‘Man can do nothing apart from God,’ John MacArthur warned.
It is a doctrine few want to hear these days and yet one we all need to hear.
Indeed, those in authority over today’s church, the WCC,
the denominational heads, the pastors the preachers and the teachers, are
pushing—subtly, oh so subtly—for this shift from divine accomplishment to
human achievement. Listen carefully to megachurch pastors and you'll see. Admittedly it is much more gratifying to think that we
are capable of altering reality merely by speaking certain words of power, than
to wait on a supreme being who is both complex and willful, and whose will does
not always align with our own. (This belief of altering reality by speaking
certain words, btw, is called the Law of Words of Power, and it is one of the
so-called laws of magick as put forth by a magician and adapted for fantasy
role-playing gamers. Its cousin teaching is the Law of Positive Attraction, which
basically states that the universe returns to you the sort of energy—negative or
positive—that you put out. Yeah.)
‘Divine accomplishment is true biblical Christianity; all
other religions are based on some form of human achievement.’ That’s another
quote by MacArthur. Since I am not familiar with every single religion in the
world today, I cannot be sure of the veracity of his claim, but either way his
point remains valid. According to 2 Timothy 1:9 ‘God called us with a holy
calling, not according to our works but according to His own purpose and grace
which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.’
It is clear from a complete
and thorough reading of the Bible that God is the author and finisher of
our faith, that He is the creator and savior, and that He takes an active role
in the events of history, yesterday, today and forever. Not us.
Prominent preachers are
spewing crap about ‘positive confession’ and the ‘power of I am’ when they
should be preaching repentance and the power of God!
The heretical word of faith
movement is man’s deplorable attempt to steal the thunder of God for himself.
Preachers of this putrid false doctrine teach that we can take on the divine
nature for ourselves, which is itself a twisted variation of Christ endowing us
with the Holy Spirit. Indeed, the very name of their movement ‘word of faith’
is a rip-off of Roman’s 10:8, taken out of context and of course used without knowledge
of the previous and succeeding verses, which, if they read, would explain
Paul’s point there, that believing (in God’s grace) with our hearts and
confessing (our sins!) with our mouths leads to salvation. Paul was certainly
not proclaiming there to be reality-altering power in the words themselves.
Whatever power exists, and whatever results come, they are by God’s power and
by His grace.
WE DO NOT HAVE POWER WITHIN
OURSELVES. Without God’s grace and Christ’s intervention, we are completely
powerless. We are powerless to save ourselves. The author and finisher of our
faith provided the instructions, the grace, and the forgiveness for us to find
salvation.
Let us not be ‘peddlers of
God’s Word’ (2 Corinthians 2:17). We must not speak for the approval of people,
or preach what they want to hear. We must speak the truth, and continue in it,
whether convenient or not. The word of faith movement does not feed the sheep
God’s Word and it does not help them develop a relationship with Him. Rather,
it cultivates knowledge of self, which is carnal, and useless to our eternal
souls.
Like cult leaders, these
false teachers are very clever; they lure you in with their pretty words and
specious promises. Do not fall for it! Arm yourself with the shield of faith,
with the sword of the spirit, which is the Word of God, otherwise you will be
spiritually defenseless and fall prey to these guru’s, these vultures, these
teachers of lies and peddlers of false doctrines.
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