If any man has EARS to Hear...

Ears to Hear
Seven times in the Greek Scriptures, and only from the lips of the Lord Jesus, there occurs the expression "If any man have ears to hear, let him hear!"

In the fourth chapter of Marks account it occurs twice, in verses 9 and 23, before and after the interpretation of the parable of the Sower, which as we know, typifies the Word of God as the Seed, Christ Himself as the Sower, and the resultant crop shows the result of Gods Word in the lives of men. The usual trinity of evil, the Adversary, the Flesh and the World, hinder its progress towards fruitfulness, and only one class out of the four described, represented by His disciples, were really fruitful, and only a few of these in abundant measure. The average farmer would regard this as a poor crop, indeed, so far as the proclamation of the Kingdom of Heaven is concerned, it had failed to produce the effect necessary to its realisation. Israel had rejected its Messiah, and the great harvest of God has yet to await His time--but the Great Sower shall yet reap where He has sown and gather where He has strawed!


A born again believer should be very similar to a brand new infant in the natural, in the sense that they are "a new creature in Christ",as newborn babes, the appetite fort "the sincere milk of the Word" should be like "fire, shut up in my bones"...but sadly, many do0 not get past the first three grounds Jesus teaches in the "sower and the seed."Luke 8:4-15 (King James Version)

4And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:

5A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.

6And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

7And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.

8And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

9And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

10And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

11Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

12Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

13They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

14And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

15But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.


Notice vs 10, the Lord speaks of "the mysteries of the kingdom of God"...the first 3 grounds is where those who never "Get It!" find themselves "returned to the wallow-vomit" or a pew warming "tare" deceived that they are "not a tare." vs 14 "and bring no fruit to perfection" both fruit of the Spirit and souls won as the "fruit of LOVE" compels them into the Masters service.

Four "grounds"...the good ground is "The secret Place" Psalm 91
1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

3Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

4He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

5Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

6Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

7A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

8Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

9Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

10There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

11For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

12They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

13Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

16With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.


"The secret place of the most high" is simply a child of God who; 2Tim 2:15"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

Most christians who do not "continue in the Word" have not found that "secret place" mixed with FAITH! Because they may have had a less than diligent study ethic in their secular education, they fall short of having faith that "The Holy Ghost will lead them to all truth and understanding" ...and they do not "desire" it enough to pray and fast, and believe God to shine his "marvelous light " upon them to the saving them from bad ground ..."into the good!"

So they cling to "legalism"..."Pharisaical hypocrisy" and "false "easy believing heresy." In Pentecost, it is unfortunate that many believe they are OK when they "pray through to tongues" repenting for their inaction, without doing it all over again, and again, mistaking speaking in tongues as God's anointing that they are forgiven, even when they continue in their "Omission of commission!( soul winning, bearing fruit) Rom 11: 26 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. He will bring you to the place of victory, if you will advance and not go back to the "sin of omission."

2 Tim 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 3:9But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. 3:10But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, charity, patience, 3:11Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. 3:12Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 3:13But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.3:14But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 3:15And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 3:16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 3:17That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

All good works....."Faith without works are dead."

Winter...2005

I was evangelizing in the northwest at a church where the Pastor was taking his first church although he had ministerial experience in other areas. I had prepared myself as God has spoken to me that a mighty revival could be won beginning at this particular church.

The irony of it all was when I was 14, myself and 3 friends ran away and stole a pickup truck 800 miles away, but was caught and arrested in this town.Fasting and praying I sensed a fierce spiritual battle would ensue and conveyed this to my friend.

The church had "Ahab and Jezebel" on their board, and when revival began to break out... and the Pastor would gain much respect and backing from the congregation...that he needed to be the scriptural leader, These "tares" tried to cut off the finances where the Pastor could no longer support the revival.

The Pastor was well intentioned, but his spiritual state was less than prepared to discern the "wiles" of the enemy to destroy revival. One of the most powerful moves of God I have been in the middle of, began at this church, but lack of his fasting and "studied ...to rightly divide the word of truth" cut it short.

We both witnessed a powerful manifestation of the two "strongmen" that shared this principality. One was an American native "arch devil" the other was the "Masonic/Jezebel" arch devil."

I always record my messages because of "satanic power of the air"...as I preached one night after there were saints that did not understand why the "Ahab and Jezebel left...(God gave me wisdom to help the pastor take them off the board, and they nchose to leave) and the enemy was trying to turn people against the 'preacher." The pastor was sitting with his family three rows back, as I was preaching and from the row behind him the enemy changed the words I preached, for all those behind the pastor and several spoke out against me immediately. Of course I told them was they thought they heard was not what was said, and the pastor backed me up, but until we played back the tape, they were convinced of what the enemy had done in this deceptive manner.

