in every Church in America there are
Pharisees
What Spirit are you of
are you a Pharisee Spirit or a kingdom
Spirit if I kept going long enough I'd
clear the whole room out of
self-righteousness there would not be
one more Pharisee Spirit left to hear
this sermon if I kept going
you know when you talk smack about
somebody on TV on Christian TV or
something else or your pastor in the
Pulpit or other believers you say
judgmental things about them then you
are scaly baby
we're not afraid of fair cease we're not
afraid of Pharisee Spirit we're not
intimidated I guess would be a better
way of say it he and I are not
intimidated by Pharisee Spirit but you
got the church and a bunch of Pharisees
that acted like they got it all together
they have marked up their Bible they
have highlighted all the pages and they
sit on the front row and flicker it
Pharisee spirit that can't say I'm on
preaching that can't celebrate with
someone getting a miracle I know this is
breaking down your judgmental
pharisaic
better than everybody I know like
the the walls of your theology are
shaking right but they coming down
hello everyone welcome along for truth
my name is Daniel long
today we're going to be talking about
Pharisees and phariseeism
now Robin and I get called Pharisees
quite often
um and I'll show you an example of that
in just a moment
but there seems to be uh kind of this
hidden
I don't know if you want to call it
hypocrisy Maybe
within uh the charismatic movement
especially among charismatic teachers
and those who follow them
they think that people like Robin and
myself
Stephen Paulette Kozar Chris Roseboro
Doreen vortu Justin Peters
Dawn Hill uh Daniel Chapman
people who do discernment videos
blog posts podcasts
trying to warn people
about false teachers and false teaching
they call us Pharisees
they call us judgmental
they say things like we have a religious
spirit
and other things
however
if you look at what a Pharisee is
and what an actual Pharisee does
really those within the charismatic
movement especially the leaders within
the charismatic movement
they are more in line with the way the
Pharisees acted and act
be then then we are and that's the
purpose of this video
so what exactly is a Pharisee
is a Pharisee somebody like this
here's a clip from Catherine Crick
when you when you talk with Pharisees
they're the opposite of childlike and so
it can like taint
that child likeness when you're opening
up doors to the Pharisees when you're
putting ears to the Pharisees that's why
it's not good to put an ear to them when
you already know that they're Pharisees
when you already know where their heart
is coming from like exposed videos right
exposed videos people talking about
deliver talking against Deliverance
people talking against Ministries and
ministers
uh you should be able to have
discernment to see when someone's a
Pharisee and these people that make
exposed videos are Pharisees modern day
Pharisees and you can just clearly see
it from how they speak there's not love
there you can like literally
feel the Judgment you can literally feel
like
like so much more evil even than like
people of the world many people of the
world you know just and that's how it
was with the Pharisees the Pharisees
were the one to kill Jesus not the
people of the world so not not that the
people of the world are like good but
like
um
the the Pharisees had that hatred
for Jesus specifically that's the kind
of like greater evil that I'm talking
about
that we gotta watch out for so when you
put your ear there
uh it's like
it's like um you know the opposite of
feeding your spirit I was talking about
in the beginning of this q a
the more you feed your spirit the more
it pushes the flesh down so the more you
feed your flesh the more you're
listening to the opposite of the spirit
then the more your flesh arises
and the spears pushed down
that's how it works
so then according to Catherine Crick
people like Robin and I and those I
mentioned earlier
we are judgmental
we are evil
and we hate Jesus
it's ironic because Catherine Crick is
doing the same exact thing that she says
we do
she is being judgmental towards us
anyway so
or how else
Are People Like Us described
um this is what they think Pharisees are
this is what they believe that a
Pharisee is they they those who point
out false Doctrine
and those who point out false teaching
they're Pharisees but what else makes up
a Pharisee according to uh the leaders
in the charismatic movement and God was
so amazing that he knew there are coat
checkers
every time I start delivering people
and they come to critique everything
especially if it's spiritual
it's the spirit of the Pharisee
the things I know more and I'm more in
tune with God and I'm more connected
it's a Pharisee spirit that can't say
I'm gonna preaching that can't celebrate
with someone getting a miracle but has
to check the coat
because people can stop a move of God
