Why Law of Attraction, Oneness, Universalism, Mysticism, and Religious Pluralism aren't Christian
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Want to know why Universalism, the Law of Attraction, Mysticism, Religious Pluralism, and Oneness isn't Biblical? Well, here you have it. In a previous video linked below, I went over Five New Age teachings that I have seen enter into the church. Though there were a lot, I only went over the top five I saw the most. I won't be going over each one in detail like I did in the last video, but I will be going over how each one of these beliefs is completely against what the Bible says and what Jesus taught. Think of this as a sort of follow up video from the last one.
*Sorry if the background sorta went in and out of focus the whole time. Still learning this tech stuff.*
Resources:
My original Video of the Top Five New Age Teachings in the Church: • Top Five New Age Teach...
Video with Mike Winger going over scriptures used and abused by the word of faith movement and new agers: • How New Age & Word of ...
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My Law of Attraction Video: • Video
Interview with Cultish about New Thought and Word of Faith Teachings in the Church: • What is the Word of Fa...
How Could a Loving God Send People to Hell?: • Video
Is Jesus REALLY the Only Way?: • Is Jesus REALLY The On...
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Spurgeon said "Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong but knowing the difference between right and almost right".
Great videos...keep on goin 😊
I can't think of any heresy or false teaching that would be supported if Christians just read and studied the scripture.
Exactly and not from the perspective of their pastor.
Exactly
@@terseandtiny1746 this is the one! even they make mistakes or misinterpret things.
one of my old pastors used to say “don’t ever let me become the only Bible you read” i respected him for it bc many don’t say things like that.
Or if they just listened to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
I wanted to say this -- the Law of Attraction, in light of the Book of Job ALONE, falls flat on its face -- particularly when Job's calamities are being questioned by those closest to him (That weren't dead).
Great observation!
Oh my word... I thought the same thing just yesterday!!!
‘That weren’t dead’
I’m dead 😂
wow great point!!!!! wow thank you for the observation :)
@@toolegittoquit_001 Christian jokes are the best! haha!
Melissa, "you've come a long way , baby!" I learned a lot from you. You will make great apologist. I think you'll are as able as David Wood. He's converting Muslims and you fight to win souls away from the New Age. You're in my prayers.
Cynthia Yargus, David Wood is not converting anyone. He is planting seeds. No one comes unless the Father draws them. We are all to be the hands, feet and face of Christ. We can never take credit for who is saved and who is not. Churches that keep a scorecard are honing their own reputation and it is unbiblical. All glory to God.
@@michaelbrickley2443 That is true. God uses people to lead others to Christ through witness. And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation."
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I would say that Melissa’s ministry has even more power to lead people to the Lord than David Wood (who I do respect a lot) because she is keeping everything completely objective and leaving her personal opinions and feelings out. Im getting more and more disappointed in Mr. Wood’s videos because they have become quite sarcastic and opinionated, when his true facts alone speak loud enough for themselves-and I fear that he is putting people off with his style. It’s one thing to put people off with the TRUTH ABOUT JESUS and another by unloving behaviors and attitudes and mockery. I applaud you Melissa for keeping it REAL, TRUTHFUL, HONEST and GRACEFUL at the same time. Love you!
Just found you. SO THANKFUL FOR YOUR VOICE! And the courage to use it!!
CONGRATS!!! She really is a huge blessing!// "Just a spoon full of..." She is SUCH a MOM! ❤️🤗
It is so sad to see so many people in the Church that do not read their Bibles and they're ok with that, that's the reason for so many false teachings entering the Church, if we don't know the Word of God then we have no solid ground to stand upon. Love you work, may the Lord bless you and your family.
Hi Arias! I hope your doing well! Hopefully you get this message cuz sometimes knowing the Bible and knowing ppl that just don’t live by it confuse me. I hear you don’t have to know the Bible in order to know God, but then I learn we must reference and read the Bible to stand firm on. Can you help guide me, which is it, sometimes I feel it’s on a loop
When I first heard about contemplative prayer, I knew it wasn't quite right: if God needs me to be quiet and mentally inactive in order to hear Him, then He's not being heard very much, I think. Lol. Sometimes He surprises me when I'm not thinking of Him. Sometimes He guides me in His timing. Sometimes He speaks when all around me is raging. That's the God I know.
