Way back in
1976 C. Peter Wagner had already expressed a
foundation of sand upon which his entire "apostolic"
kingdom is built. To back up his notions, he and
his friends such asJohn
Wimber,Paul
Cainand many others
began to get the cart before the horse. They
tried to create revival where there was none with
unbiblical and even heretical ideas. They
imported occult ideas from false religions into the
churches, such as"slain
in the spirit"and called the
results "revival". The means they used were the
counterfeit revivals of theWord Of Faith
Movement, theVineyard
movement, theToronto
"Blessing", theBrownsville
"Outpouring"and on down
the line to latestTodd
Bentley "Lakeland Revival". The
proof that the means have all been unjustifiable is in
the unjustifiable ends. Lakeland has now come to
an apparent abrupt end due to false healing and dead
raising claims, many false teachings, a false
"transferable" anointing, and sexual misconduct.
You can read about these things in ourTodd
Bentleysection. Yet the
leadership of theNew
Apostolic Reformationhas
not even been slowed by yet another bad end brought
about by the self-destruction of the means. In
the latest ElijahList the false prophets are
prophesying even greater revivals to come.
There is a
new phenomenon especially among some island churches
where handkerchiefs are being handed around a
congregation claiming that they have an anointing that
can cause people to be healed and other miraculous
things happen to them. The problem with this idea is
especially evident in two things: (1) that this can
and is being considered by many to be Christian magic
and (2) that it is being taught as being something
that should be a normal part of the Christian
experience. It is taught that if you have faith
you will believe in touching the handkerchief that you
will be healed, freed from demons, or get a special
anointing. But faith is not proven by signs and
wonders.
This chart should be of
grave interest to those in YWAM and those supporting
YWAM and its agenda with the IPM or "First Nations"
movement led by people like Daniel Kikawa (Perpetuated In
Righteousness), Don Richardson (Eternity in Their
Hearts:Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True
God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World), John Dawson (Taking Our Cities
for God: How to Break Spiritual Strongholds), Richard Twiss (One Church, Many
Tribes : Following Jesus the Way God Made You), Terry LeBlanc (Creating Christian
Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church) and many others.
You will notice a very close comparison in this
chart between false religion and so-called
"Christian" leaders. Please read whatYWAM,The
Emerging Chuch, theWCGPand
others are teaching that are almost exactly what the
Baha'i teach.
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Three
Fallacies Of Third Wave Spiritual Warfare
Teachings by Sandy Simpson
When
so-called Christians employ Biblical pagan methods
to rid themselves of demons, they end up giving the
enemy an opportunity to deceive them and a foothold
in their lives. When Israel disobeyed the
Lord's command to come down to Jerusalem and worship
Him in the temple under the Law, and instead chose
to set up altars in the high places, the result was
that they ended up worshiping demons. They
thought they were worshiping God, but ended up
worshiping Baal and Ashtoreth. You cannot live
a life glorifying to the Lord unless you obey Him.
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The Duties of
Christian Leadership by Sandy Simpson
Christians, and especially Christian
leadership, are called to be salt and light in a dark
world.
Matt.
5:13-16 "You are the salt of the earth.
But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be
made salty again? It is no longer good for anything,
except to be thrown out and trampled by men. "You
are the light of the world.A
city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people
light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they
put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone
in the house. In the same way, let your light shine
before men, that they may see your good deeds and
praise your Father in heaven.
When the
Lord tells us to be salt and light, He states both the
positive and the negative. That is the way with
all Scripture. We can’t just take the positive
and be done with the subject. We have to
consider all the ramifications of being salt and
light. Salt is used to season food and make it
taste good. It was and still is used as a
preservative. In the same way Christians are to
be salt in the world. Without the witness of
Christ, without standing for the truth, life is
ultimately tasteless and rotten. Anyone here who
was a sinner for any length of time without the Savior
knows what I am talking about. But the flip side
is that salt can lose its saltiness. Christians
can lose their saltiness by diluting the Gospel
message to the point where it is useless. Let me
give you an example of a washed out Gospel often
preached in churches today.
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Smack Dab in the Middle of the
Apostasy by Sandy Simpson
'Antichrist'
No More: Evangelicals Praise Pope Most are unreserved in
their praise on political, social, and even theological
matters, but critique of papacy remains. Compiled by Ted Olsen,
04/05/2005 04:30 p.m.
Among the names mentioned, who praise the
Pope in this article, were "Evangelical" leaders such
as:Evangelical Episcopalian Fred
Barnes; Wheaton College's Mark Noll; Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod President Gerald B.
Kieschnick; National Association of Evangelicals
President Ted Haggard; Focus on the Family President
James Dobson; Charles Colson who organized the
evangelical side of the Evangelicals and Catholics
Together; Paige Patterson, President of Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary; Presbyterian Church in
America Pastor-brothers David and Tim Bayly;
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al
Mohler; Dallas Theological Seminary President Mark
Bailey; Credenda Agenda Editor Douglas Wilson; and
Evangelical Alliance, the United Kingdom's version
of the stateside National Association of
Evangelicals.
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Marriage A
Biblical Illustration Of Our Faith Commitment To Jesus
Christ For Salvation by Sandy Simpson
Marriage as a metaphor for our
relationship to Jesus Christ.
Marriage is used as a metaphor for our
relationship to God many times in the Bible.
Let's look at the picture God wants His people to
see about their relationship to Him, and His
relationship to them.
TI have been
challenged lately to think again about what the Gospel
message is all about. This has come as a result
of hearing what I considerto be, at the very least,
"gospel lite" and at the most no gospel at all being
presented by a number of neo-evangelicals, Third
Wavers and outrightheretics. The interesting
thing is that many seem to be preaching the same
message. What is most intriguing is that
false teachers like Benny Hinn, ecumenicals, and even
some preachers I would considerto be orthodox in their
theology are preaching a "gospel" that is very
similar.The question is: Is this new gospel message
really the Gospel at all?
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Leviathan by Sandy Simpson
This
creature that existed, and may yet exist, is used as
a description of themightand
power of the enemy.
Isaiah
27:1In
that day theLORDwill
punishLeviathanthe
fleeing serpent,WithHis fierce and great
and mighty sword, EvenLeviathanthe
twisted serpent; And He will kill thedragonwholivesin
the sea. (NASB)
Speaking of the “day of the Lord”, when
the Lord comes back again to rule and judge the
earth, Isaiah says that the Lord will punish
Leviathan the dragon.Satan
is likened to leviathan, a serpent, and he is said
to live in the sea.
Revelation 13:1Andthe dragon stood
on the sand of the seashore.Then
I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having
ten horns and seven heads, and on his hornswereten
diadems, and on his headswereblasphemous
names. (NASB)
Again the dragon comes out of the sea,
which is symbolic of the nations of the world, but
perhaps is also tied to a literal meaning.He
has multiple heads which are symbolic of the heads
of the nations of the end times, but he is also said
to have multiple heads before the symbolism of the
nations of the revived Babylon come into being, as
recorded in Ps. 74:14 and Job.
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.
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".
There are so many people who claim to
be Christians today, claiming that they are God.Not just a
“little god” but God Almighty.I hate to tell
them but there is only one God/man who could ever claim
that and His name is Jesus Christ.
1 John
4:4-6 You, dear children, are from God and have
overcome them, because the one who is in you is
greater than the one who is in the world.They
are from the world and therefore speak from the
viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to
them. We are from God, and whoever knows God
listens to us; butwhoever is not
from God does not listen to us.This
is how we recognize the Spirit {Or spirit} of truth
and the spirit of falsehood. The reason
why false teachers, who deny one or more of the core
doctrines of the Faith, gain so many followers is that
they are saying what the world wants to hear.
They organize their churches so that they cater to
unbelievers, and once non Christians come in they are
fed a diet devoid of the essential nutrition of the
Gospel and sound doctrine. False teachers
conduct surveys to see what non-believers are looking
for in a "church" and then provide those things.
False teachers claim they are bringing people into the
Kingdom when in fact they are bringing them out of the
world and back into the world, the only difference now
being that they are spending their money in support of
some apostate leader and/or group.
The NAR proponents claim to be
foundational Apostles to the modern church. This
claim is exactly what Paul warned the Church about
regarding false apostles. The term "false
apostles" is used only once in the Bible in 2 Cor.
11:13. False apostles are identified as those who
claim they areequalwith
the the foundational Apostles. The NAR proponents
go even further! They claim to beGREATERthan
the original Apostles.
Jude 1:1-2 Jude, a servant of Jesus
Christ and a brother of James, To those who have
been called, who are loved by God the Father and
kept by Jesus Christ: Mercy, peace and love be yours
in abundance. Jude was the brother of Jesus Christ.
But it is significant that he calls himself the
brother of James. Jude wants everyone to know that,
though he is a half-brother of Jesus Christ through
his mother Mary, he considers himself to be a
servant of Jesus. I’m sure there were those who
tried to idolize him for being the brother of Jesus
Christ. If he had the character of some of the
current large crop of false teachers, he would have
written “Jude, the brother of Jesus Christ.” I’m
sure if some of these modern heretics could trace
their roots back to Christ, they would use that
information to get support for themselves and power
over people. But Jude does just the opposite. He
calls himself the servant of Jesus Christ. He is
addressing this letter to those who have been
called, and who are loved by God the Father and kept
by Jesus Christ. So he is addressing this letter to
Christians. God has called every true believer.
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Paul
Run the Race, Win the Prize by
Sandy Simpson
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly
await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
who, by the power that enables him to bring
everything under his control, will transform our
lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious
body. Jesus Christ is coming again. We
are citizens of heaven, not this earth, and Jesus
will come to take us to our homeland. So true
believers eagerly await His coming, unlike those who
oppose the cross of Christ who think they must take
dominion over the earth or laugh at the idea of the
Rapture. There are many of them today.
We know that when Jesus comes, by His power, He will
bring everything under His control. We are not
called to do that as the Church. Jesus will do
that when He comes, and when He comes we will be
changed and receive our everlasting bodies that will
never wear out.
1 Cor. 15:51-57 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We
will not all sleep, but we will all be changed in a
flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will
be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For
the perishable must clothe itself with the
imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When
the perishable has been clothed with the
imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then
the saying that is written will come true: "Death
has been swallowed up in victory." "Where, O death,
is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" The
sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the
law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Today,
in
a majority of churches, we see the result of the
seeker-friendly,"purpose-driven", church
growth, Third Wave, New Apostolic Reformation
methods and teachings and their product I am
calling"Entertainment-style Christianity"
(ESC). But ESC churches are not only
missing out on the cutting edge of true
Christianity, but areheading down the road to
apostasy.
