Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
There are many antichrist in churches today, where scripture has been changed and removed and where ungodly people come to the church thinking they are of God while doing ungodly acts and saying ungodly things.
In some cases, God will trouble the real believer and remove him from that group or from that ungodly person in that group.
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There are those who come among us (the real church) saying Jesus is Lord and seeming to be followers of God when God has not planted them in the church.
They plant themselves by copying those who seem to be godly.
Or they sometimes come among us hoping to get some material thing from us.
Often men on Internet contact me, through our blog, hoping I will give them money or other things they desire. They pretend to love the truth of the Word, but when I keep presenting the scripture to them concerning the matter at hand, they eventually leave me and I never hear from them again.
Jesus said:
Matthew 15:13-14 Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
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We just keep speaking the word which God has given us by HIS Spirit to the church.
Those who are not planted by God will be rooted up as you speak the word. They will eventually leave you or God will show you to avoid them when they always bear evil fruit and cause needless pain by their uncontrolled words.
I John 2:18-19 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
I have found most of them leave us by their own choice. They look in on us for awhile and then disappear. Let them go when they do this. It simply reveals the ones that were not of us.
If you do have a "brother" who comes among the group, and he is committing certain sins, you must put him away from yourself and refuse to keep company with him as Paul said in the following instruction to the church.
I Corinthians 5 ... 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
(We cannot eat the Word of God with these persons ... they will bring leaven into the church and it will end up working it's evil through the whole church group. It will not work to teach them, or counsel them. We simply have to do what Paul said and put them away from us, not keeping company with them.)
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God adds those who believe to the church.
Acts 2:47 And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
God gives each of HIS children HIS Spirit, the Holy Spirit.
Only by the Holy Spirit can we follow God for it is the Holy Spirit who reveals to us the will of God in the issues of this present life. I Corinthians 2
Those persons who try to join the church by their own will, lack the Spirit of God. They may try to copy the real believers, but in time they will leave us for they cannot understand things of God unless they have the Spirit of God or we may have to put them away from us.
I Corinthians 2:11-14
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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For awhile they come among us, putting themselves among us by their own will but having not the Spirit.
Jude
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
16-19 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
Several years ago, I attended a dinner at our local university.
Sitting next to me was a man who was wearing the largest cross I have ever seen.
He identified himself quickly as the former pastor at Indiana Street Baptist Church, and he began talking about the problem they were having at their church. He said so many were attending church they didn't have room to seat everyone. He said they had added to the church building many times and still couldn't seat all the people who were coming to their church.
I replied: If you would speak that which Jesus spoke in Bible, "The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery," then you would not have a problem, for many would leave you if you spoke Bible.
This man was very shocked! I fled, not waiting for the serving of the food. I did not want any part of sitting by this man through dinner.
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A person could come to our church group putting on a "happy face", approving all manner of people and all manner of sin, always thinking well of the other person and giving that person the "benefit of the doubt." This is wrong. By this, sin is often approved in the church.
There is also the exact opposite type of person who always hurts people, bearing thorns and thistles continually, puncturing others without reason, fleshly not spiritual. This is certainly wrong and demonstrates an ungodly person. The people who are of God will not go about doing harm needlessly.
A godly person is a person who can be trusted. That person will not do harm to another. We can safely speak to that person.
We cannot safely speak to those who are ungodly in the church group.
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