Titus 1 Part 2: Can You Handle the Truth?
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Introduction
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Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this purpose I have been born, and for this I have come into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice.”
Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?”
And after saying this, he came out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find no grounds at all for charges in His case.
We will again this week be camping, cultivating and consuming the truth of God’s word this morning in Titus chapter 1.
But before we turn there, I want us to dwell on the spirit of this conversation between Jesus Christ and Pontious Pilate. Let me set the context of the reality surrounding this conversation.
Jesus, the Son of God, the Bread of Life, the one who according to the gospel of John chapter 1 was in the beginning, before there was creation, He was in the beginning. He as the Son of God, the second person of the God head, perfectly God Himself in Spirit, was with God also in Spirit. John 4 tells us God is Spirit. His role in the beginning was to be the spoken and written word of God. The voice and persona of His truth. Hebrews 1 tells us Jesus is the perfect representation of the character of God in all righteousness, holiness, justice, and steadfast lovingkindness. A careful study of these two chapters proclaims that Jesus as God, was the word of God and holds all things together by His word. This is how we should think about Jesus. This is how we should think about His word, the bible, which was spoken long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, Jesus Christ Himself whom is the appointed heir of all things, through whom God also made the world. According to His word, Jesus became flesh, wrought in birth by the Holy Spirit, preserving all of His being as God, while dwelling with man in the flesh, to fulfill the law, to live a perfect life, to reveal the very character of God to man in man’s rebellious state in sin, to preach the truth of God’s word, that man would repent of his sin rebellion, and turn to Christ as the promised Messiah, the Christ, that all who believe in Him - those who would confess with their mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in their heart that God raised Him from the dead, they would would be saved; they would be saved from the wrath of God, which has been revealed from heaven, which according to Rom 1:18 , God’s wrath was revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. And these beliefs are evidenced in the heart, not in outwardly appearance.
1 Samuel 7 (NASB 2020)
And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the ark of the Lord and brought it into the house of Abinadab on the hill, and they consecrated his son Eleazar to watch over the ark of the Lord. From the day that the ark remained at Kiriath-jearim, the time was long, for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel mourned after the Lord.
Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then remove the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to the Lord and serve Him alone; and He will save you from the hand of the Philistines.” So the sons of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served the Lord alone.
Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah and I will pray to the Lord for you.” So they gathered to Mizpah, and drew water and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day and said there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the sons of Israel at Mizpah.
Now when the Philistines heard that the sons of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, the governors of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the sons of Israel heard about it, they were afraid of the Philistines. So the sons of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not stop crying out to the Lord our God for us, that He will save us from the hand of the Philistines!” Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord; and Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him. Now Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, and the Philistines advanced to battle Israel. But the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day against the Philistines and confused them, so that they were struck down before Israel. And the men of Israel came out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and killed them as far as below Beth-car.
Then Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen, and named it Ebenezer, saying, “So far the Lord has helped us.” So the Philistines were subdued, and they did not come anymore within the border of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel recovered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. So there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
Now Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. And he used to go annually on a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah, and he judged Israel in all these places. Then he would make his return to Ramah, because his house was there, and there he also judged Israel; and there he built an altar to the Lord.
And he used to go annually on a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah, and he judged Israel in all these places.
for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be Put to shame.”
Romans 1:18 (NASB 2020)
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Set things in order
Set things in order
Appoint godly leaders as stewards of sound doctrine (the truth)
Refute and Reprimand those who contradict
Proclaim the truth in sound doctrine
Sound Doctrine is the truth of God’s word
Sound Doctrine is the truth of God’s word
a. The source Righteousness and Truth is God
b. The source of unrighteousness and lies is Satan
Truth vs. Lie Continuum
Truth vs. Lie Continuum
a. Rejection
Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this purpose I have been born, and for this I have come into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice.”
Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?”
And after saying this, he came out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find no grounds at all for charges in His case.
Now the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’ ” The serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die! For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will become like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves waist coverings.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
For they exchanged the truth of God for falsehood, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
holding firmly the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict it.
Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all time handed down to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into indecent behavior and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; the one who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.” So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not true.” Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I am testifying about Myself, My testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from or where I am going. You judge according to the flesh; I am not judging anyone. But even if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone in it, but I and the Father who sent Me. Even in your Law it has been written that the testimony of two people is true. I am He who testifies about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”
Then He said again to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, and will die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come.” So the Jews were saying, “Surely He will not kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’ ?” And He was saying to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins.”
So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly My disciples; and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, ‘You will become free’ ?”
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. Now the slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever. So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free. I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; yet you are seeking to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. I speak of the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father.”
