(In the Word) 09 - Bearing Fruit for God or the Devil — Milton Green

Revelation in the Word Versus Human Tradition

When anyone receives revelation in the Word of God, it sometimes conflicts with what he has previously been taught. This causes you to have to deal with old traditions or wrong teachings. These tapes may contain some new light from God's Word, and it may be opposed to some traditions you have previously learned.

Therefore, follow through these messages in your Bible, in sequence, in order that you may be able to make a choice for the Word of God, rather than the traditions of men. This is tape number nine in a series.

We urge you to listen to all the tapes in the series in numerical order, so that the whole teaching can be received and understood. Listening to a part of the series, or to the tapes out of sequence, can lead to a misunderstanding of the nature, the intent, and the importance of the series.

This is why He lets the spirit of sleep and a deluding influence come over people who draw near with their mouth and do not draw near to God with their heart. He lets them believe a lie. And we see it later.

Israel as the Vineyard and the Fruit of Righteousness

Now, verse seven. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the what? May I ask you something? Who is the house of Israel today? The house of Israel today are the ones that Jesus Christ is Lord. Is that clear?

We are the Israel of God. We are the spiritual Israel of God. Now, for the vineyard of the house of the Lord is the house of Israel, and a man of Judah is a delightful plant. He became looking for justice.

Now, justice is something right, being just in God's eyes, and discipline, behold what he finds. Bloodshed. Now, did I tell you how you take traditions right there, and just beat someone to death at the spiritual things, and come against them to where?

You shed the blood, because you move them in under the law. You move them in under, into the flesh, and, and, and, and, and that's how you shed blood. You see that? Now, in the next part, for righteous.

He looked for righteousness, but that's walking right in God's eyes, but what do you hear there? Like, you know, what that cry of distress is? Look at me. This is what prisoners do. Prisoners are in the war of the mind, the will, and emotions, their bodies being attacked.

This is the cry of distress. He looked for the, for the fruit of righteousness in there, but here's what he found. What's a, what's a cry of distress, and that's the power, powers of darkness right there, have moved in.

Repentance and Bearing Fruit in Luke 3

All right, now. Turn with me to Luke 13, please. I mean Luke 3. I'm sorry. Luke 3. Luke 3. Luke 3. All right, now, verse 7. Now, here's John the Baptist. Him and the Lord Jesus talked a lot alike. He had the same teacher.

Verse 7. He, John the Baptist, therefore began saying to them all, these who were going out to be baptized with him, you brood of snakes, who warned you to flee from the what? Wrath to come. Now, what's the wrath come?

You saw that the wrath that you like over in Ephesians 5 comes, and every place it comes on those who practiced the lust of the flesh. That right? That's who the wrath comes on. Now, he told them, he said, who, who, who told, who told you to flee from a wrath that's coming on you?

You know, you looked over in John 8, though, and saw all their treats. He said, I, I speak the same. My father, you do the deeds of your father right there. You're walking your deeds of the devil. Your father's a devil.

You do the desires of your father. You know what he told them? And he said, well, here's some of them come down to be baptized. Who, who warned y 'all to flee from the wrath to come on you? How'd you get to know about that?

And then he goes on. There's, they're coming to be, coming to the Lord, verse 8. Therefore, he said, you, you, you snakes, you, you family of the devil. That's what a snake is. You know, the serpent, the family of the, you family of the devil.

There's three. Therefore, you better bring forth what? Fruits in keeping with what? Repentance. Now, look at me. Here's what he said. This is very important. I want you to hear what I'm saying. He said, you family of the devil.

Who warned you to flee? How do you know the wrath of God's coming on you? Who told you to flee from it? He said, I've got one thing I'd like to say to you. If you really are serious about, you better be serious about this thing.

You better in your repentance. You better really be making a change. And there better be some fruit in your life that shows that you have really repented. Snake. You better be repenting. And he said, snakes, I want to tell you why you've been repenting here.

It's because you better be repenting in just a second since you got down here. Therefore, bring forth fruits in keeping with repentance and do not begin to say to yourself, we have Abraham for our father, or I belong to some denomination, or I'm this, or I'm that.

For I say to you that God is able from these stones to raise up Cheryl and Abraham. And here it is. Are you ready, folk? Here's why you better bring forth and keep in repentance, because here's what's on you, you family of the devil.