Greetings from Greece!!! Kostas from Corinth!!.. this law of attraction works more as a substitute of faith, especially of christian virtue of hope... when there aren't true pastors you guide people, when faithful equals prosperous then all these you comment become reality of current churches... bravo ..your videos are so inspiring... you, Doreen, Alan..and others you help a lot..bravo... we need even here fresh new apologetics..
Melissa!!! I want to thank God that I found you. Your prequel to this video was the first video I watched which challenged everything that I have been being taught at my current church. I am a literally only a couple weeks into researching all of these things and what the bible actually says. It is because of this revelation of the true gospel of Jesus Christ that I actually want to read my bible every single day and I no longer wish to be in the dark. I thought many of these things were true at one point. This did not happen overnight either. It was a gradual process that had me questioning many things from the beginning of my time in what would probably be considered and NAR church. I'm very grateful for you and your passion for the bible. I hope to be an apologist as well because of this change! :)
Blessings to you! You realize you didn’t find her channel by accident. 😊
God brought you here! I'm so enjoying reading my Bible too and learning all these things.
That's me and my husband too! We'd been going to NAR and neo evangelical churches for several years and never really brought ourselves to read the bible. Then we watched the first American Gospel video here on TH-cam and fell in love with reading the bible! It's been wonderful! I'm so happy you've discovered/rediscovered the gospel truth and love for Him also!
Some other good videos to watch are Third Adam and Third Adam 2 by Spencer Smith. The beginning of Third Adam 2 can be a little annoying but I understand why he did it that way, just hang in there with it for the first 10 mins or so and it gets better. These are the two videos that really convicted us and caused us to seek a new church to attend.
What kind of church was teaching you this stuff?
Thank you, Melissa. This was excellent. I've never heard it explained so plainly and clearly before. Now I have the knowledge of what these things are that have been blowing in the wind all around me. I am 62 years old and most of these teachings have only recently crept into the 'church'. I don't remember encountering a lot of that when I was growing up in church. But it is rampant now. It is heartbreaking to know that some of the most anointed songwriters I grew up listening to and playing their songs with my guitar and singing them in church have fallen prey to the Universalism heresy. And to see it preached from mega church platforms by big name celebrity ministries is so monstrous because it is like the pied piper leading the children straight to hell in oblivion. God bless you for putting the Truth out there....Yeshua's Truth. The Way, The Truth and The Life. HalleluYah!
So I’m having a really hard time with my faith. Especially since I sometimes can’t tell the difference between true and false. Sometimes life feels like a dream.
It's a miracle to me that Jesus forgives us and loves us each day despite our wicked ways. All it takes is trust, but we continue to rely on ourselves to find peace, but it never comes until we humble ourselves and believe in the miracle of Jesus's resurrection. I have to say this daily to stay strong in my faith for I am weak.
I’ve heard the gospel so many times in my life and every single time in knocks never in my gut Of how crazy the fathers love is for us and never gets old hearing.
You just reminded me of an old song "How Deep The Fathers Love For Us" by Stuart Townsend. Thanks! 👌
@@peterlloyd5457 I love that song as well, but the song is not very old. The verse that puts us in the crowd shouting for Jesus crucifixion brings the reality of the gospel message, for it was because of our wicked behaviour that God came to save us. Much more powerful to see our sin in action at the cross, than to just think about it and not seek to be rid of it, and accept the life Jesus offers. And to think this is a free gift by faith alone, and not by seeking other exhausting and fruitless ways; building our tower of Babel to exalt ourselves. But Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
I want to point out that the flavor of universalism Melissa mentions is not what Gary Amirault taught; it is not exactly like religious pluralism, or mean that God is not just or that what you believe is irrelevant. With a God that eventually succeeds in persuading everyone to accept Christ of their own free will, it doesn't follow that it doesn't matter what you do, or that Jesus died for nothing. Amirault would say that all men do need Christ to be saved, it's just that Christ is not just the potential savior but the actual savior of all men, and would deny that all religions lead to salvation. Simply, everyone will become Christian eventually. Jesus came to give everyone a path to God, but all those paths go through Jesus.
As a Charismatic, I am horrified at the spread of New Age beliefs in our churches. People are lazy and/or arrogant if they refuse to search the Scriptures to test anything supernatural that occurs in our lives or meetings. I think it distracts from legitimate practice of spiritual gifts that are described in the Bible. The counterfeits have been displacing the genuine.
I’m apostolic Pentecostal and I agree. Kenneth Copeland and bethel give a big negative light of apostolic’s.
Hi, Beth. I used to belong to a charismatic church, and I believe they leave the door open to all these other things.
