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Maturity Training by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article. Heb. 5:14 But solid food is for the MATURE, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. At the core of maturity in Christ is the issue of training to be able to distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong. But in today's churches this issue has not only been downplayed, but actually swept aside. I run a website and get hundreds of emails every week. Since the website deals with apologetics against false teachers and false prophets, about half the email I receive is blasting me for even bringing up the issue. These emails are from "Christians" who claim I am not "anointed", don't understand the work of the Holy Spirit, etc. I am forced to remind them of Hebrews 5 and Ephesians 4 and the biblical definition of maturity in Christ. Maturity is not defined as following dynamic speakers, running after people who claim the ability to perform signs and wonders, those with wealth, charismatic teachers with large numbers of followers, those with name recognition, and prophets who make wild prophecies. It is defined simply as training ourselves to know the difference between good and evil. Where do Christians get solid food? From voices in their heads, intuition, imaginations, flights of fancy, signs, wonders? No. Solid food is consumed by feeding on the meat of the written Word of God.
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Volume 73, Issue 10 |
Dear Friends,
Trouble on the horizon. We all knew this was coming but who could have foreseen the all out assault the New Age would make on our nation?
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The Significance of Understanding Leonard Sweet's "More Magnificent Way of Seeing Christ" (Booklet) |
by Warren B. Smith, 3/8/19
Over the past few decades, a number of New Age sympathizers have had a significant influence in the evangelical church. One of the chief is Methodist author, speaker, and teacher Leonard Sweet. Sweet openly calls the Father of the New Age Movement-the late Jesuit priest Teilhard de Chardin-"twentieth-century Christianity's major voice." Sweet also teaches the foundational New Age doctrine that God is "in" everyone and everything-that God is embedded in all creation. Brought forward and popularized by Rick Warren, Leonard Sweet and his New Age sympathies have not been adequately addressed by today's pastors and church leaders. A look on Sweet's website shows he has partnered with numerous popular figures such as Brian McLaren, Mark Batterson (Circle Maker), Erwin McManus, Mark Driscoll, Frank Viola, and Karen Swallow Prior (professor at Liberty University). The following booklet by Warren Smith reveals the "New Age Christianity" that Leonard Sweet has helped to bring into the church.
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What Is Transformation? |
by Herescope, 3/9/19
First published August 15, 2005, a few months before the Herescope blog was set up, this article* was an overview of the transformation agenda that was coming into the evangelical church world like a flood. We've been writing on this topic ever since. In republishing this article today we've embedded quite a few hyperlinks to text. Clicking on these will direct you to our subsequent articles that expanded upon these themes. We are sad to report that over the past 14 years church transformation has come full fruit before our very eyes, and we are now witnessing the inevitable compromises and sins that are imploding ministries. The church has left its first Love, and is now losing its ability to be salt and light in the world. Any calls for revival must take an honest assessment of the issues brought forth in this article and consider a whole-hearted repentance for these errors.(Revelation 2:4-5)
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Why God Hates The Occult |
by Bill Randles, 3/10/19
When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. ( Deuteronomy 18:9-14) When God set up a theocracy, He very strictly warned and threatened against any who would ever touch the occult. There was a death penalty for those who participated in any form of the dark practices of the pagans. The various occult practices were considered to be abominable to the LORD, and so also were the practitioners. Both the sin and the sinner were and are considered utterly detestable to the Holy God. It was to be eradicated from Israel, completely rooted out and eliminated. Anyone sympathetic with it was to be tried and executed, for trafficking in the Occult was treated as a special kind of treason in the Kingdom of God being established in Israel. What was it about the occult, that provoked such a strong warning in so many places in the scripture? Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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Marianne Williamson: If I Am President, I Will Take Control of Your Children and Make Them New Agers |
by Lighthouse Trails, 3/11/19
Course in Miracles promoter, Marianne Williamson, who is running in the 2020 presidential election, has big plans for the children of this country if she is elected. Among other things, part of those plans is to make sure children in American public schools are trained in mindfulness meditation. While tens of thousands of public schools in the U.S. are already teaching children mindfulness meditation, no doubt, with a New Age president, every school would be including it. As president, I would advocate for the following: Mindfulness training in the schools.-Marianne Williamson, 2019 (source) Williamson also promises to advocate for "universal pre-K." This would help make sure that children as young as 3 and 4 would be placed into the public school system. Advocates of universal pre-K believe they need more time with America's children and want to get their hands on them much earlier than 5 or 6 (Kindergarten). Parents beware. If Marianne Williamson (or another candidate with her "values,") becomes president, this country's children will be at even greater risk than they are now. And you can be sure, she will not be advocating for homeschooling families.
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