God gave mankind the freedom to find his destiny by his own plans to mature or become persuaded to come under subjection to the Holy Ghost's leadings. Mankind will have no excuse when he stands before his maker and say; he didn't know or God was not fair. A born again believer who is not meditating on the word of God day and night has no chance of being protected by the Holy Ghost and as I have said many times; they end up as God's sheep being lead to be slaughtered by demonic influences rather then walking in green pastures and beside still waters as it is defined in Psalms 23. Christianity is not a side line game of convenience that we play with. It is a way of life and relationship with a living God who wants to have fellowship with the people he created and the true and only meaning of what life is all about.

Scripture tells us the difference between knowing the leadings of the Lord verses the influences of the devil and; a born again child of God must be an intense God seeker if they are going to learn what the devils tactics are to deceive and hinder mental and physical health; so we can stay in health as our soul prospers which represents their mind, will and emotions.

I must assume because of the many people who continually read our web site that; they are God conscious and realize that; they have a desperate need to walk in the wisdom of God's leadings giving them a higher wisdom then their own. This has been the central focus and passion I have had all my life and I will not allow anything else to distract me in my endeavor to know God better.

We will discuss some of the symptoms of living under a discerning spirit of the Holy Ghost verses a spirit of condemnation from the devil which are influences from Satan whose goal is to keep God's children as infants and palsied in their attempt to mature and walk in the power of God who is their Father the same as Jesus did. Knowing this gives us a true perspective of the spiritual arena of activity that we have to deal with daily and it keeps us focused on Godly goals.

Since the Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament was written in Greek as I have stated over and over in our many articles; I decided to go back and study the word of God in these two languages to get the original message of what the word of God truly means. All the articles on the site have been written on this foundation. The word of God has been so distorted over these two thousand years since Jesus left the planet. Other then the salvation message telling us that; we must accept Jesus as savior by believing in your heart He was raised from the dead and confessing in words that can be heard coming out of your mouth that He is alive and in your heart.

This confession should give you an inner spiritual witness that this miracle new birth has taken place with in you. It has been disturbing to me of late because; I have heard in some Christian circles that; there may be another way to get to heaven other then through Christ Jesus. If Jesus was here today; he would go into the majority of churches turning over card tables pronouncing that; God's house should be a house of prayer rather then a house of different personal views and antics trying to mimic the Holy Ghost in the flesh.

It has become a business building enterprise of following preachers and teachers rather then our living Savior who we can talk to daily and know the true interpretation of scripture with an inner Holy Ghost conviction.

Some of the preaching and teaching in pulpits around the world and on Christian T.V. is appalling and the majority is based on a condemning spirit rather then the discerning Spirit of the Holy Ghost. There are only a few who are teaching a gospel of love and grace and they are scattered. God‘s love and grace only comes by the discerning Spirit of the Holy Ghost and no where else.

Unless a person is born again and has the Holy Ghost living in their being; they will have no discerning insight of God's heart and be able to walk with Godly wisdom. We must be focused and be totally persuaded that only; Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes into God's courts to have an audience with Him except through Jesus Christ's sacrifice and our new birth experience.

Now from the Greek; condemnation is defined as; a living evil entity that has set him self up as a judge with a court of law stating that; a person has a punishment coming because; the person who is coming under attack by this diabolical spirit has been persuaded by this entity that: he has superior strength or authority over them. This has caused them to be living under this entities spell and they are not able to discern the devil's devices and it has caused them to believe; they have been found guilty of a crime, especially in the case of a heavy penalty or a death sentence and God is displeased with them in some fashion.

This attack and intense opposition causes a person to be laboring in a continual mind set of fears about problems they are encountering in one form or another and it causes them to have a lack of peace in their inner soul and not be bold in being able to approach the throne of God‘s grace for strength and comfort. This is the core issue and environment of the devil's domain. We as Christians will be fighting this evil entity until we go to heaven with the Lord.

Discernment means; a person is able to tell the difference between two different spirits of influence that is not immediately obvious to the majority of born again children of God. The devil comes as an angel of light to steal, kill and destroy but Christ came so we could have life more abundantly. We must realize that; the Christian life that was planted in us by our accepting Jesus into our hearts brought us into spiritual warfare. Paul tells us that as born again believers; we must contend for the faith.

