Satan corrupted the plan of God by neutralizing the activity of grace. How did he do that? Satan redefined the whole experience for the church which would force believers to embrace the law to identify their own ideas of salvation and change.

When you were converted, the cord, or tether of the soul to Satan’s throne was cut. Once that was cut, you were tethered to a new throne – Jesus’ throne – that makes Him your Lord as long as you build with Him.

To build with Jesus, the conscience must first be purified by truth and then the heart is made clean. The foundation of truth needs to be set in your heart first so that the anointing can prepare your heart with gifts to return to the Lord.

God creates a new cycle: righteousness unto holiness by His power gifts to free us from Satan’s tethering. With God’s new foundation of truth, you’re able to build with Him.

In the false religious system, the challenge is put out there: will you allow Jesus to change you? But as long as the conscience is defiled (the foundation of truth has been neglected), it is not possible to build with God, so change is not possible – but that does not stop you from feigning your faith.

So, let’s talk about that. In the current Christian culture, because there is no building with truth and no bonding with the Holy Spirit, believers are taught how to feign their faith.

Ministers of unrighteousness claim a work apart from the covenant that Jesus oversees. A change of behavior is initiated based on scripture. Scripture is substituted for Jesus’ covenant and the works of the flesh are substituted for the works of the Spirit, and this is why substitutionism is the killer of true faith.

You have probably seen and heard many testimonies of change by substitution as ministers try to capture those moments of change and showcase them for you. But it’s a snow globe encounter. What happens when a snow globe is shaken? It seems like the scene inside the globe comes alive as little flakes of snow descend.

This is a very fitting parable to understand feigned faith. Much shaking is taking place in the church as God challenges the very foundation that ministers have been building upon. Every time a minister feels shaken by the Lord (as God presents the challenge of covenant for change), it feels like his faith is coming alive.

But think about the scene inside the snow globe. Usually, it’s a nostalgic scene that brings the mind back to happy moments – moments of comfort or joy. But we realize that the scene encased and trapped inside the bubble only mimics life. And this describes how many believers feel trapped in a lifeless faith, not able to touch Jesus.

God is turning His spotlight on nostalgic testimonies that we hear so often these days, to show that the claims to change are lifeless. A minister is trying to describe his faith and the power of God for change while being trapped inside an artificial faith.

So, he uses his imagination to relate to what you might be going through and he tells his story about change. You might hear a minister say:

– I used to be a drug addict, but now I’m not.
– I used to be addicted to sugar, but now I’m not.
– I used to have a mean temper, but now I don’t.
– I used to be selfish, but now I’m not.

You must know: everyone born of the flesh has been abused by Satan to one degree or another. God allowed that to create this contrast to show your weakness that you would turn to Him – and you did. You turned to God. What did you turn to God for? You turned to God for hope.

Guilt was pressed upon you by the kingdom of darkness and you wanted liberty from that, freedom from that, and God showed you that through His covenant that peace rules in your heart. The tokens of Satan’s kingdom are being removed and God is enlarging your heart and restoring your heart with the tokens of His kingdom.

It’s the habit of the mind that is still outside of Christ to look for evidence of something greater than one’s self and to testify of that. When a minister says, “God changed me,” he’s hoping that he’s speaking for all those who are seeking God’s life-giving power. He’s hoping that his words will encourage faith, or spur you on in your journey.

But when change is initiated outside of Jesus’ covenant and based on scripture and not the covenant of Jesus, the testimony of change is not the same as the soul’s healing by God’s divine hand.

Change does not equal fruit.

In other words, a change in behavior is not the divine likeness of Christ. This needful contrast was brought out by the Apostle Paul.

Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

The apostle Paul says here that these Christians were brought under another persuasion and he calls this power of persuasion by the unrighteous ministers a “bewitching”, meaning, to put under a trance of false knowledge.

That trance of false knowledge is Satan’s promise that we can be saved and become fruitful in God’s kingdom apart from the covenant God sanctified for your faith by the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Satan put the work of salvation in the history of Jesus and NOT in the anointing.

When believers understand the record of God in Jesus Christ then they will appreciate the living witness the Father puts upon His record and walk in His power daily.

Ephesians 6:23
Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The gospel of substitutionism removes the record of Christ and fills that void with your imagination about God. This produces a faith that is feigned and vain (powerless and fruitless). It becharms religious concepts about a relationship with Jesus without a commitment to Him in word and in deed.

Both God’s word (foundation of truth) and deed (the activity of His covenant) are necessary to believe in the heart and confess with the mouth. Hearing the truth and communicating charity in the Christian priesthood makes us strangers and pilgrims on this earth. A royal priesthood and holy nation with spiritual sacrifices that bear the fruits of the Spirit we all walk in.

