Prophecy
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PROSTITUTING THE WORD OF GOD:
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PRESUMPTION:
The spirit of anti-Christ operates through rebellion in the heart when a person hardens their mind against God and refuses to obey His Word. The spirit of anti-Christ always tries to get people to committ spiritual prostitution of the gospel in the church and out of the church. And one of the ways we can prostitute the gospel is through presumption and embellishment. That is, presuming upon what God said and what He didn’t say.
When Satan, as a spirit in the serpents body, came to Eve in the garden and he had infiltrated her mind with deception, it caused her to doubt God and look to ‘self.’ He said to her, “Has God said...?” The emphasies was on God’s “Word.” This is where prostitution of the gospel comes in at. It’s the twisting of God’s Word to make it say something other than what it orginally said.
The Lord said to me once concerning His Word, “All My truth is simple.” His Word is so simple that even a little child can understand it. Yet, we’ve made God’s Word so complicated by saying is says something that it doesn’t say at all. For example, we should tell people the simple truth of God’s Word that there is a consequence for sin instead of saying, ‘its okay (their sin), God understands.’ “For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
Instead of being bold and honest enough to actually say what God says about sin, many times, we’ve tried to soften it to say something different. We’ve often twisted God’s Word to say, “Don‘t worry about it, you just made a slight boo-boo. You just made a mistake. So, tell God you’re sorry, and you‘ll be all right.”
This is to imply that you don’t have to be concerned about repenting of the sin. Just say, ‘I’m sorry’ (godly sorrow leads to repentance) and the worst you’ll get is a little slap on the wrist. Is this God’s way and His Word, or is it our own idea of how God should be? Are we projecting OUR idea of God to others instead of showing them the God of the Bible? Could we be safe in saying that in this kind of presumption, we misrepresent God and His ways to people? I think we certainly could say its very possible. God loves us more than our human minds can comprehend, but He calls sin what it is---sin. He does deal with the sin in our lives. He does say, “I chasten those I love.” His discipline comes to His children when needed wrapped up in His love.
EMBELLISHMENT:
Another way we prostitute God’s Word is through embellishment. And the word ‘embellish’ means, “To add ficticious details to.” It means to adorn, to beautify, to dress things up a bit and make it look or sound better. In light of that, do we have the right to embellish on God’s Word by dressing it up and adding ficticious details to it? By telling someone in obvious sin, “Oh, don’t worry about a thing, you’re fine. You’re a good person and you have a good heart.” Not only did we embellish God’s Word but we lied to the person in the process. The lie may be told in ignorance but nevertheless, it’s still an untruth.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10-I, the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to the fruit of his doings.”
We tell the person that they have a good heart, but God says, the heart is not good. Its deceitful and its desperately wicked without the love of God shed abroad in it (Romans 5:5) and the blood of Jesus applied to it. And even after you’re saved, God tells us to guard our hearts for out of it flows the issues of life.
David cried out to God because his eyes were opened and he saw the wickedness of his own heart, “O God, Create in me a clean heart and renew in me a right spirit”(Psalm 51:10). If king David, a man after God’s own heart, cried out to God for spiritual heart surgery, how much more do we need to cry out for the same? God is waiting for us to begin calling out to Him today so our hearts are made clean by the washing of the water of the Word and by the blood of Jesus (Eph5:27). We need to have clean hearts and a right spirit (attitude) that brings us more into the manifestation of righteousness, purity and holiness in our lives. This is needful because Jesus is coming back for a Bride without spot, wrinkle or blemish and He’s coming soon. We MUST be ready when He comes.
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SPEAKING FOR GOD:
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Yes, God’s Word is so simple and yet, it’s so powerful with many facets to it that are full of revelation and wisdom for the Believer who cares to dig it out. So, when Eve spoke God’s Word, she presumed what He had said. When the pastor or preacher stands in the pulpit to bring a message to the congregation, he’s, at that moment in time, speaking for God. He or she is representing God in word and in character.
Men and women in the pulpit are relaying to the people what they believe God has already said in His Word, and what He’s presently saying by prophetic revelation to the Church. It’s the same thing with the person who stands in the office of a Prophet. Or anyone else with a prophetic gift who stands up with, “Thus says the Lord” then proceeds to declare what they believe God is saying. Somebody says, “does this mean that every person in ministry prostitutes God’s Word and says things that God hasn’t really said?”