Even though the pastor became aware of the demonic attack we were under, he became offended when I took him to task on his lack of prayer and fasting, and allowed bitterness to find ought against me when the devil got into another man who had not yet repented and filled with the Holy Ghost, manifested a spirit of "hatred and variance towards me as the enemy possessed him.

Originally there for a 3 day trial,we were in our 8th week 4&5 nights a week, with miracles and healing under the most powerful anointing I had ever experienced. But God moved me out. I truly believe we were on the precipice of winning that entire city.

The entire district was gripped by these powers, but God was using my ministry to see "deaf ears unstopped" Gout healed overnight, with signs and wonders following confirming the word of God.

It was not long before "the accuser of the brethren " began using "jealous spirits and fearful Jezebel leadership to try and stop my barnstorming this district as God had me doing. The enemy even brought in another "evangelist" who was a "Wolf in sheep's clothing" to deflect some of my invitations. I saw his "quackery" firsthand in one of his meetings where he was 'coaching' and manipulating a false "baptism of the Holy Ghost, even to the extent of manually grabbing their chins while shaking them and using "auto-suggestive "witchcraft!"

But because these churches could "claim 15-20 got the Holy Ghost" it helped these carnal preachers agenda that they "had a move of God!"

But we also have actual "counterfeit supernatural manifestations as of Jannes and Jambres to contend with. 2 TIMOTHY 3:1-4 describes a class of dissolute brothers and sisters that would arise from within the ecclesia “in the last days”. These reprobate brothers and sisters are summed up in verse 5 as being people “having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof”.
Verse 6 outlines a key tactic of these corrupted brethren: “For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts”. Such people prefer to work privately to promote their views. Note Paul’s use of the sinister word ‘creep’. Sadly, this is consistent with how errors have been propagated in the ecclesia throughout history; we may expect it be so “in the last days”.
The victims of these false teachers are captives, “led away with divers lusts”. The false teachers tempt them, stimulating their desires. And to what desires or lusts does the teacher of error appeal? It is evident from verses 6 and 7 that novelty is the great lust to which they appeal. There is a certain mindset that is happy to discuss everything and settle nothing. Like the Athenians in Acts 17, there are many who love to “hear some new thing” (v. 21); Paul warns there will be some who are willing to play on this by promoting new theories and presenting what they claim are new facts. Those who have for any reason become disenchanted with ecclesiastical life and may have withdrawn somewhat from active ecclesiastical participation are particularly at risk of being captured by this means.
Verse 8 compares these false teachers to Jannes and Jambres: “Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith”. The word with which verse 8 commences has the idea of ‘just like’. In other words, the case of Jannes and Jambres is an example of the problem Paul has just been describing.
Who were Jannes and Jambres? They are not mentioned anywhere else in the Bible, but they are mentioned in Jewish traditions as two magicians in Egypt who confronted Moses at Pharaoh’s court. The Targum of Jonathan inserts their names into the text of Exodus 7:11. Some Jewish traditions suggest they were sons of Balaam, while other traditions suggest that they instigated the making of the golden calf in Exodus 32. Hasting’s Bible Dictionary says Jannes means ‘he who misleads’, while Jambres means ‘he who opposes’.1 If this is correct it may suggest that the Jewish traditions adopted symbolic names to describe the effect of these men.
Most commentators regard these men as Egyptians, but this idea, if we give any credence to some of the traditions, seems at odds with the suggestion that they were with the Israelites in the wilderness. *Whittaker, picking up on this, claims their names are Jewish, not Egyptian, and that Jannes and Jambres were renegade Jews who sided with the magicians against Moses.2 This fits Paul’s comparison of them with false teachers who arise from within the ecclesia, who are “reprobate concerning the faith”.
*Whittaker aligns these men to the Judaisers in the first century who opposed Paul’s teaching. If we extend this line of reasoning to our own “last days” we may conclude that the concept applies to any individual or movement that arises from within the Christadelphian body which preaches a corrupt gospel and which seeks to capture and mislead the unwary. So following by type, Jannes & Jannes will be 'Wolves in sheep's clothing.
We need not despair, however, that such reprobate influences arise, because verse 9 says these people will come to a sudden end. In the “last days” of the first century the Judaisers certainly met a sudden end when Jerusalem was sacked. In our day it will be the return of Christ which cuts short their work.
1. Hasting’s Bible Dictionary, Vol. 2, pp. 548-9.

