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Phony vs Real?



John 3 (NKJV)

 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.



We must learn to discern between the flesh and the Spirit. 



John 4 (NKJV)

23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.




We must learn to worship God in the Spirit and not in the flesh.  Our worship must not be fake.  




The enemy likes to substitute the phony for the real.


  

2 Corinthians 11(NKJV)

14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.




The devil comes as a messenger of God with lies and says that God has said it. 



He copies, imitates and perverts. 



God is seeking true worshipers which is lead by His Spirit.  



He is tired of fake worship which is lead by the flesh.



John 4 (NKJV)

24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

John 6 (NKJV)

63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. 


The words that I (Jesus) speak to you are spirit, and they are life.



Our flesh is dying.  Our spirits are renewing.  Dead has permeated God's creation. 




We are in a cycle of birth and then death.  Everything in the earth is in this cycle. 



We have an opportunity to receive God's Holy Spirit to be renewed in our inner person. 



Romans 6:23  (NKJV)

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.



2 Corinthians 4 (NKJV)

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.





People act old because they think old, but our inner person never ages if we have received God's Holy Spirit.  




You don't have to be old in your spirit or you mind.  



2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV)

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.



1 Corinthians 15:52 (NKJV)

52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.




The flesh can feel old, but the inner person can feel renewed. 




The inner person can effect the outer person.  



John 6 (NKJV)

63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. 



The words that I (Jesus) speak to you are spirit, and they are life.




We are talking about discerning what is of the flesh and that which is of the Holy Spirit.  




That which is of the Holy Spirit is life giving.  That which is of the flesh is life draining.  




If we do things the Holy Spirit directs, the Holy Spirit is in it.



It is the Holy Spirit that raised Jesus up from the dead. 



Romans 8 (NKJV)

11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, 


He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.



Have you noticed that death is being programmed into us.  Skulls, crossbows, darkness and such.  



Why all the cursing?  Why all the evil?  Satan is in control of this world, and he is trying to kill us prematurely.  




If we receive God's Holy Spirit as God's gift, we can escape this.  



Ephesians 2:2  (NKJV)



2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power (Satan) of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,



We must not talk about anything that crosses our minds which Satan place there. 



We must speak words of life and peace which God's Holy Spirit gives.



Ephesians 4:29  (NKJV)

29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.




We must not talk about the problem, but the answer.  Talk about how easy it is for our God to solve it.  Do your words help or hurt?




Proverbs 18:21(NKJV) Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. 



 

Keith Moore, Faith Life Church

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