In this teaching, I’m going to use the Blood that Christ shed from the crown of thorns on his head as a parable (See John 19:2, 5). Satan is trying to mess up the thinking of Born-Again Christians. One of the Benefits of Our Father’s Grace coming to you through the Shed Blood of Christ is that by (HS) and the angels helping, Born-Again Christians can keep Satan from messing up their minds. It is kind of like this: if you have ever picked berries or flowers before, you know how painful it can be from the thorns. Most of the time, this will cause you to pay more attention to the thorns than what you pick. You can pay too much attention to Lucifer and the pain he inflicts than you do the grace of our Father.
The beating the soldiers gave Christ stopped, but the pain from the Crown of Thorns on His head did not stop. Satan was trying to give Christ so much ongoing pain in His physical body that He would give up on His mission to be the Blood Sacrifice for sin and call the angels to free Him from His pain. Satan was not successful in messing up the mind of Christ, and He remained true to His mission and became the Blood Sacrifice for the sins of all people. “There are many ways in which Satan tries to mess up your thinking as a Born-Again Christian, but you do not have to let Satan do that. You can be as successful as Christ was, even with His painful Crown of Thorns, in not letting Satan mess up Your thinking. We are going to look at some of the ways Satan is trying to mess up your thinking.”
2 Corinthians 12:7 (King James Version)
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Apostle Paul not only had the glorious experience of going to Heaven, but he also had a lingering painful problem that would not go away. This was both painful and stressful. Also, it had some mental struggle to it as Apostle Paul wondered why a man being blessed with the experience of going to Heaven had to suffer such a painful problem. This type of problem was referred to as a thorn, and it came to Apostle Paul through an angel of Satan. Though the thorn was within the providence of Our Father that he allowed it, it was caused by Satan.”
TRUSTING OUR FATHER
Our Father recognizes that Born Again, Christians can receive good instruction about the natural world in which they are living from people who are not Born-Again Christians and from people who are Born Again Christians. Our Father’s plan is for Born Again Christians to receive their Bible teaching and spiritual advice from people who are Born Again Christians and know the importance of Christ shedding His Blood on the Cross. This is important to note because when people who are not Born-Again Christians teach You the Bible and give you spiritual advice, Satan tries to use what they say to mess up Your mind.”
1 John 4:1-6 (King James Version)
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Those who do not believe that the Born-Again Experience and the Shed Blood of Christ on the Cross are important are of the spirit of antichrist.
If you remember, we mentioned angels other than your guardian angels to you, that Holy Spirit gives to his children as needed and when they begin to develop in Christ. One is bodyguard angels when one's calling or purpose makes them more of a threat to the enemy. Then you have angels of grace called goodness and mercy that bring the goodness and mercy of God into one's life as one follows his purpose and destiny for one's life. I’m not saying that these other angels are necessarily assigned, but they come in and out of one's life as willed by Holy Spirit. As you may or may not know, there are seven levels or ranks of angels. The first level is Guardian Angels, which are about the height of humans. The second level is Warfare Angels, who are ten to twelve feet tall. The third level is Worship Angels, which are about fifteen to eighteen feet tall. The fourth level is Peace Angels, which are about thirty feet tall. The fifth level is Holiness Angels, whose specialty is warfare against witchcraft demons. I mentioned these types of angels now because the season we are moving into will demand more intervention by them and our interaction with them in the area of seeing. Humans tend to be more afraid of people and things we know little about, which can foster prejudices. Satan tries to use this lack of understanding we humans have of each other to create a fear of prejudice in Our minds. One of the reasons that Christ shed His Blood on the Cross is so that humans can keep Satan from putting the illness of the fear of prejudice in your minds.”
STAYING FREE OF FEAR
John 3:16 (King James Version)
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
There is one very basic important truth for Born Again Christians to keep in mind if you are to keep Satan from inflicting your minds with fear that results in prejudice. The word whosoever in this verse includes all people on Earth, past, present, and future, until the end of the Age of Grace. Thus, Our Father loves everyone equally and does not include any fear for anyone. Any fear resulting in prejudice that one may have does not come from Our Father but from Satan.