True
biblical
Christianity is "interactive". Those in
ESC are taughtto be spectators at mega-church
entertainment events. They are not taught
the Bible but rather to be enamored with the
oratoricalskills of the preacher, and to not
dare question anything that is shoved down the
throats of the "laity" by the ruling
"anointed"elite. They are treated to a
circus atmosphere including wild CCM music with
people flailing around and acting like they are
on drugs, topreachers who tell endless stories
about themselves and joke about everything while
actually making profundity mundane, to hula
dancing,to banners and marching in the church
and around it, to the blowing of shofars, to
slain in the spirit and wild
manifestations. Theirsears are tickled by
guest speakers who make up sermons out of their
own imaginations instead of the written
Word. They are entertainedwith gold dust,
gold fillings, "angel" feathers, "angel"
footprints, drunk in the spirit antics, and
during these displays they can go outand get a
latte and a snack at the church snack bar.
They come into these mega churches and leave
without being personally challengedother than
with tired worldly psychology, and without
anyone being able to find out what they are
doing in their private lives. A
smallpercentage attend "cell groups" where they
are diapraxed into consensus instead of
challenged to be Bereans and think and act
forthemselves. They live like the world
during the week, then come to church where the
world is not only welcomed but accommodated.
Commentators
seem to think that this section of Habakkuk was
addressing theCeasarsand
their drunken desire for power.Seems
these two things often go together.
Those who
love drunk in the spirit are no exception.They
are trying to get others to share in their
debauchery and the false hope of an end-times
worldwide revival, currently through the Saturate
2020 events.Though
these were two of the hereticaldistinctivesof
the New Order of the Latter Rain, these ideas are
nothing new.The
righteous continue to live by faith, while the
proud boast in their drunken state.
Saturate 2020 is another in a long
line of Latter Rain revivals which do not meet the
criteria of a Biblical revival at all (Acts
3:19). The Toronto “Blessing” and
Brownsville “Revival” both came into towns all over
the world with the promise that people were getting
saved and nothing weird was going on at their
meetings. This was always a lie as the
true Gospel was not preached but instead people were
invited forward to have hands laid on them in order
to transfer an impartation. Meanwhile
false doctrines were laid down in order to get
people involved in churches like Bethel Church in
Redding, CA. We are warned in Scripture
about this. Galatians
2:4 But it was because of the
false brethren secretly brought in, who
had sneaked in to spy out our liberty which we have
in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us into
bondage.
2
Peter 2:1 But false prophets also
arose 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.
The fact that some formerly Biblical churches have
joined this circus is a testament to their lack of
teaching discernment. Some of these
denominations were warned repeatedly about the
Latter Rain, Word of Faith and the New Apostolic
Reformation yet they apparently wanted to remain
“willfully ignorant”. The people
advertised as being involved with this latest
“revival” are almost all associated with Bethel in
some way and promoters of what they teach.
This is not a true Biblical revival but rather a
revival of the occult and New Age among
Christians. This meeting is actually
hurting the cause of Christ and will not have any
real beneficial effect on the culture of California,
which has turned decidedly evil for
decades. These Dominionists
will not be saving the planet, but are rather
setting people up for the coming
antichrist. Nor will they rid the world
of coronavirus, but rather likely add to it.
Should biblical Christian
churches be Christ-centered (Christocentric)?
Should the doctrines of the Father (Patriology) and
the Holy Spirit (Pnematology) also be equally
emphasized? Can a church be Patriocentric or
Pnemacentric and be biblical?
The answer to these questions
are quite simple from a biblical perspective.
There have been charges leveled at some movements such
as the Pietist Movement in Germany and other movements
that they place too much emphasis on Christ to the
exclusion of the Father and the Holy Spirit.
This may be true to a certain degree. The
doctrines of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit must be
taught with equal emphasis so that Christians will
know what they believe.
But should a church be
Patriocentric or Pnemacentric? No. For
instance, there are far too many churches today,
having been influenced by hyper-Pentecostalism and the
Latter Rain, that are Pnemacentric. They spend
most of their time focusing on the Holy Spirit to the
exclusion of preaching the Gospel while, in fact, they
don't even have a biblical doctrine of the Holy
Spirit. I believe that because classic
Evangelicals, to a certain degree, dropped the ball in
defining the Person and role of the Holy Spirit it
gave an opening to Third Wavers to step in with their
erroneous ideas of Pnematology.
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The
Letter to Laodicea Is a Warning to the TRUE
Church Today by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this
article.
Rev.
3:14-22 And unto the angel of the church of
the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen,
the faithful and true witness, the beginning of
the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou
art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold
or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and
neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my
mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and
increased with goods, and have need of nothing;
and knowest not that thou art wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I
counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire,
that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that
thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy
nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes
with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I
love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore,
and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and
knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the
door, I will come in to him, and will sup with
him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I
grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also
overcame, and am set down with my Father in his
throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches.
Much has been made of this passage, using it to
point out what is happening today in the apostate
churches around the world. It is true that
they believe they are rich in spiritual things
when they are very poor. It can be applied
in one sense to theWord of Faithmovement.
It is true that the "River" movement of Latter
Rain teachings do think they are hot when actually
they are cold.
But this letter to the end
times church of Laodicea is actually talking to
biblical Christians who are born again. The
apostate movements of theLatter
Rain,Third
Wave,Toronto
"Blessing",Vineyard,Brownsville
"Outpouring",Word
of Faith,New
Apostolic Reformation,World
Gathering on Indigenous People,Manifest
Sons of God,Seeker
Friendly,Church
Growth,Emerging
Churchand many others have
already had their lampstands removed (Rev. 2:5)
because of their apostasy and have already been spit
out of the Lord's mouth (Rev. 3:16). We can
know this because of what the Bible says about those
who teach false doctrines (1 Tim. 6:3-5, 2 Tim. 4:3)
and make false prophecies (1 John 4:1). These false
churches, false movements and false brethren (Gal.
2:4) are already under the judgment of the warnings
of theseven
letters, as all but two of the original first
century churches are today (only the two who Jesus
did not warn still survive today). Therefore
theletters
to the churchesapply to
those churches who have not had their lampstands
removed and been spit out of the mouth of God
because of heresy and false prophesy. So the
warning to the true biblical churches today
remains. Why is this warning significant to
us?
It is significant because,
by in large, it isthe
true Church today that has allowed the movements
mentioned above to infiltrate and take over the
agenda for what is called "Christianity" today.
In Titus 1:6-11 Paul tells Titus to
appoint "overseers" in the churches. The
word "overseer" isepiskoposin
Greek
and means bishop, curator, superintendent,
guardian, watchman. Overseers are to be shepherds
to the sheep, watchmen, guardians.
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Cares for You by Sandy Simpson
The story of the feeding of the 5000 is
found in all the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke &
John. When something is repeated in the Bible it means
that it is important and is something we must try to
understand. There is often a deeper meaning in
sentences or stories that are repeated.
In this same story repeated in Mark 6:34
it says:
"When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had
compassion on them, because they were like sheep
without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many
things."
One of the main things that Jesus is... is
compassionate. He cares for His people. He was
compassionate then and He is still compassionate
today. Jesus came and saw the needs of the people. So
He did two things. He met their physical need of
hunger for bread, and He also met their spiritual
hunger for the bread of life. As Jesus told us in John
... He is the bread of life. The Bible, the Word of
God, being the word of the Father and the Son, is also
the bread of life. Jesus is the living example
of the Word as it also says in John "The Word was made
flesh and lived among us".
This
paper exposes what General Boykin has been doing in
Calvary Chapels and his associations.
He
isGrand Chancellor of
the Vatican's Jesuitical "Knights of Malta", an
ecumenical society under the leadership of Rome
where Catholics, Protestants and a plethora of
others unite in what cannot be a unity of the Faith.
We just finished as study in the book of Jonah
in our Bible study groups. As we studied
through that true story I became aware of an
application for Church leaders today.
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What Does The Bible Teach About
"Synergy"?
by Sandy Simpson
Synergy is also a concept being adapted and
taught today as a major tenet of the Third Wave, New
Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement. Dutch
Sheets was one of the first to introduce this concept
to that movement back in the National School of the
Prophets - Mobilizing the Prophetic Office Conference
at Ted Haggard's New Life Church in Colorado Springs,
CO on May 12, 2002.
HUMOR: Time for a rewrite of the old
hymns. In this day and age of Third Wave
revival movements and Word-Faith dominion, the old
hymns just aren't cutting it anymore. Not only
are they old fashioned musically, but the lyrics
are, for the most part, particularly depressing.
They talk of sin, death, repentance, the cross, the
blood of Jesus and a whole host of other disgusting
subjects. There are also too many lyrics in
them, frankly, which takes away from the "worship"
atmosphere. Repetitiveness is what we need, not dead
doctrinal concepts. The old hymns are just too
biblical. Give us a beat to move our feet, not
concepts to move our hearts and minds!
Here is a list of some hymns that
could be "upgraded" to meet the criteria of the
Third Wave, Word-Faith, Latter Rain, Manifest Sons
Of God, New Apostolic Reformation. This list
is by no means complete. If you don't
recognize the hymns mentioned perhaps it would be
worth your time to go back and read them, then
compare what they say to the new doctrines.
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Saved by Sandy Simpson
“To be almost saved is to be totally
lost.” – Adrian Rogers
There are many so-called
“Christians” today who are clearly “almost saved” by
their testimonies and/or actions.But
to be “almost saved” is to be completely lost.A person who is drowning and almost
saved drowns.A woman who is
almost pregnant is not pregnant.King Agrippa
said, “You are almost persuading me to be a
Christian (Acts 26:28)” but being almost persuaded
is not enough to be saved.
The word “almost” means “very nearly”,
“not quite.” In light of this we may conclude that
to come close to the target, or “almost” hit it,
means to completely miss the mark. (Shalem Evangelical Church
Bush Hall Yard Gap, St. Michael)
"Silence
the noise of your songs" by Sandy Simpson, 5/26/19
Amos 5:21-27 “I hate, I reject your
festivals, nor do I delight in your solemn
assemblies. “Even though you offer up to Me
burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not
accept them; and I will not even look at the peace
offerings of your fatlings. “Take away from Me the
noise of your songs; I will not even listen to the
sound of your harps. “But let justice roll down like
waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings
in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?
