Did you all ever stop and think about what Adam and Eve had before Eve fell for Satan's Big Lie? God had provided their every need. Together Adam and Eve were care takers of this beautiful garden that God had entrusted them with. Their position was one of royalty; every living thing was under their command. Then along came the serpent, that came to Eve, He tossed out the lure: He said why settle for this? You can be like God! Eve thought that would be quite wonderful and Adam agreed. But as we know that the enticement to be like God proved to be a fatal decision--for the whole human race. Today Satan uses the same lure; it works so well. Why is that? Because rather than willingly submit to God, men and women still hanker to be on the same level as God. The Big Lie in the Garden is the same Big Lie of the New Age Movement. So with the wave of the New Age Movement, Satan promises that everybody can be like God. And as ''God,'' there is nothing that one cannot be or have. Have you read or heard anything similar being taught as Truth today in the Church? Before you answer, consider what is being taught under various labels by popular teachings and passionately accepted by their followers. You know the terminology: Word-faith teachers. According to the Word-Faith position, a Christian may continue to be sick, but he does not have to. A believer can decide to live in divine health. The pressure of such teaching often cause the sick to create their own reality. If Christians whom they trust insist that they ''have been healed'' and what they are experiencing are lying symptoms, the sick are practically forced to deny their pain and suffering. They teach that you are suppose to have ''positive confession'' you are not suppose to confess you have fear of any kind or confess that you have any kind of sickness. They say if you confess that you are afraid then that gives Satan dominion over you. So they teach you to not confess fear but instead confess, you are never afraid. But we see in the Word that Paul refutes such pretense. Of his time in Macedonia, he wrote,''... this body of ours had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn--conflicts on the outside, and fears within.'' Paul's confession was that he was positively afraid! Disowning his or her fear, he knew was not the remedy. Relief, he points out, came when God, ''who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus.'' Any teaching that creates and reinforces a non-existing reality is not a message of faith, but a self-fashioned message of presumption. Often the line is very thin between creating a false reality and acting out one's faith. It is one thing to lay hold of a particular promise God speaks specifically to an individual in a given situation. Quite another to deny or lose touch with reality, or commit the sin of presumption in the name of faith. Sadly, the outcome for those who have acted on presumption, on occasion, has been tragic, even fatal. The fact is, Christians do get sick. Sometimes we are healed, sometimes we are not. Believing in Christ does not guarantee anything you want. Bad things do happen to Christians. We have no right condemn anyone who is suffering nor to question that one's spirituality. Many times I have heard messages on healing and many of the preachers will say if you had enough faith God will heal you, making you think that you lacked in faith because you were sick. Since Jesus never preached healing He just went out among the people and healed them. So this should mean we do not have to accept as from God a guilt producing message that blames all sickness on a lack of faith. So as a child of God we need to just trust in our Lord and our Heavenly Father. There is no need to try and create our own reality. The Word of God is a sure thing: ''The reality..is found in Christ alone, like the song says...in Christ alone Our Hope Is Found. You know since I have been reaching out to the Satanist, trying to minister to them, I found it pretty interesting that many of the Satanist will warn you of the dangers of experimenting in the demonic realm. You see in the areas of the spiritual realm will exist in the very nature of the person himself: It could be on the wish to be the center of attention, a desire for power over others, greed, hate, anger, self-pity, or fear... can be open doors and the Satanist will tell you without proper guidance will bring disturbing results. So when a Satanist will send out a warning like this that it can be that dangerous becoming involved in the psychic realm, we can see just how the churches today have failed to recognize the danger of self-generating spiritual experiences--the possibility of self-delusion and/or opening oneself to the spirit world. I think that many believers today just don't understand the risks. We can also see from watching some of the New Age Video's, How so many have welcomed anything that stimulates interest and excitement. Have you notice that this mostly started with the Pentecostal and charismatic church services? The reality may be that the signs and wonders are not happening. At least God is not doing anything visible. So someone steps in to do what