Well, good evening. Good evening. I hope everyone's doing well tonight. It's a joy to be with you. Thank you so very much for coming. Tonight begins the meat and potatoes of this seminar. Last night we did the introductory session. just talking about discernment in general and answering some of the common objections that people will raise, answering those from scripture. And so just laying some groundwork for what begins in earnest tonight. Tonight's session is entitled Dangerous Doctrines. tonight we will be looking at the metaphysical cultic origins of the word-faith movement and the standard doctrines which the word-faith preachers teach that deviate from historical Christianity. I think by the end of our time together tonight you'll be able to see that the prosperity gospel is indeed a different gospel altogether. They have a different God, different Jesus, a different atonement, and so they do have a different gospel. While I'm thinking about it, I'll probably mention another movement as well, New Apostolic Reformation. N-A-R, New Apostolic Reformation. This is a twin movement to Word-Faith. It's everything that Word-Faith is even worse. They have even more emphasis on miracles, signs and wonders, modern-day apostles. And so I'm kind of treating both of these movements, even though there's a little bit of distinction, there's not a lot of difference, if that makes sense. So I'm basically treating both of these movements as one and the same. So WordFaith, NAR. With NAR, you would have people like Bill Johnson, pastor of Bethel Church in Redding, California, Rick Joyner, Stacey Campbell, John Arnott. Che Ahn, Todd Bentley, some of those individuals, and we'll be looking at some of those as we progress. Okay, so dangerous doctrines. So where did the word-faith movement begin? In order to understand a movement, it really helps to have at least a kind of a working knowledge of the origins of said movement. And so the word-faith movement began with a man named Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. We could call Quimby the great-grandfather of the word-faith movement. He was the father of a metaphysical cult known as New Thought. And when I say metaphysical, that's a big word, but all it really means is beyond the physical realm, beyond what we can see and touch here. And when I say cult, I mean any group or sect that may call itself Christian, yet compromises or denies some of the fundamentals of the faith. Mormonism is a cult. Jehovah's Witnesses belong to a cult. Roman Catholicism is a theological cult. Now, it's not a sociological cult, not a Jim Jones drink the Kool-Aid kind of a cult, but it is a theological cult because it compromises and denies some of the fundamental tenets of historical Christianity. Quimby was the father of the metaphysical cult known as New Thought. New Thought essentially held that whatever you think about, you will attract to yourself. So if you think positive, happy thoughts, your positive, happy thoughts will go out there into the ether somewhere and will enact universal laws of attraction. And then the universe will bring positive, happy things to you. Conversely, if you think negative thoughts, then your negative thoughts will go out into the ether, and then the universe will bring negative things to you. It's called the law of attraction, also known as the secret. Oprah Winfrey has been very fond of the secrets. She's been promoting this for the last 10 or 12 years. Well, it's just a repackaged version of New Thought. He's a student of occultism, hypnosis, and parapsychology, and his theoretical formulation served as the basis for what is today known as Christian science. You've probably heard of Christian science. Every once in a while, you'll find a Christian science reading room. Well, Mary Baker Eddy was a student of Phineas Quimby, and she took his teachings, developed them a bit further, And from that formed what is known as Christian science, known today as Christian science. Christian science is very poorly named, by the way, because Christian science is neither Christian nor is it scientific. It's kind of like grape nuts, you know. They're not grape and they're not nuts. So Christian science is neither Christian nor is it scientific, but there's a lot of Christian science overtones in the modern prosperity gospel. One of which is the denial of physical symptoms when it comes to sickness and disease. If you have a friend or a family member who is in this movement to one degree or another, you might notice that if they get sick, they deny that they're sick. They won't confess that. And so maybe they have a cold. Maybe their eyes are watering, their nose is running, they're congested, they're sneezing, they're running a fever. The whole nine yards, it's obvious they have a cold. But you ask them, well, how are you feeling? Oh, I'm fine. You know, I'm not sick. No, they won't confess that because if they confess that then that'll bring it into physical reality. And another way of saying I'm not sick when you're sick is lying. Watch this from Andrew Womack. If you are reaping sickness, it's because you've thought sickness. It may not be that you've thought, all right, I want to be sick. But you've thought things that allow sickness to dominate you, such things as, well, I'm only human. I'm just a man. It's flu season. I've got to get sick because it's flu season. You may not have sat there and have thought, I want the flu, but you've thought things that made you inferior to flu and that made you only human. You were denying and not focused on who you are in Christ, that no plague will come now you're dwelling. And you have thought things that made you susceptible to Satan. stealing your health. So if you're sick, it's because you've been thinking sick thoughts. Well, this is new thought. This is new thought theology. So you see, it's cultic theology wrapped in some Christianese, wrapped in some Christian lingo. What these people are teaching is not Christian. It's cultic, repackaged in some Christian lingo. But it is not Christian. Essek W. Kenyon, we could call the grandfather of the word-faith movement. Kenyon had very clear ties to the metaphysical cults, especially the New Age New Thought movement. He attended college at the Emerson School of Oratory in Boston where the cults flourished and he was heavily influenced by them. Kenyon was not wrong on everything, but he was wrong on a number of things. For example, he taught that God created by speaking faith-filled words. Kenyon believed that everything that is in existence is made out of faith. So if you broke matter down into its basic components, you wouldn't find atoms and molecules. you would find faith. And when God spoke, his words were containers, literal containers of a tangible substance called faith, hence word of faith. And we as believers, according to Kenyon, we can use our own words of faith, word-faith movement, we can use our own words of faith to speak things into existence to create our own physical reality. He held that humans took on the nature of Satan in the fall. When this happened, they forfeited to Satan their supposed deity and made Satan the legal god of planet Earth. Dear friends, Satan is not the legal god of planet Earth. God is the legal God of planet Earth. The Earth is the Lord's, the fullness thereof, the world, and they that dwell therein. Satan is referred to by the Apostle Paul as the God of this age, 2 Corinthians 4.4. Now, some of your translations say God of this world, but a better rendering of that word in the Greek aeon is age. Paul was making a theological point, not a legal point. Kenyon held that Jesus died not only a physical death, but he also died a spiritual death. Kenyon believed that there was not one death of Christ, but there were two deaths of Christ, one physical and one spiritual. And when Jesus died on the cross, according to Kenyon, then Jesus went to hell, suffered, was tortured by the demons, died a spiritual death, ceased to be God, and had to be reborn. That Jesus actually had to get saved. And that's where the real atonement of our sins took place, not on the cross, but down in hell. And finally, he held that health and wealth are obtainable by the believer's positive confession. So