HOW WE CAN KNOW IF WE HAVE TEH RIGHT SPIRIT

HOW CAN WE KNOW IF WE HAVE THE RIGHT SPIRIT?

                A friend recently challenged me saying that speaking in an unknown tongue is of the devil. Well, his warnings are valid considering that the wrong spirit is having a hay day in the church today and thousands are being led astray by these false spirits who masquerade as Christ. Yeshua warned us of this when He talked about the last days saying: “See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in MY name saying, ‘I am Christ and will mislead many.” Mt. 24:4, 5. And again in Mt. 24:24 He said: “For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.”

                So I decided to review the differences between the right Spirit and the wrong spirit so that all of us can gain some insight into this fascinating subject. Are your spiritual gifts from the Holy Spirit or from another spirit? I know that I have a right Spirit within me for the following reasons and you can know this for yourself too. So here is a sort of check list that you can use to test the spirits in you:

1.       The Holy Spirit in me always draws me to the Word of God ( John 17:17, Eph. 6:17)

2.       The Holy Spirit in me always draws me into fellowship with Yeshua and He confesses that Yeshua is God in human flesh. 91 John 4:2, 3)

3.       The Holy Spirit always convicts me when I am not bearing His fruit. (Galatians 5:22,23)

4.       The Holy Spirit always convicts me concerning sin and righteousness and judgment. (John 16:8)

5.       The Holy Spirit always calls me to live a holy life. ( Heb. 12:10, 14)

6.       The Holy Spirit always convicts me if I get off track with God and His Word. (Jn. 8:32, Is. 30:21,)

7.       God is absolutely consistent. He never changes His mind about what He has said in His Word. (Mal. 3:6)

8.       God’s truth is absolute and does not change according to situations. (Mt. 5:18)

9.       The Holy Spirit in me teaches me and instructs me in God’s Word (Ps. 73:24-28 is. 58:11, Jn. 16:13, Rom. 8:14)

10.   He creates a hunger in me for His Word and for fellowship with Him. ( Psalm 42:1)

11.   The Holy Spirit dwells in and operates through my spirit, because God is Spirit. (John 4:23, 24)

12.   I must choose each day whether to obey my flesh or obey the Holy Spirit. (Rom 8:5-16)

                When God says that He will never leave us or forsake us, this is true… but we can leave Him even as Adam and Eve did and when they chose the way of the serpent, they began to take on the nature of the serpent. The serpent became their new master and as such every fiber of their beings was bent toward evil. So is everyone who is born of Adam and this is why we must be born again into Christ.

                Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil… to deliver us from Satan’s kingdom by our entering into His death… and then entering into His kingdom by the power of His resurrection. This transition is absolutely necessary. In reality there is no halfway point between kingdoms. We are either in one or the other, and if we fall away from the walk of faith in Yeshua and begin to listen to and obey the serpent we will receive of his serpent spirit and become a part of his kingdom. According to Jesus, we are either children of God or children of the devil. In fact, when Peter, a child of God, began to speak the words of the devil, Jesus said to him, “Get behind me Satan.” And Yeshua said that if we speak not according to His Word it is because we have no light in us.

                The church is the family of the redeemed and the delivered. We have been washed in the blood of the Lamb, conceived by the Holy Spirit and we are growing up in all aspects unto Christ. So what has happened to the church that Satan has been able to invade it and to cause a great falling away from the faith? This is an abomination of the highest sort. It is a tragedy above all tragedies.

                The problem today stems from false doctrine, false prophets and false teachers of the flock. The church has let down its guard and allowed the serpent spirits back into our midst. When you pick only the words from the Bible that you want to hear… when you preach that God’s eternal laws were done away… when you ignore Bible prophecy and serious study and prayer, you end up with a bumper sticker form of Christianity that has no tolerance for sound doctrine. They adopt the situation ethics of the world and they slowly begin to let in New Age spirits and philosophies that are not Christian at all, but have the appearance of being good. IN this way Satan is allowed to pose as Christ in our midst.

                So let me tell you a few things about this serpent spirit that is invading large swaths of the church today.

