“'I Will Never Leave You, Nor Forsake You,' Says The Lord"

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Hebrews 13:5-6

Modern English Version

⁵ Let your lives be without love of money, and be content with the things you have. For He has said:

“I will never leave you, nor forsake you.” {Dt. 31:6/ Jos. 1:5}

⁶ So we may boldly say:

“The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” {Ps. 118:6}

Deuteronomy 31:6

Modern English Version

⁶ Be strong and of a good courage. Fear not, nor be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, it is He who goes with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you.”

Joshua 1:5

Modern English Version

^5 "No man will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, I will be with you. I will not abandon you. I will not leave you".

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The Lord Leads You Through Confusion Because He's Inside You

You may not understand the Bible yet, nor what you preach. But when God is inside you, He will bring you through your misunderstandings about the Bible and your disobedience. God will find you beyond the Bible.

When you're confused about what the Bible means and you have preached false prophecies, the Lord is yet inside you and He will be there beyond the Bible to save you, and not condemn you, because knowing God is more important than knowing the Bible.

God uses the Bible to reach you, but after you've been baptized into the Holy Spirit through it, knowing God becomes more important than knowing the Bible, because you will never understand the Bible and it is the Holy Spirit who will save you beyond the Bible.

When you're confused over what the Bible says and means, when you don't understand are uncertain about the truth, the Holy Spirit is not going to give you correct doctrine to save you. He will be there for you in your pain and confusion and progressively over time, guide you to Him. He will save you by teaching you that it is more important to bear fruit, than to teach correct doctrine.

The Lord will separate you from those in church who fight over who's right, because that's what false prophets do. They fight because it's their doctrine that they're preaching. When it's God telling you what to say, you won't get mad like false prophets do when people disagree with you, because the message isn't yours. It's God's.

People get lost in trying to preach the correct doctrine when the Holy Spirit wants you to tell people that Jesus died for them. The rest will confuse you. But that's when God will be there for you, if you've been baptized into the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:9

Modern English Version

⁹ You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

This what God wants to say to you today. Lots of people out there are real born again and Spirit filled Christians. Their ministry is based on the gifts of the Spirit and the anointing and not on the fruit of the Spirit. You preach, but you got no fruit.

Young people, or beginners and novices, in ministry, base their ministries on their spiritual giftings. Such as prophecy, healing, and exorcism. But they got no fruit. They misunderstand the Bible and live in sin. They don't obey the Bible off the platform because they haven't learned yet that your spiritual giftings don't make you obey God. To obey God means to die.

Older people know that growing fruit in your character through mortification, sanctification and death to your flesh, is more important than the gifts of the Spirit. God wants your fruit because that is how to obey Him.

Correct teaching isn't as important as fellowship with and knowing the Holy Spirit. If you've been baptized into the Holy Spirit, this; getting saved from fights in church, and knowing the correct doctrine, will come naturally to you ... but people that haven't been baptized into the Holy Spirit, don't have this opportunity. They're preaching in their flesh, not the Spirit of God.

You Know the Bible but Do You Know the Lord?

Matthew 7:13-27

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The Narrow Gate

¹³ “Enter at the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who are going through it,

¹⁴ because small is the gate and narrow is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

A Tree and Its Fruit

¹⁵ “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

¹⁶ You will know them by their fruit. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

¹⁷ Even so, every good tree bears good fruit. But a corrupt tree bears evil fruit.

¹⁸ A good tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a corrupt tree bear good fruit.

¹⁹ Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

²⁰ Therefore, by their fruit you will know them.

I Never Knew You

²¹ “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.

²² Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonderful works in Your name?’

²³ But then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who practice evil.’

The Two Housebuilders

²⁴ “Whoever hears these sayings of Mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.

²⁵ And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house. And it did not fall, for it was founded a rock.

²⁶ And every one who hears these sayings of Mine and does not do them will be likened to a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

²⁷ And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house. And it fell. And its fall was great.”

