ultimate spiritual fighting - the enemys teaching part 1

Ultimate Fighting

The Enemy’s Teaching - Part 1

‚The worst forms of wickedness consist in perversions of the

truth.‛- R. C. Lensky

- The Enemy’s Teaching

• Overview of the Enemy’s Method• False Prophets• False Authorities• False gods• Steps to Discernment

The end goal in sales:

The Key to Effective Selling


get thehopeful convert to change their opinions and beliefs to those that conform to the concept of what the salesman is selling.[1]

‚To get the hopeful convert to change their opinions and beliefs to those that conform to the concept of what the salesman is selling.‛- Steve Martin Heavy Hitter Selling

A False godA False christA False gospel

The Enemy’s Teaching


A False ProphetA False Authority

Proclaim

"Then the Lord said to me, ‚The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds."(Jeremiah 14:14)

"Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; And they have not exposed your iniquity so as to restore you from captivity, but they have seen for you false and misleading oracles."(Lamentations 2:14)

A False Prophet


A False Prophet


False Prophet: Joseph Smith

False Authority: Book of Mormon

False god: Supergod Adam

False Christ: Jesus, brother of Lucifer

False Gospel: Be god of your own planet

‚So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will have no place in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, that you may know that I am the Lord God."(Ezekiel 13:9)

‚Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken."(Ezekiel 22:28)

A False Prophet


A False Prophet


False Prophet: Mohammad

False god: Allah

False Christ: Jesus, another prophet

False Gospel: Works/arbitrary decision

False Authority: The Koran

‚Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves."(Matthew 7:15)

‚Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many."(Matthew 24:11)

"But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves."(2 Peter 2:1)

A False Prophet


A False Prophet


False Prophet: Benny Hinn

False god: Nine-Person Trinity and you

False Gospel: Prosperity gospel

False Authority: Personal Revelations

False Christ: Jesus, took on Satan’s nature

"But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived."(2 Timothy 3:13)

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths."(2 Timothy 4:3-4)

A False Prophet


The Last False Prophet


False Prophet: The False Prophet

False god: The Antichrist and Satan

False Gospel: Faith in Antichrist

False Authority: The Antichrist

False Christ: The Antichrist

‚Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon. He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. And he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed."(Revelation 13:11-12)

‚I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in My name, saying, ‘I had a dream, I had a dream!’"(Jeremiah 23:25)

A False Authority


A False Authority


‚The problem is get people to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.‛

-Richard Lewontin, Harvard Geneticist

A False Authority


Scientism – the belief that the scientific method is

the only method for discovering truth (c.f. Auguste

Comte). Also known as positivism.

"In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes."(Judges 21:25)

A False Authority


“An it harm none, do as you will.”

Wiccan Philosophy

"I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption.… For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaningless was essentially an instrument of liberation…. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.‚

- Aldous Huxley

A False Authority


"Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, ‚Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.‛ And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, ‚BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.‛(Revelation 17:1-5)

The Last False Authority


‚I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me."(Exodus 20:2-3)

‚They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to them. ‘Therefore, the anger of the Lord burned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;"(Deuteronomy 29:26-27)

A False god


Baal: ‚lord‛, ‚owner‛, ‚husband‛

The most prominent Canaanite deity. As the god of fertility in the Canaanite pantheon (roster of gods), Baal’s sphere of influence included agriculture, animal husbandry, and human sexuality. Baal worship became prominent in the northern kingdom of Israel during the days of King Ahab (ninth century bc) when he married Jezebel of Tyre, a city in Phoenicia (1 Kgs 16:29“33; 18:19“40). It later infiltrated the kingdom of Judah when Athaliah, daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, married King Jehoram of Judah (2 Kgs 8:17“18, 24“26). Places for worship of Baal were often high places in the hills consisting of an altar and a sacred tree, stone, or pillar (2 Kgs 23:5). The predominantly urban Phoenicians built temples to Baal; while Athaliah was queen of Judah, even Jerusalem had one (2 Chr 23:12“17). The worship of Baal was strongly condemned in the OT (Jgs 2:12“14; 3:7“8; Jer 19).

