2. ‚The worst forms of
wickedness consist in
perversions of the
truth.‛
- R. C. Lensky
- The Enemy’s Teaching
3. • Overview of the Enemy’s Method
• False Prophets
• False Authorities
• False gods
• Steps to Discernment
4. get thehopeful convert to change their opinions and beliefs to those that conform to the concept of what the salesman is selling.[1]
The Key to Effective Selling
The end goal in sales:
‚To get the hopeful
convert to change their
opinions and beliefs to
those that conform to the
concept of what the
salesman is selling.‛
- Steve Martin
Heavy Hitter Selling
- The Enemy’s Teaching
5. The Enemy’s Teaching
A False Prophet
A False Authority
Proclaim
A False god
A False christ
A False gospel
- The Enemy’s Teaching
6. A False Prophet
quot;Then the Lord said to me, ‚The prophets are
prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither
sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them;
they are prophesying to you a false vision,
divination, futility and the deception of their
own minds.quot;(Jeremiah 14:14)
quot;Your prophets have seen for you false and
foolish visions; And they have not exposed your
iniquity so as to restore you from captivity,
but they have seen for you false and misleading
oracles.quot;(Lamentations 2:14)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
7. A False Prophet
False Prophet: Joseph Smith
False Authority: Book of Mormon
False god: Supergod Adam
False Christ: Jesus, brother of Lucifer
False Gospel: Be god of your own planet
- The Enemy’s Teaching
8. A False Prophet
‚So My hand will be against the prophets who see
false visions and utter lying divinations. They
will have no place in the council of My people,
nor will they be written down in the register of
the house of Israel, nor will they enter the
land of Israel, that you may know that I am the
Lord God.quot;(Ezekiel 13:9)
‚Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them,
seeing false visions and divining lies for them,
saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord
has not spoken.quot;(Ezekiel 22:28)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
9. A False Prophet
False Prophet: Mohammad
False Authority: The Koran
False god: Allah
False Christ: Jesus, another prophet
False Gospel: Works/arbitrary decision
- The Enemy’s Teaching
10. A False Prophet
‚Beware of the false prophets, who come to you
in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous
wolves.quot;(Matthew 7:15)
‚Many false prophets will arise and will
mislead many.quot;(Matthew 24:11)
quot;But false prophets also arose among the people,
just as there will also be false teachers among
you, who will secretly introduce destructive
heresies, even denying the Master who bought
them, bringing swift destruction upon
themselves.quot;(2 Peter 2:1)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
11. A False Prophet
False Prophet: Benny Hinn
False Authority: Personal Revelations
False god: Nine-Person Trinity and you
False Christ: Jesus, took on Satan’s nature
False Gospel: Prosperity gospel
- The Enemy’s Teaching
12. A False Prophet
quot;But evil men and impostors will proceed from
bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.quot;(2
Timothy 3:13)
quot;For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their
ears tickled, they will accumulate for
themselves teachers in accordance to their own
desires, and will turn away their ears from the
truth and will turn aside to myths.quot;(2 Timothy
4:3-4)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
13. The Last False Prophet
False Prophet: The False Prophet ‚Then I saw another
beast coming up out
of the earth; and he
had two horns like a
False Authority: The Antichrist
lamb and he spoke as
a dragon. He
exercises all the
False god: The Antichrist and Satan
authority of the
first beast in his
presence. And he
False Christ: The Antichrist makes the earth and
those who dwell in it
to worship the first
beast, whose fatal
False Gospel: Faith in Antichrist
wound was
healed.quot;(Revelation
13:11-12)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
14. A False Authority
‚I have heard what the prophets have
said who prophesy falsely in My
name, saying, ‘I had a dream, I had
a dream!’quot;(Jeremiah 23:25)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
16. A False Authority
‚The problem is get people to
reject irrational and
supernatural explanations of
the world, the demons that
exist only in their
imaginations, and to accept a
social and intellectual
apparatus, Science, as the only
begetter of truth.‛
-
Richard Lewontin, Harvard
Geneticist
Scientism – the belief that the scientific method is
the only method for discovering truth (c.f. Auguste
Comte). Also known as positivism.
- The Enemy’s Teaching
17. A False Authority
quot;In those days
there was no king
in Israel;
everyone did what
was right in his
own eyes.quot;(Judges
21:25)
“An it harm none, do as you will.”
