REPROVING DARKNESS
Brother James, OIC
Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove (expose, correct, rebuke) them.
What is darkness that we, as Matured Christians, should expose it? Darkness in spiritual reality are the false solutions, false teachings and lukewarm behaviors that Satan has used to take captive the worldly Church. These doctrines of demons and seducing spirits are prisons of darkness that will end in spiritual death. Yet they do not appear to the carnal mind that way. They appear as light as they stroke all the senses that support the fallen state of the knowledge of good: Family, Financial Success, Living the American Dream, Social Gatherings and Groups at Church; all of which have nothing really to do with growth in Truth. And these are heart conditions things held as right and honorable to God in Christ but are nothing more than Dead Works that need the Truth to be set free from.
For many in America it is a safe place to have the support of those that agree with your unfruitful lifestyles, it is, in many minds, a safe place yet it never challenges them to true growth and conversion in Christ.
Matthew 7:22-24 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
There is a Spiritual Law today that many miss out on: it is the Law of Liberty also known as the Law of Faith. This Law is connected to the Liberating, Divine Nature Birthing of Gods Promises which is after you have heard the Word of Truth; Christ in you the Hope of Glory.
Lawlessness also called iniquity is the life of worldliness in the Church. A life of trusting the worlds false solutions that are not of Christ but the Gospel of Christ perverted; 12 Steps mixed with Christ in heretical Psychological Programs like Celebrate Recovery, preachers attributing to God Mans Fallen Wisdom in the invention of Medicines (witchcraft and sorcery) that cause more problems than they solve, Self Esteemists that preach nothing but Pride the greatest cause of lack of true growth in Christ, Prosperity Teachers that teach the love of money which is the root of all evil and the many false and watered doctrines such as Altar Calls, Sinners Prayer and the Instant Salvation Lies of Fallen Denominations.
Darkness has taken being raised by the Holy Spirit of Truth through studying and rightly dividing Gods Word to a the worlds acceptance for a college degreed teacher in Divinity or Theosophy. Darkness has infiltrated the minds and hearts of this lukewarm age and has depowered the promises of God in peoples lives and has become a habitation of devils all cloaked in a False Light of Goodness.
2 Timothy 2:24-2624 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.
