARRIORS! “THESE SHALL MAKE WAR WITH THE LAMB, AND THE LAMB SHALL OVERCOME THEM; FOR HE IS LORD OF LORDS, AND KING OF KINGS; AND THEY THAT ARE WITH HIM ARE “CALLED,” “CHOSEN,” AND ARE “THE FAITHFUL”!
THIS IS WHY SABINE BARING-GOULD AND ARTHUR SULLIVAN WERE INSPIRED TO WRITE THE HYMN PUBLISHED IN “THE BROADMAN PRESS” IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, IN 1940(P46).IT SAYS: “ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS,MARCHING AS TO WAR, WITH THE CROSS OF JESUS GOING ON BEFORE! CHRIST, THE ROYAL MASTER, LEADS AGAINST THE FOE; FORWARD INTO BATTLE, SEE, HIS BANNERS GO!
AT THE SIGN OF TRIUMPH SATAN’S HOST DOES FLEE; ON THEN,YOU CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS, ON TO VICTORY! HELL’S FOUDATIONS QUIVER AT THE SHOUT OF PRAISE; BROTHERS, LIFT YOUR VOICES, LOUD YOUR ANTHEMS RAISE!
LIKE A MIGHTY ARMY MOVES THE CHURCH OF GOD; BROTHERS, WE ARE TREADING WHERE THE (SAVIOR) AND THE SAINTS HAVE TROD; WE ARE NOT DIVIDED; ALL ONE BODY WE, ONE IN HOPE AND DOCTRINE, ONE IN CHARITY.
ONWARD,THEN,YOU PEOPLE, JOIN OUR HAPPY THRONG,BLEND WITH OURS YOUR VOICES IN THE TRIUMPH SONG; GLORY, LAUD, AND HONOR, UNTO CHRIST THE KING; THIS THRO’ COUNTLESS AGES MEN AND ANGELS SING.
ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS, MARCHING AS TO WAR, WITH THE CROSS OF JESUS GOING ON BEFORE!” (ARE “YOU” A SOLDIER OF THE ARMY OF CHRIST INVADING A WORLD OF UNBELIEF AROUND YOU? OR DO YOU “SLEEP” IN YOUR BARRACK BED DEAD TO,YES, THE GREAT NEED SPIRITUALLY OF THOSE WHO NEED TO BE AWAKENED AND CONFRONTED WITH CHRIST’S PRESENCE KNOCKING ON THEIR HEARTS’ DOORS SAYING, “OPEN YOUR HEART’S DOOR, AND I, KING JESUS, WILL COME IN ESTABLISHING MY THRONE IN YOU TO REIGN THROUGH YOU”?
ARE “YOU” A CHILD OF THE KING? DOES KING JESUS REIGN IN YOU AND THROUGH YOU EXPRESSING HIS LOVE, EXTENDING HIS MERCY, AND PROVING HIS POWER? HATTIE E.BEULL, IN THE SAME HYMNAL, HAD HER SONG PUBLISHED,(P.47), THAT SAYS, THIRD STANZA, “I ONCE WAS AN OUTCAST STRANGER ON EARTH, A SINNER BY CHOICE, AND AN ALIEN BY BIRTH; BUT I’VE BEEN ADOPTED, MY NAME’S WRITTEN DOWN, AND HEIR TO A MANSION, A ROBE, AND A CROWN.
I’M A CHILD OF THE KING, A CHILD OF THE KING: WITH JESUS MY SAVIOR I’M A CHILD OF THE KING.”
DARE I TELL YOU? I BELIEVE I WILL! “TOO MANY ‘PROFESSING’ CHURCHES AND ‘BELIEVERS’(?) DEGRADE THE TRUE CHRISTIAN FAITH “AND” CHRIST BY ‘PROFESSING’ WITHOUT ALLOWING HIS POSSESSING FREELY HIS RELEASE, HIS GIFT AND GIFTS, HIS ETERNAL LONGING TO BE HIMSELF IN THEM, BUT THE ‘FUTILE, FATAL, FLIPPANT BELIEVERS’ LIVE EXPRESSING HEAD KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT HIS HOLY PRESENCE IN HUMAN HEARTS EXTENDING HIS LIFE, EXPRESSING HIS LOVE, AND PROVING HIS POWER! WILL YOU LET JESUS BE JESUS IN YOU? AGAIN, JEREMIAH 9:3-6 PLUS VERSES 7-9!!