Wiccan Philosophy
- The Enemy’s Teaching
18. A False Authority
quot;I had motives for not wanting the
world to have a meaning;
consequently assumed that it had
none, and was able without any
difficulty to find satisfying
reasons for this assumption.… For
myself, as, no doubt, for most of
my contemporaries, the philosophy
of meaningless was essentially an
instrument of liberation…. We
objected to the morality because
it interfered with our sexual
freedom.‚
- Aldous Huxley
- The Enemy’s Teaching
19. The Last False Authority
quot;Then one of the seven angels who had the
seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying,
‚Come here, I will show you the judgment of
the great harlot who sits on many waters,
with whom the kings of the earth committed
acts of immorality, and those who dwell on
the earth were made drunk with the wine of
her immorality.‛ And he carried me away in
the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a
woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of
blasphemous names, having seven heads and
ten horns. The woman was clothed in purple
and scarlet, and adorned with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having in her
hand a gold cup full of abominations and of
the unclean things of her immorality, and on
her forehead a name was written, a mystery,
‚BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE
EARTH.‛(Revelation 17:1-5)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
20. A False god
‚I am the Lord your God, who brought
you out of the land of Egypt, out of
the house of slavery. You shall have
no other gods before Me.quot;(Exodus
20:2-3)
‚They went and served other gods and
worshiped them, gods whom they have
not known and whom He had not
allotted to them. ‘Therefore, the
anger of the Lord burned against that
land, to bring upon it every curse
which is written in this
book;quot;(Deuteronomy 29:26-27)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
21. A False god
Baal: ‚lord‛, ‚owner‛, ‚husband‛
The most prominent Canaanite deity. As the god of
fertility in the Canaanite pantheon (roster of gods),
Baal’s sphere of influence included agriculture, animal
husbandry, and human sexuality. Baal worship became
prominent in the northern kingdom of Israel during the
days of King Ahab (ninth century bc) when he married
Jezebel of Tyre, a city in Phoenicia (1 Kgs 16:29“33;
18:19“40). It later infiltrated the kingdom of Judah
when Athaliah, daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, married
King Jehoram of Judah (2 Kgs 8:17“18, 24“26). Places
for worship of Baal were often high places in the hills
consisting of an altar and a sacred tree, stone, or
pillar (2 Kgs 23:5). The predominantly urban
Phoenicians built temples to Baal; while Athaliah was
queen of Judah, even Jerusalem had one (2 Chr 23:12“
17). The worship of Baal was strongly condemned in the
OT (Jgs 2:12“14; 3:7“8; Jer 19).
- The Enemy’s Teaching
22. A False god
Molech: ‚king‛
A deity to whom children were offered as
sacrifices. That Molech is a deity, not the
name of a type of offering, is clearly
indicated by Lev. 20:5. Children were
dedicated (‘passed over’) and burned to
Molech at the Tophet in the Valley of
Hinnom near Jerusalem. This practice with
Molech specifically mentioned is found in
only four passages (Lev. 18:21; 20:2-5; 2
Kings 23:10; Jer. 32:35). This type of
offering without mention of Molech is found
abundantly elsewhere (Deut 12:31; 18:10; 2
Kings 16:3; 17:17, 31; 21:6; Jer. 7:31;
19:5; Ezek. 16:21; 20:26, 31; 23:37; 2
Chron. 28:8; 33:6).
- The Enemy’s Teaching
23. A False god
Allah
Father
Brahman
Vs. Supergod Adam
God
Wiccan god/
Spirit Son
Is not
goddess
The Triune God
Your own
creation
- The Enemy’s Teaching
24. ‚She is the source of
fertility, endless wisdom
and loving caresses… She
gives birth to abundance…
Since the Goddess is
nature, all nature…She is
omnipresent, changeless,
eternal.‛
- Scott Cunnigham
Wicca: A guide for the
Solitary Practitioner
The Wiccan Goddess, Gaia
- The Enemy’s Teaching
25. A False god
Idols - metal or mental
quot;No one recalls, nor is there knowledge or
understanding to say, ‚I have burned half of it
in the fire and also have baked bread over its
coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the
rest of it into an abomination, I fall down
before a block of wood!‛ He feeds on ashes; a
deceived heart has turned him aside. And he
cannot deliver himself, nor say, ‚Is there not a
lie in my right hand?‛(Isaiah 44:19-20)
quot;For they themselves report about us what kind
of a reception we had with you, and how you
turned to God from idols to serve a living and
true God,quot;(1 Thessalonians 1:9)
quot;Little children, guard yourselves from
idols.quot;(1 John 5:21)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
26. A False god
Idols - What is Worshipped?
