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Scan Now. Related websites Mobile Friendly. Brochures and cards Bulletin inserts Forms and applications Liturgy and worship aids Manuals and policies Video, audio and multimedia Publications and periodicals Posters and fliers Reports and study guides Prayer Cards Pcusa. Lying is a problem for all people Ps. We are all sinners Rom. Those of us who are Christians are "sinners saved by grace" Eph. But we still live in our "old self" which we must "put off" Eph.
The difference between unbelievers and those who are truly born again is that believers no longer "practice sin" 1 John , see my Bible study on 1 John! They have the indwelling Holy Spirit Rom. True believers then repent 1 John and go on to "practice righteousness" 1 John with the Lord's help.
The unregenerate, the false brothers, or those who have fallen away Gal. They practice a lifestyle of lying because their consciences are seared 1 Tim. These four books were widely read by Christians from virtually every denominational background before their ramifications and the movements they would spawn were known.
They lay error alongside truth so were considered not to be a threat to churches. Therefore these books then became part of the consciousness of many Christians and churches, thereby laying the basis for the introduction of the modern day false teachings of the NAR, EC, CG and WCGIP that have become part of the landscape of Christendom today. With the resurgence of the old religion of Hawaii and the continual invocation of Pel" and other "deities" for years in the secular culture and even in churches with regards to worshipping 'Io, is it any wonder that those beings are beginning to manifest again?
In a story called "Night Marchers" on the Kawaihae site and in a YouTube video on the same subject, eyewitnesses claim all kinds of sightings that they think are the warriors, ancestors and demi-gods of Hawaii coming back.
Since Kikawa claims that 'Io is the True God and one that the Hawaiians worshipped in secret, we have to wonder if Kikawa also thinks 'Io is showing up in these night marches? I am doing a Bible study right now on what I would call "renewing our minds".
It is based on this verse:. Romans Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will. The only way to renew our minds is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, confess our sins, and be saved, then to study the written Word and allow the indwelling Holy Spirit to teach us.
Our minds are corrupted by virtue of the sin nature and what we have learned in life because our filters are off. I gave an illustration of straining coconut to make coconut milk.
If you use a 1 inch screen everything will pass through. Even if you use a quarter inch screen you will get mostly coconut meat in your milk. You have to use a fine screen in order to separate the milk from the leftover. Our filters are off and the first thing God begins to do is correct our worldview, because if your worldview is off you will not understand God's reality. We need to learn to see things from His perspective.
This is why I started this study by going back to an original problem. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the li e, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
This has always been an interesting passage to me for a few different reasons. What is "the lie" that is talked about here in verse 9 and 11? What are the ways that "wickedness deceives those who are perishing" and how long has this been going on or does this only begin to happen at the coming of the lawless one?
In what way does "the lie" cause those who do not believe the truth to "delight in wickedness"? But it does have it's own distinctives that are driven by the works of Daniel Kikawa, Richard Twiss, and Don Richardson in particular.
They are teaching Christians to "redeem" their cultures by worshipping their former gods, pretending they are YHWH. Go here for ordering information. There are a number of the leadership of the Emerging Church EC who do not believe that the Bible is the highest authority for the Christian faith. Most do not believe that the Bible is inerrant in the original manuscripts and many do not acknowledge that the Bible is our highest revelation.
Yet this is a core doctrine over which true believers and false brethren must separate. Those who try to poke holes in Sola Scriptura make excuses like 1 we need to reinterpret the Bible through the lens of postmodern culture and religion 2 the Bible never uses the words "Sola Scriptura" therefore it is not a Biblical concept 3 there is new revelation for the church through the Holy Spirit apart from what is written and the precepts of the Bible and 4 the Bible just doesn't address our postmodern situation therefore we cannot rely on it for the truth and answers for our problems today.
I will prove that all the above arguments, and more, from EC leaders and others is exactly what they are teaching. I will give you quotes from their teachings, videos and books. The postmodern church and its "movements" are abandoning Sola Scriptura in their rush to be like the Roman Catholic Church, which takes its authority from a mix of Scripture and tradition.