if you need money, you can speak it into existence. If you need healing, you speak it into existence. Kenneth Hagin is the father of the modern Word Faith Movement. And despite Kenneth Hagin's teaching that no Christian should die until he's at least 120 years old, you see that Kenneth Hagin didn't quite make it. But like all the faith preachers, they claim that much of what they teach you, they receive directly through divine revelation knowledge. And this is their way of insulating themselves against biblical criticism. And they'll say, well, if you can't find what I'm teaching you in the Bible, don't worry about it, you see, because I have it from the highest authority. Jesus himself came and gave me these teachings. So if you can't find it in the Bible, don't worry about it. It's okay. I got it from Jesus. Well, Hagen claimed that Jesus physically appeared to him on eight different occasions throughout the course of his life. And on one of these visitations, Jesus supposedly gave Kenneth Hagen these exact words. It's interesting, however, that Jesus apparently bears a striking resemblance to Essek W. Kenyon. If you can see, it's practically word for word identical. Hagen did not get this from Jesus. Hagen plagiarized Essek W. Kenyon, and quite voluminous as well. This is just all I can fit on the screen. So the faith preachers are very fond of claiming divine origin for what they teach, but as you can see, the origins are not nearly so supernatural. And Kenneth Hagen, gave rise to Kenneth Copeland. Kenneth Copeland was the pilot for Kenneth Hagin, and Kenneth Copeland learned everything that Kenneth Hagin taught, and so now Copeland is teaching it today. And so this is, now we have, you know, full-blown word faith. So, I want us now to look at some of the doctrines of the prosperity gospel word faith movement. We'll begin by looking at the doctrine known as positive confession, that we can speak things into existence. Watch these clips. Look at me, all of you. Say, there's power in me to speak life and death. You call what you have, you say what you want. And I'm here to tell you, I know that I know that I know that as these programs are airing, I'm speaking something into existence. Amen. I'm speaking something into existence. Now, if that sounds eerily like God's act of creation in Genesis 1 and 2, that's because it is. Dear friends, only God can speak things into existence. That is not an ability that you and I have. But the faith preachers blur that line between God the creator and us, his created. They demote God to make him look more human than what he is, and then in turn, they deify man, and they make us look a lot more like God than what we really are. In case you're thinking I'm taking them out of context, oh, well, they don't actually teach that we can speak things into existence just like God did. I mean, they don't really teach that, do they? Yeah, they do, actually. This is a tweet from Creflo Dollar. Creflo Dollar, undoubtedly the most aptly named of the prosperity preachers. He says this, as spiritual beings who possess the nature of God, we have the ability to speak things into existence just like God did. So yes, they do teach this. Yes, they absolutely do. Watch this from, or listen to this rather, from Kenneth Copeland and Paul and Jan Crouch. Paul and Jan Crouch are now both dead. but they were co-founders, co-presidents of TBN. But listen to this conversation between the Crouches and Kenneth Copeland. Does God use faith? Surely. Now see, here's a sore spot. There are those who say... I'm not sore at God at all, and I don't think he's sore at me. I haven't done anything to him. No, but the critics say God is God. He doesn't have to have faith. He doesn't exercise faith. He doesn't use faith. He's God. He's the object of faith. Wait a minute, what does that mean? I don't know what that means. I don't either. There's a couple things about that. The first thing, did you notice how she said, well, I don't think God's sore me. I didn't do anything to him. That statement alone is enough to show you that Kenneth Copeland is unregenerate. That's enough to, I mean, that's enough to write him off right there. But then did you see here, he said, now, wait a minute, what's that mean? God is the object of our faith. I don't know what that means. Dear friends, that is unbelievable. These people who call themselves faith preachers don't understand the elementary truth that God is the object of our faith. Because you see, in their system, God's not the object of faith. Faith is the object of faith. You see, in the prosperity gospel, faith is not placed in God. Faith is a force that you direct at God to make Him do whatever you want Him to do. And it's really ironic when you think about it that these people who call themselves faith preachers have a fundamental misunderstanding of what faith actually is. Now, in case you think, oh, you're just taking them out of context, they don't actually teach that we're supposed to have faith in our faith. Yeah, they do. This is from Jesse Duplantis. The Bible says that every man has been given the measure of faith. Have faith in your faith, not faith in God, have faith in your faith and step over into the faith zone, whatever that is. How powerful are our words? Well, so powerful that if you don't like the weather, well, you can just change it. Watch this from Gloria Copeland. You know, you're supposed to control the weather. I mean, Ken's the primary weatherman at our house, but when he's not there, I do it. He can see what's happening out there. It shows just like they have on the weather, like on the news. I mean, he's got the computers, got the current weather on it and all that for flying. So, sometimes I'll hear something, I'll hear the thunder start, maybe he'll still be asleep, and I'll say, Ken, you need to do something about this. But you are the one that has authority over the weather. One day Ken and Pat Boone, we were in Hawaii at their house and they were sitting outside and there was a weather spout out over the ocean. And that's like a tornado except it hits the water. And so they were sitting there and they just watched it, rebuked it, it never did anything. One day I was in the airplane in the back and my little brother was in the back with me and Ken was up front flying. And we were not in the weather because we don't fly bad weather. But we could see the weather over here. And I looked out the window and that tornado came down just like this. down toward the ground. And Ken said, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus, you get back up there. So this is how I learned how to talk to tornadoes. I saw this. And that tornado went whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. Even while I was watching. And my little brother was not a devout Christian at that time, and that was really good for him to see. So you're the weatherman. You get out there, or the weatherwoman, whichever it is, and you talk to that thing, and you tell it, you're not coming here, I command you to dissipate! And you get back up there in Jesus' name. Glory to God. I won't charge you extra. Now, that really doesn't even need or deserve a comment, but if you'll indulge me, I'll offer a couple of them real quickly. The first thing, did you notice how she says, we can control the weather, but we don't fly in bad weather? Why not? I mean, if you can control the weather, fly through whatever you want to fly through. Just talk to it before you get there, you know? I mean, honestly, just a little common sense goes a long way in clearing a lot of this stuff up, aside from the theology, just a little common sense. But aside from that, if it is true that Gloria Copeland and all of her faith friends, and it's not just Gloria, but Jesse Duplantis says he can do it, Rod Parsley says he can do it, Creflo Dollar says he can do it, if they can really control the weather, then I would submit to you that these people should be charged with thousands of cases of negligent homicide every year. Because every year, all around the world, there are thousands of people who lose their lives in weather-related disasters, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, tornadoes, blizzards, droughts, thousands