Raising Holy Hands does not Praise God
Honoring God the way
he asks according to his will and word
Honors him
Honoring his revelation and work and Glory
According to
The Word of God
We put aside self pride and
Focus on Gods Will
you need to know Who god is and what is law is First
mangling gods word
your understanding of god is who you are
YOU NEED THE CORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF
WHO GOD IS
VISION NEEDS TO BE THROUGH THE
CORRECT LENS
OF CORRECT THEOLOGY WHICH IS
GOD
False gospel
According to Deuteronomy,
a false prophet
who has no message from God,
and advocates worshiping
other gods, can still successfully
perform miracles and predict
the future.
END TIME
Doctrine Needs to be Correct
you are not in Christ
yet
Do not blasphemy the work of the Holy Spirit
Focus on Gods Word
God does not Bless Finances
God will only Redeem you if you Realize and Repent
the offenses of the Holy Spirit
“Coming to Jesus”
is false doctrine
In Christ is Correct
FIRST THING FIRST
You are arguing
WITH GOD
The only thing that matters in achieving
Gods Plan is is the
Word of God
and
What God Says
and
What God
Is asking of You
First
God brings Judgment
when you
need to identify the lie and repent and
open your eyes
before he can heal you
Humble yourself and Repent
and Seek his face
and
He will Heal
You
You are under the influence
of a
FALSE Spirit
Look
at the
BIG PICTURE
In Gods Good Name,
hello anyone home?!!?
WAKE UP
You can do this,
he’s not
mad at you, he’s speaking
the
TRUTH you are
confused and deceived
he’s
correcting
You
he’s not accusing you of
being an evil person, he is
identifying the lie
wake up
SLAVERY
SYMBOLISM
GOSPEL
Do not personalize
biblical concepts
with
worldly affairs
you are
missing the point
The Bible indicates that there will be a
great apostasy
during the
end times
The
“great apostasy”
is mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2:3.
it the “
falling away
while the NIV and ESV call
it “the
rebellion.”
And that’s what an apostasy is: a
rebellion, an
abandonment
of the
TRUTH
The end times
will include a
wholesale rejection
of
God’s revelation,
a further
“falling away”
of an
already
fallen world
The occasion of Paul’s writing
to the Thessalonians
was to correct some of the errors concerning
the end times
that the believers had heard from
false teachers
In 2 Thessalonians 2:3,
will not transpire until two things happen.
First, the
falling away, or great apostasy,
must occur.
Second,
the
“man of lawlessness” must be revealed,
he who is called
the “son of perdition,” also known as the Antichrist.
Once this person makes himself known,
the end times will indeed have come.
Numerous speculations about the identity
of the man of sin,
beginning in the first century, have included
Caligula, Caius Caesar,
Mohammed, Napoleon, and any number of Roman popes.
None of them were the Antichrist.
The man of lawlessness, according to 2 Thessalonians 2:4, is the one
who
“will
oppose and will exalt himself
over
everything that is
called God or is worshiped,
so that he sets himself up in
God’s temple,
proclaiming himself to be God.”
Paul assures us that it will not come until the
falling away comes first.
The Greek word translated “rebellion” or “falling away”
in verse 3 is apostasia, from which we get the English word
apostasy.
It refers to a general defection from
the true God,
the Bible,
and the Christian faith.
Every age has its defectors, but the falling away at the end times
will be complete and worldwide.
The whole planet will be in
rebellion against
God and His Christ.
Every coup requires a leader, and into this global apostasy will step the Antichrist. We believe this takes place after the church has been raptured from the earth.
Jesus warned the disciples concerning the final days in Matthew 24:10–12: “
At that time many will
turn away
from the faith
and will betray and hate each other,
and many
false prophets will appear and
deceive many people.
Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of
most will
grow cold.”
These are the characteristics
of the
great apostasy of the end times.
Blasphemy against the
Holy Spirit
has to do with accusing
Jesus Christ
of being demon-possessed
instead of
Spirit-filled
CONFUSION
Christ Righteous Judge
Blasphemy
The concept of
“blasphemy
against the
Spirit”
is mentioned in Mark 3:22–30 and Matthew 12:22–32.
Jesus has just performed a
miracle.
A demon-possessed man was brought to Jesus,
and the Lord cast the demon out,
healing the man of blindness and muteness.
The eyewitnesses to this exorcism began
to wonder if Jesus was indeed the Messiah
they had been waiting for.
A group of Pharisees,
hearing the talk of the Messiah, quickly
quashed
any budding faith in the crowd:
“It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons,
that this fellow
drives out demons,” they said
(Matthew 12:24).
Jesus rebuts the Pharisees with some logical arguments for why
He is
NOT casting out demons
in the
power of Satan!!
HELLO
(Matthew 12:25–29).
Then He speaks of the blasphemy against the
Holy Spirit:
“I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven,
but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
Anyone who speaks a word against the
Son of Man will be forgiven,
but anyone who speaks against the
Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this
age or in the age to come”
(verses 31–32).
The term blasphemy may be generally defined
as “defiant irreverence.”
