Thursday, May 03, 2007

Nothing but an Apostate

In a follow up to "Nothing but a Dreamer" todays radio program Grace To You aired a sermon by John MacArthur that describes how to spot apostate false teachers like Dave Parker host of "The Living Room". If you don't believe me please view his dream that he calls "God's Dream" and then download and listen to this sermon by Dr. MacArthur and decided for yourself.

Apostate false teachers from Joseph Smith to Benny Hinn and everybody in between claim that God speaks to them in their dreams, in their visions. And this, of course, transcends the necessity to be submissive to the Word of God which is not in their hearts anyway. And it gives them the illusion of authority and God gets blamed for all their aberrations. They reject the Word of God.

Now that is a fair way to interpret that. But even if you want to beg the question of revelatory dreams here and go another direction, you could interpret it this way, “Yet likewise these dreamers,” and you could...we’ll come down from that lofty claim to revelatory dreams and you could come down and say it this way, “What they teach is nothing but the figment of their own...what?...imagination.” That’s all it is. It’s not anything more than that.

These apostates with their evil corrupted minds who stay in the church to destroy, these spiritual terrorists controlled by Satan have nothing but perverted sensual ideas running around in their minds and they become the authority for their own deceptions. At its simplest, they reject the Word of God and base their lies on the musings of their own deluded brains. At its highest, they claim God speaks to them and God told them and God gave them the Book of Mormon and God gave them The Science and Health and Key to the Scripture and God gave them the revelation that told them to do this and to do that, and God spoke to them in a dream, a vision. But the bottom line is, they are unwilling to bow completely to the authority of the Word of God.
Excerpt taken from a sermon preached by John MacArthur titled "How To Identify Terrorists In The Church" you can download this sermon in it entirety at gty.org or read the entire transcript here.

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