every year. They ought to be charged with negligent homicide if they can control the weather. But you know, they can't control the weather. There is only one who controls the weather, and that is God. This from John Hagee. Ooh, John Hagee. He's not word of faith, is he? Oh yes, he is. I believe that when a person says, I wish I were dead, he or she invites the spirit of death to invade his or her life. When an unhappy wife says, my marriage is a failure, she has pronounced the doom of this relationship. When a pregnant mother says, I don't want this baby, she is pronouncing the termination of her pregnancy or a curse upon the life of a child yet to be born. Speech is that powerful. Is it really? So according to John Hagee, if a pregnant mother, for whatever reason, simply verbalizes the words, I don't want this baby, she can kill her baby in the womb. Where is the sovereignty of God in all of this? Where is the sovereignty of God? The prosperity preachers have no concept of God's sovereignty, none. The God of the prosperity gospel, little g God, is a very weak, Very indecisive, very effeminate God. And it is not the God of the Bible. It's not the God of the Bible. You remember the account in Luke's gospel when the angel gave the announcement to Elizabeth and her husband, Zechariah. Remember this, that they were going to have a boy? And of course, it would be John the Baptist. But Elizabeth and Zechariah were older, right? They were past childbearing years. And when Zechariah heard about this, he kind of questioned it a little bit, didn't he? What did God do in response to Zechariah's questioning? What did he do? Closed his mouth, right? Made him a mute. For a very interesting take on why God closed Zechariah's mouth, this from Joel Osteen. Why did God take away his speech? It's because God knew that Zechariah's negative words would cancel out his plan. See, God knows the power of our words. He knows that we prophesy our future and he knew Zachariah's own negative words would stop his plan. Wow. So according to Joel Osteen, God was up in heaven looking down and he saw Zachariah making negative confessions and God just went into a panic. Oh my goodness, you know, what am I ever going to do? I wasn't counting on this. And so in a last ditch effort to save his plan of redemption, God had to reach down and close Zachariah's mouth and make him a mute. Whew, boy, that was a close one. Unbelievable. No concept of the sovereignty of God. This is not the God of the Bible. It's a different God. It's an interesting observation. This is a book that a friend of mine alerted me to. He saw it in a, I think it was a Barnes & Noble bookstore, but the title of the book is Supreme Influence. The subtitle is Change Your Life with the Power of the Language You Use. Now, this is not Christian. This was in the New Age section of Barnes & Noble. Doesn't pretend to be Christian. Flat out New Age. For comparison, let me show you a quote-unquote Christian book. by Joyce Meyer, change your words, change your life, understanding the power of every word you speak. You see, it's the same thing. This is not Christian, this is cultic theology wrapped in some Christian lingo. Make it appear to be Christian when it is not. This leads us to our next doctrine, the little God's doctrine. All of the faith preachers teach that if you are a Christian, you are in fact a little God. Listen to this from Creflo Dollar. Now, in verse 26 and verse 27, God now submits himself to this principle of everything producing after its own kind. In verse 26 and 27, let's read it out loud read it read and God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and Over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him male and female created he them Now that's interesting because if everything produces after its own kind we now see God producing man And if God now produces man and everything produces after his own kind Horses get together they produce what? And if dogs get together they produce what if cats get together they produce what? But if the Godhead gets together and say let us Make man then what are they producing? They're producing gods Now, I got to hit this thing real hard in the very beginning because I ain't got time to go through all this, but I'm going to say to you right now, you are God's little G. You are God's because you came from God and you are God's. You're not just human. The only human part about you is this physical body that you live in. The real me is just like God. The real me is just like God. Blasphemy. Blasphemy. Dear friends, when the Bible says that God created man in His image, that means that as human beings, you and I are the pinnacle of God's creation. We are the pinnacle of His creation. And we have the potential and the capacity, through a saving relationship with Jesus Christ, to know God. None of the other created order has that privilege and ability. I love dogs, I do. I grew up with black labs, mostly black labs, one Bassett. But I love dogs. But you know what? The greatest, smartest dog in the world will never know God. Because dogs are not created in God's image. And cats for sure aren't. But... Just kidding. Sort of. But we are. We have the potential and the capacity through a saving relationship with Jesus Christ to know God, but that does not mean that we are gods. The Bible is very clear that there is only one God, and he is a jealous God who will not share his glory with another. And if I remember my Bible correctly, wasn't the desire to be just like God kind of what led to the whole fall thing in the first place? Isn't that interesting? The very first temptation, which led to the very first sin, the desire to be just like God is what led to this whole fallen state in the first place, and the faith preachers teach it as truth. They want you to believe it. They want you to embrace it, that you're a God. The very thing that led to the fallen state in the first place. How ironic. Who else in the Bible wanted to be just like God? Satan did. He wanted to be just like God. He wanted all the worship that God was getting for himself and he rose up in rebellion against God and it got him and a third of the angels along with him kicked out of heaven. And so the little God's doctrine is quite literally, quite literally a doctrine of demons. And yet the faith preachers teach it as truth. It's at the heart of their false gospel. How so? Let me flesh this out for us. I want us to look at what the faith preachers teach about the doctrine of the fall. Word, faith, NAR teachings on the fall. Number one, They teach that Adam was an exact duplicate of God. He was not a little like God, he was not a lot like God, that he literally was God, that God literally reproduced himself in Adam. Adam, according to the faith preachers, was a carbon copy of Yahweh. We all know what happened, right? Adam sinned, which of course begs a question. If Adam was Yahweh and he sinned, was it Yahweh who sinned? You see, you carry these doctrines out to their logical conclusion and you see how dark they really are. But when Adam sinned, he lost his deity, lost his Godhood, transferred it to Satan. When this happened, the real Yahweh God lost his legal right to planet Earth and was kicked out. And so even as we sit here tonight, according to classic Word Faith theology, the real Yahweh God is up there somewhere, but he's got no access to planet Earth. He can't do anything on planet Earth. They really teach this. Yes, this is an email I got from Kenneth Copeland. Kenneth Copeland says this, but when he turned and gave that dominion to Satan, look where it left God. It left God on the outside looking in. He can't do anything down there. He had no legal right to do anything about it. Could he manipulate and operate? No, because he'd be doing the very same thing that Satan did in the first place. And if God had injected himself illegally into the earth, what Satan intended for him to do was to fall for it, pull off an illegal act and turn the light off in God and subordinate God to himself. Now you can see the complicated predicament that God's in. You can understand why someone would say, wonder why God lets all those wars go on. He doesn't. There's not anything he can do about