You also carried along Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun,
your images, the star of your gods which you made for
yourselves. Therefore, I will make you go into exile
beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God
of hosts. When I first reread this passage in Amos, a
few things struck me. First of all the Lord is
bringing judgment on Israel for carrying on religious
ceremony without true dedication to the Lord.
They sing songs and present their offerings while
harboring idols. I was reminded of how the Lord
must view the heretical apostate mega church
celebrations of today. There is a lot of pomp
and circumstance, yet little or no obedience to the
Word of God. The Lord does not look favorably
upon worship of that type, no matter the hype, no
matter the noise, no matter the show. He
actually “hates” it.
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How To Find A Good Church by Sandy Simpson, 2003
Here’s how to find a good church.
What you need to find is a church that not only has
orthodox doctrinal statements but teaches, both
explicitly and implicitly, in line with the core
doctrines of the Faith. These are
Bible-believing Christ-centered churches that are
balanced in their theology. Be sure to test all
churches before you become involved. It is
acceptable to get involved with a house church or
Bible study as long as there is someone who has the
gift of teaching there to lead the study of God’s
Word.
Hebrews 10:25 not forsaking our own
assembling together, as is the habit of some, but
encouraging one another; and all the more as you see
the day drawing near.
The Christian life is not one to be
lived alone. Trust me; I have sympathy for those
who have been spiritually injured by false churches,
false prophets, false teachers and false
apostles. It is often a long road back from the
diaprax of heresy. But to undo the brainwashing
you will need help, especially from those who are
already ahead of you on your journey back. The
first century church was known for the following:
Acts 2:42 They were continually
devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to
fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
This is a good gauge to tell if you are
involved in an effective assembly of believers, no
matter how small. Remember that the first
century churches were in homes. In my experience
smaller churches are much better at doing the above
and more. Avoid mega churches.
This book was written by my mother and
is about my family's experience as missionaries in
Micronesia. Juanita went to be with the Lord in
August of 2018. This book has been a blessing to
many people around the world and I want to share it
with you. - Sandy Simpson
This is the
story of a young woman who goes to the ends of
the Earth with her pastor husband and two small
children. While describing the hardships of
living in a remote village on a remote Pacific
Island in the 60's, it also gives us a vision of
the joy the family experienced as well. The
heart of the book is the story of how the author
survives the death of her husband and goes on to
serve God and the Micronesian people in her own
right.This book
reveals a woman of great faith and courage. In
addition, the book is well written and a pleasure
to read.Having met the author, I will add that
there are thousands of people throughout
Micronesia who love her and who have benefited
by her faithfulness and commitment over the
years. Read the book and get to know this
wonderful woman. Review by Richard
D. Shewman on Amazon.
Deliverance! A Biblical
Guide To Freedom from "Another Spirit" The Possible
Consequence of the Unbiblical Practice of "Slain
In the Spirit" by Sandy
Simpson
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The cases are legion. Let's look
at John (a pseudonym) as one case in thousands that I
read through the years in the emails sent to my site.
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A Short
History of Dominionism by Sandy Simpson
In
order to understand where the modern fusion called
“Dominioism” comes
from, I want to first give you definitions of
Kingdom Now, Dominionism
and Reconstructionism.
Dominionism is
sparsely defined as follows:
“Dominion Theology (also known
as Dominionism)
is a group of Christian political ideologies
that seek to institute a nation governed by
Christians based on their personal
understandings of biblical law. Extents of rule
and ways of achieving governing authority are
varied. For example, Dominion Theology can
include theonomy,
but does not necessarily involve advocating
Mosaic law as the basis of government. The label
is applied primarily toward groups of
Protestants in the United States.” [1]
It
is more closely defined this way:
“Dominionism,
or Christian Dominionism
is a term coined by social scientists and
popularized by journalists to refer to a subset
of American Christianity that is conservative,
politically active, and believes that Christians
should, and eventually will, take control of the
government. The term is sometimes used as a
“catch-all” by bloggers to describe any
politically active Christian, but not every
conservative, politically minded Christian is
a Dominionist.
Christian Dominionists
believe that God desires Christians to rise to
power through civil systems so that His Word
might then govern the nation. The belief that
“America is a Christian nation” is sometimes
called “soft dominionism”;
the
idea that God wants only Christians to hold
government office and run the country according
to biblical law is called “hard dominionism.”
[2]
“Hard Dominioism” as it is
called in the above definition, is what C. Peter
Wagner (deceased) of the New Apostolic Reformation
(a term he coined) have been advocating, following
the teachings of the New Order of the Latter Rain
and Reformed Theology “Reconstructionism”.
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Maturity
Training by Sandy Simpson
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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Bill Johnson
Quotes by Sandy Simpson
This article is about the use of
invective while attempting to do apologetics or
teaching discernment. Invective is defined as a
noun: insulting, abusive, or highly critical language
ie. "he let out a stream of invective". I admit
to using invective at times in the past. My goal
is to stop that practice and focus on the facts, not
attack an individual’s ability to comprehend.
In the case of Christians, the first
thing to consider when doing apologetics is our
mandate to reconcile people to Christ, no matter who
they are.
2 Cor. 5:18-21 Now all these things
are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through
Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,
namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world
to Himself, not counting their trespasses against
them, and He has committed to us the word of
reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for
Christ, as though God were making an appeal through
us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to
God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our
behalf so that we might become the righteousness of
God in Him.
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Nations are the True God
by Sandy Simpson
I have some questions for those of
the World Christian Gathering of Indigenous People
(WCGIP) adherents such as Don Richardson,
Daniel Kikawa,
Richard Twiss
(deceased), Terry LeBlanc, Danny Lehman, Aloha KeAkua,
YWAM as well as many in the Emergent Church (EC) ...
the questions arise from their claim that the
"supreme beings" of the nations are all the True
God, YHWH, the God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. You can read more on this subject in
our book "Idolatry In Their Hearts" or in
the WCGIP
section of my site.
My
main question for them is this: When did ANY of the
Patriarchs and Prophets in the Old Testament and the
Apostles or Jesus Christ in the New Testament EVER
claim that the "supreme beings" of the nations
were Elohim/YHWH,
the one True God? Let's look at some examples
in the form of questions and you can check out the
source links as well.
10
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Acts 3:19 Therefore repent and
return, so that your sins may be wiped away,
in order that times of refreshing may come
from the presence of the Lord;
There has been so much hype of
"revival" in our modern day that it is easy to
forget the true biblical criteria and definition of
revival. Revival cannot be brought about by signs
and wonders or "laying" on of hands to transfer
apostolic or prophetic "anointings". In fact there
is no such thing in the Bible.The Biblical criterion
for revival has, as a precondition, repentance. The
word "refreshing" is also defined as "revive".
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Peter Popoff Back to his old tricks! by Sandy Simpson
I received a letter from Peter Popoff.
This infamous televangelist, in the past, was
found to be guilty of wearing an earpiece so that
his accomplices in his sound booth could feed him
personal information on people in his audience
while he was claiming to get personal messages
directly from God. This letter proves that,
not only is he back as a regular on TV, he is also
back to his old tricks.
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Practices in the Churches How the occult has been
fully integrated into many Christian lives and
fellowships by Sandy Simpson
The Bible is quite clear about occult
practices.Neither Israel nor
the Church is to have anything to do with the way
the world tries to gain secret knowledge.The Gnostics were and are known
for promoting new revelation that is either loosely
tied to Scripture taken out ofcontext or not at all.The Israelites seeking information
from the dead or in omens were judged harshly by the
Lord who had warned them numerous times to stay away
from that stuff.
Yet due to the influences
of heretical teachers in the New Apostolic
Reformation, Word of Faith, Emergent Church, and the New Age many have been
successful in getting lots of churches and
denominations into occult practices that have been
thinly disguised as “Christian�?.Many
of those who follow these people, I’m sure, have no idea how far they have
strayed into the occult.
First I want to give the
dictionary definitions and then Biblical warnings
against these practices.Then I
will give examples in the churches taken mainly from
the ElijahList
e-newsletter.
List of Practices Detestable To
God
Deuteronomy 18:9-12
“When you enter the land which the Lord your God
gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the
detestable things of those nations. There shall
not be found among you anyone who makes his son or
his daughter pass through the fire, one who
uses divination, one who practices witchcraft,
or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or
one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who
calls up the dead. For whoever does these
things is detestable to the Lord;
and because of these detestable things the Lord your God will
drive them out before you.
Isaiah 8:19When
they say to you, “Consult the mediums and
the spiritists
who whisper and mutter,�? should not a
peopleconsult
their God?Should
theyconsultthe
dead on behalf of the living?
Using the above list from Deuteronomy
and Isaiah, let’s take a look at each individual
practice.
New Important Book! Dominionism! How Unbiblical Action Can
Change The Churches by Dr. Orrel Steinkamp &
Sandy Simpson
Preface
By Sandy Simpson
The title and cover art of this work
are a play off of the book by C. Peter Wagner
entitled “"Dominion! How Kingdom Action Can Change
The World". In contrast to this specious claim
we have titled this book “Dominionism! How
Unbiblical Action Can Change The Churches�?.
We think that is far more in keeping with what we
will present in this series of articles and essays
on the subject of Kingdom Now/Dominionism.
Indeed, many churches have already
been changed by accepting the false teachings that
constitute Dominionism. This started decades
ago under Reformed Reconstrucionism and Latter Rain
theology, but even before that in the Roman Catholic
Church (RCC). The attempt of Constantine to
protect Christians from being persecuted, since he
claimed he had become one of them, turned out to
begin a journey in syncretism and Dominion. It
wasn’t long before corrupt church officials began to
try to seize power all over Europe and beyond as the
“Holy Roman Empire�?. The Reformation itself
was a reaction to the lengths to which the RCC had
gone to take control over the Scriptures, the
nations, the kingdoms, and the people for financial
gain. They sold indulgences, promising those
who came up with enough money a much shorter time in
Purgatory. Those same ploys are being used
today on what has been loosely called “Christian
television�? by the sale of trinkets and promises of
healing, financial gain and even salvation.
