WEEDS IN CHURCHES, PART ONE I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. Acts 20:29-30. In the first part of this teaching, we studied the parable of the weeds, and this enabled us to understand the hidden mystery behind the origin of men who are on earth. As we have studied, many of those surrounding us, are the seed of satan, that is weeds, or demons. And one of the usually asked questions is that of knowing if there are weeds in the midst of God’s people. Are there weeds in churches? If the answer was no, this teaching would almost be of no importance. In churches or still in so-called Christian assemblies today, there are more weeds than wheat, which means there are more demons than true Children of God. Most of the so-called born again Christians today, are people who will never be saved, that is, people who in reality do not believe in Jesus, though they give the impression of following Jesus. Yet, they are called born again Christians; brothers and sisters. And many among them have the titles of servants of God, that is, apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, and other elders; without counting deacons and leaders of the different groups of madness that have been created in assemblies today. It is now easy to understand that many pastors and other so- called servants of God who fill the earth today are of the seed of satan. In the same way, many Christians and so-called Children of God who fill the earth today are weeds. That is why the Truth has disappeared from the earth. If you want churches today, you will find millions. But if you seek some groups of true Children of God, you will find very few. If you want pastors, prophets, evangelists and other so-called servants of God today, you will find millions. But if you seek some true servants of God, ready to teach the Truth and live the Truth, you will find very few. This helps us to better understand the prophecy the Lord gave us in 2Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. Now that we know that in churches and so-called Christian assemblies, there are more weeds than wheat, meaning that there are more demons than true Children of God, it would still be more important for us to know how to recognize them. How do we recognize them? Because of the fact that the Truth is no longer preached, many of these demons feel comfortable in churches. Due to lack of discernment, one does no longer distinguish them from true Children of God; and this creates a serious confusion. Glory be to God, we will now examine the elements of discernment, which help us to recognize them. Matthew 7:15-20 Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. The Lord in this passage, warns us against false prophets, that is against all the children of satan, who would claim to be servants of God, or simply Children of God. The Lord does not only warn us. In His love, He gives us the most precious element we need to recognize them: their fruits. And as each tree is recognized by its fruit, all we need is to learn to recognize their fruits, and we will recognize them easily. The fruits Beloved, before we study their different fruits, know this: there are fruits that a true Child of God cannot bear and there are also fruits that a child of satan cannot bear. There are fruits which I call common fruits between Children of God and children of satan. To save time, I will not insist on the fruits that characterize true Children of God. In one word, it is Love and all the fruits derived from Love. We know them; it is in fact the opposite of fruits that children of the devil bear, fruits we will name below. As for the fruits I called common, it is on the one hand, the fruits of satan that Children of God bear in times of weakness, and on the other hand, the fruits of God that satan’s agents in their craftiness, pretend to bear. The fruits of satan which Children of God at times bear, is sin, in all its forms. Sin is from the devil. “Who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning.” 1John 3:8. There is no sin in God, and true Children of God are supposed not to commit any sin. But because of our nature, it happens to us in times of weakness, to commit some faults before the Lord. But when we are really of God, we have hatred for sin, and we always make all our efforts to flee from sin. 1John 3:9-10, No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother. The fruits of God that agents of satan in their craftiness pretend to bear are generosity, hospitality, and some other good works. I specify that children of satan pretend to bear these fruits, because in fact, they cannot bear them. True generosity comes from love. And as these people have no love in them, because not being of God, even their so-called good works are soiled; they are not done with a pure motive. When agents of satan who are in churches do some good works such as generosity and hospitality, it is always accompanied by incantations. They are generally good opportunities for them to initiate Children of God into witchcraft. Retain again that when the Bible talks of Love, this has nothing to do with what the world in its blindness calls love, that is, love full of hypocrisy and lies. Love has nothing to do with so-called good works that people do in the world. God is Love, and Love consists of walking according to the commandments of God. Retain very well that the children of the devil have no grain of love in them, because not being the seed of God, they don’t have God. Hence, all what you see with your eyes and that you call love, is just false love. And it is this false love, which has filled the world today. True Love can only be found in the true Children of God, because the seed of God remains in them: Love based on the fear of God and on the Truth. Let’s now look at the fruits which help us to recognize the agents of satan in assemblies: They cannot accept the Truth In the first teaching, I talked of the case of those who are not even ready to withstand false gospel. Others on the contrary, accept the false gospel, that is, gospel founded on lies, on false doctrine. And they rejoice greatly in this lie, they are at ease in this type of gospel. But they don’t like to sense the Truth. They are those who savagely combat the Truth. They ferociously persecute those who preach the Truth, even though they claim to be Christians. If they are then very numerous in churches today, it’s because the Truth has disappeared from so-called Christian milieus. It is lie, which means false doctrine that is preached and practiced in churches. And as these people are of lies, they are at ease in these assemblies where false doctrine is taught. They are not in assemblies because they have accepted Jesus Christ; they are there because these milieus of lies fit them well. When the Truth comes, they fight it with all their hearts, and savagely fight the preachers of the Truth. Christian milieu is full of those ones. They