King Saul Learned That Obeying God or Fruit

Is More Important than Performing the Ceremonies of the Bible

1 Samuel 15

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The Lord Rejects Saul

1 Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you to be king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the words of the Lord.

² Thus says the Lord of Hosts, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

³ Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not have compassion on them but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

⁴ So Saul summoned the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.

⁵ Then Saul came to the city of Amalek and laid an ambush in the valley.

⁶ Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

⁷ Then Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah until you come to Shur, which is near Egypt.

⁸ He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

⁹ But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, oxen, fatlings, and lambs. And of all that was good, they were not willing to utterly destroy them. But everything that was despised and weak, that they completely destroyed.

¹⁰ Then came the word of the Lord to Samuel, saying,

¹¹ “I regret that I have set up Saul to be king because he has turned back from following Me, and he has not carried out My words.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried to the Lord all night.

¹² When Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul came to Carmel and set himself up a monument. Then he turned and has passed on down to Gilgal.”

¹³ Samuel came to Saul. And Saul said to him, “Blessed are you of the Lord. I have carried out the word of the Lord.”

¹⁴ Samuel said, “Then what is the sound of this flock of sheep in my ears? And the sound of the cattle which I am hearing?”

¹⁵ And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites. For the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”

¹⁶ Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop, and I will tell you what the Lord spoke to me this night.”

And he said to him, “Speak.”

¹⁷ Samuel said, “When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed you king over Israel?

¹⁸ And the Lord sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are destroyed.’

¹⁹ Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? And why did you rush upon the spoil and do evil in the sight of the Lord?”

²⁰ And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. And I have followed in the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

²¹ But the people took from the plunder sheep and oxen, the first fruits of the banned things to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”

²² Samuel said,

“Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Obedience is better than sacrifice, a listening ear than the fat of rams.

²³ For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king.”

²⁴ Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned. For I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

²⁵ Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me, that I may worship the Lord.”

²⁶ Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

²⁷ As Samuel turned about to go, he seized the edge of his robe and it tore.

²⁸ Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

²⁹ Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent. For He is not a man, that He should repent.”

³⁰ Then he said, “I have sinned, yet please honor me before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn back with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”

³¹ So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul worshipped the Lord.

³² Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag the king of the Amalekites.”

And Agag came to him reluctantly. But Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

³³ Samuel said,

“As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.”

And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

³⁴ Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

³⁵ Now Samuel did not see Saul up to the day of his death. But Samuel mourned for Saul and the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

Note: The Holy Spirit eventually departed from Saul because he wouldn't listen to God. As a result, Saul committed suicide (1 Sam. 16:13-15; 31:3, 4). The life of Saul in the Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit is inside the Christians to bear fruit, which is to say, to grow out of sin into obeying God. Obeying God is what Saul did not do and as a result, the Holy Spirit departed from Saul, and he thus, lost his life to suicide.

Saul's story in 1 Samuel chapters 8 through 31 in the Bible is a stark reminder to Christians to get to know the Lord inside of them by listening to Him and bearing fruit. Jesus said in Matthew 7:13-27 that bearing fruit for God, or doing what He says; doing the will of the Father, as contrasted to religious ceremonies in Jesus' Name, or pious willpower (Col. 2:20-23), is what gets us to heaven. Everything else is from false prophets.

Trusting God Beyond What We Know

Knowing God is what gets you to heaven. The Bible leads us to faith in Jesus' death for us and to the baptism into the Holy Spirit. But beyond the Gospel, knowing the Holy Spirit will keep you on the road to heaven.

When people don't know the Lord, they take it upon themselves to perform ceremonies for the Lord, such as preaching and miracles of faith in Jesus. They aim to make Bible teachings and what God said in it, the way to be saved and make it to heaven.

But when you know God, you know that He is always asking you to bear fruit before He sends you out to preach, so that you practice what you preach as a witness to people about Jesus. God wants correct Bible teaching based on what He said and means. But beyond that, what is vital to going to heaven, is knowing the Holy Spirit and fellowship with Him in your personal life, because He is your salvation. Knowing God gets you to heaven.

