Every epistle is written from the position of the calling and grace of the apostles stewardship which God gave them for the Church.
When the epistle is studied outside of that oversight then the understanding will rest in the prejudice of the reader.

Discernment is given to the Church through the sanctified stewardship, which the Spirit of the Lord will confirm.
Discernment is not left up to the prudence of each individual or group as each determines right from wrong by their own studies.

Notice that those whom Paul was addressing were under his present stewardship, as also the Apostle John mentioned.

The “ANOINTING” is not suspicion nor is it found in ambiguity.

Paul said in 1 CORINTHIANS 14:7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is PIPED OR HARPED?

This shows that the apostles stewardship defines  the doctrine and the priesthood of the believer confirms the sound.

The ANOINTING is through living apostles for the saints to measure truth by. Jesus said the same thing when He identified Himself as the TRUTH and not the letter of the law. For the apostles measured His words by the grace of His calling, but the Pharisees used the precept of the law. They plundered the hearts of the people by the letter, while Jesus built His kingdom by the Spirit.

The Spirit was given to each for the profit of all to build the House of God by the Spirit. Now this comes through the callings and priesthood.

Many are trying to weigh truth on their own scales of the moral code. Satan (a false imitator of God) then enters the results which is to oppose anything that is strange or different than previous religious instructions. Satan will always stay within the boundries of ones prejudice to avoid detection. But he will also set personal challenges to cancel the guilt in the conscience and to justify the journey of good will with promises.

1John2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

The “THEM” are those outside of His government stewardship. Paul calls them ‘unconverted believers’.
ACTS 21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which BELIEVE; and they are all ZEALOUS OF THE LAW: 

This is what Jesus warned his apostles about, that the Pharisees were the religious eyes for the people, and used the KEY of office to aspire to the goals of their own religious aspirations. The blind are leading the blind.

1 JOHN 2:27 BUT THE ANOINTING which ye have received of him abideth in you, (those instructed by an apostle) and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie,(is not the record of man) and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. (by the priesthood of Jesus Christ)

Seduction comes from those not understanding what the will of the Lord is, and for not having the foundation of truth laid in the heart by God’s stewardship. We must accept Isaiah’s testimony. He was the steward in his time.

Isaiah had his own prophets school and spoke in defence of his calling and stewardship; saying we are those signs which God has sent to Israel to help her see God’s direction for them. He confirms the temple in Zion AND the covenant given by God to Moses. He was not acting as a “religious maverick“preaching his own interpretations of the Torah, as we see many of today are trying to imitate called ‘Event Theology’.

Read Isaiah’s testimony:

Isaiah 8:18
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not ACCORDING TO THIS WORD, it is because there is no light in them.

The “WORD” is that which God revealed to him for the direction of Israel.
But those religious leaders of his time listened to only those prophets which prophecied words in regard to solving their personal issues and problems. Same today in the false prophetic movement.

They speaking by the spirit of the world seek to turn God’s people from the covenant to function in the failing system of their religion and receive the wrath of God.

Many false prophets say good things, as Balaam, Saul, and Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah. Notice that ‘discernment’ was not the vessel but the words. Even the Beast in Revelation 13 will quote from the Bible and confirm the temple (not the covenant of Christ).

NUMBERS 24
1Samuel 10
2 CHRONICLES 18
1 KINGS 13

DEUTERONOMY 13:1 If there arise among you a PROPHET, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that PROPHET, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. (in Covenant not outside of it)

Notice that  in 1 KINGS 13 an old prophet used certain knowledge to misquide a true prophet. Where was his discernment?
Was it the man, or the words? Neither!

Read his testimony
11 Now there dwelt an OLD PROPHET in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.
25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the OLD PROPHET dwelt.

29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the OLD PROPHET came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.

Look at the carnel minded discernment of the Pharisee named Gamaliel in Acts 5:34. Many christians will follow this pattern and will error in judgment. Because it is in the Bible they think it is a safe practice. Sounds Berean doesnt?

Without the true eyes of sanctified stewardship the Church is wandering into many snares of Satan. True discernment is what the Spirit speaks through His government and confirms. Not the floating revelations which carry the soul away with the currents of the prince of this world.

And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
But if it BE OF GOD, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

Only the Spirit of God can open the eyes of your understanding. When the temple was built in Solomon’s days there was great rejoicing.
 
So when the House of God is completed today, the saints will shout for joy.

Those under Satans spell will refuse the Light, Gal.3:1, for God is seperating the Tares from the Wheat at this ‘Hour of Temptation’.

Christian Pharisees, (those of tradition) desire the old wine skins to the Sweetness of His truth.
As the Jesus said, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.”

Be blessed  in His grace.
The face of Christ is seen in the stewardship of His grace and the manifold wisdom of God. Our Father’s visitation of His people confirming these things is also a manifestation of His grace witnessed by angels and men.

Prepare your heart to receive His grace.

In His grace

Apostle Eric

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Sinners yoke themselves with carnal things and so quench the Spirit of God, but the righteous dine at the table of the Lord building His House

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