Unholy Spirits and Other Gospels

Modern Christianity has been invaded by other gospels and unholy spirits. Caution! Don’t think about voodoo, black magic and flagrant witch craft. Most true Christians, at least at the present time, would be able to detect these even without spiritual discernment which is sorely lacking among most Christians.

 

A study of 2 Corinthians chapter 11 would benefit all disciples of Jesus. In this chapter we are warned that Satan transforms himself into an angel of light and his ministers transform themselves into ministers of righteousness. These ministers often include well mannered, well spoken seminary trained preachers who are very adept at what they do. They know how to weave a web. For example, while being influenced or controlled by an unholy spirit they will preach about the Holy Spirit, but put a little deceptive twist on things by what they say or don’t say. The irony of this is that these ministers usually think that they are serving Jesus Christ and preaching truth. They themselves have unknowingly been taken captive by unholy spirits and other gospels.

 

I will share more about this in the future. I will conclude now by stating that these ministers work as a fifth column to deceive and distract Christians from the true and pure gospel by preaching and teaching other gospels. They use Scripture, actually misuse it, just as Satan did when he was tempting Jesus. Their character may seem to be excellent; the bottom line key is what they teach and preach or don’t teach and preach. An example is that they will seldom if ever preach Jesus and Him crucified. If they do, it is usually with a twist. Your main safeguard is to make sure you are intimate with Jesus and know His word.

 

 

Making Disciples for Jesus and Not for Self

Making Disciples for Jesus and Not for Self

 

Luke 9: 23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

 

 Luke 14: 26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.”

 

Note from Spirit Filled Life Bible: A disciple must subordinate all earthly relationships to loyalty to Christ. Hate does not mean to bear ill will, but to choose Christ over all others. (I once heard a Methodist minister teach error because he believed hate meant hate in this verse).

 

 Luke 14: 27 “And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.”

 

Luke 14: 33 “So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.”

 

Christians can learn from and be encouraged by motivational speakers who use the Bible and make them laugh and feel good (I am listening to one now on what is called Christian television), but they will never be prepared to take up their cross and follow Jesus. The motivational speakers will make you temporarily feel good and make him or her rich and famous while drawing you to them, but they will never make disciples in the sense of what the Lord Jesus is calling for.

 

The church needs true and mature apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers (Ephesians 4:11) who preach Jesus and Him crucified because they have personally denied self and taken up their cross to follow Jesus. One key way to judge ministers and see if they have denied self and taken up their cross is by how much they emphasize Jesus and Him crucified. If a minister has taken up his or her cross to follow Jesus, they can’t help but have the truth of Jesus and Him crucified at the heart and core of their minister. The motivational speakers may touch on it once in long while, but then they will get back to what makes you feel good and follow and give to them, but only those who are personally bearing their cross can really fulfill Matthew 28:18-20.

 

Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. ‘Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. “Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the Age.” Amen.