No! I want that understood very clearly. Many people who truly are after the heart of God, these ministers and leaders sincerely endeavor to hear the Holy Spirit as clearly as possible. These same people then relay what they’ve heard God SAYING without embellishment to the Church. But at the same time, there are those who do embellish and prostitute the Word of God. The Lord Jesus said, “There is a spirit of prostitution in the Church.” We can’t ignore that.
I know I keep saying that we must be careful, but I say it because its so vitally important to how we handle God’s Word. We must ask for His grace and wisdom in rightly dividing and relaying His message correctly. Taking the time before we ever utter a word to get in prayer and find out if what we have to say to God’s people is what He is actually saying? Or are WE embellishing it? Are we substituting it and dressing it up and assuming that He’s saying something other than the simple truth?
Maybe you’re one of those who has tried to make God’s Word sound a little less harsh if He‘s given you a strong word to bring forth to the many people who are struggling with and who are filled with fear and doubt. Or to people who are struggling with addiction or sexual sin. Do we try to dismiss their fears and these other things? Do we try to gloss it over and get them to believe a prostituted word thats a twist on what God has originally said concerning these sins? Perhaps God is trying to bring a certain truth to a group of people about their mismanagement of money in regards to personal finance and finance in the church. Maybe God has given you a strong message with new insight about finances that will not only be a word of encouragement for them but it will also show them how to shift things and get on God‘s system of Kingdom finance.
What will you do? Will you leave out most of the strong word and bend it so you can get right to the blessing part? Will you lead them to believe that no matter how irresponsible they’ve been as srewards God is going to dump a truck load of financial blessings on them anyway and all they have to do is just receive it? The truth is, God wants to deal with their less than holy lifestyle first. He wants to get them in line with His Word. He wants to set them free as a church through His truth. He wants them to humble themselves and repent. He wants to get them established in His Word and walking on the path of righteousness, purity and holiness so He can bring a load of financial blessing to them.
Perhaps God’s plan is to use this little church and expand it in readiness for the end time harvest. But if you give them an embellished, dressed up word that is not what God told you to give, would you be prostituting His Word? Would you be hindering God’s will being done? Would you be compromising His Word to say something more or less than what God actually said? When we do this, we’ve become a stumbling block to the manifestation of God’s plans for a people that He desires to bless. This is not a very good place for any one of us to find ourselves in. It’s time to begin developing a healthy fear of the Lord again, amen? We are fast aproaching the time that reverencial fear of the Lord IS coming to the Church again.
In Gal.6:7-8 we see where God says, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap, 8-For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption (death); but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” Not only will these kind of bad seeds come back on the ministers and servants of God who are being irreverent and prostituting His Word, but it will also come back on all people who sow to the fleshly (carnal, old nature) ways.
Talking about these kinds of truth’s is not the most popular things to say to people who just want ‘peaches and cream’ religion. You know, ‘don’t come in here and try to move us out of our religious comfort zone, we’ll take you out back and throw you over a cliff.’ That’s what the religious Pharisees tried to do to Jesus when He told them straight across the table truth. The truth He told them, because He is the Truth, it would change their lives for the better if they would believe and receive it. Needless to say, they chose mediocrisy instead of the miraculous. We find many professing Christian’s in the Church today making the same choice of mediocrisy and they wonder why the miraculous doesn’t happen in their life? Good or bad, we’re living out the experiencial consequences of choices we made yesterday. That’s all the more reason why we need to seek God’s counsel so we can make wise choices according to His will for our lives, ministries, churches, businesses, families, etc.
Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). That is, if you will receive the truth of His Word, if you will humble yourself and allow the Holy Spirit to teach it to you, He will make God’s Word come alive in your spirit. Once revelation takes place, we’re then to be obedient to DO what it requires so we can get back into right relationship with God. We repent of wherever He shows us that’s necessary to get back in line with His Word and His will. Then, after repentance and obedience comes blessing. Disobedience brings death and cursing to your life, obedience brings life and blessing (Deut.30:19).
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Shirley Williams
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