they think God should be doing--delivering a message in tongues or prophecy,or being what they call ''slain in the spirit.'' Don't take me the wrong way...yes I believe that God can knock us out if He wants to, I just don't like the word being slain in the spirit...I like saying fall out in the spirit and I know The Lord can lay you out in the spirit. I also know that the devil can counterfeit that as well and lay you out. Some of these things that you see happening are lying signs and wonders, things that are done just to capture everyone's attention and get your focus off of Jesus. Some times it is done to get you to look at the person and think wow look how God is really blessing that person or they must be really spiritual. And the person who is acting out is thinking wow look how God is blessing me and using me.'' Let me say this that anyone who is going after signs and wonders just to make a show or be a showboat, and is set on producing spiritual phenomena one way or another- those individuals set the stage for demonic display. So you see saints of God, what appears to be a gift of the Spirit in operation can be something quite different. Others may recognize it is from God, but simply shrug it off as ''just flesh.'' But it is no light thing; what starts out in the flesh--doing it oneself- may end up with the source demonic. The reason is that ''the flesh'' does not operate apart from the will. A choice is made: If God doesn't make it happen, I will! But the one making such a choice to assume God's role is actively rebelling against His will. Jesus knew the danger. That is why He stressed, ''the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing...Never is it safe to move into a spiritual realm apart from the Holy Spirit and a firm commitment to do only the Father's will!There are many Bible schools that have started up with many different names...like the school of power and the school of the supernatural and many others. In these schools they are practicing the gifts of the spirit they say; They are giving messages in tongues, prophecies, and interpretation. They then will discuss and judge them. Also we see that many confessing Christian groups are doing just the same thing. But does God really give special messages for people to practice with? Does one see the early Church practicing God's gifts? Also we see that many in the charismatic circles are falling into the trap of thinking they are in the position spiritually to confront spiritual forces in binding and losing and rebuking Satan when you can look at there lives and see they are in no position to do that.I want you all to know that spiritual warfare is not child's play; it should never be taken lightly and spiritual battles are not won by playing mind games or word games with the Enemy. True, Scripture indicates that through Christ's power we can render the Enemy ineffective by the authority of Christ and His Spirit. But to bind Satan requires more than just the ritual of repeating spiritual formulas. One must be living a yielded life and in obedience and, and living Holy Clean life repented life before the Lord.The bible declares, Christ ''humbled himself and became obedient to death--even death on the cross.'' Therefore God exalted him to a position of authority. Only as we learn meekness and humbleness by being yoked together with Christ as a servant, and consistently walk in obedience to Him, do we share his authority and control. ''Resist the Devil, '' the Word admonishes, and gives us practical measure for doing so. And I do believe that Jesus does give us power and authority over Satan and to rebuke him in Jesus name. While New Agers are busy asking their Spirit Guides for help, some Christians are now ''dispatching angels'' for various task. But do we have that right? we are told in Scriptures that God made man a little lower than the Angels, but nowhere do we read that God has placed us in command of angels. And the Word of God warns us that we are not to seek communication with the spirit world. No exceptions is made for ''good'' Angels. Make no mistake, there is spiritual warfare going on in the Heavenlies. In Daniel 10, we get a glimpse of spiritual contenders involved in battle. The Angel sent help, in answer to Daniel's prayers, explains that he was late in arriving because ''the prince of the Persian kingdom'' had resisted him twenty-one days. Evidently, some sort of battle was going on because he wasn't able to break free until ''Michael, one of the chief princes,'' came to help him. There is much we do not understand about angelic beings or the realm of their existence. We do know from the Scriptures that angels are ''ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation.'' It is one thing, however, to ask God to send an angel to minister to or protect ourselves or others, quite another to personally command angels to do our bidding. In speaking of future events, the Bible does say we will judge angel's. But one thing for sure, our time of exaltation has not yet come. Dispatch an angel, and evil spirits who masquerade under the guise of goodness just might show up.
