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The Healthy Church Vs. The Unhealthy Church: Unity of the Spirit (Continued)

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As God and I were talking this morning, He highlighted a very important word of wisdom for me to share. And it’s this: the unhealthy church is a body without the head. But the healthy church has God as its head. The unhealthy church has its own interpretation of Scriptures as its authority, while the healthy church has God as its authority. Of course, a headless church cannot function in the miraculous gifts that reside in the head. That is why they are spiritually blind and deaf.

All the manifestation of the Spirit gifts are in the head. There are speaking gifts (tongues, message of wisdom, message of knowledge), hearing gifts (faith), sight gifts (distinguishing between spirits), or supernatural power that can only come from the head of the church (healing, miraculous powers, interpretation of tongues, and prophecy). It’s interesting to me that the passage of Scripture that contains the manifestation of the Spirit gifts (in 1 Corinthians 12:4-11) repeatedly says that the one and only Spirit distributes them. That Spirit is the Spirit of God who is the head of the church. His name is Jesus.

Let’s briefly recap where we left off in my top ten list of false doctrines in the churches: The FALSE DOCTRINES that we previously discussed are: 1) Mute God; 2) Three Gods; 3) Jesus as a Separate God; and 4) Automatically Forgiven.

Let’s continue my top-ten list of FALSE doctrines in the church.

False Doctrine #5) God Needs Counsel: I’m sorry but that is exactly how the unhealthy church prays as if God needs their counsel. If God needs your counsel or advice (or that of your pastors or elders) how wise is He? If God needs group consensus in prayer (aka 50 prayer intercessors) before He decides to be more loving, merciful, or compassionate, why bother with individual prayers? Ok those are intentionally sarcastically worded questions, but I hope they hit. It should be obvious that God doesn’t need our advice or suggestions. He is infinitely more wise and loving than we individually or collectively could ever be. Our hope in prayer should be to learn from God and want His will above our own. We can’t do that if we’re doing all the talking. Prayer without hearing God is just a spiritual masturbation. You’re only pleasing yourself. (Note: God said to say it that way. Don’t believe me. Ask Him yourself.)

False Doctrine #6) The Holy Spirit is Unable to Anoint: The unhealthy churches like to allow for the service (innate) gifts while mostly denying the existence of the miraculous gifts that require a manifestation of the Spirit. That’s likely because their God is confined to the pages of a book. But the healthy church knows that God is not dead. God’s supernatural power can be delivered to and through whomever He chooses and whenever He chooses without the permission of the body of the church.

False Doctrine #7) Women Must Be Silent and/or Women Are Not Allowed to Lead in the Church: We have too much Scriptural evidence against this false doctrine to not chalk this one up as a significant win for the enemy. The devil has deceived generations of the church into disqualifying God’s anointing on half of the Kingdom simply based on gender. The same one and only Spirit of God anoints women for ministry as anoints men. The unhealthy church demands that women are inferior in the Kingdom. Remember that God is the head of the church, and we (men and women) are the body of the church.

We’ll finish with discussing false doctrines 8, 9, and 10, in the next post.
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Prepared or Unaware

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This is the beginning of a new video series about preparing for “last days” or a significant tribulation event. Yesterday, I finished reading “One Second After” (by William R. Forstchen) about a possible scenario of the aftereffects of an EMP attack on America. This book was helpful for me to consider areas of weakness that need to be strengthened if we were suddenly without electricity, refrigeration, communication, medical care, medicine, transportation, etc.

Certainly, it’s not things that any of us want to think about, but without considering these possibilities, we could be left completely defenseless in the blink of an eye.

The Scriptures foretell much about the last days, tribulation and great tribulation periods (3.5 years each). None of this study is provided to create panic or unnecessary disruption. It is about having wisdom and being positioned by God in the days ahead. It doesn’t hurt for us to study the Scriptures and lean in to hear God’s direction. So, let’s do that!

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Video: Politics: What is God’s Response?

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Does God have an opinion about politics? Does God have an opinion about Israel? Hopefully, you know the answer. If you are NOT hearing God’s voice in prayer, you are not doing it right. As a Christian, you should be able to SEEK GOD and receive direction from Him.

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Do False Teachers Deserve Wrath?

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Should we hate the false teachers? Does God? You’re probably like me in that you want to know God’s heart and sync up with Him on who to love and who to hate. Wait, does God hate people? Well, He must because He is the one in charge of sending some people to hell, separated from Him for all eternity. It was God that sent an evil spirit to torment King Saul when he disobeyed.

When God sends me as His prophet to help pastors overcome false doctrines, I can feel God’s heart for them. He wants them to earnestly pursue His will on the doctrines. But as time passes, and they continue to teach falsely, God’s heart changes in the words that He delivers through me. A pastor can have the right heart and wrong theology and still manage to please God … until God sends His messenger to point out the wrong theology. Once that happens they have been warned to seek Him until the wrong doctrine is removed. If they refuse Him, they have hard consequences for their wrong theology. They cannot please Him while they teach falsely.

So you can imagine the hard place that puts me in. How am I to love the pastors enough to keep warning them when I can already feel God’s heart changing against them. That’s when I get frustrated. It’s more important to me to please God than to warn the false teachers. At some point, I’m just ready for the Lord to stop giving them chances so I can get out of the middle of the whole mess. But then, I’m ashamed that I didn’t love them enough to keep warning them. I find myself in that position once again.

The attached letter from February 2021, was a communication to 24 pastors locally. The associated Mark of Excellence newsletter warned of God’s heart towards false teachers. What are your thoughts? Should God turn His back on them when they continue to teach falsely?