it. Really. Well, Psalm 46 verse 9 says, he makes wars to cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two. Awkward. So, continuing, according to the faith preachers, Satan has to fill that void. God has been kicked out, and so Satan fills that void, and Satan becomes the legal God of planet Earth. He's not. Talked about that. But then, according to prosperity theology, guess what happens when a person gets saved? Guess what he gets back? Ah, he gets his godhood back. He regains his deity. He becomes God again, just like Adam supposedly was before he fell. And this, dear ones, is why the faith preachers hold so tenaciously to health and wealth, because we're gods. And a god cannot be poor, and a god certainly cannot be sick. You see, so many people think that this movement is just about health and wealth, healing and prosperity and all that stuff. No. Health and wealth and all that, that's just some of the bad, low-hanging fruit off of a rotten theological tree. to some of the bad fruit off of the dead branches of a dead tree. But the allure of health and wealth is one of the things that makes this movement so appealing and yet so dangerous at the same time. Because the prosperity gospel essentially says this, come to Jesus because he'll make you wealthy and he will heal your body. They appeal to two of the most basic and universal of all human desires. Most people want to be wealthy, and very few people enjoy being sick. There's a few people out there, I know, that just like the attention that comes with being sick, but most of us, if we had our druthers, we'd rather not be sick, right? And so the prosperity gospel says, if you'll just come to Jesus, you can have it. Huh. I'm sitting at home and I'm watching my television and I see Mr. TV preacher on there and he's telling me if I become a Christian, God will make me rich. And I won't ever have to be sick anymore. Sign me up, man. I like that, Jesus. You got two of them, I'll take them both. But is that the real gospel? Or is the real gospel something a little bit more like this? Come to Jesus because you are a sinner. And because of your sin, the righteous wrath of God abides on you. And the only way to have that wrath removed is to repent of sins, turn from sins, and place your trust in the risen Lord Jesus Christ. And then, you will have heaven. You will have heaven when you die, but on this earth, we're not promised money. We're not promised healing. What are we promised? We're promised tribulation. We're promised persecution. What does the Bible say? Some of those who live godly in Christ Jesus may be persecuted. Is that what it says? All who live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. And dear friends, there are no exception clauses to that unless you live in the United States of America. If you're living godly in Christ Jesus, you ought to be having some persecution somewhere. Not North Korea kind of persecution. Not Iran kind of persecution. We don't live in a country that does that, at least not yet. But there ought to be some soft persecution somewhere. Friends, family members, co-workers, somewhere. If you've had no persecution at all for your faith in Jesus Christ, then you're not living godly in Christ Jesus. That's what Jesus promises us, persecution. That's not as popular, you see, as saying, oh, come to Jesus because you can be rich, you won't have to be sick anymore. Friends, if you come to Jesus for those reasons, you've come for the wrong reasons. You have trusted a different Jesus with a different gospel. And a different gospel does not say, there is, there are no adjectives when it comes to the gospel. There is no prosperity gospel. There is no social gospel. There's only the gospel. There's only the gospel. Softening of sin. If you watch these preachers for very long, you might notice they don't talk about sin a whole lot. But if they do, it's just kind of in a casual sense. They might mention it, but they don't really delve into it. In their system, sin is not something that you commit against a thrice holy God. Sin is not something that incurs the wrath of God. Sin, you see, is just something that keeps you from having your best life now. It hurts you, not so much as offends a holy God. It just, it keeps you from being all you can be. Watch this video clip. Now, this is a tricky clip. I'm going to show you a clip from Joseph Prince. You're going to have to be a good Berean because this is tricky. Because some of what he says here is right. Watch this. To do this, but you're getting the same kind of response, aren't you? People need and want You know, the word repentance, like Joel said, is from the Greek word metanoia, which literally means change your mind. And every time, like Joel or me preaching the word, without using the word repentance sometimes, but people's minds are being changed all the time, from thinking this way negatively to thinking positively. So Joseph Prince says the Greek word for repentance is the word metanoia. And you know what? He's right. That is the Greek word for repentance. And then he says the word metanoia means to change your mind. Guess what? Right again. That is what that word means. But then did you notice how he fleshed it out? He said, we, referring to himself and Joel Osteen, we may not use the word repentance in our preaching. I mean, heaven forbid we actually use biblical terminology when we preach. Wouldn't want to do that. So we may not use the word repentance, but we're still teaching people to repent all the time when they go from thinking negatively to thinking positively. That's not repentance. According to his definition of repentance, we could all repent simply by joining the Optimist Club. You know, just having a sunnier outlook on life. Everything's just sunshine and lollipops and unicorns all the time. That's not repentance. Dear friends, genuine repentance is a change in mind, but it's a change in everything about us. Genuine repentance comes when God grants repentance. And when God grants repentance, yes, our minds are changed, but everything about us is changed. Our desires are changed. Our affections are changed. We begin to love the things that God loves and we hate the things that God hates. And as a result of God changing us, that repentance bears fruit. There is fruit in keeping with repentance. The Apostle Paul, Acts 26, so King Agrippa, I kept declaring that all men should repent and turn to God performing deeds appropriate to repentance. Does that mean we perform deeds in order to repent? No, that's getting the cart before the horse. But when God grants repentance, there will be deeds in keeping with repentance. John the Baptist, therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance. So yes, repentance is a change in mind, but it's so much more than that. Here's a good rule of thumb, dear ones. It's good to do a word study. That can be very helpful, to take a biblical word, repentance, righteousness, justice, holiness, you know, do a word study. That can be very helpful, be very enlightening, but the dictionary definition of a biblical term is not always its full meaning. look at how the word is used in its context. Because it is the Holy Spirit of God who puts the meaning, who puts the words in the text of God's word, and it is the context that determines the meaning, so it is the Holy Spirit of God who determines the meaning of a word, not just the lexicon, not just the dictionary definition, okay? So word studies can be helpful, but that's not always the final word. on a word's meaning. Look and see how it is used in context. Repentance, biblical repentance is a lot more than just changing your mind. It's a lot more than that. Okay. Listen to this or watch this video clip between Benny Hinn and Miles Monroe. Pastor, we get the mind of God about his will, we pray it. When we pray it, we give him legal right to perform it. Yes. Let me define prayer for you in this show. Prayer is man giving God permission or license to interfere in earth's affairs. In other words, prayer is earthly license for heavenly interference. That's incredible. God could do nothing on earth. Nothing has God ever done on earth without a human giving him access. So he's always looking for that somebody. Always