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Spring Clean Your Mind Of New Age Part 2
Did you all ever stop and think about what Adam and Eve had before Eve fell for Satan's Big Lie? God had provided their every need. Together Adam and Eve were care takers of this beautiful garden that God had entrusted them with. Their position was one of royalty; every living thing was under their command. Then along came the serpent, that came to Eve, He tossed out the lure: He said why settle for this? You can be like God! Eve thought that would be quite wonderful and Adam agreed. But as we know that the enticement to be like God proved to be a fatal decision--for the whole human race. Today Satan uses the same lure; it works so well. Why is that? Because rather than willingly submit to God, men and women still hanker to be on the same level as God. The Big Lie in the Garden is the same Big Lie of the New Age Movement. So with the wave of the New Age Movement, Satan promises that everybody can be like God. And as ''God,'' there is nothing that one cannot be or have. Have you read or heard anything similar being taught as Truth today in the Church? Before you answer, consider what is being taught under various labels by popular teachings and passionately accepted by their followers. You know the terminology: Word-faith teachers. According to the Word-Faith position, a Christian may continue to be sick, but he does not have to. A believer can decide to live in divine health. The pressure of such teaching often cause the sick to create their own reality. If Christians whom they trust insist that they ''have been healed'' and what they are experiencing are lying symptoms, the sick are practically forced to deny their pain and suffering. They teach that you are suppose to have ''positive confession'' you are not suppose to confess you have fear of any kind or confess that you have any kind of sickness. They say if you confess that you are afraid then that gives Satan dominion over you. So they teach you to not confess fear but instead confess, you are never afraid. But we see in the Word that Paul refutes such pretense. Of his time in Macedonia, he wrote,''... this body of ours had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn--conflicts on the outside, and fears within.'' Paul's confession was that he was positively afraid! Disowning his or her fear, he knew was not the remedy. Relief, he points out, came when God, ''who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus.'' Any teaching that creates and reinforces a non-existing reality is not a message of faith, but a self-fashioned message of presumption. Often the line is very thin between creating a false reality and acting out one's faith. It is one thing to lay hold of a particular promise God speaks specifically to an individual in a given situation. Quite another to deny or lose touch with reality, or commit the sin of presumption in the name of faith. Sadly, the outcome for those who have acted on presumption, on occasion, has been tragic, even fatal. The fact is, Christians do get sick. Sometimes we are healed, sometimes we are not. Believing in Christ does not guarantee anything you want. Bad things do happen to Christians. We have no right condemn anyone who is suffering nor to question that one's spirituality. Many times I have heard messages on healing and many of the preachers will say if you had enough faith God will heal you, making you think that you lacked in faith because you were sick. Since Jesus never preached healing He just went out among the people and healed them. So this should mean we do not have to accept as from God a guilt producing message that blames all sickness on a lack of faith. So as a child of God we need to just trust in our Lord and our Heavenly Father. There is no need to try and create our own reality. The Word of God is a sure thing: ''The reality..is found in Christ alone, like the song says...in Christ alone Our Hope Is Found. You know since I have been reaching out to the Satanist, trying to minister to them, I found it pretty interesting that many of the Satanist will warn you of the dangers of experimenting in the demonic realm. You see in the areas of the spiritual realm will exist in the very nature of the person himself: It could be on the wish to be the center of attention, a desire for power over others, greed, hate, anger, self-pity, or fear... can be open doors and the Satanist will tell you without proper guidance will bring disturbing results. So when a Satanist will send out a warning like this that it can be that dangerous becoming involved in the psychic realm, we can see just how the churches today have failed to recognize the danger of self-generating spiritual experiences--the possibility of self-delusion and/or opening oneself to the spirit world. I think that many believers today just don't understand the risks. We can also see from watching some of the New Age Video's, How so many have welcomed anything that stimulates interest and excitement. Have you notice that this mostly started with the Pentecostal and charismatic church services? The reality may be that the signs and wonders are not happening. At least God is not doing