with a critical spirit everyone needs to
pray right now if I'm critiquing
anything get that thing off me in the
name of Jesus let me be unified to help
anyone that needs a miracle from the
Lord so if you are critical you are a
Pharisee
and yet the Bible commands us to be
critical
okay let's think about this for a minute
John the Apostle tells us that we are to
test the spirits
don't believe every Spirits we are not
we are commanded not to believe every
Spirit but we are commanded to test the
spirits to see whether or not they are
from God
we're to be good bereans we have the
example of the bereans who didn't just
take the Apostle Paul's word for what he
was saying but they diligently
check the scriptures to make sure that
the Apostle Paul the Apostle Paul
was correct in what he was saying
we are commanded to test and Jesus even
says in Matthew 7 to watch out for false
prophets how are we
to watch out for false prophets unless
we test what those
self-proclaimed or prophets those who
call themselves prophets unless we test
that
by the word of God
so yes we need to be critical Jesus
himself tells us to be critical he tells
us to watch out for false prophets
here's Katie Souza listen to uh what
what John the Baptist and Jesus both
called the Pharisees oh you brutal
vipers
so that means if you have a religious
spirit if if you are like judging people
for their Doctrine or you're critical
towards people or you have a religious
spirit where everything is by the law
the law the law yes we're supposed to
obey God for sure and be led by the Holy
Spirit but if you're getting two like
legalistic in your relationship with God
or legalistic about people oh she's not
wearing the right clothes so she can't
come in this church or whatever it is if
you have that pharisitical religious
spirited thing where you know everything
and nobody else does then you can be a
brutal Viper a brood a Viper serpent you
can attract those kinds of devils in
your life I mean think about it Paul was
attacking the body of Christ he was
going after Christians before he had his
uh encounter on the road of Damascus and
then what happened he got hit by the
Lord and he had it says he had scales
cover his eyes I remember one time God
told me where do you think Paul got
those skin from I'm like are you saying
that they were serpent scales he's
saying yeah why don't you go find out
where he's got his training from and it
says in the New Testament that Paul was
trained by gamil who was the top level
Pharisee remember the Pharisees were
called oh you brutal vipers by John the
Baptist and Jesus okay so he was trained
by a brutal Viper
wow he was trained and received his
education by a man who was being
controlled by a brutal Viper demon
Spirit a serpent so then again
Robin and I and the others I've
mentioned we are demon-possessed because
we have a religious spirit we have a
Pharisee a serpent I guess that's what
she talked about because of the scales a
a serpent uh spirit or or something like
that you can be a brutal Viper a
her her Serpent and
you can those kinds of devils in your
life so she mentioned
judging people for their Doctrine
and as I said earlier yes we should be
judging people for their Doctrine so yes
that's what we do
we do that we judge people for their
Doctrine the Apostle Paul did that
Jesus did that
and we are commanded to do that
what is test the spirits mean
what do we test them against
we test them against the word of God
that's how we test them
all right so let's talk about the
characteristics of the Pharisees
who were the Pharisees what were they
like
well first of all I don't know if you
know this or not but the Pharisees still
exist today
they don't go by the title Pharisee they
go by the title Orthodox Rabbi and in a
moment I'm going to show you a clip from
a man who grew up as a modern day
Pharisee
so the first characteristic of the
Pharisees is that they had two torahs
the Torah is the first five books of the
Old Testament Genesis Exodus Leviticus
Numbers and Deuteronomy
the Pharisees had two of them
they had the written Torah and they had
the oral Torah
and they believe that the oral Torah was
far more important than the written
Torah now the next clip I'm about to
show you is from a man named Nehemiah
Gordon Nehemiah Gordon grew up as a
Pharisee his father was a Pharisee and
he was a Pharisee for a while before he
became a karite Jew a carite Jew is
someone who would hold to the Old
Testament they believe only the Old
Testament they don't believe that there
were two torahs they believe there was
one and so he holds to the Old Testament
period he's not a Christian and he says
that in the video but uh he does give a
good history a good background of the
Pharisees
um so check this clip out now everything
we're going to learn today about
phariseism is really predicated upon
this concept of the oral law the oral
Torah if we don't understand oral Torah
we're not going to understand anything
