THE SPIRITUAL CONSEQUENCE OF FEARING SATAN MORE THAN GOD

                     THE SPIRITUAL CONSEQUENCES OF FEARING SATAN MORE THAN GOD

By Jonas T.  Suizo

To fear Satan more than God is not spiritual discernment—it is spiritual misalignment. In biblical theology, fear is not merely an emotion; it is a spiritual posture that assigns authority. Whoever a man fears most ultimately becomes the master of his decisions, reactions, and outlook. Thus, when fear is misdirected toward Satan rather than God, the result is not caution but captivity. The King James Version of the Bible consistently reveals that this misplaced fear produces bondage, weakens faith, distorts one’s image of God, and gradually dismantles spiritual authority.

 The transfer of authority through fear is clearly established in Scripture. Proverbs 29:25 states, “The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.” Though the verse speaks of human fear, the principle is transferable: fear always functions as a trap. Fear becomes a snare, the snare becomes a prison, and the prison results in the loss of spiritual freedom. When Satan becomes the object of fear, the believer unknowingly hands over authority that was never meant to be surrendered. This directly contradicts Christ’s declaration in Luke 10:19, where He says, “Behold, I give unto you power… over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” To fear Satan, therefore, is not humility—it is spiritual amnesia. It forgets the authority already granted through Christ.

 Furthermore, fear of Satan produces bondage rather than wisdom. Second Timothy 1:7 declares, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” When fear manifests as paralysis, obsession, anxiety, or superstition, it is not from God. Any fear not sourced from God becomes an open door for spiritual intrusion. By contrast, Proverbs 9:10 teaches, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.” This reveals that only the fear of God produces clarity, discernment, and maturity. When a man fears Satan more than God, he does not grow in wisdom—he grows in panic theology. He becomes reactive instead of authoritative, defensive instead of anchored, surviving instead of reigning.

 This misplaced fear also shrinks faith and magnifies the enemy. Hebrews 11:6 makes it clear that “without faith it is impossible to please him.” Fear of Satan silently proclaims that the devil is more consistent, more effective, or more present than God Himself. This distortion is not only false—it is spiritually dangerous. The devil begins to appear large, while God feels distant. Prayer becomes defensive rather than confident, anxious rather than trusting. Yet Scripture immediately corrects this imbalance in 1 John 4:4: “Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” Fear corrupts spiritual perception. It zooms in on hell and zooms out on heaven. It exaggerates darkness and minimizes divine power.

 Fear of Satan also leads to compromise and spiritual retreat. Those dominated by this fear often avoid confronting sin, justify moral weakness by comparison, and remain silent when boldness is required. However, James 4:7 gives the proper response: “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” The Bible does not instruct believers to analyze Satan, negotiate with him, or obsess over his strategies. It commands resistance. Fear makes believers retreat. Faith makes the enemy retreat. This distinction defines spiritual authority.

 Another consequence of fearing Satan more than God is the warping of one’s image of God. Subconsciously, God begins to appear less protective, slower to act, and weaker in intervention, while Satan seems more active, immediate, and aggressive. This is a theological illusion. Isaiah 54:17 declares, “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper,” and Colossians 2:15 proclaims that Christ “spoiled principalities and powers” and publicly triumphed over them. Satan is already a defeated enemy. To fear him now is like trembling before a criminal who has already been jailed and stripped of authority.

 If this mindset continues unchecked, the long-term spiritual trajectory becomes destructive. Fear leads to bondage, bondage produces passivity, passivity results in stagnation, stagnation causes spiritual dryness, and dryness eventually opens the door to doctrinal confusion. The believer drifts not because truth is unavailable, but because fear dominates the heart. In contrast, Psalm 34:7 offers a different path: “The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.” The Bible never promises angelic defense to those who fear Satan. It promises divine protection to those who fear God.

 The ultimate assessment is unavoidable. When a man fears Satan more than God, he lives beneath his spiritual authority. He thinks defensively instead of dominionally. He treats the devil as a ruler instead of a rebel. And most seriously, he unknowingly insults the finished work of Christ, which declared Satan defeated and stripped of power. This posture is not wise, not safe, and not biblical.

