We can't be the ACTS Church with no Holy Ghost DISCERNMENT: Be careful to not persecute a WORK of God because you do not understand.

The Body of Christ tends to hold the Apostle Paul in high regard. As we should. However, I would like to remind us that the life he lived as Saul before Christ is also in Scripture which means it is important. He was both a prosecutor and a persecutor of the early Church. Will you be a Saul or a Paul?

Usually in a Court of Law...

Those being tried (prosecuted) are considered innocent until proven guilty. There is a process by which evidence is presented to the court and judgments are then made by either a judge or in the U.S., a jury of peers (usually common citizens selected from a pool of the greater population in the area where the trial is being held). According to fairness for each individual (at least according to American law: 14th Amendment, specifically the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause) this is usually what occurs.

During this legal process, evidence and facts are usually shared by the prosecution and defense through a procedure called discovery, where what is known is being offered to each side so no one is essentially caught off guard. The judge, jury, media, public or all, are then presented with these materials through a trial in order for the judge or jury to be able to give a judgment.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. These expressed "usuallies" have been presented to the best of my understanding as a sovereign citizen who has read. If you are more versed than me and there needs to be any corrections made with reference to the legal wording/meaning, please message me and I am glad to consider how to rectify this piece.

Usually...

When research studies are being conducted there is a process by which rigor occurs. A rigorous study indicates that as far as these researchers know at this time, all of the pieces of evidence and facts are accounted for. By this understanding, ideally, the process is called exhaustive, meaning, all resources have been accessed in order to compile the larger findings.

A Reminder from the Word...

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. ² By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, ³ and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. ⁴ Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. ⁵ They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ⁶We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error (1 John 4:1-6)."

Pause...

In the King James version, the word test is "try." According to the Blue Letter Bible, this word in the Greek (dokimazō G1381) means:

I. to test, examine, prove, scrutinise (to see whether a thing is genuine or not), as metals

II. to recognise as genuine after examination, to approve, deem worthy

I Continue...

There is an implication that the process of trying and testing the spirit from which a word or action comes is going to take work. I think it's also important to acknowledge that people can make genuine mistakes which can be a spirit of error. What they do in their efforts afterwards however, to conceal or correct, also speaks highly of what spirit is operating in them. We will know them by their fruit (Matthew 7:15-20).

Goodness is a fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22). It is good to tell the truth. It is anti Christ (against the character/teachings of Jesus) to not do good and then attempt to cover it up. Even in the earthly legal sense, a person can be brought up on charges for concealing truth. Earth is a blueprint of the functions in heaven (Matthew 6:10).

Opinions are Lazy...

Seeking God requires WORK. Some of us in the Body wouldn't be in so much trouble if we valued seeking God over our desire to interject ourselves in God's business without His permission. One of the most brave things anyone can say is, "I don't know..." and then attempt to seek an answer if necessary. It is okay to muse over and ponder among one another and accept correction as appropriate from those with whom God has placed you to sharpen one another unto righteousness (Proverbs 11:14:Proverbs 27:17). For me, this looks like my spiritual parents and close accountability. I trust these people to correct me in Christ. All of these people were brought to me by God. If you don't have this and desire to, why not ask God?

See Acts 9:1-31...

The fact that Saul was blind after Jesus encountered him tells me that his earthly/carnal way of judging was being reconfigured. The scales over his eyes that fell off after he was prayed for then filled with the Holy Ghost tells me that this encounter turned Saul from a meer mortal, to a weapon in God's hands. A weapon not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds (see all of 2 Corinthians 10) AS EVIDENCED BY what Jesus said to Ananias about Saul (Acts 9: 15-16), and the fulfillment through the later life of Paul. Before Jesus encountered him, sure his natural eyes were working. They stared at Stephen being stoned to death (Acts 7: 54-60). Those same eyes are what Saul used to make judgments about a WORK of God (the early church) that he did not understand. When we are granted access into God's supernatural abilities, we are reconfigured into weapons of spiritual warfare, yet we behave as mere mortals with our limited insights through our carnality when we throw our words around like they don't matter. Remember, we will give an account for every careless word we speak (Matthew 12:36). Also, the power of life and death are in the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit (Proverbs 18:21).

A Word of Wisdom...

It would be wise to stop being lazy and falling for the same tricks that Saul's carnality fell for. Become aware of the works of satan for what they are. It is good to know and not underestimate your enemy the devil (1 Peter 5:8). Embrace the Word of God as if it is true, because it is. Psalm 119:130 tells us this: "The entrance of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple." Therefore Beloved of Yahweh, I deepy encourage you to exhaust yourselves in seeking God in order to be able to have insight into speaking and judging rightly on behalf of The GOD of all creation. Do you not know that God is preparing us to be judges (1 Corinthians 6:1-11)? Therefore, begin to prepare by discerning righteously (John 7:24) through the Spirit of God.

Challenge Yourselves...

Are you persecuting a WORK of God that you know not of? Test your own heart...

Psalm 51

Psalm 139:23-24