Modern-day Christian believers are spiritually deprived, powerless against
sin and against satan. They have been robbed by satan because they believe
lies; they do not have the Holy Spirit, they do not have Jesus Christ. Jesus
Christ gives His Holy Spirit in those who believe in Him, who obey Him and who
seek Him. Without the Holy Spirit we have no power and we cannot stand against the
devil,
we cannot overcome. Most modern day believers think they are saved because
they believe in Jesus. They go after Bible knowledge but they have no
knowledge of God; they do not know Jesus Chris,t they are spiritually deprived and
dead, because they do not have the Holy Spirit that Jesus Christ promised to
those who seek Him, and who obey Him; who repent and who are baptized in water. The
first believers were earnestly seeking the baptism in the Holy Spirit. They did
not have Bibles; they were not seeking Bible knowledge. They were seeking to be
filled with the Spirit of Christ, with the Holy Spirit and once they received the
Holy Spirit they went out in the power of the Spirit. The disciples, the apostles
did not have Bibles; they did not teach people to read the Bible, they did not
explain the Bible to them, they taught them the words of
Jesus Christ and they demonstrated the power of the Holy Spirit because they
were filled with Spirit. They were not full of human wisdom and scripture
verses, they will filled with the power of God; they healed the sick and they
brought people to repentance. The power of God work through them because they
were praying in the Spirit; they overcame. They overcame the lusts of the flesh, they
overcame satan and they endured with Jesus Christ until the end. The first
martyr for Christ, Stephen, did not go to Bible school but he was filled with the
Spirit and he preached like few preachers know how to preach today even
if they've spent years in Bible School. It is because they don't have the Spirit of
Christ. Stephen was filled with the Spirit of God and the apostles were filled with
the Spirit of God, with the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ promised that same
Spirit in us to be witnesses for Him, to bear fruit for Him.
The reason why believers are fruitless, without the fruit of the Holy
Spirit, without the power of the Holy Spirit is because they do not have the
Holy Spirit; they do not know Jesus Christ and even those who have received
the baptism in the Holy Spirit and can pray in tongues,
they've been deceived by satan and they do not pray in tongues. Believers do not
pray in tongues in church anymore because it's not respectable, it's not
acceptable.
They want to be accepted by the world but they don't care to deny Jesus Christ
and to neglect the gift that he has given to them. Those who pray in tongues are
speaking to God.
They don't care who is listening because those who listen to them can in any case
not understand what they saying. if I pray in tongues and my brother next to
me prays and tongues then both of us are speaking to God, we're not speaking to
each other. We do not bother each other, we do not interfere with each other
because we are speaking to God. If brothers from different nations and
different languages that cannot even understand each other, but who are filled
with the Holy Spirit, when they get together and they pray in the Spirit
they are of the same Spirit and the Holy Spirit functions in and through them
because they are listening to the Head,
they are serving the Master, they are not busy with each other. Believers want to come
together and have some friendship club, they want to be accepted by each other;
they don't come together to pray to be edified in the Spirit and for the
Spirit of God to work in and through them, to build the Body of Christ because
they are not of the Body of Christ they are of the church club and they have no
relationship with God, they do not know Jesus Christ and that is why they
powerless.
They are all sinners, they are fornicators, adulterers, whores, immoral people coming
together in a church club in the name of Jesus but they serve satan. They are of
the world, they are not of God, they are utterly powerless and that is why the
power of God cannot work through them they are evil, satan lives in them not
Jesus Christ, they're full of demons. If Jesus Christ lives in you, you will be
holy, you will be pure, you will not sin; you will occupy yourself with Jesus, with
the kingdom of God. You will be praying in tongues, you will be speaking to God;
you won't care to speak to people, you will speak to people when God
tells you to speak to people; but otherwise your businesses is with God.
Believers are deprived, they are spiritually dead. The Spirit of God is
not in them they are playing church-games. They think education and Bible knowledge,
church membership, will get them into heaven. It won't; if you do not have the
Spirit of Christ and you are not led by the Spirit then you do not belong to
Jesus Christ. If you have no desire for the Spirit of Christ and if you are not
willing to go and labor in prayer, seek God with all your heart and be receptive,
responsive, and say Lord please fill me with the Spirit, you will not receive it;
If you are not serious about God then you will not receive anything from Him.
If you do not desire Him; if you are not hungry, if you are not thirsty,
if you're not desperate for the Holy Spirit, you will receive nothing.
Believers are so full of themselves, so full of Bible knowledge, so full of their
own opinions, that there is no space for God; there is no space for Jesus Christ.
They are so full of sin and wickedness and worldliness, there is no
space for Jesus, there is no desire for Jesus Christ, but they think they are
going to heaven; they are on the highway to hell; they are sitting in their church
clubs, quoting Bible verses to each other and proving their salvation while they
have no knowledge of God, they have no power of the Holy Spirit in them because
they are sinners. If you are a child of God you will not sin, you will keep yourself pure and
holy because the Holy Spirit of God does not operate through a sinner. If the Holy
Spirit of God is not flowing through you then you are not of Christ.
If you do not keep that stream flowing then you will spiritually die, you will
go stagnant and you will be cut off and burned because you will bear no fruit. Is
Satan robbing you because you are busy with other things?
You are listening to other people, you are spending your time with a Bible and you
cannot do what the Bible says, you have no power to obey Christ because you
don't have the Spirit of Christ in you? It is no good just reading about it.
talking about it, quoting Bible verses; if you are not walking the walk, if you are
not filled with the Spirit, following Jesus Christ and bearing fruit, you are only deceiving
yourself.
We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We need to be praying in the Spirit; the
Holy Spirit of God needs to be flowing through us continuously. We need to be
led by the Spirit of God to do the will of God but if you spend your time on
Facebook and YouTube and with the Bible and with other Christians fellowshipping;
when are you going to spend time with God? When you're going to spend time
praying, if you are sitting watching your television all day and watching TV
preachers? Wwhen will you have time to spend with Jesus Christ. You are only deceiving
yourself dear friend. You have no knowledge of God. Get serious about Jesus
Christ before it is too late because if you are not serious about Him and you do
not seek Him with all your heart and if His Spirit is not working through you,
you will perish, you will end up in hell. We have to deny ourselves, pick up our cross and
follow Jesus Christ every day; we have to be led by the Spirit of God. What guides
you and me?
Our desires, the church? Are we conformed to the world? Do we want to be like other
people? Are the lusts of the flesh driving us, the things of
the world, our ambitions, our own thoughts, our own opinion? Or are we led by the
Spirit of God? Is Jesus Christ on the throne of your and my heart or are we
just deceiving ourselves? We need to wake up and go after Jesus, be serious
follow Him until the very end, walk in the Spirit, pray in the Spirit sing in
the Spirit, live in the Spirit because if you are not in the Spirit you are in the flesh
and you will perish.
Do not allow satan to deprive you of your prize, of eternal, life because if
you are not in Christ and Christ is not in you, you will perish, you will not
enter his kingdom.
Seek Jesus with all your heart. Obey Him, go after Him and let His Spirit guide
you into all truth. May Jesus bless you