The spiritual reality remains sharp and unyielding: a man will either fear God and terrify hell, or fear hell and live terrified. There is no neutral position in spiritual authority. Where fear is placed determines who reigns.

 

   

COVER PAGE ON THE TOPIC: GOD AND SATAN ARE ONE

                                                        GOD AND SATAN ARE ONE

By Jonas T.  Suizo

The purpose of writing this chapter is to make people understand that Satan is never the enemy of man. In fact, Eve spoke with Satan in the Garden of Eden.

Additionally, Satan is part of the spiritual judicial system where he prosecutes and accuse and God defends and intercede for the very man whom he called, chose, elect and predestined to be His son. Satan Accuses and God Pays the bail and intercede. In short, the whole show is a one throne two party system in the spiritual court and the Holy Ghost is the recorder.

In fact, Satan was never mentioned by Jesus in the walk toward perfection. Jesus simply stated that one must deny himself, carry his own cross and to follow him. There is no Satan in the picture.

Satan only enters into the picture in a particular scenario if he has a reclama and especially if the case is beyond the probable cause regarding the way a man executes his own salvation because it is not my might nor by power but by the Spirit of God. If a man obeys for a selfish motivation then Satan enters into the fray making the already troubled and unstable situation into a more chaotic one purposely to make the picture clearer that a man is only obeying because of profit. When a man obeys for advantage and own benefit it is clear and simply interpreted as a double hearted obedience. Meaning, a man obeys to please God and at the same time gets his part of reward and worse want the glory and the justification too!

As a gist to this book, this is written to make all men understanding that Satan is never relevant in the life of the holy people of God in the very first place but his has the right to contest a man whom he think is unclean and is not worthy to become the Son of God _ meaning to enter into the Kingdom of God. Hence the title, God And Satan Are One. He is a servant of God in the creation process of man especially in the part of rooting out, pulling down, and destroying for God to plant and to build (Jeremiah 1:10 … to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.)

 

                                                GOD AND SATAN ARE ONE

(IN SOVEREIGN OPERATION, NOT EQUAL DEITY)

The Solid Truth for Man to Have the Strongest and Purest State of the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord

By Jonas T.  Suizo

OBJECTIVE: to fill men with all wisdom and spiritual understanding rooted in the Spirit of fear of the Lord knowing there are things of God which remains secret and there are things revealed.

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

THE LIMIT OF SCRIPTURE AND THE DEPTH OF GOD

The Holy Scriptures themselves testify that they do not exhaust the full revelation of God. Divine truth is not only written—it is layered, manifold, progressive, and at times unbearable in its fullness. Jesus openly acknowledged this limitation when He said, “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now” (John 16:12), and John concluded his Gospel with the staggering admission that the works of Christ alone could not be fully contained in books (John 21:25).

 The apostle Peter further underscored the danger of mishandling deep revelation when he warned that Paul’s writings contain matters “hard to be understood,” which the unlearned twist “unto their own destruction” (2 Peter 3:16). This confirms three essential truths: divine revelation is not always simple, twisting it is spiritually fatal, and fear of the Lord is the only safe posture for handling profound doctrine. Adding to this, Paul’s declaration of the “manifold wisdom of God” (Ephesians 3:10) makes clear that God’s nature and governance are neither shallow nor easily grasped; any attempt to approach divine sovereignty must be undertaken with trembling reverence, not arrogance.

 THE GOD THIS WORLD NEVER KNEW

 God claims both light and darkness, as Isaiah 45:7 declares: “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” This affirms that opposites do not arise from rival powers but proceed from one sovereign source; light and darkness, peace and calamity, blessing and curse all operate under unified authority. All beings function as God’s servants, for Psalm 119:91 states: “They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.” This includes angels, kings, rulers, spirits, and even deceivers, dismantling the notion of an independent kingdom of darkness. God directly sends evil and lying spirits, as shown in 1 Samuel 16:14: “An evil spirit from the LORD troubled Saul” and 1 Kings 22:22–23: “I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets… the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets.” These passages demonstrate that such spirits are instruments of divine judgment, not autonomous agents.