These ideas all coalesce in
Dominionism. If it were true that the Church
needs to take over the planet, then we would be
seeing the unstoppable plans of God’s physical
Kingdom unfolding. But we do not. All we
see are failed prophecies, empty edicts and
declarations coming from false apostles and false
prophets. They love to fool Christians with
talk of the “kingdom�? when it is clear they are
talking about a different “kingdom�?; a Kingdom Now
not a Kingdom come. Jesus taught us to pray:
“Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it
is in heaven�?. The implication is that we are
to be about building His spiritual Kingdom while
praying for and expecting His physical Kingdom to
come. The only way we can do that is to
continue in the Great Commission till He comes, not
attempt to rule where God has not given the Church
the authority to rule. Jesus will do that when
He returns. If we go off on the tangent the
Dominionists want us to go, we will not only miss
out on the blessings of His Kingdom to come, but may
well be deserving of judgment.
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Seeds, Soil & Fruit by Sandy Simpson
Matt. 13:38-39 The field is the
world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the
kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,
and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The
harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are
angels. Matthew 7:17 Likewise every good
tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad
fruit.
Original sin is the bad seed in
everyone. We all start with a bad seed.
Jer. 17:9 The heart is
deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who
can understand it? Rom. 3:23 for all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God, Rom. 5:12 Therefore, just as sin
entered the world through one man, and death through
sin, and in this way death came to all men, because
all sinned
We need to have the bad seed destroyed
and replaced with good seed.
Gal. 5:24 Those who belong to
Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature
with its passions and desires. Rom. 6:6 For we know that our
old self was crucified with him so that the body of
sin might be done away with, that we should no
longer be slaves to sin 1 Pet. 1:23 For you have been
born again, not of perishable seed, but of
imperishable, through the living and enduring
word of God.
The good seed is the Word, the Gospel.
Luke 8:11 "This is the meaning
of the parable: The seed is the word of God. 1 John 3:9 No one who is born of
God will continue to sin, because God's seed
remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because
he has been born of God.
Bad seeds are from the enemy and are full
of false doctrine and a false gospel.
Matt. 13:38-39 The field is the
world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the
kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,
and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The
harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are
angels.
Will the Real Blasphemers
Please Stand Up? by Sandy Simpson
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article.
This subject is one so serious that I
do it with great fear and trepidation. Nonetheless,
because I get so many e-mails accusing me and other
Bereans of blasphemy, among other serious charges, I
felt it was necessary to clear up some issues on this
topic. Because of my stand for the truth of God's Word
juxtaposed against all the false teaching that is
going on today, I think it is important to do a quick
study on what blasphemy is actually all about from a
biblical standpoint. There are many references
to blasphemy in the Bible and from them we can find
out how and why that term was used.
You will see that the word "blasphemy"
in the Scriptures is the very definition of what the
false teachers and false prophets are doing today!
This is a name I came up with for
people attending and teaching at Oral Roberts
University in the 70s. Even back then I had come
to realize that their way of representing Christianity
was not in line with the Scriptures. At that
time I didn’t know that Oral Roberts was carrying on
the Word of Faith traditions of New Thought
practitioners such as Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland,
Essex Kenyan, Norman Vincent Peale, Robert Schuler,
and many other false teachers of the time.
Though I didn’t know anything about Word of Faith or
New Thought then I knew that the way they were
representing Christianity was just not right
somehow. Their desire to portray Christians as
rich, beautiful, healthy, perfect, and virtually
sinless (holiness) went directly against the example
of Jesus, the Apostles and the early church.
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The book by C.S. Lewis called
"Screwtape Letters" was a clever idea in exposing a
number of tactics of the enemy. Those principles
are still at work today in many churches.
Following is a list of some of the things the enemy
wants to see in churches and Christians in order to
bring them down.
Bradford Pear Christianity by Sandy Simpson
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article.
I was driving along and noticing that
spring has sprung here in North Carolina. One of the
first trees to bloom is the Bradford Pear. I began to
notice how that tree has proliferated almost
everywhere and then my wife looked up the information
on this tree on the web. As she began to read the
facts about this tree and its proliferation I began to
see an allegorical parallel to what is going on in
much of Christendom. But before I get into what the
Bradford Pear can show us about the churches, I need
to present the facts about the tree.
The Lord's Prayer, Our Prayer by Sandy Simpson
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Matt. 6:9-13 This, then, is how
you should pray: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed
be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our
daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have
forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."
This model
prayer that Jesus taught the disciples to pray
contains many important precepts. It should
probably be called "The Disciple's Prayer". It
starts with a very important concept in the first
verse.
The Fallacious Arguments of
Neo-Universalists by Sandy Simpson
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The new Universalists are not as
vocal about their Universalism ideas but are far
more deadly to the Church as they are not rejected
like classic Universalists were decades ago.
The new Universalists would include Emerging Church
leaders like Brian McLaren, Leonard Sweet, Spencer
Burke, Alan Jones and others like Wycliffe, Society
of Biblical Literature, World Christian
Gathering of Indigenous Peoples, Richard Twiss,
Daniel Kikawa, Terry LeBlanc, Rick Warren, Henry
Nowen, YWAM, Tony Campolo, Robert Schuller, George
Otis Jr., and even Billy Graham.
The future of apologetics and
discernment ministries by Sandy Simpson
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I admit that I am
very skeptical about the future of discernment and
apologetics ministries. I don't see the next
generation coming up to replace those who have stood
for the truth for so long. Fortunately many apologists
have gone to be with the Lord but who will replace
them? I don't see replacements coming up who will take
the place of those who have been fighting the fight
the years. I run a web site where I collect articles
and materials from all over the world and present them
in a sort of Reader's Digest format so that people can
come to one place to get the latest information on
heresies in the churches as well as research past
ones. What I've seen in the last couple of years is
that the production of regular materials is declining
to the point where it's becoming difficult to find one
article for my site to post every day. Of course I
write my own articles but don't have enough time to
write an article on a daily basis. I am very concerned
because of the tsunami of false ideas from the enemy
in the churches. At the same time, unfortunately, I
see a lot of younger people who don't even recognize
anymore that something is wrong.
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Church History & The Core
Doctrines by Sandy Simpson
This 4-DVD set is a combination of a
condensed study on Church History and the Discernment
Toolkit series which deals with the core doctrines of
the Church and how to use them to discern error.
The Church History DVD takes a different approach to
Church History in that it does not celebrate the
Catholic Church but rather exposes it as false
Christianity. It covers World religions, false
Christianity and finally a study of the true remnant
Church through history following the story of the many
martyrs who stood up for true Biblical faith.
The "Weight of Glory" by Sandy Simpson
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2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light
affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for
us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
(KJV)
This is both an incredible source of
hope for Christians who are downtrodden, and a
source of escalating heresy in many churches.It is
critical that we understand what Paul was talking
about when he wrote the phrase “weight of
glory�?.Jacob Prasch has repeated this phrase in his
teachings over the years … “A text, out of context,
in isolation from co-text is always a pre-text."A
huge problem today is that individuals and movements
tend to yank verses out of their context and build a
cult of heresy around them.This is called eisegesis
or plugging your own ideas into the Scriptures
instead of exegesis, gaining understanding and
interpretation of the Bible by studying it in
context and in the scope of the whole written Word.
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Hearts" or "The World In Their
Hearts"? by Sandy Simpson
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In the introduction to Mike
Oppenheimer's and my book "Idolatry In Thier Hearts"
I exposed the fact that Don Richardson pulled the
phrase "Eternity In Thier Hearts" to use as his book
title from it's context in Ecc. 3:11. He did
this to support his thesis, which actually
contradicts the second part of that verse, where it
states that man cannot fathom what God has done.
Richardson, rather, sets forth what has become the
foundation for the false teachings of the WCGIP,
YWAM, a number of Bible translation societies and
the Emerging Church ... the propostion that men from
Gentile cultures have always been seeking God and
that Gentile cultures were already worshipping the
true God before missionaries came with the Gospel.
But as I further investigated this
verse I found that Richardson even ignored the true
meaning of the FIRST half of the verse in favor of a
few translations that use the phrase "eternity in
their hearts".
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Christians who “turn
away�? by Sandy Simpson
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Jeremiah 3:10-11 And yet for all
this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto
me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the
LORD. And the LORD said unto me, “The backsliding
Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous
Judah.�? (KJV) Israel had turned away from the Lord
and had gone after the gods of Canaan, namely
Baal and Asherah. Because Israel had
prostituted herself with false gods in worshipping the
polytheistic gods that started at Babel, God had
declared He was divorcing Israel and would send them
into exile until they again returned to the true God.
But Judah prided itself in doing what God had
commended as they had Jerusalem and the Temple.
They disdained Israel for setting up altars to Baal
and Asherah poles on high hills. Yet God was not
fooled by Judah’s pretence. In the KJV it says
they were not worshipping God with their whole heart
but “feignedly�?.
Prophets for profit by Sandy Simpson
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2 Cor. 2:17 Unlike so many, we do
not peddle the word of God for profit. On the
contrary, in Christ we speak before God with
sincerity, as those sent from God.
There are many false teachers on TV
these days who peddle the word of God for
profit. They make promises of healing that do
not come true by claiming if they are given a
financial gift the person will receive healing and
riches. When what they promised does not happen
the person is blamed that they did not have enough
faith. This often destroys the faith of people who
fall into the traps of these snake oil salesmen.
I have no problem with people charging for their
materials if they cost to be produced, even though it
is hoped that when a person cannot afford to pay for
books and DVDs they will receive them free of
charge. But the charges levied on people for
conferences and speaking engagements is often
excessive. A minister of God can ask for support
and deserves it if they are being diligent in their
study and proclamation of the Word. But
experiences and feelings often come with a price today
and that is not right.
"Mistake" or "Sin"? by Sandy Simpson
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Today we often hear the word
"mistake" coming from pulpits, and especially in
defense of false teaching and false prophesy.
"Cut him some slack! He just made some
mistakes". "We all make mistakes, so don't
judge lest you be judged." We even hear the
word "mistakes" being substituted for the word "sin"
in many presentations of what I have termed "Gospel
Lite" today. So is it proper to substitute the word
"mistake" for the word "sin"? We'll look at
the problem of one word "mistakenly" being used for
the other.
Holy Ghost IGNORED! by Sandy Simpson
This 3-DVD set is a message based on this movie review.