The term can be applied to such sins as cursing God or willfully degrading things relating to God. Blasphemy is also attributing some evil to God or denying Him some good that we should attribute to Him.
This particular case of blasphemy, however, is called
“the blasphemy against the
Holy Spirit”
in Matthew 12:31.
The Pharisees, having witnessed irrefutable proof
that Jesus
was working miracles in the power of the
Holy Spirit, claimed instead that the
Lord was possessed by a demon
(Matthew 12:24).
Notice in Mark 3:30 Jesus is very specific about what the Pharisees did to commit blasphemy against the Holy Spirit: “He said this because they were saying, ‘He has an impure spirit.’”
Blasphemy against the
Holy Spirit
has to do with
ACCUSING
Jesus Christ
of
BEING “demon-possessed”
instead of
SPIRIT FILLED
You SEE. ?!?!?!
Never before in the history of the world
had so much divine light
been granted to men; if anyone should have recognized
Jesus for who He was, it was the Pharisees.
Yet they chose defiance.
They purposely
attributed
the
work of the
Spirit
to the devil,
even though they
knew the
truth and had the proof.
Jesus declared their
willful blindness
to be
unpardonable
Their blasphemy against the Holy Spirit was their final rejection of God’s grace. They had set their course, and God was going to let them sail into perdition unhindered.
Jesus told the crowd that the Pharisees’ blasphemy against the Holy Spirit “will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come” (Matthew 12:32). This is another way of saying that their sin would never be forgiven, ever. Not now, not in eternity. As Mark 3:29 puts it, “They are guilty of an eternal sin.”
The immediate result of the Pharisees’ public rejection of Christ (and God’s rejection of them) is seen in the next chapter. Jesus, for the first time, “told them many things in parables” (Matthew 13:3; cf. Mark 4:2). The disciples were puzzled at Jesus’ change of teaching method, and Jesus explained His use of parables: “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. . . . Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand” (Matthew 13:11, 13). Jesus began to veil the truth with parables and metaphors as a direct result of the Jewish leaders’ official denunciation of Him.
Again, the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit cannot be repeated today, although some people try. Jesus Christ is not on earth—He is seated at the right hand of God. No one can personally witness Jesus performing a miracle and then attribute that power to Satan instead of the Spirit.
The unpardonable sin today is the state of continued unbelief. The Spirit currently convicts the unsaved world of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8). To resist that conviction and willfully remain unrepentant is to “blaspheme” the Spirit. There is no pardon, either in this age or in the age to come, for a person who rejects the Spirit’s promptings to trust in Jesus Christ and then dies in unbelief. The love of God is evident: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). And the choice is clear: “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him” (John 3:36).
Doctrine is “a set of ideas or beliefs that are taught or believed to be true.” Biblical doctrine refers to teachings that align with the revealed Word of God, the Bible. False doctrine is any idea that adds to, takes away from, contradicts, or nullifies the doctrine given in God’s Word. For example, any teaching about Jesus that denies His virgin birthis a false doctrine, because it contradicts the clear teaching of Scripture (Matthew 1:18).
As early as the first century AD, false doctrine was already infiltrating the church, and many of the letters in the New Testament were written to address those errors (Galatians 1:6–9; Colossians 2:20–23; Titus 1:10–11). Paul exhorted his protégé Timothy to guard against those who were peddling heresies and confusing the flock: “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” (1 Timothy 6:3–4).
As followers of Christ, we have no excuse for remaining ignorant of theology because we have the “whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27) available to us—the Bible is complete. As we “study to show ourselves approved unto God” (2 Timothy 2:15), we are less likely to be taken in by smooth talkers and false prophets. When we know God’s Word, “we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming” (Ephesians 4:14).
It is important to point out the difference between false doctrine and denominational disagreements. Different congregational groups see secondary issues in Scripture differently. These differences are not always due to false doctrine on anyone’s part. Church policies, governmental decisions, style of worship, etc., are all open for discussion, since they are not directly addressed in Scripture. Even those issues that are addressed in Scripture are often debated by equally sincere disciples of Christ. Differences in interpretation or practice do not necessarily qualify as false doctrine, nor should they divide the Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 1:10).
False doctrine is that which opposes some fundamental truth or that which is necessary for salvation. The following are some examples of false doctrine:
• The erasing of hell. The Bible describes hell as a real place of eternal torment, the destination for every unregenerate soul (Revelation 20:15; 2 Thessalonians 1:8). A denial of hell directly contradicts Jesus’ own words (Matthew 10:28; 25:46) and is therefore a false doctrine.
• The idea that there are “many paths to God.” This philosophy has become popular recently under the guise of tolerance. This false doctrine claims that, since God is love, He will accept any religious effort as long as the practitioner is sincere. Such relativism flies in the face of the entire Bible and effectively eliminates any need for the Son of God to take on flesh and be crucified for us (Jeremiah 12:17; John 3:15–18). It also contradicts Jesus’ direct words that He is the only way to God (John 14:6).