 Satan operates only by God’s permission, as Job 1:12 states: “Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand,” and Job 2:6 confirms: “He is in thine hand; but save his life.” Satan cannot independently choose his target, limits, duration, or outcome; all are set by God. His delegated authority as “the god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4) is permitted, not inherent. Furthermore, God is present even in hell, as Psalm 139:8 affirms: “If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there,” showing that no realm exists outside His sovereignty. God works all things without exception (Ephesians 1:11: “Who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will”; Lamentations 3:37–38: “Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?”) and life and death belong solely to Him (Deuteronomy 32:39: “I kill, and I make alive… neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand”), leaving Satan’s power strictly limited and permitted.

The mechanism of oneness—union without erasure—is revealed in 1 Corinthians 6:17: “He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit” and Genesis 2:24: “…and they shall be one flesh.” Oneness in Scripture unites operation without erasing identity, allowing distinct beings to function as a single system. Christ sustains all powers, including fallen ones, as Colossians 1:16–17 explains: “By him were all things created… principalities and powers… and by him all things consist.” Satan exists within Christ’s authority, not outside it. Finally, the heavenly judicial system operates under one throne with two roles: Satan as the accuser (Revelation 12:10) and Christ as the intercessor (Romans 8:34), demonstrating that apparent opposition functions entirely within God’s sovereign governance. God claims both light and darkness, as Isaiah 45:7 declares: “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” This verse establishes that opposites do not originate from rival gods but proceed from a single sovereign source. Light and darkness, peace and calamity, blessing and disaster are not evidence of divided rule but of unified authority over contrasting operations.

 In addition, all beings operate as God’s servants, for Psalm 119:91 states: “They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.” The term “all” excludes no category; angels, kings, rulers, spirits, and even deceivers operate under divine ordinance, dismantling the idea of a rogue empire of darkness outside God’s jurisdiction. God directly dispatches evil and lying spirits, as seen when 1 Samuel 16:14 notes: “An evil spirit from the LORD troubled Saul” and 1 Kings 22:22–23 declares: “I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets… the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets.” These passages confirm that evil spirits are instruments within divine judgment, not autonomous rebels.

 In its final doctrinal formulation, God and Satan are one in sovereign operation, not as rival deities. There is one absolute throne, and Satan functions as an instrument of judgment, testing, deception, and destruction under divine command. He represents the severity of God, just as mercy represents His goodness, echoing Romans 11:22: “Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God.” Severity is not a foreign god but a function within God’s unified authority. The perception of Satan as a separate, competing ruler arises from the perception of domain, not from biblical sovereignty. God remains God in heaven, God on earth, and God in hell. While Satan may rule temporarily as the god of this world, he does so only within leased authority; as demonstrated in the case of Job, he cannot touch the apple of God’s eye without divine clearance. God operates across all dominions, realms, and jurisdictions, and His counsel alone stands. Thus, the thesis is firmly constructed: there are not dual gods, nor equal powers, but one throne, one will, and many operations.

SCRIPTURE WITHOUT PRESENCE

 

SCRIPTURE WITHOUT PRESENCE: THE TRAGEDY OF KNOWING THE TEXT BUT MISSING THE GOD

By Jonas T. Suizo

The kind of world that would exist if God only spoke in sundry times and diverse manners, without law, without an incarnate Christ, and without a true teaching servant—is not merely hypothetical. History has already answered it. That world would be religious yet unstable, morally active yet spiritually uncertain, filled with devotion but lacking clarity. What is even more sobering, however, is that both Judaism and segments of Christianity reveal another danger just as severe: a world where people possess the Scriptures, yet still fail to grasp the living effect of the true God, the true Law, and the true Teaching Servant. This proves that spiritual collapse does not only occur when revelation is absent—it can also happen when revelation is possessed but misunderstood, resisted, or reduced to form.

