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“The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity” (2 Timothy 2:19)

Proof Number 1: Satan’s Charismatic Laughter

What is going on in there? With real concern for The Third Wave, Word-of-Faith, Signs & Wonders, Laughing Charismatic’s! Satan’s goal is for the process of deception, the leaven of apostasy, and the destruction of God’s work! Are the devils laughing the hardest of all?

Jesus is the TRUTH personified and the Devil is the LIE personified (John 14:6 / John 8:44). Are you following the TRUTH or the LIE?

“Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven…the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees” (Mat. 16:6,12). “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?” (1 Cor. 5:6).

Should we identify with the Charismatic and Ecumenical movements? Are the great changes sweeping through churches in the twentieth century in keeping with God’s Word?

Many honest Charismatic Christians believe the sign-gifts are valid for today. We don’t fault their motives or their efforts to follow the Scriptures. These precious brothers and sisters are just trying to be faithful to God. They often demonstrate a desire to please the Lord by fervency in prayer, efforts to bring God praise, a strong evangelistic outreach, an expository pulpit message, and a stand for justification by grace through faith. Who doesn’t have a Charismatic friend with an impressive Christian life? Some Charismatic pastors are very concerned about apostasy and the bizarre phenomena’s appearing in churches.

Even more Charismatic’s follow experiences that most obviously oppose Scripture. Once this standard is abandoned, the depraved imagination of man and devil arises to the occasion. LYING leaders are deplorable anywhere! They become both cheap politicians and corrupt preachers.

Proof Number 2: Lying Leaders in the Charismatic and Ecumenical Movements

The television audience, flicking past the Soaps and the Muppets, often pause at the Trinity Broadcasting Network to wonder at the incredible display of shallowness, extravagance, and New Age brand of Christianity. Long-haired male role-models adorn the “glory” of the woman, ignorant about the worldwide standard of manliness, “nature,” or their “shame” (1 Corinthians 11:1-19). Jan Crouch replaced Tammy Faye as the Queen-of-the-painted-ladies and the fairy-god-mother of religious fantasy. What in the world did TBN supporters learn out of the whole PTL mess? What Christian trying to witness has not been mocked in the wake of the Bakker and Swaggart scandals! The founder of TBN, Paul Crouch boasts, “I am a little god! Critics be gone!” ^[1]

The Apostle Peter warned about religious leaders who are lustful, experts in greed, who capture converts and exploit the weak (2 Peter 2:14-19). Meanwhile the ads of the cults on television look like good wholesome New Testament Christianity!

Kenneth Hagin, is known as the father of the Word-Faith movement. He actually plagiarized E.W. Kenyon “whose life and ministry were enormously impacted by such cults as Science of the Mind, the Unity School of Christianity, Christian Science, and New Thought metaphysics.” ^[2] Kenyon was an occultist! ^[3]

Avanzini, Bentley, Capps, Cerullo, Cho, Copeland, Crouch, Dollar, Hickey, Howard-Browne, Meyer, Price, Savelle, Tilton and Wagoner all follow these same doctrines of devils (1 Timothy 4:1). Now Kenneth Copeland whines, “I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is…The biggest one in the whole Bible is God.” ^[4]

Rodney Howard-Browne believes Jesus left His deity in Heaven. What a serious error! Jesus charged the Jews, “if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins…Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:24,58). ^[5]

Marilyn Hickey tells others to just create what you need, speaking it into being, “Speak to your billfold. Say, ‘You big, thick billfold full of money…You’re just jammed full of money” ^[6]

The wealthiest Word-Faith preachers have the biggest mailing lists. Confession works in one direction, from the suckers in the audience to the Faith preacher.

Proof Number 3: False “Signs and Wonders”

John Wimber of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, holds “Signs and Wonders Seminars” throughout the world, claiming healing is promised in the atonement. A sign of the movement’s confusion is evident. Wimber is sick with cancer!

Miracles do not prove God’s favor. In Deuteronomy 13:1-5, God “proveth” or tests the love of His people by seeing if they will go after a “prophet” who has “a sign or a wonder” (vs. 3,1). He wants His own to “fear” Him enough to “put the evil away from the midst of thee” (vs. 4,5). The “prophet or a dreamer of dreams” will lead people to the a little “g” god (vs. 1,2)! Kenneth Copeland’s blasphemes, “You don’t have a god in you, you are one!” ^[7] Under the Law, God commanded the ultimate censuring of such heretics for the sake of purity; death (vs. 5)! God’s counsel, to either choose between false teachers who approach His people or else obedience to His Word, is as strong today. God measures the love people claim. Here is the barometer, if you really love Him, then you will obey Him (John 14:21)!

In the “last days…evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:1,13). The Lord Jesus warned that “many” prophets doing these wonders in His name will be damned to hell (Matthew 7:21-23)! You wouldn’t want to be identified with evil, would you? “An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas” (Matthew 12:39). The point is, the resurrection of the Son of God ought to be sufficient to bring joy into your life! Rodney Howard-Browne admits to elevating an experience with the devil above the TRUTH, “But I’d rather be in a church where the devil and the flesh are manifesting than in a church where nothing is happening because people are too afraid to manifest anything.” ^[8]

Charismatics prophesy is NOT a worldwide revival for the end times. Why? God’s Word warns the church that wide-spread turning to Christ is not predicted until the tribulation preaching of the 144,000! Scripture also predicts false teachers, false prophets, LYING signs and wonders, and a great falling away from the TRUTH to follow seducing spirits! Prophecy points to an ever-increasing worldwide apostasy with many false prophets deceiving many, not a revival (Matthew 24:3-5, 11)! “False prophets… shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect” (Matthew 24:24)! “Satan” is working toward “all power and signs and lying wonders” (2 Thessalonians 2:7-9)! He is the master of “great wonders,” and “miracles” (Revelation 13:13-14)!

The New Age Religion also received the signs and wonders by the laying on of hands.  Christian, be wary of the demonic deception of the “Signs and Wonders” movement of the last days.

Humanity is headed for a one-world religion, open to deception in the name of Jesus. The New Age produces a unity with diversity that is without judgment. :”(Albert James Dager, “Rodney Howard-Browne and the Toronto Blessing,”

(Media Spotlight, 1995), pp. 13,15.)”: Some Charismatic’s even present the Holy Spirit as a spirit guide. ^[9] Incredible! Satan cleverly turns multitudes to false teachers while making a mockery of Christianity!

Many who follow a feel-good religion are not ready to hear the hard sayings of Christ (John 6:60).

Our Lord Jesus commends true Christians to “continue” in the Word of TRUTH (John 8:31-32) and to test ALL experiences by Scripture as we follow the Lord Jesus Christ and His doctrines!

This Series is Continued…

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