The Gospel message is good news for all, no matter your walk of life. If you can't preach your message (prosperity gospel, WoF, law of attraction) to an orphaned child on the streets of India or a widow with starving children in the heart of Africa, then it's worthless and not of Jesus. Jesus never excludes anyone from His gift of salvation.
Girl I'm listening u got it👐🏾🙏🏾
Amen. What I keep saying: God is sovereign. God is sovereign. God is sovereign...
Listennn...thank you so much for this information! Watching from Trinidad and I can see these teachings and practices in general but especially the Law of attraction slipping into Christian spheres under the guise of faith
“I and my Father are one.”
John 10:30 KJV
“Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?”
John 14:9 KJV
“Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation,”
Colossians 1:15 NLT
“And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.”
Leviticus 26:12-13 KJV
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
Exodus 20:3 KJV
“Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.”
1 John 2:23 KJV
“But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.”
John 10:38 KJV
“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.”
John 4:23 KJV
“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”
Revelation 22:13 KJV
“that all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.”
1 Kings 8:60 KJV
And over 300 times the Bible says God is one. Not once do I see trinity in the Bible.
I wish I could sit down with you over a cup of coffee or tea and just conversate .
When I was in the Charismatic Movement and prayed if it be your will I was told that’s negative praying
You must believe it will come to pass or you won’t receive it
Look at how Jesus of all people prayed in the garden
If there’s any other way and yet not my will but thy will be done
Who dares to call Jesus prayer negative➕🌈🇦🇺🇮🇱
Jesus is Lord
Amen! Glorious shall be the day when our Lord returns.
Jesus is God. Always has been, is right now, always will be.
He is the ONLY way.
Salvation is by grace alone, by faith alone, in Christ alone.
Its 100 percent by faith in Christ and His sacrifice for us, zero percent in works / turning from sins.
"Just a spoonful of theology makes the medicine go down!" :)
Hehehehe! For reallll 💯%! 😀
About the last two Melissa videos I've watched. The ads are from shaman & the other one was something about positive/negative manifestation. How ironic. Smh...SKIP!!! Lol.
I appreciate your videos so much. I use them to educate myself on other beliefs to stay aware and speak to others. God bless you!
Jesus is KING
Awesome video! I learned a lot!!!
What are your thoughts on "Speaking in tongues?" If you've done a video on this, would you direct me please?.
I would like to see a video on this also!
Her thoughts don't matter. Scripture matters. Tongues are the evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost
Signs and wonders will not make us believe. Look at the Israelites. They witnessed the plagues sent to Egypt. They witnessed the parting of the sea. Not to mention the wonders God did in the wilderness. Still they did not believe. If we will study the bible, Jesus preach the gospel first. Then signs and wonders followed. That's also the same with the deciples. They preach, and the words were confirmed by signs and wonders. It only shows that the Word of God alone is all we need to believe. And God will not create miracles just for us to believe. That is manipulation. God loves us unconditionally that He will not violate our free will.
Good stuff...love all the scriptures ❤
Question about mysticism: Back in 2018, I was really depressed. Lost hope for the future and doesn't really have plans at all. My mom got a ticket to a Church conference and instead of her going she urged me to go. Just for me to get outside the house. So I did 'cos I really don't care. Like whatever... There at the conference, I experienced something. Like God's presence. I told God, "if He is real, let me feel Your presence." I did feel Him there. At the conference, I met a pastor named Steven Furtick. Until now I listen to him. His preaching helped me get through depression. That God is with me getting through my suffering. After that conference, I began reading the Bible. The one that I got as a gift in high school. It made me more hungry to learn more and study more and talk more about God. Sadly the people I'm surrounded with don't have the fire, the hunger that I have. So right now I am seeking by myself. And I found this youtube.
Does my experience explain mysticism?
Your last question, about if I haven't experienced Jesus, would I still believe in Him? Thinking about it, I'd say no. And that made me sad. Like I have to have a physical miracle, something that I can see, to believe in him. But... How can I share the Word of God without these experiences?
Or am I misunderstanding the whole mysticism?
Please help. I am not always notified here in youtube for replies so maybe you guys can reply to me by email. 👉🏼jeza25alexa@yahoo.com
Melissa I want to thank you and Thank my God through Jesus Christ that I found your series on the Jehovahs witness cult. I was being swallowed right into their false theology and with what I learned from your videos I was able to steer the course of my relationship with Christ! Thank you so much for all the intense effort you put in your videos and God Bless You!!!
