THE SPIRITUAL LIES AND DECEPTION OF “ONLY THE LORD KNOWS THE HEART”

THE SPIRITUAL LIES AND DECEPTION OF “ONLY THE LORD KNOWS THE HEART”

I am writing this post as I recall many incidents of pastors preaching this from the pulpits as well as preaching Matthew 7 being taken out of context about “judging”. That is another twisted preaching that has condemned many souls just as “only the Lord knows the heart”.

It is about time this gets rebuked and people become aware that the reason that is a lie is because it is a PARTIAL truth and that makes it a lie.

I remember when I was traveling in Missouri ministering and the Lord spoke to me about settling in Missouri for one year. So the Lord sent me to a company that was not advertising for help to apply for a job. I went in and said I was looking for work and immediately received an interview and offered a job. The Lord gave me a job of little status but wonderful opportunity to minister. I was hired as a tri-state truck driver as I had a commercial drivers license.

This job allowed me to minister on the road while working. I would share the gospel, prophecy and give words of knowledge to the customers. My boss came to me about 3 months later and said my route had doubled in purchase volume and I said yes. I pray and prophesy for the customers.

I was trying to assist a church with ministry but it was not of the Lord and a spiritual battle. Never the less the battle was intense and I ended up hospitalized from demonic attack. The Lord allowed this to happen to witness to others who refused to see it for what it was just as in the book of Job.

My boss was a Christian and I also attended his church but was not involved directly in that ministry. One day the pastor spoke from the pulpit ONLY God knows the heart of the people and I cringed, gave a loud sigh and slouched in my seat. My boss who I sat next to became aware of my gestures. After service my boss asked me why I reacted the way I did. I said what the pastor spoke was a partial truth making it a lie! Jesus will reveal the hearts of people to his TRUE, WILLING AND OBEDIENT servants to minister to the heart needs of the recipient. The pastor said this for one of two reasons or perhaps both reasons combined. First he is not seeking the Lord or the Lord’s desires for HIS people and second the pastor may not receive revelation because he will not act upon it! There is no need to give revelation where it is not fulfilled in obedience.

1 Samuel 23:10–12 (NKJV)

10 Then David said, “O Lord God of Israel, Your servant has certainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city for my sake. 11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant.”

And the Lord said, “He will come down.”

12 Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?”

And the Lord said, “They will deliver you.”

1 Samuel 16:1–7 (NKJV)

David Anointed King

16 Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.”

And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.”

But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; you shall anoint for Me the one I name to you.”

So Samuel did what the Lord said, and went to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”

And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.

So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him!”

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Acts 5:3–5 (NKJV)

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”

Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.

One of the very first things Jesus did while in His ministry on earth was to reveal and expose the hearts of people! If your heart is not right you will not receive Spirit and Truth even unto salvation! That is why the Holy Spirit convicts the heart/conscience of the person and they either adhere and submit or refused and walked away! This is also represented in Romans 1 with a reprobate mind. I pray I never have to deliver that word to anyone again. The Lord had me assisting a man who claimed he wanted deliverance but he kept dying the power of God unto deliverance. Meanwhile he claimed to be a Christian and went to church. The problem was he loved his sin more than the Lord and kept making excuses about not getting free. The Lord had me to tell him straight up and very blunt. I said the Lord has given me a Word for you that if you keep denying the sovereignty of the Lord Jesus to deliver you the Lord said He is about to turn you over to a reprobate mind to the point of NO RETURN OR SALVATION! I HOPE I NEVER HAVE TO SPEAK THOSE WORDS AGAIN TO ANYONE BUT I DID AS THE LORD SPOKE. The Lord revealed this mans heart not only to me but also to the man!

Here is the overall point I want to make. Do we minister to intellect or to the heart? How would Saul from Tarsus have gotten saved if Jesus had tried to speak to Saul’s intellect. Saul was a Pharisee’s Pharisee a scholar among scholars with very high intellect. Jesus exposed Saul’s heart!