Page Updated DVD! I am writing this article as an apologetic against the Third Wave, Latter Rain, Word of Faith and Reformed Theology teachings that the Church is to rise up and take over the systems of government, businesses and every other aspect of life. And the only way to overthrow a government is with a government. It won't happen otherwise. So therefore the government of the church has to get into place in the extended church just like we do have it very well in place, we haven't reached our goal yet What I wanted to do with this article is put the issue of dominion to rest by studying the definition the Bible gives to dominion and ruling authority.
When we look at the subject we can easily ascertain what is going on today and what God requires of the Church. Shepherd Or Hireling? The Bible lays out the definitions of both an overseer under shepherd and a hireling. John I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. KJV 1 Tim. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. NIV Titus Since an overseer is entrusted with God's work, he must be blameless, not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain.
Rather he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it. For there are many rebellious people, mere talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision group. They must be silenced, because they are ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach - and that for the sake of dishonest gain.
Even one of their own prophets has said, "Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons. Therefore, rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith. NIV A hireling does not really care about being a watchman, but is more concerned with protecting his reputation, position and income. A true watchman will guard the flock against wolves from within Acts and without Acts no matter the cost to his reputation, position or income.
Following is a little quiz you can take to see if you are a true Biblical under shepherd as a leader in your church, are becoming a hireling, or are one now. Too many churches today are allowing music to be used in their services that is not glorifying to the Lord and can actually be a hindrance to the teaching of sound doctrine.
Pastors and leaders should be using their leadership role to test what is being played and sung in their churches. Though some are quick to test preaching and teaching from their pulpits, many ignore the music being used in the same services. This is a tragic mistake. Music is a powerful medium. It is something that effects deeply the body, mind and emotions. It is a proven fact that music often stays with a person far longer than what is taught or preached.
Songs roam around in our heads, especially if the melody appeals to us. What is often overlooked is the serious impression music makes on people, and the teaching they are getting over and over again as they allow the song to repeat in their minds and on their lips.
Music teaches things much more subtly yet sometimes far more effectively. That's why the lyrical content of music in the church, as well as its effect on the spiritual lives of those who perform and listen, should be vigorously examined by the leaders of the church.
This is a 2-DVD set. Do you not realise that Christ Jesus is in you - unless, of course, you fail the test?
People who call themselves followers of Christ or "Christians" and claim they are born again must believe certain things. If they do not then they fail the test of faith. They can claim they are born again all they want and "once saved, always saved" but if they fail the test of faith there is no eternal security.
Only God knows who will be saved, from beginning to end, because of His foreknowledge and omniscience Rom. God did not make an arbitrary judgment about who would be saved and who would not. His Spirit is given to those He foreknew, when convicted of sin by His Holy Spirit, would choose to believe and commit themselves to Jesus Christ.
We are not God and we do not have His omniscience. Therefore, according to Paul, we must be sure our belief system is in the right place once our eyes have been opened to the Truth.
I am not saying we do not have assurance of salvation, but our assurance comes not only because of His Atonement and promises of salvation but from our continuing in the Faith, which is always the Biblical criteria. Those who would be Bible teachers must teach according to the whole counsel of God's Word. Let me be clear. There is only one way to salvation. That is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
I will deal with a few of those issues following, but it is important to recognize that being saved is not just a matter of believing that Jesus lived, or that He was a man, or simply giving mental ascent to His existence in whatever form. I am going to go over an article I wrote back in in preparation for the book I wrote with Mike Oppenheimer called 'Idolatry in Their Hearts'. At the time that book came out no one really saw the dangerous ideas Richardson was promoting.
All they would have had to do was look at the two subtitles of that book to understand the implications. Those who read this book found some interesting cross-cultural ideas but apparently missed the false premise of the book starting with the subtitle. How could Christianity be "among folk religions" where the Gospel had not been preached Rom. At that time Christians who read the book were apparently satisfied that, though there was some questionable material present, it made for an interesting discussion on how to do cross-cultural ministry.
