Stephen Furtick Do It Again Scriptures Used
Pastor exposes TD Jakes & Steven Furtick every bit heretics
Pastor Gabriel Hughes of Get-go Southern Baptist Church recently wrote a proficient article exposing heretics T.D. Jakes and Steven Furtick.
Heretic Steven Furtick – famous for being presented as Messiah at his Lawmaking Orange Revival.
Ps Gabriel Hughes writes,
Are T.D. Jakes and Steven Furtick Heretics? Yes.
Through the ministry building When We Understand the Text, I've fielded a few questions about Steven Furtick and whether or not he is trustworthy. To give the best answer that I can, I've decided to utilise Steven's recent advent at Bishop T.D. Jakes' mega-plex, the Potter'southward House, where he preached this past Sunday. This is written in beloved, then that the people of God volition be able to test and know that not everyone who claims to be of God speaks the counsel of God (one John 4:one).
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday
I went to the Potter'south House website to pull up Sunday's sermon, but first I had to sit down through more than than five minutes of Potter's Business firm commercials. And so the camera showed this multi-millon-dollar stage with "Endure the Race" lit upward on a video screen. Someone off-camera sang-shouted, "I only want to tell yous what I call up most you!"
Suddenly a bunch of singers and dancers came running out to pop music and a dazzling light evidence. Multiple video screens went into hyper seizure-inducing screen-saver manner. Everyone rushed the phase and started jumping upwards and downward. Oh, great. I thought I had accidentally clicked on a link to a concert. Nope. This was a Potter'due south House worship service.
After the music, Jakes came out to do announcements and his money pitch, all to flashing lights and drum and organ fills. At that place were some more videos of other preachers at recent Potter's Business firm events. Evidently anybody at the Potter's House — black and white, men and women, young and old — preaches with a throaty grovel, and you're just not preaching unless you're too removing all phlegm from the presence of God. (At one point, Jakes coughed and eluded to phlegm and dry throats existence from the devil. It's probably because you're abusing your throat, Thomas.)
Jakes' wife joined him on stage and they prayed to God rebuking affliction, infirmities, and abnormalities, because "nosotros're virtually to step into our blessing. I declare and decree in the name of Jesus that the blessing of the Lord will break out." Apparently no blessing tin come unless y'all declare with your mouth it will come. That's what Jakes believes and teaches. The Bible says no such affair.
He said, "We requite you the praise equally if what we are assertive you lot for is already done. We don't take to wait to see it. We don't have to wait 'til it comes in the mail. We don't have to look 'til the loan is paid. Simply right at present past faith, we praise y'all every bit if it were already done, in the name of Jesus." (Of class, he's shouting this as he goes.)
Now that sounds about right. Don't we worship God believing the victory is already won? Doesn't God ordain all things, adept or bad (Lamentations iii:37-38)? What would be the problem with believing that it'southward already done? Because once again, Jakes believes information technology is the ability of the human being volition that manifests the approval of God. If we just believe that it's already done, and say that it'south already done, then it will exist done.
Merely that'southward not how the will of God works. It's not the Christian equivalent to mind-over-matter or wishing on a star or a motivational speech. God will reach his volition whether we will believe in information technology or we will not. Are you lot in obedience to God's will, or are you trying to accomplish your own volition?
The Hidden Will and the Revealed Will
There's a departure betwixt God'southward subconscious volition and his revealed will. What has however to be seen is his hidden will. Our obedience to God at present is according to his revealed volition. Ephesians 5:17 says, "Practice not be foolish, but understand what the volition of the Lord is." That doesn't mean that a person endeavor to find the hidden counsel of God. Information technology means knowing how to live co-ordinate to counsel of God as found in the Bible, his "revealed will."
When Jesus taught us to pray, "Your kingdom come, your volition be done on world as information technology is in sky" (Matthew six:10), he was teaching us to ask God for the power to obey the prescript of the King, the commands of Christ, his revealed will. This was not a lesson in mind-over-matter: "If you but believe in it hard enough, then God will brand his will come true for you." Praying for God's will to be done co-ordinate to your will-ability is praying that your will be done.
Jakes does not pray for God'south volition to be washed. He can't, in any style that is pleasing to the Lord, because he does non know God (Romans 8:vii-8). That seems pretty assuming and judgmental for me to say that. You're right, information technology is. But I'm not making that judgment past my ain authority. I'm only stating what the Bible says. T.D. Jakes denies the nature of God. He does not believe that Jesus is the Son of God the Father. The Bible calls such a man an antichrist (1 John 2:22).
Jakes' Rejection of God'due south Revealed Will
In The Potter'southward Firm statement of faith, information technology says, "There is i God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in three manifestations: Begetter, Son, and Holy Spirit." But God does not manifest himself as Male parent, Son, and Spirit. He is Father, Son, and Spirit. He is one God, three persons.
