BEWARE THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEE and SADDUCEE

Challenging a Powerless, Anti-Holy Spirit Church

2011-06-26T19:50:00.000-07:00

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Steve Grey exposes the hypocrisy of modern day powerless, antichrist false teaching today which is robbing the people of God from the power of God that God intended as a reality for today. God wants his people to be a participant and not just a spectator.

Just as the Sadducees in Jesus' day rejected the power of God as for today, modern day anti-Holy Spirit (anti-christ) false teachers began formulating a new gospel message that is based on humanism, compromise, and doubt. Such teaching is ruining the church and is disconnecting the people of God from revival and the life of God. Their doctrines are not found in scripture and the fruitlessness within their ministry is evidence that they are not preaching about the same Holy Living God of the Bible. No demons are caste out, no healing from God is ever expected, their theology students doubt their own salvation constantly, they have rationalized away the power of God as not for today and they've elevated the doctrines of men over the Word of God.

Calvinism's Deadly Doctrines

2011-03-09T00:28:00.000-08:00

"Then he who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed.' 'And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.' "But his lord answered and said to him, 'You WICKED and LAZY servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. 'Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. 'For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. 'And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
(Matthew 25:24-30)

"Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has. But if that servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, the Master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
(Luke 12:43-46)

Calvinism is the exact doctrinal position of the wicked and lazy servant who hid his talent in the ground and faced eternal judgment. It rewards a fruitless life before God, defames God's Character, promotes faithlessness, devalues the devotion of personal sacrifice when taking up ones cross to follow Jesus, it has been used to justify ones' personal laziness and a "do-nothing for God" Christianity, it conditions people to adopt a powerless, intellect-driven belief-system where its adherents are prone to stray from God by blaspheming the Holy Spirit as they call the demonstration and gifts of the Holy Spirit demonic, and Satan has used Calvinism as a stepping stone into leading people to accept the heresy of universalism.

I will always respect people who consider themselves Calvinists. I know that most of them may be saved by grace and are heaven-bound. However, I still believe that Calvinism doctrinally can lead a person to justify Universalism. I find that the more Calvinism is preached the less Fruit there is from the individual’s personal evangelism. It is not my place to rationalize away the power of God as if the Gifts and work of the Holy Spirit were no longer for today, while betting that the nature of God is that like the one talent servant viewed God (who through back at God only what God had given him as if God did not require fruit) We must not avoid the scriptures.

There is no substitute for preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom and express love for one another. Allow Jesus Christ live His life out through you all. What this world needs to see is a demonstration of the power of God that changed us from the inside out and has delivered us from a lifestyle of compromise and sin. Let's not quarrel with each other. (I confess that sometimes I in the past have and in the present can get off track from the message) But the Lord reminds us to hate sin, buy and live out the truth, express your love for God and people with action.

Simply put, Jesus paid for all the sins of the world therefore Jesus Christ is fulfillment or the weight and embodiment of the entire Law and all the judgments rendered.

"The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 29 & 36)

"Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. "And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: "OF SIN, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN ME;" of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged....when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you." (John 16:7-15)

"Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS, to all and on all who believe...." (Romans 3:19-22)

"knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. (Galations 2:16)

"But the Scripture has confined ALL UNDER SIN, that the promise by FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST might be given to those who believe." (Galations 3:22)

"For you are all sons of God THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS."

It is not God's Choosing that redeems the soul. Every redemptive hope man has is through, is by, is in, is with, is on, and is from JESUS CHRIST the LORD. Commas are not inspired in scripture and the bible reader must make the habit of reading the entire verse, verses around the verse, the whole chapter and read the entire Book in order to get an understanding of its scripturally significance. In the first chapter alone Paul uses the term "IN HIM" or "IN CHRIST" in reference to the spiritual blessing that believers have as believers Jesus Christ already covenant with God.

Ephesians 1:3-6
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places IN CHRIST just as He chose us IN HIM before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons BY JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of HIS GRACE, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

The problem with the Calvinist interpretation by taking a phase out of context such as "He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world" then stop as if there was a period in the middle of the text - is that it would mean that all the people that God would ever save must have Co-existed with Jesus and God before the foundation of the world or before the earth was formed. That is the Mormon heresy. Our beginning began "IN ADAM" not in Heaven with Christ. Our humanity began in Adam but our regeneration into a new Creation began in Jesus Christ, not in a predetermined divine choice.

The fact that Jesus was slain before the foundation of the world means that God had a redemption plan for the sons and daughters of Adam planned. The reason that we were predestined to be conformed to His likeness in because God's original intent was for us to look like "THE WORD OF GOD" Jesus Christ the Lord just as the first Adam before lost it. God's Word (Jesus) became flesh to become the Second and Last Adam. Once a person is grafted into the NEW COVENANT of Christ they have entered into an agreement with the Eternal God our Father.

