Knights in Black Armor
June 18th, 2006 12:12 am
Priscilla Van Sutphin
“Efficiency, perfectionism, exclusivity, righteous indignation with pride, lack of love, compromise, desire for fame and fortune. What do these things have in common? This is the religious spirit at work in My church.
The bane of existence for those without any formal training are those who blatently regard intellect and prowess as the ultimate standards for ministry. Yet My Word says…
1 Cor 1:18-19 AMP For the story and message of the cross is sheer absurdity and folly to those who are perishing and on their way to perdition, but to us who are being saved it is the [manifestation of] the power of God.
19 For it is written, I will baffle and render useless and destroy the learning of the learned and the philosophy of the philosophers and the cleverness of the clever and the discernment of the discerning; I will frustrate and nullify [them] and bring [them] to nothing. [Isa 29:14.]
The arrogance and pride of man I will bring to nothing for I have said,
Mal 4:1-2 NKJV The Great Day of God
"For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud , yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up," says the LORD of hosts, "that will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But to you who fear My name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise
with healing in His wings; and you shall go out and grow fat like stall-fed calves.
“I wanted RELATIONSHIP with man, and it is for RELATIONSHIP I died. RELATIONSHIP with ME. I wanted a bride. I do not want the harlot church. I want a bride without spot or wrinkle I said. THAT is what I am coming for ! I am coming again because I must have a bride without blemishes and warts, and dirty a face, and corrupt morals. A little bit of this, a little bit of that, take this, take that, mix it up with the world and witchcraft, and you think that I will wink and not look ? Do you think I will stay My hand forever ? WHY, many ask do you do nothing Lord ? WHEN will You come ? they say. I AM at hand. And I will purge My threshing floor of all the deception of the enemy, in many places all over the world. But evil will continue to arise. Separation is happening because many refuse to repent of their evil deeds. Many think that I am complacent when it is YOU that is complacent and who refuses to confront what you see with your eyes.
What will it take for you to overcome your fears My sons & daughters ? How long will you run from My presence ? What will it take for you to see ME as I really am ? Ask and you will receive ! KNOCK, and the door will be opened. DO NOT RETREAT. Do not overlook wrongs when I am calling you to confront. Do not overlook correction I want you to speak, when I TELL YOU. Do ONLY what I want. Say only what I say. Do not judge as if you were not vulnerable to the same taunts and temptations of the enemy. But you MUST confront the lack of fruit, the lack of morals, the lack of ethical and righteous behavior. You don’t ignore it to make it go away ! You CONFRONT IT ! Know that if you will pray for many, they will be saved.
But if I tell you to confront someone and you don’t, that their blood is on your hands. I will be calling you in days ahead to enter into places of worship and to DECREE MY WORD. If you hold your tongue, you will be liable for the souls of those who would have responded to My Word. It’s not that I can’t bring someone else. But it is I speaking through you. This is not a game. This is reality. My words are more reality than the words of man. Will you not speak when I tell you to speak. Will you not be silent when I ask you to be silent, and to pray when I tell you to PRAY ? Am I not your Adonai? Am I just a tool to make you feel better ? Or am I the LOVING GOD of the universe who gave his only begotten Son to die for you ?
I make an effort to communicate with you, but it will not always be at YOUR convenience. It will be when I say. Do not submit yourselves to bullies and tyrants, nor to false teachers.”
2 Peter 2:1-3 AMP BUT ALSO [in those days] there arose false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among yourselves, who will subtly and stealthily introduce heretical doctrines (destructive heresies), even denying and disowning the Master Who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their immoral ways and lascivious doings; because of them the true Way will be maligned and defamed. 3 And in their covetousness (lust, greed) they will exploit you with false (cunning) arguments. From of old the sentence [of condemnation] for them has not been idle; their destruction (eternal misery) has not been asleep.
Gal 5:9 AMP A little leaven (a slight inclination to error, or a few false teachers ) leavens the whole lump [it perverts the whole conception of faith or misleads the whole church].
Gal 3:18 AMP For if the inheritance [of the promise depends on observing] the Law [as these false teachers would like you to believe], it no longer [depends] on the promise; however, God gave it to Abraham [as a free gift solely] by virtue of His promise.
