Maturity, Freedom & The Instead-of-Jesus

Hey

, when I watched your video from last Sunday I felt compelled to add something here.

First of all, I thank you for what you've been doing, I love seeing people develop spiritual maturity and learning to love Jesus.

Second of all, correct me if I'm wrong but I think your video, Freedom in Him (the conscience, binary thinking & maturity), was kind of a reply to my previous post here on Skool called Christians suck, I love them!.

If so, thank you for reading the post and for taking it the right way!

If that's not the case and you didn't check it, please read that post before reading the rest of this one, the whole community will find great maturity in paying attention and praying about what I have to share.

So, without further ado, let's get into the matter.

𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗧𝗛 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘

In the beginning you said something very important: "Truth and Love are one entity."

I'd like to briefly expand on that.

Truth + Love = Trust (faith, allegiance)

In the garden of Eden, Satan hijacked Eve's Trust by sliding a deceitful "truth" that lacked Love. Instead of the Lovely Truth, Satan gave her loveless knowledge. She took the bait and her Trust got corrupted, her faith became dead when it was placed on Satan instead of God.

Truth + Love = Trust, in God (Living Faith)

Sharing your living faith builds you and others up.

Loveless knowledge = Trust, in Satan (dead faith)

Sharing your loveless knowledge puffs you up and murders others spiritually.

Because of that, God needs to heal our Trust, but how?

Instead of giving us the certainty that comes from knowledge, He keeps us in uncertainty, which forces us to seek the Truth (Jesus) and develop our innate capacity to Love Him. In that way, He teaches us to Trust both Love and Truth instead of trusting loveless knowledge.

If we have a mature Trust in God, then we can extend Truth in Love, even to those who only know loveless knowledge and, in doing so, we can effectively win them over to the fullness of the Kingdom of God.

That is what I try to accomplish here, not because I think you're in the kingdom of darkness, but because I believe the Lovely Truth of God can shine even brighter in your heart (big emphasis on that last word: heart).

2. 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧

As you already know, we have body, soul and spirit. However, there's a fourth element to it: our heart.

The heart is transversal to all other three. That means the heart crosses through body, soul and spirit. For a deeper teaching on this check (later) this 36min video from Dan Duval: How Your Body Soul & Spirit Work Together | Following Your “Heart” Explained.

The battle of the ages between God and Satan has one target: our hearts.

It's never been about rituals, knowledge or traveling in the spirit. It's about the posture of our hearts.

Do we love the Truth, or do we love lies?

Do we love God even when it means picking up our cross, or do we love ourselves and avoid painful corrections?

Do we love the righteousness of God or do we love the pleasures this world has to offer?

What we love in our heart determines our allegiance and our actions.

Proverbs 4:23

Above all else, guard your heart,

for everything you do flows from it.

3. 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧?

1 Peter 3:15

But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord.

If Christ is Lord, then our heart is His throne.

This brings us to the ultimate clash of allegiances: The Christ and the anti-Christ.

Anti means "against" or "instead of". The antichrist is the instead-of-Jesus.

2 Thessalonians 2:4,7

4 He will exalt himself and defy everything that people call god and every object of worship. He will even sit in the temple of God, claiming that he himself is God.

7 For this lawlessness is already at work secretly, [...]

1 Corinthians 3:16

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?

You are God's temple.

Your heart is God's throne.

The instead-of-Jesus is already at work secretly, trying to sit in your heart, claiming that he himself is God.

4. 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗗𝗢𝗘𝗦 𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧?

Do you remember the greatest commandment?

Matthew 22:37-38

Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.

There's a reason why God is a jealous God: because He loves us with all of His heart, and if we don't do the same, we don't love Him at all.

That's the focal point of all the works of Satan, to win our heart. If he can't get us with sin, he will get us with love. If he can't get us to curse our enemies, he'll get us to love superheroes and football players.

Buckle up, let's see how Satan puts this into practice right before our eyes.

Go to Google and search "Jimmy Kimmel Live building". You'll notice it's called the "Hollywood Masonic Temple".

Masonic... Masonry, what is that?