They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham. But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do. You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born as a result of sexual immorality; we have one Father: God.”Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I came forth from God and am here; for I have not even come on My own, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I say the truth, you do not believe Me. Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? The one who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.”
b. Reality
But false prophets also appeared among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their indecent behavior, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt passion, and despise authority.
Reckless, self-centered, they speak abusively of angelic majesties without trembling,
suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions as they feast with you, having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having hearts trained in greed, accursed children; abandoning the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness; but he received a rebuke for his own offense, for a mute donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the insanity of the prophet.
These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved. For, while speaking out arrogant words of no value they entice by fleshly desires, by indecent behavior, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error, promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what anyone is overcome, by this he is enslaved.
For there are many rebellious people, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of dishonest gain.
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.
In contrast:
For the overseer must be beyond reproach as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not overindulging in wine, not a bully, not greedy for money, but hospitable, loving what is good, self-controlled, righteous, holy, disciplined,
holding firmly the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict it.
But as for you, proclaim the things which are fitting for sound doctrine.
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. And have mercy on some, who are doubting; save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.
Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless with great joy,
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. Anyone who goes too far and does not remain in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.
I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received a commandment to do from the Father. Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you are to walk in it.
c. Reign
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor those habitually drunk, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, held for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example of what is coming for the ungodly;
and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the perverted conduct of unscrupulous people (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from a trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt passion, and despise authority.
Reckless, self-centered, they speak abusively of angelic majesties without trembling,
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves the child born of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and follow His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. For whoever has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
Who is the one who overcomes the world, but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:
‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have followed My word, and have not denied My name. Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and make them know that I have loved you. Because you have kept My word of perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of the testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who live on the earth. I am coming quickly; hold firmly to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. The one who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name. The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.
It was also about these people that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord has come with many thousands of His holy ones, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage.
that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.” These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.
Blessed is the person who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
But his delight is in the Law of the Lord,
And on His Law he meditates day and night.
He will be like a tree planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season,
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.
The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked will perish.
From that time Jesus began to point out to His disciples that it was necessary for Him to go to Jerusalem and to suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised up on the third day. And yet Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to You!” But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God’s purposes, but men’s.”
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what good will it do a person if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a person give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every person according to his deeds.
I solemnly exhort you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and exhort, with great patience and instruction.
For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, and they will turn their ears away from the truth and will turn aside to myths. But as for you, use self-restraint in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
Joel Osteen - Lakewood Church, Houston TX
Largest church in the United States
Author - Your Best Life Now, Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Surface look at the website seems to be doctrinally in line: “the inerrancy and inspiration of the Bible, the triune nature of God, and salvation by faith in Christ are all affirmed”
A deeper look at the teaching and preaching:
physical healing and wellness are provided in Christ’s atonement
Jesus came that we might have a more abundant life
Jesus came to carry our weaknesses, our sickness, our pain, so that we can walk in total freedom, peace, power, and purpose.
These teachings are in accordance with what is referred to as the prosperity gospel.
God’s will is that we be blessed with material things
Success in your walk with God depends on your tithes. Tithe the first 10% of your income, God will pour out blessings for you that you cannot contain. Tithing is the first key to financial prosperity. Taking old covenant promises to Israel out of context and applies them to new believers.
The main themes of his teachings are how people can improve their lives, be financially prosperous, and experience happiness.
He intentionally avoids preaching doctrinal truths of the gospel of the bible, specifically he avoids preaching that faith in Jesus as the Christ is the only way to heaven, he doesn’t preach sin nor repentance required for salvation, and he overlooks several biblically described behaviors as sinful. He preaches a feel good message materialistically motivated, focused on the prosperity of wordly wealth.
This prosperity gospel is rampant across western churches today and even more than that, and in direct conflict with God’s truth.
Those who have believers as their masters must not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers or sisters, but must serve them all the more, because those who partake of the benefit are believers and beloved. Teach and preach these principles.
If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a sick craving for controversial questions and disputes about words, from which come envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, and constant friction between people of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment. For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it, either. If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content. But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and for which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. I direct you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate, that you keep the commandment without fault or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which He will bring about at the proper time—He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.
His teachings also promote false teaching associated with word of faith theology / word of faith doctrine.
Famous for indoctrinating the phrase, “We have to conceive it on the inside before we are ever going to receive it on the outside.”
“If you don’t think you can have something good, then you never will. The barrier is in your mind. Your wrong thinking can keep you from God’s best.”
