Spiritual Counterfeit
Spiritual counterfeiting and spiritual conflict produce spiritual struggles.

• The new buzz word in the world today is the hype over “artificial intelligence”, “AI” now. Of course there are many other words that are triggering, trying, and tempting mankind.
• One of the most sought out certainties is that no matter what is going on in the world with the flesh and the devil the Word of God is still being looked at and summarized to it to compare to it and the times that we are living in. Simply because man don’t need God or want God until he is in trouble and his back is up against the wall and he has found himself in between a rock and a hard spot called “decision or choice”.
• But our real issue is right in our mist which is a spiritual conflict that has caused and is causing a spiritual counterfeit of what is good and evil, right, and wrong and that our real need, desire, and longing is for the Creator of our soul to come and bring us out of our Egypt and its destructions.
What is a spiritual conflict?
• Known also as spiritual warfare, spiritual conflict refers to the struggle or tension of spiritual beliefs and matters in Christianity, religions, practices, rituals, spiritual journeying, etc.
• It produces forms of doubts, distress, and conflicts on individual and corporate believers that have encumbered a spiritual journey in Christ or of some sort for a release in their way for clarity and conciseness along their way.
• Since man and woman’s dismissal from the Garden of Eden (which was God’s Order and His Presence) by God (Genesis 3:22-24) man has adopted a way that seems right to him, but it denies the actual power and authority of his Creator God, His Father.
• The word encumber here means that man’s choice and ways toward a belief system in Christianity, traditions and religions, denominations, organizations, groups established with their felt opinions and views professing themselves to be wise in the Word of God with no obedience to it, etc., has restricted and even burden many in such a way that their freedom in truth and its actions have been made difficult for many to be free in Christ Jesus as Salvation offers to us all.
St John 8:32, 36 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
• Man’s dismissal from God’s Order and His Presence has caused man to go astray from the affections that he once had for God; the things of God; the relationship and fellowship that he once had with God has caused a spiritual conflict for him, his seed, and his seed, seed.
• So, mankind had to learn how to manufacture, create, or invent ways to offer up sacrifices to the God of his creation. The more man and woman multiplied in the earth as commanded by God the more lost he suffered in his spirituality by becoming an earthly, human being, worldly minded, and feeling those things and ways in his environment that would cause him to rely on his own intuition, gut feelings, through his 5-senses in the knowledge of good and evil.
• Genesis 3:22; 6:5 3.22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever. 6.5 And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
• This spiritual conflict between God and Satan has caused God’s creation Man to reject, rebel, and question every word, deed, action, and thought of God and His Word toward mankind.
• This spiritual conflict has even caused man to not only think that he is a god but think and believe that he can fool God through a spiritual counterfeit of his love, belief, and way toward God, the Bishop of his soul.
Some key aspects of spiritual conflict:
• Excuses with a failure to take the responsibility to be held accountability for your own actions.
• Blaming the woman, Genesis 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
• Blaming the devil, Genesis 3:13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
• There are many that don’t believe that there is a devil and demonic activity exists.
• Traditions and religions verse the authentic you cause a spiritual conflict.
What are spiritual struggles?
• In Salvation your freedom journey in Christ as a new creature in Him comes with many spiritual struggles to keep you from successfully being fulfilled with the righteousness of God and His Will and Way.
• We create spiritual struggles when we allow our flesh to dictate, influence, take control, reject, rebel, debate, argue, and doubt the Word of God that which God has set up and established to guide to reveal and release your spirit being to lead him back to Him and His Way.
• What will cure, quit, and vacate these struggles is faith in Christ with a willingness to submit our Will to obey the Will of God in Spirit and in Truth.
• Spiritual struggle in balancing out our knowledge and understanding of God and His Word by applying God’s Wisdom to know how to live spiritually a lifestyle as a spirit being first encased in a human body surrounded in a world that has already rebelled and rejected the Will of God; a world that has been fashioned and is run by evil and wicked men through the influence and submission to demonic activities in every system generated by man and his thoughts.
• Hosea 4:6 tells us that My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because we have rejected the spiritual knowledge of God asking for His Wisdom (the power of true and right discernment) to know how to apply it in spiritual rightness or wrongness.
• 2 Chronicles 7:14 If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
