Now, the word of faith movement does not just add just a little bit of lies in scripture.
They're not just another different denomination. Their teachings are not Christian at all.
Listen to this. They believe God created human
beings in his literal physical image. As little Gods.
Before the fall, humans had the potential to call things into existence by using the faith force.
After the fall, humans took on Satan's nature and lost the ability to call things into existence.
In order to correct this situation, Jesus Christ gave up His divinity and became a man,
died spiritually, took Satan's nature upon Himself, went to hell, was born again,
and rose from the dead, with God's nature. After this, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to
replicate the incarnation in believers so that they could become little
gods as God had originally intended. You can read this at godquestions.org.
This is not the gospel. It's just another gospel.
Not that there is another gospel. Because the only gospel,
the only truth is God's word. But it's fake, fake false teachings
used by the devil to mislead people and it goes back all the way to the start
of the devil's interaction with humans. Where he lied and said you can be as God.
What nonsense.
[Genesis 3:4]
Now yes, we are made in God's image, but we are not little gods using something called
the faith force to just have prosperity, wealth, health - everything we want.
Just name it and claim it in this temporary world. The faith force.
We're not Jedis living in a made-up world. Real faith is not some mystic power
that we wield for ourselves. Real faith is trusting Jesus Christ.
Taking God on His word. Believing in it.
And trusting Him above everything else. Not just for salvation, but for your whole life.
[Hebrews 11:1]
[Romans 10:17]
[Ephesians 2:8-9]
It's very dangerous to say I declare this or I declared that.
Who are you? Who am I? We're just humans.
You cannot even begin to compare to God Almighty. First you need to ask God if it is His will.
And then if He gives you confirmation that it is His will, then you can trust it.
And then you can say it because then you can believe that God will do as He has said.
Because God never changes. He's the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
And he keeps His word. So you trust His word.
We have the word here. The Bible - the Logos - but then He also
speaks to us through the Holy Spirit. The Rhema.
And you need to make sure that it is the Holy Spirit speaking to you and not just the devil,
a demon, or just something you just are thinking in your own head.
You know, I've heard people saying - I declare I won't have Covid in Jesus's name.
And then just a little bit later they got Covid.
You don't speak and then God jumps. No, God speaks and then you jump.
It's the other way around. You know, when the devil misleads people
He always turns scripture around - the other way - from what it's supposed to be.
The word of faith movement is the other way around.
They believe first you declare something Speaking it into the spiritual realm and
then because of your power of faith - the faith force - it will happen.
They also use Proverbs 18:21 to kind of prove their point.
[Proverbs 18:21]
Now they just take this verse out of context. But if you actually go and
you read the whole chapter then you start to realize - man - this is not
talking about speaking things into existence. Creating reality.
Nowhere, actually, in scripture does the Bible say this.
This chapter in Proverbs is talking about the damage people cause by saying the wrong things.
Not controlling their mouth. Their tongue.
[Proverbs 18:20, 18:4, 18:6-8, 18:13]
You can clearly see what the Bible actually means here.
And you know, the strangest thing about these false teachers.
They are so boastful arrogant.
They are just raising themselves up and trying to bring God down to their level.
[Romans 12:3]
Now another thing that you need to understand from these word of faith
movement teachers - these false teachers - is that they focus a lot more on personal
revelation than on sound biblical teaching. And that's why I see a lot of craziness
going on in the church. Because they go along
and they make things up as they go along. Oh God told me this and God told me that.
And if they don't make it up, the teaching that they receive is from demons.
[1 Timothy 4:1]
Now these people - these false prophets - they also give false prophecies to people.
People come because they want to hear oh what is this prophecy from God.
But they never tested. These people go and say,
Oh, I see God is telling me this about you. I see God is telling me this about your work.
They kind of read the future
Sometimes they make these things up in their own head.
And sometimes it's just deceitful spirits talking through them.
But then the problem is is that these people just follow them and believe them blindly.
They don't test the spirits. That's what scripture tells us.
To test the spirits. Listen, you need to understand this.
There have been false prophets in in the past. There are false prophets today.
And there always will be false prophets in the future.
[Jeremiah 14:14]
Now listen carefully. If you go to a church that is always
overemphasizing the gifts of the Holy Spirit at the cost of other fundamental
truths that they do not preach then you have a very dangerous church
that is out of balance. And this church is a very easy mark.
It's an easy target for demons to come in and to counterfeit the work of the Holy Spirit.
Where people do not know the word of God. The guidelines for the work of the Holy Spirit.
Don't just blindly trust anyone. You don't know what spirit is in them.
[1 Timothy 5:22]
This is also for you church leaders who just quickly appoint someone in a leading
position but not really truly know them. You gotta be careful about these things.
You gotta pray first. You know, one of the worst things
for me is that a lot of people got hurt through this false teaching of the word of faith movement
because maybe they were sick they asked God to heal them.
They were in financial trouble. They asked God to bless them.
To help them with money and then nothing happened. But these people said if I have enough faith - so
I'm speaking this into existence - and then nothing happens because their intention is wrong
- their theology is wrong - they believe lies. They don't understand.
Because these preachers - these pastors - they say it will happen if they have enough faith.
So what's wrong with my faith? I have faith.
What did that Pastor say? I have to speak it into existence?
I have to declare it. So in Jesus' name I will be healed.
And then nothing happens. And then they don't understand because,
well, they came to God. They believe in Him as their Lord and Savior.
And now they bring about this thing that they learn from this past.
Or how they should do it, but nothing happens. So what's wrong with their faith?
Are they then actually saved? So then they come to the wrong conclusion
and they think they don't have enough faith. Or that God doesn't love them.
Something is wrong and they don't understand. So it damages their faith,
their relationship with God. And they think that God doesn't keep His promises.
This happened to a friend of mine, actually, and of course this friend
didn't know scripture as well as she should have. And she just believed these pastors and then
things didn't go as she thought it would.
And now she's angry at God. She shouldn't be angry at God.
She should be angry at these false teachers. These workers of - anyway -
all you need to do to spot the lies - to identify the lies - is to know the truth for yourself.
[2 Timothy 3:16-17]
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