Melissa, you are doing well in exposing darkness and error. Yet, is there not also a danger in having a Christian faith that is only intellectual and lacking in faith in God's ability to act in our lives? Unbelief is a reality. Scripture does speak of especially in the NT of a life with Christ that is Scriptural and experiential. We love God with our heart, soul, mind and strength. We can experience Scripture and Christ in our lives.
I’m not sure where Melissa says in this video or other videos that her faith is only intellectual and lacking in God’s miraculous presence. I align myself a lot with Melissa: I love apologetics, and I shamelessly love the intellectual and historical aspects of Christianity. You’ll always find me geeking out about how well Scripture is written and what it reveals about the nature of God! I love reading scripture and books of apologetics and books about theology. I’m known for talking anyone’s ear off about theology lol.
And yet, I acknowledge God’s ability to preform supernatural acts and wonders. In fact, I’ve witnessed healings and prayers miraculously and inexplicably answered! My relationship with the Lord is marked by me witnessing his Spirit and presence to me!
I’m not sure why or how loving scripture and being intellectual is seen as not experiencing God’s powers. In fact, I’ve found that they go together!! The more I read and learn, the more God reveals himself to me.
The truth is not in a religion or belief system the truth is a person. 🔥🔥 Amen. Blessings 💕 from Belgium 🇩🇪
Thank you Melissa for this so well thought-out and presented video. I appreciate the work you put into your videos and how you back every argument with the Scriptures. This was balm to my ears. You speak the Truth in a very clear and relatable way. One of your best videos yet. ❤️💕
The little Entro about "just a spoon full of sugar..." Was amazing! Brought back memories of my childhood loving Mary Poppins movie! Thank you 🙂
Wow, this was superb. Had to listen again
This has got to be one of your best videos so far, and you have some very good videos.
Beautiful teaching. Thank you, God bless you!
Melissa, I like your rustic wood background! I've been back and forth with different inspirational u-tubers like you and glad I checked this one out. Blessings to you and how God uses you! 🙏☺💐
I praise the Lord precious sister!! ✨🕊✨
because you are no longer trapped into this dark, deceiving, prideful, evil, depraved belief, movement, practice, religion or whatever they wanna call it 🤮👎🏼❌
I have come here to ask you and whoever else interested to join me and pray for my dearest and loving friend Alfredo Ferrer who is deep into the new age, calls himself a Buddhist at heart and Indigo child 🤦🏼♀️
It breaks my heart to see how my loving friend has turned into this bitter, arrogant, selfish, self centered, narcissist, egocentric human, who devotes and trust the universe,
(supposedly God), the moon stars, horoscope, etc 😣😔😭
Relying so much into affirmations, manifesting, law of attraction, maintain a positive attitude, vibration, meditation, burn sage, align chakras, energy, I mean, the idolatry and rituals are endless 🙄😒
My loving friend has develop different personalities, is completely lost. 😔
As a fitness trainer he has expressed among his clientele how they can obtain anything they want all they have to do is manifest, that we are all powerful creators, whose reality can be self created .. 😒🤦🏼♀️
I did expose the dangers of dabbling with new age and witchcraft to my friend as I learn directly from the Lord Who brought me to find out all the satanic, darkness and danger that is involved in the new age, that it’s in fact an abomination to God, but my friend didn’t wanna hear one word, he rejected all
Now we no longer talk, not of my wish but his 💔😔😭
I pray for my loving friend Alfredo and many others to receive a merciful interventional calling from the Lord, a revolutionary breakthrough calling that will bring him and many more to humble themselves in repentance to recognize their sins, the acknowledgement of the only Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection
To bring Alfredo to his knees, face on the ground, pouring his soul out with tears,
calling out for an urgent rescue ... in complete surrender
Please join me in prayer for my dearest loving friend ALFREDO FERRER.
May God keep you, protect and bless you!!!
🕊💙✝️💙🕊
All Glory to God!! ✨✨✝️✨✨
Please pray for my son Lu. He has been very argumentative about doing bible studies lately. Claiming that I am "shoving it down" his throat and it's "all day, everyday" when I ask him to give me one hour a day of listening while he does other things. He's been cooperative in the past. I don't know if it's spiritual or just a bad week, but I would appreciate your prayers! God bless!
