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This chapter, and in fact the whole book, is not complete without some summary understanding that ties together what it means to correctly identify the true Jesus—the real Christ—of the Bible.

We have seen that professing Christianity unwittingly worships a false Jesus (“another Jesus”), who brings with him a false gospel about the Person of Jesus Christ. Now pause and grasp the additional seriousness of what else bringing another “gospel” means—the grave danger of what is actually being brought for worship with this revised “gospel.” The reader must understand why God places a curse (see Gal. 1:8-9) on those who pervert the gospel—those who blur or confuse His literally “Genesis-to-Revelation” announcement about His coming world-ruling SUPER GOVERNMENT.

The attempt to bring “Jesus” into the gospel derives from a much greater danger, not only that of “another Jesus,” but one born of “another spirit.” In the first century, we saw that some in the Corinth congregation began to believe “another gospel” and “another Jesus,” and did not recognize that these were connected to a third problem—that of following “another SPIRIT.”

In I John 4:6, the apostle John labels this alien spirit the “spirit of error,” and contrasts it to the “Spirit of truth.” Take a moment to read this verse. It is this spirit of error that is guiding the churches of professing Christianity in its many denominations and branches—and this spirit is connected to a counterfeit “body of Christ.”

Recognize the gravity of this knowledge. Understand why it is absolutely vital to get this point clear in your mind!

===Extreme Danger!===
Another critically important element ties in here, and is connected directly to the Church that Christ has built (Matt. 16:18)—the only Church where the true Christ is leading His Work, and the true gospel is being preached. The living Jesus Christ has always worked exclusively leading only one, unified, organized, uncompromising Church—the biblical Body of Christ.

As we read in Chapter Fourteen, the “Christian” world teaches that the Body of Christ—Jesus’ Church—consists of many denominations, fellowships or “communities of believers,” said to all be connected by the “Holy Spirit” working in believers wherever they are affiliated. And we saw the many scriptures explaining the truth of what the Bible teaches about the Body of Christ.

Here is what the reader must be able to recognize: The entire professing Christian world believes in a different (counterfeit) “body” of a different (counterfeit) “Christ,” emanating from an entirely different (counterfeit) “spirit” that is NOT the Spirit of God. All of these confused, competing churches are led by the “spirit of disobedience” that is plainly identified in Ephesians 2:2—and shown to be sent from the now understood “god of this world”!

===Spirit of Disobedience===
Let’s now examine the central “earmark” that will always reveal to the discerning observer where the “spirit of disobedience” is at work. This phrase is in the context of Paul reminding the Ephesian congregation how they had come out of a different way of life—described as the “course of this world”—in which they had been under the sway of the “prince of the power of the air.”

First notice this: “Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience” (Eph 2:2).

We now go full circle from the beginning of the chapter—and in one sense the whole book. Disobedience is the opposite of obedience, and obedience is something that one either displays toward God, or does not. One either obeys God’s Law—the Ten Commandments!—or, no matter the reasons he may have or his underlying “theology,” he disobeys it!

We saw that almost all of the professing Christian world teaches that God’s Law—His Commandments—were “nailed to the cross” by Jesus (now seen to be another one) through His sacrifice. We also saw that thousands of preachers tell hundreds of millions of parishioners every Sunday that “that Old Testament Law” has been “done away” by Christ. They are routinely told, “You do not need to keep it. It was kept for you by Jesus.”

And we also saw that millions believe them!

But Romans 8:7 has explained to the reader that human beings are naturally hostile to God and His Law. The terrible fruits of that disobedience are the tragic record of humanity’s last six millennia.

The true Jesus Christ taught His disciples, “If you will enter into life, keep the commandments” (Matt. 19:17). We saw that it is these very commandments that define the love of God, and this is made plain by Romans 13:10 and I John 5:3. While the world speaks endlessly of “love” with its “Jesus,” it is not the real love of God that the Bible describes. The “Jesus” of this world brings a very different message about the importance of law-keeping than that of Matthew 19:17, Romans 13:10, I John 5:3 and many more passages in the New Testament that could be cited.

