Apostle Tracey Robinson, 2023 All Rights Reserved

• The perils that have been set up today through the systems of this world and the enemy of the soul of mankind by the wicked and evil imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart toward God and man is a sign of truth that we need the spirit of discernment, wisdom, and possess and behave with the character of the fruit of the spirit of Christ Jesus.
• In these events of man’s evil heart and his wickedness being revealed day-by-day you must possess the fruit of the Spirit and your fruit must be activated and known in you to know the authenticity of the ones that labor with you.
1 Thessalonians 5:12-13 12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; 13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
• Recognize them for what they are, acknowledge and appreciate and respect them all; and hold them in a very high and most affectionate esteem in intelligent and sympathetic appreciation of their work.
• It is and will be imperative that we all as born-again believers in Christ know the fruit of everyone that we encounter, work with, associate with, and even live with, then evaluate it against the Word of God and His Righteousness.
• Jesus said in St Matthew 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs of thistles?
• We all as new creatures in Christ must come into the spiritual knowledge NOW in knowing that Salvation, the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness has become “prey” to many that are seeking power, fame, and control over the spirit of Man. God’s creation as they portray themselves as being a god.
• Man is making a mockery of the Spirit of God and all things that are spiritual through the Will of his flesh, the world, and the devil. Mockery is an absurd misrepresentation or imitation of Jesus Christ and the Will of God toward mankind.
• Jesus said in the earlier verses that there are two gates to enter but you choose which gate to enter: you enter in at the straight gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many that will and will be going in this gate; straight is the gate and narrow is this way which leads to life and there are only a few and will be a few that will find it. The Word of God also tells us to beware of false prophets which come in sheep clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves that have come to devour you. (St Matthew 7:13-15).
• These false prophets can be friends, family, and foes! They don’t have to be called, anointed, ordained, or consecrated to be false and give out perverted wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of God’s Will for man in Salvation, as well as for you.
• A false prophet is a person who spreads false teachings or messages while claiming to speak the Word of God and is the mouthpiece of God.
• How to discern the word of a prophet or his teachings to be true and led by the Spirit of God is that the word(s) spoken will come to pass. If the word(s) does not come to pass or is true, that is a word spoken presumptuously and you should not be afraid, and it did not come from God. (Deuteronomy 18:21-22).
• I must add a note here to say that there will be some that will outright deny the truth and will even challenge it because of the exposure and that does not mean that it is not truth, and that God did not speak it.
• False prophets have crept into the House of Prayers, into the fold as tares to sow ungodliness as they pervert the knowledge that you have obtained by faith in Christ. This is a true sign of apostasy along with that great falling away of many.
• Apostasy is the abandonment or renunciation of your belief in Christ; turning back.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
• This is a true sign that is already in progress! Thanks to COVID and other petty areas of the believers the falling away is already taking place. And that son of perdition is Satan and I believe whoever else has turned their allegiance over to him as well.
• I also believe that “feelings” with tradition and religion has caused many to fall back into their way of believing and understanding in order to stay comfortable in their old way instead of persistently living a new life in Christ.
• They come to kill, steal, and destroy you in the faith of Christ Jesus to devour you, destroy your life and lifestyle in order to get dishonest gain from their leader, Satan.
• They come with the intent to devour you with false visions and divining lies, saying “thus says the Lord God” when the Lord in fact has not spoken to them.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

How does falseness transform? By fashioning themselves as being the people of God, that is heirs of God by putting on a disguise of a false outward appearance with a temporal inward ability that is meant to hide its true identity of what is really in them. This is total deception!
• It is the minor moralities and graces of Christianity that are often imitated, but the fruit of the Spirit can never be imitated.
• The devil comes through the use and opportunities of your flesh and its weaknesses in carnality through your 5-senses influenced through the knowledge of good and evil.
• Satan comes as the messenger of truth, an angel of light to deceive everyone that he can to turn on and away from God to end up going into an eternal Hell with him.
• Satan can come as an angel of light because he is a created being created by God called the son of the Morning. He never lost this thou he was taken out of the commands of God.
• Satan was full of beauty and was once as Lucifer in the presence and order of God, and his covering was every precious stone; the workmanship of his settings, sockets, and engravings were prepared in gold on the day that he was created.
• Beauty is nothing less for him! Ezekiel 28:1-19.
• Beauty is only skin deep! It is the heart that portrays the real image of an individual, not their outward appearance. So, what appears to be is not what is!
• This is how he captivates and captures many in their flesh through their desire to be beautiful, or want someone or something beautiful and pleasing to their eyes to touch.
• Genesis 3:6 is what happened to Eve. Her natural vision (5-senses) saw that the tree was good for food, and pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise.
• Satan as Lucifer was an anointed cherub that once set upon the holy mountain of God, walking up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
• Satan as Lucifer was blameless in his way from the day of his creation until iniquity was found in his heart. Satan’s heart was proud and lifted up because of his beauty; his wisdom was corrupted for the sake of his splendor, and felt as though he was like God, the Most High.

