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1. The False Empathic Prophetic Movement
False prophets
work with another spirit to identify with you concerning that which is
common to man. They then prophesy into your life concerning issues of
health, wealth, and prosperity, or challenge you to personal holiness.
Their words sound true to you because they are true to life in
general. They exploit your pains and sorrows by identifying with the
bondage of the soul, and then masquerade the voice of God to address
these sorrows, providing an emotional touch with bits and pieces of
wisdom, but no redemption.
False Empathic
Prophesies sound like this,
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“I
know your pain and sorrow and I, the Lord, do say unto you that…”
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“I
the Lord know that you have walked in the desert of life and now say
unto you that I will cause that desert to bloom.”
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“I
say unto you that the wells that were stopped up by the enemy will
flow forth with the waters of my Spirit and none shall stop it.”
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“I
know your heart and have heard your prayers and say unto you that you
will come forth. That which the devil has devoured I will restore 10
fold.”
Christians are
well familiar with these types of False Empathic Prophesies. Yes,
these utterances touch the heart, but no, this is not the voice of
God, and it is not a gift of the Spirit, and it is not prophecy. This
is the False Empathic Gospel.
Make no mistake,
Jesus is personally touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but
God has already designed the covenant to provide the believer access
to the mediation of Jesus Christ and thus access to God’s mercy daily.
A revolutionary move is now taking place within the church. The
Headship of Jesus Christ is restored, Apostolic Governance is
restored, and the purity of truth is restored. Believers who are
partaking of that revolution have received Choice Education through
Second 8th Week University and now understand how to use
the tools of the covenant and are no longer subject to the False
Empathic Gospel nor are they subject to the False Empathic Prophetic
utterances that spoke to them of their broken faith. They no longer
experience dry wells, they no longer need to rebuke Satan, they are
not in the desert. In short, they no longer Experience Exigent Faith
symptoms. Their faith is restored and Jesus is actively bearings their
griefs and carries their sorrows through each cycle of their growth.
Therefore the soul, when joined to God through this activity of faith
and work of the Spirit, is never void of His care.
The False
Empathic Gospel makes merchandise of the church in its isolated
condition, making merchandise of your pain and suffering yet failing
to educate you about all the facets of the Second Covenant and how
Jesus mediates the covenant. Those who continue to prophesy about
coming out of isolation and overcoming the desert demonstrate that
they have not yet partaken of the Headship of Jesus Christ through
Apostolic Governance.
The dynamics of
the False Empathic Gospel is easy to see. Believers are being approach
on the basis of their feelings rather than on the basis of their
faith. This emotional exploitation leaves the believer feeling
solaced, but there was no divine transaction taking place. Frustration
soon sets in because the witness of the Spirit is not joined to the
record of Jesus Christ. There are a lot of holes dug in the desert and
a lot of abandoned shovels.
The Body of
Christ is held in bondage to a prophetic utterance that was not
inspired by the Holy Ghost, but by a seducing spirit. Seducing spirits
are powers that come in contact with the soul to induce feelings. They
can cause a wide variety of phenomena such as shivers and tingling
sensations. People feel some kind of a presence and misinterpret that
to be God. God does manifest Himself through phenomena, but not all
phenomena is God. Seducing spirits impact the soul through desire,
particularly when the soul is laid vulnerable and is hypnotized with
false knowledge.
Seducing
spirits are also called earthly spirits because they work with the
signature of man to confirm the individual, thus giving false witness
to Jesus Christ. Seducing spirits follow the same tracks as the voice
of the signature and the voice of the conscience as both of these are
familiar and agreeable to the individual. Seducing spirits use these
voices to masquerade as the voice of the Lord; this is why believers
are so sure that they have heard from God. Seducing spirits work with
the voice of the signature to confirm what the individual is looking
for and in this manner uses the individuals own sentiments as a
witness to cooborate their own feelings (whose god is their belly).
Faith practitioners who specialize in the False Empathic Prophetic
Movement ignorantly work with seducing spirits. They yield to a form
of correctness that this spirit works with rather than the grace of
God in truth.
What is a
form of correctness? A form of correctness develops with a mindset
based on a principle that speaks to human need and desire. The
principle is falsely joined to scripture for divine weight, but
nevertheless removed from the standard and principle of Jesus Christ.
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There
are many inspirations in life, and they all have meaning, but not all
inspiration is for our faith.
