9 As we said before, so I now say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel different from or contrary to that which you received [from us], let him be accursed (anathema, devoted to destruction, doomed to eternal punishment)!
So stop and think about the Truth of the Gospel for a minute. The Truth is that the Kingdom of our Father, the power of God, has come to dwell in man and it has come to us because of what Jesus is and what He did for us. The Holy Spirit tells us that if this is not being preached then it is a lie and whoever is preaching it is cursed to failure. The Holy Spirit tells us that even if an angel tells us something different than it is all our Father’s power within us, then it is a lie. With verse 9 in mind think about what so many preach today? Think about what you believe about Heaven? In Heaven is it our will or is it our Father’s will that controls everything? Will we have a free will in Heaven? The Kingdom of Heaven is now within man, this is the Gospel. If anyone is preaching to you that we have free will, this is contrary to the Truth that the Kingdom of Heaven is in us and so it is a lie. If they are preaching that God is not in control of everything, or that we have control of anything, or that God gave us control, that is contrary to the Truth and it is a lie. Who controls the Kingdom, us or our Father? We are not called Lord!
There is a ton of preaching that focuses on us and not on God and it is all a lie. So many preach what we have to do to have our Father act in our lives. Ask yourself, is that how it is in Heaven, or the Kingdom? In Heaven is our Father reactive or is He active, does He respond or does He control? The Gospel is that the Kingdom of Heaven is now in us and for us, anything else is a lie, regardless of who is preaching it!
Look at what the word Lord actually means.
The dictionary defines Lord as something that has power and authority and influence.
The Greek word that we translate Lord from is Kurios, it means: He to whom a person belongs. He which has power of deciding. The Possessor of a thing, the owner, one who has control of a person, the master, and the sovereign.
If someone is preaching that we influence our Father with our own acceptance or choice, so that He will act in our life’s, that is a lie. They will call this belief faith, but faith is not a human ability to believe the Truth’s of God, faith is Jesus’ ability to believe God working through man. This is why we look unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, Hebrews 12:2. Anything being preached other than the Truth that it is Jesus deciding and influencing us is a complete lie, it is not the Gospel of the Kingdom and it should be exposed for exactly what it is. This type of preaching is anti-christ, it is a gospel of man, it is a gospel of deception, and it is carnally minded and it will bring the curse of death.
Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever]. [That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot. Romans 8:6-7
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