Author Dr. James. A McBean. D.Th., MCC

Copyright © 2012 Library of Congress Washington.D.C.20559

Publisher: Revival Tract Ministries Inc

D uring world war two, a pilot was shot down over enemy territory, he starve to death. Months later, another pilot was shot down over the same jungle and survived. He hides out by day, and travel by night. He eats well. What was the secret to this man's survival? He did survival training. He learns how to make a fire without matches, he learns how to collect water from leaf and rocks. The same things with the Christians life, it can be hard or it can be easy. There are certain things that the new Christians need to start doing the moment they got saved, in order to have a victorious and easy walk with God. Then after coming to know Jesus as savior, the first battle is going to be your immediate family and friends. It is not good to go home and tell them that you got saved, people must just see your mannerism, and see your life of living, including change conversation and know that you meet the lord.

CONDITIONS IN SERVING GOD.

To walk with God, you will have to come into agreement with God, because God will not change, so you have to change. “I am at the lord I change not”” Can two walk together except they be agreed?” Amos 3.3. You will need to know what upset God, why he rejected certain people, and why he answers some. Since he is not partial, then those who get answered by him and those who get rejected, has to do with how they act. You will need to know why. Some of the reasons why God rejected certain people are disobedient, unforgiving spirit, root bitterness, double mindedness, evil doings, and forgetful ears are a few of the things why God rejects some people.

PLEASING GOD IS THE SOURCE OF VICTORY:

God is mentioned in the Bible in the masculine. However, God in his dealing with humanity is more on the feminine. If for some reasons, a man hurt a woman in any way, great or simple. The man will never get anything good out of her until he correct his doings. Everything she does for that man will carry her signature of disdain. It is the same thing with God. God will never answer a person if for some reason He is displeased with the person's lifestyle. God will give forgiveness so the person can get back in fellowship with him. However, the offender has to come into agreement with God.

1 Cor. 10:5 (KJV) But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Hebrews 13:16 (KJV) But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Genesis 38:10 (KJV) And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

1 Kings 3:10 (KJV) And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

Genesis 38:10 (KJV) And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

Numbers 11:1 (KJV) And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

2 Samuel 11:27 (KJV) And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

GETTING TO KNOW THE GENUINE HOLY SPIRIT.

To prevent your Satan from derailing your faith, you will need to know who and what is the Holy Spirit. The reason for this, many church people will have you balked like a dog saying what they give you is the Holy Spirit, and it is Holy Spirit makes you behave stupidly like that.

You might ask, how many Holy Spirit there is? There is one Holy Spirit. I will not elaborate on this because we have one book called fire on the mountain that deals with the Holy Spirit. However, this is where many Christians went off course, because what is being portrayed in many churches as the Holy Spirit is just another one of Satan spirit posing to be the Holy Spirit. If a believer does not know the Holy Spirit and do not know when the Holy Spirit is operating upon a person's life, he she is bound to be deceived by deceiving spirits.

FIRST MARK OF A GENUINELY FILLED CHRISTIAN.

Philip. 4:7 (KJV) And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. All genuine Christians are filled with a peace and joy that passes all understanding. If a believer falls under depression, he or she salvations are coming under question. Especially those who have reasons to be giving thanks. Even under massive persecutions Christians in communist prison was rejoicing.

Acts 16:25 (KJV) And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

Depression, mean spirited, sassy spirit and unforgiving spirit is not the mark of the believer who has received the genuine baptism of the Holy Spirit. This person is being deceived, by one of Satan familiar spirit posing as the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit came to give power to God’s people.

Acts 1:8 (NASB-U) but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth." Power for service, power to propagate the good news, boldness, and courage to carry the gospel message to the end of the world.

THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME TO IMPLANT LOVE.

You will come across people in the church with no empathy, while calming to be having the holy spirit.

1Jo 4:8 MSGB: The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love--so you can't know him if you don't love.

2Jo 1:6 MSGB: Love means following his commandments, and his unifying commandment is that you conduct your lives in love. This is the first thing you heard, and nothing has changed. Romans 5:5 (NASB-U) and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Col. 3:12 (KJV) Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME TO SHOW US THINGS TO COME.

John 16:13 (NASB-U) "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME TO COMFORT THE SAINTS.

John 14:26 (NASB-U) "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.

THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME TO HELP US LIVE THE LIFE.

Zech. 4:6 (NASB-U) Then he said to me, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel saying, 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the Lord of hosts. Zech. 4:7 (NASB-U) 'What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of "Grace, grace to it!" ' "

Ephes. 2:8 (NASB-U) For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; Ephes. 2:9 (NASB-U) not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A SPIRIT OF LOVE.

Galatians 5:22 (KJV) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Galatians 5:23 (KJV) Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Ephes. 5:9 (KJV) (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

1 John 4:20 (NASB-U) If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

2 Thes. 3:10 (NASB-U) For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.

What some people call love is hand out. They sit down and commit fornication all day and smoke and Christians relatives of the family must support them and they call it love.

THE HOLY SPIRIT DO NOT INGENEARED WILD IMPULSIVE BEHAVIORS.

1 Cor. 14:40 (KJV) Let all things be done decently and in order.

Wild impulsive behaviors in the church are not of God, it is just self-displaying and self-lifting up. 1 Cor. 14:33 (KJV) For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

GETTING TO KNOW DECEIVING SPIRITS.