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What
is common to man represents man and is for the senses. What is common
to God represents Jesus Christ and is for faith.
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What
is common to man is true to life, but not true for faith. What is
common to God is true to faith.
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If we
accept the evidence of the flesh to give value to faith it is because
we are seeking the witness of the world to find our center. To do this
we set aside the covenant of God.
2. How are the
true apostles going to cleanse the church of this practice of
merchandising your emotional pains?
With the
existence of so many religions, and the emergence of new discipleship
models each year, many Christians have trouble distinguishing truth
from error and easily fall victim to the Exigent Faith. I am speaking
of the Exigent Faith in two ways (1) the crisis it produces and (2)
the demand for immediate action for remedy. Faith that is not rooted
in Jesus Christ according to the terms of the covenant for CCST goes
into crisis and is in urgent need of remedy.
When spiritual
experiences do not bring the soul to completion nor increase the soul
in God’s likeness then the soul cannot enter into God’s rest and will
continue to struggle against paradoxes and a host of Exigent Faith
symptoms and behaviors. The struggles speak of chronic spiritual
chaos, confusion, frustration, disillusionment, and spiritual
disorientation. The language of an Exigent Faith system demonstrates
the disconnectedness of the soul from the grace and power of God
through such terms as “going deeper,” “getting closer,” “removing
hindrances,” “finding keys,” “breakthrough,” “removing hypocrisy,”
“finding fertile ground,” “finding higher ground,” “finding holy
ground,” and “digging new wells.” Mitigating tools such as Themistic
Law, Sliding Scale, Half-Life, program recall, and Journey Masks are
all predictable responses to chronic spiritual chaos and are
symptomatic of the Exigent Faith.
False Empathic
Prophesies is yet another mitigating tool that clouds the issue of
faith dysfunction by addressing the surface symptoms and behaviors
without addressing underlying causes of the Exigent Faith, thus
masking the symptoms, while leaving faith crisis unchecked. Persistent
symptoms of faith dysfunction are signs of a more serious condition of
faith being removed from the Headship of Jesus Christ and the
spiritual tools that God has sanctified in His name. Leadership choice
to continue in short-cut theology processes result in Christians
continuing to use masking solutions. This practice of masking Exigent
Faith symptoms and behaviors perpetuates the Exigent Faith and
demonstrates that faith exploitation is taking place.
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True apostles cleanse the church of this practice, removing the
mitigating tools and replacing those with the tools of the Second
Covenant through which Jesus mediates.
The church is
faced with providing solutions. How can one go beyond simply masking
the symptoms of faith crisis to restoring the vitality of faith in
Jesus Christ? We would have to address short-cut theology that is
producing short-term results. Short-cuts to faith are seen when
theology processes are broken down at the emotional level rather than
the level where God engages our faith. Short-term results are seen in
experiences that are real and tangible, but not integrated into God’s
Intelligent Design for Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation, not
capable of removing faith paradoxes, and not sustained by the Spirit
of God. The return on doctrine and discipline is therefore short-term
because the emotions carry the experience rather than the Spirit of
God carrying the experience to the soul. Short-term impact carries a
temporary feeling of being connected to God yet with no increase and
no growth.
On the other
hand, long-term impact carries an ongoing connectivity to God, follows
a predictable pattern that allows Christians to increase in God’s
likeness and experience spiritual growth that is sustained by the
Spirit of God. When faith practitioner and faith participant cannot
make these distinctions, they are aware of Exigent Faith symptoms and
behaviors, but cannot track them from the doctrine, to the tool, to
the activity, and outcome upon the soul. They are met with an
ever-declining faith, constantly in need of examination and overhaul
and fall prey to False Empathic Prophesies.
Exploitation
takes place at different levels with different manipulations. Those
looking for emotional fulfillment can be exploited at the emotional
level and are vulnerable to empathic prophesies that speak to them
emotionally. Those looking for financial gain can be exploited at the
financial level and are vulnerable to empathic prophesies that speak
to them financially. Those looking to improve their behavior can be
exploited at the personal motivation level and are vulnerable to
empathic prophesies that speak to them about personal holiness. Of
course these categories have a way of borrowing from each other. It is
not possible to separate an emotional involvement in both financial
and behavioral advances.