And also the ax is already laid at the foot of the trees. You're already being cut down. You vipers. You better mean business. You better, because you're already being chopped down right now. Death is working in you.

You're being chopped down and you're drifting further and further and further all the time. This is what happens to people the hard way. They go further and further away from the Lord. You're already being laid at, the ax is already laid at the root of the trees.

And every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit, you better be repentant. You better bear fruits and keep your repentance, because if you don't bear good fruit, you're cut down and thrown into the fire.

That's going to get plainer. That's going to get a lot plainer. See, we're still starting down here. It's all over the Bible. Now, let me give an example about something in, uh, about the flood. Please turn back to Ezekiel 13, please.

False Prophets and the Flood of False Teaching

I want to show you how this flood works. While we're there, close to that subject, this flood of words. The powers of darkness, what happened when the hedge is removed. What happens when people want to go be the boastful pride of life, making a name for something except the Lord Jesus Christ.

In Ezekiel 13, verse 1, Ezekiel 13, verse 1, right after Jeremiah. Okay, then the word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, prophesy against the what? Prophets of Israel. Are they prophets in Israel today, folks?

They're, God's had a Israel since Exodus, hasn't he? That's Israel God. All right, the prophets of Israel who preach and say to those who prophesy or preach from their own, their what? Oh, they've got their own inspiration they're preaching from.

Listen to the word of the Lord. Here's what he said. I want you to preach to these preachers. I want you, I want you to prophesy a prophet. I want, I want you to go say something to these people that's preaching from their own inspiration.

And here's what I want you to tell them, verse, a prophet in verse 3. Thus says the Lord God, woe to the what? Now, don't you remember a foolish prophet? Let me tell you, a foolish prophet is not standing on the word of God.

A foolish heart is not standing on the word of God. He's deceived. I want you to remember the word foolish and mark it, this foolish prophet. Woe to the foolish prophets who are following their own spirit and they've seen what?

Nothing. He probably counts a lot. He's seen nothing. Why? God's not doing nothing now. That's why he's not seeing nothing. That's why he has to promote everything. And God don't do anything, you have to jack up the flesh and start promoting.

Gotta be excited about something. This foolish prophet, you, you preach from your own inspiration. You've seen nothing. Ain't no power. Verse 4, O Israel, your prophets have become like foxes among the ruins.

You've not gone into the breaches. See there? What's a breaches? Enemy comes in like a flood. Nobody lifts up a standard. Nobody lifts up the word of God. Nobody has faith in the word. He said you've not gone up to the breaches nor did you build a wall.

That's a glory of the Lord Jesus Christ around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the Lord. You didn't do that. You don't do that. You don't stand in the word. They see falsehood and lying divination, these false prophets who are saying the Lord declares when the Lord has not sent them.

Yet, here's what they're hoping for. They hope for the full fulfillment of their word so they'll look gooder and smarter and the boastful pride of life. All right now, verse 7. Did you not see a false vision or speak a lying divination when you say the Lord declares but is not spoken?

This is what happens when you preach traditions. You're preaching a lying divination. This is what you preach when you preach another Jesus. You're preaching a lying divination. When you preach another gospel, you're preaching a lying divination.

When you preach another righteousness, you're preaching a lying divination. Now, the Lord declares what is not I who have spoken. Verse 8. Therefore, thus says the Lord God because you've spoken a falsehood you've seen a lie.

Therefore, behold, I'm against you declares the Lord God. Verse 9. So my hand's going to be against the prophets who see these false visions, utter these lying divinations. They'll have no place in the council of my people nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel.

They're not a God. Nor will they enter the land of Israel that they may know that I'm the Lord God. Verse 10. It's definitely because these people have what? They mislead my people. They misled my people by saying peace, peace, safety.

When there is no peace, there's a war. All the works of the powers that are coming to kill, steal, and destroy. The wolves are all over the place and move right inside to destroy the congregation. And when anyone builds a wall, it looks like a Lord, you know.

And they build a wall up there and make it kind of look good from the eyes of the flesh. When no one builds a wall. See, it's not a wall of the glory of Jesus. When anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash and it looks so good.

But nickels, noses, and numbers or whatever. Some person's reputation or builds a bunch of monuments that we can see with our eyes right there. Build up the house of the Lord on the bricks and stone instead of building up his temple to bear the fruit for God.

