Test the spirits: Purpose of Life driven by God

Since last year I found my purpose of living in this planet. I believe that every child of God has his own task for God created us with divine purpose, we are fearfully and wonderfully made by God.

My friends, do you know the reason why you are here? Do you know the purpose of your life? Please don't read book for 40 days to find your purpose of life. Pray, kneel down before God, humble yourself and start asking Him, "Father God, please tell me why I am alive, what is the purpose of my life?" He is the One who designed you, nobody can tell you what your future will look like, nobody can help you to define your future, except God.

Please tell me, my friends. Are you created by God or by Rick Warren? Do you test the spirits? Can Rick Warren know your purpose of life? Do you know that many Christian books teach error if you check it with Bible? Think by yourself.

Why don't you ask God about purpose of your life? Should you put Daily Bread, Purpose of Driven Life, etc as primary book (to guide you daily) and Bible as secondary, or vice versa? I used to read one page daily, then if I still have time after finish reading it, I read the "Bible reading section", if don't have time, I thought I have spent 15 minutes for God, it was enough for God, the rest of the day are mine. I used to do like that until I realized that I put God in the box. God is more creative than you can imagine, He wants to speak to us directly. What we need to do is just pray and ready to listen to Him, open our Bible and read. He has something to tell you today, then now you can make your own Bible study daily. You can write a very beautiful poem, beatiful writing, wonderful teaching, blessing for others because you allow God to use you to share His message to others. Let God rule over you, not you rule over God.

And also please don't read book that teach about the secret how to have valuable life because there is no secret with God. Even though we live in dark, fallen world but still His Light can be seen by all people brightly, no secret at all. No man who has light put their light in secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick that they which come in may see the light (Luke 11:33). God will speak directly to you, things that you will be able to understand fully, no confusion, no error, no lie. Jesus said that when the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all truth (John 16:13).

What about "Da Vinci Code", "Narnia", "Gospel of Judas Iscariot", "Gospel of Barnabas", "Left Behind", etc? Many people said that those are "Christian books", but is that true? I just want to warn you "Be careful, those books contain poison that if you never read Bible, you will be lost." It would be good if you read and understand the Bible first until you are saturated with Word of God, then start to enrich yourselves by reading books written by men of God, by people who have Jesus in their life so that you can learn from their experiences with God and grow higher in the Lord. Don't read books without testing the spirits. And stop reading it when you find it teach lies.

So, my friends, if you always put Christian books first, Bible second, you will never be able to discern the spirits. Your Christian books will always be right, you will "eat" everything blindly until your mind is poisoned bit by bit and you become confuse then you will start thinking that there are a lot of contradiction in the Bible. Finally you will try to use your own wisdom to understand Bible...you lost your track already. You need somebody to rebuke you and bring you back. If you refuse to listen, I am so sorry for that. God has sent you strong delusion so that you will believe the lie. Repent and get everything right with God before it is too late for you.

Hebrews 6:4-6

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Do you know that there are many Bible commentaries, Bible study books teach error too, e.g: Scofield Bible Commentaries? Why don't you just ask God to teach you? Bible said that if you have His Holy Spirit, His Anointing, you don't need any man to teach you. Are not those books, commentaries written by men. Do you know the author's fruits, testimonies, life?

1 John 2:27

As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.

I don't want to discourage you, or even worse to make you forsake your pastors or your teachers. Far from me. I just want you to be very very careful. Study your Bible by your Holy Spirit, ask God if you don't understand, and share your knowledge with your brethrens, have fellowship together for as iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend (Proverbs 27:17). I want everybody of us to have father in the Lord, as Paul to Timothy. But still, test every spirits. Don't "eat" everything he gave you blindly. Even though you trust them a lot, but still, we are all human, sometimes our flesh pop-up. The same thing happen here. Always test what I said, and rebuke me if I out of track. I would be very grateful for that.

But, if I were you, I will not listen to people who even though they are genius, have many followers, but they killed other people, rule with dictatorship like John Calvin or Pope. Why you follow men, not God? But if you see Jesus inside everyone of us, follow Jesus in him and obey, and if it is not Jesus, but their "self" that pop-up, bring two or three witnesses and rebuke him, if he still refuse, bring him to the elder of the church, if still refuse, bring him to the church and let them judge him publicly. Simple, is it not?

