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I want to get right to the point in this word today. We have no time to waste as these days that lie before us are evil. Satan the devil is bent on pulling the shade, that is, he is endeavoring to stop, to thwart the light of the truth of God's word from going forth and shining into the darkness of this depraved and degenerated world. Apostle Paul gave us the warning in Ephesians 5, and he tells true believers, the way in which we must conduct our lives. He says, Look carefully, then how you walk. Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as unwise and witless, but as wise, sensible, intelligent people, making the very most of the time, buying up each opportunity because the days are evil. Verse 17, Therefore do not be vague, thoughtfulness, and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but ever be filled and stimulated with the Holy Spirit. The warning here is have a clear knowledge of good and evil as a choice and an advantage of full grown mature man or woman in the body of Christ. Hebrews 5.13 declares, Anyone who lives on milk, still being an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness, but solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish between good and evil. and this is saying that if you do not take this walk and life serious and do not eat and feed on God's pure unadulterated word and live your life by this truth then you are fooling and deceiving yourself with the mix and that dear church leaves you deaf, blind and dumb it is a terrible thing to be inexperienced and unskilled in the truth of holy living and God's righteousness. It is terrible to live this life without the power of the Holy Spirit at work in your life, uprooting all the vile and the unlovely and bringing about His wonderful transformation, making you a new creature in Christ. This really boils down to lack or submission, or maybe better called lack of obedience, lack of submission, will be detrimental into the God-given and divine ability to discern the difference between good and evil. And this is our subject today, discerning the difference between good and evil. You see, we live in a day and an hour where we cannot take these times lightly and act like the heathens or unbelievers do as they go about their business and merrily on their way, never, never aware or discerning the calamity that is about to suddenly come upon them. Do you know that we have many unbelievers sitting in the pews of church today? They are totally unaware of the difference between good and evil. They are no different from those who sat in the midst of God's people amid Israel's spiritual decline spoken about in Malachi 3.16. These people had wandered so far away from God. One of the first things that happened when people began to wander away from God is they stopped giving of tithes and offerings. The people withheld part of their offerings in this account. They justified their reasons to be good reasons for withholding. But by doing so, they were really rejecting and denying God's sovereignty and authority and His commands. In robbing God, They had actually robbed themselves of his blessings, of his provision, and his protection. In falling so low, Israel had actually embraced or adopted a worldly attitude or mindset. To them it seemed, or they reasoned, that God favored the wicked, while the godly reaped no tangible benefits from keeping his command. But in the midst of Israel's spiritual decline was a remnant of true worshipers who were drawn together by obedience to their Lord and their God. Malachi 3 describes the words of these deaf and dumb majority whose words were harsh and rash and disturbing against God You have said in verse 14 it is useless to serve God And what profit is it if we keep his ordinances and walked gloomily as if in mourning a peril before the Lord of hosts. And now we consider the proud and the arrogant to be happy and favored. Evildoers are exalted, and yes, prosper, and when they test God, they escape unpunished. Now verse 16 tells us something about the righteous remnant who are to discern the difference between good and evil. The scripture declares, When those who feared the Lord talked often to one another, the Lord listened, and he heard it. And a book of remembrance was written before him of those who reverenced and worshipfully feared the Lord and who thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, verse 17 declares. Oh, they shall be mine, declares the Lord of hosts in that day, when I publicly recognize and openly declare them as my jewels, my special treasures, my peculiar treasure. and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him. Then you shall return and discern the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who does not. God not only listened to these people's worship and their wise words, but he made a note in a book of those who thought reverently upon his name. We are talking about a remnant of people who God was going to bring safely through a tribulation that lies straight ahead of them. He was going to make them his treasured possession in the midst of this great tribulation. The subject must really be upon the Father's heart these days, days because one week ago he gave both my husband Lee and I dreams in the same night regarding this subject and I found it quite profound because the Holy Spirit has been stirring on my heart for several weeks regarding this subject an issue that is sorely lacking in the church today and after we woke up and we shared what the Lord had revealed through these dreams, we both knew that we had a work to do in getting the message out. We said to one another, the Lord is really speaking something profound and serious and urgent here. And you know, when you feel the urgency of the Holy Spirit's heart, he does not let you rest until you fulfill what it is which he longs to impart to his people, at least to those who will have ears to hear. The work is in our hands and our mouths, but the results are not. The results lie in the ears of the hearers and are determined successful if they yield and obey. In sharing Lee's dream, He writes, motorhome. It seemed that the vehicle was carrying all the equipment for the workers. Most of the workers were young and inexperienced. Then all of the sleeping bags were removed and placed in the camp, where the tents were set up and positioned in a circle for all the workers to sleep in during the night. Scene 2. I saw that the motorhome was much larger now, with bleacher seats filled and occupied with people of all ages dressed in winter clothes. It seemed to be a winter season. I saw the leaders up front speaking to the people with Bibles in their hands. I saw that on the windows of the motorhome, a large array of mystical signs on the windows, including witchcraft, occultic, and satanic symbols. The people who were sitting in this motorhome didn't notice these signs at all. I asked one of the young men sitting in the audience if he had seen the signs and symbols, and when I pointed them out to him, he couldn't see them at all. His hearing was so dull as if he was deaf. Again, I touched his shoulder and pointed to the window full of evil symbols, but he still couldn't see. Then I spoke to the young man and pointed out to him What was being preached was a mix of truth and error. It was a sad fact that he couldn't or wouldn't hear to what I was trying to warn him about. The audience was mesmerized by the leaders who were taking turns speaking. Scene 3. The Lord zoomed in on a sink and plumbing behind the speakers and revealed that the faucets had splits in them and the water was leaking out of it with a fine spray Also the plumbing was broken in many different areas as if maintenance had never been performed Then one of the leaders carried a raw pig carcass into the kitchen to feed the people raw pork. There was no effort to cook or