How to know false brethern

Mat 19:21  Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
 

 Rom 16:18  For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

 

 It would be so easy to know a teaching was false if it just said put yourself first, but that is not how it works. Consider the rich young ruler. Taken at face value he seems to be a God fearing man...after all he does not kill, steal, commit adultery, lie, he honors his father and mother, and loves his neighbor as himself. His life seems right but the motive of his heart is to receive what God can give for himself.
The false teacher may say some biblical things but if you break their message down it is not about obtaining God for who he is but to obtain the blessings of God.
 Hence Paul concludes, though they speak with fair words about loving him, it is in truth their hunger to receive for them self that is their master.
With the rich young ruler Jesus shows him the carnality of his service for God by saying sell all you have...and come and follow me. If he had simply said follow me; this young man would because he was determined to do what was needed to receive.
Yet to sell all he had his heart could not bear...to give to the poor what he had worked to steward over.
So we see a man who to himself, and to those who look on the outward,  lives his life trying to do for others is exposed by actions as one who is for himself.
Don't tell me the things of this world don't matter to you only Jesus...when your outfit cost as much as building a church in another country
Don't teach me about the compassion of Christ... then when a christian is in need speak of how they must not tithe or have faith,
 Jesus gave us the command follow me.
 What we receive from God is not for us if we follow him, it is for others.
Our Lord went to his death because he was giving us everything even his blood and breath and flesh.
 Even on his cross he was giving
his love for his mother to a disciple
forgiveness to those who where killing him
eternal life to a dying thief
a lesson of psalm 22 to his murderers
and even as he breathed his last faith to a roman soldier.
 So of we will call ourselves his disciples we must pour out of us everything that God gives us; holding nothing back for ourselves.
 Do not hear another gospel or another Jesus


Teach us to pray

*[[Luk 11:1]] KJV* And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
 *[[Joh 14:8-11/KJV]]*
 8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

 They heard his teaching, saw the miracles,the lame walking, the blind seeing,they could feel his compassion for them and others regardless of imperfection,they had even tasted of his bread as he multiplied a few loaves to feed thousands...how did one attain to such power and favor with God.
What gave him this great favor with God. Surely his prayers where like the incense of the temple; rising up into the presence of God as a sweet smelling saviour. So it was that they would come to ask him to teach them to pray; so they to could show such favor with God, that God might work through them in this way.
With two words he shifts focus 180° from their thoughts.
 "OUR FATHER" the words reverberate through the human soul...they echo across the carnal mind. With just two words Jesus shows the answer; prayer is not to build the self up toward heaven but that heaven may be poured out upon all.
 Isaiah spoke much the same about fasting when God spoke through him that a fast of God was not a day for a man to afflict his soul, but to deal ones bread to the hungry and cloth the naked.
 Everything God speaks comes from him and is him. In this way all he created reflects something of him. Yet man was made to be exactly his image...to that end unlike the rest of the cosmos that was spoken into existence man was formed then breathed into...his life was the life of God.
 Adam was set before two trees to eat of one continued his life being one with Gods life. The other would set the source of his life from himself...God forewarned that self life would generate death.
We know that fateful decision and how Adam has passed onto his children a self life. So man lived for generations deciding what was good and what was evil within self; deceiving themselves that if they did some good mixed with evil they could please God. So it is that even redeemed man, whom Jesus declared by his obedience unto death to be once again able to be one with God, struggles to release the death of self and embrace the life of God as their own.
How do we pray, or fast, or give, or minister, or live...
With no thought or desire for self but that the life of God would be poured out upon every dry and thirsty man.

What if I completely failed God?

*[[Isa 61:1-4/KJV]]* 
1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 
 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. 
 4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

*[[Neh 4:1-2/KJV]]* 
1But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 
2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

The church speaks about overcoming the flesh, the world, and the devil. They speak about Jesus promises to the overcomer and warn of the fate of those who don't.
So where does that leave those who understand Paul saying wretched man that I am who will deliver me from this body of death, or he who commits sin is a slave to sin?
Consider the people of God who had lost everything because they went their own way and would not keep God in their heart. I am speaking of Israel and the Babylonian captivity. They had lost everything homes, families, their beautiful nation, even the temple of the one true God.
They had not desired Gods ways when Jeremiah had called for their repentance, they had not desired God when his glory left, nor when they and their children where taken captive; such is the power of the flesh and deception.
In time like the prodigal son they came to themselves and desired to return. What they found was the consequence of their sin.
If you have made your life to look like that broken city filled with rubble and burnt stones then be of good cheer!!! Jesus has encouraged us if we believe in God believe also in him.
It is his anointing from God to give us beauty for ashes, joy for mourning,and praise for heaviness and he will not fail. So give your waste to him, don't try to fix things yourself, entrust him to not just take what you give but to give in return what God has ordained him to give.
As Peter has said cast your cares on him for he cares for you.