Judaism stands as the first and most painful example of this reality. The Jewish people were entrusted with the Law, the prophets, the temple system, and the promises of God. They did not lack information; they had the richest scriptural heritage on earth. Yet when the very God who authored that Law appeared in flesh, many could not recognize Him. Jesus Himself exposed this tragedy when He said, “Ye search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” The issue was never the absence of Scripture—it was the absence of spiritual recognition. The Law, meant to be a mirror leading to Christ, became a scoreboard of righteousness. It became a weapon instead of a guide, a badge of superiority instead of a tutor to humility. God was not denied, but He was confined to a system. So when God stepped outside the system—touching lepers, eating with sinners, forgiving without temple permission—He was rejected by those who believed they knew Him best. This is the terrifying possibility of religion: you can know the letter of God’s word and still miss the living voice of God.

Christianity, shockingly, can fall into the very same trap. Though Christ has already come, though the cross has already happened, and though the Holy Spirit has already been poured out, many expressions of Christianity mirror the same spiritual blindness that once marked first-century Judaism. People today can quote Scripture fluently, defend doctrine fiercely, and attend church faithfully—yet walk without mercy, live without transformation, and remain untouched in conscience. It is possible to preach Christ, debate Christ, and sing about Christ while never actually being submitted to Christ. When this happens, Christianity becomes what Judaism became at its worst: structure without life, knowledge without power, and belief without obedience. The tragedy is not unbelief alone—it is belief without surrender.

This breakdown becomes inevitable when the true Teaching Servant is no longer recognized. When God’s sent voice is replaced by inherited tradition, revelation hardens into routine. People begin to say, “This is how we’ve always done it,” instead of trembling at, “Thus saith the Lord.” Power shifts from conscience to institutions, from inner conviction to external control. When this happens, religious abuse grows, fear replaces spiritual discernment, and control disguises itself as discipleship. Outward behavior may be regulated, but inward character remains untouched. Jesus called this condition being “whitewashed tombs”—clean outside, dead inside. It is not demonic; it is simply lifeless religion dressed in sacred garments.

This brings the hypothetical question _ what if God will speak to people in sundry times and diverse manners to the world and there is no law, no true God like Jesus who walks and eats and lives with them, and there is no teaching servant, into sharp reverse focus before we imagined a world with no Law, no incarnate Christ, and no teaching servant—resulting in religious chaos and spiritual uncertainty. But Judaism shows what happens when a people possess the Law, the Scriptures, and a teaching system, yet reject the incarnate God: the result is religion without creation and redemption. Christianity today sometimes shows what happens when Christ is held in doctrine, Scripture is held in hand, and churches exist everywhere, yet there is no living submission to Christ: the result is faith in name, but no power in life. In both cases, the form is preserved while the fire is lost. The text is guarded, but the Truth standing in front of the people is missed.

The final warning is unavoidable and uncomfortable. The greatest danger to faith is not atheism. Atheism is honest in its rejection. The greater danger is familiarity without obedience—knowing about God without yielding to God, defending Scripture without being transformed by it, and honoring the Law while resisting the Lawgiver. A God who only speaks from a distance creates religion. A God who walks among men creates and redeems. But even when redemption has been revealed, it can still be resisted by those who would rather master the system than surrender to the Savior.

 

 

GOD SPEAKING IN SUNDRY TIMES AND DIVERSE MANNERS

 WHAT IF GOD ONLY SPOKE IN SUNDRY TIMES AND DIVERSE MANNERS?

By Jonas T.  Suizo

 To imagine a world where God speaks only in sundry times and diverse manners—without law, without an incarnate Christ who walks, eats, suffers, and lives among people, and without a true teaching servant—is to imagine a world that is spiritually fragmented, morally unstable, and eternally uncertain. At first glance, such a world might appear religious, even mystical, but in truth it would be a place where certainty is impossible and truth is endlessly disputed. When revelation is scattered and inconsistent, every generation reinvents God in its own image. One speaks from visions, another from dreams, another from omens, nature, fear, intuition, philosophy, or personal impulse. Truth becomes fragmented, versioned, and privatized. Everyone claims divine authority, yet none can prove it. This is how paganism multiplied, how idol systems prospered, how ancestor worship grew, and how fear-based religion took hold—sincere in devotion, yet never secure in truth.