Which is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, meekness, temperance, faith. Which is dying to the flesh, going to the cross, denying yourself, giving all the glory to the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Foundation That Endures the Flood

They plaster it over with whitewash, verse 11. So you tell those who plaster it over with whitewash, it's going to fall. There will be in my anger, I told you every time the wrath of God was there. And the anger of God right behind it comes the powers of darkness.

Look at there, it is. And in my wrath and in my anger, mark wrath and anger. There will be a what? A flooding rain and hailstorm to consume it in my wrath. So I'm going to tear down the wall which you plastered over with whitewash.

And I'm going to bring it down to the ground so that it's what? Where did we look at in Luke 6, sir, that the flood comes against? It comes against the foundation. Is that correct? Amen? I'm going to consume so that his foundation is laid barren.

And when it falls, you're going to be consumed in its midst. And you'll know that I'm the Lord. Now let me ask you something. What kind of a foundation is it? Look at me. What kind of a foundation do you think it is that when you want, when your heart goes to build up numbers more than it does to build up the temple of Christ?

What kind of a foundation is it that devils and terrors and lost people that won't come to the Lord right there that can be joined with the heart is over here where you do discipline, die to the flesh, and purge sin?

One of these is the wrong foundation. There's many wrong foundations. There's many another Jesus. Now let's go on there in verse 15. Thus I shall spend my wrath on the walls. And those who plastered it over with whitewash, I'll say to you, the wall is gone and all the plasters is gone.

The one that put that wall up are gone too, because he let them be destroyed. The plasters go with the wall. The ones that put these walls up are going to be destroyed and consumed with them. And 16, you go along with the prophets of Israel who preached to Jerusalem, the church, who see all these visions of peace, peace, safety, be a good denomination, be a good this, be a good church, be of this.

They see visions of peace and never deal with the flesh and never deal with the devil, put up the faith against, ignore the devil. For her, when there is no peace, declares the Lord God. What did you remember what Paul called those Pharisees?

And he called them a whitewashed wall. You remember that? Said you whitewashed wall. So you just have a fit. You're a pretender. You adult. Turn over to Isaiah 29, please. Isaiah 29. Praise Jesus. Praise Jesus.

Drawing Near to God With the Heart

Now, let me tell you something, folks. When a person comes to the Lord with his head right here, he's going to draw his head and his flesh. He's going to get born again out of the flesh. He's going to draw near to God with his mouth.

And he's going to do good things and religious, but his heart's far from the Lord. The one who draws near to God in his heart right here is going to obey the word of God. Those that love him will obey the commandment.

And he'll put to death and he'll die because he'll love God more than he loves his flesh himself. He'll deny himself. He'll take up his cross and he'll follow the Lord. All right. Now, you know in a word when it talks about stumbling.

Now, I want you to get this right here. Now, a person when he's stumbling, you don't want the curse, but the curse there over in blessings in the curse in Deuteronomy 8 said you will stumble at noonday.

But how do you stumble? At noonday, noonday is the most light part of the day. And at noon, the more time that you have more light than anyone. So it's not talking that you're going to stumble because you can't see where you're going physically.

You're going to stumble. Look here. You're going to stumble in spiritual darkness. And sometimes this stumbling is called staggering. Now, let me tell you something that can make you stagger. To make you stumble, receive another gospel.

Receive another Jesus. Receive the wrong wine. Receive another teaching. And then you will stagger in spiritual darkness, which staggering means you can't find the way you're a drunkard. And that's what the word calls a drunkard.

And Isaiah 29, I want you to look at this. Verse 9, Be delayed and wait. Just blind yourself and just be blind. Stay blind. If you want to be blind, you just be blind. If you want to be ignorant, just be ignorant.

And they become drunk. There it is. But it's not with wine. They stagger. Don't you mark this a drunk and stagger. But it's not with strong drink. You see, that's what I'm fixing to tell you. Because why?

The hedge is removed from them. And the Lord has poured over them a what? A spirit of deep sleep. Now, I want you to know that's not fake and spirit. That's not slang. What it is right there, he has removed the hedge.

And he has said, sick them. So they move in to craftily deceive the minds. They're deceived. And you're going to see what their problem in a minute. They want to draw near with the Lord with their mouth.

And their heart is far from God. And God removes the hedge. He says, sick them. And so he lets a diluting influence run. Same thing you see in Cecil Owens at people's heart. It wants to fall after signs and wonders.

Instead of love of the truth. And he said, he up there left him perish. And he lets a diluting influence come over him. That's the same thing right here. It is said right here. Your heart goes to anything.