House on the rock: what is our life built on?

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*[[Mat 7:24-27/KJV]]*
 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

The Lord summarizes, in what we call the sermon on the mount, most of his teachings.

• the maturing of the beatitudes
• the purpose of his believers in the earth
• his fulfilling of law to make us be right instead of doing right
• the necessity of agape love living through us to be sons of our Father
• the importance of knowing how to trustl Him in our heart before we can help others
• the need of him being the motive in prayer and good works and fasting
• the assurance of provision of God as we seek his righteousness, the declaration of Jesus as the only way to life
• A warning to beware of false preachers and the devastating effects of living their false way

with a conclusion of these being foundation for a man's house.

The house of which Jesus speaks is not made of sticks and stones but of flesh and bones.

Do you want to learn more about a proper foundation?

That life built on what he has given in this sermon is on a solid, unchanging, and everlasting foundation. This is God's way.

A "life" based on any other way is a individual, shifting, and temporal foundation. This is man's way

Jesus assertion that both will suffer storms and violence is contrary to the idea held by some. The belief that with proper faith storms do not come.

Though both houses go through the same storms one endures while the other is destroyed.

 23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,
 24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
 25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
 26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
 27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

Do you know Jesus?

Matt 7:21-23]] KJV*
 21 Not every one that saith un

to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

 Jesus warned us to beware of false prophets; he goes on to give a more grievous warning; of the fate of these false speakers and those who submit to their teaching.
Though they say Jesus is their Lord emphatically and list their "good" works done in his name God judges the heart.
Jesus reply shows us that within them he is not their Lord.
This word lord is not a title to be spoken for power, but a position of authority to be submitted to.

h1. G2962 Original: *κύριος*
Transliteration: *kurios*
Phonetic: *koo'-ree-os*
 Origin: from kuros (supremacy)
 Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine *
Strong's Definition*: From κῦρος kuros (_supremacy_); _supreme_ in authority, that is, (as noun) _controller_ ; by implication _Mr_. (as a respectful title): - God, Lord, master, Sir.

 Paul relates this title to the marriage relationship by saying Sarah did not consider it robbery to call Abraham Lord.
God himself at Sinia teaches do not take his name (marriage covenant) in vain(to gather and live in temporal earthly things).
Jesus is more bold to say depart I never knew you(marriage consummation).

For this word know is:
h1. G1097 Original: *γινώσκω*
Transliteration: *ginōskō*
Phonetic: *ghin-oce'-ko*
Origin: a prolonged form of a primary verb
Part(s) of speech: Verb
*Strong's Definition*: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to " know" (absolutely), in a great variety of applications and with many implications (as shown at left, with others not thus clearly expressed): - allow, be aware (of), feel, (have) known (-ledge), perceive, be resolved, can speak, be sure, understand.

This word know is used in the bible as an idiom for the act of consummation of a marriage covenant i.e. Adam knew his wife and she conceived. If we are to use his name and be his then we must become one with him, a new creation.
 In the way that a earthly consummation makes the two one flesh, so we must enter a personal and intimate relationship with Jesus of the inward man to the end we become one life.
Jesus concludes that, despite these men's confession that he was their master and their claimed works in his name, they where workers of iniquity.
 In the same way God had told Israel through the prophet that if they sacrificed a thousand cattle he would not accept it for their heart was far from him.
Just as Cains offering was the work of his hands instead of a submissive heart; so these men believe their words and their works move God.
God says he is a judge of men's heart.
So if your heart is not his you have been judged before your words or works can come to light.
Paul says the spiritual man Judges(discerns) all things and to believe not every spirit.
However we are not left as orphans with no Father to protect and provide for us. To all who trust him he has given his Spirit which he has said will lead us into all truth.
 In the words of our Lord Fear not only believe, in other words don't fear the lies of men but believe his Spirit to show you the truth.