else about phariseism everything else
flows from that from that concept
now the concept of the oral law is uh is
really an ancient concept the first
reference to it first dateable
historical reference
is uh incident from the era of shamai
shamai many of you may have heard of
Hillel Hillel was the author of The
Seven rules of Hillel his sidekick was
shamai and an ancient source tells us an
incident with a certain Gentile that
came before shamai shama uh the Gentile
said to shamai how many torahs do you
Pharisees have shama answered we
Pharisees have two two torahs the
written Torah and the oral Torah so this
is an ancient concept that goes back to
approximately at least 20 before the
Common Era approximately 50 years before
yeshua's Ministry and really it probably
goes back even a few hundred years
before that so this is an ancient
Doctrine and really the most fundamental
principle of phariseism is the theology
or the doctrine of the two torahs the
written Torah and the oral Torah now the
Pharisees explain that the written Torah
is sort of an outline they often give
the analogy of a of a lecture the roots
that you're writing down right now those
notes that's the written Torah and the
actual details everything I'm saying
that's the oral Torah and because of
this they Pharisees explain that the
written Torah is completely
incomprehensible without the oral Torah
the oral Torah completes the written
Torah and really fills in all the
details you cannot understand the
written tour without the oral tour
according to the Pharisees now I've got
a slide that I want to show show you
from
the Jewish virtual library and this is
what it says the most important of the
three were the Pharisees I'm talking
about the essenes the Sadducees and the
Pharisees the most important of the
three were the Pharisees because they
are the spiritual fathers of modern
Judaism
their main distinguishing characteristic
was a belief in an oral law that God
gave to Moses at Sinai along with the
Torah the Torah or written law was akin
to the U.S Constitution in the sense
that it set down a series of laws that
were open to interpretation
the Pharisees believed that God also
gave Moses the knowledge of what these
laws meant and how they should be
applied
this oral tradition was codified and
written down roughly three centuries
later in what is known as the talmud so
the Pharisees believed that there were
two torahs the written and the oral and
they believed that the oral
was far more important than the written
is that true
well the answer to that is no God gave
Moses one Torah and that is the written
Torah
now I know the that the charismatic
leaders today would not say that
you know God has given us two Bibles
right
but they would say that God speaks to us
in more than one way where we would say
God speaks to us
through the scriptures right that's how
he speaks to us that is the only way we
know for sure
that we are hearing the voice of God
through the scriptures that's it but the
charismatics will say no God speaks to
people apart from the scriptures as well
as the scriptures but he also speaks
apart from the scriptures and that every
Christian can hear his voice now they
also they wouldn't say this
but they also from what I have seen
they also hold this extra Biblical word
higher they elevate it higher than the
scriptures themselves they elevate that
experience higher than the Bible there's
yes God speaks Through the Bible
but
he also speaks to my heart
or he speaks to me audibly some of them
say he speaks to them audibly he speaks
to me in Visions he speaks to me uh you
know through the Rhema it's just all
kinds of different ways that God speaks
and they elevate
those experiences of hearing the voice
of God above the scripture so in that
sense I would say they are close to what
the Pharisees believe uh I could have
given I could have picked many examples
but I chose this one here here's Donna
rigney watch this one of the things that
he's showing me that's so important for
his bride to do in this hour is to pick
up the sword of the word
you know a lot of times we hear people
say that's our only offensive weapon
against the enemy it's the sword of the
word and we hear people declare
scripture
and then sometimes they don't see
anything happen but what that word sword
of the word what that means is the Rhema
word
what is the word that God is saying to
you
personally
what are the prophetic words you have
received when you've gotten prayer oh
when you've gotten alone with the Lord
and sat with him what are the promises
that he made to you
those are swords every time he gives us
a promise he hands us a sword and he
says you're going to need this because
what I'm promising you the enemy is
going to try to stop you from receiving
so what you need to do right now in this
hour is pick up that sword that I have
handed you that I've given you because I
love you pick up that word and begin