A person who contends must be able to claim something given to them by God the day they became His child. How does a child of God claim something given to them by God when; they are ignorant of the scriptures and do not know how to use the inheritance of God's wisdom and wealth that is already in them.

Paul went through a persuasion process through a living dialogue with the Holy Ghost in his life time and it made him become persuaded when he said this in 2Tim. 12. " Because of the things I suffer as being called as a minister of the gospel; I am not ashamed for I know in whom I have put my belief in and I have been persuaded that God is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against the day I stand before him."

His commitment was his relationship he had with the Lord as he was going about doing His heavenly Father‘s business on a daily basis. Our call and duty is the same and the reason we were put on this earth in the first place. Through my encounters with born again people who are in God's family; it is my experience that most have no clue as to the power they possess and they are in a continual cycle of going through a learning process however; never coming to the truth of who they are in Christ Jesus. It is time for the body of Christ to put away their childish behavior and get off the milk of God's word, go on to maturity and finally come to know who they are as a child of God.

Paul describes in Hebrews 5:12-15 a condition that can exist in the body of Christ when he says this. "Concerning this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull in your spiritual hearing and slow to react to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and you even dislike in being a God seeker so you can achieve spiritual insight.

By this time you ought to be teaching others however; you actually need someone to teach you over again the very first principles of God's Word. You have come to need milk, not solid food.

For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness which is the only thing that can conform you to God's divine will in purpose, thought, and action, for you are a mere infant [not able to talk yet]! However; solid food is for full-grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law." Let's keep the right perspective here and truly understand what the word of God represents as far as God is concerned.

Hebrews 12:10-13 states; " Those who have once entered into God's rest have ceased from the weariness and pain of human labors as God rested from those labors peculiarly His own. Let's therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and try diligently to enter the rest of God so we can know and experience it for ourselves. Let no one fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience into which those in the wilderness fell.

( Let's remind our self here that; except for Caleb and Joshua the Israelites wandered in the desert for forty years and died never coming to the full maturity of knowing the God who delivered them from the Egyptians. In the Hebrew the word Egyptian means; having surrendered to a strong force and be pent up and not have liberty of expression.) For many Christians; this is a way of life due to their ignorance of God's freedoms because of having a lack of training in God's word.

For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life of our soul and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow of the deepest parts of our nature, exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart. And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, naked and defenseless to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do."

A person who has Christ living in him and understands his righteous state; knows and understands that; God sees him as blameless; free from evil and separated unto Him as his children. In turn; he knows how to rest and live at peace because; the Holy Ghost can be clearly understood as this maturing born again believer knows how to discern God's voice and follow His instructions. Let me again as I have said hundreds of times in other articles state the main focus we must be seeking to walk in the complete power of the Holy Ghost.

In Matthew 6:33 Jesus said this. "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and every thing you need; will be added to your life." Only true Holy Ghost discernment can produce these results. The Holy Ghost only teaches and confirms and only says yes to anything that is in agreement with the righteous Spirit of Christ which is at work in us. He as nothing to do with man in his own endeavors of perfecting himself by obligated works of self righteous thinking or acts of any kind. If we who are the born again church really come to know the love of God and the freedom we have to walk with the Lord in heavenly places; it will turn the world upside down.

A Christian who is growing in maturity can define the difference between; man making God into their image or being transformed and functioning into God's image by Holy Ghost power. If you have truly heard me and feel that; you might not truly know the difference; it is a matter of having true freedom in Christ verses living in bondage to a spirit that demands retribution and forced obedience. This spirit in running ramped with in the body of Christ in the day we are living and we must discern it and stop it dead in its tracks.

Unless we surrender to a God who we have come to know is loving and merciful and accommodating to listen to our growing pains and deal with our undisciplined nature; we will not have the transparency that will be needed to have the Holy Ghost walk through our heart on His time tables of our growth; where the issues of life are formed and acted on.

Once a person knows they can't hide from God because; he knows all things; they will allow Him to inspect any thing that may have accumulated in the closets of their heart and allow Him to clean it out because they know that; the Holy Ghost is a perfect gentlemen and not one who condemns and gives the impression of "I told you so."

"The only judgment you should be experiencing in God's courts is; "you are not guilty of any crimes and where you are weak; I will stand in the gap for you against the onslaught of the devil until you can gain strength in fighting your adversary." Who is the God you are seeking and wanting to walk in obedience to? Cont. in part 2