Gifts. Healing. Deliverance. Who is a healer? Jesus. Who is a deliverer? Jesus. What is a gift? It's part of Jesus. What are the experience there, Jesus? Rejoice not that the demons are subject to you.

But rejoice that your name is where? Don't take your eyes off of heaven. You better not take your eyes off of Jesus or anything. All right, now. For the Lord is poured over you, verse 10. A spirit of deep sleep.

He has shut your eyes of profit. He has covered your head with sears. And the entire vision, this book right here, is going to be like words of a what? Seal book. That's why folks getting the word right here.

And they're ever learning, never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Because it's sealed. They're drawing near with their mouth instead of their heart. Because when you draw near with your heart.

He said, those that love me are going to obey me. And the entire vision should be like words of a seal book. Which when they give it to the one who is literate. Saying, please read this. Educated. He'll say, I cannot.

Read it's sealed. Then the book will be given to the illiterate. Saying, please read this. And he'll say, I cannot read. Now, I want you to know why the reason they're drunk. I want you to know why they stagger.

I want you to know why God has put a spirit of deep sleep over them. You see it right here in verse 13. Then the Lord said, because. Because right here, circle. Because you're going to see. Because why God always does this.

Because this people draw near with their words. They honor me with their lip service. They remove their hearts from far from me. Their hearts from me. They draw near their mouth. The religion and the reverence for me consists of tradition.

Tradition. Tradition learned by rote. And you might put their mechanical repetition. Just doing the same thing over and over. That's tradition. That's tradition. Now, verse 14. Here's what God does with these ropes.

Therefore, behold, I once again deal marvelously with this people. Wondrously marvel with the wisdom of their wise men. Going to perish the wisdom of God. It's going to leave them. What kind of wisdom comes in?

The world and the flesh and the demons. You see that? You get another wisdom. And then the next part is. And the what? What's that word? All of a sudden, there's no need for any discernment. And the discernment of their discerning men shall be what?

Concealed. They won't have any discernment. People that draw near the mouth and don't hear the heart. All of a sudden, the discernment is gone. Now, if you build a building from here to Dallas, Texas.

And I'm going to tell you what. See, it looks good because it looks like a business. When you look at it, you think big's good. When you look at it in the flesh, right? But what if it does not have any discernment in it?

Who do you think's running it? If it doesn't have the anointing and the power of God in it, it's got in it. So then you build a monument from here to Dallas. You can see with your eyes. What's that got to do with God?

You put a copper top on it or whatever. Dear me, verse 20. For the ruthless are going to come to an end. And this scorner, this fleshly will be finished. He's going to be finished, this scorner and scoffer.

Indeed, all who intent on this evil doer will be cut off. They're cut off. Who causes the person to be indicted by the words. They just pour the words on him and ensnare him. Adjudicate the gate that preaches the word.

And defraud the one in the right. And they just want to bring these meaningless, meaningless arguments. Chapter 30. There's a Lord who execute a program, but it's not mine. Is that plain? You got some plans worked out and they're not God.

You make an alliance, not at my spirit. This alliance could be with the world or unevenly yoked devil. In order to add sin to sin. That's all I can do, just keep them going that next one. Folks, I want to tell you something.

You better tighten your safety belt. We're moving in some powerful things. This walk with the Lord. I mean, he means business. We're going to have to have a lot of grace to be able to take it. I believe this grace is moving us into a place where we can receive grace.

It's been dark, folks. Very, very, very dark. A lot darker than you can comprehend. The enemy has so easily has deceived us. So easily deceived us about so many things. I don't want to give you an example of that.

The Enemy’s Attack on the Word of God

Do you know that the word, the enemy, the powers of darkness come and take the word out of your heart? Now, when the word is not too important, that's no big deal. Say, do you think the most important thing that the powers of darkness want to do to you?

I want you to hear what I'm saying is take the word away from him. If they keep the word away from you, they've got you. Now, if they get the word out of your heart, and I want you to know that that is the main attack of the powers of darkness, that you don't have this word in your heart.

Turn to Mark 4, please. Praise your name. Praise you, Lord Jesus. In Mark 4, we're going to look at the parable of the word. We're going to come to a place when we get down to verse 13, that the Lord asked in this parable, if you do not understand this parable, how are you going to understand all the other parables?