"Holy Ghost Reborn" is the second
film in the "Holy Ghost" series released by Bethel
Church in Redding, CA. Tim Wirth and I
reviewed the first "Holy Ghost" film and that review
is freely available on YouTube here:
I am sorry to say this but Bethel is
clearly a cult of Christianity holding to most of
the teachings of the Latter Rain and Word of
Faith. They have demonstrated repeatedly a
manipulative atmosphere targeting young people in
particular while preaching rank heresy. This
new film is a continuation of those false teachings
and practices. I pray for the young people in
that church that they will come to know Jesus Christ
as their Savior and thus come to know the true Holy
Spirit.
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Holy Ghost
IGNORED! Part 4 - Addendum with Tim Wirth &
Sandy Simpson
This "Holy Ghost IGNORED! Part 4 -
Addendum is part of a 3-DVD series by Sandy Simpson
reviewing the film "Holy Ghost Reborn". This addendum
features a number of false teachings of Bethel Church
in Redding, CA that I was not able to include in the
3-Part series. Get
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what has become the "new" Christianity.
Servant Authority by Sandy
Simpson
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The world system has always been a "top
down" structure, starting at the apex of the pyramid
and going down to the bottom. In kingdoms we have the
king at the top, then the princes, common people,
slaves. In a democracy we have the President at the
top, the VP, the Sec. of State on down to the
citizens. In business we have the CEO at the top,
upper management, lower management, office workers and
the janitors. Unfortunately, sometime in the
third century, the church started to have a top down
structure. This is also when the church began to be in
error. The church of Rome began to have a "top down"
structure that started with the pope, then cardinals,
then bishops, then priests, then the people. Well,
what about that? Eph 4:11 It was he who
gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to
be evangelists, and some to be pastors and
teachers, This all sounds like a "top down"
structure. But the problem is that people have not
seen an important fact about these gifts of the Spirit
-- man looks at function and title, God looks at aim
and goal! Read on. Eph. 4:12 to prepare
God's people for works of service, so that the body of
Christ may be built up. These are not gifts given for
title or to give people job descriptions. They are
given because there are people out there who need our
help! The church needed the Apostles. They were the
ones who were the foundation of the church. They were
the ones who saw Jesus in the flesh and were taught by
Him personally. They wrote the New Testament
Scriptures. Though the gifts of apostle and prophet
are different today than in biblical times, the gift
of evangelism, pastoring, teaching and others are
still the same. A person who is an evangelist does not
just have a title so he can rule over people. The
reason that he has the gift to be an evangelist is so
that he can tell others the good news. Why do we have
pastors? Are they supposed to rule the church and get
everyone to support them and bow to their demands? No.
They are to serve the church by helping people to come
to a fuller knowledge of Jesus Christ, to equip the
saints to become more like Jesus every day.
The true structure of Christianity is
symbolized as an inverted pyramid!
�Overtake you like a thief� by Sandy
Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
1 Thessalonians 5:4 But you,
brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would
overtake you like a thief; How serious will it be
for a person to be overtaken in �that day� like a
thief overtakes a household when he slips in and
steals? Will it just be a surprise for those
who claim to be Christians who will get a slap on
the wrist by the Lord but still proceed to
heaven? Will they simply lose rewards but
still gain the ultimate reward? What is this
darkness that the brethren are not in? 1
Thessalonians 5:3-5 While they are saying,
�Peace and safety!� then destruction will come
upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a
woman with child, and they will not escape.
But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day
would overtake you like a thief; for you are all
sons of light and sons of day. We are not of
night or of darkness;
Generic and Specific by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
In my article �Blasphemizing
the
Bible� I give a number of examples of how a lot
of modern Bible translation societies are putting the
names of �supreme beings� in the Bible in the place of
God or YHWH. In this article I'm going to examine two
of the excuses they make for making those
substitutions in the Bible in many hundreds of
different languages today.
(1) They claim that God has many
different names and therefore they think they are
justified in putting the names of various gods of
various cultures in Bibles, as long as they are
considered �supreme beings�.
(2) The second excuse they give is that
the names of the �gods� they are placing in the Bible
are generic terms for God, like the words �God�,
�Theos�, �Dios� and �Elohim�. By generic I mean a word
that can be used for any deity whether of the one true
God or other false gods who claim to be God.
I will go through both of these excuses
and show that they are both unbiblical, therefore the
Bibles they have translated with names of other gods
in them, or names they claim are generic, prove that
they have �blasphemized� those Bibles.
The Ugly Side
of Diaprax by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
There has been a concerted effort by
the false teachers from many movements inside the
church such as Word of Faith, New Apostolic
Reformation (NAR)/Latter Rain, World Gathering on
Indigenous People and Emerging Church among others to
diaprax people into thinking that the church has been
ineffective until they came along with their new and
improved ideas on how to take over the world.
This is always a feature of the Hegelian Dialectical
process put into action by praxis, thus diaprax.
In order to form a new paradigm or worldview the
leadership of these movements must vilify orthodox
Biblical Christianity.
Deluded! by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
There are so many "Christian" leaders
out there that teach delusional teachings. These
teaching are dangerous and can lead a person to
shipwreck their faith.
Healer? Heal Thyself! by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
A good subtitle for this article might
be "Practice What You Preach!" There is no doubt
that God can and does heal people today. But the
false doctrines of the Word-Faith Movement about
"declaring" healing, "name-it-and-claim-it", etc. have
been proven to be lies by the very people who sell
this deceit. If you don't know about where these
famous "faith healers" go when they need healing, you
may be surprised. Why couldn't they heal
themselves when they purported to be able to heal
others by virtue of their superior faith? What
happened to the extraordinary faith they claimed to
have, enough faith to heal and be healed? Since
they are the ones who taught that all you have to do
is claim the healing that is in the Atonement (Is.
53:5) why did they not do so? Don't their deaths
prove that what they were preaching was a lie and
pragmatic witchcraft rather than biblical relality?
God�s Attitude toward the
�Supreme Beings� of the Nations by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this
article.
It is quite clear from Scripture that
YHWH does NOT consider the �supreme beings� of the
nations to be Himself, the One True God. This is
in opposition to the teachings of Don Richardson,
Daniel Kikawa, Richard Twiss and many others promoting
the World Christian Gathering of Indigenous People
movement, Emergent Church and Liberal
theologies. I have proven this time and time
again in my articles on the subject but I am going to
consolidate the information from the Bible in this
article by studying the false gods named in the
Bible. I am sure I will not be able to cover
every instance of supreme beings mentioned in the
Bible but I (1) want to deal with some of the major
ones (2) show you where they are found in the Word,
and (3) prove that they were the �supreme beings� of
those nations named by the patriarchs, prophets and
Apostles and that they were not monotheistic gods but
polytheistic in the tradition of Babel where the false
religion of polytheism first took root through the
worship of Nimrod and Semiramis.
You need to "nip it in the
bud"! by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
I am writing this article to address
a subject that I have often observed. It is
the fact that if you do not get the leaven out of
your church the leaven will become the
leadership.The Bible teaches quite clearly that if
you let the leaven in you will leaven the whole
lump.
Galatians 5:9 A little leaven
leavens the whole lump of dough.
We see this often in the case
of many �Christian� movements that have allowed a
small error to exist in their churches and have not
dealt with those issues. It then ends up
metastasizing into worse and worse problems as time
goes by.
The New Panentheistic "God" Of
Christendom by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
Now, I bet you read the title of this
article and thought I had misspelled the word
"pantheism". Just so that those of you who write
to me advising me of words I have misspelled in
articles (and I do often) I want to tell you that I am
using the term "panentheism" as coined by Karl C. F.
Krause. You can read more about this word and
concept in an excellent book called "A
Time Of Departing" by Ray Yungen.
There is a new "God" being promoted in
the Third Wave, New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and
Word of Faith movements whose teachers are regularly
seen on TBN, Daystar, SkyAngel, CBN and other
"Christian" TV networks. Some of those teachers
even have, what would be considered, a fairly typical
statement of faith or doctrinal statement they
endorse. But by what they teach they end up
promoting a false unbiblical view of God, especially
through their actions and experiences. The whole
phenomenon of "slain in the spirit" and all the antics
that go with it are brainwashing an entire generation
of Christians to put their faith in another Jesus,
another Spirit, another Gospel. This new "Jesus"
and "Holy Spirit" is clearly pantheistic or
panentheistic in nature. Though some of these
teachers would claim to be believing in the God who is
One God in Three Persons, by what they teach they deny
the very revealed character of God from Scripture.
What Should I Say? by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this booklet.
How do you answer an invitation to
attend a meeting where you know nothing about the
speaker or what will be done there? What happens if
they want to announce the meeting at your church and
invite everyone? What do you say to a person who tells
you that you don�t have the Holy Spirit even though
you are a Christian? What should you do if you think
something is wrong, or your conscience is bothering
you about something that was said or done? The
answer?
Go to the Scriptures!
The Bible has all the answers to your
questions. This little booklet is an attempt to deal
with a few of the typical statements you will hear
from people who have become involved in the Third Wave
revival movement. By �Third Wave� I am referring to
teachers, �prophets� and any meeting associated with
the Toronto �Blessing�, Brownsville Assemblies of God,
Rodney Howard-Browne, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland,
Rod Parsley, Marilyn Hickey, Joyce Meyers, Bethel
Church, Lakeland and many others who appear on the
Trinity Broadcasting Network and the 700 Club on
TV.
Hopefully the statements and answers in
this booklet will set you off on an investigation of
your own in the Word. If you need help, and you have
access to the Internet, you can visit my web site
called �Deception In The Church� that deals with these
issues and has the articles mentioned in this booklet.
Luring People To Destruction By The Unscrupulous Use Of The
"Gospel" Message by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
Phil.
1:14-18 Because of my chains, most of the
brothers in the Lord have been encouraged to speak the
word of God more courageously and fearlessly. It
is true that some preach Christ out of envy and
rivalry, but others out of goodwill. The latter
do so in love, knowing that I am put here for the
defense of the gospel. The former preach Christ out of
selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they
can stir up trouble for me while I am in chains. But
what does it matter? The important thing is that in
every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ
is preached. And because of this I rejoice. Yes, and I
will continue to rejoice,
If you see what I see in this passage,
this argument cannot be used for people like Benny
Hinn, Kenneth Copeland and the hundreds, even
thousands of Third Wave ministers today who are not
merely envious and self ambitious, but are also
teaching outright false doctrine. Paul was not talking
about heretics in this statement, but "brothers in the
Lord" who preach the Gospel with wrong motives. Third
Wave teachers not only have wrong motives, they also
have the wrong message. This argument cannot be
used for people like Hinn, even if they manage to
preach enough of the "Gospel" for people to come to a
saving knowledge of the Lord, because they are also
teaching and practicing heresy.