declaring it and decreeing it just like
Joshua did the only promises that we can
trust
are the promises that God has given to
us in Scripture
those promises we might have received
through that still Small Voice we hear
in our hearts we can't trust that why
because the heart is deceitful and
desperately sick Jeremiah 17 9 says
yeah but someone would say we have a new
heart right well yes we have a new heart
and Ezekiel it says that God had that
God will remove the Heart of Stone and
give his children a heart of Flesh
that's a heart that's moldable that's
pliable that God can shape it's a heart
with new affections it's a heart that
has a desire to obey God
but that does not mean we can't be
deceived otherwise the Apostle Paul
would have never written the book of
Galatians or First Corinthians Jesus
would have never had to rebuke the seven
churches in Revelation
we can be deceived and so we have to be
bereans we have to test the spirits all
right so another characteristic another
characteristics another characteristic
of phariseeism
is that uh the Pharisees taught that
scripture is a Divine code
they ignored the language in the context
of the written Torah and they believe
that they themselves could just pull
scripture right out of its context and
interpret it any way they choose or
chose here again is uh Nehemiah Gordon
principle of phariseeism
is what I call irrational interpretation
the rabbis don't call it that they call
it midrashic interpretation this is
sometimes translated into English as
homiletical or humanitical
interpretation and what it does is it
systematically ignores the language and
context of scripture and the principle
behind this method of interpretation or
this approach is that scripture is a
Divine code three times in the Torah
were commanded
you shall not boil a kidney's mother's
milk three times it appears word for
word jot for jot title for Tittle the
exact same commandment three times
three times now
the rabbis of course look upon scripture
as a Divine code and when they hear
three times Exodus 23 you shall not boil
a Kenneth's mother's milk Exodus 34 your
shot Boy the kid it's Mother's Milk
Deuteronomy 14 you should not boil the
kid it's Mother's Milk they hear that
three times and they say scripture the
Divine code
and when codes have repeated things they
it's to encode extra hidden meaning and
when it appears to the same commandment
three times that actually indicates that
uh three different things and what are
the three different things this
indicates the of course only the rabbis
have the authority to interpret what
these three things are the first one
according to the rabbis is you shall not
eat meat and milk together the second
time it says you should not boil a kid
that's mother's milk what it really
means is you shall not cook meat and
milk together and the third time it
appears it means you shall not even
benefit from eating milk cooked together
what do they mean by benefit you may not
even feed it to your dog
well that's how the Pharisees the rabbis
look at it when I hear three times that
the Creator tells me you shall not boil
a kid in its mother's milk I first asked
the question what would the ancient
Israelite Shepherd or farmer have
understood if he heard these exact words
repeated three times if he did if he was
that boy that seven-year-old boy who
knew nothing Deuteronomy 31 verse 13 he
didn't know anything what would he
understood and I come to the conclusion
after a linguistic and contextual
analysis that what I would understand
from hearing this three times is you
shall not boil a kid in his mother's
milk it's very clear it has nothing to
do with meat and milk now today we know
that's correct we know that's the
correct interpretation because
archaeologists have uncovered Ancient
Ancient documents written by the
Canaanites from a city in Syria called
Ross shamra which has ancient Canaanite
writings and there the Canaanites talk
about how they have a fertility right
where they would boil a kid in the milk
of its mother as a fertility right for
one of their goddesses
and so today we know that the reason the
Torah forbade us from partaking in this
Pagan practice or forbid for Betas from
boiling kid in the milk of its mother is
that this was an ancient Pagan fertility
custom or sacrifice and that's why the
Torah doesn't say don't eat meat milk
together or don't boil meat and milk
together because it's not talking about
that it's talking about us very specific
Pagan fertility sacrifice of boiling a
kid in the milk of its mother
so scripture is a Divine code
how familiar does that sound that uh
it's it's this Divine code here's uh
Troy Brewer and I begin to see that
within Mount within my own life I would
come across some of the same things over
and over and over again and I know that
the Bible says that every word is
established by the mouth of two or three
Witnesses I know that God also says you
