hey guys colin here and welcome back to
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in today's video we're going to follow
up regarding a previous video about
louis giglio and in that video i read a
facebook post from him that was
doctrinally inaccurate there's no
getting around that the only problem was
that apparently it was a typo that made
it inaccurate and the original post was
improperly transferred from one of his
social media accounts to another what's
more only one word of the post was
actually different from the original and
one word can make a huge difference so
in any case i want to begin by saying
that the post i critiqued had been up
for quite some time before i commented
on it and a few articles had even been
written about it as well more than this
louis giglio has a long track record of
doctrinal problems like this and seeker
sensitive tendencies therefore i felt
comfortable making a video correcting
this doctrinal error because at the time
i had no reason to believe that it was
simply a typo i did not check it and
compare it to his original post because
at the time again i had no reason to
believe that there was an original post
nor do i think that that's something
everyone has to do before they critique
some sort of post of any kind and again
giglio's doctrinal track record gave me
no reason to question the error made in
the post because it was fairly
compatible with the rest of his teaching
which happens to be off in other words
this was not uncharacteristic of him to
the point that i should have been
suspicious or anyone else and he has
directly endorsed people who twist the
scriptures in much more grievous ways
than that posted in any case long story
short these things happen and i've taken
down that video as a correction but let
me make a few things clear the main
point of that video still stands i do
believe that louis giglio is
undiscerning doctrinally and that you
should avoid his teaching the previous
video i made did not offer sufficient
support for this claim but it is still
true nonetheless therefore today i will
thoroughly defend the claim to put
things right so with that said let me
offer you some more well-founded reasons
a plethora of definitive evidences
regarding why you ought to avoid the
teaching of louis giglio the first
reason you ought to do so is that louis
giglio actively introduces people to the
ministry of false teachers whom he
directly promotes there are countless
examples of this for one false teacher
and hillsong-affiliated christine kane
was one of the speakers at giglio's
passion conference christine kane has
promoted word of faith and prosperity
gospel teachings consistently in fact
kane claimed to have received an
impartation whatever that means from
false teacher joyce meyer after she put
her hand on joyce's bible but again kane
was invited to speak at giglio's passion
conference more than once and very
recently acts 20 28 on the other hand
says this quote pay careful attention to
yourselves and to all the flock in which
the holy spirit has made you overseers
to care for the church of god which he
obtained with his own blood end quote
biblically you see pastors ought to
protect their spiritual flock from false
teachers like christine kane and joyce
meyer instead louis giglio has gladly
opened the gates and let them devour the
sheep at will also louis giglio has
spoken at lakewood church which is joel
osteen's church maybe you've heard of
him numerous times in the past two years
alone in fact he has spoken there joel
osteen has preached virtually every
modern heresy in the book including word
of faith and prosperity gospel theology
joel once even called mormons our
brothers and sisters in christ even
though they believe in works based
salvation and worship a false deity this
man is an outright false teacher of the
most obvious kind and romans 16 17 says
quote i appeal to you brothers to watch
out for those who cause divisions and
create obstacles contrary to the
doctrine that you have been taught avoid
them end quote we are explicitly
commanded to mark and avoid false
teachers like joel osteen and desire
their repentance louis giglio has
instead endorsed him and joined him in
his unbiblical ministry directly and i
don't think any of that is a typo folks
this all actually happened there are
also plenty of examples of louis
partnering in ministry with teachers and
leaders from hillsong bethel and other
doctrinally wayward churches as well as
virtually all of the major false
teachers associated with them again we
can worry about a typo all we want but
that one facebook post is just the tip
of a 2 000 ton iceberg full of false
teaching but lest you think that louis
is only promoting other false teachers
and is not actually teaching falsely
himself let me offer you some more
direct examples it was reported for
instance that louis was scheduled to
speak at the inauguration of
pro-infanticide
pro-lgbt politician barack obama and
then shortly after it was reported that
he had been removed from this position
what changed well the white house found
out that louis giglio had in the past
preached a sermon that was critical of
lgbt lifestyles and the pagan
administration of barack obama well they
couldn't handle the media firestorm that
they knew they would get in response did
louis giglio come out and stand up for
biblical truth above all else above any
cultural relevance did he say firmly
that he would defend the scripture's
view of sexuality no matter what other
people thought and did he question the
wisdom of the decision to speak for the
obama administration in the first place
nope not at all here was giglio's
statement quote due to a message of mine
that has surfaced from 15 to 20 years
ago it is likely that my participation
and the prayer i would offer will be