This should have been a red flag for many Christians but then, who reads subtitles? I was talking with a pastor after a Wednesday night service and he mentioned that I said I had done an article comparing English Bible translations.
He called me up later and asked me to come back and present the contents of that article I sent out in about to my mailing list for the Pacific Waves Newsletter which, unfortunately, I can no longer afford to publish and mail. However an archive of past issues of that newsletter can be found here. In that article I detailed a number of good and bad resources for pastors including Bible translations, concordances, commentaries, Bible dictionaries, etc. I present an edited version of part of that article on this DVD, particularly dealing with English Translations of the Bible.
Translation is a very detailed endeavor and should only be undertaken by those with a proper education in that subject and a sound doctrinal background. I read a few books on that subject and it helped me understand the complexities involved. Hebrew is a rich language so it is hard to distill one Hebrew word down to one English word.
Greek is a very technical language and it is also not easy to translate. This is why it is imperative to use the good English translations out there for comparison along with a good concordance and Bible dictionary. There are two kingdoms being taught in many churches today. Teaching about one of the kingdoms is on the decline while the other is being promoted all over the place. I am warning Christians that they need to check out who is using the word "kingdom", the books they have been reading and recommend on building "the kingdom", the people they have been hanging out with at conferences, and what they mean by "the kingdom".
Go here for more information or click on the "Add To Cart" below. In this DVD series I want to detail a number of beliefs people have these days that have no basis in Scripture. I am going to roam all over the map, so to speak, and try to give fairly short answers on a number of topics and also give you useful links to articles that will help you deal with any particular issue. It is truly amazing how many false ideas people cling to without giving a thought to what the Bible has to say on the subject.
Go here for ordering details. There are many signs of the great Apostasy, or falling away 2 Thes. Go here for ordering details!
What's Up With Christian Bookstores? The ElijahList The biggest promoter of false prophecies in cyberspace! Many do not undersand what is being leavened into churches by the EC leadership.
Many would be shocked to know their belief systems involve Universalism, New Age, defense of postmodernism, Interfaithism, and many other false doctrines. In order to reach out to this generation the EC leadership is proposing a whole new "map" to deal with what they perceive is a lack of understanding on the part of the churches on how to communicate. EC proponants believe the "scripture" for today is evolving and must change in order to reach postmoderns. Go here for ordering details on this 2-part DVD series!
Could Gentile cultures understand the Gospel from the stars? Did God create man's cultures? Has God always been in the process of redeeming cultures from the time of Babel by placing in them a true revelation of Himself?
Is there the worship of YHWH in all cultures and religions through the names of supreme beings? Have all cultures always had a way to make things right between them and God?
These questions and many more are answered in this book that addresses the false teachings of The New Apostolic Reformation regarding missiological methods as being carried out by many agencies including the World Christian Gathering on Indigenous People, YWAM, and many Bible societies. The New Apostolic Reformation - What is it and where is it going? Every Pastor Needs This!
Lessons In Forgiveness Great Study! Sometimes the situation was so severe that it took me some time to forgive and start the process of healing for myself, and eventually for others. I learned that a Christian needs to forgive other people even if they have not repented of their sins.
That can be really hard if we let it be hard. But if we give our burdens over to the Lord, He will carry them and that frees us up to treat other people with love, compassion, and be in the right frame of mind and heart to set them up for reconciliation with Jesus Christ.
That does not mean we tolerate their sin. We simply forgive them for what they have done to us, whether perceived or real, and move on to looking for ways to redeem them. We can then present to them the "truth in love" even when we have to rebuke them. Finish The Race! Go On To Maturity! Many churches are urging Christians to push aside discernment in favor of experience.
It is our hope that this book will inspire many believers to fight the good fight, finish the race, and keep the faith 2 Tim. Companion Book! The commentary of the DVD series is not in the book, but there are many more quotes available than in the video series.