One of Satan�s Final
Masquerades by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
2 Corinthians 11:14 And
no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel
of light.
Satan often disguises himself
with the purpose of deceiving people. One way in
which I believe he is putting on a masquerade is by
appearing as �Mary� to millions of people
worldwide.
Attack Of The Enemy On The Churches by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this
article.
So much heresy is entering the churches
these days. As you would suspect, sometimes it
is due to a pastor attending a conference or reading a
book and becoming diapraxed with unbiblical
ideas. He then starts to weave those ideas into
his messages and begins to invite speakers to the
church who expound on those ideas. Then when
confronted by someone in the church who has
reservations about the new stuff being taught, they
are told to not talk about it and just go along with
the program. If that person does not they are
ostracized, slander behind their back, and often told
to leave (which is what they should do in any
case).
But my observation is that it is not
only the pastor who causes unbiblical changes to
influence a church. Often the pastor is
blissfully unaware of influences coming into his
church. They often come in through (1) the
worship team (2) women�s groups (3) bookstore (4)
children�s programs (5) interdenominational prayer
efforts and (6) relief and mission
organizations. If unchecked this type of
infiltration is much more subtle and can become deeply
rooted.
Marks Of False Religion by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one
takes you captive through philosophy and empty
deception, according to the tradition of men,
according to the elementary principles of the world,
rather than according to Christ.
In context Paul is especially
addressing, though perhaps not to the exclusion of
other false religion, what had become the false
religion of the Pharisees and Jewish leadership.
There were many Jewish so-called �Christians� making
the rounds among the fledgling early churches who were
trying to get the Gentiles to come under the Law from
which Christ had purchased their freedom. John
Gill states this case well in his commentary.
Universalism in the
World has Permeated the Church by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
The current fad of interfaith
solidarity and unity is simply a thin guise of
inclusivism, Universalism and pluralism.
Universalism is defined by
Dictionary.com as: The doctrine that emphasizes the
universal fatherhood of God and the final salvation
of all souls. (Source)
Universalism is a religion and theology that
generally holds all persons and creatures are
related to God or the divine and will be reconciled
to God. (Source)
Pluralism is defined as: The
doctrine that reality is composed of many ultimate
substances. � The belief that no single
explanatory system or view of reality can account
for all the phenomena of life. (American Heritage
Dictionary, (Source)
Inclusivism is: "Inclusivism posits
that even though the work of Christ is the only
means of salvation, it does not follow that explicit
knowledge of Christ is necessary in order for one to
be saved. In contrast to pluralism, inclusivism
agrees with exclusivism in affirming the
particularity of salvation in Jesus Christ. But
unlike exclusivism, inclusivism holds that an
implicit faith response to general revelation can be
salvific. God expects from man a response
proportional to the light given. Saving faith is not
characterized so much by its cognitive content as it
is by its reverent quality." (Ken Keathley, None
Dare Call It Treason: Is an Inclusivist a Paul
Revere or a Benedict Arnold? (Ken Keathley,
Assistant Professor of Theology and Philosophy New
Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, (Source)
We deal with these old heresies
brought forward to modernity, these ideas that all
men have have a relationship with God that will
cause them to be able to avoid judgement in our book
on the teachings of the World Gathering on
Indigenous People movement called �Idolatry In Their
Hearts�. The idea that all men who
worship a �god� are worshipping the true God, YHWH,
has bubbled up to the very top of our societies and
religions, and even Christendoom, and should sound a
warning alarm to true Biblical Christianity.
Instead, as usual in our day, most Christians are
asleep at the wheel while Universalists claim that
you can pray to a �god� like Allah and be praying to
the true Trinue God, YHWH. I also dealt with the
fact that Allah is not YHWH, both in our book and in
the article �Is Allah The
Same As YHWH?�.
What We Need Is A Reverse
Paradigm Shift! by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
I'm going to warn you now. I am
going to let you in on some information tonight that
is going to radically change your world view.
You are likely going to experience the beginnings of a
reverse paradigm shift and after tonight there will be
no way to go back the way you came. You will be
faced with choices that you may never have known you
had. You will be faced with a new way of looking
at things that is going to cause you to rethink
everything that is being taught in the Emerging Latter
Rain churches. It is going to be radical because
the basis for this message doesn't come from Jesus
Christ visiting my room last night bodily, but from
His holy written Word. So buckle down your seat
belts, you're likely in for a bumpy ride!
Matt. 7:15-23
"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in
sheep�s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious
wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do
people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from
thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit,
but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot
bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good
fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is
cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their
fruit you will recognize them. "Not everyone who
says to me, �Lord, Lord,� will enter the kingdom of
heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father
who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day,
�Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and
in your name drive out demons and perform many
miracles?� Then I will tell them plainly, �I never
knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!�
False Teachers Revisited by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
I often receive requests to present
updated false teachings and false prophecies by the
myriad of heretics out there. We do try to keep
up with all the latest. But I have to remind
people that those we have exposed as false on our site
have not repented of what they have already done in
the past, which is why they are still on our
site. So what they are doing now has no
relevance as to whether or not they are now to be
considered a true Biblical teacher. If and when
they repent, that is renounce their false teachings
and false prophecies, make restitution to those they
have deceived, and begin to teach sound Biblical
doctrine we will give you that information. As
of now NONE of the people we have exposed have
repented of their Latter Rain, Word of Faith
teachings, heretical practices or their false
prophecies. But in the interest of helping you
to respond to a person who inquires by saying: "Those
articles are old and you need newer materials" well,
here is some newer stuff you can add to the
pile. For you and me this really makes no
difference, but for those who are living in deception
perhaps it might demolish one of their arguments
against the truth.
Testing The Spirits by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this
article.
Sometimes I really wonder why someone
who claims to be a Bible believing pastor, for
instance, refuses to listen to the truth. It
frankly boggles my mind. I don't know if it is
as a result of the postmodern paradigm or just that
they have no love of the truth left. I don't
know how that can happen in a truly regenerate
person. You would think that the Holy Spirit
would confirm the truth to them, first in their
conscience, and finally through the written
Word. But these days it is a miracle if it gets
that far. I don't know if their conscience has
been so seared that they don't hear the Spirit or if
they just don't want to know the truth because then
they would be responsible for it. I know that I
cannot know their motives or the reasons why they
reject truth and refuse to talk about false teaching,
but I do know one thing: we are called as true
believers to test the spirits. We must do this
even if the result is not to our liking or befuddles
us as to the reasons.
1 John 4:1 Dear
friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the
spirits to see whether they are from God, because
many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Questions for Those Who Claim
the "Supreme Beings" Of the Nations Are the True
God by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
I have some questions for those of the
World Christian Gathering of Indigenous People (WCGIP)
adherents such as Don Richardson, Daniel Kikawa,
Richard Twiss (deceased), Terry LeBlanc, Danny Lehman,
Aloha Ke Akua, YWAM as well as many in the Emergent
Church (EC) ... the questions arise from their claim
that the "supreme beings" of the nations are all the
True God, YHWH, the God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. You can read more on this subject in our
book "Idolatry
In
Their Hearts" or in the WCGIP
section of my site. My main question for them is this:
When did ANY of the Patriarchs and Prophets in the Old
Testament and the Apostles or Jesus Christ in the New
Testament EVER claim that the "supreme beings" of the
nations were Elohim/YHWH, the one True God?
Let's look at some examples in the form of questions
and you can check out the source links as well.
How To Discern, Test &
Judge Rightly by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
In running
a web site with thousands of articles, 1-2 million
hits per month from all over the world, and hundreds
of e-mails per week, I have come to realize, with
time, that there is a terrible problem in
Christendom today. The problem stems from an
existential subjective view of the world that has
filtered into the church from secular society, but
also from the teachings of heretical wolves who have
taught an entire generation of churchgoers
completely unbiblical methods of discernment or to
get rid of any discernment altogether.
We need a firm foundation to
weather the storm of false ideas by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered and
said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the
scriptures, nor the power of God. (KJV) Matthew 7:24 "Therefore everyone who
hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be
compared to a wise man who built his house on the
rock. How firm a foundation, ye saints of
the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His
excellent word! � 1787 Joseph Funk & Robert Keene
A house built on the rock will
stand. The Rock is God and in particular, Jesus
Christ. Therefore His written Word is the
teachings of the His Holy Spirit and a Rock we can
depend on. Anyone who wants to prove anything
theologically, historically, scientifically or
anything else needs to start with correct
information. If you start with a faulty
foundation, as you build your arguments, they begin to
fall apart because they are not supported in God"s
truth. If you want to build on a firm
foundation, you need to start the process by a careful
study of God"s Word in context of the verse and
according to the whole counsel of God"s Word.
The Bible is the best commentary on the Bible.
Karma (by any other name) by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
According to Wikipedia:
"Karma means action, work or deed;
it also refers to the principle of causality where
intent and actions of an individual influence the
future of that individual. Good intent and
good deed contribute to good karma and future
happiness, while bad intent and bad deed contribute
to bad karma and future suffering. Karma is
closely associated with the idea of rebirth in some
schools of Asian religions. In these schools,
karma in the present affects one's future in the
current life, as well as the nature and quality of
future lives - or, one's samsara. With origins in
ancient India, it is a key concept in Hinduism,
Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism, Shintoism, Ching
Hai and others."(emphasis mine)
Mirram-Webster defines it this way:
the force created by a person's
actions that is believed in Hinduism and Buddhism to
determine what that person's next life will be like:
the force created by a person's actions that some
people believe causes good or bad things to happen
to that person
His Name, The Only Name by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
Zechariah 14:9 NIV The LORD will be
king over the whole earth. On that day there will be
one LORD, and his name the only name.
The reason I wrote this
article based on Zech 14:9 is that I was reminded of
how many so-called Christians, who are influential in
the churches, are promoting the worship of God in the
names of other gods.
Replacement Theology On
Steroids by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this
article.