People that don't know God will accept correction when they're wrong in their teachings, and that shows that they are not getting their messages from God, but from Bible study. People that speak what God told them to, will not accept correction and anyone who does will be called false prophets by them, because they speak God's words.

To Know God Means to Obey God and Bear Fruit

John 17:3

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³ This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

Galatians 5:16-26

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Spiritual Fruit and Fleshly Works

¹⁶ I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. These are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.

¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are revealed, which are these: adultery, sexual immorality, impurity, lewdness,

²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, rage, selfishness, dissensions, heresies,

²¹ envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I previously warned you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith,

²³ meekness, and self-control; against such there is no law.

²⁴ Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

²⁶ Let us not be conceited, provoking one another and envying one another.

Ephesians 5:6-21

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Walk as Children of Light

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

⁷ Therefore do not be partakers with them.

⁸ For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light—

⁹ for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth—

¹⁰ proving what is pleasing to the Lord.

¹¹ And do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness; instead, expose them.

¹² For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

¹³ But all things are exposed when they are revealed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.

¹⁴ Therefore He says:

“Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”

¹⁵ See then that you walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise men,

¹⁶ making the most of the time because the days are evil.

¹⁷ Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

¹⁸ Do not be drunk with wine, for that is reckless living. But be filled with the Spirit.

¹⁹ Speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.

²⁰ Give thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

²¹ being submissive to one another in the fear of God.

Bear Fruit

"Bear fruit"

is an idiom meaning to produce successful results or outcomes, often after effort, like a plant yielding fruit. It can also literally refer to plants producing fruit or be part of brand names like "BEAR" fruit snacks (healthy, no-added-sugar snacks) or "Bear's Fruit" kombucha (organic probiotic drinks). The phrase emphasizes positive results, success, or spiritual fruitfulness.

What Does It Mean to Bear Fruit?

To Get People Saved by Witnessing to Them About Jesus' Death for Them

(1 Cor. 15:1-8)

Proverbs 11:30

Modern English Version

³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.

Proverbs 11:30

Living Bible

³⁰ Godly men are growing a tree that bears life-giving fruit, and he that is wise wins souls.

Proverbs 11:30

Contemporary English Version

³⁰ Live right, and you will eat from the life-giving tree. And if you act wisely, others will follow. But violence leads to death.

Proverbs 11:30

Good News Translation

³⁰ Righteousness gives life, but violence takes it away.

Proverbs 11:30

International Standard Version

³⁰   From the fruit of righteousness grows life, but the souls of those who practice evil are cut off prematurely.

Proverbs 11:30

Expanded Bible

³⁰ A good person gives life to others [The fruit of the righteous is the tree of life]; the wise person teaches others how to live [gathers lives/souls].

Gifts Are Given - Fruit Is Grown

The Holy Spirit wants to say straight out that the gifts of the Spirit listed in 1 Corinthians 12:1-11, are not the power to obey God. The fruit of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22, 23, is.

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

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Spiritual Gifts

1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

² You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led.

³ Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed!” And no one can say, “Jesus is the Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

⁴ There are various gifts, but the same Spirit.

⁵ There are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

⁶ There are various operations, but it is the same God who operates all of them in all people.

⁷ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to everyone for the common good.

⁸ To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit, ⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit,

¹⁰ to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

¹¹ But that one and very same Spirit works all these, dividing to each one individually as He will.

The gifts of the Spirit constitute an office of service to God. Such as prophet, evangelist pastor or teacher (Eph. 4:10-12). But the fruit of the Spirit is a list of character traits. The Holy Spirit grows these traits inside of Christians to make them bear fruit for Him. This list of character traits is what it takes to obey God.

Galatians 5:22-23

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²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith,

²³ meekness, and self-control; against such there is no law.