• Obeying the Word(s) of God has become a struggle for many believers because of their knowledge of good and evil with benefits.
• Trying to feel God and His presence, but yet sensing an abandonment from God because He won’t move or do exactly what you ask of Him without His Word being effective.
• So, man searches for alternative spiritual attractions such as in the works of his flesh (Galatians 5:19-21): witchcraft, fornication, adultery, uncleanness with impure thoughts of his imagination, lasciviousness, idolatry, hatred through racism, strife, heresy to produce dissension and schism in the Church; envy, jealousy, drunkenness, and drugs, etc., to fine tune the Word of God and their belief in it.
• Interpersonal and intrapsychic struggles that produce tension with self, its pride, your past, and with others around religious or spiritual matters or heck just life.
• Supernatural struggles that involve your spiritual perception of God, His Kingdom life and lifestyle set and established for the spirit Man in all humanity. Because we are so used to practically trying to infuse ourselves with the Spirit of the Word through the flesh to get its approval.
What is a spiritual counterfeit?
• The word counterfeit means made in exact imitation of something valuable or important with the intention to deceive or defraud.
• A spiritual counterfeit is a copy of what God has ordained presented by the enemy of your soul.
• Satan and his demons love to counterfeit God’s Word, Will, and Way and God will allow it for tests and trials to be a part of our lives to perfect us in His Will.
• In this as born-again new creature in Christ, we must possess spiritual discernment which comes with and in Wisdom.
• 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.
• Satan has fashioned himself and the world to be like a kingdom and he is in charge as the king.
• What appears to be light disguised as being the Spirit of God and His Will is a counterfeit?
• Spiritual counterfeit refers to the act or acts of using people to spiritually exploit others in a way that appears to be holy and in the rightness of God.
• Many have entered the fold of righteousness claiming to be in spiritual power and authority in the Will of God to gain power, popularity, and personal benefits without genuinely seeking God, His Kingdom through spiritual growth, knowledge, understanding and the wisdom of God.
• But true spirituality in Christ knows how to hear and see spiritually to know and understand how to deal with Satan’s deception through many.
• St John 10:10, 12-13, 27 10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. 13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. 27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
Some signs many possess but we tend to ignore them because we have the same tendencies still working in us.
• Ego-centric where many have adopted a form of spirituality from the flesh perspective to boost their ego or self-image rather than to teach and live a life that will promote and produce the Will of God through their inner growth and the inner growth of others.
• Self-interest whereas many have adopted a spiritual practice or a way of teaching solely for their personal gain, financial profit, and influence over others instead of leading souls back to the Father through Jesus their person motive and intent has greater gain. And many flock to this type!
• Narcissism is a spirit of Jezebel. Many come to Salvation to seek self-perception by appearing to be wise but lack true spiritual depth in and with the influence, possession, and controlling of the Holy Spirit.
• Many want to guide and lead with no encouragement, challenge, or hope to push others into becoming who God has called them to be in Him, instead they hoover over them as Lord and as to say they will never grow in the Lord above and beyond their stature in Christ.
• They want you to always believe that they hold the key of the Kingdom for your entrance, to become a citizen, and to have relationship with God through them only while you serve and cater to them.
• Many have entered Salvation based upon their feelings or gut or intuition and they trust it, but its not spirituality in Christ. Only spiritual discernment can help you to know what is spiritually right and wrong and how to handle it.
• The money changers, a.k.a., the marketplace prophets, apostles, evangelists, pastors in the marketplace called the Kingdom of God where they ask for money in exchange for spiritual abilities, spiritual knowledge that they have obtained, and the spiritual promises and benefits from God.
• Satan works and marks his own symbol of ownership just as the Lord has done by counterfeiting the true character and works of God.
• God seals his own with His Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30) and His mark on their forehead, Revelation 7:3.
• So, don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God whereby we are sealed unto the day of redemption.
• 1 John 3:9 We are born of God in spiritual victory, His seed is in us, and we cannot commit sin anymore because we are born of God. Satan cannot duplicate that!
• Satan counterfeits through deceptive perceptions through the flesh by distorting our understanding of truth in Christ and its realness in a life in the earth.
• Many have been saved through their flesh, leaving their soul never to have been awakened to be converted to being transformed into a new creature in Christ Jesus.

Amen

Sunday, March 17, 2024, Apostle Tracey Robinson