In closing,
• Are you fruitful or are you unfruitful?
• Are you recognized by your fruit?
• You must know and give an answer in the times that we are living in today.
• Evaluate your state of spirituality versus your state of carnality to determine if you are fruitful or unfruitful.
• Fruitful is when the Holy Spirit is possessing and in control you are like fertile ground in which the Holy Spirit can produce His fruit in you; and by the power of His Spirit, you can overcome the desires of your flesh and live a fruitful and abundant life in Christ.
• To be fruitful and to win all your spiritual conflicts is to walk in the Spirit, by the Spirit, and after the Spirit.
• In doing so, this makes you to know that you belong to Christ and He has crucified the sinful nature of your flesh along with its lust, passions, desires, habits, and practices.
• Fruit metaphorically, of works or deeds, fruit being the visible expression of power working inwardly and invisibly, the character of the fruit being evidence of the character of the power producing it in you.
• The fruit of the Spirit suggests the unity of the character of the Lord as it is reproduced in you singularly (in a remarkable or noticeable way).
• The fruit of the Spirit is not one outpouring. It is worked in you individually then moved to the next one to be perfected in you.
• As we bear much fruit the Father is glorified, and your flesh and its Will is crucified.
• Wherever you are with this fruit the Father will always be glorified through you.
• Character is the evaluation of a person’s moral qualities.
• Character implies attributes which include integrity, courage, loyalty, and fortitude. The mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual (nature, temperament, personality, disposition, temper).
• Your spiritual character in Christ changes your behavior, mannerism, attitude, imagination, thoughts, focus, etc.
• The fruit of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22-23 (love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance) is the Christlike character that every born-again, new creature in Christ must possess. This is the character that reveals what Jesus is like in you and will bring pleasure and glory to the Father.
• There is nothing of Jesus in you that will not bring glory to the Father because everything Jesus did glorified God.
• The fruit of the Spirit is the outward expression of the Holy nature of God in you as it develops the life of Christ inwardly.
• Jesus made it possible for every born-again new creature in Him to produce the same spiritual fruit of the Holy Spirit as they become true followers that will abide in Him and bear much fruit.
• So, why we are following other stuff that is temporal and natural when the facts are laid out already in Christ.
• St John 15:1-27, this is the relationship that must exist between Christ Jesus and yourself for you to be fruitful.
• You must be cleansed, be obedient, and abide in Him and Him in you.
• If you are a branch of the Vine of Christ, you are a living fruit that have yielded and surrendered the control of your whole life to the Holy Spirit.
• The Holy Spirit will produce in you the fruit of the Spirit continuously and plentiful according to His Harvest in you.
• A fruit here is referred to the character of Jesus designed in us to win souls that we must bear and produce by the working of the Holy Spirit!
• All the genuine and lasting beauty of character adorning your life, the Christlikeness, inward and outward is the work of the Holy Spirit until Christ Jesus is formed in you to become His full stature. (Galatians 4:19).
• Unfruitful is when the born-again new creature (believer) does not yield to the control and possession of the Holy Spirit, making him unable to resist the desires of his sinful nature of his old man.
• If you have the Holy Spirit, but are still able to do what the nature of your flesh says do, you do not have the Holy Spirit in His possession and control of you. You have a form of godliness that you obey your Will and not the Will of the Father.
• Spiritual unfruitful qualities in character can refer to any negative traits that would hinder a believers’ spiritual growth and development in Christ. These may include things like selfishness, greed, pride, anger, envy, jealousy, lust, etc.
• Worldliness is the cause of unfruitfulness in every believer that is of the world.
St Matthew 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
• Being able to spiritually discern and have wisdom to make decisions of righteousness in rightly dividing right or wrong through the Word of God is coming into play in every born-again believer’s life.
• What’s coming into play requires your fruit to be tested?
• Testing the validity of your faith and confession in Christ Jesus. Will you be ready?

Amen

Wednesday, May 24, 2023