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“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other”. Matt 6:24 «Do Not Love the World I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.…”
1 John 2:14-16
“Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father”. -John 14:9
“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.” -John 15:19
“See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ”. Colossians 2:8
“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness"; -1 Corinthians 3:19
If we advance on the path of righteousness (sanctification process), we will hate the spirit of the world, of self, of man without the spirit of God, of Satan, to an increasingly degree, because it is alien to the spirit and character of Christ. We move from superficial, selfish, pride in ourselves (the former, old self), hatred, unforgiveness, a limited “love”, unwise in God’s eyes, full of prejudices and so on, to a deeper/more spiritual understanding and thinking. More selfless, boasting in the power of God, not ourselves. Forgiveness, a higher form of love (wanting everyone saved), wiser in God and loss of prejudices. The closer you get to the heart and mind of Christ, the more you detest the former self, which is the same as the spirit of the world the prince of it.
So you come to the full realization that God, as He is in His purest form, can not tolerate sin, which is anything that is not in harmony with His universal law of divine love.
A very personal God, not an impersonal energy. This has nothing to do with physical or mental energies, and everything to do with character traits and spiritual power from the holy ghost. If it was about energies, Christ would not have gained the victory over Satan when he suffered His deepest agony, and also to the point of dying. We would then deny the resurrection of Christ. We would also deny that he came as man, as God incarnate, and tasted every trial and temptation a human being can suffer through, and yet succeeded. It is called the narrow way, and the way of the cross. Not the broad way and a road only filled with pleasures and temporal blessings. No, that is Satan’s counterfeit. Satan’s close counterfeit of energies and naming energies for feelings like “love”, “hate”, “fear” etc, has nothing to do with the genuine religion of God/Christ.
They may seem close, but if you peel off the outer layers, you realize they could not be further apart. They have nothing to do with each other. And yet, almost the entire Christian world is deceived on this point, thinking it does. The Holy spirit is not so much a physical energy nor feeling per say. It is a spirit mostly responsible for spiritual blessings. That is grace, undeserved power from God, to overcome our sinful, natural character. Feelings are involved in the Christian walk, yes, but nothing that resembles that spiritualistic pretence of energies and linking them to “love”. Not at all. It is to pervert the holy truths of God in a very deceptive manner. By changing the ingredients and content of words and phrases pertaining to salvation. Most humans are duped here, but nonetheless, when we hear the truth, we are to repent and turn away from our evil ways. God will forgive our trespasses if we truly surrender.
Satan’s end time religion is about being saved in sin (once saved, always saved. Or cheap “grace”). Or to work your way into heaven in the outer vessel: like energy work found frequently in spiritualism. If we have a divided heart, we will not be able to tolerate the purity of Christ when He arrive. We are not going to like Him, and we will choose the Babylonian version of Christ, which is the Christ of “yesterday's” light, which can soon become a fallen/Babylonian version, by rejecting light from Christ when it arrived. Or tarry too long to embrace it. God represent one of these, and Satan the other. It is impossible for one and the same being to be filled with both. As a natural consequence of being filled fully with one, they will naturally not tolerate the other. They are in complete enmity with each other. So, God can not both be good and evil, as Satan suggest. It is a mere impossibility. The knowledge of good and evil.
“They will declare, “The LORD is just! He is my rock! There is no evil in him!” -Psalm 92:15
The knowledge of Good and Evil -yet God and heaven only contain good. The serpent lured Eve with receiving the “Knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 3:5). Stop for a moment and think here. God is perfectly good, in Him there is no evil. Same goes for His government, His Law, character and spirit. So what Satan wanted to introduce to Eve, and has for the last 6000 years since introduced to mankind, is Babylon: a mixture of Truth and Falsehoods: Of Good and Evil.
Truth biblically speaking, is not the same as realities in this world. In this world, which is a fallen world under the curse of sin, and increasingly so for the last 6000 years, we see both good and evil, but this is not the case in heaven. There existed no evil until iniquity was found in him, Lucifer, the once highly exalted angel, who fell because of His own pride. Until this point in the history of the Universe, there was no evil in existence. And evil will finally have its downfall and end, at the final day of judgment, when sin will forever be eradicated from the face of the entire Universe. And this earth, where the curse of sin has dominated for several thousands years, will also be recreated by God, and will from that point on not have any taint of sin.
However, Satan try desperately and with all his powers to deceive, even the very elect, try to convince people and even Christians that some sin is allowed and even beneficial. And that to separate ourselves from sin, is to be evil and intolerant. Attempting to turn darkness into light and light into darkness. Setting his name on Christ and stealing the name of Christ to his own sinful law, character and spirit. Trying to switch His own image of the beast into the image of Christ. Claiming His own Babylonian agenda and government as that of Christ and coming from heaven.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.» Isaiah 5:20 “Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,» Revelation 21:1 Loving the world while hating the spirit of the world (in them and us) “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other." -Matthew 6:24
What are we to hate?
-The spirit of the world. We love the world enough to want them to be freed from sin and Satan and the spirit of the world, so they can receive the spirit of God and Christ. Heaven is and will always be free of sin, because God and Christ hate sin. It is intolerable to Him.
What type of sin did Christ hate the most? Read Matthew 23. It was the spiritual, inward sins, more than the outward sin, in the flesh. The pharisees was very occupied to cleanse themselves from fleshly, outer sins, but were not so concerned about spiritual sins. Christ rebuked them for this specifically. It was sin that crucified our Lord. If we do not hate the spirit of this world and sin, there is something wrong and we must pray to hate it. Again, we want the world to be saved from the spirit of the world. The spirit of the world leads to destruction and death, and both physical and spiritual death in the end, to those who do not repent. This is the second death. While possessing the spirit of God will lead to life everlasting.
New age religion (spiritualism) say we can be saved in sin. That is to say we can be saved with the spirit of the world, which is the spirit of Satan. It is to say that Satan can be saved, and that heaven will be full of sin and sinner. No. Only past sinners, but they will all be overcomers. Because heaven and God does not tolerate sin. His spirit will cleanse sin by water and fire. If we have not overcome by the blood and grace of Christ on the day of judgment, we will be destroyed in the cleansing fire from God. This is like a natural consequence and the reason why we must overcome here. It must happen here because heaven and God can not tolerate sin, so it is on this earth we are tested and tried and purified.
Who do we choose? The spirit and law of this world, or the spirit and law of God?
Entire series: "Character of God. Defended"
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