                Picture if you will a man sitting in the lotus position. Inside of him from his pelvis to his forehead is a staff, known as the staff of Apollo, the god of medicine and the staff is intertwined with two serpents much like the medical sign Asclepius. Along these two serpents are various points called Chakras. Now, let’s see what they mean:

                Dr. Lake explains it saying: “Within Hinduism, the force is called Kundalini. Kundalini is also called the “serpent power” or “goddess energy.” IN the base of the spine, Kundalini (or serpent) is coiled and its powers untapped. Through a system of meditation, breathing exercises, diet and yoga, the pathways within the body are cleansed, allowing the Kundalini spirit or force to uncoil and move up the chakra points within the body… Without prior cleansing of this “nadi system” it is impossible to raise the serpent power (Kundalini-shakti) along the axial pathway.

                AS we picture this Asclepius like sign, we as Christians are immediately reminded of the Nachash, or the serpent that tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden. He promised her life apart from the creator God. It is also very evident that as you engage in these practices of meditation, breathing exercises New Age diets and yoga, you are inviting the seed of the serpent into your life And it is amazing how many Christians today have swallowed these practices hook line and sinker. No wonder there is a great falling away from the faith.

                Some claim to have Christianized these practices, but in truth you can’t baptize a snake. All you have done is to successfully make Satan appear as Christ. But inside he is still the enemy of our souls.

                Likewise the progressive movement today is not merely a political point of view, it is a serpent spirit and you can readily identify it because they all have the same talking points, pro-abortion, pro- gay movement, anti- constitution, anti- Bible, anti- morality, absolute hatred for fundamental born again Christianity… the list goes on. These things all operate by the serpent spirits.

                The spirit of divination is a Kundalini spirit and it is suggested that a lot of those going around the church today and prophesying over people are operating not in the spirit of God but in the Kundalini spirit. And yes, the Kundalini spirit can also imitate the gift of tongues as well and so, if you want to know for sure that you are operating in the true Spirit of God and not in the spirits of this world, please refer to the list of 12 things I mentioned at the beginning of this article. This is not a comprehensive list of course. There are many more biblical signs of a true Christian.  (See Hebrews 4:12)

                Paganism has invaded our culture and it has invaded many of our churches and especially in these last days, we need to go before God and examine our hearts… ask God to examine our hearts to see if there be any unclean thing in us. 1 John 4:1-3 says: “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; and this is the spirit of antichrist of which you have heard that is coming and now it is already in the world.”

                This may seem like a very simple test that leaves a lot of loopholes, but it is not if we take it at its full meaning. We must believe that God Himself came in human flesh to destroy the works of the devil. And if He be God, then His Word is directly from God and is infallible and the Word of God says that this Word became flesh and dwelt among us. It was also this Yeshua that created the world and indeed the universe and all that is in it, and it is He alone that is able to save us. Therefore we will not pay heed to lying spirits or worship them and by the power of Christ that dwells in us we will cast every serpent and contrary spirit out of our lives. We will not embrace their teachings or fall for their enticements. And we will take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. (Which means taking every thought captive to the obedience of His Word, and His Holy Spirit that guides us into all truth and convicts us concerning sin and righteousness.)

                If you think that any of these pagan spirits have a hold on you, then ask for Spirit filled people to pray for you and to help you in your spiritual warfare. When Christians pray together in agreement there is a power unleashed that satanic spirits cannot withstand and they must flee.

                “Little children, let no one deceive you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous, the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil. No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”        1 John 3:7-9.

                Get into the Bible my friends. We are coming into times when we need the sword of the Word and we need the Spirit of God dwelling in us to seal us against the enemy. And don’t negate the Hebrew Scriptures either, because Jesus, beginning with Moses and all of the prophets taught His disciples all things concerning Himself in all of scripture and Paul told us that all of the things that happened to Israel serve as examples to us upon whom the ends of the ages have come. Stop believing the lies that are being preached from many pulpits today and believe the Word. The Law has not been done away. It has been written upon our hearts so that it will be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Much of the church will fall away and only the Remnant of her seed will remain standing who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Yeshua. Think on these things.

                Now you may be thinking that the Christian life doesn’t work for you. Either you have been too sinful, or you have wasted too much time, or you have resisted God for too long. Don’t let the devil’s lies run your life. Salvation was and is God’s idea. If He didn’t want to save you, He would not have come all the way down here and died for our deepest sins. He is able to take the worst sinner bound for death in the gutters of the worst city, and life Him up and save his soul and cleanse his temple and transform that sinner into a dwelling place for His Spirit and He will bring that sinner into the most authentic and life changing relationship with Yeshua that ever existed. He who has been forgiven much will love much and he will have a testimony to share of God’s amazing grace… and he will reach people that no one else can reach… because he has been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.