"It's Those Little Foxes That Will Mess You Up"

Motivations from the Heart of Paula Williams-Gaillard

"Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." The Song of Solomon 2:15

Remember the Motivation yesterday....."Don't Fall Hook....Line and Sinker"....well it's not for me to try to figure out what's going on....but what I do know is God is trying to tell us something! This morning Holy Spirit lead me straight to The Song of Solomon, Chapter 2. Now I've heard the text Scripture preached before......but thank God for commentaries because I had to dig deeper for revelation today. Now, after I read the commentary and looked up a couple of definitions....I realized 2 words which were referenced in yesterday's Motivation stood out: CRAFTY & CUNNING

Dictionary meanings:

crafty (kraf′tē, kräf′-): subtly deceitful; sly; cunning; artful: a crafty rascal

cunning (kun′iŋ): skillful in deception; sly; crafty; made or done with skill or ingenuity; attractive or pretty in a delicate way; cute

Here's what I found in "Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible" Commentary:

By foxes may be meant false teachers, to whom the false prophets of old were compared, Ezekiel 13:3; foxes are crafty and subtle creatures, malignant and mischievous, hungry and voracious, full of deceit and dissimulation, are of an ill smell, and abominably filthy; so false teachers walk in craftiness, use good words and fair speeches, and thereby deceive the hearts of the simple; their doctrines are pernicious, their heresies damnable, and they bring destruction on themselves and others; they are hungry after worldly substance, are greedy of it, and can never have enough; devour widows' houses, and make merchandise of men, to enrich themselves; they put on sheep's clothing, transform themselves into angels of light, mimic the voice of Gospel ministers, use their phrases and expressions, that they may not be easily discovered; and are abominable in their principles and practices, and to be shunned by all good men. Now ministers of the Gospel are ordered to take these, to detect them, and refute their errors, and reprove them sharply for them; and, after proper steps taken, to reject them, to cast them out of the vineyards, the churches, and keep them out.

Even the little foxes; heresies and heretics are to be nipped in the bud, before they increase to more ungodliness; otherwise errors, which may seem small at first, soon grow larger and spread themselves, and become fatal to the churches: That spoil the vines; as foxes do, by gnawing the branches, biting the bark, making bare the roots, devouring the ripe grapes, and infecting all with their noxious teeth and vicious breath (x): so false teachers make divisions and schisms in churches; disturb their peace; unsettle some, and subvert others; sap the foundation of religion, and corrupt the Word of God; and therefore by all means to be taken, and the sooner the better

People of God.....DO NOT BE DECEIVED...THE ENEMY IS DECEITFUL...SLY....CUNNING AND CRAFTY.....HE'S OUT TO DESTROY YOU BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.... IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS....THE LITTLE FOXES.....THE LITTLE LIES.....THAT HE USES TO SPOIL THE VINE....DON'T ALLOW ANYONE OR ANYTHING TO COME BETWEEN YOU.....GOD....THE BLESSED TRINITY AND AND THE BODY OF CHRIST.....CONTINUE TO STAND ON THE TRUTH YOU KNOW....AS CHRIST TOLD PETER...UPON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH...THAT ROCK IS THE TRUTH THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD......LET NO MAN FOOL YOU.....THE CHURCH HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED......ON THAT TRUTH....AND THE GATES OF HELL WILL NOT PREVAIL....THEY WILL TRY...BUT THEY WILL NOT PREVAIL......BEWARE OF FOXES...THEY COME IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING.....THEY MASK THEIR SMELLS...THEIR ODOR...BUT ONCE UNMASKED....THEY WILL REEK.....THEY ARE ROTTEN TO THE CORE.....DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN THE POLITICS..... THAT YOU MISS OUT AND NOT HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT HAS TO SAY TO THE CHURCH....BEWARE PEOPLE....BEWARE.......IT'S THOSE LITTLE FOXES THAT WILL MESS YOU UP!!!!!

You are already Blessed so be Encouraged......
Love ya,
Paula
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