There is the spirit of divination that fakes the Holy Spirit. Also there is the familiar spirit. Familiar spirit is a friendly demons, you would think, the way this person is nice he/ she is fill with the Holy Spirit, then when you saw how they back stabs and dig pits you faint at the wickedness. Acts 16:16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:

Leviticus 20:6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

These two spirit take possession of many Church people, infect the church is a breeding ground for these two spirits. Some of them break fight right there in church. Behind all that niceness there will be a hate undreamt. These also do not have any stomach for the written word of God. They prefer somebody gave them a word Many Church people do not know genuine Christians, and do not know the spirit of God. Nor know demonic spirit. You and I will never live a triumphant Christian’s life if we do not know deceiving spirits.

John 16:2 (Living) For you will be excommunicated from the synagogues, and indeed the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing God a service.

FOOLED BY EVIL SPIRITS.

Supposed conviction of sin by deceiving spirits. By Jesse Pen- Lewis, in the book title” War On The Saints” " I united with a number of brethren and sisters one whole week every month, in prayer to God to pour out more of His Spirit, gifts and power. After having done this for some time with great earnestness, such powerful and wonderful manifestations of God and His Holy Spirit (apparently) took place, that we no longer doubted God had heard our prayer, and His Spirit had descended into our midst, and on our gathering. Amongst other things this spirit, which we thought to be the Holy Spirit, used a fifteen-year-old girl as his instrument, though whom everyone belonging to our gathering, and having any sin or burden of conscience, had it revealed to the gathering. Nobody could remain in the meeting with any burden of conscience without it being revealed to the meeting by this spirit.

For example: a gentleman of esteem and respect from the neighborhood came to the meeting, and all his sins were exposed in the presence of the gathering by the fifteen-year-old girl. There upon he took me into an adjoining room, so broken down, and admitted to me, with tears, that he had committed all these sins, which the girl had exposed. He confessed this and all other sin known to him. Then he came again into the meeting, but hardly had he entered when the same voice said to him" Ha! you have not confessed all yet, you have stolen ten gulden, that you have not confessed" in consequence, he took me again into the adjoining room and said" It is true, I have also done this" This man had never seen this fifteen-year-old girl in his life, neither she him.---We had to unmask this spirit which had brought about these things-which we took to be the Holy Ghost as a terrible power of darkness.-- As we came downstairs the voice of this power said, using the fifteen-year old girl as his instrument

" What is this rebellion in your midst? You will be sorely punished for your unbelief" I told this voice that it was true we did not know with whom we had dealing. But we wanted to be in that attitude, that if it was an angel of God, or the Spirit of God, we would not sin against Him, but if it was a devil we would not be deceived by him'' if you are the power of God, you will be in accord as we handle the Word of God.-- Then the power had to reveal itself of its own accord. Through the person which he had been using as his instrument he made such abominable and terrible grimaces, and shrieked in such a piercing tone'' Now I am found out, now I am found out"

HOW DEMONS ATTACK ADVANCE BELIEFS.

In The book “War On The Saints, by Jessie Penn-Lewis. Page 149-150. 1-3 The agency of demons is always brought more conspicuously into notice, in proportion to the manifestation and power of God’s work among souls. When the son of God was manifest in the flesh, in called forth the activity and outspoken agency of demons more than ever before.

VARIOUS KINDS OF DEMONS.

Demons are of a multiplied variety. They are of various types, greater in diversity than human being, and these demons always seek to possess a person congenial to them in some characteristic. The bible tells us of unclean demons, with craft and fortune-telling demons, of insanity, of drunkenness, of gluttony, of idleness, of wonder or miracle working, of despotic demons, theological demons, screeching and yelling demons. There are demons that act more particularly on the body, or some organ or appetite of the body. There are others that act more directly upon the intellect, or the sensibilities, and emotions, and affections.

There are others of a higher order that act directly on man’s spiritual nature, upon the conscience, or the spiritual perceptions. These are the ones that act as angels of light, and side-track and delude many who are real Christians.

HOW DEMONS FASTEN ON HUMAN BEINGS.

They seek out those whose make-up and temperament is most congenial to themselves, and then seek to fasten themselves on some part of the body, or brain, or some appetites, Or some faculty of the mind, either the reason, or imagination, or perception; and when they get access, they bury themselves into the very structure of the person, so as to identify themselves with the personality of the one they possess.

WILD ABNORMAL IMPULSES BEHAVIORS.

“A very holy and useful woman says, that soon after receiving the baptism of the Spirit, there came to her one night in the church, a wild abnormal impulse to throw the hymn-book at the preacher, and run over the church screaming; and it took all her will power to keep her hand from throwing that book, but she had common sense to know that the Holy Spirit was not the author of such a suggestion. If she had yielded to that sudden feelings, it would have likely given that fanatical demon admission to her emotional nature and ruined her life-work.

Another person said he felt like rolling on the floor, and groaning and pulling the chairs around, but he distinctly perceived that the impulse to do so had some things wild in it; and a touch of self-display contrary to the gentleness and sweetness of Jesus; and, as quick as he saw it was an attack of a false spirit, he was delivered. But another man had the same impulse, and fell down groaning and roaring, beating the floor with his hands and feet, and the demon entered into him as the angel of light, and got him to think that his conduct was of the Holy Ghost, and it became a regular habit in the meetings he attended, until he would ruin every religious meeting he was in.