anything visible. So someone steps in to do what they think God should be doing--delivering a message in tongues or prophecy,or being what they call ''slain in the spirit.'' Don't take me the wrong way...yes I believe that God can knock us out if He wants to, I just don't like the word being slain in the spirit...I like saying fall out in the spirit and I know The Lord can lay you out in the spirit. I also know that the devil can counterfeit that as well and lay you out. Some of these things that you see happening are lying signs and wonders, things that are done just to capture everyone's attention and get your focus off of Jesus. Some times it is done to get you to look at the person and think wow look how God is really blessing that person or they must be really spiritual. And the person who is acting out is thinking wow look how God is blessing me and using me.'' Let me say this that anyone who is going after signs and wonders just to make a show or be a showboat, and is set on producing spiritual phenomena one way or another- those individuals set the stage for demonic display. So you see saints of God, what appears to be a gift of the Spirit in operation can be something quite different. Others may recognize it is from God, but simply shrug it off as ''just flesh.'' But it is no light thing; what starts out in the flesh--doing it oneself- may end up with the source demonic. The reason is that ''the flesh'' does not operate apart from the will. A choice is made: If God doesn't make it happen, I will! But the one making such a choice to assume God's role is actively rebelling against His will. Jesus knew the danger. That is why He stressed, ''the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing...Never is it safe to move into a spiritual realm apart from the Holy Spirit and a firm commitment to do only the Father's will!There are many Bible schools that have started up with many different names...like the school of power and the school of the supernatural and many others. In these schools they are practicing the gifts of the spirit they say; They are giving messages in tongues, prophecies, and interpretation. They then will discuss and judge them. Also we see that many confessing Christian groups are doing just the same thing. But does God really give special messages for people to practice with? Does one see the early Church practicing God's gifts? Also we see that many in the charismatic circles are falling into the trap of thinking they are in the position spiritually to confront spiritual forces in binding and losing and rebuking Satan when you can look at there lives and see they are in no position to do that.I want you all to know that spiritual warfare is not child's play; it should never be taken lightly and spiritual battles are not won by playing mind games or word games with the Enemy. True, Scripture indicates that through Christ's power we can render the Enemy ineffective by the authority of Christ and His Spirit. But to bind Satan requires more than just the ritual of repeating spiritual formulas. One must be living a yielded life and in obedience and, and living Holy Clean life repented life before the Lord.The bible declares, Christ ''humbled himself and became obedient to death--even death on the cross.'' Therefore God exalted him to a position of authority. Only as we learn meekness and humbleness by being yoked together with Christ as a servant, and consistently walk in obedience to Him, do we share his authority and control. ''Resist the Devil, '' the Word admonishes, and gives us practical measure for doing so. And I do believe that Jesus does give us power and authority over Satan and to rebuke him in Jesus name. While New Agers are busy asking their Spirit Guides for help, some Christians are now ''dispatching angels'' for various task. But do we have that right? we are told in Scriptures that God made man a little lower than the Angels, but nowhere do we read that God has placed us in command of angels. And the Word of God warns us that we are not to seek communication with the spirit world. No exceptions is made for ''good'' Angels. Make no mistake, there is spiritual warfare going on in the Heavenlies. In Daniel 10, we get a glimpse of spiritual contenders involved in battle. The Angel sent help, in answer to Daniel's prayers, explains that he was late in arriving because ''the prince of the Persian kingdom'' had resisted him twenty-one days. Evidently, some sort of battle was going on because he wasn't able to break free until ''Michael, one of the chief princes,'' came to help him. There is much we do not understand about angelic beings or the realm of their existence. We do know from the Scriptures that angels are ''ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation.'' It is one thing, however, to ask God to send an angel to minister to or protect ourselves or others, quite another to personally command angels to do our bidding. In speaking of future events, the Bible does say we will judge angel's. But one thing for sure, our time of exaltation has not yet come. Dispatch an angel, and evil spirits who masquerade under the guise of goodness just might show up.
