The Jesus of the Bible and the Jesuses of churches (3)

“1Jn 4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 1Jn 4:2  Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God; 1Jn 4:3  and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God:
and this is that power of the antichrist, of which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.”

After showing us that there are many deceiving spirits that come in the name of Jesus to be worshiped, the Spirit gives us this advice which is both a command. Unfortunately, many people do not love God, but are simply fanatics of churches. It is for them that the Lord speaks, saying “Joh 5:42  but I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.”  If they really loved God with all their hearts, as result, they would be stern in the purity of their faith by not agreeing to obey deceiving spirits, even when they appear in the guise of a false Christianity.

When God tells us to prove any spirit, this is an order that goes without any interpretation. Do not believe every spirit. If a spirit is so-called, or comes in the shape of, Jesus, it is not enough to believe. If an institution is called church, it's not enough to join it. If a speech is called Gospel, it is not enough to receive it. In 2Corinthians 11 - we already read it - the Spirit clearly says that there are other Jesuses, other Gospels and other spirits. Now here the Spirit is giving us the strategy to identify the spirit which is of God and the spirit that is not of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in flesh is of God. But one can only confess Jesus Christ if he believes in Him. And Jesus Christ himself tells us how we must believe in Him “Joh 7:38  He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”

It's about believing in accordance with what the Scripture has said. Can confess Him, only he who believes in Jesus as the Scriptures has said. Others confess their own Jesus, the Jesus of their churches. In his talk with the disciples of Emmaus, the Lord began by blaming them for being “Luk 24:25  … slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!” It should be noted here that He was speaking to the Jews, who were a believing people. They believed in Moses, the prophets, the Psalms and other scriptures, as Christians today believe in the Bible. But the disciples did not believe all of these writings, as Christians also do not believe all of the scriptures. The consequence was that they were not able to recognize the Lord while he was present with them.

To confess Jesus Christ come in flesh, there is a condition that no one can get around: believing as the Scripture has said and all that the Scripture has said. Thus, it follows that to confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is to confess, not a part, but all that the Scripture has said. No one can convince us that he is confessing Jesus Christ by quoting certain Bible passages while rejecting others with niceties such as “This was only for Corinthians ... this is Peter's statement that contradicted Jesus ... this is already over because we are in a different generation...”All those who wrote the Bible did it on the behalf of the Lord, moved by his Holy Spirit (2P 1: 20-21) and thus acted as prophets, for God's Word comes to the prophet. We need a heart flexible and ready to believe all the things they have said (which are written in the Bible).

Then to explain them, the Lord only navigated in all the scriptures. Jesus Christ himself never spoke of Himself using other references or going beyond what is written. And eventually, he opened their minds to understand the scriptures; not to be philosophers or inventors of new doctrines. They were to remain within the limits of what is written. If someone is wise on the part of God, he is within the limits of what the holy bible scriptures have said. God never opened someone's mind to make him able to invent new doctrines. Hence, the disciples, after the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Pentecost day, testified of Jesus saying only what is written.

Paul puts it this way, “Act 26:22  Having therefore met with the help which is from God, I have stood firm unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing else than those things which both the prophets and Moses have said should happen,” It was the same with all the other witnesses of Jesus, they never strayed from the scriptures. Even today there are true witnesses of Jesus who confess Him saying none other than what the Holy Bible scriptures have announced. This is the confession of Jesus Christ come in flesh, the confession of what the scripture has said without straying in any way.

One who does not confess all that the prophets have spoken, from Genesis to Revelation; he does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh, he is not of God, but the antichrist we heard was coming. He may talk about Jesus, but it is not the Jesus of the Bible, but a fake Jesus. Already in the natural realm, hacking has very dire consequences. Cybernetics provides a lot of cases of hacking today. A man can hack a name and a photo of another person and thus open a fake address. Suppose that the real person is Jaja, but has hacked the name of Barack Obama. All the people through to that person will think they are chatting with Barack Obama, but in reality they are chatting with Jaja. If they obey him, they are rather obeying Jaja, Obama knows nothing. If they send money or any other form of present, they are doing this to Jaja; Obama is not aware of all these things. This fake Obama may even require what is unrequireable - such as photographs where they are completely naked - against a false promise, and they will do anything to satisfy him.

It's the same with fake Jesuses. People pray to them, they obey them, they can even worship them ... but in all this Jesus-Christ come in flesh, the crucified or the Jesus of the Bible does not know them and he will tell them that day “Mat 7:23  I never knew you. Depart from me, workers of lawlessness.”  So, what is iniquity (lawlessness) here? - The fact of believing every spirit, neglecting the Lord's command that says, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God." We have one reliable tool to test these spirits: all that the Scripture has said. The devil can mimic everything, but there is one thing he does not make out: to abide in the truth (Jn 8: 46). By cons, Jesus Christ come in flesh, the crucified or the Jesus of the Bible, cannot be found outside of the Scripture.

Likewise all biblical themes can only be explained in all the scriptures; same with all biblical characters. The enemy who does not stand in the truth uses biblical themes to give them non-biblical content; he uses names of biblical characters to apply them to non-biblical characters. For example, no child of God would be displeased to hear of Abraham, Peter, Mary, etc. However, tell me about Abraham according to what the scripture has said, tell me about Peter according to what the scripture has said, tell me about Mary according to what the scripture has said; otherwise you are telling me about a fake Abraham, a fake Peter, a fake Mary. Man must make a profession of faith according to what the scripture has said, woman must make profession of faith according to what the scripture has said, the church must make a profession of faith according to what the scripture has said.

This is what God expects from all of you that sincerely love Him “1Co 4:6  … that ye may learn in us the lesson of not letting your thoughts go  above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for such a one against another.”   Going beyond what is written is a fellowship with fake Jesuses, in other words the demons, and that is to eat meat sacrificed to idols. “1Jn 5:21  Children, keep yourselves from idols.”

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