So, as you can see, the root of this
teaching is that Israel no longer holds the
distinction of being the tree from which the Root of
David (Jesus-Rev. 5:5, 22:16) came. They are
no longer the "natural branches" (Israel-Rom. 11:21)
on to which Gentile Christianity (the wild
shoots-Rom. 11:17 or wild branches-Rom. 11:24) are
grafted in (Rom. 11:17-24). According to
Replacement Theology, Christianity has now become
its own branch apart from Israel (the natural
branch) that produced the Root and all the promises
of the Bible to Israel have been taken away from
them and given to the Gentile Church. This is
why you hear so many false teachers taking verses
out of context from the Old Testament and
willy-nilly applying them to the Gentile
Church. This methodology has been going on for
decades in liberal churches and has been popularized
by many false teachers on TV. But the fact is that
Replacement Theology is utter false doctrine.
It denies promises made to Israel, some of which
have already been fulfilled and some which are yet
to come to fruition. But when you add the fact that
the Inclusivist WCGIP proponents are now saying that
God planted hundreds of different trees, cultures
all over the world, that are not connected to the
natural branch, tree and Root, you have what can
only be termed Replacement Theology on steroids!
Those Who Do Not Lead
Christians to Maturity by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this
article.
The Scriptural definition of maturity
is to learn to discern truth from error so that the
Christian will no longer be double minded, blown about
by every wind of teaching and by the schemes of crafty
people. But the problem today is that so few
Christian teachers are feeding their flock's solid
food. They are serving up milk and, because of
that, people are starving. Yet they often don't even
know they have been on a starvation diet. Amos
8:11 "The days are coming," declares the Sovereign
Lord, "when I will send a famine through the land
- not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord."
"... and all liars" by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
Lying is a problem for all people (Ps.
116:11). We are all sinners (Rom. 3:23).
Those of us who are Christians are "sinners saved by
grace" (Eph. 2:8) indwelt by the Holy Spirit in our
"new self" (Col. 3:10). But we still live in our "old
self" which we must "put off" (Eph. 4:20-25) by taking
up our cross daily and following Christ (Luke
9:23). The difference between unbelievers and
those who are truly born again is that believers no
longer "practice sin" (1 John 3:9, see my Bible study
on 1 John!) They have the indwelling Holy Spirit
(Rom. 8:11) who convicts them when they lie (John
16:8). True believers then repent (1 John 1:9) and go
on to "practice righteousness" (1 John 2:29) with the
Lord's help. The unregenerate, the false
brothers, or those who have fallen away (Gal. 5:4,
Mark 4:17), practice lying. They practice a
lifestyle of lying because their consciences are
seared (1 Tim. 4:2) and the Holy Spirit, when
convicting them, cannot break through the hardness of
their unrepentant hearts (Eph. 4:17-19, Heb.
3:13).
Four Books That the Enemy Has
Used To Corrupt Christianity by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this
article.
The four books that have changed the
church by giving an introduction to the false
teachings of the New Apostolic/Latter Rain (NAR), the
Emerging Church/Contemplative/Catholic Mysticism (EC),
pragmatic Church Growth (CG) methodologies of C. Peter
Wagner, Robert Schuller and Peter Drucker, and the
teachings of the World Christian Gathering on
Indigenous People (WCGIP) are as follows:
Surprised by the Power of the Spirit by
Jack Deer, Celebration of Discipline by Richard
Foster, Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren &
Etnerity In Their Hearts by Don Richardson.
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.
Night Marchers and UFOs on the
Big Island by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
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. Interestingly the
first
book the Hawaiian Heritage site recommends in
its "Suggested Reading" list is "Perpetuated
in
Righteousness" by Daniel Kikawa that we
reviewed in our book "Idolatry
In
Their Hearts" by Sandy Simpson and Mike
Oppenheimer. 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? Since YWAM,
Aloha Ke Akua and Hilo New Hope participated in
worshipping 'Io at the "edge of Hale-ma'uma'u
Crater" it sounds like they have all been inviting
the old "gods" to return to Hawaii.
"They Will Believe The Lie" by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
I am doing a Bible study right now on
what I would call "renewing our minds". It is
based on this verse:
Romans 12:2 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.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 The coming of
the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan
works. He will use all sorts of displays of power
through signs and wonders that serve the lie,
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"?
Updated! The First Nations Movement Deceiving The Nations! 4-DVD Series Critical
Missiological Issue!
The "Indigenous People's" (IPM) or
"First Nations" movement is an unbiblical movement
teaching heresies and doctrines of demons. It is being
spread worldwide by YWAM, Don Richardson, John Dawson,
Richard Twiss, Terry LeBlanc, Daniel Kikawa and many
other adherents. The IPM or World Christian
Gathering On Indigenous People is full of the false
teachings of the Third Wave, New Apostolic Reformation
(NAR), Word-Faith, Dominionism, Latter Rain and many
other false theological systems. 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.
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Nations Movement 4-DVD Set
The First Nations
Movement DVD 1 (1) Perpetuating Nations' Myths - Mike
Oppenheimer (2) 11 Reasons To Reject This Movement,
Part 1 - Sandy Simpson The First Nations
Movement DVD 2 (1) The Fingerprints Of God? - Mike
Oppenheimer (2) 11 Reasons To Reject This Movement,
Part 2 - Sandy Simpson The First Nations
Movement DVD 3 (1) The New Indigenous "Christian"
Religion - Sandy Simpson (2) Did God Put Eternity In Their
Hearts? - Sandy Simpson (3) The Missionaries Brought A Foreign
God - Sandy Simpson (4) Catholic Syncretism - Sandy Simpson The First Nations
Movement DVD 4 (1) "Monotheism" In Ancient Cultures -
Sandy Simpson (2) The History Of The Knowledge Of God
- Sandy Simpson "Christians" Who Try To Poke
Holes In Sola Scriptura by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this
article: "Christians"
Who Try To Poke Holes In Sola Scriptura
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.
"As a result the Church, to whom the
transmission and interpretation of Revelation is
entrusted, "does not derive her certainty about all
revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both
Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honored
with EQUAL sentiments of devotion and reverence."
(Roman Catholic Catechism, Given October 11, 1992,
the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the
Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, in the fourteenth
year of my Pontificate. Page 31).
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Updated DVD! The Question Of Dominion by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this
article: The
Question Of Dominion.
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. "See, the problem is, is that Satan has had
too much of his way in our society because he has a
government! 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 ..."
(Transcript of C. Peter Wagner, Arise Prophetic
Conference, Gateway Church, San Jose, CA,
10-10-2004) Wagner has substituted the "government
of the church" for the coming government of Jesus
Christ in the Millennial Kingdom. Wagner is
"Kingdom Now" while the Bible teaches "Kingdom
Come". 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.
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Shepherd Or Hireling? by Sandy Simpson
This DVD is a message based on the
article: "Shepherd
Or
Hireling?"
The Bible lays out the definitions
of both an overseer (under shepherd) and a
hireling. John 10:11-13 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.
3:1-3 Here is a trustworthy saying: If
anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he
desires a noble task. 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 1:7-13 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." This testimony is true.
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 20:30) and without
(Acts 20:29) 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.
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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.
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2 Cor. 13:5 Examine
yourselves to see whether you are in the faith;
test yourselves. 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. 8:29, 1 Pet.
1:2). 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.
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"Blasphemizing" The Bible by Sandy
Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
I am going to go over an article I
wrote back in 2006 in preparation for the book I wrote
with Mike Oppenheimer called 'Idolatry in Their
Hearts'. This book is an apologetic against the
false teachings of the World Christian Gathering on
Indigenous People movement, the Emerging Church and
the New Apostolic Reformation which got their ideas
from the book "Eternity in Their Hearts" by Don
Richardson. 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. The first subtitle in the 1981
edition read: The Untold Story of Christianity among
Folk Religions of Ancient People. 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. 10:14-15)? 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. The subtitle it has today,
which was first published in 1984, is as follows:
Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in
Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World. This
should have been a red flag for many Christians but
then, who reads subtitles? But how could the
"One True God" be known to Gentiles who did "not know
God".
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Resources For Pastors including "Good English Bible
Translations" by Sandy
Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
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 2002 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.
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A TALE OF TWO KINGDOMS Kingdom Now or Kingdom Come? by Sandy
Simpson
This DVD is a message based on this article.
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".
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BIBLES STUDIES IN
DISCERNMENT by Sandy
Simpson
Bible studies in Galatians, Philippians,
Ephesians, Colossians, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John and Jude
with a focus on applying timeless discernment
priciples to our modern times.
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BIBLES STUDIES IN
DISCERNMENT Companion
CD! by Sandy
Simpson
Contains the PDF text to the book BIBLE
STUDIES IN DISCERNMENT plus extra studies by Sandy
& Juanita Simpson covering many issues of
apologetics and discernment.
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A Whole Lot Of Wishful
Thinking These Days! by Sandy
Simpson
This DVD series is a teaching based on this article.
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.
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Signs Of Apostasy In The
Churches In The End Times by Sandy
Simpson
This 2-DVD series is a teaching based on
this article.
There are many signs of the great
Apostasy, or falling away (2 Thes. 2:3) indicating
we are living in the end times (Mt. 24: 3-14)
I am going to go through some indications of the
Apostasy in the churches as a follow up to the signs
of the times in the world.
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details.
The Responsibilities of a Good Shepherd by Sandy
Simpson
This CD is a message based on this
article.
Emerging Church CD &
Free DVD All the
links to resources and articles we have on the
Emerging Church on one CD. by Sandy
Simpson
(The Emerging Church only is
downloadable!)
When you purchase
the "Resource Tools - Emerging Church" CD for $10.
plus s/h you will also receive a brand new free
DVD called "The Emerging Church" that features
Gary Gilley, Ray Yungen, Joanna Michaelson, Mike
Oppenheimer and Sandy Simpson.
From Church To Emerging
Church DVD Series by Sandy
Simpson
The issue of the Emerging Church and
it's introduction into many churches and mission
organizations has reached a critical point. 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.
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Idolatry In Their Hearts Landmark
Book! by Sandy
Simpson & Mike Oppenheimer
Does having eternity in your heart mean
that you know God and are His child? 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! by Bill
Randles, Arnold Fruchtenbaum, Jacob Prasch, Mike
Oppenheimer, Orrel Steinkamp, Gary Gilley, Dave
Hunt, Sandy Simpson and others.
This is a 6-DVD
expose of the NAR and it's leadership
of C. Peter Wagner, Cindy Jacobs, Chuck Peirce, Dutch
Sheets, Bill Hamon, Jack Deere and others.