"Masonry is a construction method that involves building structures by stacking individual units—such as bricks, concrete blocks, or natural stones—and binding them together with mortar."

Wait a minute, I've seen that in the Bible!

Genesis 11:3-4

They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Masons were the ones who built the tower of Babel, to reach the heavens and make a name for themselves.

Masonry eventually became Freemasonry, that's why brick and mortar is one of their most famous symbols.

As the church is the body of Christ, freemasonry is the body of the anti-Christ. Their highest rank (33rd degree) worships Lucifer by name. Here's a short video that proves just that: A shriner referring to himself as Lucifer.

According to freemasons, Lucifer is a "pure, virtuous, wholesome individual that's out to help people".

So, going back to the Jimmy Kimmel Live building, the Hollywood Masonic Temple. If you check it on Google maps or Google images you'll see it has a huge inscription in the top center of its facade.

"Freemasons build their temples among the nations and in the hearts of men."

What do you mean by their temples... in the hearts of men?

Do you mean that the temples where freemasons worship Lucifer...

You mean that Hollywood... Jimmy Kimmel... Marvel...

They build their temples... in our hearts?

Let me ask you, what's your favourite superhero? Which one do you love most?

Captain America? Spiderman? Ironman?

Might they all be... "pure, virtuous, wholesome individuals that are out to help people"?

But they are helping people! They are righteous! I love righteousness!

And I wonder: is there righteousness outside Christ?

Jesus said that hating somebody with your heart counts as murder, and lusting after a woman counts as adultery in your heart.

What would Jesus say about dedicating our money, 2 hours of the time He gave us and all our mind, heart and soul to watching Captain America murder "bad guys", lusting after the Scarlet Witch and laughing with Thor's jokes (who is actually the pagan god of thunder and storms, who corresponds to Zeus, who the bible actually calls "the prince of the power of the air", also known as Satan)?

And that brings us to the last point...

5. 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗜𝗗𝗢𝗟𝗦

I love what you shared about having a defiled conscience and imposing it on others, I didn't know about that. However, what Paul rightly applied to food, you also applied to practices, rituals, festivities and celebrations.

In the example you gave in your video, eating food sacrificed to idols means doing something necessary (feeding your flesh with food) without giving it the emotional or spiritual weight that pagans do (offering it to idols).

Basically, you eat the meat without giving a fly about the false gods that wrote verses in the packaging.

However, when it comes to rituals, traditions, entertainment, and so on, it's the opposite, because the product is not simply meat, it's the temples that are being built in your heart.

When you spend a whole week completely swept up in the World Cup, dance to secular music or watch Marvel movies, you're doing something unnecessary (feeding your flesh with worldly emotions, experiences and fan-tasy) while giving it the spiritual and emotional weight that pagans do (dedicating your mind, body, spirit and heart to the players, the characters, the singers, and all the emotions they build in your heart).

That is actually considered worship of false gods, which the one true living God is extremely jealous of. That's exactly why those false gods create the movies, songs and sports that you love, so you worship them with your heart while claiming Jesus with your lips.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said:

“Because this people draw near with their mouth

and honor me with their lips,

while their hearts are far from me,

and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,

Notice that last sentence: "their fear of me...".

The danger of engaging in worldly practices, traditions or festivities is not that we'll be affected by false gods. In the end, there's only one God and all others are nothing.

The real danger of conforming to the patterns of this world is that the one true living God, the one we claim with our lips, is a jealous God. He doesn't just look at our outward actions; He pierces directly into our hidden allegiances.

There is no hiding from Him. When we must give an account, He lays our hearts completely bare to see plainly who or what is truly receiving our love and adoration.

Jeremiah 17:9–10

“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

'I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.'”

The antichrist is real. He's the instead-of-Jesus that looks like Jesus, smells like Jesus, talks like Jesus and feels like Jesus, but He is not Jesus.

When Satan can't get you with sin, he'll get you with love. He'll defile your heart and, from there, he'll give you a false image of Jesus whenever you meditate in the spirit.

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁:

Psalm 139:23–24

Search me, God, and know my heart;

test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting.

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Maturity, Freedom & The Instead-of-Jesus