know I've spoken once I've spoken twice
yet man perceives it not and I begin to
go this thing keeps I keep coming across
this thing over and over and over again
the thing I'm talking about is numbers
it seemed like every time I would go to
the grocery store I would have the same
exact number or every single time I I
got a bill it would have the same number
I would see it on license plates in
front of me and I begin to become aware
I think God is trying to get my
attention so I begin to look in the
Bible at the numerical sequences of
things and I begin to see it's part of
the language that God loves to speak so
there are some similarities there
the Pharisees teach that scripture is a
Divine code
you saw the same thing there with Troy
Brewer and others who teach that you
know there's some secret messages that
you can find in the Bible through
numerology or through some other kind of
method
um so that is the uh a second print a
second characteristic of the Pharisees
another characteristic of the Pharisees
is that they took scripture out of
context because they believed
that they the rabbis themselves and the
Pharisees they had the absolute
authority to interpret scripture and
apart from their interpretation of
scripture you're not going to be able to
understand it
because of that
um they would take just certain phrases
right out of its context and interpret
it to mean something totally different
uh nehemian Gordon uh goes on to say
that in the video and you heard him
there talk about uh the the Pharisees
in that last clip uh not bothering to
even deal with the context of scripture
historical or uh grammatical context of
scripture they just take it right out of
its context and that is also what the
modern
charismatics do
watch this clip by John Hagee
does God want to heal me
there are some who teach God can heal
but he doesn't want to do that now
that's not scriptural 3 John 2 says
beloved I wish above all things that you
prosper and be in good health even as
your soul prospers notice again that the
physical and the spiritual are linked
together you physically Prosper as you
spiritually Prosper let me tell you that
going to the house of God is the
healthiest thing you can do reading the
word of God is the healthiest thing you
can do praying is the most healthy thing
you can do because you are spiritually
releasing the life-giving power of God
within you then there are religious
people who say well God did it thin but
it doesn't do it now that's the
definition of a religious person a
religious person is someone who honors
what God did in the past and fights what
God is doing today
get that in your mind
so you kind of got a two for there you
got John Hagee taking third John verse 2
out of its context ripping it right out
of its context when we showed this this
verse before and uh making it all about
uh health and and others make it about
prosperity
and we're going to see in a moment that
that's not what it says but you also got
to see John Hagee talk about the
religious person who doesn't believe in
miracles today all right let's read uh
John uh third John chapter uh let's just
read third John third John's very short
book and uh you're going to see verse 2
is the verse that uh he is taking out of
context and verse two is nothing but a
standard greeting that's all it is it it
has nothing there is nothing about
prosperity in that in in third John
there's nothing about health
this is just a standard greeting that
John is giving gas Let's uh let's take a
look Sir John the Elder of the Beloved
gayest whom I love in the truth beloved
I pray that all may go well with you
and that you may be in good health as it
goes well with your soul for I Rejoice
greatly when the brothers came and
testified to your truth as indeed you
are walking in the truth
I have no Greater Joy than to hear that
my children are walking and the truth
beloved it is a faithful thing you do in
all your efforts for these brothers
strangers as they are who testified to
your love before the church
you will do well to send them on their
journey and a man are worthy of God for
they have gone out for the sake of the
name accepting nothing from the Gentiles
therefore we ought to support people
like these
that we may be fellow workers for the
truth
I have written something to the church
but theotrophies who likes to put
himself first does not acknowledge our
Authority so if I come I will bring up
what he is doing talking Wicked nonsense
against us and not content with that he
refuses to welcome the brothers and also
stops those who wants to put and wants
to put them out of the church beloved do
not imitate evil but imitate good
whoever does good is from God whoever
does evil is not seen God
Demetrius Demetrius has received a good
testimony from everyone and from the
truth itself we also add our testimony
and you know that our testimony is true
I had much to write to you but I would