"For whom He foreknew, He also predestined [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified." (Romans 8:29)
A basic understanding about the nature of God tells us that the father is Omniscient (all knowing and all wise. Notice the word in the greek is "Called" not Chosen. Those who accept or received the call (to repent) are chosen. They are among the “Whosoever's” that called on the name of the Lord. Many are called but few are chosen because few accepted the call in order to become the people, which God would foreknow. It is a distraction and a whimsical waste of time for us to think about separating or dissecting God from His foreknowledge. God is one. God is equal and one with His Nature. For example, God is Love, not has Love. Only as that nature is expressed to us in the English is what that God “has for us.” On the other hand, whatever human’s possess is due to the fact that it came from somewhere else. a fallen nature from Adam and we

Ephesians 1:7-12
IN HIM we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things IN CHRIST, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—IN HIM. IN HIM also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, THAT WE WHO FIRST TRUSTED IN CHRIST SHOULD BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY.

Paul is still not emphasizing predestination or how God choose of to be saved and how we all have no choice. He is still listing the spiritual blessings that we all have IN CHRIST and how the process all started because WE FIRST TRUSTED IN JESUS.

"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us THROUGH CHRIST JESUS. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:4-10)

Satan has so twisted the scripture that he has caused even the great preachers of our day to depart from the context of Scripture. Faith is not the gift of God, GOD'S GRACE IS THE GIFT which is God's help and power become justified before God and to live a life pleasing to Him. Faith is our outward confidence that is manifested and demonstrated when we trust God and His Word which sets us in the position to receive from God. God CHOSE the PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST before the foundation of the world to be the source for what makes it all possible for those who are spiritually dead before God's eyes to come alive. That's why He calls Himself the Resurrection and the Life. Therefore if anyone throughout all human history ever hoped to become His workmanship or to become conformed to God's image, it is all made possible through Jesus Christ and ever one goes through the same way, not from a fatalistic divine choice.

"But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ." (Ephesians 2:13)

"And it shall come to pass, [that] WHOSOEVER shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. (Joel 2:32)

"And it shall come to pass, [that] WHOSOEVER shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Acts 2:21)

"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES. For Moses writes about the righteousness, which is of the law, "The man who does those things shall live by them." But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down from above) or, "'Who will descend into the abyss?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the WORD OF FAITH which we preach):" (Romans 10:4-8)

It is no wonder so many Christians have been robbed stripped by Satan from their authority as believers these modern day False-teachers of Calvinism and the emergent Church have preached against Faith and the process of receiving from God. Powerless Preachers and their powerless messages leaving the "believer" continuously left on the edge of uncertainly about the condition and position of their soul with God. From one side they preach about sin and judgment and from the other side they made light of the power of God as for today and shut down praise worship and the operation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit while defaming the very person of God responsible for one's own salvation! The spirit of the Pharisee does not want the people to realize that the Holy Spirit is the guarantee (Ephesians 1:14, 2 Corinthians 5:5, 2 Corinthians 1:22) deed that we actually belong to Jesus and the fact that the Spirit of God can grieved and depart from someone. (Mark 3:29, Luke 12:10, Hebrews 6:4-6) One's unbelief can sever ones relationship with God. (Romans 11:20-23)

Ephesians 1:13-14
IN HIM YOU also TRUSTED, AFTER YOU HEAR THE WORD OF TRUTH, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, HAVING BELIEVED, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

There it is again. Faith is not the gift of God and it is not by-product of God's Grace or divine favor. It is believers response of trust after HEARING THE WORD OF TRUTH which is the gospel,

Sure there is a variety of faith that is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But by accepting and merely honing of the gift of faith as in operation today means that they have no reason to ignore the other gifts of the Holy Spirit that their man-made doctrinal traditions and ungodly beliefs have stated. In that same passages of Scripture, it talks about miracles as for today by the very same Holy Spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead along with healing, tongues (unknown), Word of Knowledge, and word of Wisdom, Prophecy, etc.

"There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. (Holy Spirit) There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. (Jesus Christ, God the Son) And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. (The Father) But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another FAITH by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills. (1 Corinthians 12:4-11)

The Gift of Faith enables a person to believe God for the supernatural and the impossible. It is the power to carry out divine assignments and power to see them come to pass on the earth.

In order to sell Calvinism, false teachers have spiritually handicapped their people by creating a sense of uncertainly over God's word and His will and His ways. Therefore doubting, critiquing and rationalizing God's word has slowing replaced actively taking it to heart. That's why so many fall away from the faith because human pride and opinion has exalted itself over ones relationship with God and the act of faith is distorted to spiritual laziness where even that is something we cannot have or extend God's way. People should not expect that they will ever be pleasing God without faith.

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1) But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." (Hebrews 11:6)

The reason Calvinism is a distraction to the Gospel of the kingdom of God because it keeps peoples minds and focus away from the person of Jesus Christ and suspends it into speculation about the choices that God may or may not have made. The religious leaders of calvinism have done more debating amongst themselves and other christians than preaching the soul saving Gospel to the lost. No wonder the lost and the next generation are not being reached. Calvinist have used their doctrine to rationalize justifying the unbelief and disobedience of the listeners who, they feel, have rejected, dismissed, or taken lightly the message of gospel - as if God is the cause of every person's disobedience to His own word.

