Now, why is this a dangerous doctrine and faith healing, you know, speaking in tongues, miracles?
Why is that dangerous? You know, for us, you may think, well, that's just a stupid doctrine.
It's foolish. It looks funny. You know, you see the memes and people make memes out of them
and they transform into like being Street Fighter and stuff and people are following.
It's pretty funny. But here's the thing. I believe it's also dangerous, though.
I'm explaining why. You see, I believe that every false religion has an element within
their teaching that the New World Order and the Antichrist has to appeal to.
Let me repeat that. I believe that every false religion has an element that the New World Order
and the Antichrist has to appeal to. Every single religion. Why? Because you have in the New World
Order one world religion. And in order to have one world religion, you have to have everyone
agreeing with you. And you have to have an element within your structure that appeals to
every single religion, every single belief system. Now, where does Pentecostals fit with this?
Where does the Charismatics fit with this? Signs and wonders. OK, look at Revelation 13, verse 4.
And they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast, and they worshiped the beast,
saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him? Now, keep in mind that there's
like 279 million Pentecostals all around the world. That's a lot. OK. Obviously, this is like,
what, seven point something billion people in the world? Is that correct? About that much?
You know, that's a large amount. And the element that the Charismatics look for is not the
preaching. Pentecostals don't look for preaching. I have an aunt who's a Pentecostal, and she told
me years ago, you know, she was like, she came to my church or we're meeting in front of my
church for whatever reason. It was like an off day. And she said, How long do you worship for?
And, you know, I was like, I don't know what you mean. What do you mean? Like, how long?
Like the preaching? She goes, No, no, no, no, no. The worship. How long do you worship? I'm like,
are you talking about the singing? She was like, Yeah. I was like, Well, we do.
We have three congregational songs, and then we sing a song at the end of the preaching.
So the preliminaries takes about like 10, 15 minutes. So it's like 15 minutes of singing.
Oh, no, I can't. No, no, wait. I need to have at least an hour and a half. I was like, Of what?
Of singing? Yeah. She's like, The preaching, I can, I can read my Bible at home or something,
you know. I was like, What in the world? That, that blew me away. I was like, You come to church
for preaching. That's what it's for. We seek to prepare the heart for preaching. But at the end
of the day, the focal point of the service is preaching. But not for the Pentecostal.
They love the singing and the movement and the dancing, you know, the cumbia for the Spanish ones,
salsa, whatever, you know, as long as it appeals to the flesh.
And they, they're there for the signs and wonders as well. You know,
and I believe Satan is going to attempt to emulate this.
Look at Second Corinthians chapter 11. I'm gonna read to you from Matthew 24 verse 23.
If any man say, if any man shall say unto you, lo, here is Christ or there, believe it not,
for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders
insomuch that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Now it's interesting, isn't it? Then in the book of Acts, you see the apostles doing signs and
wonders over and over and over the signs of the apostles, signs and wonders, signs and wonders.
Look at Second Corinthians 11 verse 13. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ and no marvel for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works.
That's not there on accident. What it's talking about is that these apostles are going to be
doing these signs and wonders as well. False apostles. Okay. Now go through it to Second
Thessalonians chapter two. Second Thessalonians chapter two.
Look at verse number seven. It says for the mystery of iniquity does already work. Only he
who now leadeth will let until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked be revealed,
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness
of his coming. Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs
and lying wonders. Lying wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness and then that
perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved. So what do we
see here? We see Satan also emulating these signs and wonders. You know where's Pentecostalism in
the end times? There it is. You know Revelation 13 13 says and he doeth great wonders so that he
maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth and the sight of men and deceiveth them that dwell
on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast
saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the
wound by a sword and did live. So he's going to appeal to that crowd isn't he? Because they're
not looking for the word of God. They're like the Pharisees who say show me a sign. And you know
what the antichrist is going to do? I'll show you a sign if that's what you want. I'll show you signs
and lying wonders. So don't think just because there's signs and wonders that it's of God.
Because what example do we have in the Old Testament when that took place? You have Moses
doing signs and wonders but you also have the magicians Janus and Jambres.
He threw down the snake or the the staff and it became a snake. What do we see with Janus and
Jambres? They did the same exact thing you know and they would always just emulate everything
that Moses did. Everything that he every miracle that he accomplished they did too. But here's the
difference theirs was lying wonders whereas God's wonder was true. And how do we know that they're
different? Well it's based upon where we place the emphasis. See in our church we do not emphasize
signs and wonders. Because signs and wonders cannot be tested today and we know that they
were subject only to the apostles. What are we able to determine? What are we able to test? The
word of God. Doctrine. You know we're able to try them to say they're apostles and are not
as the Bible says. Okay based upon the doctrine that's coming out of their mouth.