rather not write with pen and ink I hope
to see you soon and we will talk face to
face
peace to you
friends greet you greet the friends each
by name
so if you put that verse back in its
context do you see anything in that
passage in that scripture passage at all
about Prosperity or health
just in the greeting and that's all it
was was a standard uh standard greeting
um
here's uh Craig Rochelle watch this
God's word is true and it says it this
way Proverbs 23 7 says for as he thinks
in his heart as a person thinks so is he
what do we know that the life we have so
often is a reflection of the thoughts
that we think what we think determines
who we become in other words if you tend
to think I can't do something I'll never
be able to do something I don't have
what it takes if you think you can't you
probably won't if you think you can by
the grace of God you probably will
if you dwell on your problems the world
is bad and it's getting worse your
problems are going to overwhelm you but
instead if you look for some solutions
if you believe you can have faith you'll
find some solutions and you'll see Faith
arise
if you always feel like you're a victim
you will likely become a victim If
instead you believe that you can
overcome by the power of Christ within
you you can overcome
so uh taking Proverbs 23 7 out of
context as a man thinks in his heart so
easy let's go ahead and look at that in
its context and I'm going to read it
from the King James itself to show you
that if you read that verse in his
context it has nothing to do with what
Craig groeschel was speaking about there
so let's take a look at the passage
Proverbs 23 6-8
eat thou not the bread of him that hath
an evil eye neither desire thou his
dainty meets for as he thinketh in his
heart so is he eat and drink saith he to
thee but his heart is not with thee
the morsel which thou Hast eaten shalt
thou vomit up
and lose thy sweet words
so
you can see right there if you just put
the verse back into its context you can
see that that's not what the passage is
talking about am I a Pharisee because I
want to see what scripture says in his
context am I a Pharisee because I point
out that a pastor who is speaking to
thousands and thousands of people is
taking scripture out of context
no I'm not I'm just doing it because
it's the right thing to do
um so another characteristic of
phariseeism is that the Pharisees taught
as Doctrine the Commandments of men and
here we're going to look at Mark chapter
7 verses one through seven
now when the Pharisees gathered to him
with some of the scribes who had come
from Jerusalem they saw that some of his
disciples ate with hands that were
defiled that is unwashed for the
Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat
unless they wash their hands properly
holding to the tradition of the elders
and when they come from the marketplace
they do not eat unless they watch
and there are many other Traditions that
they observe such as the washing of Cups
and pots and copper vessels and dining
couches
and the Pharisees and the scribes asked
him
why do your disciples not walk according
to the tradition of the elders now in a
video I did recently with Chris rosebro
Chris Roseboro pointed out that that
phrase their tradition of the elders
should be capitalized and he is correct
because that is speaking of the oral law
why do your disciples not walk according
to the tradition of the elders but eat
with defiled hands and he said to them
well did Isaiah prophesy of you
Hypocrites as it is written this people
honors me with their lips but their
heart is far from me in vain do they
worship me watch this
teaching as doctrines the Commandments
of men and so
what they were doing is they were
elevating
the oral law over the written law and
these were oral laws that God never gave
to Moses remember there were they
believed in two laws uh written in oral
and the oral law God never gave to Moses
and so the Pharisees
are actually upset because Jesus
disciples and Jesus commanded his
disciples not to wash their hands they
went right past that uh bowl or whatever
it was there that they were supposed to
do that ritual and they did not do it
here is an example of what it looked
like for a Pharisee to wash his hands
the Pharisee ritual of washing the hands
begins with a special jug that fulfills
certain requirements and specifications
and you take that jug and by the way if
I take a bar of soap and rub it over my
hands and put water on them I have not
fulfilled the ritual of washing my hands
I have to use the jug and do specific
ritual the ritual begins I pour water
over my left hand
then I pour water over my right hand and
then I do this the second time pour
water over my left hand and pour water
over my right hand and according to some
traditions I do this a third time I pour
water over my left hand and pour water
over my right hand
and I still have not fulfilled the
Pharisee ritual of washing the hands