In other words, if you do not understand the parable of the word, how are you going to understand any parable? Which makes this parable, which we're reading right here, the most important parable in the word of God.

Now, Jesus came before one of the largest congregations that ever stood in front of him. He didn't try to coax them out of their flesh. He spoke spiritual things. He spoke in a mystery. You either have ears to hear or you don't.

You don't hear if you don't come to God, if your heart's not turned to the Lord. As you see, these people didn't. Now, let's begin to look there in verse 1. And he began to teach Jesus by the sea and such a very great multitude.

A multitude is almost more than you can count, isn't it? But this is a very great multitude. That's like television in 14 states. And such a very great multitude gathered to him that he got into a boat in the sea and he sat down and a whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

Now, here's a good chance to build something right here. He had all these numbers right there that he had to get in a boat and get out in the sea and all this great multitude. I think in Matthew 13, it calls it multitudes were there on the shore.

Verse 2, and he was teaching them many things in parables once said to them in his teaching. Now, here begins the parable in verse 3. Listen to this. Behold, the sower went out to sow. It came about as he was sowing some seed fell beside the road and the birds came and ate it up.

You have any idea who these birds are? Those are the powers of darkness. The seed is the word of God. They come and eat the seed up. They take it away from people. Of course, this is a mystery right there.

Other seed fell on the rock. Now, later on, when you get over in Luke Gate, it calls it the birds of the air come and eat it up. Now, I've told you about the beast of the field. The birds of the air is a type for the powers of darkness.

And of course, Luke Gate is a good example. That's the same parable right here where it calls the birds of the air come and eat up the seed. All right, now, verse 4, and it came about as he was sowing some seed fell beside the road.

The birds came and ate it up. Verse 5, other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil. As the sun had risen, it was scorching because it had no root.

It withered away. Other seed fell among the thorns. The thorns came and it choked it, and it yielded no crop. Other seed fell into the good soil. As they grew up and increased, he yielded a crop, produced 30, 60, and 100.

As he was saying, and he was saying, he who has ears to hear, let him hear. Well, everyone had ears, didn't he? Everyone had ears, but he was talking about spiritual ears to hear. Now, there is a chance right there, I mean, to get them joined up.

And the Lord Jesus Christ and all that great hundreds and hundreds of people spoke to him in the total mystery. You know what they understood? You know what they understood in the mystery and the parables he shared?

Nothing. Not even one of the 12 disciples even understood what he was saying. If the 12 disciples didn't understand what he was saying, none of the rest of all those hundreds understood what he was saying, but here's what he did.

He took the disciples to the side, because disciples get to know the meaning of God's word. Now, it's important to see this. Verse 10, and as soon as he was alone, his followers, or disciples, along with the 12.

Now, I want you to know there's more than 12 disciples there, okay? But anyway, the disciples began asking him what? They're asking him about the parables. They didn't know what the parable meant. They want to know what the parable meant.

Now, here you had this great crowd. I mean, Jesus spoke the word of God. If you didn't have ears to hear, you couldn't hear it. Did the Pharisees hear it? Pharisees are not hearing it today. Verse 11, and he was saying to them, here are the answered disciples.

Now, the multitudes are gone. The Sunday morning crowd's gone. And he was saying to them, to you it has been given the mystery. The disciples have been given the mystery of the kingdom of God. But those who are outside get everything in the mystery.

This Bible's been made to understand. Disciples understand what the word of God means. Verse 12, in order that while seeing they may see and they do not perceive. Now, that's exactly the way Jesus intended to be.

He speaks this word in the mystery that while seeing you will not perceive if your heart is not a disciple's heart. And while hearing they may hear and they'll not understand. They'll be ever learning, never able to come to knowledge of the truth.

Lest they repent, return, and be forgiven. And he said to them, do you not understand this parable out here, the parable of the word? How will you understand all the parables? All right, then he begins to the disciples.

He tells them what this mystery is, as he is today. The sower sows the word. Now, I want you to begin to see, brother and sister, that to attack against you by the powers of darkness is to steal the word out of your heart.

And so that the word cannot work through you. And if this word does not work in you, you will not bear fruit for God. And when you're not bearing fruit for God, God is not doing a bunch through you. When you're bearing fruit, you know, you ask anything you ask and it be given to you.

I mean, you're ruling rain, brother. I mean, God is working through you. But if he steals the word, you're not walking in covenant. If you're not walking in covenant, you don't bear any fruit. Are you seeing this?

