"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits." (Matthew 7:15,16).
This is the commandment of Jesus. Ignore it at your peril.
Many ministers of the gospel start off well, with a genuine call of God. But somewhere along the line, Satan comes in with an offer, just as he did to Jesus.
The offer usually involves compromising somewhere for the sake of money, influence, power or recognition. Once the ministers falls for this, things may seem to go on alright for a while. However, the deadly virus of sin has corrupted the ministry.
The trend will be for more and more compromises with the truth to be made for the same reasons the first ones were. Ultimately, such preachers end up "deceiving and being deceived". They teach false doctrines and utter lies in the name of the Lord.
One mark of false prophets and teachers is the tendency they have to prostitute their gifts at the altar of money. They will say and do whatever it takes to get you to give them money. You have to be very careful with people who will tell you that the Spirit of God is telling YOU to write them a generous cheque, or sow a generous seed. How do they know what the Spirit of God is telling YOU to do? It can't be that all the people they reach through media are really being instructed by God to give to these preachers. No, all it takes is a certain percentage of unthinking gullible people who cannot distinguish between emotion and the voice of the Holy Spirit to ensure that these kind of Christian scam operations continue to prosper.
Don't be taken in! By giving to false ministries, you become a partaker of their evil deeds! That means you share in the guilt of what they are doing. When you give to a false minister, you are spending God's money on poisoning the church and the world, and the true ministers and missions you were supposed to support will do without.
It is with some reluctance that I am going to address some of what is happening in the church today. I don't suppose it will win me many friends, but the most important thing is to be a friend of God. We are exhorted to "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints". (Jude 3). This is a command of God, and as a follower of Jesus who has been called to teach, I believe I can no longer avoid it.
Jesus said in John 4:35: "Do you not say, Four months more and then the harvest? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! they are ripe for harvest."
I did some research to see what did this saying mean in the Jewish culture and found the following. After they planted the seed, there was four months between the sowing time and harvest time. read more »
An Open Letter to Peter Wagner, Dutch Sheets & Other "Apostles".
I recently received a report of a new "Apostolic Network" headed
up by Dutch Sheets which held a gathering in Florida last week to
"carve up" territories for it's 'apostles', etc. I need to put in writing
what I believe the Lord would say to these men.
But first I need to remind us all of something. On June 23rd, 2008,
a group of "apostles and prophets" under Peter Wagner's headship
stood on a stage in Lakeland at the Todd Bentley revival - to lay
on hands and commission him, etc. But it was far more than that. read more »
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20)
In the days of Jesus' earthly ministry, he turned over the tables of the religious practitioners of his day. Look at this video and consider how God sent a tornado to overturn the tables of the modern day "den of thieves" which is the hierarchy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, when they voted to endorse homosexuality as a lifestyle. Anyone who follows these spiritual leaders has become an apostate also. "A bishop must be blameless, the husband of one WIFE". The Spirit of God would never lead anyone to be loyal to people who in the name of compassion and inclusion do violence to God's Holy Word, and so bring themselves under the curse of God. read more »
I wonder what you consider the most valuable thing you can have? Some would say, "family". Certainly, Family is very valuable. A lot more people when it gets down to it really value "pleasure" even more. That is why, if the marriage is miserable, many people will eventually adopt the attitude that divorce is the solution. By divorcing, they hope to have the chance to rebuild a happy life again. The love of pleasure can manifest itself in thousands of different ways. There is no doubt that for many, it is the supreme value. And doubtless many of those people would call themselves Christians also.
For some, money is the supreme value. Now I know that as Christians we would never say it so openly. But as the saying goes, "Actions speak louder than words". What are we really spending most of our effort on, if not for money? read more »
Brian Houston is the senior pastor of the Australian mega-church Hillsong, and the National President of the Assemblies of God in Australia. His Hillsong Conferences attract now something in excess of 25,000 people annually - many of them church leaders from around Australia and the world. Its probably way more than 25,000 by now. The music of Hillsong is extremely popular worldwide and sung by Christians everywhere. And now, Brian Houston has been praising the papacy as an institution "which is marked by a commitment to seeing the Christian message continue to go forward and people changed by the power and truth of the Gospel"
Thousands of churches seek to emulate the methods, principles and "spirit" of Hillsong in order to be like them and get the same kind of results that they do. So when Brian Houston gives a press release, we should take notice. Brian Houston is a very important and influential person in the Body of Christ, and we can't simply ignore his statements as being representative of a lunatic fringe.
Brian Houston believes that people should follow his leadership and submit to the authority of the denomination he leads. But where exactly is he leading people, in terms of their understanding of what the gospel of Jesus Christ actually is? Read more... read more »
Submitted by Crystal L Whitfield (not verified) on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 20:47.
Thanks for exposing this foolishes. People really need to know the truth and this stuff that's going on in the so-called churches of god and on tv is just a bunch of craziness. The church has become nothing more than a side-show circus.
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False Prophets and Teachings
Thanks for exposing this foolishes. People really need to know the truth and this stuff that's going on in the so-called churches of god and on tv is just a bunch of craziness. The church has become nothing more than a side-show circus.