because I have not done the most
important part of this ritual and the
key part of this ritual I've not done is
the blessing that comes after the actual
pouring of the water and the blessing in
Hebrew goes as follows
which translated into English
reads blessed out thou Lord King of the
universe who has Sanctified us with his
Commandments commanding us to wash the
hands and this is what Pharisees say
every time they eat bread every time
they sit down for a proper meal they
wash their hands and make this blessing
and I actually grew up with this
blessing saying this on a daily basis
and at a certain point I went to my
rabbis and I said we're saying this all
the time several times a day where we
actually commanded to wash the hands if
we're making this blessing commanding us
to wash the hands where is that
commandment in the Torah and I'd already
by this point start to study Torah and
they explained to me that there's
actually nowhere in the Torah are we
commanded to wash the hands however the
rabbis have made what's called a
rabbinical enactment the rabbis
according to the rabbis have the
authority to make enactments that add
new laws to the Torah add new laws that
the people must follow and these
rabbinical enactments these are called
in Hebrew by the Hebrew word takanot so
the Pharisees were teaching as doctrines
the Commandments cement they were
teaching them Commandments that God
never intended for the people to keep
they were teaching made up doctrines
and that's if you if you look at what
the charismatics are doing with things
like decreeing and declaring or
activating the spirit or flowing in the
spirit or oh my goodness what's another
doctrine that they that they have
um the Seven Mountains mandate
you know I mean they are doing the same
exact thing here is an example of that
with Patricia King teaching decreeing
and declaring when you make decrees of
the word and it comes to pass it it's
just a stake in the ground for God's
glory right it's a memorial unto him and
he remembers it and he says that's my
child who made that decree and enabled
me to do this and everything that is
created through the decree is like a
memorial unto the Lord and it's like a
fragrance unto him
another you can hear another false
teaching in there is that our decree and
declaring enables God to do his work
these are false doctrines they are
teaching people things that are not in
scripture just like the Pharisees were
doing with the oral law so who is more
like the Pharisees People Like Us who
who uh are trying to point out false
Doctrine or these people who are
teaching false Doctrine
um here is Brenda cooneyman teaching the
same thing explain what is the
difference between mere words and a
decree absolutely well here's the thing
now it's important because we know as
Believers we should talk in alignment
with God so the beginning is learning
not to let negative things come from
your mouth and I want to give you that
but the second part to it said is not is
eliminating the negative words because
you know we both know this scripture is
quoted often death and life from the
power of the tongue those that love it
eat the fruit thereof well really it's
whichever one you love to speak the most
so it's not enough just to eliminate
negative words then we have to learn to
speak right words we speak the word of
God but then there's another level which
I call commanding authoritative words
creative power in words it's the same as
when God gave the command the Earth was
without form and void God gave the
command and said let there be or if you
read it in the literal it's light B
so he commanded light this is how God
has wanted us to there was no wiggle
room if you will God right no right
might be that's exactly right that's it
and so there's a command
and and I really feel like this is where
God wants to propel us that we start
putting authoritative orders out in the
realm of the spirit you know if the
enemy is coming against your family no
devil get your hands off my children get
your hands off their mind uh break your
power I command they'll respell every
hex every Vex all oppression all
depression to go from my children to go
from my spouse I break the power of
rebellion we have to get bold and start
commanding like the Patriarchs of the
Bible like the early Apostles and put
those out at their orders into the realm
of the spirit that the devil because
they're backed by the word of God he has
to obey so decreeing and declaring is a
false Doctrine
um and decreeing and declaring is not
prayer and we are commanded nowhere in
scripture to do this none of the
Apostles did it none of the prophets you
know the prophets cast out demons yes
but and and they did that with authority
but that was not decreeing and declaring
this is a false Doctrine and they are
teaching people
false Doctrine just like the Pharisees
were teaching as Doctrine the
Commandments of men