2 Cor 3:1-2 AMP ARE WE starting to commend ourselves again? Or we do not, like some [false teachers ], need written credentials or letters of recommendation to you or from you, [do we]? 2 [No] you yourselves are our letter of recommendation (our credentials), written in your hearts, to be known (perceived, recognized) and read by everybody.
Gal 3:10 AMP And all who depend on the Law [who are seeking to be justified by obedience to the Law of rituals] are under a curse and doomed to disappointment and destruction, for it is written in the Scriptures, Cursed (accursed, devoted to destruction, doomed to eternal punishment) be everyone who does not continue to abide (live and remain) by all the precepts and commands written in the Book of the Law and to practice them. [Deut 27:26.]
Ps 123:4 AMP Our life is exceedingly filled with the scorning and scoffing of those who are at ease and with the contempt of the proud (irresponsible tyrants who disregard God's law).
Jer 15:21 AMP And I will deliver you out of the hands of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the palms of the terrible and ruthless tyrants .
Ezek 34:17 AMP And as for you, O My flock, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the great he-goats [the malicious and the tyrants of the pasture].
“ For false teachers abound in My pastures and they devour My sheep and they distort the teaching to the lambs to pervert their ways. This is all the work of the antichrist who seeks to destroy My Bride. If you only KNEW how much I love you, and how much I love everyone, despite their delusions and the deceptions, you would grasp MY desperation for relationship much more fully. COME to ME I said, all you who labor and are heavy burdened. COME, that’s all it takes is to COME to ME. COME, come, come, and hide yourself inside MY HEART.
For I have so many things to teach you and show you. Do not masquerade anymore the truth that I have been teaching you. Do not hide your pearls, nor throw them to swine either. Instead I say to SHOUT from the rooftops what you hear in your ear, that the world may know there is but ONE Who loves them more than anything or anyone in this world.
Now is NOT the time to shrink back, but to advance, to CHARGE, TO MOVE forward in being BOLD for the gospel ! KNOW that I WILL BACK YOU UP !
KNOW that I love you and will be your rear guard if you will but trust ME and do what I WANT, and not just what you “feel” to do. If you want “back up”, if you want signs and wonders, then PREACH THE GOSPEL without compromise. Teach it ! Preach it ! Share your testimony so that others might know. How much time do you think before the opposition erupts ? Do you know the seasons and the timing that is on My heart ? Have you laid your life before me and asked ME to do whatever I WANT ? Do you really love ME enough to do that ? Are you willing to do what I WANT, and not just what YOU want ?
Do you think it was an inconvenience to me to die on the cross ? Do you think there was any other way I could have done what I did, than to walk in the LOVE of My Father ? Remember how it says, that I would steal away to PRAY ? Talk to ME beloveds. You seem so much to want to talk to each other more than you talk to ME.
There are many knights in black armor these days, hiding their sins, hiding their delusions, hiding their disdain for others. I want an army that walks in PURITY and HOPE, and LOVE. How will you grasp all I have to tell you if you are UNWILLING to hear the TRUTH ? I want to hold you and love you, but you run and you run, and you run ! You would rather DO something than be held in MY ARMS OF LOVE ! How would your wife or husband feel if that was your attitude towards them ? Do you think I might feel the same way when you fight against spending time with ME ? I AM a GOD OF LIFE, not death ! I AM A GOD OF LOVE, not fear. I AM a GOD of HEALTH and prosperity. But I only share My secrets with those who LISTEN.
Love tells the truth. Love corrects and admonishes. Love cares. Complacency and apathy, just don’t care ! Think of your relationship with your children.
If you will come pray and seek My FACE and allow ME into your heart more, then I will show you great and marvelous things you do not know. If you will confess your sins to another, then they will be forgiven. If you drag your feet and will not confess, nor apologize, nor bow to MY WILL, then you are in rebellion to the WORD and I WHO AM the LIVING WORD. For I WILL uncover all the lies. I WILL UNCOVER all that is hidden. REPENT and walk in HUMILITY. FORGIVE and you will be forgiven. Humility and forgiveness the enemy has no counter to. He is defenseless in that atmosphere. All heaven awaits to see the glory of the RISEN LORD poured out again. I will turn many from their sins in a moment ! I AM CHANGING the FACE of My church, and she will bow to MY WILL, and walk in UNITY as My Spirit has REIGN.
I have others who will NOT bow, who will not bend, who will not repent. They refuse to die to self. They refuse the CROSS. They are not SHEEP.”