Don't easily kick them out of your circle. But try to win them back to their track. The strong help the weak, the rich help the poor, the eyes that see help the blind, the ones who have Fire share with those whose Fire almost gone or even already gone. Love each other, exhort each others, encourage each others, but also be a watchman for others. Rebuke, reproof, correct with the Word of God and with love and gentleness.

If I were you, I will not think that those mega-churches, those famous preachers with thousands of people are absolutely correct. Instead, I would be more careful because the Bible said otherwise. Bible said that we will be persecuted, will be hated because of name of Jesus. The world will not accept you as their own because you are different, they can't stand our light for they still live in darkness and they ashame if their sinful life are exposed. So, if I see people flock to the churches, I raise question in my heart: Does this church have God's Spirit inside it so that people come and flock the church or does this church teach worldly things, things that their itching ears want to listen, so that even Hollywood, harlot, thief, murder, homosex, liar, and all of them are already "born again" and "heaven" is in their hands. I tell you the truth, without repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, you are still children of darkness, you are still in your imaginary heaven, heaven that never exist. Repent and get everything right with God.

If I were you, I will not look down to the newly born again or to man younger than me, for God can also use little children to rebuke you, or even an ass to rebuke Balaam. If people used their seniority in Christ, their "experience" in Christ to boast about themselves, no humility at all, you need to be careful with such a person. For the Bible said "So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen (Matthew 20:16).

If I were you, I will always ask first their testimony of their conversion, their process of born again, their renewal of mind, their new creation. Their past and their present. What has God done in their life? Nobody is born as child of God in the first place, we are all sinners, we are all natural man in the beginning, full of flesh and sinful life and to be child of God, to be called by God, we need to be born again, we need Jesus. Born again is the first step to start having mind like Jesus. So, if some people who never been born again but try to teach you something about Word of God, without doubt, they are false prophets. They can understand a lot about Bible but they also boast a lot about their understanding, about their flesh, about their false humility. How can they teach you about Jesus if Jesus is not in them?

Ask their testimony first and if they said, "My past was not so bad, I come from strict family, I was taught about Jesus since I was child, so there is no drastic change in my life, no regeneration. But I can share my testimony of how God appear to me in many dreams, I can share that a lot to you." Those people are liars, everybody has his own dark secrets. They can't tell us because they still living in it. And those people don't know that Satan can masquerade himself as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14). Ask to them, which Jesus they see? Blonde or black hair, 6 feet or 5 feet, blue eyes or black eyes, etc? During Jesus' time, there is no camera and I believe that there is no time machine. We, children of God, can see Jesus with our spiritual eyes just like Paul saw a very bright light and he knew that it was Jesus but then, after he saw Jesus there was a regeneration in his life. Regeneration is a MUST.

So, my friends.. always ask their testimonies and be careful for it is easy to make up some stories, to tell you that they are born again, that they have received Baptism of Holy Ghost, that they can speaking in tonque, that they have Spiritual gifts, etc. You need to see also from their fruits. Humility, self-control, love, not easily angered, patient, etc. Because Bible said that many of those who called Lord, Lord, who prophecied in Jesus' name, who cast out devils, who did many wonderful works are not known by God, they are children of darkness, wolves under sheepskin.

Matthew 7:21-23

Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

Again, you should always check this guy who writing this article. Does he write based on Bible or not? Does he show fruits of Spirits or not? And if you see something wrong, please don't leave me without giving correction to me. I want to be rebuked, to be taught.

If I were you, I will not listen to preachers who have problems with their family. They married more than once while their first husband/wife still alive. Their children created a lot of trouble. No love between husband and wife and between parents and children. If they can't manage their own family which is small in number, how can they manage congregation with a lot of people? Will they teach about divorce if they themselves divorced? Will they teach about immorality if they themselves do immorality, watch porn, adultery, have affair, etc? Will they teach that love of money is root of all kinds of evil if they themselves a hungry for wealth, for fame?

If I were you, I will not listen to preachers who love worldly things (gold, jewellry, Gucci, Prada, Mercedes, and any other expensive accesories, or even private jets). Maybe you think God bless them, but I think they do fraud. Even if they are really blessed by God; are there not poor, orphans, homeless people in the street facing hunger and cold? Why don't they choose to wear ordinary cloth, ordinary watch, ordinary glasses, travel with ordinary car or public flight and give some to the poor? Bible said, "Do not love the world or anything in the world".

