Thursday, August 28, 2008

Deception and Counterfeit Revival

Here is an article on deception and counterfeit revival by Zac Poonen, an awesome man of God whose sermons and articles can be found at SermonIndex.com
Be Blessed!!



DECEPTION AND COUNTERFEIT REVIVAL
Zac Poonen
Jesus and the apostles repeatedly warned that the last days would be characterized by widespread deception and a multitude of false prophets (Matt.24:3-5,11,24; 1 Tim.4:1) – and we have seen plenty of them in the last few decades.

Why are millions of Christians deceived by these false prophets and these counterfeit “revivals”? And why are so many preachers falling prey to immorality and greed?

Here are what I see to be some of the main causes:

1. Most Christians today are not aware of what the New Testament teaches, because they have not studied it carefully; and so they follow the teachings of their leaders and not the teachings of the New Testament.

2. Miracles (supernatural gifts) have become more important to them than their character (a supernatural life).

3. Material wealth has become more important to them than spiritual wealth.

4. They are unable to distinguish between soulish frenzy or psychological manipulation, and the genuine moving of the Holy Spirit; the cause again is ignorance of the New Testament.

5. They are unable to distinguish between psychosomatic healing (healing that comes by right attitudes of the mind), and supernatural healing in Jesus' Name.

6. Emotional excitement and strange physical manifestations have become more important to them than the inward joy of the Lord.

7. For the leaders, their ministry to people has become more important than their inner walk with God.

8. The approval of men has become more important to these leaders than the approval of God.

9. The number of people attending the meetings has become more important to these leaders than whether those people are totally committed to Christ.

10. Building their personal kingdoms and their financial empires has become more important to these leaders than building a local church and making themselves servants in that local church (Jeremiah 6:13).

All this is the VERY OPPOSITE of what Jesus taught. The opposite of Christ is called the "anti-Christ" in the New Testament. If Christians do not see this clearly, then when the Antichrist turns up on the world’s stage, with his false signs and wonders (2 Thess.2:3-10), they too will blindly accept him. To be led by the Spirit of Christ is to have the very opposite spirit to that mentioned in the points above.

Here is a paraphrase of Jesus' words in Matthew 7:13-27 (read in the context of Matthew Chapters 5 to 7:

Saturday, August 16, 2008

The Immutability of God




The Immutability of God: this wonderful attribute of God talks about the aspect of God that has never changed and never will change. The Lord says in Malachi 3:6 " I am the Lord, I change not..." He has been the same loving, awesome, all powerful, perfect God who hates sin and condemns unrighteousness, from the beginning. In a world thats full of constant change and shifting, its good to be hooked into a God who changes not! Check out the video, be blessed

The Immutability of God- A.W. Pink

Immutability- Boyce's Abstract Systematic Theology

The Will of God- R.C. Sproul

Friday, August 15, 2008

Hell...

This is just a couple of minutes of a sermon called "Hell..what is it like?" by David Wilkerson. This is one of the most awesome messages I've ever heard, If you would like to hear the whole thing, go to sermonindex.com and look under the 10 most downloaded messages. I pray this moves on your heart and causes you to think about the reality of Hell.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

$5000 pen? watch closely...

I am in no way a "heresy hunter"...but this...this is ridiculous...now normally I would kind of brush this whole thing off as someone being "too critical" or taking something "way out of context"...but this goes beyond that...check out the video..really, ...listen to whats being said and think about it...its not just someone picking on another preacher, it really is just some non word based junk coming out of the speakers mouth...let me know what you think...