Today I want to talk to you about discernment....The Lord has been dealing with me a lot lately about this and how much it is needed in the times in which we live now and how much more we should be seeking God for this gift to open our eyes to the deceitful counterfit christianity that is playing out in our world today.

You see today there are many who claim to be Christians, and followers of Jesus Christ, but you have to remember that Jesus had many followers in His days of ministry on earth but in the end there were only 120 who received the promised Gift of the infilling of His Spirit on the day of pentecost and went on to evangelize the world and build His kingdom, we call The Church.

Even the church today compared to the early church created in the beginning is like night and day, we are missing so many of the building blocks that was birthed in the early church that in comparison todays model of the Christian Church is weak and void of the true power of God.

How did we get here?  Well I want to talk to you today about DIAMONDS....

 A natural diamond’s creation began around 100 miles below the Earth’s surface. Each natural diamond is made of pure carbon, compressed by Earth’s pressure over time, and is the hardest substance on earth that exists naturally.

Today, there are many synthetic and laboratory-grown diamonds on the market. These are also made of carbon, but without the Earthly origins of real diamonds, they lack the unique diamond qualities infused by nature.

First let us note that what makes a real diamond strong and beautiful and enduring, to stand the test of time and beauty, only comes from nature...Only when it is manufactured and created by God's design in the atmosphere that God created will it be made into the priceless artifact of true beauty and value.

Real Diamonds are extremely rare.

Diamonds are becoming rarer every day because only one significant deposit has been found in decades. Now, there are so few one carat diamonds being recovered each year, the total number would fill only one exercise ball. Therefore, are diamonds rare? Yes, and they are becoming increasingly more valuable each day.

To keep up with the demand while resources diminish, scientists have started creating many replicas—from lab grown diamonds to simulated diamonds made of glass. However, even when a laboratory-grown diamond has the same chemical makeup as a natural diamond, their mass-produced origins are easily detected and prevent them from maintaining any real value.

 So as related to these facts, a counterfeit diamond may have the beauty and elegance of a real diamond, they can be mass produced using the same chemical make up of a real diamond but because they lack the creative atmosphere that God designed, then what you have is a diamond that looks beautiful on the outside and shines the same bright qualities of the real diamond but when it's strength is tested and it is put under the same pressure as the real diamond it will be crushed and broken.

In like manner the truth about who we are always comes to the surface when we are tested and put under the pressure of our lifes day to day journey. In today's definition of modern day Christianity, we must pray for God's gift of discernment to help us seperate the real from the fake.

It may look real, it may be protrayed as real, but if it is manufactured by man and not God then it will not house the God given components that make it strong and virtually indestructable....why because we have to have what can only be God given to withstand the elements of the atmosphere all around us.

So how can we compete as a Christian to be a diamond in a world of man made synthetic diamonds, with virtually undetectable difference to the naked eye?

We have to have the God given gifts of the Holy Spirit alive and operational in our life.... We must be baptized in the God given atmosphere of the Holy Ghost and have every single component of the Gifts Of the Spirit operational in the Church.

BE A FRUIT INSPECTOR!!!

Be A Fruit Generator!!!

Be Real!!!

Be Authentic!!!

Be Filled overflowing with the power of His Spirit, and allow God's design of you fill your destined place in the body of Christ!!!

Let's take a look at the guidelines outlined in God's word as pertaining to the Fruits Of  His Spirit that all christians should exemplify in our lives.

Galatians 5

13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Selah!!!

Many things in the world can be counterfit,  and can be replocated, even demonstrated as being real, truthful, God given, christianity....but the gospel that Jesus taught not only in His ministry time on earth but also through the Apostles and the early church tells us that narrow is the way and few there be that find it. 

How do we keep from getting lost in the shuffle of religion and shallow Christianity.   It is like me starving you for 3 days, and then giving you a glass only half filled with water.... when I know that will not even quench your thirst much less be enough to keep you alive, but I can say well I gave you water....but really did I help you at all or just leave you thirsting for more.

This is where the church is today and this is how we are operating.  God has given us all that we need to be the powerhouse church He has called us to be, but we are living empty and thirsty and starving spiritually and we have become synthetic just like the diamonds I mentioned above,  we may look the same, show a genuine beauty and portray ourselves as real, but we have lost so much identity of what Christ birthed His true church to be.

 

 Ephesians  5:

5 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Here it is, the answer......

What Does Reprove mean?

REPROVE....

reprimand or censure. 

reprimand · rebuke · reproach · scold · admonish ·

 chastise · chide · upbraid · berate ·

In todays culture this message I am bringing to you today is considered offensive, or hate speech....why ???  Because it puts us in front of the mirror of God's Word, and allows us to see TRUTH and TRUTH sometimes is offensive, but it is still in fact TRUTH.

Never the less even for the most devoted christian this TRUTH PILL can be hard to swallow, but let me say this message is meant to reprove and admonish...

2 Timothy 4 says:

4 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears

4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Colossians 3:12 

12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Selah !!!

My prayer today is that God would grant us discernment to help us shuffle through the muck of this world.

We as the church are now attempting to strive in unprecedented and uncharted waters. 

We need the Holy Ghost in over charge right now and for many of us, even me,  we are operating with only 4 bars of power left when we need to be fully charged and ready.

I am being as real and authentic as I can be today, guys, I have tried to get out of writing this message for months now, but I have this huge warning sign lit up in my spirit. 

We are about to face some dark times and if we are not careful, we as the church will be caught off guard and totally not ready, we will be blindsided and knocked to our knees.

I know this in my spirit, I am sounding the alarm because there are events that are now unraveling in our world that are going to be revealed.  Right now the warfare that has in the past been hidden is now fixing to be displayed on the world stage like never before.  We are in a spiritual warfare, in an unpresedented time.....And if we do not prepare ourselves in the body of Christ, the casualties will be catastrophic.

Lord stir up a hunger in our hearts for Truth And Power.

As we seek more of you Jesus, Baptize us with a fresh anointing, and fill us overflowing with the power of your Holy Spirit.

Bind us together in the  Love and Unity exemplified by the early church.

Let Us be Strong and Bold in our Fatih,Unmoveable and Unshakeable. 

Impart your wisdom and discerment into our hearts that we may stand as strong leaders that shine your light in this hour of darkness that is now trying to overtake this world. 

 Raise up the Army that shall be called " The Bride Of Christ " and make us ready to war.

Cleanse our hearts and our minds and clothe us in your righteousness, Lord for our righteousness is as filthy rags, contaminated by the ugliness of the rampant sin in our world.

Breathe fresh life into your church and use our hands to war against the darkness that is trying to destroy us and all of the generations coming after us. 

Bring Victory to your house once again Oh Lord, and do not turn away from us, but grant us mercy and deliverance in our time of need. 

Make Us Ready!!!  Arm us Oh God with Your Supernatural Power!!!

Open our Spiritual Eyes and give us the ability to Discern the True from the False!!!

Reveal the hidden plans of the enemy to your children and prepare them to stand bold in FAITH, POWER, AND LOVE....

Make us DIAMONDS!!! 

DESIGNED BY YOU!!! 

STRONG AND BEAUTIFUL!!!

RARE AND AUTHENTIC!!! 

AS WE SHINE THE REFELCTION OF YOU !!!