A False god


Molech: ‚king‛

A deity to whom children were offered as sacrifices. That Molech is a deity, not the name of a type of offering, is clearly indicated by Lev. 20:5. Children were dedicated (‘passed over’) and burned to Molech at the Tophet in the Valley of Hinnom near Jerusalem. This practice with Molech specifically mentioned is found in only four passages (Lev. 18:21; 20:2-5; 2 Kings 23:10; Jer. 32:35). This type of offering without mention of Molech is found abundantly elsewhere (Deut 12:31; 18:10; 2 Kings 16:3; 17:17, 31; 21:6; Jer. 7:31; 19:5; Ezek. 16:21; 20:26, 31; 23:37; 2 Chron. 28:8; 33:6).

A False god


A False god


The Triune God

Father

SonSpiritIs not

GodVs.

Allah

Brahman

Supergod Adam

Wiccan god/goddess

Your own creation


‚She is the source of fertility, endless wisdom and loving caresses… She gives birth to abundance…

Since the Goddess is nature, all nature…She is omnipresent, changeless, eternal.‛- Scott Cunnigham

Wicca: A guide for theSolitary Practitioner

The Wiccan Goddess, Gaia

Idols - metal or mental

"No one recalls, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, ‚I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I fall down before a block of wood!‛ He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself, nor say, ‚Is there not a lie in my right hand?‛(Isaiah 44:19-20)

"For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,"(1 Thessalonians 1:9)

"Little children, guard yourselves from idols."(1 John 5:21)

A False god


Idols - What is Worshipped?

‚They sacrificed to demons who were not God, To gods whom they have not known, New gods who came lately, Whom your fathers did not dread."(Deuteronomy 32:17)

"What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?‚ No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons."(1 Corinthians 10:19-21)

A False god


Atheism: ‚no god‛

For the atheist and the humanist, the following substitutions are made:

• Man becomes God• Man becomes the measure of all things• The body becomes the soul• Time becomes eternity

A False god


"The Nietzschean self seeks consolation at the moment of death not in having transcended the animal condition, but in being that peculiar sort of dying animal, who describing himself in his own terms has created himself.‚- Richard Rorty

A False god


‚God is Dead.‛- Nietzsche, 1883


“Nietzsche is Dead.”- God, 1900

"Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God…Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,"(2 Thessalonians 2:3-4,8-9)

The Last False god


• Test the teaching• Validate the teaching• Spiritual view the teaching• Examine the fruit of the teaching

Spiritual Bootcamp


Recognizing False Prophets, Authorities, and gods

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the

spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have

gone out into the world."(1 John 4:1)


"By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in

the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is

the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in

the world."(1 John 4:2-3)


"The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went

into the synagogue of the Jews. Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great

eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things

were so."(Acts 17:10-11)


‚But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will

disclose to you what is to come."(John 16:13)


"But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and

evil."(Hebrews 5:14)


Practice: Hexis: constant exercise leading to maturity

Train: Gumnazo: gymnastic exercise; undergo discipline

Discern: Diakrisis: evaluate and distinguish

"Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. ‚You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? ‚So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. ‚A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.

‚Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ‚So

then, you will know them by their fruits."(Matthew 7:15-20)


"Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject

authority, and revile angelic majesties…

But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed…These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the

sake of gaining an advantage…that they were saying to you, ‚In the last time there will be

mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.‛ These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit."(Jude 8,

10, 16, 18-19)


"But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good;‚

(1 Thessalonians 5:21)


Dokimazo: “prove”; “determine genuineness”

Ultimate Fighting

The Enemy’s Teaching - Part 1

ultimate spiritual fighting - the enemys teaching part 1

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