Lessons In Forgiveness Great Study! by Sandy
Simpson Through the
years I have been presented with many
opportunities to forgive. 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.
by Sandy
Simpson was written to
help believers to realize the absolute necessity
of growing to maturity in Christ. 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.
4:7).
The New Apostolic
Reformation - What is it and where is it going? Companion Book! by Sandy
Simpson is now available in book form. This
is the DVD script plus commentary by Sandy Simpson.
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.
Also available on CD-ROM.
Letters To The Church Timely! by Sandy
Simpson is a fitting manual for the
Revelation Christian. All the precepts are in the
seven letters in Revelation 1:9 - 3:22 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".
DISCERNMENT TOOLKIT Demolish Arguments! by Sandy
Simpson Want to be able to see your way
through to clear biblical discernment? 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? Then DISCERNMENT TOOLKIT book is for you!
DISCERNMENT TOOLKIT DVD Study Series! by Sandy
Simpson is taken from the book but includes a
lot of footage of false teachers and false prophets.
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!
SPIRIT OF TRUTH OR SPIRIT
OF ERROR? Important Video Information On Benny Hinn! by Sandy
Simpson, Mike Oppenheimer & Jacob Prasch
features tons of
video showing the teachings and prophecies of Benny
Hinn. This is a proven tool to keep people
away from heresy.
THE EMPTY PULPIT Highly Recommended! by Mike
Oppenheimer What is Christianity? 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. Available for
$20- includes shipping. Apologetics
Coordination Team HIGHLY recommends this book.
It deals with many crucial issues for the Church
today.
Go here
to order the book by Mike Oppenheimer, Let Us Reason
Ministries, P.O. Box 860683, Wahiawa, HI 96786.
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The Audio! Spirit Of Truth Or Spirit Of
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hear the audio of this DVD/VHS program you can listen to
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If you want to see
what you are hearing, then by all means order the DVD or
VHS version here!
Jackie Alnor Radio Interviews I wanted to share some links to recent interviews I've
done that are online. The first one is from Jan
Markell's program that somebody tried to hack by
downloading the program 350,000 times. Could it be
S-A-T-A-N??? Here's
the link. Here's another interview I did over at
Rapture Ready Radio. Click
on
this link. At this summer's Christian Booksellers
convention my publisher condensed clips in this promo
from an interview with me about my book, The Fleecing of
Christianity: Here
is
the link.
Leonard Sweet and His Quantum Spirituality
Date: September 09, 2010
Host: Ingrid Schlueter, Crosstalk Radio
Guest: Sandy Simpson
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Dominion Theology by Bob DeWaay, Crostalk America,
September 16, 2010 Bob DeWaay is the senior pastor of Twin City Fellowship
in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, area. This
Crosstalk looks at the aberrant New Apostolic movement,
a movement that leans on Ephesians 4:11-13 to defend the
idea that the office of apostle and prophet are still
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Episode 43 -
November 2011, Sandy Simpson: The New Apostolic
Reformation For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers,
disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
(2Corinthians 11:13) Sandy Simpson, of the Apologetics
Coordination Team, joins me to discuss the New Apostolic
Reformation (NAR). Sandy runs Deception in the Church,
an extensive library of resources on the NAR and related
movements and organizations. Sandy does a fantastic job
of describing in just an hour a movement that really
needs many hours to really understand properly. It is my
hope that this episode will inspire people to dig deeper
to learn more about the New Apostolic Reformation and
the unbiblical practices that go on within the movement.
Please check out the show notes and visit the additional
resources section. The New Apostolic Reformation is a
dangerous movement that is carrying many Christians away
from orthodox, Biblical practices. This episode is
available to stream or download here.
From
Darkness
To Light Host: Jim Scneider Guest: Mike
Gendron, VCY America, 7/14/12 Mike Gendron is the Founder and Director of Proclaiming
the Gospel Ministry. Mike was born into a devout Roman
Catholic family where he was taught early on that the
Catholic Church is the one true church. He went on
to teach high school Catholic doctrine but eventually he
would realize that the zeal he had for his religion
wasn't based upon biblical knowledge. The journey toward
that realization began one morning when he was reading
in the Dallas Morning News that a man was coming to town
to give a 3 day seminar discussing the evidence for the
Christian faith. The man that was giving the
conference was Christian apologist, Josh McDowell. Mike
left the conference knowing he had to read the Bible,
something that is discouraged in the Catholic religion
as Catholics are told it's too complex, therefore
answers must come from the priests. Mike's study of the
Bible made him realize that God's plan of salvation is
diametrically opposed to the Catholic plan. What
did Mike do next? How did the things taught to
Mike in Catholicism differ from what he was learning
from Scripture? Join Mike as he presents the answers to
these questions and also shares his passion to not only
reach Catholics with the truth but to also equip the
saints to reach out to them as well.
Updated! T.
A.
McMahon & Mike Oppenheimer (Part 1) at The
Berean Call, 9/12/14
Program Description: Tom welcomes his guest Mike
Oppenheimer of Let Us Reason Ministries. Today's
discussion involves UFOs and extraterrestrials: Are they
real? What are they? Should we witness to them? Should we
fear them? In this two-part program Tom and Mike hash out
some troubling conclusions that are drawn even by many
Christians concerning this phenomenon. Listen to Part
1 & Part
2.
Podcast:
Shamanism
Revived - The Christianizing of Four Occult
Techniques: Ministry of the Holy Spirit versus
Visualization, Inner Healing, Centering Meditation and
Hypnosis by Chris Lawson, 11/11/15 Part 1 - A brief scriptural review of the person,
nature and work of God the Holy Spirit. The Christian being �born from above� (born-again) by
the Spirit of God (John 3:3-8). The Christian being regenerated and the indwelt by the
power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:11-16). The Christian being anointed by God the Holy Spirit to
discern spiritual truth versus error (1 John 2:18-27). The Christian being empowered by the Holy Spirit to
preach the Gospel and teach the Word of God (Acts of the
Apostles). The Christian being guided by the Holy Spirit and
understanding His personal influence (John 14:15-19, 26;
16:7-15). The importance of a Bible believing churches as they
produce Bible believing Christians! Part 2 - Four occult Shamanic techniques to avoid: Visualization (guided imagery) Inner healing (healing of memories) Meditation (centering prayer) Hypnosis (altered states) Quotes and mentions: Mention of occultist/psychologist
Carl Gustav Jung and quotes from anthropologist and
practicing shaman Michael Harner (The Way of the
Shaman), positivism pioneer Norman Vincent Peale
(Positive Imaging: The Powerful Way to Change Your
Life), occultist Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich),
and Christian/occult practitioner Agnes Sanford (The
Healing Light; The Healing Gifts of the Spirit). Scriptures: Daniel 1; John 3:3-8; Romans 8:11-16; 1
John 2:18-27; Acts; John 14:15-19, 26; 16:7-15; Genesis
6:1-5; Jeremiah 2:11-13; Psalm 46:10; 1 Timothy 4:1-5;
Galatians 5:22-26.
Wisdom Online
by Dr. Stephen Davey, 2/2/17
Excellent sermons and materials from Stephen Davey from
his church Colonial Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC.
His sermons are also played on Bible Broadcasting
Network.
Moriel Prophecy Podcast
by Jacob Prasch, 9/24/20
The Moriel Prophecy updates has now moved from video on
YouTube to a podcast sponsored by Remnant Truth Network (RTN)
due to the unreliability of social media platforms. You
can listen to the announcement of this new podcast on
YouTube here.
Podcast
Interview: “Taking a Closer Look at Psychedelics”
at Lighthouse Trails, 8/8/22 In two recent Parker J. Cole Show podcast interviews,
former New Age followers Richard and Linda Nathan
discuss the growing interest in psychedelic drug use,
even among Christians. From the Parker J. Cole Show:
Psychedelics are growing in Christian circles. But are
they giving believers a closer relationship with God, or
tearing them further apart? Many Christians seek a
deeper intimacy, but they want an experience, and not a
relationship. Drugs such as marijuana, LSD, and other
substances can alter the state of consciousness, giving
one an experience. However, in the midst of that, we
open the doorway to demonic influence. Don’t believe me?
Well, listen in as I chat with former occult members and
New Agers Linda and Rich Nathan as they share their
knowledge about this dangerous trend.
Not
Your Typical Movie-Review Show Coming to Answers TV
by Ken Ham, 8/28/22
Movies are filled with worldview teaching. Whether it’s
a subtle encouragement that “who you feel you are is who
you really are,” an earnest call to “follow your heart,”
or Eastern religious teaching carefully woven into the
story, worldview teaching is there. Can you and your
children recognize it? We want to help you think about
popular media through the lens of a biblical worldview,
recognizing error and fallacious thinking while
accurately applying God’s Word to what you’re watching.
That’s why I’m excited about a brand-new series
launching on August 30, 2022, exclusively on Answers TV:
Tilt Shift. Hosted by AiG’s Tim Chaffey and Bryan
Osborne, Tilt Shift: Real Talk About Reel Ideas isn’t
your typical movie review show—we're not saying that you
should or shouldn't watch the films we review (several
websites do that already). Instead, we're examining the
ideas and philosophies found in these movies from a
biblical worldview perspective to help shift your
thinking to align with the Bible. In a world saturated
with more movies than ever, Tilt Shift is a great
teaching tool for Christians.
We live in a
topsy-turvy world of opposing ideas.It is
easy to get lost and overwhelmed.We as
Christians often don’t realize how much we have
been diapraxed by the world, the flesh and the
devil.Our
paradigm has been altered to such a degree that,
without the solid foundation of Scripture, we are
often set adrift without the anchor God has
provided us.Our paradigm is our worldview, our
understanding of reality.Without
the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the written
eternal Word, we really have no hope of
understanding reality, our cultures, or our lives.I have
written this book to clue the reader into some of
the issues that surround the modern born-again
believer and how to reverse the shift that has
exponentially changed our perspective in some
cases.Fortunately,
in the foreknowledge of our Lord, He provided us
with a roadmap to navigate our fallen world.We don’t
need a new map, as Emergent Church advocates
claim.We
need the tried and true map of the ages.There is
“nothing new under the sun”.There
have always been false prophets and false teachers
who are there by the will of the enemy to mislead
and ultimately destroy the faith of many.We are
clearly living in the Apostasy foretold in the
Bible that has been growing preceding the
appearance of the Antichrist.We need
to carefully test ourselves to be sure we are in
the Faith, and then hold on to the hope we have in
Christ.