• Any teaching that redefines the person of Jesus Christ. Doctrine that denies the deity of Christ, the virgin birth, His sinless nature, His actual death, or His physical resurrection is false doctrine. A group’s errant Christology readily identifies it as a sect or cult that may claim to be Christian but is actually teaching false doctrine. Even many mainline denominations have begun the rapid slide into apostasy by declaring that they no longer hold to a literal interpretation of Scripture or the deity of Christ. First John 4:1–3 makes it clear that a denial of biblical Christology is “anti-Christ.” Jesus described false teachers within the church as “wolves in sheep’s clothing” (Matthew 7:15).
• Teaching that adds human religious works to Christ’s finished work on the cross as necessary ingredients for salvation. This teaching may pay lip service to salvation by faith alone but insists that a religious ritual (such as water baptism) is salvific. Some groups even legislate hairstyles, clothing options, and food consumption. Romans 11:6 warns against attempts to mix grace with works. Ephesians 2:8–9 says we are saved by the grace of God, through faith, and nothing we do can add to or take away from it. Galatians 1:6–9 pronounces a curse on anyone who changes the good news of salvation by grace.
• The teaching that presents grace as a license to sin. Sometimes called “easy-believism,” this false doctrine implies that all one must do for right standing with God is to believe the facts about Jesus, pray a prayer at some point, and then resume control of one’s life with the assurance of heaven at the end. Paul dealt with this thinking in Romans 6. In Matthew 7:21–23, Jesus warned those who adopt this doctrine that they did not know Him at all. Second Corinthians 5:17 states that those who are “in Christ” become “new creatures.” That transformation, in response to a believer’s faith in Christ, changes the outward behaviors. To know and love Christ is to obey Him (Luke 6:46).
Satan has been confusing and perverting the Word of God since the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:1–4; Matthew 4:6). False teachers, the servants of Satan, try to appear as “servants of righteousness” (2 Corinthians 11:15), but they will be known by their fruits (Matthew 7:16). A charlatan promoting false doctrine will show signs of pride, greed, and rebellion (see Jude 1:11) and will often promote or engage in sexual immorality (2 Peter 2:14; Revelation 2:20).
We are wise to recognize how vulnerable we are to heresy and make it our habit to do as the Bereans did in Acts 17:11: “they . . . examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” When we make it our goal to follow the lead of the first church, we will go far in avoiding the pitfalls of false doctrine. Acts 2:42 says, “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” Such devotion will protect us and ensure that we are on the path Jesus set for us.
In the prosperity gospel, also known as the “Word of Faith Movement,” the believer is told to use God, whereas the truth of biblical Christianity is just the opposite—God uses the believer. Prosperity theology sees the Holy Spirit as a power to be put to use for whatever the believer wills. The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is a Person who enables the believer to do God’s will. The prosperity gospel movement closely resembles some of the destructive greed sects that infiltrated the early church. Paul and the other apostles were not accommodating to or conciliatory with the false teachers who propagated such heresy. They identified them as dangerous false teachers and urged Christians to avoid them.
Paul warned Timothy about such men in 1 Timothy 6:5, 9-11.
These men of “corrupt mind”
supposed godliness was a means of gain and their desire for riches was a
trap
that brought them
“into ruin and destruction”
(v. 9). The pursuit of wealth is a dangerous path for Christians and one which God warns about: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs” (v. 10). If riches were a reasonable goal for the godly, Jesus would have pursued it. But He did not, preferring instead to have no place to lay His head (Matthew 8:20) and teaching His disciples to do the same. It should also be remembered that the only disciple concerned with wealth was Judas.
Paul said covetousness is idolatry (Ephesians 5:5) and instructed the Ephesians to avoid anyone who brought a message of immorality or covetousness (Ephesians 5:6-7). Prosperity teaching prohibits God from working on His own, meaning that God is not Lord of all because He cannot work until we release Him to do so. Faith, according to the Word of Faith doctrine, is not submissive trust in God; faith is a formula by which we manipulate the spiritual laws that prosperity teachers believe govern the universe. As the name “Word of Faith” implies, this movement teaches that faith is a matter of what we say more than whom we trust or what truths we embrace and affirm in our hearts.
A favorite term of prosperity gospel teachers is “positive confession.” This refers to the teaching that words themselves have creative power. What you say, prosperity teachers claim, determines everything that happens to you. Your confessions, especially the favors you demand of God, must all be stated positively and without wavering. Then God is required to answer (as though man could require anything of God!). Thus, God’s ability to bless us supposedly hangs on our faith. James 4:13-16 clearly contradicts this teaching: “Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” Far from speaking things into existence in the future, we do not even know what tomorrow will bring or even whether we will be alive.
Instead of stressing the importance of wealth, the Bible warns against pursuing it. Believers, especially leaders in the church (1 Timothy 3:3), are to be free from the love of money (Hebrews 13:5). The love of money leads to all kinds of evil (1 Timothy 6:10). Jesus warned, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions” (Luke 12:15). In sharp contrast to the prosperity gospel emphasis on gaining money and possessions in this life, Jesus said, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal” (Matthew 6:19). The irreconcilable contradictions between prosperity teaching and the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is best summed up in the words of Jesus in Matthew 6:24, “You cannot serve both God and money.”
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