As Moses' staff turned into a serpent, Jannes and Jambres duplicated this miracle. However God's power consumed the false! While in "Christendom" we are aware of all the many false revivals and the "lying signs and wonders that accompany this "strange fire"...the claims that God turns ceramic tooth fillings into gold etc...is against God's own word. If man does it it is "Alchemy."
In Occult tradition, Alchemy has been practised in a complex network of schools and philosophical systems spanning at least 2,500 years, in Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Persia, India, Japan, Korea, China, Classical Greece and Rome, in the Muslim civilizations, and then in Europe up to the 20th Century. In general terms, alchemy refers to any process that might add value or usefulness to unrefined materials, although it is often thought of as a medieval philosophy and an early form of chemistry, and it usually conjures up images of a medieval “scholar” in his laboratory, surrounded by piles of rare books and manuscripts, test-tubes, retorts, alembics and other paraphernalia generally associated with chemical experiments. Over time, it has come to be used in popular language to refer to any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value.

The best-known (although by no means the only) goals of the alchemists were the transmutation of common metals into gold or silver, the creation of a panacea or elixir of life which would cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely, and the discovery of a universal solvent with the power to dissolve every other substance.
Satan-like ambitions attempting to be God. Medieval Arabic and European alchemists invested much effort on the search for the "philosopher's stone", a legendary substance believed to mystically amplify the user's knowledge of alchemy so much that anything was potentially attainable.



Deuteronomy 18 forbids any form of sorcery and witchcraft. Alchemy is sorcery. Sorcerers would attempt to magically turn ordinary metal into gold. While using smelting and other science based ways at it's root, 'magik' was involved by trying conjure "the god of forces" aid.

2009
I was preaching at a church in the deep south where it's break-away daughter work invited me to try out for Pastor. The preacher of the mother church came and heard me and invited me to his church which had left the principles it was originally founded upon.

We agreed that I would take his church soon and the smaller one also and believe God for revival. Again..this preacher got a jealous spirit when I operated in the "gifts of the spirit" and actually told me "I feel like you are showing me up as less Spiritual" Of course that proved to me his lack of study and revelation that the "Gifts" have no relation to ones spiritual state and or ability. We are to leave our ability out of it!

Again...Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

Not only these two churches were controlled by a Jezebel spirit, the entire community has been under it's power for decades.With at least five pentecostal churches "of like faith" 20-30 minuets apart, none had fellow-shipped for over 40 years.1 Corinthians 3 >>

Young's Literal Translation
1 Cor 3:1 And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ; 2 with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able, 3 for yet ye are fleshly, for where there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk? 4 for when one may say, 'I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, 'I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?


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American King James Version

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1 Be you followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. 3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. 5 But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. 7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, for as much as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. 9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. 11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. 12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God. 13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray to God uncovered? 14 Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him? 15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering. 16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

17 Now in this that I declare to you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse. 18 For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. 19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. 20 When you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. 21 For in eating every one takes before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. 22 What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise you the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.} notice vs 19 says there must be heresies! Because of the divisions..vs 17 he tells the Corinthians that their coming together is for the worse...all because vs 1-16 is all about headship! Vs 4 he is saying, that any man having his "head covered" dishonors his head (Christ) covered by what/whom? Woman! And if the woman is not under submission
she usurps her husband authority, and a Jezebel spirit is working, and it's aim is to "emasculate" the ministry! The "eunuchs" that Jehu called out to "Who is on my side? (Jehu means 'strength of Jehovah') and Jezebels Eunuchs (emasculated ministry) threw her down. A type of the Kings in revelation that will turn on "Mystery Babylon the great whore" and kill her.The "power of god will cause them to using the beast, like he used Pharaoh.

So "we wrestle not against flesh and blood." Look behind the carnal excuses, there will be "spiritual wickedness in high places."
This is why Paul has this connected to holy communion. Our celebrating it while divisions and strife are among us, we do it in vain!

23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 24 And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do you, as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till he come.

So when fellowship is broken, the enemy takes place. The preacher and those that were used of the enemy did not want anything to do with true revival. I preached "prayer...fasting...dying to self, and they wanted none of it. The preacher then told me he wanted to back out of my becoming pastor.
The next night...on the eve of "mothers day" the church's original sanctuary and Sunday school classrooms burnt up in a fire that had consumed it from the "covering only. It was a metal roof and the fire burned only in the space between the roof and the top of the walls but melted all beneath.

I had a vision I shared with another Pastor about a roof coming down in destruction where I was preaching and that I saw sitting next to me "Jezebel" and he interpreting this as the "covering of leadership had fallen. I saw that this was fulfillment of that vision. And Hell...followed.