Now, you're fixing to see right here in this parable, the attack against you to take the word out of your heart. This is one of the most important things I'll share with you these three days. What you're fixing to see in the word.

You'll see how the powers of darkness, their motives and their goal, the main thing is keep the word of God out of your heart. Steal it from him. Now, let's see it. Verse 14, the sower sows the word. The word is, that's what I'm doing right now, isn't it?

I'm sowing the word of God. All right, now watch here. Verse 15, and these are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown. Is that you? And when they hear, when they hear the word of God, just as quick as they hear the word of God, immediately, bang, Satan comes and what?

He takes away the word. Will you underline that? He takes away the word which has been sown in them or in their heart. Now, let me tell you something. When it says Satan takes it, Satan can only be in one place at one time.

Do you see that? I don't imagine Satan's going to get too tied up with one of you. So when you're talking about Satan, you're talking about the powers of darkness. It's synonymous. We'll look at something about that later.

You're talking about one, you're taking up. He comes and takes the word out of your heart, the powers of darkness. And we're going to see why the word's not in your heart. Hey, takes the word of God out of your heart.

Verse 16, a similar way. These are one whom the seed was sown on the rocky places, who when they hear the word, immediately they receive it with joy. Joy, joy. And they have no firm root in themselves, but are only what?

They're temporary. And then here comes the first of attacks, affliction. Affliction will come to take that word. Or what's the next thing? Persecution. Let me ask you something. I'll tell you something, folks.

If I kept my mind on all the things that's being said about me, I've had it. When I want to be eaten off the tree of knowledge of good and evil. When there's a good tree to eat out of. I like to eat out of the tree of life, not death.

It don't matter what it matters for folks, what they're saying, but it doesn't. What really matters? It matter what God said or what folks think. Absolutely. Thank you, brother. Now, what's the difference in you and me?

There's no difference. God's God, isn't he? Whether it's you, me, I've got a part. You've got a part. Important things. You say what God says and do what he says. Walk in it. Amen. The first attack on you is affliction to attack your body.

And that does kind of destroy a lot of your faith, won't it? Do you ever notice? Pastor, I'm sure some of you heard of, never got involved in healing. Let me tell you what's going to happen to your church.

If you never practice healing, you start in it. The powers of darkness. Are going to set up someone who they know they have so much ground in them. And they have such a right to be there. That you haven't gone to a place to know how to get that ground back.

And they'll begin talking and moving to set this man up as an example right away. And so instead of just praying this man and knowing him and you don't know what's in somebody's heart, I, I wasn't somebody, but I can't save them.

I don't stop witnessing. I'm not the savior. I pray for people to heal. I don't, I can't heal them. I believe everyone I pray for is going to be healed. I don't know what's in their heart. You think everybody you baptize are safe, but then they'll set up a person.

And then you'll make this a focal point. And it's powers of darkness set you up. And then the powers of darkness know they've got that person close to death right then. Close to, I mean, a breakdown. They know, uh, well, I'm not going to get in some of the details of how you can know, but they know, they know where they've got that body.

And then here you are, you've guards preaching the scripture and then bang right there. Someone dies. And then the church bosses and, uh, terrors begin jumping up and down. And then the powers of darkness attacked you, attacked your wife, attacked your family and everything.

Such pressure on you back off, back off back. They won't work. Back off. Now all the intimidation and fear and everything's come on you because see, you just didn't know. You hadn't come to a place where you'd know are suspected that hadn't dealt with the things, how the powers of darkness would trick you and deceive you and set up a situation like that.

So the affliction comes against someone's body. And when this affliction comes, it steals people's faith. It steals the word. And then they begin to listen about this another Jesus that Jesus can't do nothing, see.

It steals the word. You know how, how you steal the word in your heart? They replace it with something else, a lie, another gospel, another Jesus. So see, what we do, you take what light you have, if it's that much, you're not going to get all the light at one time.

You're going to get light as you walk in the light. Pharisees wanted all at one time and wasn't going to receive it. And they didn't get it. Neither would you. You'll walk in what light you have because you're going to be tested.

You'll be tested before you get more. We'll see which, where your heart really is, which headquarters your heart is really on. Now, the first attack is steal the word out of your heart. It's affliction.

The second is persecution. Because see, if your heart can become concerned about what people are saying about you and what your, uh, uh, your pride or things, see, you understand what you mean? It's going to sway.