Doctrines that imply such a world-view are blasphemous and Demonic in two ways. It defames and dishonors the holy character of the God of the Bible and it let's every listener to the gospel off the hook (not responsible) for repenting of sin and believing on Jesus. I am convinced that the lawless in hell will be trying to justify themselves before God for eternity screaming in torment, "Why didn't you just make me believe" or "If God really loved me he would have forced me to believe in Jesus against my will." But these religious rebels forgot that even Jesus Christ could do no great works of salvation, healing, or deliverance in certain areas during his earthly ministry because of the peoples' unbelief.

When the spirit pride takes over a persons heart, they stop looking at God and start becoming focused on themselves. Soon, rebellion and stubbornness to their own way set in. God is not required nor responsible for believing in us or for us; we are expected to believe on Jesus and have faith in Jesus if we ever hope to receive anything from God.

Only unto those who have received Jesus Christ as Lord and have believed in their heart that God has Raised Him from the dead is a covenant between God and man forged through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ (who bore our sins past, present, and future on that Roman Cross, and simultaneously bore within his body the full Holy wrath of the Father that we all deserved) - thus making all those who God has redeemed and owns responsible for conforming to His image (Christ), upholding His Holy reputation, and expanding the influence of His Kingdom of the Earth as His Faithful Ambassadors.

"Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Corinthians 5:20-21)

The problem with the Doctrines of men is that they have somehow found away to turn a person's obedience to Christ into an act of works equivalent to man's attempts to fulfill the perfunctory laws of the Old Testament.

You see...God saved and redeemed us for a purpose. Our salvation experience was just the beginning of a new thing, not the end of all things. I believe that's why people have become so confused by the doctrines of men such that when they read scriptures about "servants" in the gospels who were called by God to do a work and knew about God, but were caste into outer darkness because they were unfaithful, wicked, unforgiving, unfruitful, or lazy. (Matthew 25:26, 30 )

"Get off your blessed assurance and do something for Jesus!"

Jesus expects His servants to increase and bear fruit to God in every way. In faith and in Forgiveness. Our obedience to God is expected - not overtly appreciated.

"And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down to eat'? But will he not rather say to him, 'Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink'? Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not. So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, 'We are UNPROFITABLE servants. We have done what was our duty to do.'" (Luke 17:7-10)

The principle is this: God expects us all go the extra mile and do MORE for God than what He originally gave to us. Jesus Saved us not just so that we could get to heaven, He saved us so that we could become active members of His Body on this earth in order to get God's will done and Advance His Kingdom (system of things) on this Earth.

When God said that He never knew them, it was not a contradiction (in that by His Nature He ought to know everything); it means that He was never intimately acquainted with them. It is easy to overlook scriptures that appear to address the judgments of those who should have known him, but be not surprised that there will be a judgment between the sheep and the goats. (Mat 25:32-33) Salvation is not a possession that you can lose or keep; Salvation is an event in time. Jesus Christ is the embodiment of the Salvation of God, and only an encounter with Jesus Christ can make a person right-standing before the One and Only Holy God and through Him are we able to bare fruit to glory of God the Father. Salvation is not merely an act that took place in the distant past or witnessed somewhere in the unforeseen future; it is experienced and guaranteed in the continuous present through the person of the Holy Spirit.

P.S. Furthermore, If a person's freewill was so damnable, why did Yahweh, the God of the Bible endorse and support "freewill" Offerings from His people? Lev 22:23, Lev 22:21, Lev 22:18, Lev 23:38, Num 15:3, Num 29:39, Deu 12:6, Deu 12:17, Deu 16:10, Deu 23:23, 2Ch 31:14, Ezr 1:4, Ezr 3:5, Ezr 7:13, Ezr 7:16, Ezr 8:28, Psa 119:108

Certainly Jesus Christ is a type and shadow of the final sacrificial offering for our sins and says "whosoever" will call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Why would Jesus Christ and scriptures say in John 5:40, "But you are NOT WILLING to come to Me that you may have life" if the power of being willing to respond in obedience to Christ was not in our capacity? "'Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are NOT WILLING to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins." Lev 26:21 That's why I believe ultimately Calvinism is an indictment against the righteous character and nature of God - and the Devil knows it and has used "Christians" to level such indictments.

Refuting Calvinism - Part 1

2010-07-07T10:58:00.000-07:00

- The Book Of Life (HD)

Dear John, Calvin (HQ)

Ten questions for Calvinism.

It is important to know that I believe that Calvinists are still brothers and sisters in Christ. This is not an angry attack on individuals but a direct questioning of the theology itself, how it is extraordinarily contradictory and makes God the author of every evil and sin.

The False Premises and Misconceptions of Calvinism

2010-06-13T04:28:00.000-07:00

Calvinism and Deceptive Terminology of OSAS

Eternal Life = Eternal Security Fallacy

Romans 8:29-30 and Calvinism

Revival: Scoffer or Restorer?

