BLESSED IN DISCERNING OF FALSE SPIRITS

My Dear Precious Child, In Paul's second recorded letter to the Corinthians, a few times he apologized for being so stern in his corrections in his first letter to them in which he outlined at least 10 areas of behavior that needed to be corrected in the lives of the Corinthian church members, some of them individually and some of them collectively as the body of Christ. In his second letter he asked them to put up with some light hearted boasting from him. He insinuated that his first letter of correction was based on his jealousy of them, calling it righteous jealousy from the fact that he had given the Corinthian believers in marriage to one husband by presenting them to Christ as a chaste virgin. He admitted that his fear was that, just like the devil seduced Eve by his cunning, he was fearful that the thoughts of the Corinthians would also be corrupted so that they would fall away from their sincere, complete devotion to Christ. He wrote that the reason that he was so concerned was because when someone came to them preaching another Jesus other than the one that he and his fellow ministers preached, or when they received a different spirit than the ones that they had received from Me, or they had received a different gospel than the true one which they had accepted, he commented that they seemed to have endured those temptations very well. Paul revealed his real fear when he wrote that he did not consider himself to be inferior to the "super apostles" from Jerusalem in anything, even though he considered himself to be more unskilled in speech but he knew that he was certainly not inferior in spiritual knowledge, spiritual knowledge that he and his fellow ministers had made evident to the Corinthians in every way. He even reminded them that he had preached the gospel to them free of charge, asking if that had been wrong in some way? He admitted to them that he had in essence robbed other churches by accepting gifts from them but not from the Corinthians. He revealed that when he came to Corinth in need he accepted no monetary help from them because the church at Macedonia had supplied all that he needed. He assured them that in every way he tried to keep from being a burden to the people in the church at Corinth and that he would continue to keep from being burdensome to them. (II Corinthians 11:5-9) He assured all of the members of the church at Corinth of his love for them, being assured that he had shown them his love. He promised that he would keep on doing what he had always done, depriving at every turn some of the other apostles who looked for a chance to say that their much vaulted ministries worked under the same terms as Paul and his team. Paul then put his feelings into words by calling those apostles "false apostles," writing that they practiced deceit in their disguise as apostles of Christ, which he said was no wonder because the devil himself always disguises himself as an angel of light. He said because of that truth that it's no surprise that the devil's ministers disguise themselves also as ministers of My justice. He prophesied that their end would correspond to their actions because their seeds would return deceit to them. (II Corinthians 11:10-15) Paul slipped out of the Spirit in his writing, and he admitted it by asking that the people in the church not think of him as being foolish but, if they did, he asked that they would accept him as being temporarily foolish and allow him to participate in self assured boasting. He admitted that his boasting was not as I desire, but that it was like the manner of a fool. He said since other apostles seem to be happy in their boasting, that Paul was also going to brag. He accused the Corinthians of putting up with people who exploited them, opposing them and putting on airs, even with those people who slapped their faces. He admitted that he and his fellow ministers were too weak to do such things -- admitting to still be speaking foolishly -- he said that he would try to dare to speak like those those self acclaimed apostles in his boasting. He asked if those false prophets were Hebrews? He admitted that so was he. He also asked if they were Israelites? He admitted that so was he. He asked if they were of the seed of Abraham? He admitted that so was he. Then he asked if they were ministers of Christ? Instead of replying that he also was a minister of Christ, Paul admitted to speaking foolishly in claiming that he was more of a minister of Christ than those men whom he called false prophets. He wrote that he had more imprisonments and hard labors, that he had far worse beatings and brushes with death, that he had receive 40 lashes, less one, five times at the hands of the Jews, that he had been beaten three times with rods, that he had passed away days and nights on the seas, that he had traveled continually, had been endangered by floods, robbers, persecuted by his own people, those being the Gentiles to whom he ministered as well as the Jews, that he had been imperiled in cities, in the desert and at sea by false brothers, that he had endured labor, hardship, sleepless nights, that he had been hungry, thirsty and had frequent fastings in cold and nakedness. He wrote that he left other sufferings unmentioned but that there was the daily pressure of his having anxiety for the churches. He was affected by their weakness toward accepting the words of the false prophets. He asked the people of Corinth in the letter who was scandalized in the churches by false prophets that he was not affected by it? Paul boasted in his own tragic experiences, knowing that I would attest to the fact that he did not lie about them. He even admitted that in Damascus that the king had kept a close watch on the city, watching for the chance to arrest him, but he was lowered in a basket through a window in a wall and escaped the hands of the king. (II Corinthians 11:16-33) It was because of Paul's calling to take the gospel to the Gentiles that he had suffered so much at the hands of the unbelieving Jews but he also had suffered at the hands of the believing Jews who had entered into Gentile cities with false teachings to lure Paul's Gentile converts into embracing the Mosaic Law after Paul had ministered to the Gentiles and brought them into My kingdom of God. Those Jewish believers in Christ were threatened by the freedom from Law of the Gentile believers, as was also attested to in Paul's letter to the Galatian Christians where he accused them of being bewitched, having begun in the Spirit and yet having embraced the curses of the Law delivered to them from false prophets. (Galatians 3:1-5) In Paul's defense of himself, he was, in essence, glorifying My gospel of Christ. In Jewish prophesy I had many times professed that My salvation would also include the Gentiles as well as the Jews. (Isaiah 11:10; Isaiah 42:1-6; Isaiah 49:6-22; Isaiah 54:3; Isaiah 66:12-19; Malachi 1:11; Luke 2:32; Acts 10:45; Acts 13:46-47) Most of Paul's persecutions came from religious Jewish leaders and their followers who objected to My salvation being extended to the Gentile pagans. Paul was justified in some of his self boasting. I chose him from the womb to take the message of salvation to the Gentiles because of his genetic ancestral programming of being strong in his convictions, the strength in his loyalty, the tenacity of his character, and the depth of his genetic progamming of love for Me. Only a person of strong character could bear the burdens of taking My message of salvation to the unbelieving Gentile nations. His character held up under the persecutions from his own family, his former Jewish fellow officials and his Christian brothers. The persecutions forced Paul to seek My comfort, My wisdom, My knowledge and My Guidance instead of seeking them from other Christians who for years had questions about his real calling from Me. Time and continuity caused the doubters to finally accept his apostleship as being genuine from Me. Your Loyal Father Against Human Persecutions