The False
Empathic Prophetic Movement has also created the voice of God which
speaks about your “special calling,” and how God will use you because
He has given you “special giftings or talents.” Satan always sows a
little truth with his lies for God does have a calling for each
Christian, but God’s calling is not on the basis of your personality,
signature giftings, or talents. When you are being prophesied over
concerning your gifts and talents you feel the liberty of the release
of recognition, and feel as if you are being set free from the
confinements and restrictions of the flesh to express these things for
God. You have been seduced into a gospel that centers on the release
of your own signature. This is the false gospel that puts the talents
and gifts of Adam inside the covenant to replace and impinge upon the
things that God has provided through Jesus Christ.
When Christians
talk about their calling they talk about how God has gifted them with
the gift of gab, the gift of vulnerability, the gift of hospitality,
the gift of music, the gift of planning and organizing, the gift of
counsel, the gift to bake, etc. These things that naturally come up
from the signature are embellished upon and used as if it came down
from above with Christ.
These are not
the gifts of the Spirit. These are not the things that God sprinkled
with the blood of Jesus Christ. These do not carry the law of grace
and truth. You, as a believer, can not steward the grace of God
through these things. God is NOW taking away these carnal tools which
allow you to find yourself, and He is replacing these with the divine
tools that will allow you to find Christ.
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True apostles cleanse the church of this practice, removing the
signature gifts and replacing these with the gifts of the Spirit.
Each
manipulation has its own short-term experience associated with the
manipulation that I have termed “Program Exhilaration” (PE)
True apostles
restore the foundation of truth and build that foundation within the
heart. Discernment then is based in truth and not set within human
need, desire, and the things that are common to man. As believers go
through their doctrinal cleansing with Second 8th
Week
University they are freed from emotional merchandising.
Unsuspecting
believers are not aware of the short-term quality of PE because many
unrelated spiritual experiences can be pieced together like a
photomontage. However, just as piecing together the postcards of 20
years of vacations is not an accurate representation of your life, the
photomontage of many, unrelated spiritual experiences is not an
accurate representation of long-term spiritual transformation through
Jesus Christ.
Program
Exhilaration can be described as feeling “blessed;” it can be
described as a “moment of excitement” at a meeting, or can be
experienced as a “moment of peace” at a worship service. Christians
may report an answer to prayer, or report feeling inspired when
hearing a testimony of God’s goodness and compassion. These
experiences are real, but when the excitement wears off and when the
inspiration is gone, the short-term experience did not work to remove
sin from the conscience, the short-term experience did not work to
help the believer overcome themselves, the short-term experience did
not work to birth the virtues of Christ in the inner man. One of the
biggest complaints that Christians have is that the program that
brought the blessing does not translate into a lasting change in their
nature.
Christians
become discouraged and depressed when they are not able to achieve
long-term spiritual transformation. They want to know God and serve
Him in righteousness. They want their nature changed, and they want to
experience that change in a real way on a day to day basis and are
understandably confused and disillusioned by the fleeting aspects of
their faith experiences. It is precisely this low return on faith that
redirects faith practitioners back to the drawing board to create
faith programs that will overcome the deficits that short-cut theology
causes. Recall of failed faith discipleship models should cause alarm.
However, because discipleship programs are traditionally revamped
yearly, the recall procedure has been normalized and seen as part of
the “normal” Christian experience. It is not.
When believers
compare their faith to that of a roller coaster they are describing
the ups and downs of the Exigent Faith, they are describing the ups
and downs of each new program that promises to engage their faith
meaningfully yet ends in disappointment. After the “spiritual high”
generated by a program, faith participants face the day to day
Christian experience that is filled with the same paradoxes, fears,
questions and doubts. The temporary “blessing” or “peace” did not
remove the paradoxes, which continue to play out upon the mind and the
emotions to produce frustration, confusion, displacement anxiety,
dread, spiritual disorientation, resentment, guilt, shame, remorse,
isolation, and stress. We might ask why people so easily buy into the
“new” programs that basically contain the same old problems.
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True apostles cleanse the church of this practice, providing Choice
Education about Program Exhilaration, assisting believers to
understand why their faith is unstable and restore all facets of their
faith perfectly in Jesus Christ.
Prophetic
utterances are also used to subdue pride through false humility.
Believers willfully submit to the smiting of their pride through
prayer position and prophecies of rebuke. They feel as if they have
met a spiritual 'challenge’, and experience a false release of guilt,
but the conscience is not purged. We also hear about Nathan the
Prophet who came to King David because the Lord revealed to him all.