looking for a human to give him power, permission. In other words, God has the power, but you get the permission. God got the authority and the power, but you got the license. So even though God could do anything, He can only do what you permit Him to do. God can only do what we permit Him to do. Dear friends, I would submit to you tonight that God can do whatever He jolly well wants to do and is not terribly concerned about whether or not He has our permission to do it. And don't take my word for it, let's go to the text. Our God is in the heavens, he does whatever he pleases. God can do whatever he wants to do. But do you know, I actually had a Word of Faith person look at that verse, I was showing it to him, and he looked at it and he said, yeah, but that just means that God can do whatever he wants to do in heaven, not on earth. If he wants to do something on earth, then he has to have our permission. Whatever the Lord pleases, he does in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all of the deeps. Oops. Friends, God can do whatever he wants to do and is not losing a great deal of anthropomorphic sleep over whether or not he has our permission to do it. And I take no joy in what I'm about to say, but I state it as a matter of fact. 2014, four years ago, Miles Monroe, The guy we just saw died when his private jet crashed. I don't think God needed his permission to bring that plane down. Interesting observation have you ever noticed the titles of their books and videos? Television programs how man-centered they are just as one Observation Joel Osteen's first book runaway bestseller. What was it called? Your best life now Your best life now you see how man-centered that is you can have your best life, and you can have it right now You see the man-centered approach Now is this even true? Are we having our best life now? No. Yeah, I hope not. Our best life is not this side of heaven. Our best life is on the other side of heaven, not here. So for whom else would this be true? Lost people. If a person dies in his or her sin, he's having his best life now. This is as good as it's going to get. But you know what? For us, this is as bad as it's going to get. His next book. Now, I don't even know why you would have a need to write a next book. I mean, if you're already having your best life and you're having it right now, I'm not sure how you improve upon that, you know? So I don't know why there would be a need for another book, but apparently there was one, so he wrote another one. Become a Better You. Become a Better You. Is this a biblical title? Biblical concept? No. Who does the Bible say we are? The Bible says we're sinners, we're liars, we're thieves, we're blasphemers, we're adulterers at heart at least. So are we supposed to become better liars, better thieves, better blasphemers, better adulterers at heart? No. We're not to become better people. The gospel is not about self-improvement. It's about regeneration. It's about bringing what was dead to life. We're not to become better people. We're to become new people. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things made new. His next book was entitled, It's Your Time. Whose time is it? God's time? Nope, nope, it's your time. You see, it's all about you. His next day, Every Day is a Friday. Well, let's just all hold hands and sing kumbaya, you know, every day is a Friday. His next book, The Power of I Am. You know what this book is about? It is about taking the name of God, I am, and making positive affirmations about yourself using the name of God. I am popular. I am talented. I am likable. I am winsome. I am all of that in a bag of chips. This next book, Blessed in the Darkness. I'm too blessed to be stressed. That's what he says. What a stupid thing to say. What's a common theme here? If you happen to notice, if you're thinking about buying a book from a particular author and you just happen to notice that on the cover of all of their books is a big mug shot of themselves, pretty good rule of thumb, you probably shouldn't be reading that person. Watch this from Jesse Duplantis. Friends have frank and open conversations with each other. I've done that with the Lord. I've had the Lord say, Jesse, I've had God come tell me, said, this is what I'm going to do. I've had the Lord. What do you think about this? God has asked me for my opinion. God asks Jesse Duplantis for his opinion. Do tell. Well, I don't want to take him out of context. Let's let Jesse Duplantis finish his thought here. I said, well, Lord, since you asked, maybe I'm doing... He said, no, we can talk frankly. What do you think? I said, well, I don't think you ought to do that. He said, why you don't think I ought to do that? I said, well, you know, I know you know people more than I do, but you know, Lord, if you just let me, let me do a little bit more work on this individual, I think we can get him to you. He says, okay, go ahead. And I tell you what, the Bible says he who wins souls is wise. And he who thinks he can counsel God is a fool. Who has directed the spirit of the Lord or as his counselor has informed him? With whom did he consult and who gave him understanding? Well, I guess it was Jesse Duplantis. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. This from Jesse Duplantis. I'm gonna say something that's gonna knock your lights off. God has the power to take life, but he can't. He got the power to do it, but he won't. He's bound. He can't. He says death and life is in the power of whose tongue? Yours. You ready for this? You want something to knock your lights off? You choose when you live, you choose when you die. God has the power to take life, but he can't. I think that might come as a bit of a surprise to a number of people in the Bible. Remember Ananias and Sapphira, Acts chapter 5? Talk about getting slain in the Spirit, they were slain by the Spirit. King Herod, when God killed him and he was eaten by worms. Uzzah, remember Uzzah? In the Old Testament, when the oxen were pulling the cart with the Ark of the Covenant on it, Uzzah was walking beside it and the oxen stumbled. And you can see this in your mind's eye, right? You know exactly how it happened. I mean, all of us would probably have done the exact same thing. The ark tilted and just without even thinking, just instinctively. You know, Uzzah reached up to steady the ark and God struck him dead. You think God isn't holy? Who else in the Bible would differ with Mr. Duplantis? Well, now let's see, let's think about, oh yeah, everybody alive on the face of the earth, except for eight people in that little flood thing. I bet they would beg to differ with Jesse Duplantis. I want us to turn our attention now to what the faith preachers teach about the person and work of Jesus Christ. If we can establish that they preach a different Jesus, we can establish that they do indeed preach a different gospel. Many of the faith preachers hold to what is essentially an Arianistic view of Christ. Arianism was a heresy in the early church, and Arianism basically held that Jesus did not come as God. Jesus was just a man, a man who had a very close walk with God, but was not actually God in human flesh. Many of the faith preachers hold on to this heresy. Creflo Dollars says, and somebody said, well, Jesus came as God. Well, how many of you know the Bible says God never sleeps nor slumbers? And yet in the book of Mark, we see Jesus asleep in the back of the boat. Jesus came as a man. And at age 30, God is now getting ready to demonstrate to us and give us an example of what a man with the anointing can do. Y'all, please listen to me. Please listen to me. This ain't no heresy. I'm not some false prophet. As a general rule of thumb, dear friends, if a preacher actually has to tell you that he's not a false prophet, Chances are. But he says, because Jesus was asleep in the back of the boat, and God never sleeps in our slumbers, and therefore Jesus could not have been God. That is ridiculous. When Jesus came to this earth, he came as the God-man. He was one person, eternally God, and when he came to this earth, he took on a human nature. It did not alter his divine nature. Jesus was one person with two distinct natures. And it wasn't a hybrid, not like his