Good reference material. Letters To The Church Timely! All the precepts are in the seven letters in Revelation - to help us keep the faith, stay in sound doctrine, and reach out to those who are perishing.
I hope and pray that this book will help the reader to be an "overcomer". Go here for more details and how to order! Want a set of tools that will allow you to disciple your loved ones so they will stand firm in the Faith? Want to sort out many of the false arguments and teachings that have invaded the churches? It covers the core doctrines, how we can use them to test, and examples on the DVD that can be paused for discussion.
Also includes a teacher guide and links to resources on the web. This 3-DVD series is available now! This is a proven tool to keep people away from heresy. Go here for information! What significance does the cross have? Are there teachings that can wreck our faith? We live in an age unlike any other in the history of man.
To follow the Lord among the unique challenges we must understand Scripture and live by it. It deals with many crucial issues for the Church today. Box , Wahiawa, HI This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. Fields, Sarah H. Leslie, and Anita B. Hoge, , Many Christians today having allowed themselves to be diapraxed by false teachers on TV, in books, in seminars and on tape have begun to accept a mixture of Pre Mil and Post Mil doctrines.
Many claim they still hold to a Pre Trib Rapture or another Pre Mil scenario and at the same time would claim that Christians are in a great end times revival, that "Transformation" is taking place all over the world, and that our mandate is to retake dominion over the whole world including its businesses, social agendas and political arenas a Post Mil scenario. But what many "Christians" today do not realize is: the mixture they have accepted is oxymoronic.
He was a murderer from the beginning,. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Revelation But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers , the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters.
This is the second death. Revelation Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers ,. I have had a number of my books available for download in e-book format for a few years. To see which ones we have available you will find the following symbol next that item on the main pages of this site as well as on the item order page:. The DVD videos available with this feature are in MP4 format, playable on your computer or personal device as long as you have a program on it that can play back MP4s.
Due to storage restrictions the instant download version of the DVD videos we have available in MP4 format are of slightly less resolution as the DVD version. However with this option you save shipping and handling and delivery time. So now you have a choice.
I am also now offering downloadable audio MP3s of the same videos. Check the product page for the PayLoadz link to those MP3s. This is a good option for those who like to listen to programs in their car, etc.
New Method of Delivery! I am in the process of adding that feature to all the product pages, but in the meantime you can simply add a note to your PayPal order if you want what you ordered on a flash drive instead of a DVD or CD. The nice thing about a flash drive is that I can put the HD version on a flash drive! This will help those with the new computers that come without DVD drives. If you want me combine more than one DVD on one flash drive, you will still have to pay what you would pay for each DVD.
Check out our Bible Studies page! This is our recommended book list for issues of deception in the Church. For a recommended book list not strictly limited to deception in the Church, go to this page. Some other good book suggestions come from a five part series that is a list of Pastor Gary Gilley's favorite books.
We often hear from proponents of Calvinism that the reason they embrace Calvinism is because it is the one thing that offers a full assurance of salvation, but the only true assurance of salvation is in knowing that God is faithful to His Word.
Read This First! Click on the title above to visit our Deception In The Church e-Newsletter Archive to read past e-newsletters or sign up for our free e-mailing list. This archive is updated weekly. Except for Shack author William Paul Young and maybe a few exceptional others, hardly anybody ever names anyone or anything Judas. It is one of those forbidden names like Jezebel or Lucifer that people would never dream of naming their child, their dog—or their cat. The very name denotes a sense of treachery and betrayal.
After all, Judas was the one who openly betrayed Jesus and paved the way for His crucifixion. So what was William Paul Young thinking? A perusal of the Lectio website reveals just as many concerns as back when we first warned about Greig. In fact, it has only gotten worse, which is what happens with contemplative prayer. Thus it would stand to reason that they are promoting Critical Race Theory as well. And, of course, the Lectio app is inspired by the practice of Lectio Divina.
Sadly, many young people are attracted to groups like this.
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