Acts 9:3–5 (NKJV)

As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”

5 And he said, “Who are You, Lord?”

Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.”

The preaching today is totally void of speaking about matters of the heart! Which includes sin! Instead scripture is twisted, manipulated and taken totally out of context from Matthew 7 and people respond who are you to judge.

When I have confronted false prophets they use this scripture out of context against me.

Matthew 7:2 (NKJV)

For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

The Holy Spirit had me rebuke him again.

1 Corinthians 2:15–16 (NKJV)

15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Now this point is critical so please pay attention to what I am saying here. I don’t proclaim to be righteous at all in fact I HAVE NO RIGHTEOUSNESS OF MY OWN. THE ONLY RIGHTEOUSNESS I HAVE IS IN CHRIST JESUS. SO WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT REVEALS TO YOU A MATTER OR CONCERN IT IS RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT. This is vital to equip you to stand just as Jesus did in the wilderness with Satan as IT IS WRITTEN. Because it was the Lord by revelation of the Holy Spirit that was speaking NOT me or me making judgment. Also judgment is rendering a decision similar to a verdict in court as Jesus is the righteous one who will pass “penalty” of the judgment. Vengeance is the Lord’s we are merely vessels the Lord works through.

I ended up getting kicked out of that seminary by exposing false prophets, false doctrines and much sin. I had already packed up knowing this was going to happen just as David inquired and knew Saul was hunting him down!

Notice the scripture states the mind of Christ. My actions were not of my own as it was the Holy Spirit that prompted me to confront this false prophet and the false prophet used scripture out of context just as Satan did with Jesus in the wilderness.

Acts 8:9–24 (NKJV)

The Sorcerer’s Profession of Faith

But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously practiced sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great, 10 to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God. 11 And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time. 12 But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized. 13 Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was baptized he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which were done.

If you have discernment you will see that we have sorcerers in the pulpits and people think he is wonderful so they give heed and sit under this demonic spirit and false teachings! They even state this man’s power is from God! Simon even got baptized! An outward act of deception of repentance which NEVER happened!

The Sorcerer’s Sin

14 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, 15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. 16 For as yet He had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

18 And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, 19 saying, “Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

20 But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money! 21 You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. 22 Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. 23 For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”

24 Then Simon answered and said, “Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may come upon me.”

How many spiritual pimps are in the pulpits today? How many think you can buy the anointing? Is that not the same as the five foolish virgins, perhaps it’s much worse! They had to go “buy” their lamp oil! You can’t buy the Holy Spirit! I seriously doubt that even 2 % of the church assembly truly belong to the Lord so what does that reflect on the church leadership and what spirit are they? There are ONLY two kingdoms and two types of Christ which is the TRUE LIVING CHRIST JESUS and Antichrist!

There is much conversation on why a pastor won’t preach on sin and the major reason is likely they are hirelings and false prophets who entertain “itchy ears” for personal gain whether financial gain, influence, pride or are they commissioned as masquerading ministers of righteousness working for Satan? Itchy ear preachers are often the judgment of those who sit in the pews as the Lord has turned them over to the desires of their own hearts.

Any preacher who says ONLY THE LORD KNOWS THE HEART is giving a partial truth thus rendering a lie. If the pastor won’t address or preach on sin the pastor himself likely has secret sin. Let us get real, humble with a contrite heart before the Lord and repent, cleansed and restored.

Satan will build your ministry quicker than the Lord because you need to die to “self” to have a real ministry with Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 11:1–15 (NKJV)

Concern for Their Faithfulness

11 Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly—and indeed you do bear with me. For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!

Paul and False Apostles

For I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles. Even though I am untrained in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. But we have been thoroughly manifested among you in all things.

Did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge? I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to minister to you. And when I was present with you, and in need, I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied. And in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep myself. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows!

12 But what I do, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast. 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.