Actions of Holy Spirits (True Orthodoxy) & Actions of Satan (True Heresy)
Since the
scriptures cannot be broken (Jn 10:35), we know a tree by its fruit (Mt
7:15-20).
Anyone who
labels the true believers of God’s word as a cult and persecutes them does not
really believe in God. They may not realize it, but they are calling God a cult
and persecuting Jesus (Jn 15:18-24). Read the following scriptures and think
about the group to which you belong. Let’s understand and repent.
1. The fruit of the holy spirit
• But the
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no
law. Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions
and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with
the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous
of one another. (Gal 5:22-26)
• Blessed
are those who are persecuted for righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven
belongs to them. Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and
say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me. Rejoice and be
glad because your reward is great in heaven, for they persecuted the prophets
before you in the same way. (Mt 5:10-12)
2. The fruit of the flesh (True heresy)
• Idolatry,
sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries,
dissensions, factions, envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things.
I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things
will not inherit the kingdom of God! (Gal 5:20-21)
• But
false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers
among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive
heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result,
they will bring swift destruction on themselves. (2 Pt 2:1)
• “You
stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting
the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did! Which of the prophets did your
ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of
the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become! You
received the law by decrees given by angels, but you did not obey it."
When they heard these things, they became furious and ground their teeth at
him. (Acts 7:51-54)
• Offspring
of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the
mouth speaks from what fills the heart. The good person brings good things out
of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil
treasury. (Mt 12:34-35)
3. Distinguishing the good from the evil
• Do not
judge so that you will not be judged. For by the standard you judge you will be
judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. Why do you see
the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?
Or how can you say to your brother, “Let me remove the speck from your eye,”
while there is a beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from
your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your
brother's eye. (Mt 7:1-5)
• You are
from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in
you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world;
therefore they speak from the world's perspective and the world listens to
them. We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is
not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the
spirit of deceit. (1Jn 4:4-6)
• But if
you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins. (Mt
6:15)
• But I
say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you. (Mt 5:44)
• For we
have found this man to be a troublemaker, one who stirs up riots among all the
Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. (Acts
24:5)
• But I confess
this to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors according to the Way
(which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law and
that is written in the prophets. I have a hope in God (a hope that these men
themselves accept too) that there is going to be a resurrection of both the
righteous and the unrighteous. (Acts 24:14-15)
As you
read the scriptures from the three categories above, think about the difference
between the actions of the holy spirits and the actions of the evil spirits.
There are many people in the world who believe in God and God’s word, but also
many who do not believe. Some people even pretend to believe outwardly without
truly believing in their hearts.
Those
whose actions belong in the first category (i.e. the fruit of the spirit) are
the people who belong to God. Those whose actions belong in the second category
(i.e. the fruit of the flesh) are the people who belong to Satan. The third
section is about distinguishing those who belong to God from those who belong
to Satan. The priests in the time of the Old Testament killed all the prophets
that God sent to them. The religious leaders at the time of the first coming of
Jesus killed Jesus and his disciples (Mt 23:34-35). The scriptures say that the
pastors who belong to Satan always try to persecute and kill God’s elect – his
chosen people (Rv 11, 13). The Bible teaches us that those who persecute belong
to Satan and those who are persecuted belong to God.
People who
tell lies and persecute those who speak the true words of God are simply
revealing that they belong to Satan. This is how we can discern the fruit
(actions) of the holy spirits from the fruit of the evil spirits.
▶ The
actions of orthodoxy and the actions of cults
Since the
scriptures cannot be broken (Jn 10:35), everyone will be judged according to
their deeds as written in the book (Rv 20:12).
In the Old
Testament there were 12 tribes that originated with the 12 sons of Jacob
(Israel). In the time of the first coming, Jesus’ 12 tribes originate with his
12 disciples. There are also 12 tribes in the time of the second coming, which
is the time of Revelation’s fulfillment. Although the 12 tribes have a task
appointed to them by God, while they are working, some of the people of the 12
tribes abandon their positions of authority just like Cain and Balaam did in
the Old Testament. They move to become possessions of the evil one. They stir
up dissension and form their own sects. They oppose God and deceive the elect.
They are the fulfillment of the antichrists (1Jn 2:18-19; Jude 1:6, 11, 17-19;
Mt 24:24-25).
We should
not only learn about the antichrists of the past, but we must also learn about
the reality of the antichrists that are coming so that we are not deceived.
Those who act according to the scriptures listed above will be judged according
to the Bible in the time appointed for judgment. Jesus said in Jn 12:48 that
the word he spoke will judge people in the last days. Those who act according
to the scriptures listed above are antichrists that commit acts heresy.
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