Do you think Jesus is not God? Do you think Paul was not blessed by God? Jesus needed to ask his disciples to go fishing for a piece of money to pay the temple tax (Matthew 17:27). Jesus was so poor physically, nobody acknowledge Him as King, though He is our King. He said "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Paul needed to work for himself. Paul had a lot of hardship: imprisonments, riots, sleepless nights and hunger, etc. Do you see Jesus or Paul in those big, fat, famous, prosper super-apostles who teach prosperity gospel and sell spiritual gifts for 75$ (Gift of Anointing, Gift of Healing, Gift of Deliverance)? Have you read in the Bible where Peter rebuked Simon the Sorcerer because he wanted to buy the Gift of Holy Spirit (Acts 8:20)? Bible teach us: Freely get, freely give. Is not their God in their belly? They are enemy of Christ (Philippians 3:18-19).

What if those men make books to gain wealth? What if those men teach error purposely to mislead you? Don't you know that Satan infilterate the churches through those false teachers and false prophets? Please read your Bible, my friends. Bible is Word of God, let God speak to you directly. Some people want to make name for themselves. They want to be called "Bible scholar", to be called "apostles", "pastors", "teachers", "evangelists", "workers".

As Pharisees and Scribe sat on Moses' seat, though God never called them, they teach people, they behave as if they are the most correct ones in handle the Word of God. Do you know what they do? They killed God's prophets, they even killed Jesus Christ, they condemn the very Word of God. They call bad as good, wrong as right and vice versa. I tell you the truth, there are a lot of pharisees, scribes, hypocrites among us, at least I found some in this MP. I want you to be careful with any article you read.

Again, you need to check this man's writing too. Does Alvin give you poison or not?

But I thank God because I am just a newly convert, I was born again 1.5 years ago. I don't have position to rebuke other with my own words, with my own seniority, and I always ask God to keep me humble, now and forever, I can only rebuke with Word of God. I bring mirror to them, to let them see their wrong, and if I can win them back, praise God, if I can't, I ask God to open their eyes and bring them back and I also warn the people who gathered around them to be careful of false prophets, wolves under sheepskin.

These false prophets, false teachers teach men to follow them, not God. If they really love you and want you to go to heaven, they will help you by showing you the way how to get it, not ordering you, ruling you, e.g: "You have to read this", "You have listen to me", "You are wrong", "You are newly convert, you need to learn from me". Sometimes I get irritated when I see people do that.

I always ask myself: Do those people really care about salvation of this newly convert or they want to make him as their followers, so that they are able to rule over him? Do they love this newly convert more than God? If they think that God love His children more than anybody else, they should think that God wants to speak to His child directly How? By letting them to read Bible by themselves. Do you know that God still speaks to people?

If you depend so much on preachers or brothers or sisters in the Lord, not God. Their error will become your error, and your error will become other's error. Then you miss your track, then you become self-righteous, then you start having itching ears and gather for yourselves teachers that are agree with you and kick others that not agree with you. That's how error started. That's why we have a lot of denominations. They can say that all denominations are wrong, but they make their own denomination by doing that. And it would be very very difficult to bring them back. God allow heresies among us, so that those who have his approval will be made manifest (1 Corinthians 11:19). There is nothing "just pass" to enter heaven, we must prepare ourselves, diligently study the Scripture, humbly ourselves before God, persevere and pursuit holiness, for wihout holiness no man will see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14).

I find that we are in the messed world. Our time is so wicked. Since we are born and went to school, we are taught about evolution, big bang, peace of the world, interreligion tolerance, and once we were in teens, worldly musics, sexual desire, loneliness, emptiness, career problem make us depress. And also there are a lot of "Christian" who behaves as stumbling block for others. How can somebody get saved if the situation is so messed up like this?

This is my first task from God: to make you stop being dependent to men (pastors, teachers, elders), books, or other materials, but God alone. For His grace is sufficient. Please listen to God, learn from Him. If you don't know how. Repent and invite Him to be your Saviour, Lord and King. To give you His Holy Spirit. When you are children of God, you are now become God's interest, He is the one who will help you to understand the Truth. Believe me, living Christian life will full of noise, you will be hated, persecuted, but again, His grace is sufficient.

God bless you