This man was a true prophet of God, not because he spoke what was
right about David, but because the grace of God was with him. People
try to “reenact” Nathan. They want to be the Nathan. So they go around
speaking things about your life that only God would know, but there is
no grace with this message. They are working with a seducing spirit.
There are so
many times when the love and compassion of God overrides the ignorance
of the people, and God sends answers to prayers. People in the false
prophetic movement use these evidences of the goodness and compassion
of God to justify the activity of faith that they have chosen, but
this does not bring them into covenant with God, and does not sanctify
false faith. Answers to prayer can not be used to justify a pattern of
faith, it only confirms the compassion of God.
If the answers
to prayer themselves sanctify faith, then we are saying that there is
no pattern for truth through which God confirms Jesus Christ. We are
saying that God enters into every belief system to confirm our needs.
We are saying that there are many Christs and many truths. This is
what Satan would have us believe, but of course God does not authorize
this doctrine. God does not agree with Satan. God is now bringing the
church out of this thinking.
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True apostles cleanse the church of this false knowledge.
3. The
Latent Church
Anyone can tell the
differences between the church in the book of Acts and the church
today. What isn’t so obvious is what makes the difference. Christians
can’t see the affect of the False Empathic Prophetic upon their faith;
they can’t see the affect of PE on their faith; they can’t see the
affect of their signature gifts upon faith; they can’t see the affect
of emotional exploitation upon their faith. All these conditions must
change. Christian Leadership and Christian Education is going through
a paradigm shift that will refit the Church to the Headship of Jesus
Christ. Christian Leadership Training through Apostolic Governance
results in leadership established in the Headship of Jesus Christ,
with all offices of God’s spiritual government using one blueprint of
truth. Paradoxes are removed from faith, and Christians experience
God’s Intelligent Design for Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation
(IDCCST).
The
conditions of repentance that are sealed in Christ are sealed in us
through the tools of the covenant. The blood of Jesus Christ was
sprinkled upon these contact points and therefore sanctified for our
faith. God set distinction for our faith by providing our separation
in Christ. Our separation from the world unto God is thus sealed in
Him. The mercy of God is in the tools of the covenant just as the
tools of the First Covenant were sealed within the ark, the mercy seat
of God being placed thereon. When we use the tools of the covenant our
faith is sealed in Christ and the mercy of the Lord is revealed
towards us continually; each in their perspective order of service.
Clinical evidence shows that when faith participants are able to make
distinctions for faith based on the tools of the covenant they are
able to experience a consistent pattern of spiritual transformation.
4. The Stunted
Prophetic Movement
A revolutionary
move is now taking place within the church; a move that has been
prophesied for over 25 years; a move that has promised to reshape and
restore the church, and bring revival. We are now in the time of
fulfillment. The Headship of Jesus Christ is restored, Apostolic
Governance is restored, and the purity of truth is restored. While
some have become stunted in the prophetic, reaching back into the
programs of the 70’s to revitalize and reface old spiritual concepts
Second 8th Week University is uniquely positioned to offer
Apostolic Governance and stewardship of truth through program
application that has already proven to completely revolutionize faith
and return it in power to the original form Jesus gave in the First 8th
Week.
Faith
practitioners who are stunted in the prophetic seek to empower the
church by emulating the book of Acts. Isolated concepts such as "home
church" "moving in the gifts," "true repentance," “communal
experiences,” "walking in the Spirit," "reorganizing spiritual
government" are all tangents that are recycled and reborn from the
70’s and 80’s as if they are new revelations. Home churches, cell
groups, and after glow meetings were designed to emulate the book of
Acts yet fell short of expectation. Christians still felt isolated
from God, still suffered faith crisis, still did not feel their faith
was meaningful. Faith practitioners who are stunted in the prophetic
try to fulfill their own vision by revolutionizing these concepts, by
presenting anew the same concepts reborn as through prophecy into this
time in which we live. Christ cannot be isolated to a concept. What
was missing in the 70’s and 80’s is still missing in the faith of
those who are stunted. What is missing is the record of Christ, the
pattern of truth, the blueprint of faith. The tools of the Second
Covenant are missing. Christ is not seen in the altar and the
priesthood is absent from their faith. These are the standards and
tools God has restored through Apostolic Governance. These are the
standards and tools you will receive through Second 8th
Week University Choice Education Foundation Series. |