‚They sacrificed to demons who were not
God, To gods whom they have not known, New
gods who came lately, Whom your fathers did
not dread.quot;(Deuteronomy 32:17)
quot;What do I mean then? That a thing
sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an
idol is anything?‚ No, but I say that the
things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they
sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I
do not want you to become sharers in
demons. You cannot drink the cup of the
Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot
partake of the table of the Lord and the
table of demons.quot;(1 Corinthians 10:19-21)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
27. A False god
Atheism: ‚no god‛
For the atheist and the humanist, the
following substitutions are made:
• Man becomes God
• Man becomes the measure of all things
• The body becomes the soul
• Time becomes eternity
- The Enemy’s Teaching
28. A False god
quot;The Nietzschean self seeks
consolation at the moment
of death not in having
transcended the animal
condition, but in being
that peculiar sort of dying
animal, who describing
himself in his own terms
has created himself.‚
- Richard Rorty
- The Enemy’s Teaching
29. ‚God is Dead.‛
- Nietzsche, 1883
“Nietzsche is Dead.”
- God, 1900
- The Enemy’s Teaching
30. The Last False god
quot;Let no one in any way deceive you, for it
will not come unless the apostasy comes
first, and the man of lawlessness is
revealed, the son of destruction, who
opposes and exalts himself above every so-
called god or object of worship, so that he
takes his seat in the temple of God,
displaying himself as being God…Then that
lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord
will slay with the breath of His mouth and
bring to an end by the appearance of His
coming; that is, the one whose coming is in
accord with the activity of Satan, with all
power and signs and false wonders,quot;(2
Thessalonians 2:3-4,8-9)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
31. Spiritual Bootcamp
Recognizing False Prophets, Authorities, and gods
• Test the teaching
• Validate the teaching
• Spiritual view the teaching
• Examine the fruit of the
teaching
- The Enemy’s Teaching
32. quot;Beloved, do not believe
every spirit, but test the
spirits to see whether
they are from God, because
many false prophets have
gone out into the
world.quot;(1 John 4:1)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
33. quot;By this you know the Spirit of
God: every spirit that confesses
that Jesus Christ has come in
the flesh is from God; and every
spirit that does not confess
Jesus is not from God; this is
the spirit of the antichrist, of
which you have heard that it is
coming, and now it is already in
the world.quot;(1 John 4:2-3)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
34. quot;The brethren immediately sent Paul
and Silas away by night to Berea,
and when they arrived, they went
into the synagogue of the Jews. Now
these were more noble-minded than
those in Thessalonica, for they
received the word with great
eagerness, examining the Scriptures
daily to see whether these things
were so.quot;(Acts 17:10-11)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
35. ‚But when He, the Spirit of truth,
comes, He will guide you into all
the truth; for He will not speak on
His own initiative, but whatever He
hears, He will speak; and He will
disclose to you what is to
come.quot;(John 16:13)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
36. quot;But solid food is for the mature,
who because of practice have their
senses trained to discern good and
evil.quot;(Hebrews 5:14)
Practice: Hexis: constant exercise leading to maturity
Train: Gumnazo: gymnastic exercise; undergo discipline
Discern: Diakrisis: evaluate and distinguish
- The Enemy’s Teaching
37. quot;Beware of the false prophets, who come
to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly
are ravenous wolves. ‚You will know them
by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered
from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles,
are they? ‚So every good tree bears good
fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
‚A good tree cannot produce bad fruit,
nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.
‚Every tree that does not bear good fruit
is cut down and thrown into the fire. ‚So
then, you will know them by their
fruits.quot;(Matthew 7:15-20)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
38. quot;Yet in the same way these men, also by
dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject
authority, and revile angelic majesties…
But these men revile the things which they do
not understand; and the things which they know
by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these
things they are destroyed…These are grumblers,
finding fault, following after their own lusts;
they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the
sake of gaining an advantage…that they were
saying to you, ‚In the last time there will be
mockers, following after their own ungodly
lusts.‛ These are the ones who cause divisions,
worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.quot;(Jude 8,
10, 16, 18-19)
- The Enemy’s Teaching
39. quot;But examine everything carefully;
hold fast to that which is good;‚
(1 Thessalonians 5:21)
Dokimazo: “prove”; “determine genuineness”
- The Enemy’s Teaching