Mixture in the Body of Christ

I’ve been contemplating along with others the condition of the body of Christ. Most importantly, the condition of my own heart.

We are in a time, which will require absolute purity before the Lord in order for us as Sons of God to move in His Glory.

Just as Jesus, used farming and plants as a means to explain biblical truths, the Father has also shown me truths in this manner.

I was walking through the forest that surround my home and was getting snagged by thorny vines. So I had made the decision to clean up my forest and do away with these vines. As I started on this task the Lord began to show me some things.

First, as I began the careful task of cutting away these vines without getting spiked by their thorns, the Lord brought my attention upward. As I looked up and saw how these vines had so entangled themselves around the branches it was difficult to distinguish which were actually the tree leaves from the vine leaves.

I also noticed, that in many cases the trees and/or branches were completely dead. Choked out from the vines. Some of the vines also took on a woody appearances making it further difficult to distinguish the vine from the tree.

Interestingly enough, they all started as small, as tiny shoots from the ground around the tree. Nothing that you would think could actually kill a tree.

8. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Psalm 75:8

I had considered these vines briefly and went on with the business of removing them. I had the understanding that I had to curse the roots of these vines or they would just spring right back up.

I went to bed considering these vines. The Lord woke around 1:30am and began to talk to me about them.

He said the vines represented the mixture that had slowly infiltrated the Body of Christ. I saw vines with very long thorns, and others with seemingly no thorns but poison in their leaves. The vines had wrapped themselves up and around the tree until it was in the upper most branches taking life from the tree. I saw dead trees that did not appear dead because the vines were wrapped around them in such a way that they looked like the living trees. I saw other trees that the vines had crippled and deformed. Making the trees to bend in the direction the vine wanted to go. I saw that the vines just took life from the tree, there was no symbiotic relationship. The trees gained nothing from the vines but death.

I asked the Lord what was this mixture that had entered into the Body of Christ that was stealing away it’s life? He said, Deception, Lies, Fear, Unbelief, Pride, Ambition, Wrong Teachings, Religion, Hate and more…

There are grave errors being taught within the Body of Christ. There is an irreverence and familiarity with the Almighty God. A complete dishonoring of the Holy Spirit. And a spitting and thumbing of the nose to the price Jesus paid on the cross for us. There has been a misuse of God’s grace.

With false teachers who consider it some kind of honor to the Holy Spirit likening His Presence to that of a “joint” by such says as “toking on the Holy Ghost“!

Such people need to step down from the pulpit! For those who have tapped into such disgrace…REPENT!

I serve an Awesome, Unlimited, All-powerful Loving GOD! Not a joint!

When we participate in this slander of the Holy Spirit without condemning such acts, we then stand in agreement with it.

29. But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation: Mark 3:29

blas·pheme ( bl²s-f¶m“, bl ²s“f¶m”) v. blas·phemed blas·phem·ing blas·phemes v. tr. 1. To speak of (God or a sacred entity) in an irreverent, impious manner. American Heritage Dictionary

This is but one small example of what is spreading through the Body. There is much more.

Adultery, homosexuality, fornication, drunkeness, theft, manipulation, greed, gluttony, backbiting, slander... the list goes on and on. I'm talking about IN the Body of Christ! Not just the world.

God is about to judge. His judgment is pure, there is no mixture in Him. His judgments are True and Just.

7. Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
8. And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10. The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Rev 14

We must endeavor individually to seek God and ask Him to reveal the areas of our lives that have been infiltrated with mixture so that we may curse the roots (repent) and walk in God’s purity once again.

28. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
30. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
32. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. 1Cor11:28-32
27. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 1 Cor 11:27

I urge you to hear what he Lord is truly saying in this passage. Don’t revert back to your Sunday school teaching. HEAR what HE is saying. GET RID OF THE MIXTURE! EXAMINE YOUR OWN HEART.

Jesus had to drink of the cup for us. Will we allow His suffering to totally cleanse us that we do not have to drink of it?

I was asking the Lord about addressing these issues. I told the Father “they'll hate me for saying these things”. Father told me, “they hate Me already”. He continued to say, “ the worshipers of false gods give greater honor and reverence to their gods than we do that worship the One True Living God.”

hate ( h³t) v. hat·ed hat·ing hates v. tr. 1. a. To feel hostility or animosity toward. b. To detest. 2. To feel dislike or distaste for: hates washing dishes. v. intr. 1. To feel hatred. n. 1. Intense animosity or dislike; hatred. 2. An object of detestation or hatred: American Heritage Dictionary

love ( l¾v) n. 1. A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.

rev·er·ence ( rµv“…r-…ns) n. 1. A feeling of profound awe and respect and often love; veneration

It's time for reverence of our Father God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit to come back into the Body of Christ. Please let God shine His light on your heart and expose the the mixture that is in each of our lives.

By: Cherie Sheridan 10/08/2009