deific nature and his human nature intermingled and formed a third, kind of like an equivalent of yellow and blue make green. No, one person, two distinct natures. And as the God-man, Jesus experienced many of the same things that you and I experience. He got hungry. He got thirsty. And guess what? He got sleepy. It does not mean that he was not God. That is ridiculous. This from Kenneth Copeland. According to Kenneth Copeland, Jesus physically showed up to him and gave him these exact words, gave him this prophecy. According to Kenneth Copeland, Jesus said this. Don't be disturbed when people accuse you of thinking you are God. They crucified me for claiming that I was God, but I didn't claim I was God. I just claimed that I walked with him. He was in me. Hallelujah. That's what you're doing. I beg to differ. Jesus most certainly did claim to be God. Before Abraham was, I am. If you have seen me, you have seen the Father. I and the Father are one. Jesus most certainly did claim to be God. Jesus raised the dead. Jesus forgave sin, something that only God can do. And so any Jesus that he is preaching who did not claim to be God is not the Jesus of the Bible. If they preach a different Jesus, they preach a different gospel. This from Kenneth Copeland. And I say this with all respect, so it don't upset you too bad, but I say it anyway. When I read in the Bible where he says, I am, I just smile. I say, I am too. Blasphemy. Watch this from Larry Huck and Paula White. Paula White, you know, she's been in the news a lot last couple of years because she's one of President Trump's theological advisors. He needs some new theological advisors. Watch this. We really begin to understand that when Jesus Christ paid the price, the first thing that happened after he said it is finished is the veil was rent from top to bottom, signifying that no man could do that. But the price that was paid was there's now no separation so that we have direct access in the Holy of Holies. We understand, according to Hebrews, that Jesus is our high priest. Absolutely. And he's the first of many brethren, which means I now come into a priestly anointing. so i now can say that again because they don't get it i now come into a priestly anointing jesus is not the only begotten son of god he is not i'm a son of god he's the first fruit you're this he's the first fruit he's the first born of many jesus is not the only begotten son of god Can you believe that? Flat out denying that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God. Have they read John 3.16? I mean, friends, that is blasphemy. Those of us who are saved, we are children of God by adoption. But there is only one who is begotten and his name is Jesus. Just unreal. Now, I'm going to show you a video clip of someone who you probably don't know. This is a man named Seth Dahl. Seth Dahl is on staff at Bethel Church, Redding, California, pastored by Bill Johnson, one of the leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation Movement. Watch this. Now, what I want you to notice is that what you're about to see is not something that kind of got by the editors. This is not something they're embarrassed about. They're actually using this. You'll see it's a short clip, but they're using this in their promotion because it'll begin with their logo and their music. They're using this to promote their church. So what you're about to see, they are not embarrassed by. They're proud of it. I had a pastor say some things that hurt me really bad. Hurt me so bad, messed me up. Emotionally, mentally, really messed me up. Nothing physical, nothing like that. A pastor I really respected said some words and it hurt me so bad. And one time I was laying on the floor, actually it was in this room, I'm laying on the floor and in a vision, in an encounter with God in a vision, Jesus picks me up and holds me so close that I can't see anything. And he holds me so close and Jesus starts to weep. And he says, please forgive me. Please forgive me. I said, what are you talking about? Please forgive you. He said, when that pastor hurt you, it's as if I hurt you because he's a member of my body. Please forgive me. The very notion that the sinless, spotless, second person of the triune God would ask, it's hard for me to even describe it, much less teach it as truth, would ask a sinful, wretched, depraved human being for forgiveness? Unbelievable! Sometimes blasphemy is just not strong enough a word. There's only a couple of possibilities here with what you just saw. He's either making it up out of whole cloth. He's just fabricating this. Or if he did, if he really did have some kind of vision in which Jesus did that, he is up to his eyeballs in demonic deception. And neither one of those two possibilities is a good one. That is unbelievable. And they're proud of this. This is a tweet from Kenneth Copeland from just a few weeks ago. Kenneth Copeland says this, can you read it? He says, one born again man defeated all of hell by himself. One born again man defeated all of hell by himself. He's referring to Jesus. That Jesus was just a man. A man who got reborn. That's a different Jesus. That's not the Jesus of the Bible. It's a different Jesus. Bill Johnson says this. Jesus laid his divinity aside as he sought to fulfill the assignment given to him by the Father. Laid his divinity aside. No, he did not. No, he did not. Jesus, Philippians chapter two, emptied himself, but he did not empty himself of his deity. He did not empty himself of any of his divine attributes. On occasion, Jesus emptied himself, not of his deity, nor of any of his attributes, but simply of his divine prerogative to exercise some of those attributes. On occasion, he just did not exercise them. Doesn't mean he didn't have them. He didn't exercise them. Jesus never laid aside his divinity. Watch this from Rod Parsley. Because when Naaman obeyed that instruction, the miracle of God was released. Just like I'm believing with you right now. Somebody's laying hold on a miracle. I can perceive it. I can perceive that virtues going forth out of me. I feel your faith pulling on me right now. Did you catch that? He said, I perceive virtues going out of me. Now, when we hear that phrase, I perceive virtue going out of me, we automatically think of what story in the Bible? Woman with the issue of blood, right? Touched the hem of his garment. Jesus said, who touched me? For I perceive virtue going out of me. He perceives virtue going out of him? And he says, I feel your faith tugging on me. You feel what? You, Rod Parsley, feel my faith tugging on you. So I guess now Rod Parsley should be the object of our faith. These people are not Christians. Oh, Justin, are you saying these people aren't saved? That's exactly what I'm saying. That is exactly what I'm saying. All of these people are lost. They are unregenerate. One of the great ironies in this movement is that all these people that we've been looking at, they would look at someone like me, or someone like most of us in here, and they would say, they would look at us and they'd say, oh, you don't believe in the Holy Spirit. I can't tell you how many times I've heard, Justin doesn't believe in the Holy Spirit. Justin doesn't believe in the power of the Holy Spirit. Au contraire. I am so confident in the person and the power of the Holy Spirit of God that I do not believe that someone can be indwelt by Him and teach these kinds of blasphemies. If the Holy Spirit of God is strong enough to save us, He is strong enough to deliver us out of deception. And if these people were truly indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God, then the very first time they uttered one of these blasphemies, the Holy Spirit of God would drop them to their knees. They would be under such conviction. There is no way that they could continue to teach these things, and yet they do. For years and years, some of them for decades, they've been called to repent, and yet they refuse, and there is no prick of their conscience. That is not someone who is indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit is not a weakling. He is strong. And those whom He saves, He sanctifies. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, 1 Corinthians 6. Washed, sanctified, justified. Washed, justified. The two bookend terms there, dealing with regeneration, the new birth, and what's the word right in the middle? Sanctified. Those whom God saves, He sanctifies. There are no exceptions to that. None. And there is no way that someone can be indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God and teach these kinds of blasphemies. So one of the great theological ironies in all of this is that the very people who claim to have such a high view of the Holy Spirit of God actually have a very small view of the Holy Spirit. It is they who diminish the Holy Spirit. It is they who deny the power of the Holy Spirit. Not us. I want us to look at the spiritual death of Jesus. All of the faith preachers teach this. That Jesus' physical death on the cross was not enough to pay for sins. that when Jesus died on the cross, then he went to hell, suffered, tortured, tormented by the demons, died a spiritual death, and had to be reborn. Jesus had to go through that same spiritual death in order to pay the price. Now, it wasn't the physical death on the cross that paid the price for sin, because if it hadn't been, any prophet of God that had died for the last couple of thousand years before that could have paid that price. It wasn't physical death. Anybody can do that. Wasn't the physical death of Jesus that paid for our sins? No, anybody could have done that. No, Mr. Copeland, nobody else could have done that because no one else is sinless. Watch this from Todd White. Now in this clip, in less than 60 seconds, Todd White will manage to utter three gospel-denying, soul-destroying heresies in under a minute. Pretty impressive, watch this. It's not God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Bible. It's God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. So it's the Trinity. It's all three parts. Jesus, you know, he walked and lived as a man. And he didn't live as God on the earth. The reality of this thing is that Jesus Christ, he pays a price for us to be made right with God. Jesus goes to hell, I believe. He went to Hades. He went down and descended into the depths of the earth for three days and he pays for the sin of mankind. But on the third day, On the third day, he got the keys to both hell, death, and the grave. Got those keys, came up out of there, was resurrected that day. And all of a sudden, everything was about to shift. Okay, so let's run through these real quickly. First of all, the Godhead is not composed of parts. Okay? God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit are not 33.3% of the Godhead. Okay? That's not the right view of the Trinity. God is one being, B-E-I-N-G. He's one being in three persons. And in each member of the Godhead, you have the totality of God. God the Father is all of God. God the Son is all of God. God the Holy Spirit is all of God. One being, three persons. So the Godhead is not comprised of parts. Number two, Jesus in fact did live on earth as God. They teach that Jesus did not live on earth as God. He was just a man, a man with the anointing. And that's what you and I are, men and women with the anointing. And so therefore we have all the rights, all the privileges of Jesus. We are just like Jesus. In fact, according to Essek W. Kenyon, Essek W. Kenyon, the grandfather of this movement, he said this, quote, The Christian is just as much an incarnation as was Jesus of Nazareth." End quote. Jesus did live on this earth as God, the God-man. And finally, dear friends, Jesus did not atone for our sins in hell. He did not atone for our sins in hell. This is what they call the spiritual death of Jesus. Why is the spiritual death of Jesus such a dangerous doctrine? Dear friends, if Jesus died spiritually, then that means he ceased to be God. Because God is spirit, right? He is spirit. John chapter four, God is spirit, must be worshiped in spirit and in truth. And so if Jesus died spiritually, even for an instant, then that means he ceased to be God. And if Jesus ceased to be God, even for an instant, then he never was God to begin with. Because God cannot cease to be God. Now, a lot of times we think in terms of, well, God can do anything. God can do everything. Are there things that God cannot do? Yes. There are things that God cannot do. God cannot lie. God cannot sin. God cannot deny himself. Not that he won't, he can't. And God cannot cease to be God. If there was ever a time when Jesus was not God, then he never was God to begin with. Because God cannot cease to be God. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13.8. He does not change. We call that the immutability of God. The term we give to the fact that God does not change. Same yesterday, today, and forever. So if there was ever a time when Jesus was not God, then he never was God to begin with. The spiritual death of Jesus is a heretical doctrine. Now, I want us to look at this verse We're familiar with this, right? One of the seven statements that Jesus made from the cross. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Now, I heard this growing up in a Baptist church, Southern Baptist. I heard this all the time, maybe you've heard it too. Now, none of us would take the spiritual death of Jesus to the extremes that Word, Faith, N-A-R does. But here's what I have heard growing up, that when Jesus was on the cross, that God the Father turned his back on the Son, turned his face away, and that relationship between God the Father and God the Son, when he was on the cross, and only when he was on the cross, but when he was on the cross, was severed, was broken, just like you cut a ribbon. That relationship was severed. Be very careful with that. We've already established that Jesus could not cease to be God, right? So if you say now, if Jesus never ceased to be God, but you say that on the cross that relationship was severed, then now we have two independent coexisting gods. We can't have that either. We're not polytheists. We don't believe in many gods. We don't believe in two gods, one God. One God in three persons. So what do we do with this? My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? We have to remember that when Jesus said that, he's quoting Psalm 22, verse 1. Now, chapter divisions and verse numbers, of course, were not in the original manuscripts, right? We just added the chapter divisions and verse numbers later to help us look things up more quickly. So if Jesus is applying that verse to himself, he's not only applying that verse to himself, but the context of the passage. to himself, because of all people who would know not to take a verse of scripture out of its context would obviously be the author of that scripture. So let's look at the fuller context, down a few verses, same context, same chapter, but same context. The psalmist David continues, he says, but be not thou far from me, O Lord, for he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted. Neither has he hid his face from him, but when he cried unto him, he heard. So David had gotten to this point in his life where he felt like he had been abandoned by God. But even though he felt that way, In reality, you see, he had not been abandoned by God. He says it very clearly right here. He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hid his face from him. But when he cried unto him, he heard. Dear friends, I think it may well be said that when Jesus was on the cross, there is a mystery to exactly what Jesus experienced on the cross that we'll never fully understand this side of heaven. But I think it may well be said that in his humanity, in his humanity, remember Jesus is one person with how many natures? Two. So in his human nature, I think Jesus absolutely did feel real estrangement, real abandonment by the Father when the wrath of God was poured out on the Son. And Jesus drank in every last drop of God's wrath. In His humanity, Jesus did feel real estrangement, real abandonment by the Father. But in His deity, in His deity, Jesus was never separated from the Father. What else did Jesus say on the cross? Father, forgive them, they know not what they do. Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. Jesus was praying to the Father on the cross. And so we know that those lines of communication, if you will, within the triune Godhead were still very much intact. You cannot separate deity. The union between God the Father and God the Son was never separated. Only in His humanity, not in His deity. And we have a song, and I love the song, it's a wonderful song, How Deep the Father's Love for Us. It's a great song. But there's one line in that song that I just can't sing. The father turns his face away. The father turned, I think the father turned past it. The father turned his face away. Not according to Psalm chapter 22 he didn't. It says it very clearly right there, does it not? Neither has he hid his face from him. But when he cried unto him, he heard. Something that you'll notice about Something else you'll notice about Psalm 22. You can read the whole chapter, the whole context there, and you know what you will not find anywhere in Psalm chapter 22? You will find no mention of sin. No mention of sin. Because that is what Jesus applied to himself, and he was sinless. Jesus was treated in his humanity as though he were a sinner. But he was not a sinner. And he applies that to himself. I marvel, I just marvel at the specificity of God's word. It was the physical death of Jesus that paid for our sins. For it pleased the Father that in him all the fullness should dwell, and by him to reconcile all things to himself, by him whether things on earth or in heaven, having made peace through the blood of his cross. For Christ died for sins, how many times? Once for all, not twice, once. The just for the unjust, so that he might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive, quickened by the Spirit of God. Paul says, much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through him, in whom we have redemption through his blood. the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace. It was the physical death of Jesus that atoned for our sins, not some spiritual death. Something that you'll notice about every cult is every cult disparages the cross of Jesus Christ, that it somehow just is not enough to pay for sins. Mormons disparage it, Jehovah's Witnesses disparage it, and dear friends, Roman Catholicism disparages the cross of Jesus Christ. Now I want to spend, and we'll wrap up with this, just a couple of minutes on Roman Catholicism because this is such a huge issue. You know, those of you, I'm sure there's people in here, just out of curiosity, raise your hand if you were saved out of Roman Catholicism. A few hands, yeah. If you're familiar with Roman Catholicism, you know that when Roman Catholics have the mass, They call it the sacrifice of the mass. Do you know why they call it the sacrifice of the mass? Because for them, it's a real sacrifice. It's not symbolic, it's real. The priest takes the little wafer, what they call the host, and the priest is given power not to ask Jesus to come out of heaven and get into the little cracker, but to pull him out of heaven. And it says, according to official Roman Catholic doctrine, it says, Jesus bows his head in humble obedience to the priest. And Jesus gets into the cracker. That's their doctrine of transubstantiation. They believe that that cracker literally turns into the actual flesh of Jesus, not symbolically actual. It just looks like a cracker, feels like a cracker, smells like a cracker, tastes like a cracker. Oh, but trust us, it's the flesh of Jesus. It actually turns into His literal flesh. Jesus is in the cracker. And you've heard of the Catholic doctrine of perpetual adoration? They put the cracker, the host, they put it in this goblet thing, you know, this big fancy gold goblet, and they sit up with this thing all night long, 24-7, 365, because they don't want Jesus to be alone. and they're in the cracker by themselves, so they sit up there with him all night. I mean, I don't mean to make fun, this is what they believe. And they take the cracker and the priest offers it up, and in their own catechism it says, we offer up this victim. I bristle at that. Jesus never was, is not now, nor will he ever be a victim. He is the ultimate victor. and they offer him up in sacrifice, the sacrifice of the mass. It's not symbolic. For them, it is, using their own language out of their own catechism, truly, quote, truly propitiatory. It's a real sacrifice. To put it in layman's terms, they are killing Jesus. Every single time they have Mass, over and over and over and over, thousands upon thousands upon thousands of Roman Catholic churches all around the world, every single day when they have Mass, they are killing Christ. They are sacrificing Him over and over and over again. Sacrifice of the Mass. And Catholics do not believe in salvation by grace alone, through faith alone and Christ alone. Catholics believe you've got to add works to your faith. You've got to go to confession, and you've got to confess your sins to a priest who's just as sinful, if not more so, than you are. And then you've got to do penance. You've got to say your Hail Marys. You've got to say your Our Fathers. You've got to add works to your faith. And then when you die, you don't go to heaven. No, you get to go to purgatory. A place that does not even exist. A place that's been invented out of whole cloth. Invented by the Roman Catholic Church in order to enrich itself. But you gotta go to purgatory. The very first thing you have to look forward to if you're a Roman Catholic is purgatory. The fires of purgatory. No thanks. I'll pass. And you have all your other sins burned up that Jesus somehow didn't pay for. That's an offense to the cross. That Jesus' sacrifice on the cross was not enough to pay for your sins. You got to go to purgatory and spend who knows how many years in purgatory, have all your other sins burned up. Then you might get to go to heaven. And do you know that according to official Roman Catholic doctrine, this was adopted that the Pope is the substitute of Christ on earth. Who is the real vicar of Christ on earth? Anyone? Jesus said, it is to your advantage that I go away, for who will come? Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is a true vicar of Christ on earth. They call Pope Francis the humble pope. Oh, he's so humble because he cooks his own food. And he's humble because he doesn't wear the papal red shoes that most popes wear. He just wears black shoes. He's so humble. If you think you are the Holy Father, the head of the church, and the vicar of Christ, you ain't humble. I don't care what color your shoes are, you're not humble. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. And they ascribe those titles to the Pope. It's a different gospel. It's a theological cult. Do we hate Roman Catholics? No. No, no, no, a thousand times no. We do not hate Roman Catholics. But we should hate Roman Catholicism. Oh, Justin, that sounds awfully strong. No, dear friends, it's biblical. Because we should hate anything that is opposed to the gospel. Why? Because Christ hates it. And we should hate anything that keeps people in spiritual bondage. And we should love Roman Catholics enough, we should love them enough to tell them the truth. We should love them enough to tell them the truth, speak the truth, speak the truth in love, but speak the truth. So I hope this has been helpful for you tonight. Jet tour over the Word of Faith movement. Tomorrow night, tomorrow night, what we will be looking at tomorrow night, tomorrow night's session is entitled Dangerous Doctrines. Tomorrow night we will, I mean, excuse me, that's what we did tonight. Tomorrow night is entitled Mangled Manifestations. Tomorrow night we will be looking at some of the more dramatic things in the Charismatic Movement. Tomorrow night we're gonna be talking about the Gift of Tongues. Tomorrow night, I will give you a demonstration of how to speak in tongues. I'll show you how to speak in tongues tomorrow night, so you don't want to miss that, right? I'll show you how to speak in tongues tomorrow night. We'll talk about people who claim to have been to heaven and write books about their trips to heaven. We'll talk about how God does and does not speak to us today. How do we know when God is speaking to us? How do we know the voice of God? We'll talk about that, Lord willing, tomorrow night.