Chosen To Bear Fruit

I received this from David Wilkerson today, and I found it to be so true and essential and all-in-one-package-great [as usual is with David Wilkerson], like a key that opens up the understanding and hope starts to sprout.. Paul writes in 1. Corinthians 13, v.6: "[Love]..does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth.".

Well, my heart rejoiced when I read the following, to such a degree that tears started flooding my eyes.

I therefore forward it to those who read my blog.

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Now here's the text:

Chosen to bear fruit.

“Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit” (John 15:16).

 

Many sincere Christians think bearing fruit means simply to bring souls to Christ. But to bear fruit means something much larger even than soulwinning.

 

The fruit Jesus is talking about is Christ-likeness. Simply put, bearing fruit means reflecting the likeness of Jesus. And the phrase “much fruit” means “the ever-increasing likeness of Christ.”

 

Growing more and more into Jesus’ likeness is our core purpose in life. It has to be central to all our activities, our lifestyle, our relationships. Indeed, all our gifts and callings—our work, ministry and witness—must flow out of this core purpose.

 

If I am not Christlike at heart—if I’m not becoming noticeably more like him—I have missed God’s purpose in my life.

You see, God’s purpose for me can’t be fulfilled by what I do for Christ. It can’t be measured by anything I achieve even if I heal the sick or cast out demons. No, God’s purpose is fulfilled in me only by what I am becoming in him. Christ-likeness isn’t about what I do for the Lord, but about how I’m being transformed into his likeness.

 

Go into a Christian bookstore and read the titles on the shelves. Most are self-help books on how to overcome loneliness, how to survive depression, how to find fulfillment. Why is this? It’s because we have it all wrong. We aren’t called to be successes, to be free of all trouble, to be special, to “make it.” No, we are missing the one calling, the one focus, that’s meant to be central to our lives, to become fruitful in the likeness of Christ.

 

Jesus was totally given to the Father and that was everything to him. He stated, “I don’t do or say anything except what my Father tells me.”

 

So, do you want to bear the “much fruit” that springs forth from becoming more like Christ? We fulfill our life’s purpose only as we begin to love others as Christ has loved us. And we grow more Christ-like as our love for others increases.

 

“As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love” (John 15:9). His command is clear and simple: “Go and love others. Give to others the unconditional love I have shown you.” We grow more Christlike as our love for others increases. Simply put, bearing fruit comes down to how we treat people."

David Wilkerson.

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So. Is David Wilkerson a man of God, or is he not?

He doesn't sound like for instance Benny Hinn, so.. One of them must be wrong somehow..

What do you think..?

 

Love from Verifire.

[Who have "Verifired" this as a message anointed by God, in case anybody doubts my stand on matters of doctrine.. :-)]

A Videoclip someone sent me..

..led to me writing this reply. I've only modified and altered a few things, not changing the context.

I thought it to be worth publishing in my blog too..

"Being a long time wanderer on the path of eternal life, and also a long time scholar in the magick of demons and witches and ways of the false prophets and the ones promoting a "stairway to heaven", I have already seen every sign a "Christian" could ever make to signify that he is a deceiver in this videoclip from "Trinity Broadcasting Network", without doing so in a way that Christians normally might recognize. I counted him on top of a ladder, (the album cover for a record named "the sky is the limit", which it really isn't for a Christian, I might add), I saw him doing the sign of 666 several times, I listened carefully to what he said, and I know that this "ministry" is one of a brotherhood of witches, sent to ultimately back up the Antichrist in the last of days.

TBN is one of the main, if not the main Television channel, for most of the most popularized witches sent to destroy and twist the humble and pure teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ in these the last of days.

Allow me to explain this to you.

I once saw and heard Paul Crouch (that's his name, right, this program host?) discussing with Benny Hinn the signs and wonders of Benny Hinn's ministry.

[quote, Paul:] "..yes, and we know that the Lord Jesus said that there would be a lot of (or abundantly or many, I don't remember exactly, I'm lifting this from my mind, but it doesn't matter. The meaning will be clear in a minute) signs and wonders in the last days". Whereupon Benny Hinn replied: "Yes. Exactly! And....blah blah blah..."

And my mind went: "Wait a minute. Jesus did say something about signs and wonders and bound them up to the last days of this age, but..?"

And I got my Bible, looked it up in a hurry, and found the places. The only places, mind you, where Jesus refers especially to signs and wonders in the last days of this age (except for when the angel in revelations talks about a false prophet that goes before the Anti (which is better translated into "in stead of" rather than "opposed to, btw) -christ and does great miracles and wonders).