God has clearly revealed himself to u.s. this manner in the pages of Scripture. A person comes to the faith in the proper name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:xix). As I've said elsewhere, conservancy is a Trinitarian piece of work: It is given by the Begetter, it is caused through the Son, information technology is experienced in the Holy Spirit.
All three persons of the Trinity are distinctly displayed at Jesus' baptism (Matthew 3:16-17). Jesus said he was sent past the Father to exercise his will (John 6:38), and whoever else does the will of the Begetter is his blood brother and sister (Matthew 12:50). The will of the Father is to await on the Son and then that you lot might have eternal life (John six:forty). He said the Begetter would ship the Spirit in the name of Jesus, the Son (John fourteen:26). Jesus prayed to the Father, not to himself (John 17:1-5).
Jesus said that whoever knows him knows the father also (John 14:7). He said that no one knows the Son except the Male parent, and no i knows the Father except the Son, and anyone whom the Son chooses to reveal him (Matthew 11:27). Therefore, we can know this: a person who does not know Jesus equally the Son, and God the Begetter as his Father, knows neither the Father nor Jesus and is non saved, for God has not been revealed to him.
T.D. Jakes Does Not Know God
Hey, at least Jakes believes God is 1, right? Well, the Bible says fifty-fifty the demons believe that, and shudder (James 2:19). More that, the demons know the Son of God (Marking 5:7), so it could be argued the demons know God improve than Jakes does! Though Jakes knows God is ane, he does not know him as Father, Son, and Spirit — non three manifestations, but iii persons in i.
In his book Judge Not, Todd Friel writes, "In other words, if T.D. Jakes went to a political party with God, he could not attend with the Father, Son, and Spirit at the same time. T.D. could attend with only one manifestation of God at a fourth dimension. That is a heresy chosen modalism. The Council of Nicea condemned this teaching as heresy in 325 AD."
Friel went on to quote the Athanasian Creed, written in 385. The Nicene and Athanasian creeds did non make up Trinitarian doctrine; they simply summarized and affirmed that which the Bible taught. The Athanasian Creed states as follows:
Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he agree the universal faith. Which faith except every one do continue whole and undefiled; without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
And that organized religion is this: That nosotros worship 1 God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the substance. For in that location is one Person of the Faith, another of the Son, and some other of the Holy Spirit…
And then the Begetter is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God; and still they are not three Gods, but ane God. So likewise the Male parent is Lord, the Son is Lord, and the Holy Spirit Lord and yet they are non iii Lords simply i Lord…
He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity.
The early on church building taught from the teachings of Christ that if you deny the Trinity, you will go to hell. You are in league with the devil. You are an antichrist. It'due south that big a bargain.
Now, that doesn't mean when you show up to heaven's gates, you're going to have to give a theological textbook definition of Trinity. Your pastor is not going to tell y'all, "Boy, y'all better be able to explain Trinity to me correct now or you're not actually saved!" (at to the lowest degree, he shouldn't tell you that). You're non fully going to be able to understand this concept of Ane God in Three Persons considering you're not God. Only to deny the doctrine of the Trinity is to deny something fundamental about God. It'southward to deny God himself.
That's Jakes' theology. And equally I've written about before, when a doctrine equally fundamental as the Triune nature of God is rejected, a lot of wormy doctrines will wriggle upwards instead. Information technology is mutual among Oneness Pentecostals, as it is of Jakes, to believe that you lot have the ability to unlock the power of God with your words. Yous can hear information technology in the fashion Jakes prays. But the reason he believes that is because he does not know God.
And Steven Furtick Probably Doesn't Either
Steven Furtick is a Southern Baptist government minister, pastor of Elevation Church in Due north Carolina, one of the fastest-growing churches in the state (as I keep hearing over and over and over once again). Does Furtick assert the doctrine of the Trinity? Yes, he does. But though he appears to know God, he notwithstanding advances heresy, glowingly lifting upwards those who, with just a trivial discernment one tin can tell, are against God.
I should clarify that a person tin praise a false instructor and simply be mistaken or misled all the same not compromise the authenticity of their religion. Tertullian did this in his defense of Montanus. I believe Francis Chan and Ronnie Floyd as well misunderstand how much of a false teacher Mike Bickle actually is, but I don't incertitude the genuineness of their saving faith.
So why would Furtick's endorsement of Jakes also make him a heretical preacher? Because this is not but a shared respect for one another. Information technology's not similar Furtick just met Jakes and gave some weird "I dear you, man" speech like Chan did of Bickle. Furtick hails Jakes as one of the greatest preachers on the planet, and openly admits he watches Jakes to acquire how to exist like him, even taking fabric from Jakes' sermons and putting them in his about every calendar week.
Hither'south what this comes down to: The Bible describes T.D. Jakes as an antichrist, and the bulk of church history would say he does not nonetheless know the way of salvation, nevertheless Steven Furtick is borrowing the teachings of an antichrist and repeating them, telling everyone else to mind to them, extolling his greatness, attempting to emulate him, and, as you would accept seen in Furtick's presentation at the Potter's Business firm on Sunday, pouring a great bargain of money into it.