2010-06-09T21:46:00.000-07:00

The False Doctrine of Eternal Security: Calvinism's Pathway to False Conversion and Apostasy

2010-01-21T21:01:00.000-08:00

The Great Deception (OSAS)

Eternal Security Radio Interview

Eternal Security False Teaching

Powerless Gospel Preachers Still Blaspheming the Holy Spirit

2009-12-27T19:57:00.000-08:00

BEWARE THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEE and SADDUCEE: Exposing the Message of Anti-Christ in the Church (which is anti-anointing.)

The very same "so-called" Christian people that are against speaking in tongues as the Holy Spirit gives utterance typically join forces with the same people (ie. Atheists) who also do not believe that the power of God is alive and well today to set the captives free. Thus they live defeated lives serving the very same god of “self” with this lost and dying world. They have unwittingly joined forces with Atheists and Homosexuals who do not like the idea that Homosexuals are influenced by Demonic deception and power to cause them to be unnaturally attracted to the same sex. (Romans 1:16-32) It sounds like they want to join the secular world in charging those who caste out Demons from Homosexuals with the crime of "Demon Abuse."

It takes a demon to convince a person who is born a male or female to be attracted to the same sex. Somewhere in their life a door was opened to an unclean spirit. After Jesus caste Legion out of a man, isn't amazing how the towns people in that day (who put up with and tolerated this demoniac who lived naked in the tombs and appeared insane) eventually became fearful of Jesus and asked Jesus to leave their city. Mark 5:1-17

The same mentality exists in God's Church today who have submitted to a powerless gospel filled with psychology, humanism, and fatalistic Calvinism to give them an excuse for their unbelief in God and His word. They are asking Jesus to leave when they confess that the beautiful gift of the Holy Spirit, "tongues," (which was designed to edify the believer) is labeled as of the devil. Such an idea is Satan's back door entrance into destroying those who claim to be the followers of Christ. Mark 3:28-30

What language does God speak? American? Spanish? King James? Hebrew? Egyptian? Russian? French? Hindi? etc. Answer: He knows them all, including the one that your spirit prays back to Him. 1Cr 14:14

How is it that those who assume themselves to be the religious leaders and Bible scholars of today claim to understand so much about Speaking in tongues and yet to not operate in the gift at all. The rebellious not only refuses to give God their heart but they refuse to surrender their tongue to him. Pastors like John MacArthur who correlate the gift of Speaking in tongue with paganism and demonism is clearly teaching people to blaspheme the Holy Spirit leading countless of Christians into apostasy. He has defiled his office, and his fruit is withering on the vine along with those who follow such Sadducee heresy. The Error of the Pharisees was that they replaced the commandments of God with the commandments of of men and error of the Sadducee was that they had a form of godiness but they denied the power of God (namely the resurrection). Mat 16:6 , Mat 12:24, Act 23:8, Mat 22:23, Mat 15:9, Tts 1:14

If prophecy is so irrelevant today then why does Paul encourage the member of the Church to prophecy? On too many occasions Anti-Christ (anti-anointing) preachers have white washed the scriptures to justify their unbelief in the promises and power of God for today. Many of them go as so far to accommodate and tolerating demon activity in their churches by refusing to talk about with authority the power of the Cross and the Blood of Jesus over people's lives. We see a lack change in their churches and no true repentance, because they have a form of godliness but they have denied the power of God. Meanwhile Masons have invaded the churches of America and influenced pastors to compromise the message of the Gospel.

Regardless of how the Satan tries to make members of the body of Christ forget God and cause them to feel spiritually peer-pressured into stifling the gifts of the Holy Spirit from manifesting in the Church, the Holy Spirit of God is just as alive and moving on earth as Jesus Christ was during His earthly ministry. Rom 8:9 The theme of the carnality in the church tries to push out the gifts of the Holy Spirit or even attempts to ridicule it with the the same venom that satanists have for the things of God. By their actions and attitudes they say, "I don't need the gifts of the Holy Spirit." Well I would remind them that even salvation is a gift from God and it must be received by faith, which comes by hearing His word.

"So then faith [comes] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Romans 10:17, Hbr 11:6

I truly believe that more people are turned away from Christ due to the anti-Christ spirit that slithers in the leaven of the pharisee and Sadducee. That leaven is the a vile attitude of rebellion that is pitted against God's system of things on this earth. Some members of the body of Christ are being cheated from knowing what God has for them to caring out His will on the earth. Col 2:8

Please Read Matthew 25:14-46
In scripture we that God refers His people to stewards who work for a Lord. The Lord owns everything. In the story the Lord represents Jesus Christ and the stewards are the those who work for him. Here Jesus is describing how things function in the kingdom of God. Read for yourself about the parable of the talents. The reason why Jesus spoke in parables is because he never assumed that people were really interested in knowing the truth. The people who didn't care missed out on understanding, but those who had a love for the truth received it gladly. In the parable of the talents we read that God gave talents to three different stewards. One steward received five talents, another two talents, and another one talent. A talent in those days was money. In the parable it represents any measure of wealth that God gives and that wealth goes beyond just money. The stewards who had the five and two talents doubled their talents will working from their master, but the steward with the one talent buried it in the ground and dug it back back up and gave it back to his lord. When the bible says that they buried their god-given talent in the ground it means that they have buried the gifts and power that God gave them to be fruitful and they hid where one could see it. Question: If salvation is such a gift from God why are so many who confess to possess Jesus Christ as their Lord not joining with other members of the body of Christ in multiplying the gift of Salvation on the earth. But they buried God's gifts and didn't want others to know about Jesus because they didn't want to offend anyone or lose members in their congregations. The stewards who were fruitful were commended by their Lord and told to enter into the joy of their Lord. But that one steward who did nothing was called wicked and lazy and basically sent to hell. Selah. (think about it)