Pray for his desire and heart (I will too), but perhaps don’t make it a chore. If he feels it’s a chore, he will be less likely to gain the desire naturally. He could easily go through rough patches. Have faith. This may be exactly what he needs to gain the desire from within. You are absolutely trying to be a good parent and that’s lovely. I’m simply sharing from experience where I never rejected learning (Christian school etc), but when something feels like a chore or “system” it can interfere with the on fire desire to simply BE with and learn from God. Whether he opens the Bible for one minute or 10 hours... it is more powerful if God places the desire in his heart and he hears Him speak His love to him. That is more powerful than any regimens and will gradually grow naturally. Just give him space to grow, and pray hard for him between you and God. ❤️
Don't worry and pray. My mum listened to Transworld Radio broadcasts every night for years and I listened and hated them. But once I moved out and had to fend for myself, I quickly became overwhelmed and on the brink of alcoholism came back and listened to a Billy Graham meeting broadcast on the same station and gave my life to the Lord on 4th August 1984. Have been following him ever since. God will make a way for your son, and when it happens it will be real and not something taught. But in the mean time keep doing what you are doing for it will not be wasted.
This needs to be said. I’m slowly getting my doctrine right, after being raised in a family that believes everything that you’re correcting. Please keep up the great work. God bless you
My mother-in-law died at 93 yrs old believing in the "collective consciousness". Yet, when I tried to share the Gospel with her and asked what is he meant by that term, she said, " well, I don't know". Good grief. What is going on? Collective consciousness??
Truly spiritual blindness.
So sad, and I never even heard of collective consciousness.
Regarding "the Bible only":
The Bible itself affirms creation to be a revelation of God (Rom 1:19-20; Mat 5:45; Mat 6:26+28).
It is necessary to corroborate the teachings we get from the Bible with what we can see in creation, as far as this is possible. For example, the Bible says that trees have hands (Is 55:12). Only by looking at creation we can tell that this is a metaphor.
Ms. Dougherty...I enjoy your very sensible videos and I certainly appreciate that after the haziness of new age subjectivism the hard objectivity of scripture is a great relief but one can't slight the idea of oneness altogether. After all if all things are established and created in and through the Word as the prologue to John affirms, then all things ARE, to that extent, connected. That is why, in fact, there has historically been Christian mysticism of a very different sort than the vapid new age variety. Some here might say, well that's a deformation of the Catholic and Orthodox communions but there is mysticism in the Protestant world too as in Pietism. Keep up the god work
and YES mindlessness is a deadly temptation
It's so awesome that you pointed this out that in the Old Testament [Deut] there was a sense of self-effort with the word "might;" like in a person's own strength that was in keeping the law; and in the New Testament [Matt], Jesus replaces the word "might" with the word "mind" as if to say that it is not in our self effort that we can be saved but in the strength of Jesus for everything that he was going to do was the unthinkable thing which was to willfully be a sacrifice and what mere man would actually willfully be a sacrifice?! Hallelujah for this thanks to Father Son and Holy Spirit for your obedience, Melissa 😁👍
Thank you for making these videos and I’m so glad I found them. I have to say that unfortunately new age is not in just hyper charismatic churches. I grew up in a baptist church and there are people (probably even now/still) believing that we (humans and religions) believe in the same god, we’ve just chosen a different path. And you also get to heaven even if you haven’t accepted Jesus in your heart but purely based on the fact that their parents were saved (I sincerely hope that was meant as a joke by that person who said it though). Anyway, these videos have been helping me to spot some of the things that I haven’t even realised myself.
This was so good! Very informative. I was caught up in Christian mysticism (in the charismatic church) some years ago and I thank God for bringing me out of that belief system!
Love the new intro video btw!❤🙌🏾
What's wrong with Christian mysticism?
Same!
12 yr old Me: *watching this* . . . . *being confused*
Also me 16 minutes in this: *gasps* . . . . OOOOOOOOOH THIS MAKES MORE SENSE.......IM SHOOKETH!!!
That’s either a DayQuil pill, or a Mike ‘n Ike candy. 😂
I encountered a progressive Christian blog over the weekend. 🤦🏻♀️ "Jesus was not a capitalist." Nor was he socialist. He is the Son or God. Maybe he was both but maybe neither but not one or the other. Yes, Social Justice is in the Bible but it is not a new gospel. They have reduced Jesus as a good example not lifting him up as who he is. So frustrating. So deceiving.
thanks for the teaching, I love being able to listen and watch while working from home. I have been a Christian for 30 plus years and I am always amazed how much we can still learn if we apply. To God be the Glory, pray for you and your You Tube ministry. :)
Regarding "the law of attraction":
The Bible teaches this "law" in many places (Deut 28-30; Proverbs; Jer 17:10; Gal 6:7).