“To experience God’s immeasurable favor you must rid yourself of that small-minded thinking and start expecting God’s blessings, start anticipating promotion and supernatural increase. You must make increase in your own thinking, then God will bring those things to pass.”
These teachings are harmful and predicate your level of faith is the only thing holding you back from God’s materialistic blessing or physical healing. There is no biblical truth in these teachings, in fact these teachings are in direct conflict of verses 7-9 (self-willed, greedy, covetous, overindulging). They make the ones who follow them rely on their own strength, merit and will power for the receipt of their blessings from God as if He were our servant, waiting for us to come up with the blessing we have in mind, and then He will jump accordingly to provide as we have enough faith.
Word of faith doctrine expands to claim faith healing beyond worldly wealth. If you have enough faith, you can and will be healed by God. Again, it starts with tithing enough of an offering to result in material blessing and physical healing.
It’s very much like the followers are taught to view God as a heavenly ATM or genie in a bottle. All they have to do is swipe God with enough faith and giving, and He spits out materialistic blessing and physical healing.
In addition, word of faith movement encourages positive confession. Positive confession is the practice of saying what you want to happen with the expectation that God will make it a reality. If we speak aloud the right words with the right amount of faith, we can gain riches and health, bind Satan, and accomplish anything we want. This is literally the act of speak things that we want to happen into reality. This is opposed to negative confession, which is to acknowledge hardships, poverty, and illness and accept them rejected the good things God has planned for us. This is a form of mysticism in which people believe they can control their outcomes spiritually. In this practice, often times specific trance like chants are presented over and over, often with music in the guise of praise and worship, to specifically claim that chant as a truth that they are speaking into reality or existence. It teaches that positive statements will drive a positive reaction or outcome, and that negative statements will result in a negative outcome or reaction. This belief and teaching are heretical, and can devastate or even decimate the faith of a believer.
True confession is agreeing with what God has already proclaimed and revealed in His word. Positive confession is demanding human desires. Many positive confessional statements turn out to be outright lies. This defeats the hope of the believer because it is misplaced in human desires and worldly desires rather than in the work of Jesus Christ in His salvation.
Jesus promised that we would endure hardship, he did not promise a care free life or that our every want would be fulfilled. He promised to fulfill His plan for us for His glory, and that His grace is sufficient for us , especially in our trials and struggles, and suffering.
Many Word of Faith teachers use phrases such as "little gods" to describe believers. Kenneth Hagin wrote that God had created humans "in the same class of being that he is himself,"[19] and reasoned that if humans are made in God's image, they are "in God’s class",[20] and thereby ‘gods’.[20][21]
Prosperity/Word of Faith Preachers
Creflo Dollar
Benny Hinn
Bishop T. D. Jakes Sr.
Joyce Meyer
Kenneth Copeland
Ken Copeland
Robert Tilton
Bishop Eddie Long
Juanita Bynum
Paul Crouch (2)
Marjoe Gortner
Kenneth Hagin
Brian Houston (Hillsong)
Understand the Power Your Words Have on Your Dream.
“He comes to inhabit the praises of His people, and so He’s going to come when we worship Him. He always shows up, and He always changes an atmosphere because that’s His character.” If you will lift your voices and worship Him, there will be a shift and a change in the atmosphere of your life, and it will be heaven-centered and majestic.”
well-respected worship leader Kari Jobe has been using her gifts to lead people into the presence of God.
primary work in worship is that of making God’s presence known in observable, tangible ways such that worshipers can truly encounter God. This theology places a high emphasis and expectation in worship upon physical expressiveness and intensity, resulting in what is sometimes called a “Praise and Worship” theology of worship. The goal, in this theology, is to experience the presence of God in worship
In contrast, Biblical worship emotion and singing come as a result of the work of the Holy Spirit in a believer’s life, not as a cause of the Holy Spirit’s work.
The New Apostolic Reformation or New Apostolic Church takes the prosperity gospel and word of faith practices to another level of heresy. They indoctrinate those within their following that the benefits of Jesus Christ can only be distributed through their appointed apostles and prophets. In other words, people are only saved through the gospel preached by their leaders, which degrades the power of God’s word to stand on its own power. They teach that the blessings of faith healing and transfer of wealth can only be distributed through their apostles and prophets. They teach that new revelations are crucial to overcoming the world, which also reinforces their belief that the word of God as it is is insufficient. Most of their prophecies are extremely vague and copy bible prophecies of old with a twist here or there. They teach that Jesus Christ had to lay His deity aside in order to perform miracles in human form, other wise they would be unattainable for man to experience them. This teaching enables them to justify they too can perform any or all of the miracles that Christ performed, as if they had greater power and greater standing with God in their gifts than others.