“THEY BEND THEIR TONGUES LIKE THEIR BOW (AND ARROW) FOR LIES: BUT (ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?), BUT THEY ARE NOT VALIANT FOR THE TRUTH UPON THE EARTH; FOR THEY PROCEED FROM EVIL TO EVIL, AND THEY KNOW NOT ME,SAYS THE LORD.TAKE HEED EVERY ONE OF HIS NEIGHBOR,AND TRUST NOT IN ANY BROTHER; FOR EVERY BROTHER WILL UTTERLY SUPPLANT, AND EVERY NEIGHBOR WILL WALK WITH SLANDERS.
AND THEY WILL DECEIVE EVERY ONE HIS NEIGHBOR, AND WILL NOT SPEAK THE TRUTH; THEY HAVE TAUGHT THEIR TONGUE TO SPEAK LIES, AND WEARY THEMSELVES IN COMMITTING INIQUITY.YOUR HABITATION IS IN THE MIDST OF DECEIT; THROUGH DECEIT THEY REFUSE TO KNOW ME,SAYS THE LORD.
VERSES 7-9 FOLLOWS SAYING:THEREFORE,THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, BEHOLD, I WILL MELT THEM, AND TEST THEM; FOR HOW SHALL I DO (OR DEAL) WITH THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE? THEIR TONGUE IS AS AN ARROW SHOT OUT; IT SPEAKS DECEIT; ONE SPEAKS PEACEABLY TO HIS NEIGHBOR, BUT IN HEART HE LAYS IN WAIT. SHALL I VISIT THEM FOR THESE THINGS?SAYS THE LORD: SHALL NOT MY SOUL BE AVENGED ON SUCH A NATION (OR SUCH A PEOPLE, OR SUCH ‘PROFESSORS’ WITHOUT ANY DESIRE TO BE POSSESSED, OWNED, AND POURED OUT TO SPIRITUALLY ‘THIRSTY’ PEOPLE, FOR SOME WITH ONLY HEAD KNOWLEDGE), BUT VOID OF A “NEW-BORN”, ETERNALLY TRANSFORMED, IGNITED WITH THE “FIRE” OF HIS RESURRECTED PRESENCE REIGNING IN AND THROUGH YOU, BY BEING “GUIDED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, TAUGHT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND EMPOWERED TO BE HIS HEAVENLY WITNESS”!
WHY NOT LET: “JESUS, BE JESUS IN ME; NO LONGER ME BUT THEE; RESURRECTION POWER, FILL ME THIS HOUR; JESUS, BE JESUS IN ME!”? WILL “YOU”?AND THAT WILL BE “THE DAY” IN YOU,IN AND THROUGH YOU, IN WHICH “YOU” ALLOW HIM TO EXTEND HIS LIFE, EXPRESS HIS LOVE, AND PROVE HIS POWER! THE OLD HYMN, “ALL HAIL THE POWER”,SAYS: “ALL HAIL THE POWER OF JESUS’ NAME!LET ANGELS PROSTRATE FALL; BRING FORTH THE ROYAL DIADEM, AND CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL.
YOU CHOSEN SEED OF A NATION’S RACE, YOU RANSOMED FROM THE “FALL”, HAIL HIM WHO SAVES YOU BY HIS GRACE, CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL.
LET EVERY KINDRED, EVERY TRIBE, ON THIS TERRESTRIAL BALL, TO HIM ALL MAJESTY ASCRIBE, AND CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL.
O THAT WITH YONDER SACRED THRONG WE AT HIS FEET MAY FALL; WE’LL JOIN THE EVERLASTING SONG, AND CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL.” DOES CHRIST JESUS LIVE AND REIGN THROUGH YOU THIS VERY DAY, THIS VERY HOUR, THIS VERY MOMENT?
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