Among the million self-help books on the market, there is only one that will tell you exactly what it is God wants to do with you on the inside to change you for the better – and that is the Holy Bible, corrupt as it is. No other book will tell you the specifics that God is looking to target to make this transformation occur in the way that He would really like.
From a New Covenant perspective, each and every person is seen as the offspring of the One God, and it is their innate ability to open a direct channel of communication to the One Source of Knowledge and Being. With the Paganization of the gospel, the mindset of the flock of believers was changed from that of a sovereign and free divinely ordained people, to that of subjects in a monarchy type of governing reality.
By hearing and obeying His voice, you will be able to discern the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth that is scattered throughout the “Paganized” bible.
Two patterns of resistance can be identified for our sinful condition.
1 Man elevates himself above God and does not submit to His will, and
2 Lies to himself about number 1.
Are you truly a Christian?
Or are you like most of the professing Christians that practice Churchianity?
Do you truly want to know the truth?
If you earnestly pray and truly hunger with a burning passion to embrace the Gospel in its fullness, then you cannot ignore this great stumbling block that has the capacity to inhibit every aspect of your genuine walk the Lord.
Satan’s Agenda
Satan’s agenda is mind control. Yours!
His two main weapons are insecurity and inferiority. These two doorways are ones which every spirit gets into your mind. Some others he uses are fear, doubt and comparison. He first began in Genesis where he uses them on Eve.
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. (Genesis 3:1-6)
He continues to use them today, and is very successful at it. After all, he’s had over 5,000 years to perfect his “lines.”
If you are not following the voice of the Holy Spirit in your mind, and if it is not manifest in your daily activities, then Satan is controlling your mind. He was in this world at the time of Jesus and even before. He is in the world today, wreaking havoc with the Christians. He is not concerned with the nominal Christian. Nominal Christians are those who worship on Sunday, do good deeds through the churches and synagogues, praise Him with spouting His name all over the place, quoting Scripture on the various social media outlets, and then turn their backs on the needy, homeless and naked the rest of the week. These are the Christians that practice what I call Churchianity.
We are emotional creatures. This is why “prosperity” ministries and “progressive” ministries thrive. They target the emotions of their congregations. The televangelists sound like they are spouting fire and brimstone and at the end of their sermon, they throw in Jesus and the Holy Spirit to make it look like they are truly blessed by God. They use phrases like “God laid it on my heart that someone in the audience (or congregation) has a problem with their back.” Or “God told me we have a person here today that _________ (fill in the blank).” Another lie you hear more often than not is “If you send us your money, God will bless you.” They then recount how by doing the same for a period of time by sending money to a particular church or pastor they were blessed. They are playing on your emotions and they are the sheep in wolves clothing. Man has repeatedly reinterpreted and redefined the Scriptures on a lot of items; two in particular are homosexuality and abortion.
They are false teachers! They are doing the devil’s work! They are telling the people, including nominal Christians, what they want to hear and not what they need to hear. Man’s word has replaced the ultimate authority of the Word of God.
There are so many parts of the Scriptures that they do not consider pertinent to salvation, trembling before the word of God is not in their agenda. And they do not make it plain to their “flock” that they need to make haste to keep the commandments of God.
20 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. (Psalms 119:120)
60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. (Psalms 119:60).
This is part of Satan’s agenda. He does not want people to know the truth!
How do you separate the wheat from the chaff? How do we know who to believe? A good start is in Philippians.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. (Philippians 4:8)
There are also numerous passages we can use to help us to discern the true teachers from the false ones. Peter tells us one way.
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. (2nd Peter 2:1)
Since Christ is the Word of God, the doctrine of Christ is all of Scripture. If a teacher or prophet does not abide within the confines of Scripture, he is a false teacher. They are not producing “good” fruit.
Matthew 7:15-20 and Mark 6:39-45 explains the fruits we should be looking for. They both mention “fruits”. What are the fruits? The words they are speaking out of their mouth and their actions. This is stated in Proverbs 20:11.
11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. (Proverbs 20:11)
Even though the Scriptures define a false teacher, you will hear some amazing arguments. The people see the false teaching and still say, “Do you know the man?” or “Have you spent time with him?” Jesus did not say “You shall know them by spending time with them.” If they fail the test, they are false teachers!
Most people have the notion the fruit (good fruit) is the big ministries like Billy Graham, Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, John MacArthur, Paul Washer, Norman Geisler, Tony Evans, Greg Laurie, Charles Stanley, Chuck Smith, Fred Price, J. Vernon McGee, Charles Blake, Chuck Swindoll, Gene Scott, Harold Camping (Family Radio), John Piper, T. D. Jakes, David Jeremiah, Charles Spurgeon, Dave Hunt, Marvin J. Rosenthal, David W. Cloud, Perry F Rockwood, Neil Anderson, Robert Schuller, Jack Hayford, Benny Hinn, Miles McPherson, Ray Comfort, Jim Cobrae, Ron Luce, Chuck Colson, C. S. Lewis, Hank Hanegraaff, Paul Chappell, Steven Anderson, Promise Keepers and many others with all the masses following them. The big ministries with many followers are ungodly men!
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