Lou Engle, founder of TheCall
[9]Bill Johnson, senior leader of Bethel Church[
10]Guillermo Maldonado, co-founder and senior pastor of El Rey Jesús
Rick Joyner, founder of MorningStar Ministries
John P. Kelly, founder of John P. Kelly Ministries and Convening Apostle
C. Peter Wagner, founder of Global Harvest Ministries
[1]Ché Ahn, Harvest International Ministries
[11]Todd White, Lifestyle Christianity[
11]Randy Clark, Global Awakening[
11]Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Copeland Ministries[12][13]
Steven Furtick - Elevation Church -Elevation Worship
God loved us so much that, in order to save us, He broke His own law. Not only is this illogical (how could God become a lawbreaker to save lawbreakers?), but it is unbiblical. For God to break the law, which is perfect, would be for Him to become a sinner. Scripture says that Christ came to save us by fulfilling the law, not by breaking it.
strays dangerously near the false prosperity gospel. He has shared the stage with Joel Osteen (August 29, 2012); Bishop T.D. Jakes (October 26, 2017); Brian and Bobbie Houston (September 4, 2011); Joyce Meyer, whom Furtick called “the greatest Bible teacher alive today” (January 15, 2012); and others. Furtick’s own Bible teaching relies heavily on pop psychology, motivational platitudes, and feel-good directions for building one’s self-esteem:
“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”
“If you want to change the direction of your life, change the declaration of your lips.”
“You can’t fulfill your calling in your comfort zone!”
“Many people never reach greater because they don’t leave good enough behind.”
“Today’s excuses are tomorrow’s regrets dressed in disguise.”
LDS
In 1838, Joseph Smith claims he was told in a revelation that the church should be called The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Members of the New Testament church were called “saints” (see Acts 9:32, Ephesians 2:19, Philippians 1:1), which is why Mormons call themselves “Latter-day Saints.” As Gordon B. Hinckley, prior president of the LDS church, explains: “They were former-day Saints. We are the Latter-day Saints. It is that simple.” Hinckley adds that they are often called “Mormons” as a nickname given because they believe in the Book of Mormon as the word of God.
Mormonism has four written books of scripture: The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (which claims to be a record of God’s dealings with the inhabitants of ancient America from 2000 BC to 400 AD), the Doctrine and Covenants (a collection of “revelations and inspired declarations” given for the establishment and regulation of the Church of Jesus Christ in the last days (1830 AD – 1978 AD)), The Pearl of Great Price (a selection of revelations, translations, and writings of Joseph Smith), and the King James Version of the Bible (“We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.”)
3. The LDS church teaches that as the Bible has been transmitted over the centuries it has “suffered the loss of many plain and precious parts.” They believe the Bible to be the word of God “as far as it is translated correctly” and that the “most reliable way to measure the accuracy of any biblical passage is not by comparing different texts, but by comparison with the Book of Mormon and modern-day revelations.” The KJV is the LDS church’s official English Bible, though it has been foot-noted in a way that interprets the meaning to compliment LDS doctrines.
Mormons believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are three separate gods. They also believe the Father and Son each have a “body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s” but that the Holy Ghost “has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit.” According to Joseph Smith, when Adam was formed in the image of God, it was a physical image. God the Father was once a mortal who lived on an earth. He died, was resurrected, glorified, and grew into his deified status. (According to Joseph Smith, there is a “God above the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”) God the Father is the literal father of all spirit-children, including Jesus and the Holy Ghost, whose divinity is derived from the parent-child relationship. Within Mormonism, Jesus is identified with the Yahweh of the Old Testament.
LDS teaching, all the Father’s children (including humans) possess the same potential to become gods (like the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost) since they are of the same species
“We believe that while human works are necessary— including exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, receiving the sacraments or ordinances of salvation and rendering Christian service to our neighbors — they are not sufficient for salvation.”
“In summary, the undergirding doctrine of the Book of Mormon is that we are saved by the grace of Christ “after all we can do” (2 Nephi 25:23), meaning above and beyond all we can do.”
Jesus was not conceived by the Holy Spirit, but God the Father impregnated Mary, which again is a direct contradiction of Scripture
Christ as a pre-existent spirit was not only the spirit brother of the devil (as alluded to in the Pearl of Great Price, Moses 4:1-4, and later reaffirmed by Brigham Young in the Journal of Discourses, Vol 13, p.282) but celebrated his own marriage to both “the Marys and Martha, whereby he could see his seed before he was crucified.”