And there is no magical or supernatural connection. This takes place in the natural realm.
And hence this is a matter of God's general revelation in creation. People have perceived that the "law of attraction" or the "wish to the universe" works. So there is nothing wrong in teaching them, and for that it doesn't matter at all whether God is involved or not.
There can be misunderstandings, though. We cannot manipulate the world to give us what we want. Humility is the key.
Bless you 🙏
Thank you for the insight, always.💕
So you are a universalist when it comes to the "fall of man" at the hand of Adam where he caused ALL to NEED salvation but not in the universal salvation of Jesus which makes Adam more powerful than Jesus? Meh, not buying it.
Also, you quoted Eve to back up your point not realizing that Eve was wrong in what she said God said.
Thanks for sharing though. Blessings!
I meditated(TM) for 45 years; it gave me some rest but never the peace that passes all understanding.
This helped me identify beliefs that have crept into my faith like mysticism and Oneness. Scripture holds the truth. So thankful for you including all these references for me to study and meditate on.
Always eager to hear & watch your videos. Apologetics taught is much needed in the church. Thank you for presenting the clearness of the Gospel- Jesus the only way. I have many friends & relatives who are steeped in law of attraction & word of faith & pentecostal oneness- they refuse any questions or correction from the Bible. They have what I call spiritual pride toward others who they deem as “un-anointed.” Press on!
Something calming about your videos
To know the history and "jewishnes" you have to look outside the bible a lot though as we don't have nearly similar perception. Michael Heiser talks about honest context in some of the first episodes of his naked bible podcast.
Nice video... Just want to point out that cessationists DON'T believe that God has ceased perfoming miracles in our time. Rather, they believe that the giftings of miracles, healings, tongues and prophecy are no longer in existence today.
Yup...thanks for mentioning that.
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Nor do Apostles exist today either, for whom the signs and wonders provided testimony of their ministry
Law of attraction may work for some people for some time, but intreresting what many who left it say: that those manifistations often were temporal and often didn't lead to something good in the end. Also twisted and perverted their view of things and often made them very materialistic. It may "work" cause you activate evil spirits, but as with every other demonic practice, it brings more trouble in other area. Must be stressful too, and what if for ex a loved one dies and you "didn't manage to manifest their healing", or someone gets sick / dies and you recall thinking a bad thougts about them. Sure, Bible affirms thoughts & words have some impact, but not in that way. Unless it's part of a witchcraft ritual, which is demonic.
Some time ago, I encountered information regarding mental health counselors in my community. What I found was that there are many unlicensed mental health counselors who actually call themselves something else - such as spiritual counselors. They also practice counseling in churches where they charge a mandatory donation (as opposed to a fee). This is how they get around the licensure requirement. Some of these also include as part of their counseling practice - how to use the law of attraction effectively, how to manifest your reality - and a lot of other nonsense characteristic of the New Age - New Truth movement. I have seen this is evangelical churches as well as more liberal churches. It is time to clean house.
Good video. I can see you put a lot work and thought into this video. Much of what you explain is found in mega churches which your video was "right on".
I do not know if I would demand any signs or wonders. I do know I wouldn't be alive today if not for the miraculous ways he has changed my heart and the dreams he's given me. I know I've asked for signs and wonders, but in many ways, they were just because I didn't feel like I was close enough to God to recognize him otherwise. A deeper relationship with him would be much better than miracles.
I don’t understand how someone can be a Christian and believe in oneness. There is one guy on Facebook who’s actually teaching some good things but he believes in oneness. This is foundational. I’d be careful with listening to anyone who believes this.
Why though? I spent over 20 years believing in trinitarianism before realizing that the monotheistic God of the Old Testament hasn't changed. You can't have three people in a monotheistic Godhead. Its that simple. Three people in one, is by definition polytheism. Every false religion under the Sun has a trinity. God is not a trinity. He is one God in three offices. Father Son & Holy Spirit are titles, not people. I'm a sister, Cousin and Aunt, three titles, one person. We baptize in the name of the Father Son & Holy Spirit -- JESUS. The disciples baptized in JESUS name. Not Father Son and Holy Spirit, because there aren't THREE, there is ONE great and glorious God.
