There are people who we have come into contact with since 1993 to the present and thought they were truly converted people but realized after time passed they were not. Some of them had a good bit of knowledge but also a problem in their minds either about a spiritual understanding or some personal issues which led to their departure. There are lessons to be learned from this experience. More about that later.
There is for me personally a lot of sadness when a person shows promise to be an elect only to throw it away over something so incredibly stupid. I have seen this too many times. Everyone who does this has no idea what they have done or the tremendous opportunity they have squandered. Therefore I have learned a lesson from this; from now on I will not make any attempt to search out GODS elect. GOD knows who HIS people are and only HE calls and chooses them. It has though been a curious thing to watch how Satan deceives these people and how easily they fall for it. This is a real time playing out of the parable of the sower and it is fascinating to watch but also extremely sad. These people give up the most precious thing any human being can have for a thing of nothing.
The small group of GODS elect that I fellowship with has been in Christ now for over 30 years and during that time if we were wrong about something GOD would correct the situation. As time passed and our spiritual foundation grew we made less mistakes. Our spiritual experience therefore is greater than that of a babe, who is or may be, being called but not yet chosen. Over the last 30 plus years we have encountered nine others who GOD was working with, GOD was calling them. It was like how Jesus described the spiritual condition of the disciples before they received the Holy Spirit.
John 14:17 “ The spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it does not see him or know him but you know him because he remains with you and SHALL BE IN YOU.”
Just like the disciples these nine people came to realize that the spirit was working with them but as Jesus said, “SHALL BE IN YOU.” All of these nine people were being called but due to various circumstances they did not answer the call in order to be chosen. Some of these nine were drawn away by cares of the world, some were offended when we corrected some error they believed in and some were just not truly committed and lost interest.
One of the ways we could discern their spirits was that they refused to hear us when we spoke the truth to them. This discernment of the spirits is described in 1 John 4:1-6 the verse to focus on is verse 6;
“We are from GOD. Whoever is not from GOD does not listen to us. That is how we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.” 1 John 4:6
Jesus said;
“Whoever belongs to GOD hears the words of GOD. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to GOD.” John 8:47
John 10:26 “Because you are not my sheep you refuse to believe.”
Some of these people were convinced that on certain spiritual subjects they knew more than the elect who were 30 years ahead of them in spiritual growth. When we, the mature elect, tried to correct them they became offended and voluntarily left fellowship. We, the elect, hold no grudge nor have any hatred for these people but know that now wasn’t their time to be chosen but have every confidence that in the future when GOD wills they will be chosen.
When the Apostle Paul called out the Apostle Peter for his hypocrisy in Galatians 2:11-16 . Peter did not get angry because he knew Paul was right and later Peter only had positive comments about Paul. The verse to focus on is verse 11;
“Now when Peter had come to Antioch I withstood him to his face for he was to be blamed.” Galatians 2:11
Take note that Paul was not gentle in his manner of correcting Peter; sometimes forceful correction is needed. To compromise the truth of GOD In ignorance and refusing to be corrected by those who are truly GODS elect saints in order to believe a lie is to exchange the truth of GOD for a thing of nothing.
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