After salvation it is time to mature one's relationship with God and be no longer children. Eph 4:14 Some of us should be teachers by now helping others to know the things of God. Hbr 5:12-14 See scripture says that even though those who have received Jesus Christ are heirs in principle of the things of God, they may still be living like slaves to the beggarly elements of the world along with the those who don't know God. God's will is that they be under teachers so they mature in the faith to function as sons. Gal 4:1-11 "Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, [but] a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son (Jesus the Christ) makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

Jesus is the same Yesterday, Today and Forever! Hbr 13:8 God stills calls His people to be Holy, set apart unto Him Isa 62:12 and still hold every person accountable what they do in their God-given bodies. Num 14:18, 1Cr 6:19 He is still calling people to repentance, Mar 1:14-15 Confess with their mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe from the heart that He was raised from the dead, Rom 10:9-10 and He is calling His people TODAY to be Baptized in the HOLY SPIRIT. Mar 1:8, Acts 10:45-48, Act 8:16, Luk 3:16, Act 2:4, Act 4:31 And don’t you ever forget it, and don’t you ever reject Him.

Without the Holy Spirit you could be regenerated unto salvation; and without the Holy Spirit of God you could not be empowered and anointed for ministry. Tts 3:5 Every, yes, EVERY Christian is called in ministry somewhere and do use their gifts and talents for God’s use and God’s Glory.

ACTS 19:6
And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
{Hmmm that is suppose to habit after salvation} I wonder if that is why people who leave many contemporary evangelistic meetings do not appear to have the power to live a changed life that continues to seek after God. All because powerless preachers, have preached a powerless gospel, and they are in bondage to the same sins (ie. Pornography and Addictions) that the unsaved are trying to leave from out of?

1 Corinthians 12:1-14
1Cr 12:1 Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
1Cr 12:2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
1Cr 12:3 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.
1Cr 12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. (Holy Spirit)
1Cr 12:5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. (Christ Jesus the Son of the Living God)
1Cr 12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. (The Father)
1Cr 12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
1Cr 12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
1Cr 12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
1Cr 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
1Cr 12:11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will. (Not our will)
1Cr 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ.
1Cr 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1Cr 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.

{Now ask yourself, are these gifts in operation in your church, or has humanism and fatalistic Calvinism (which eventually leads to universalism) created a spiritual apathy and a self-driven life, instead of a resurrected life from the dead and one that is God empowered? Fulfilling the His Great commission and living His command to love God and others should be the disciple of Christ's life mission.

1 Corinthians 12:28
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

1 Corinthians 13:1
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
{Here Paul describes the particulars of reference then afterward expresses the metaphor by relating it to brass and cymbals.} This is not two metaphors and it is not the other way around. The scriptures declare two different kinds of tongues. The tongues of men and the tongues of angels. Actual languages and “unknown tongues.”

1 Corinthians 14:1-19
1Cr 14:1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
1Cr 14:2 For he that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth [him]; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
1Cr 14:3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men [to] edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
1Cr 14:4 He that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
1Cr 14:5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater [is] he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
1Cr 14:6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
1Cr 14:7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
1Cr 14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
1Cr 14:9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
1Cr 14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them [is] without signification.
1Cr 14:11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh [shall be] a barbarian unto me.
1Cr 14:12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
1Cr 14:13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue pray that he may interpret.
1Cr 14:14 For if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
{Now if Paul was speaking about another human language that he knew, why would he say that his understanding would be unfruitful?} Obviously he is speaking about tongues of Angels here not tongues of men.
1Cr 14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

{Now if Paul considered praying with the spirit as his mental faculties, wouldn't he already have understanding?} Here Paul is giving a distinction about praying and singing as the Holy Spirit gives him utterance verses any human language that he would understand.

1Cr 14:16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
1Cr 14:17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
1Cr 14:18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
1Cr 14:19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that [by my voice] I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.

{No where does Paul deny the gift of tongues nor does he humanize it as a by-product of cultural linguistics. Just as preachers who have a love of money and fear the people over having a holy reverence for God would defy the teaching of tithes and offerings; those in the church who demand a relationship with God on their own terms, tend to "whitewash" the scriptures in such a way that it leaves the promises of God sealed away in the distant past or out of reach in the distant future. But they seldom ever preach that God's promises in scripture and His Power applies to us today. But God of the Bible is a very PRESENT HELP in times of trouble. Psa 46:1 He is called the Great "I AM, not the great "I WAS nor the great "I WILL BE." Exd 3:14 He is a God who is near at hand and not afar off. Jer 23:23 His word is just as relevant today as it was yesterday and He has NOT changed. God expects His people to have the kind of Faith that pleases God. Hbr 11:6

How do you expect people in this world believe the Bible is relevant today, when those who claim to be Christians don't take it to heart, don't read it, don't apply, don't take it seriously, and don't even believe that its promises are for today and don't live a lifestyle of worship whereby everything they do and say flows from a love for God and people?

