A true disciple emulates his master by speaking, thinking and acting as does his Master.  True disciples/Christians are “little Christs” in that they do the bidding of the Head of God’s church. Christ leads his disciples by His Holy Spirit–His power–which true God seekers receive upon being converted. The Holy Spirit enables them to hear from and reply to the Lord. The Spirit then empowers the disciple to obey Christ’s Spiritually-carried Words.  Scripturally the Holy Spirit is called by such titles as the Spirit of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:19),  the Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2), the Spirit of God’s Son (Gal. 4:6), the Spirit of promise (Eph. 1:13) the Spirit of God (Mat. 3:16), the Spirit of the Lord (Acts 5:9), the Spirit of Holiness (Rom. 1:4), the Spirit of Grace (Heb. 10:29) and the Spirit of Truth (1 Jn. 5:6). It is by way of His Spirit that God’s people hear His “voice.” His voice is always backed up by His written Word. If not, then one is hearing the wrong voice. Having heard both voices on numerous occasions, I can vouch for Satan’s ability to deceive. The Word is the key, which is why God gave it to us.

Man’s individual human spirit, which God gives each person at birth, is the agency by which He communicates with man and man with Him. Without the Holy Spirit, which God gives to true converts, man can communicate only with Satan. Satan, using man’s spirit, leads him through thoughts, impulses, etc. Outwardly, Satan–the Antichrist–leads his disciples (all non-Christians) by way of his evil spirits. Scripturally they are known as “devils.” These devils entice unregenerate man to do the evil that Satan has placed in his mind. Man is led by his god through his god’s spirit. ONE IS EITHER LED BY THE SPIRIT OF THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE OR BY THE SPIRIT OF THE GOD OF THE EARTH.

God leads His saints by His Holy Spirit that resides in them. Only those who have God’s Spirit and obey His “voice” spoken through that Spirit are His sons (Rom. 8:14).  Outwardly, the Antichrist transmits his voice globally through his false prophets who operate under his power which is called “the spirit of antichrist.” That spirit uses devils–fallen angels–to entice their victims to do Satan’s bidding. People who follow them (99% of the world’s population) operate under that same spirit. Tragically, both false prophets and their followers believe that they are hearing and obeying the voice of the Lord. This deception is the cornerstone of Satan’s work. It is by deception that he has gained power over and control of professing Christendom. As God tells us in Revelation 12:9, Satan has deceived the whole world, which includes the church world. And it is all the result of ignorance and unbelief–the hallmarks of Satan’s power over mankind.

In 1 John 4:3 the apostle states that anyone who does not profess that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ of God Who came in the flesh is not of God, and that such a denier operates under the “spirit of Antichrist.” Note that he was writing to the church. Nothing has changed. Some people in the early church and all people in the modern church openly and proudly DENY that Jesus of Nazareth was the Lord’s Messiah Who came to earth in the flesh. Of course, no one will admit this heresy to himself or to anyone else. Church people will say they believe that Jesus was God’s Messiah Who came in the flesh. But their lives prove otherwise.

God’s Messiah came in the flesh to exalt the Word/will/gospel/Law of God which He recorded in His Holy Bible. Today’s Counterfeit Church rejects the Bible by refusing to believe and obey it. By rejecting God’s Word, the church DENIES that the Biblical Christ was God’s true Christ come in the flesh. This ministry proves that statement by comparing what God said to what the church proclaims and does. There is no comparison. When God zigs the church zags. See the Introduction to this website for a list of a few of the church’s zags.

However, the church is not without its messiah. She has created her own savior who says what she wants him to say and does what she wants him to do. The Institutional Church does not believe that the Biblical Jesus was Who He said He was. The church’s Jesus rejects the Biblical record and leads her through his wide gate and along his broad path to destruction (Mat. 7:13,14). Due to ignorance of God’s Word, professing Christendom does not realize that her messiah/savior is Satan himself. She has been deceived by the serpent of Eden who has enticed her to partake of the forbidden tree. She, like her spiritual mother Eve, has found that it is pleasing to the eyes, tastes good and makes her wiser than God. And in that anyone wiser than God must be a superior god, THE CHURCH HAS DECLARED HERSELF TO BE GOD. This is idolatry of the highest order.

I will end this series with a warning from the true Messiah/Savior as recorded in Matthew 24. When asked by His disciples when He would return to earth to establish His kingdom, Jesus did not answer their question. Instead He voiced the most important issue of that day and every day since. He warned them about being deceived by men into following the rider on the white horse–the Antichrist–who, by passing himself off as Jesus, “deceives many.” The false church came into being not long after Jesus established His church in 31 A.D. Since then Satan has managed to exponentially increase the size of his church while Christ’s church has been decreasing in size. As a result, Satan’s antichrist church today numbers over three billion while Christ’s church consists of only a few thousand. The mustard seed has truly become a tree filled with birds who have come to nest in it (Lk. 13:19). And we all know what birds do to trees. L.J.