uh these are doctrines of demons I mean
that that's what they were like like the
oral law although they were Commandments
of men uh they were doctrines of demons
you know it's the same thing
um so yeah you see that similarity there
now another characteristic of the
Pharisees were they were lovers of money
Luke 16 14 says the Pharisees who were
lovers of money heard all these things
and they ridiculed him that would be
Jesus
so the Pharisees are lovers of money now
I could have I mean there's so many
things I could have I could show you
Jesse Duplantis I could show you Kenneth
Copeland I can show you Joyce Meyer I
could show you all the word of faith
guys
but instead I decided to show you Chris
valatin and uh him uh promoting Kenneth
Copeland and Copeland's wealth watch
this it's so beautiful well we had
Kenneth Copeland here I don't know if
you got to see him experience him and I
um you know I I was never like a part of
the word of faith movement as such but I
listened to him all the time I had great
influence in my life in my early years
and you know he was uh he was you know
he he taught a lot and you know when
somebody is 20 and they're teaching out
of the word of God how many know if
they're teaching accurately the word of
God it's inspiring like you get
something from it and a child could
teach us the word of God if it's
accurate but when someone's 86 years old
and they become the wealthiest
minister
in America
I think
what you taught me a long time ago
now you have fruit
no I really listen to you
and I realized people were like oh you
know I don't know what people think like
he released the flock
and stole widow's inheritances
it's like
no he actually believed God
see how fight is in here what I'm
getting at is is that if a wealthy
businessman like if Elon Musk became a
radical believer and he stood up here
and said I got billions of dollars
because I trusted God we like amazing
that's beautiful
but when God blesses someone like an
Abraham or a Solomon in our day we're
like well I don't know what he did
yeah
and the same people will pray for God to
pay off their house
the same people will pray for God lord
can you please provide money for my
education and a man tells you I God told
me do this speak this say that I did it
I became the wealthiest man in America
who's a preacher and we're like well
yeah but how did you get yeah
yeah to compare Kenneth Copeland to
Abraham or Solomon that's just
ridiculous in and of itself
so those are the characteristics of the
Pharisees now what do we believe what do
Robin and I and those we mentioned
earlier what do we believe well first of
all we believe that God speaks today we
absolutely believe that God speaks today
but we believe he speaks through his
word
um we believe that all scripture is Theo
nustos breathed out by God that and as a
matter of fact let me just read you uh
Second Timothy 3 16. all scripture is
breathed out by God and profitable for
teaching for reproof for correction and
training in righteousness that the man
of God may be complete equipped for
every good work
and so we believe uh that the Bible is
inspired by God we believe in the
sufficiency of scripture
so you know that's what we believe God
does speak today but we believe he
speaks through his word we also believe
in the apostles and the prophets we
still believe there are Apostles and
Prophets today but just not living
Apostles and Prophets we believe that
the apostles and prophets in the
scriptures are still speaking today
we listen to them because we have their
word written down for us and so we still
believe innocence and apostles and
Prophets we also believe that God still
heals today
we believe that anybody who says that uh
cessationists don't believe that God
heals they're just dead wrong
when somebody is sick in my family I
pray for them when somebody's sick in my
church I pray for them when we are in
church we pray for the sick and I have
seen God heal through prayer I just
don't believe that God heals through
these wacky Faith healers I just don't
believe that
um
so we believe God still heals today but
through prayer we also believe in the
miraculous and so anybody who says that
cessationists don't believe in the
miraculous they're just wrong we do
believe that God still does Miracles
listen
every time a person comes to faith in
Christ that is a miracle
every time God opens the heart for a
person to believe the gospel that is
miraculous because God is bringing a
spiritually dead person to life that's
incredible so
those are the things that we believe
again
uh to compare us to Pharisees is really
just kind of hypocritical because
we're doing what Jesus commanded us to
do and that is to test the spirits we
are to test we're not to believe every
Spirit like John says we're to test him
and Jesus told us to watch out for false
prophets and that is what we are doing
so
thanks for watching
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