If It Quacks Like Duck, Its Likely A Duck!
Beloved, BELIEVE NOT EVERY SPIRIT, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 1 Jn. 4:1
Have you noticed how Charistmatics and Pentecostals blame much of their extreme erratic un-Godly behaviors and false doctrines on the Holy Ghost of God? They do this because their practices cannot be backed up with the words of God (AV1611 of course). The “spirit filled” crowd in modern ecumenical churches becomes upset when Bible believers like myself question their quirky practices and unsound doctrines. Some of these poor souls are saved born again Christians who have been spoiled through vain deceit. Yet many more; tens of thousands; are just as deceived and lost as a Jehovah Witness, Seventh Day Adventist, or Mormon.
BEWARE lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the RUDIMENTS of the world, and not after Christ. Col. 2:8
Have you noticed how in just two verses of scripture we have THREE COMMANDMENTS about spirits and false teaching:
- Believe not every spirit.
- Try the spirits.
- Beware.
With these charges given us of God himself, we will begin again in {Part 2 “spirits” ON TRIAL} to examine “spirits” masquerading as the Holy Ghost of God; where and how we find them in the Charismatic, Pentencostal, and ecumenical movements.