Fruit Is Grown

Most Christians base their ministries on the gifts of the Spirit, but in their private lives; behind closed doors, they do not obey God (Mt. 7:21-23). This is because they are unfruitful (Mt. 7:15-20). Obey God whether it's giving a service in Jesus' Name, or killing your flesh in a fight with a meathead, or a human animal; the dead, who have not the Spirit of God residing within them and do not know God. The point is to obey God and bear fruit. Bear fruit by obeying God at the cost of your "self" and ego. The flesh.

The false prophets in Matthew 7:13-27 did not obey God. They did everything else but that, because they don't know God. Don't be like them; another king Saul, because Jesus warns us that Christians can lose their salvation and anointing; the presence of the Holy Spirit, if we don't do God's word. This what Matthew chapter 25 is about ... read it and see in verses 24 through 30 where the talent was taken back from the wicked servant; the disobedient Christian, like Saul, and he was cast into the lake of fire.

That one talent is talking about the gifts of the Spirit. To have that gift, you have to be baptized into the Holy Spirit with the Holy Spirit living inside you, according to 1 Corinthians 12:1-11. The talent was taken from him on judgement day, and he was chopped up by the Lord and His angels and cast into hell. This is the Lord Jesus telling us beforehand that His judgement on the Saul Christian, is for the Holy Spirit to depart.

This is what is waiting for Christians who base their ministries on the gifts of the Spirit but are unfruitful and bear no fruit in their personal lives ... In Matthew 7:23 Jesus calls their fruit "lawlessness", disobedience to God, and He calls them "false prophets". How can you be a false prophet when you have the Holy Spirit in you? Because you don't bear fruit. You? A false prophet?! But you're anointed and have the Holy Spirit in you! So did Saul ... so did the wicked servant in Matthew 25 ... get to know the Lord by listening to His Spirit ... this will save you from judgement ...

You're saved. You got the Holy Spirit inside you and your gifting is genuine. You use the Holy Spirit's gifts to make a ministry, but you don't use the Holy Spirit to bear fruit; to put to death your flesh by obeying God, and so you are a false prophet, because God wants a fruitful servant.

But, you know what? God will never leave you, and so repent when He corrects you so that you don't end up like Saul and that closet Christian in Matthew 25 that lost his salvation.

Hebrews 12:5-17

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⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons:

“My son, do not despise the discipline from the Lord, nor grow weary when you are rebuked by Him;

⁶ for whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and scourges every son whom He receives.”

⁷ Endure discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline? 

⁸ If you are without discipline, of which everyone has partaken, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 

⁹ Furthermore, we have had human fathers, and they corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 

¹⁰ For they indeed disciplined us for a short time according to their own judgment, but He does so for our profit, that we may partake of His holiness. 

¹¹ Now no discipline seems to be joyful at the time, but grievous. Yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness in those who have been trained by it.

¹² Therefore lift up your tired hands, and strengthen your weak knees. 

¹³ Make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame go out of joint, but rather be healed.

Warning Against Rejecting God’s Grace

¹⁴ Pursue peace with all men, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord, 

¹⁵ watching diligently so that no one falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up to cause trouble, and many become defiled by it, 

¹⁶ lest there be any sexually immoral or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 

¹⁷ For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. For he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

God is inside you, born-again and anointed Christian, and so know that making it to heaven is all about bearing fruit with the gifts of the Spirit, not apart from the fruit. Don't separate them. They complement eachother and are both parts of a solid life for God. You can't have life without fruit.

How to Bear Fruit

Click Me to read how to obey God at the expense of your "self"

To bear fruit and obey God takes death to your "self" and ego. It hurts to die to who you are. God's fruit; the characteristics revealed in Galatians 5:22, 23, grow inside as your flesh dies as you obey God.

Please read my message above in the link titled "How to Bear Fruit". It's a personal testimony about what it takes to bear fruit by obeying God ...

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World without end. Amen.