By now it should be understood that the “prince of the power of the air” is the same as the “god of this world,” the “spirit of error, another spirit” and the “spirit of disobedience.” Obviously, this “god”—and spirit—is Satan the devil. Of course, Satan would never actually reveal himself as the devil, or by any of Paul’s inspired descriptions of him referenced here. Almost none would follow him if he did.
The devil has hidden his true identity under the guise of the triune god.

This very different spirit drives the thinking of all modern theology. Under the “power” of this spirit—and Paul shows that this god does have REAL POWER—theologians have devised the concept of the trinity. These have cast off the commandments of God, the first four of which would have insulated and protected them—and all humanity—from all false gods and the resultant error—and endless troubles—that come from following them—and from worry about following the wrong Jesus.

Therefore, it is absolutely imperative to the “god of this world” who stands behind the trinity(and the “Jesus” woven within it) that its adherents not return to commandment-keeping! He must, at all costs, try to prevent people from returning to the only Law that will lead them away from him to the true God—and the true Christ! Recognize that disobedience is the central feature in how Satan’s “voice” is identified.

Grasp this. Satan is the spirit behind the almost universally accepted false god known as the trinity! When fully understood, those who believe that God is three-in-one—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—are worshipping ANOTHER JESUS!
(The subject of the popular triune god is much too large for this chapter, and requires its own thorough book to fully explain and document. You are urged to read The Trinity – Is God Three-In-One?)

===The “Voice of Christ”===
One final towering fact. The true Jesus Christ of the Bible taught that His sheep “know His voice” (John 10:4). Later in John, Jesus stated, “Everyone that is of the truth hears My voice” (Jn 18:37). The voice of Christ is here defined as TRUTH!

The true Christ’s sheep know—can discern—the true Christ’s voice, and can distinguish it from the “voice of a stranger,” which is synonymous with the voice of “another Jesus” and the ministers who represent him.

Get this straight! The spirit of the true Christ, who taught the only true gospel, does not direct the “churches” and “works” of those worshipping another Jesus inside the trinity, who, again, is part of another gospel, derived from another spirit, all of which appears with another counterfeit “body of Christ”—the disobeying, divided, disagreeing, competing confusion that is thought to be bona fide, real Christianity.

The true Christ’s voice is in part directly identified with its emphasis on commandment-keeping, and this must never be forgotten in light of all that you have come to understand throughout this book!

This has been repeated over and over in different ways for emphasis. This is so the reader can see the clear connection between the fundamental elements of the true Jesus Christ—and true Christianity—in contrast to the counterfeits of each.

Read and reread all that you have seen here until it becomes crystal clear in your mind—until it is impossible to misunderstand what is at stake in which church you attend. Remember, the true Christ is not divided (I Cor. 10:13)—meaning there is only one true Church of God! Until you find that Church—the one, unified Body of Christ—you cannot have contact with the living Christ who heads it—and only it!
As Corinth attests, this wrong but subtle teaching about the counterfeit Jesus and his “body” is so clever, so seductive, so elusive to those who do not examine it closely, that it has even fooled many of God’s people—those of Christ’s true Church—through the ages.

Chapter Six explained that the problem in Corinth was traced to brethren there listening to false ministers. Almost immediately after warning of a false Jesus, gospel and spirit, Paul identified this problem, explaining how they had been fooled. Notice a final time: “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works” (II Cor. 11:13-15).

Human beings can worship in ways that represent things very, very different from what they sincerely believe or intend. Not everything is as it seems.

Sadly, the ministers of mainstream Christianity—all of them—preach “another Jesus” and subsequently “another gospel,” leading vast millions astray from worshipping and obeying the true God. As a result, their religious practices and traditions are carried out in VAIN.
So says God in His Word!

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