Matthew 7:16 You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater damnation.
Galatians 5:8 This persuasion comes not of him that called you. 9A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 10I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubled you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
Jude 1:17… remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
2 Timothy 4:3… the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles, what do you think? What are eatable words that leads to Life in the Spirit? What do men teach that will deny the Life in the Spirit that the apostles taught? What fruit of the lips bear the witness of the Holy Ghost and what fruit of the lips denies the Truth; the testimony of those who experienced the power of God; the Baptism of the Holy Ghost? What is the sound doctrine that agrees with the Bible and what is the doctrine or testimony lived by the last day church? The church of the prophesied falling away.
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out. What does the Bible say that men would do that believed the Truth: grapes? (Mark 16:16-18) What do men say that denies receiving the power of God; thorns? (Jude 1:4) If you had to choose to save your life, and you do, you must judge according to Truth. You may not have experienced the Truth because of the influence of unbelieving blind guides; men who deny Truth/Christ, but you are still responsible to God’s words.
John 12:48 He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
No man can serve two masters! No man can say that they love Jesus but when light comes they choose or prefer darkness. The wise virgins fill their vessel; their body; the lamp with the Oil of Gladness; the Holy Spirit and speak what the Spirit is saying; the Light of the world. Foolish virgins speak what men taught them, traditions and doctrines that deny Truth; Life in the Spirit. Those who deny Truth are those of Jude 1:19… sensual, having not the Spirit. Or rather, the carnally minded who do not believe sound doctrine.
This is not about being “born again”. This is about doing God’s will and becoming His sons and daughters with the evidence and proof of being full of the Holy Ghost. This is about being a good and faithful servant, not being slothful with the born again talent.
1 Corinthians 2:12… we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
John 10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me. 26But you believe not, because you are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Dave
