“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
–1John 4:1
JOHN WIMBER, Vineyard Movement, QUOTE:
“The first time the Lord Jesus Christ sent his Spirit in great power among us, I was fit to be tied for days. I was so angry, I was so upset, I wanted to get out of the ministry. I said, “No WAY am I gonna put up with…why that’s absurd! What God did.”
…and Wimber’s audience chuckled.
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:”
—Galatians 5:22-23
Nowhere does the Bible say that the fruit of the Spirit includes “anger.” If the fruit of the spirit one has contacted (or is worshiping) is different from Galatians 5:22-23, then the spirit one has contacted is NOT the Holy Spirit.
One church repeatedly sang the lyrics to a song “Set a fire down in my soul, that I can’t contain that I can’t control,” With the fruit of the Spirit being self-control [temperance], what spirit was it that set a fire that couldn’t be controlled or contained?
According to the Bible, it wasn’t the Holy Spirit.
These lyrics were sung over and over immediately before the “move of the Spirit” was claimed to have manifested. It was both very predictable and very unbiblical.
“The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.“
—John 3:8
What people think is the Holy Spirit is often a cheap imitation… It is almost as if one says, “Well, if I can’t have the Dove, I’ll take a pigeon.”
Of course, if anyone mentioned this to those singing paeans to a different spirit, they would not test the spirit–as the Bible instructs. They would get angry.
Of course, who in Christ’s Church has time to test the spirits these days? Today the motto seems to be “If I do it, it must be Biblical.”
Many engage in sanctification by participation.
MORE: Apostate American Church: Sanctification through Participation
“It is holy because we do it. Because we do it, it is holy.”
MORE: COUNTERFEIT HOLY SPIRIT: Lying Spirits of Deception in the Churches
Wimber, who eventually worked with International House of Prayer’s (IHOP) predecessor, Kansas City Prophets, bore other bad fruit than the above–not the least was his public endorsement of Dominion Theology.
(VIDEO) The youth being led astray by false spirits
There are many spirits in the land today.
Particularly in the buildings we call churches.
HAS the reader tried all the spirits with which he comes in contact?
THERE is still time to change direction (repent) and call upon the name of the LORD.
Is your calling and election sure?
Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation
THE GOSPEL
“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
–1 Corinthians 15:1-8
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16
[Portions of this article previously appeared in End Times Prophecy Headlines: April 29, 2014 and End Times Prophecy Headlines: May 1, 2017.]
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