 Without a revealed law, such a world would also lack a moral anchor. If there is no clear commandment, no objective definition of right and wrong, morality does not disappear—it mutates. It becomes tribal, emotional, political, and survival-based. Power begins to define righteousness. The strong re-label evil as “necessary,” and the weak rebrand revenge as “justice.” In this environment, sin does not vanish; it only changes costume. Lawlessness does not create freedom—it creates confusion where cruelty can hide behind justification. Without law, conscience loses its compass, and societies drift according to appetite rather than truth.

 Even more devastating would be the absence of an incarnate God. If God never walked among men, never grew weary, never hungered, never suffered betrayal, never endured violence, and never tasted death, then humanity would forever question whether God truly understands human pain. Judgment would feel distant and cold. Worship would lean toward fear rather than love. Obedience would become survival rather than trust. Christianity stands alone in its radical claim that God did not merely speak to suffering—He entered it. Remove Jesus from the story, and faith becomes a guess instead of a relationship (that is to be born again in spirit), speculation instead of assurance. A distant deity can command, but only an incarnate God can redeem and create man into becoming a new creature from within the human condition.

 Equally dangerous is the absence of a true teaching servant. If God speaks but never sends prophets, teachers, apostles, or witnesses, then every person becomes their own spiritual authority. This leads to private religion, self-made doctrine, and spiritual narcissism—the belief that one needs no correction because God speaks directly and exclusively to oneself. History proves that such a condition breeds cults, fanaticism, and spiritual abuse. A God who speaks without sending teachers leaves people unguarded against their own delusions. The teaching servant is not merely a messenger but a stabilizer of truth, ensuring that revelation is not twisted into personal fantasy.

 A world formed under these conditions—no law, no incarnate God, no teaching servant—would not be a holy one. It would be filled with many gods, many spirits, many rituals, much fear, and much blood. Certainty would be scarce, and assurance of creation and salvation nonexistent. In fact, such a world once existed. The Greeks guessed at God through philosophy. The Romans feared their gods through sacrifice. Eastern religions cycled endlessly through rebirth without final redemption. Human sacrifice was common. Slavery was normalized. Women and children were expendable. Revelation itself was present, but completion was missing. Humanity had religious instinct but no final answer.

 The sobering conclusion is this: if God only spoke in scattered ways, without law, without Christ, and without a living teacher, then humanity would possess religion without assurance, morality without foundation, spirituality without creation and salvation, and hope without proof. The shock of Christianity to history is not merely that God spoke—it is that God showed up in flesh and stayed consistent. A God who only speaks from a distance creates religion. A God who walks among men creates redemption and new creation. That difference is not poetic language—it is the dividing line between uncertainty and eternal truth.

WHY THE TRUE CHURCH IS MISJUDGED

 THE TRUE CHURCH IS MISJUDGED BECAUSE GOD BUILDS IT THROUGH DREGS, SINNERS, HERESIES, AND ROOTING OUT

By Jonas T  Suizo

The true Church has always carried a strange and uncomfortable paradox: it is the most attacked, misjudged, and easily labeled “cult” precisely because of what God Himself allows inside it. The Scriptures are clear that God never built His people out of the already-perfect. Christ came not for the righteous, but for sinners, for the sick, for the broken, and for those heavy-laden with iniquity. Because of this, every true move of God is born inside a messy construction zone, full of people who carry baggage, deception, stubbornness, and all kinds of spiritual diseases that must be healed and rooted out. This is why Paul declared that heresies must be present among the people, so that those who are truly approved may be revealed (1 Corinthians 11:19). In other words, God intentionally allows a mixture inside His Church because separation and purification cannot happen without contrast. Authenticity is only visible when it stands next to corruption.

This is also the reason why the true Church is so often misunderstood. Outsiders judge it based on the presence of deceived people—those who “have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof” (2 Timothy 3:5). They see false prophets and false brethren operating within the assembly, not knowing that this is part of the divine process of uprooting (Jeremiah 1:10). Peter warned that false prophets would arise among the people and that many would follow their destructive ways (2 Peter 2:1–2), while Paul declared that God Himself would send strong delusion to those who refuse the love of the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:8–12). When the world looks in, all they see is a complicated mix of corrupted voices and misguided people—and instantly call it a cult. But what they fail to realize is that the very chaos they condemn is the battlefield where God sorts the faithful from the counterfeit.