are those who fill all the big assemblies of madness that you know today. They appear to be so “zealous for the Lord”, but woe to you if you dare bring the Truth to them. They will ask you like Pilate: What is the Truth? As from now you will recognize them, even if they claim to be servants of God. Do not be surprised at the fact that in the world, there are many so-called servants of God, with all the big titles, even titles that God has never attributed, with millions of so-called born-again Christians, but only few among them are ready to accept the Truth. It is astonishing to note that one finds big assemblies of many hundreds of faithful, without up to ten of them being the seed of God. Beloved, do not be astonished at the fact that when you visit one of these assemblies of madness on Sunday, you have nausea seeing what is going on, and at the same time you see other people rejoicing and telling you how there is anointing in the hall. In the same way that a seed of God cannot be comfortable in lies, a seed of satan cannot rejoice in the Truth. Know very well, that lies, is false doctrine, that is, every doctrine not in conformity with the Word of God, false teachings not in conformity with the Bible that human religion spreads today. The Truth on the contrary, is the word of God as it is written, it is the sound doctrine. If you create an assembly of madness today, it will immediately get full. But if you try to abide in the doctrine of Jesus, all will run away, and persecutions will come to you from everywhere. You now understand more easily that all the big assemblies of thousands of members that you know today are assemblies of demons. They are assemblies created to distract and seduce true Children of God, and to prepare the apostate church of the antichrist. That is why everything is taught in those assemblies, except the Truth. The founders of these assemblies just use the name of Jesus as a pretext to perform their madness. The Bible tells us they have a form of godliness but denying its power. 2Timothy 3:5. When the Truth is preached to them, they become furious, and they fight it violently, persecute those who preach that Truth. And after that, they start praying, they even organize what they call “prayer meetings” and “all night prayers”. They seduce themselves saying they are praying to God. Know this very well: One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28:9. Milieus called churches today are so rotten that, true Children of God no longer know what to do. Anyway, in nearly each country of the world presently, true Children of God have already come out of all these assemblies of demons, and are gathering in small groups, in houses, to sanctify themselves while waiting for the sound of the trumpet. This is not surprising, the word of God says “An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, and he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.” Proverbs 29:27. If you see someone being at ease in these apostate milieus today, know that he is in his milieu. No true seed of the Lord can bear the false doctrine and abominations practiced in these apostate assemblies today. Their madness has become so manifest that someone having the spirit of God cannot put up with what he sees and hears. And even the few Children of God who by ignorance still go to those milieus, will come out soon with the help of the Holy Spirit. They cannot remain in the Truth There is also a good number of them who accept the Truth, but cannot remain in it. Let’s examine this passage, 1John 2:19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. Let’s also examine these passages of the Gospel of John: John 6:60-70 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it? Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, Does this offend you? What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him.” From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God. Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” Not being of the Truth, they always find the Truth very hard, and cannot bear it. There is a striking element here; it’s the fact that Jesus is not surprised at their attitude towards the Truth. More to that, when these people decide to run away from the Truth, Jesus is not the least anxious. He doesn’t run after them to beg them to come back, but on the contrary He even asks those who remained, why they do not also go. If one compares the Pastor Jesus to pastors today, one may be tempted to believe that Jesus was a bad pastor, who did not know how to carter for His sheep, and who did not run after the faithful who were getting discouraged. We nevertheless know there is no better Shepherd than Jesus. The difference with the pastors of today is that Jesus had discernment. He knew that there are people who do not believe, that is, people who cannot be saved, simply because they are not of the seed of God. Jesus also knew that even by compromising, one could not win such people, because they cannot be won over at all. How many true pastors today, because of lack of discernment, spend their time running after demons who cannot bear the Truth, and suffer unnecessarily to try to win them! With regard to false pastors, their case has nothing to do with the lack of discernment. They are motivated by greed. It’s the love of money that animates them. Because of greed, because of the love of money, to better collect tithes and offerings, those pastors spend their time running after people who cannot withstand the Truth. Some go to the extent of changing their messages, to bring back people who had gone, and to prevent those who want to leave from leaving. Not for the concern of saving souls, but in order not to lose tithes and offerings. John 8:30-44 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 set you free. They answered Him, We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?…I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father. They answered and said to Him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. You do the deeds of your father. We are not illegitimate children, they protested. The only Father we have is God himself. Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on My own; but He sent me. Why is My language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your fathers desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. They can accept the Truth, they can believe in Jesus. That is why when one preaches the Truth, there are many among them who believe. But they cannot remain in the Truth, simply because they are not of the Truth. They always end up withdrawing from the Truth. By the grace of God, the study of the other fruits will be done in our next teachings. We know that we are Children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 1John 5:19. May the grace be with you all who belong to our Lord Jesus- Christ! Amen!
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