Churches are filled with so much compromise that it hard to tell the difference between a person who claims to be a follower of Jesus Christ and a person who does their own thing. Salvation and deliverance was, is, and will always be a supernatural work of God. Christ expects His people to be his hands and feet in this world to the Glory of God the Father.

The Gospel of the Kingdom

THE GOD WHO IS THERE: Wisemen Still Seek Him

BEWARE THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEE and SADDUCEE!!!

2008-06-30T05:48:00.000-07:00

BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEE and SADDUCEE in the CHURCH

A person could have an intellectual discussion but salvation does not take place. Only until the gospel of the Kingdom is preached and received does conversion take place. I have been recently aware of more and more ministries these days that attack those saints who are Holy Spirit-filled by mocking them and verbally assaulting them. Well I am one of them. In fact, I am the same sort of Christian that you see walking with the Lord and the demonstration of power that operates through Jesus name in the new testament. I do see miracles and witnessed great healings to God be all the Glory. But most importantly, people are coming to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior personally. This blog was written to expose the spirit of the Pharisee and Sadducee so that the disciples of Christ can identify in their day and reject it so that they are not led into perdition by joining forces with the spirit of antichrist. It is unfortunate that believers fail to judge themselves before they open their mouths and consider the source of where we get our information before present it.

It is real easy to see how a person would criticize a Holy Spirit-filled pastor who is being blessed financially, teaches holy living and being led by the Holy Spirit when those very critics have attached themselves to Para-church "Christian ministries" who make their living by dividing the body of Christ and creating strongholds of rebellion in the hearts of their listeners. Churches and people who critize another ministries for having extra money are the ones who are actually covetous about money. That's why many of them refuse to tithe, give generously, and keep their pastors just about the poverty line. Surely they have been overcome by the love of money as the pharisees were in biblical times. In a day when the gospel ought be preached and financially supported to go around the world these pharisees work night and day to teach people not to give and seek "Self" first instead of God's Kingdom and His righteousness. Such Para-church "ministries" could be better called parasitic ministries. They preach the Gospel of Poverty appear to be motivated by false humilty and intellectual pride. Repent before it is too late. They have not been a success until they have splintered enough church members off from the Bible-believing and teaching churches that they don't agree with in order to seek them as their own financial partners.

Do you ever see those carnally minded Para-church ministries giving to the poor, helping the needy, and clothing the naked? When they preach the gospel, does it appear to be a mere intellectual discourse? Do they preach that salvation is the decision of a persons' will and by following their special prayer formula they can assure their spot in heaven? Many "false" converts have been won on that basis. Does the way they convey their salvation message appear to be born from the will of man, when John 1:13 clearly says this is NOT the way to receive the Lord?

Signs and wonders should follow those who believe on the Lord Jesus; believers are not supposed to follow signs. Do they minimize or scoff at the work of the Holy Spirit and teach others to blaspheme the work of the Holy Spirit within people's lives by calling it all from the devil. (ei. Tongue, healings, miracles, holiness, conviction, trembling in holy reverence before the Lord, lifting holy hands, dancing before the Lord, Prophecy, laying on of hands, and power the hear and obey God's voice.) Where is the passion for God in their lives to worship Him? Who are they really worshipping when they attack the members of the body of Christ who are being lead by the Holy Spirit? The anointing is the enabling power of God to get a task or job done. Truly, truly I say unto you, whosoever is anti-anointing - IS ANTI-CHRIST, because CHRIST IS the Anointed One and His Anointing and by their word and actions they reject that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. (1 John 4:3, 2 John 1:7)

You see deception works both ways. One groups attitude sees a little Jesus whom they think they can boss around to serve the BIG "I" of themselves and anothers attitude sees a BIG Devil who is everywhere and in everything which must be defeated by their little intellects. The first deceived person becomes swelled up with pride and self-importance. The second person inflated with false-humility. Both feed the flesh because ultimately man in still in control, because Jesus is merely their Lord in word only, not in deed. They have both made a religion out of Christianity. Religion is man's substitute for a relationship with God. Jesus Christ never came bring us a religion; He came to give us a Kingdom.

The Gospel of the Kingdom

The first group becomes filled with pride such that during worship they sing more about and confess most about who they are instead of who Christ Jesus is in their life. The second group is so cowardly and fearful about how big and prevalent the devil is that they hardly ever have a desire to praise and worship the Lord because they fear that Satan will come in the room somehow to receive their praise. (yet through their fear and unbelief he already has) "Self"-propelled saints build large ministries and do great projects that cause others to marvel however even these can be signs and wonders. The true saints of Christ need to remain married to Christ Jesus and not to a man or women in ministry because people fail - God never fails.

