Corruptability
Feb 11th, 2008
scribe: Priscilla Van Sutphin
Acts 20:30 AMP Even from among your own selves men will come to the front who, by saying perverse (distorted and corrupt) things, will endeavor to draw away the disciples after them [to their own party].
1 Cor 15:33 AMP Do not be so deceived and misled! Evil companionships (communion, associations) corrupt and deprave good manners and morals and character.
“ I came to give you life and life abundantly. Abundant life does not mean abundant sinfulness. MY LIFE in you produces HOLINESS. For without holiness, no one will see God I’ve said. The corruptability of man is a simple thing to see these days. So many are led astray by mammon – self and money. I want to pour out glory. I want to see the Bride arrayed and bedecked with glory, more than she wants it. But My glory will KILL the corrupt. It will lay waste the liars, just like Ananias and Sapphira. It is My own will that none should perish. So once again, I come and plead for you to draw close to ME My beloved bride, for I am stripping and cleansing My threshing floor that you would be able to receive all the glory I have for you. Root out the little foxes that spoil the vine. And pray for the ones who are walking in hypocrisy. Come out of fellowship with hypocrites and liars.
2 Tim 3:5 AMP
5 For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them].
For it is a greater sin as I’ve shown to PRETEND you are doing right, when you are really corrupt, compared to being honest about your own sins. Remember the publican and the sinner ? I look on the heart, and I see the heart issues, the deeper things within you that make it impossible for you to obey Me. There is a war going on in your heart and mind. And there is a war going on in the world for this generation. I want you to understand the fullness of MY LOVE that you can be filled to the full with My glory. But you must FIRST humble yourselves, and come to ME.
I want to heal those deep hurts in your life and all the rejection you wear on your shoulder.
I want to take you by the hand, and up in to My arms and soothe the pain of many past abuses. But if you strive and fight and kick at the goads to do so, what can I do ? Then you leave me no choice but to create circumstances that draw you to My feet. It would be much easier to stop striving and to just rest in My arms so I can speak to you honestly. But your heart needs to be open to what I have to say. If your opinion is more important than Mine, then you won’t receive what I have to say, so why should I speak to you ?
I have a lot of corrections to make in heart attitudes in My beloveds. The heart attitudes are the face of My church. There is much corruptability in the face of the church. The world sees it and runs. But I want them to come to ME. How will they come if you chase them away with your disdainment and judging them as if you are so perfect ? Surely if you would come to ME, the Author of LIFE and depend on Me for how to approach the lost, and how to react when you see immaturity in believers, then you would have a word in season that would bring life instead of death to them. Some churches don’t even care if they have any lost come to Me. How sad is this when I died for ALL MANKIND ? Are you perfected in love ? Because perfect love cast down all fear. Ask yourself, why are you afraid of the people who are different than you are ? Why do you disregard the homeless ? Why have you no heart for those who are poor ? Isn’t it because you have been their judge and jury ?
Is it not I WHO AM THE ONLY JUDGE ? I LIFT UP and I bring down. I AM the One Who is in control. How do you know oh men or women who judge the hearts of others, that you are right about that one whom you have judged and disdained ? Your pride has blinded you.
Only I KNOW what is in the heart of a man or woman. Only I KNOW all they have been through. I ask you oh sons and daughters, to come to ME, and ask of ME what I THINK. It would go well for you if you gave up your bitterness and resentments, your fears and the pride behind all your control. It would go well for you if you gave up your SELF PROTECTION and gave your WHOLE life to ME.
I will not tarry much longer. HOLD ON TO WHAT IS ETERNAL, for I am coming back for a spotless BRIDE, not one that is covered with dung and mud from all she has been wallowing in. I am coming for My LOVER. I am coming for the one who sees ME as more important than all this world offers. Remember Lot’s wife, how she looked back at all she longed for ? LOOK UP, KEEP YOURSELF HEAVENLY MINDED. For I am coming soon, and My winnowing fork is in My hand, and I will thoroughly cleanse My threshing floor. I want to pour out blessings and glory and honor. So come away. Come and be with ME, and allow me to pluck up, and pull out all the thorns in your flesh that keep you from ME.”
Eph 2:3-5 AMP Among these we as well as you once lived and conducted ourselves in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by our corrupt and sensual nature], obeying the impulses of the flesh and the thoughts of the mind [our cravings dictated by our senses and our dark imaginings]. We were then by nature children of [God's] wrath and heirs of [His] indignation, like the rest of mankind.
4 But God — so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us,
5 Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved ( delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation).
Eph 4:22-23 AMP Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; 23 And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude],
Eph 5:4 AMP Let there be no filthiness (obscenity, indecency) nor foolish and sinful (silly and corrupt) talk, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting or becoming; but instead voice your thankfulness [to God]. 5 For be sure of this: that no person practicing sexual vice or impurity in thought or in life, or one who is covetous [who has lustful desire for the property of others and is greedy for gain] — for he [in effect] is an idolater — has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. AMP
Titus 1:15 AMP To the pure [in heart and conscience] all things are pure, but to the defiled and corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are defiled and polluted.
Jude 8-11 AMP Nevertheless in like manner, these dreamers also corrupt the body, scorn and reject authority and government, and revile and libel and scoff at [heavenly] glories (the glorious ones). 9 But when [even] the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, judicially argued (disputed) about the body of Moses, he dared not [presume to] bring an abusive condemnation against him, but [simply] said, The Lord rebuke you! [Zech 3:2.]
10 But these men revile (scoff and sneer at) anything they do not happen to be acquainted with and do not understand; and whatever they do understand physically [that which they know by mere instinct], like irrational beasts — by these they corrupt themselves and are destroyed (perish).
11 Woe to them! For they have run riotously in the way of Cain, and have abandoned themselves for the sake of gain [it offers them, following] the error of Balaam, and have perished in rebellion [like that] of Korah! [Gen 4:3-8; Num 16:1; 22:1-24:25.]