Acts 9:26 (King James Version)
26 And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
The disciples of Christ knew that Apostle Paul used to persecute Christians before Apostle Paul was converted. When the Disciples of Christ met Apostle Paul on this occasion, they did not know for sure whether or not Apostle Paul was still persecuting Christians. Therefore, Satan was able to inflict the minds of the Disciples of Christ with a fear of Apostle Paul.
CONFUSION IN PRAYER
We all have experienced many times in our Christian life; there are times when Our Father does not seem to answer Your prayer immediately. You have prayed, and You have had faith that Our Father was doing something about your prayer, but you did not see anything happening or have had any answer within you about your prayer request. Usually, in such a situation, Satan tries to get a person to be confused about the matter. If Satan can cause confusion for the person who has prayed, then that person will not be able to see or hear the answer Our Father gives.”
Since Our Father does not function within the element of time like we do in the natural world, there is not the matter of waiting. We humans only have the quality of waiting because we live in the realm of time rather than the eternal world. Our Father is seeing the whole span of our life’s journey on Earth all at once, and what He does is a part of the total picture He is seeing. When you go through what you call a waiting time, Satan tries to confuse you. “There is something (HS) wants to suggest that Born Again Christians do when you are in what you refer to as a time of waiting for an answer to Your prayer. Spend the time studying the Bible about living a righteous or holy life and pray about improving your righteous or holy life. As long as You are living in Your physical bodies, you will have room for improvement in your righteousness or holiness. This is one of the things that the Holiness Angels help you do. Our Father has created humans in such a way that as long as you are preparing yourselves to receive the answer to your prayer while you are waiting, Satan will not be able to confuse your minds. One of the parable meanings of Christ shedding some of His Blood through the Crown of Thorns is that Our Father’s Grace can keep your minds from being confused as Satan is trying to do. Also, remember that any unrighteousness in one’s life can hinder that one from seeing or hearing an answer to prayer from Our Father.
DO NOT FEAR OUR FATHER
Ephesians 6:14 (King James Version)
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Ephesians 6:16 (King James Version)
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Note that righteousness is the breastplate of your spiritual armor, and faith is the shield of your spiritual armor. The breastplate offers protection to some of the vital parts of your body, while the shield is an instrument of spiritual warfare you move around to deflect the fiery darts of Satan. Our Father intends that the shield of faith function only in combination with the breastplate of righteousness.”
Just as some of you may or may not have feared your earthly father, you certainly feared some of the punishments he may have given. In the same way, A person can love Our Father and, at the same time, fear the Discipline or Judgment of Our Father. Satan is trying to confuse the thinking of Born-Again Christians in this matter so that Satan can begin to have some influence in Your lives. “There are two ways Satan is trying to do this. First of all, Satan has convinced some who call themselves Christians to begin to believe that a loving Father cannot send anyone to a Hell of torment. Secondly, Satan is trying to get people to fear him rather than fearing the Judgments of Our Father. There are two responses to consider in these matters. First of all, Our Father does not want you to fear Him, but until You get to Heaven, He wants you to fear His Judgments. Of course, when you become Born Again, and your sins are forgiven, you no longer need to fear the Judgments of Our Father. But you should still have the potential to fear His Judgment if you willfully do some sinning. Secondly, since Satan could not keep Christ from shedding His Blood on the Cross, You know that God-head is greater than Satan, and therefore you do not need to fear Satan.
James 4:7 (King James Version)
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
If you resist Satan rather than running from him in fear, he is the one who will flee from you.” Why? Because of the word you believe, that releases the angels to fight for you. They fight in the power of the blood.
Matthew 10:28 (King James Version)
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
This is an important guideline that Christ spoke while on Earth. The guideline is – do not fear Satan, demons, and even other humans who can only destroy your physical body, but fear Our Father, who can place you as a spirit being and Your body in Hell forever. Though Our Father is a person or total love, there is reason for humans to fear the Judgment of Our Father.”
