For certain there are wolves among the sheep

In America today there are many Religious Denominations all claiming to be the body of Jesus Christ. There are many Religious cults claiming to be followers of Jesus Christ. There even are many Religious leaders who claim to be the very Jesus Christ.

For certain there are wolves among the sheep there is chaff mixed in with the wheat there is false among the true.

I ask is The Church (body) made up of divided religious denominations and cults. Did Jesus send His Holy Spirit to be divided among the many religious confessors?

The answer to these questions is NO!

Ephesians 4

King James Version (KJV)

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

⁵ One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

⁶ One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Though it’s hard for those filled with the spirits of this world to see and understand there is a state of confusion. There can never be unity in divided religions and religious organizations. These can never be one body.

The Holy Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit of God lives in all believers and manifests himself in living through them a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

True believers in Jesus are not living in religious doctrines of men but in the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

The true church of the Lord Jesus Christ is made up of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and can only confess Him as Lord by His Spirit living in them.

1 Corinthians 12:3

King James Version (KJV)

³ Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

How then can we determine who is a part of the body of Jesus Christ a member of the true church of the living Jesus. What separates us from all the rest?

Here is what we look like here is the proof of who we are and to whom we belong.

John 13:35

King James Version (KJV)

³⁵ By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Galatians 5:22-23

New International Version (NIV)

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

 

Matthew 7:15-20

New King James Version (NKJV)

You Will Know Them by Their Fruits

¹⁵ “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. ¹⁶ You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. ¹⁹ Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ²⁰ Therefore by their fruits you will know them.