It's simple to understand how if you read and understand the bible and not just with a religion dogmatic mindset.
Jesus is THE ONLY WAY!🙏🏽
Pride. Lucifer had pride & look what happened to him. God cast him out & he fell. A great fall. We MUST remember to enter into God’s Holy, Righteous Presence with thanksgiving & humility. He is not a genie. We must ask for the spiritual gifts He has for us, not earthly things. He provides for our lives on Earth. We must not ask God to get in where He fits in, but give up our time for Him. You pursue what you love, we must love God with ALL of our heart, soul, strength! GOD IS GOOD, God gets the glory 🙏🏼🕊💕 We decrease & He increases.
Wow Melissa... Will I still trust God if he doesn't heal me .???.... That's challenged me for sure. I was into Bethel big time, sadly I wasted years waiting on prophecy that didn't occur, within time limit. So blessed by your channel. Lonely lass in England, but eyes open now. Thanks so x
@34min.Mysticism(Charismatic mystical experience)
**Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. ,
**1 Thessalonians 5:19-21
19 Quench not the Spirit. _20 Despise not prophesyings. _21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
**1 John 4:1, Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
**2 Timothy 3:14-17
King James Version
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
A good, solid, Biblical critique of Universalism, the Law of Attraction, Mysticism, Religious Pluralism, and Oneness. I agree that these beliefs are increasingly penetrating the church and Christian organizations.
You knocked it out of the park. Great video! God is using you to share the truth, I'm so thankful!
29:28 I'm not a universalist, but I think a Christian universalist would say that the point of Jesus dying on the cross was so that everyone would be saved.
In other words, everyone wouldn't "go to heaven anyway," but instead, they go to heaven only because of Jesus.
Jesus had to die in order for anyone to be saved. It is just that God will lead everyone to faith and repentance, and so everyone will be saved.
Tracey Burroughs from South Africa watching your episode.
From SA too💛
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Surprised your comment section is open. Why does your friend D.Virture not open hers for comments? Wld be easier to leave questions/comments.
Thanks for this video.
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My pastor told me would a earthly father not want to heal is child of pain if he could? Well god heals his people, well im still waiting,its easy to believe in God when you arnt in pain,but when you have daily pain and yoy have to be on your feet 9 hours a day,the pain is excruciating, im questioning why god wont heal me,im not asking for anything frivolous, just to not be in pain.
A lot of new agers use the earthly father analogy, but remember Romans 1, making the incorruptible God into corruptible man or Psalm 51, making the mistake that God is like us. "God not wanting His children to suffer"...I think we got to be careful. Suffering is all over the Bible: Job, James, Paul, Daniel, Israelites, Jesus... I am not saying that God will in no way heal you. I am just saying do not put all ur hope in the expectation that you definitely will be healed, whatever ailment u have. In the video she mentioned Shedrach, Abednego, Meshrach (I'm not sure the spelling here pardon me) but they are key. They said they believe God will deliver them, but "even if He doesn't"... I mean just wow at that statement. That's the faith you should have. Trusting God whatever His will is not expecting God to fulfill your will. If you really are saved, thank God and just remember you serve Him. He doesn't serve you. Your life is for His glory. His glory is not for your life. Put your trust in Him and keep praying.
May the Lord bless the work of your hands & bring many more lost souls to Him through your testimony & teaching. The preeminence of Scripture saves so much heartache & confusion.
Melissa this video was 10/10 amazing I got so much from its.
Law of attraction/ law of life is like re creating things in your life we are the creators of our own reality its completely biblical every work has to be done inside when you change inside the world will change according to you the whole vast world is me pushed out the others you mentioned is above is just bs. But christ is within me so I am god of my own reality I make my own heaven and hell God is not responsible for the shit I do that why he told in john 10 34:35 that you are own Gods this is the meaning of it. But that's doesnt means we forget christ we are not The Almighty God but we are the creators of own reality.
I wonder how creating ur own reality is working for u. Bet u don't have to use money since u can just think a house or think food on ur table.
Please repent read your Bible. Study it and in it's context. You cannot pick what u want and leave the rest. Turn to God and submit to Him
Love your take on Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. What faith and wonderful commitment to the sovereignty of God! I appreciate you and your videos!
Lots of what you've said here still really rings true for me and my personal ongoing maturing in the faith. Kinda especially the personal challenge/question as to whether the person - without anything emotional/high experience at all - would still love and be devoted to Christ. He/she who must experience to believe must keep experiencing to keep believing.