Deception has rendered both groups useless and lifeless. Some peoples faith in devil is so great that they find themselves believing that he is everywhere and they will even try to give Satan the credit for the things that the Holy Spirit has done and accomplishes within the body of Christ. That is a disgrace.

Cults have denied the deity of Christ in our day, but I submit to you that others in Christendom seem to have practically denied the humanity of Christ. The only covenant that the God of the Bible ever accepted was a blood covenant. Although the first Adam (the first human) broke His covenant with God condemning the entire human race resulting in a severed relationship from God. God sent His very word enclosed in human flesh to accomplish what He pleased in order to restore it.

If God is as Good as his word, then His word is as Good as God. The first chapter of the gospel of John declares that "the Word was God." John 1:1-3 Furthermore, when Jesus said, "this is my blood the blood of the new covenant do this in remembrance of Me.," He expected His followers to understand that the covenant relationship God and man was about to be re-established and those who are in Christ Jesus are about to become completely NEW Creatures (new species of being) before God. We are His workmanship created IN CHRIST JESUS for good works. Even the manner of the scourging of Christ was a complete picture of a sacrificial lamb for the slaughter. Through His resurrection He makes all the promises of God yes and amen to us today, because He is seated at the right hand of the Father.

Our covenant relationship with God is not based on mental ascent or from the efforts of man's will. That covenant access to God based on the covenant that Jesus had with the Father because He was slain before the foundation of the world. The body of Jesus was merely a tool that God used to literally absorb all the sin, inquity, and transgression of those who trusted Him as their savior. When His Body died, our sin and death sentence that we deserved died with Him. That's how He condemned sin in the flesh. When He arose, those in Christ arose with Him and are currently seated in heavenly places with Him.

Jesus came to restore to Mankind all that Adam had lost in the garden; the Kingdom of God in operation of the Earth. Thus Jesus is the KING of kings, the Lord (Owner) of lords. We are his stewards on this earth and he called us to occupy until He comes back. (as demonstrates within His parables) It was God's original intent that we be conformed to the image of the son. Since Jesus is the Image of the invisible God, Adam and all humanity's physical make-up and disposition was patterned and originally designed after Christ before his incarnation. "Man was created in the Image of God."

Scripture clearly says that those who deny that Christ came in the flesh is anti-Christ. Demons hate the idea of Christ coming in the flesh because they LOSE their control over people. But it is written, "Christ in us the hope of Glory." We are NOT "little christs." Jesus IS THE CHRIST the SON of the LIVING GOD. Many in our day have failed recognize the body of Christ, whose house we are. (1 Corinthians 11:29-32, Hebrews 3:6)

Jesus said, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisee and Sadducee." (Matthew 16:6) The Spirit of the Pharisee believes in the resurrection theoretically but does not experience that resurrection life through Christ Jesus. Pharisees thought they had eternal life merely reading the scriptures, but Jesus said they (the scriptures) testify of Him. (John 5:39 ) Pharisee's sought to kill Christ (the anointed one and His anointing) because the Holy Spirit convicts them or sin and challenges their defiant wills. (John 7:19, John 8:37, John 8:40)

The Sadducees were so intellectual that they ultimately did not believe in the power of God nor the resurrection. O Oh ... The gospel is the power of God unto Salvation. (Romans 1:16, 2 Timothy 1:8) Jesus is the wisdom of God and Power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:24, 1 Corinthians 2:5) I am certain that the Sadducees in Jesus' day would have used some of the very same atheistic arguments against the Lord Jesus Christ that some "christians" use TODAY against the Disciples of Christ. How is it that some "Christians" find themselves in better company with the stingy and the Atheists by aligning with their destructive philosophy of life and their attitudes against members of the body of Christ who believe the Bible and are led by the Holy Spirit? They seem eager to look for opportunities to throw the baby out with bath water when they resist the demonstration of Christ in this world. The Holy Spirit is the governor of the Kingdom of God.

This is a great opportunity for us to examine ourselves to see if we be of the faith.

"Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is IN you?--unless indeed you are disqualified." (2 Corinthians 13:5)

The real saints of the Lord Jesus Christ preach the gospel of the Kingdom. It is Satan who does not want the demonstration of the signs that follow those who believe because it reinforces his defeat on this Earth. Those who believe in Christ Jesus as their King do not follow signs, the signs ought to follow us who are in Christ Jesus. For years men have preached the wrong message and it has given birth to more rebellion against God on this earth.

Matthew 24:4-31
10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Those who attack anointed holy spirit-filled ministries are slowing becoming antichrist because they are anti-Holy Spirit. How could this be? Because our bodies were meant to be the temple of the Holy Spirit. Yet these imposters have sought to replace Christ with "self." The term lord means owner. If Jesus Christ is a persons savior but not Lord he cannot be their Savior either. "All who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Jesus called the pharisees murderers because they resembled more like Satan who blasphemed and was a murderer from the beginning.

John 8:42-44
42 Jesus said to them (the Pharisees), "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Jesus clearly declared that He is the Christ when said that He proceeded from the Father. The pharisees in the church not only murder with their their tongues they raise up generations that look more like a child of Satan than they do.

Matthew 23:15
Jesus said, "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves."