The true Church, being a hospital for sinners and emotionally immature, naturally becomes filled with people described in Scripture using the images of beasts—not to demean them, but to reveal the spiritual disorders that must be healed. Ephraim is called a “silly dove” (Hosea 7:11), unstable and easily swayed. Others are like leopards unable to change their spots (Jeremiah 13:23), stubbornly repeating the same sins. Some move like roaring lions driven by fear (1 Peter 5:8), while others hide under the disguise of wolves in sheep’s clothing, spreading misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (Matthew 7:15; John 10:12). Still others behave like dogs, forming wicked assemblies and returning to their own vomit (Psalm 22:16; Proverbs 26:11; 2 Peter 2:22). There are those whose speech is poisonous like serpents and adders who refuse correction (Psalm 58:4–5), and some act as brute beasts who speak about things they do not understand (Jude 1:10). And then there are the creeping things—the unsubmitted, disorderly, unclean influences that crawl around without rule or reverence (Habakkuk 1:14). These are the raw materials God is working with. These are the people He is transforming.

But the harshest rebuke comes from Isaiah, who shows how the true Church becomes misunderstood: “The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib, but Israel does not know; my people do not consider.” (Isaiah 1:3). Many inside the Church do not yet recognize their Master. They do not yet submit, they do not yet listen, and they do not yet walk as God’s possession. This spiritual immaturity makes the entire community look chaotic from the outside. But this is the divine construction zone. This is the furnace where God melts the metal and reveals the gold. Misjudgment comes not because the Church is false, but because the world—and even many believers—cannot recognize the process of sanctification when it is still messy, loud, imperfect, and filled with people in various stages of being healed.

So yes, the true Church appears scandalous, unstable, and easily criticized. But this is exactly where God works. The presence of sinners does not disprove the Church—it proves that God is still healing. The presence of heresies does not invalidate it—it confirms that God is revealing who truly belongs to Him. And the presence of deceived people, beasts, wolves, dogs, serpents, and those who refuse to hearken only means the Church is alive, being sifted, purified, and brought toward completion. The true Church is misjudged because people only see the dirt God is removing, not the gold He is refining. The world sees chaos. God sees construction. And those who are approved will, in time, shine plainly for all to see.

 

TRUE CHURCH

                                                      DISCOURSE ON THE TRUE CHURCH

God Is Talking

By Jonas T  Suizo

When the teachings of the world’s religions are measured against the ten categories that reveal the true voice of God—law and commands, promise and blessing, warning and judgment, instruction and guidance, prophecy and revelation, rebuke and anger, covenant, comfort and assurance, dialogue and questioning, and mystery and divine secrets—it becomes obvious that most religious traditions today are running on fumes from written texts rather than the living Spirit that speaks, forms, rebukes, corrects, and perfects.

From Judaism’s Torah scholars to Christian pastors and priests, from imams and ayatollahs to gurus, lamas, shamans, sages, and “modern spiritual coaches,” nearly all rely on interpretations, rituals, philosophies, and systems that revolve around human reasoning or historical traditions rather than the Spirit that writes in the heart, pours understanding into the inward man, and makes a people walk in God’s ways.

Because of that, these religions may appear to carry divine authority, but spiritually they fall under the same umbrella: they speak about God but do not speak with the voice of God. They teach ethics, mysticism, enlightenment, morality, asceticism, or devotion, yet the words they utter do not fall into the patterns of divine speech manifested in Scripture—the goodness and severity of God, the covenant that writes the law in the heart, the rebuke that pours out the Spirit, or the comfort that equips a man to teach others.

Without the Spirit’s voice, their doctrines cannot create a new creature nor form a people after God’s image. And when weighed on this scale, most of the world’s religions and sects collapse into the same category: belief systems powered by human wisdom rather than divine revelation, functioning as cults, heresies, or pseudo-faiths that rely heavily on texts, traditions, rituals, and philosophies, but do not minister the Spirit as God intended.

This makes the TRUE CHURCH stand apart, for it insists on the living voice of God in the Spirit—speaking, forming, rebuking, cleansing, and perfecting His people—while others circle around the Scriptures without touching the fire that breathed them.