From Elevation to the Potter's House
Jakes welcomed Furtick to the stage and Furtick began his warm-up with inexpensive cheers from the crowd like some kind of hypeman. That's what he does: "Who's excited to be at the Potter's House? Allow's go by section: Who's excited over hither? Who'due south excited over here? How nigh you guys? Let me hear from the balcony! Everybody down here wave at the balustrade!"
His endeavor at humility was facepalm-worthy: "You lot will probably take better preachers than me come through here, but you will never accept one that is more honored to stand here than the ane you lot accept standing before you lot today. I promise yous that." Oversupply applauded. "No, I'k serious, man." He gave a bank check for $35,000 to Jakes' ministry, which had something to practise with Furtick existence 35 years old, and he made sure everyone heard near it and saw him practice it.
This is shortly later on Furtick did this big interview where he said that Jesus wouldn't desire him to reveal how much money he makes. Simply then he showed upwards to reveal to everyone how much money he gives, which obviously corresponds with his age times 1,000. I don't know what Jesus told Furtick almost how much money he makes, but I know he said not to lavish praise and adoration upon yourself for what you lot give (Matthew 6:ane-four).
Furtick also said it would be arrogant to reveal what he'south given. Um…
Furtick jokingly said to Jakes that the check was a peace offering for all of the times he stole material from Jakes' sermons. He said that if Jakes received royalty checks from everyone who swiped stuff from him, he'd be the richest man on the planet. Betwixt Sunday services at Elevation church, Furtick said he would get on his computer to picket the live stream of Jakes' sermons at the Potter's House. He called Jakes "the greatest preacher on the continent," and his wife the "showtime lady."
He said, "For all of u.s.a. preachers, you know no matter how adept y'all preach on any Dominicus morning time, you are only one click away from the T.D. Jakes app to be reminded that your sermon was just okay. You lot gotta time it carefully when you watch information technology on Monday. It'll make you suicidal."
…Suicidal?
"And that's his announcements," Furtick continued to fawn. "His announcements are better than your sermon."
Coming from an antichrist? No. They're non. Every bit Furtick connected to lavish praise, he said Jakes is ambidextrous and "tin beat the devil with both easily." In fact, he is doing the work of the devil.
This was nearly 90 minutes into the service, and it took me ii days just to get that far, so I didn't listen to Furtick's sermon. Just I bet I could tell you what it was almost: he grabbed 2 or three verses from an Onetime Attestation Bible story having something to do with a rex or a battle, and took information technology out of context and applied it to explicate why you're not getting what yous want.
He used rhyming contrasts, similar "It'south non a stumbling block, it's a humbling block." His cadence went up and everyone cheered. He said "you" a lot. He talked about how great Steven Furtick was and how God blessed him considering of how faithful he was, and how unfaithful others were who didn't have the assertive power that Steven Furtick has. It's e'er the same.
His instruction is lacking in biblical discernment in a lot of ways. I've never felt like his sermons pointed the hearer to God, merely rather to himself or themselves. However, he sure dispenses a lot of gusto when information technology comes to directing others to faux teachers. Be conscientious of those who have an appearance of godliness but deny its power. The Bible says to avoid such people (2 Timothy 2:5).
Why Be And then Direct?
Why was information technology necessary for me to be and so forthright in calling out these men by name? For a couple of reasons. Get-go of all, it'southward because I love God and desire his glory to exist proclaimed. It is the church'southward calling to exercise that, even a defender of the truth (1 Timothy iii:xiv-16, 1 Peter 2:9).
The 2nd reason is considering I love yous and I love Jakes and Furtick plenty to show them their errors and call them to repentance. Every bit a pastor, I have been appointed to concord firm to the trustworthy give-and-take equally taught, and so that I may give teaching in sound doctrine and rebuke those who contradict it (Titus i:9). There are those upsetting entire church families, teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach, and they must be silenced (Titus 1:11).
Paul said that of those who fancy themselves shepherds and teachers, every bit Jakes and Furtick do, if the persist in sin, they must exist rebuked in the presence of all then that the rest may stand in fear (1 Timothy 5:20). Names are named when necessary because names are named in the Bible (ane Timothy 1:20, 2 Timothy 4:14, three John 1:9-x).
Then Christian, I appeal to you equally I contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints, keep your ears from turning toward the irreverent babble of false teachers. I hope that Jakes and Furtick indeed apologize before information technology'southward likewise belatedly, and that those who mind to their teaching will listen no longer, but instead fix themselves on the audio words of Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.
Source: By Gabriel Hughes, Are T.D. Jakes and Steven Furtick Heretics? Yes., Junction City First Southern Baptist Church, http://pastorgabehughes.blogspot.com.au/2015/11/are-td-jakes-and-steven-furtick_25.html, Published 25/11/2015. (Accessed 05/01/2016.)
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