dwarfed by those seeking to make their
agenda the focal point of the
inauguration clearly speaking on this
issue of homosexuality has not been in
the range of my priorities in the past
15 years instead my aim has been to call
people to ultimate significance as we
make much of jesus christ end quote the
issue that he has not been concerned
with for 15 years apparently by the way
is the issue of homosexuality that's
very clear from the context while the
culture was growing in its secularism
and in its direct promotion of sin louis
didn't want this to be in his range of
priorities as a preacher he did not
defend biblical truth at all in this
statement or otherwise instead he tried
to distance himself from it as much as
he could he could have said yes that's
what i said 15 years ago and i'm going
to say it right now because that's what
i believe the bible says instead he made
sure to distance himself from that
message saying that it was a long long
time ago and that it really wasn't a
priority for him anyway for the majority
of that time he hasn't spoken of it in
15 years right essentially the only
thing he didn't do was come out and
actually apologize for what he said and
walk it back entirely every other
imaginable way that he could distance
himself from that biblical truth he did
additionally louis giglio invited female
preacher beth moore to speak to his
congregation at an official sunday
church gathering this directly violates
the command of first timothy 2 12 which
says quote i do not permit a woman to
teach or to exercise authority over a
man end quote you see formally teaching
the church is prescribed by god through
his word for male church leaders only in
fact there is no other kind of church
leader the modern feminist culture they
hate this command and they ask
christians to ignore it in response does
louis giglio stand up to the culture and
say alongside romans 3 4 let god be true
and every man a liar no he says instead
let every woman be true and let god's
word be denied and changed to suit us in
other words let god's word be a liar the
bible clearly says that women should not
formally teach men in the church paul
forbids this clearly but louis giglio
says it's perfectly fine for women to
formally teach the church this is by
definition false teaching about the
nature of god's creation of men and
women and again i will refer you to
romans 16 17 which tells us to mark and
avoid those who teach falsely
unrepentantly and not to listen to them
finally in 2012 at the passion
conference which again he is the leader
of giglio stood on stage witnessing the
reaction of the audience to this
spiritual event happening and he said
this quote how many of you heard the
voice of god speak specifically clearly
directly and personally to you can you
just put a hand up i'd like you to share
it just want you to look around that's
people saying god almighty the maker of
heaven the one who's sitting on the only
throne he spoke to me god spoke to me
don't let the voice of darkness tell you
that god would not speak to you don't
let him tell you that you don't matter
god spoke to you end quote here louis
giglio confidently tells a room of young
professing christians that on the basis
of them raising their hand in the ear
alone he knows for a fact that god spoke
directly to them he knows that god spoke
to them personally and specifically
because they rose their hand contrast
this with 1st john 4 1 which explicitly
says this quote beloved do not believe
every spirit but test the spirits to see
whether they are from god for many false
prophets have gone out into the world
end quote you see the word of god says
to test spiritual things and to see if
they are true many false prophets after
all have gone out into the world in
other words even if you believe that god
does speak directly to people today
outside of his revealed scriptures which
i disagree with still even if that's the
case you need to confirm that claim by
comparing it to the truth by comparing
it to scripture there is always the
possibility that the one who claims to
hear from god is not actually hearing
from god and the text calls that person
a false prophet it's very dangerous the
only standard that these young people
had to meet was that they raised their
hand what god told them specifically is
unknown whether or not they raised their
hand purely out of peer pressure is also
not known whether or not it was biblical
is unknown in fact whether or not they
know the actual biblical gospel and are
saved christians remains to be seen we
have no idea if that is the case yet
louis giglio confidently says that they
have been spoken to directly
specifically and personally by god his
words not mine that is completely
unbiblical and it is clear false
teaching and it will lead to false
revelation so in conclusion regardless
of any kind of typo or mistake on
anyone's part in the previous video
about louis the first video has been
deleted and here is a much better one to
fill its place in any case it has been
soundly demonstrated that the main
conclusions of our last video on him
were absolutely correct albeit even if
the example was based on a typo the
video here offers serious irrefutable
proof defending the previous claims
thoroughly so i think we can all
confidently mark and avoid louis
giglio's teaching until it changes
significantly doctrinally speaking and
let's hope and pray that it will and
please know i do not offer any of this
correction from a high and mighty
position above everyone else i'm no
better than anyone i am nothing but a
wretched sinner saved by the grace of
jesus christ so with all that said let's
pray for louis giglio that he would stop
this falsehood and turn to the truth of
god's word
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