prepare the meat at all. There was uncleanness everywhere. One could sense the unclean spirits were at work on the people and great perversion was being released over the people. This uncleanness is defined as perversion of God's word and it comes in the way of deception, of apostasy, occultic and mysticism. And Lee finishes the dream by writing, Tragically, the people were unaware of all the evil being perpetrated from this leadership. It seemed that when this meeting was finished, they completed their mission, and the leaders and their workers would move on to another area and do the same program again and again. The people in Lee's dream were totally unaware of their sin. Their sin was neglect of God's word. They failed to discern good from evil because they were like the Israelites who had turned to the world and embraced a worldly attitude and mindset. When one is turned to the world, that means that their back and their face is turned away from God. In other words, when they live like the world, they couldn't define the difference between good and evil. Yet, they go about conducting life and ministry like they were in the will of God. The stream of Lees is showing that this motorhome is a type of teaching ministry that aims to inspire and motivate people with their doctrine and concepts and opinions. And when it comes to ministry, the scripture tells us in Acts 38 that God the Father anointed Jesus Christ his Son with the Holy Spirit and with power. And he went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil because God was with him. But not so. According to Lee's dream, these people went about doing the opposite. The people involved were adept at recruiting and putting to work the immature and the misguided who would follow and recruit other deaf, dumb, and ignorant members who would become devoted to their cause too. And this motorhome was packed full of sleeping bags, and this is symbolic of their condition. They are like the five foolish virgins who fell asleep, and when they awoke, they had no oil in their lamps. They were unprepared and were ultimately excluded when the bridegroom came. And the tents represent a temporary place. These people pick up and move on to defile many others who were waiting with open arms for them. They want their ears tickled. 2 Timothy 4.3 declares, For the time is coming when people will not tolerate or endure sound and wholesome instruction, but have itching ears for something pleasing and gratifying. they gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, choosing to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors that they hold, and will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and man-made fictions. The young man sitting next to Lee couldn't see nor hear when Lee pointed out the occultic and satanic symbols on the window. And he was completely void of discernment. His hearing was dull and his eyes were blind to the things of the Spirit. Isaiah 29 verse 10 says, says the spirit of the Lord has poured out on you, the spirit of deep sleep, and he's closed your eyes, namely the prophets, and he's covered your head, namely the seers. The whole vision has become to you like words of a book that are sealed up, which men deliver to one who is literate, saying, Please read this. And he says, I cannot, for it's sealed. and then the book is delivered to one who is illiterate saying please read this and he says i am not literate therefore the lord says in as much as these people draw near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips but they have removed their hearts from me and their fear towards me is taught by the commandments of men. Just like Israel, God's people are asleep today in the time of their salvation. They are asleep and they cannot see nor hear because of sin. And despite the promises and the blessings of salvation, a spirit of deep sleep prevails over these people They have no idea that this is the day and the year of their salvation Many today in the body of Jesus Christ are practicing an outward form of religion but their hearts are so far away from God. They go through the motions. Jesus said in Matthew 15 verse 8, These people draw near to me with their mouths. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, and in vain they worship me in teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. Lee pointed out to the young man that there was a mix of mingling truth and error together. He couldn't hear the truth because he and the others were mesmerized by the air and the mysticism in the messages that they were hearing. He does not say he does not believe in these things. No, that's not the difficulty. The difficulty with these kinds of people is that they say nothing about them. Grab a hold of that. They don't say they do not believe in these truths, but they say nothing about them. They don't mention them at all. They generally emphasize one truth about God, and that one truth is that God is a God of love, just like we saw in the dream that the Holy Spirit gave me. We have many mega churches built on this premise today, And many others are watching their numbers grow and are patterning their churches on this same philosophy and doctrine. To conceal the truth is damnable as to proclaim in utter heresy or error is damnable. And this message is so pleasing, but it can lead men to destruction because it never confronts them with the holiness and the righteousness and the justice and the wrath of God. They do not talk about or emphasize the sinfulness of sin or the total inability of man to do anything about his salvation. are very much unlike the evangelism of the Puritans or John Wesley or Whitefield or the others who led men to be terrified of the judgment of God and to have the agony of soul, sometimes days and weeks and months, to lament over the condition of their souls and the sinfulness of it. repentance means that you realize you are guilty a vile sinner in the presence of God and that you deserve the wrath and the punishment of God that you are hell bound it means that you turn from sin and come upon the tried and true way and path called holiness the false prophet or teacher is not interested in true holiness according to biblical standards They hold on to the teachings that the Pharisees had. Remember that the Pharisees picked out a few or certain sins which they themselves were not guilty of and that they said that they were all right. We don't do this, so we're all right. I wonder how many Pharisees there are amongst us today. Holiness has just become a question of not doing three or four things. So holiness is reduced into something that is easy, and we crowd into the broad way which leads to destruction. Precious saints, I leave you with something big to chew on today. We must embrace the gospel message of Jesus Christ in totality, not in part. And I pray your spiritual discernment be increased. by the power of the Holy Spirit, and you not allow suspicion to work, but through truth, through the Word of God, to enlighten your discernment of good and evil. Remember to ask the Holy Spirit for increase. Paul tells us that the time will come that men will put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they'll gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. And they'll turn their ears away from the truth and turn to hear myths. But you, he warned, keep your head in all situations. Endure hardship. Do the work of an evangelist. Discharge all duties of ministry. You see, we are in the last days now. And I say this is a warning again. keep your focus keep your face keep your gaze on Jesus Christ remember you are changed into the image and the likeness of the one on whom you are focused and in order to truly discern and to know the truth you must dwell with he who is holy and he will charge you and he will change you and empower you with divine awareness and divine ability to discern good from evil.