I'll share with you that I personally have seen and come through lots of so-called "holy fire", "baptism of the Holy Spirit", "soaking" stuff (all years ago now) and I'm still believing on Christ alone. Not by anything I have done but by Him and Him alone. And I'll also say again that many people still don't get the simplicity of Grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. There's something about the earthly mentality of the heart/will of man and wanting to add something/anything on to something this simple. I often tell my Christian brothers and sisters here that I'm actually very glad that God made one way to Him! God's blessings on your week.
Jesus is Lord. They said “this teaching is too hard...”
We do also. They are us, now. The Holy Spirit brings conviction. It’s a promise. This was timely for our times,
Thanks
Melissa, you have quickly become one of my favorite female Christian TH-camrs! Lovin your stuff sister ❤
The most important question that often goes ignored or misunderstood is this.
What is God? The father and creator? Or a portrayal? An idea? A common answer is God's nature can't be defined with words, but if that's the case wouldn't most of the texts and spoken words be written or spoken without any knowledge of God? If that's the case, then the only awareness of God is some kind of "presence" that can't be understood in any way(?)
Like a mathematical equation in which the numbers cannot be seen, and only the sum can be seen.
As a mathematician and a physicist (and a Christian!) I don’t really understand what you mean when you talk about an equation where the numbers and unknown but the sum is known. I’ve never experienced this in my years of schooling and research? I know what you we’re going for but this example you use isn’t... a good one lol
Hi Melissa. Lotte from Denmark. I like listening to your teachings eventhough/because 🙃😉 I listen to Todd White and Andrew Wommack a lot.
In my culture we are thought to be critical and not just "buy" anything without seriously investigating it first. That is good, but also tiering sometimes 🥵.
Now to the point/the question - could the word miracle mean "something you could not explain from an earthly view" and not something that happens very seldom?
My language is Danish. Foreign Ianguages is NOT my thing. So now I will go back a listen to this teaching again.
Thanks for the good work you do 👍.
The only thing that matters when talking about the Oneness is the bible.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. - Isaiah 9:6
If the bible says Jesus is the MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER, THE PRINCE OF PEACE, it don't matter what any trinitarian Pope following heretic says. At judgement you'll be judged by the word of God, not the constructs of man.
JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY !
Melissa, I enjoy your videos but I have to take exception with your characterization of cessationists. We too believe that God still performs miracles, we just also believe that the Apostolic gifts were for a certain time and for certain people.
Absolutely love this! God bless.
Thank you so much for this message
Just found you. Thank you for these videos. Needed to hear this to stop me from believing in all of these New Age false teachings. They ALL have infiltrated my being.
The thing is, people have different interpretation on what magic is. Even if you dont want to believe it, he did magic. His ability to heal people, magic.
Come to Africa you will see the wierd things called signs and wonders happening in our churches
Yes I would follow him whether there was or wasn't a mystical experience. I can't think of any particular mystical experience but I can think of many times the truth of Jesus has caused me me to get emotional.
Oh boy, you REALLY got into something VERY disturbing there but I'm not even going to point out where - because the FIRST thing people will do is go right out and try it except it's not a good idea and we DO have access to the answers of God on any particular subject and we DON'T need to go out and operate on our own, just because there ARE somewhat 'open doors' potentially there.
Jesus Christ is NOT against wealth and people having money and I think too many people go in other directions to find material wealth - whereas Christianity is the 'God-path' to complete satisfaction and what Jesus calls 'refined gold.' Joseph of Arimathea was very wealthy, so was Nicodemus. But they served God and Jesus and His Apostles with their wealth, and there are some pretty austere concepts taught by Christ about wealth and not being attached to earthly material wealth. Greed, pride, lust for power and money - these are immense hurdles to a largely unseen God being the primary objective of one's life. It is certainly not easy to be rich and to seek and then find the Kingdom of God. It presumes one even knows how to identify 'a pearl of great price' in the first place - before you can sell all that you have an commit it to that pearl. The path - logically - then must be to spend your time understanding what such a pearl looks like and is like FIRST, BEFORE setting out to acquire such a thing.
I'm totally not saying you're wrong but biblical scholars like Bart Ehrman are saying there's no evidence the disciples were all martyred...
I've seen a lot of LAW OF ATTRACTION comments in YT and FB and the first time I saw it, I already felt a little off about it. I didn't know why. The only law of attraction that I know is Newton's third law of motion.