It was when he explained to His disciples (not the people of this world, but to His disciples "when they were alone", as Matthew tells us in chapter 24 verse 3. Yes, you should look this up and show yourself and the angels and the Lord that you are of a noble mind, one who doesn't take anybody's word except Jesus' for granted.) He then goes on explaining "Take heed, so that no one deceives you! Because many will come in My Name and say that I am the Messiah. And they shall seduce many." The quotation marks that may be put on the words: "I am the Christ (or Messiah)" in that verse, doesn't exist in neither Greek or Hebrew. They're put there by the translators to signify that others should claim that they are the Christ and shall deceive many. How many of those do you see outside of lunacy asylums, and how many do they trick into believing them? Not particularly many..
How many do you see or hear that says that Jesus is the Messiah, that does great signs and wonders and have many followers? And have twisted the Words of Jesus? You don't have to answer that, and neither do I. I'll explain why and how instead.

You see. It's crucial to the Antichrist to lead us astray from the thought that we must be strong and be willing to become martyrs in the last days, when the Mark of the Beast is made legislative law. How do I know that the Beast will be revealed and that blood will flow and that it's before Jesus returns for His saints? Amongst other because of the words in Revelations chapter 13. Read the whole chapter..

So let's move on to the part where Jesus links signs and wonders up with the last days before His gathering of the chosen ones. You should of course read the whole chapter and memorize it too, but let's get to the point and the crucial point in this miracles/last days connection, the ONLY time Jesus linked signs and wonders especially up against the last days: It's the same words in Mark 13, but I'll stay here with you in Matthew 24, verse 24-25: "For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. (25) See, I have told you beforehand."

And he mentions this in this context only. And there Paul and Benny (as I've come to know them I feel we're on a first name basis, but I digress.. :-) was sitting explaining to the world how it could be that such miracles and signs were taking place in the "ministry" of Benny. Like it was Jesus' approval of him being a man of God, while in fact Jesus gave this example, which they quote, to warn of false prophets in the last days. Doesn't these guys know their Bibles? Oh, yes they do. But they know that the majority of the Christian believers don't! So they preach "another gospel, another Christ, another spirit" to quote Paul (the Apostle, not the other one..)

Just show me one more place where Jesus talks especially of signs and wonders in the last of days and links them to something else than false prophets (and I don't mean the signs He Himself shall make in heaven and on earth, pillars of fire and such, from Joel), and I'll recant and send you one hundred $. That's a promise.

He also talks about this according to Luke in Chapter 17, but Luke is more concerned about telling of the parables of Jesus than everything else, so he shortens it down. Read from verse 20. And even there Luke too is specific about letting us know that Jesus said to His disciples these things. v.22..

Which kind of brings me to the point of it all. Why are false prophets gonna be "anointed" to such a degree in the last of days? To seduce many. Into what? False teachings and submission to a distorted interpretation and understanding of the Word of God and Yeshua the Messiah. Why? So that they'll swallow for instance the claim and teaching of a "rapture" (the word isn't even in the Bible), meaning the resurrection of the dead in Christ, and the gathering unto Jesus in the sky, that this event will take place before the Antichrist is revealed. This is dead wrong. For instance according to Paul in 2. Thessalonians ch 2, from the beginning:

"Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
2Th 2:2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
2Th 2:3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for [that Day will not come] unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
2Th 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
2Th 2:5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
2Th 2:6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains [will do so] until He is taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
2Th 2:9 The coming of the [lawless one] is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
2Th 2:12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. "

Let me explain, in case your head has been turned away from this: the falling away is the falling away from knowing the truth of the Word of God, so that people are receptive to the distorted version. Anyway Paul says here that the gathering of His saints will not happen before the man of sin is revealed!!
"Taken out of the way" is just as well translated to "made powerless and without influence".
And here, again this theme of sign and wonders appear (but it's not Jesus who says this, so I don't owe you 100$.. :-) when talking about false prophets.

Jesus said once: "You are mistaken (or led astray) because you do not know the Word of God, and neither the Power og God"

So read the Word, like your life depends on it (cause it does) and pray on you knees, which you will with a broken heart, for His mercy to be standing before the Son of Man and escape all this that will come upon this world (and the persecution of the true Christians).
Memorize it. Dig deep. In prayer and desperate want of knowing the secrets that are in there. Because there are many. They are there in plain sight, for everybody to read, but the Holy Spirit must reveal the context and meaning to your inner being before you understand..

I can tell you, I've looked into these things, and I have done so a lot and for a long time.
I could tell you more, but it's enough for now. I trust you understand I speak of things I know, and nothing else,

I'm writing this to try to make you aware of such things. And if you can take it, I'll leave a link here for a torrent to a upload I've made. It's my collection of material about another "Christian" group of musicians. I made it after crying with tears to Jesus for two days in sorrow.. 'Cause I loved their music..

The Isaacs and Quabala.

With Love from Verifire."