Neglecting the covenant of our Lord, ministers preach a gospel that keeps believers in bondage to expectations that were developed by their experiences while in the kingdom of the flesh. But the voice of the flesh cannot be substituted for the voice of the Spirit. Let’s see how Jesus lays this out for us.

John 6:63
It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

What Jesus is saying here is that the Holy Spirit works with His record in the foundation of truth to give witness to Him in your faith. The flesh does not contribute anything, so it can’t be your starting point to reason with God.

The flesh cannot replace the Spirit to define reformation, change, and spiritual transformation. Using the flesh to help people relate to desirable change was how ministers tried to relate to those bound in the kingdom of the flesh. But again, the flesh is not a substitute for the Spirit, nor the common ground experience of the saints.

Just because you say that Jesus set you free does not mean that you are preaching Jesus. The early church also experienced the same oppressive gospel. How can a person preach the liberty of Christ while still tethered to Satan’s kingdom? Apostle Peter addressed this confusion in his epistle.

2 Peter 2:19
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

The church is in a season of separation and cleansing, whereas God is turning back the tide of feigned faith and fake fruit to set a path back to Jesus’ covenant. God uses the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers of His restored government to bring doctrinal cleansing and to establish in the heart the original foundation of truth.

If you have seen and heard the contemporary gospel and how it is turned inward to serve self and is self-referencing, you have been crying out to God for change knowing that the true gospel is all about Jesus.

It is evident that without the foundation of truth there can be no real love for God because everything in man’s nature is self-referencing.

One comment I read on social media tells the story of the heart longing for change, willing to change, but not drawing from God’s resource for change. This believer said, “God is opening eyes and this will change! It’s about Him!! May His cleansing fire burn out in us every and anything that needs to go!”

It is not lost to the churched and the previously churched that the gospel has turned inward to serve self. Yes, God’s challenge is heard, but the awakening to your spiritual condition is not the map to His presence.

However clear it is that change is necessary, you will notice that no path is set for change by this believer. It is assumed that the fire of God’s Holy Spirit will do the cleansing and burn out of us “everything and anything that needs to go.”

There is an expressed willingness to let go of anything and everything that does not please God, but not an expressed willingness to build His house with the knowledge and tokens of Jesus Christ. There is no expressed willingness to be cleansed of false doctrine and to accept the true doctrine of Christ.

Believers assume that the Holy Spirit will burn off all that is false because that is the message they heard from the pulpit. God is challenging this false perception of change without separation to Jesus’ covenant truth.

The Holy Spirit will only confirm the gospel of the covenant, and that’s because God set many connections in the doctrine of Christ to His operation in us and through us. The humanistic gospel removes these God-given spiritual connections and, in their place, believers are given man-made connections that tie the hands of the Holy Spirit.

When ministers call for righteousness and holiness while tying the hands of the Spirit they commit a great sin against God. The Spirit of God will only work in us that which testifies of Christ according to His covenant.

Believers laboring with the sanctified apostolic stewardship are the called ones and saints mentioned in the Bible. They are consistent with the priesthood of Christ, choosing to join their faith only to the things of Christ to return to God His gifts.

Grace is active in their life and put into the present tense of God’s daily gifts that they receive to reciprocate in kind.

In the false human-gospel, grace is not active. Believers accept their confession of Jesus to finalize their salvation and regard the covenant as optional or unnecessary, saying, “grace alone” (no works) which frees their imagination to follow their own instincts with the signature of the natural man, thinking they are doing service to God.

As they tithe, observe the sabbath, water baptize, partake of communion and foot washing, and fast and pray, they set a path for their connection to God, but not God’s connection to them. These are works in search of a humble heart, but they are not the works of the covenant and the heart remains empty of the virtue of Christ.

As ministers look inward and see the roots of bitterness, pride and envy, they look at these fruits of iniquity as fodder for change. Pretending to be the watchman on the wall, or those willing to stand in the gap, they are the ones spreading the fires of false knowledge, keeping believers bound in the cycle of death to build Satan’s house with his tools.

James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

In truth, God’s true gospel is squarely centered on Jesus and begins with His apostolic stewardship to set the foundation of truth in the heart, thus empowering our faith to identify Him in His own record.

The gospel of Jesus’ covenant preaches a living Jesus who oversees our faith by giving us living tokens in a new priesthood. Jesus is the mediator of His own covenant. Jesus’ living work in us is called “propitiation” because He set the grounds for us to approach Him with His gifts.

The works of the Spirit are the works that grace gives to us for perfect faith, meaning that your faith perfectly reflects the perfect one – Jesus Christ.

Romans 12:6
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

Romans 3:25
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

1 John 4:10
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

The simple gospel is in the spiritual things of Jesus’ propitiation and the truth that saves us and creates in us the likeness of Christ. The confusion in the church is the result of the wrong foundation being built in substitutionism. This contrast is necessary to change the tide of false knowledge.