* We must be willing to live in truth.

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

I have a spiritual gift of exhortation:  To exhort means to urge the church earnestly with advice and warning.  This is what I do in this e-mail.

And in Hebrews 10:25 we see:  exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

It is even more important now than ever before to bring warnings, for the wickedness increases as we draw closer to the return of Jesus and many will be swept away by the abounding iniquity.  (Matthew 24:12-13)

Here is an exhortation (warning) for the church by a prophet of God.

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When we have conflict with another person, often we will want to explain the conflict away by thinking such things as, "They really didn't mean that,".  But that which happened is truth ... it really happened.  And that which happened is a warning to us concerning that person.

People come to us with unclean hearts.  We are warned about them by what they say and by what they do.  If we explain away the warning, we walk into pollution and even bring upon ourselves destruction.

We must live in the truth and set our directions accordingly.

I Corinthians 15  

33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: 

We deceive ourselves when we try to explain away what they did.

What they did is a warning to us about them that we would not be deceived.

If we can face the truth, we will free ourselves from their traps.

By their fruits you shall know them.  If they produce evil fruit, you must keep that in mind and not be deceived by vanity of your own mind, even by returning to their evil ways and setting yourself into their evil paths after you have been freed of them.

Hold fast to what they did, for that is truth.  

It is not that we have malice against them wanting to harm them.  But rather we want to live in truth so we will not be deceived again by their evil doings.  For truth will separate us from their evil that we may walk in good as we go forward.

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Matthew 12

33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 

(If a person brings forth evil, don't walk with him.  Keep yourselves pure.)

36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

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Examples:

* One woman praised her pastor but never spoke a word of praise about God.  This woman delights in humans but not in God.

* One woman showed herself to be extremely twisted.  Leave her alone.  If you try to straighten her out you will be drained for no good, for she will continue in her way, for she is without God's understanding and you will not be able to make her understand.  It will only pull you down.

* One woman railed out at me.  This is what she is.

* One relative tried to bring me to her church.  She shows no love for the Word of God, only for her church.  To go with her, I would have to deny God and turn from faith in God.  I would lose all that really matters.  She does not want to learn what I know.  She only wants to turn me away from those things God has taught me and bring me to her church.

*  One man admitted to committing fornication while he was teaching Bible.  He is not "good" but wicked. I Corinthians 5:11

*  One man came asking for help but all he wanted was an opening to speak his own ideas.  He is unclean and evil, coming with deceptive motives.

* One woman said she is a Jewish Christian.  But when given a scripture she said, "I'm a Messianic Christian and we have our own doctrine."  Jesus says:  "I am the way the truth and the life.  No man comes to the Father but by ME." John 14:5 ...  There is no doctrine other than Jesus, The Word.

* One woman came identifying herself as a Christian.  She displayed no real understand of godliness or things of God, failing to see evil and wanting to see good even when it was evil.  God says:  Malachi 3:17 Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied Him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them;

* One woman showed over and over that she turns to God when there is a problem and she allows God to show her what to do and she does that.  Hold fast to your relationship with this woman knowing she walks in the Spirit of God and she will not trouble you.

Notice:  Of the 9 examples, one is pure and without trouble to me.  Therefore follow God with that one who is no grief to you.

I Thessalonians 5:21   Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

(The devil will try to get you to reason away the evil that they do and accept them.  God shows us truth by that which they do so we can hold fast to truth, departing from them and their evil.  We must not let the truth be reasoned away.)

Keep it straight by remembering what they actually said and did.  That way you can walk in truth!

For deception will abound even more in the coming days.

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