Their proselytes are on YouTube and GodTube, and I am not surprised that they have made a packs and agreements with the Herods and Caesars of our day in order to serve the very same "god of self" with the pagans.

1 John 4:1-3
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

1 John 2:20-27
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-12
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains (the Holy Spirit) will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one (Antichrist) will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth (Jesus himself is the truth), that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness (doing their own thing).

John 1:12
But as many as received Him (Jesus), to them He (Jesus) gave the right (the authority, the capacity, the power) to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood (you can't get right from being born physically), nor of the will of the flesh (you can't get that right from desiring it to be), nor of the will of man (You can't receive this right by the exercise of human will, but of God (that right is brought forth from God).

My deepest concern is that peoples disrespect of Holy Spirit and efforts by many other Pharisee/ Sadducee teachers will inspire more blasphemy against the Holy Spirit by calling the work that the Holy Spirit is doing within people as from Satan. That has always been Satan's backdoor approach to get Christians into perdition.

I have recently been bombarded with a number of YouTubes that were anti-holy spirit and that called the work of the Holy Spirit as from satan. Honestly, it is possible that some of the things may NOT be of God. But if we do not know, we should not judge it. I remember when I was a sophomore or junior in high school and my family visited the Bailey's house. We saw Benny Hinn ministering to people. When I saw benny throw as it appeared an invisible ball at a man and he flew back six feet in the air. Even though that man was delivered, I immediately began to say out loud "That could not be of God." Even before I could get the words out of my month, it was one of the few times that I heard God audibly. When He spoke it was louder than any human words coupled with the sense of His conviction "Be careful Hilton. Watch your words." I immediately held my hand to my month, and repented because I really didn't know. I was looking on the outside but God looks at the heart. On that basis I was forgiven. But from that day on you can be sure, I had a holy reverence for God and for His mighty power to save, deliver and heal. Jesus specifically said that is a sin that can never be forgiven.

Mt 12:32 -
Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.

Lu 12:10 -
And anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven

This was meant to be an outreach to the body of Christ. I wanted them to see from the scriptures the scary truth that just one of the ways to be antichrist is to be anti-Holy Spirit. It is an attitude that prepares people for an antichrist because ultimately "self" seats on the throne as god and not Christ.

As it relates to the rapture or the "catching away" (in the greek), I and most believers in Christ believe that Jesus is coming back bodily because they believe He ascended bodily and the angel said in like manner he shall return. Other scriptures relate "with great power and glory and wil be like lightening from the east to the west (the whole earth will know about it) I am concern about some of the pre-trib teaching because it seems to so much more focused on a physical temple building that is being built for the antichrist than becoming the temple of the Holy Spirit which will be prepared for Christ's return. Paul writes:

1Cor 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

Jesus himself said that to those who endure to the end, the same shall be saved and not everyone who says Lord Lord is actually going into His heaven nor have entered into His kingdom.

Lifting holy hands to worship God is biblical
Ps 28:2
Hear the voice of my supplications When I cry to You, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

It is amazing how this man with the spirit of the Pharisee creates more law over his listeners " Thou Shalt NOT lift your hands before the Lord your God."

Even Paul said this: 1Ti 2:8
I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting;

There are many more examples of how quick some are to throw the baby (the Holy Spirit) out with the bath water they notice a poor example of a disciple of Christ.

In Christ Jesus my Lord (Owner),

Prof. X

P.S. There are some web sites that attack anointed Christian ministries that God has and is using today to evangelize and disciple the lost. I see no evidence of Jesus Christ in those ministries of division or the evidence of changed lives. Hank Hanegraaff has become a parasite in the body of Christ and has made money by dividing bible-believing / bible-teaching Christians. Hank helps Satan by attempting to reduce the Christian's faith and relationship with God to a carnal-minded relationship with strongholds of unbelief. Then he even has the audacity to mock and blaspheme the Holy Spirit by calling the works that God has done through Spirit-filled ministries as from Satan. Hank Hanegraaff diabolically preys on biblically weak Christians and those who despise spiritual authority to incite more divisions and schisms hindering the body of Christ effectiveness to reach a dying world. Then by blaspheming the Holy Spirit you have nothing in God and can do nothing for God.

Hank seems to be an Atheist in Christian clothing that talks like a Sadducee. Atheists who deny the supernatural also use the same arguments that Hank uses when attacking Holy spirit-filled Christian ministries. Hank's ministry has become a desolation, for God has refused him as a minister. He makes money dividing the body of Christ.

Christian Research Institute's Hank Hanegraaff had been accused of financial fraud and other criminal activities.
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/cri/law.htm

Hank and like organizations regurgitate misquotes and misunderstandings that have been clarified by the Christ-centered ministries in order to perpetuate division. If Wisdom is know by her children compared to the 600 million people evangelized and disciple through the ministry of TBN, how many souls has Hank Hanegraaff or his disciples reached for heaven?

The gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Too many "Christians" have been preaching a message that doubts the relevance of God's promises and God's power is for today, and then wonder why people outside the Church believe truth is relative and the Bible irrelevant.

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