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The Real Truth Podcast is hosted by Dr. Steven Lambert, a noted Pentecostal/Charismatic minister, Bible scholar, theologian, counselor, publisher, and prolific writer. He is the founder/overseer of Ephesians Four Network and its subsidiary, Ephesians Four Network of Deliverance Counselors. He also founded and is the publisher of Spirit Life Magazine. His main website is SLM.ORG.
This is the 4th part of a series on the subject: Uncovering the Myth of Spiritual Covering, consisting of excerpts from the audiobook of that title. The book and audiobook is adapted from a chapter of the widely disseminated book, Charismatic Captivation—Authoritarian Abuse & Psychological Enslavement in Neo-Pentecostal Churches, which exposes the widespread problem of authoritarian abuse that has been flourishing virtually unabated for decades since it was first infused into the very fabric, foundation, and functions of the Charismatic/Neo-Pentecostal church during the false movement known as the Discipleship/Shepherding Movement (1970-77).
Owing extensively to that Movement and the teachings that were promulgated during it, hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices have become cemented into the foundation, fabric, and functions of many churches, major segments of some denominations, as well as many of the apostolic networks of churches, ministries, and ministers that have emerged over primarily that last four or five decades. The problem has become so widespread that it has now reached pandemic proportions in Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal streams.
The purpose of Uncovering the Myth of Spiritual Covering is to analyze against the foundation-stone of Scripture, one of the foundational elements of this hyper-authoritarian ecclesiastical culture, demonstrate its irrefutable incongruity with Scripture, and disabuse believers from acceptance of and adherence to it, thereby liberating them from the invisible chains of psychological enslavement that have been holding them in bondage to the illegitimate authority structures of men.
Hyper-authoritarianism is predominance or psychological control imposed by spiritual leaders upon their followers or congregants regarding not only their involvements within the church or ministry, but also regarding their personal and private lives.
Ministries and church-groups practicing this illegitimate domination employ various means and degrees of psychological indoctrination and coercion to compel congregants or adherents to subject and conform their personal activities, behavior, and affairs of life to the leadership-prescribed standards, rules, expectations, and collective corporate goals of the church or ministry. The purported pretext for the imposition of this religious governance is an adulterated or perverted concept of ecclesiastical authority.
Promulgators and practitioners adamantly claim that the mechanisms of manipulation they employ are a perfectly Scriptural system of "discipleship" or "spiritual training" in fulfillment of the role and responsibility of spiritual leaders to "make disciples."
However, the fact of the matter is this kind of "discipleship" exceeds by far the bounds and intents of legitimate, that is, Scriptural and Godly, authority. This kind of so-called "shepherding" is not that which is inspired by the Good Shepherd, but by His arch-rival, Satan, rather it is blatant misuse and abuse of authority, and is Scripturally-prohibited usurpation of believers' God-given prerogative or right of personal autonomy.
This series conclusively demonstrates that so-called "spiritual covering," as theorized by those who teach, promulgate, and adhere to it, is an absolute myth and an unmitigated lie, and that indeed no semblance of the version of "spiritual covering" taught by its proponents exists anywhere within Scripture. It is a complete fabrication concocted by the originators of these fallacious doctrines by which to facilitate and perpetuate their purely self aggrandizing objectives of subjugation, domination and control of the sheep of God's Flock.
Every believer in Christ who has ever been exposed to the deception of "spiritual covering," whereby hyper-authoritarian ecclesiastical autocrats use it to subjugate, dominate, and control their followers, desperately needs to read Charismatic Captivation, and follow the "15 Rs of Recovery from Authoritarian Abuse" delineated in the book's last chapter.
This is the third part of a series on the subject: Uncovering the Myth of Spiritual Covering, consisting of excerpts from the audiobook of that title. The book and audiobook is adapted from a chapter of the widely disseminated book, Charismatic Captivation—Authoritarian Abuse & Psychological Enslavement in Neo-Pentecostal Churches, which exposes the widespread problem of authoritarian abuse that has been flourishing virtually unabated for decades since it was first infused into the very fabric, foundation, and functions of the Charismatic/Neo-Pentecostal church during the false movement known as the Discipleship/Shepherding Movement (1970-77). Owing extensively to that Movement and the teachings that were promulgated during it, hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices have become cemented into the foundation, fabric, and functions of many churches, major segments of some denominations, as well as many of the apostolic networks of churches, ministries, and ministers that have emerged over primarily that last four or five decades. The problem has become so widespread that it has now reached pandemic proportions in Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal streams.
The purpose of Uncovering the Myth of Spiritual Covering is to analyze against the foundation-stone of Scripture, one of the foundational elements of this hyper-authoritarian ecclesiastical culture, demonstrate its irrefutable incongruity with Scripture, and disabuse believers from acceptance of and adherence to it, thereby liberating them from the invisible chains of psychological enslavement that have been holding them in bondage to the illegitimate authority structures of men.
Hyper-authoritarianism is predominance or psychological control imposed by spiritual leaders upon their followers or congregants regarding not only their involvements within the church or ministry, but also regarding their personal and private lives. Ministries and church-groups practicing this illegitimate domination employ various means and degrees of psychological indoctrination and coercion to compel congregants or adherents to subject and conform their personal activities, behavior, and affairs of life to the leadership-prescribed standards, rules, expectations, and collective corporate goals of the church or ministry. The purported pretext for the imposition of this religious governance is an adulterated or perverted concept of ecclesiastical authority.
Promulgators and practitioners adamantly claim that the mechanisms of manipulation they employ are a perfectly Scriptural system of "discipleship" or "spiritual training" in fulfillment of the role and responsibility of spiritual leaders to "make disciples." However, the fact of the matter is this kind of "discipleship" exceeds by far the bounds and intents of legitimate, that is, Scriptural and Godly, authority. This kind of so-called "shepherding" is not that which is inspired by the Good Shepherd, but by His arch-rival, Satan, rather it is blatant misuse and abuse of authority, and is Scripturally-prohibited usurpation of believers' God-given prerogative or right of personal autonomy.
This series conclusively demonstrates that so-called "spiritual covering," as theorized by those who teach, promulgate, and adhere to it, is an absolute myth and an unmitigated lie, and that indeed no semblance of the version of "spiritual covering" taught by its proponents exists anywhere within Scripture. It is a complete fabrication concocted by the originators of these fallacious doctrines by which to facilitate and perpetuate their purely self aggrandizing objectives of subjugation, domination and control of the sheep of God's Flock.
Every believer in Christ who has ever been exposed to the deception of "spiritual covering," whereby hyper-authoritarian ecclesiastical autocrats use it to subjugate, dominate, and control their followers, desperately needs to read Charismatic Captivation, and follow the "15 Rs of Recovery from Authoritarian Abuse" delineated in the book's last chapter.
This is the second part of a series on the subject: Uncovering the Myth of Spiritual Covering, consisting of excerpts from the audiobook of that title. The book and audiobook is adapted from a chapter of the widely disseminated book, Charismatic Captivation—Authoritarian Abuse & Psychological Enslavement in Neo-Pentecostal Churches, which exposes the widespread problem of authoritarian abuse that has been flourishing virtually unabated for decades since it was first infused into the very fabric, foundation, and functions of the Charismatic/Neo-Pentecostal church during the false movement known as the Discipleship/Shepherding Movement (1970-77). Owing extensively to that Movement and the teachings that were promulgated during it, hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices have become cemented into the foundation, fabric, and functions of many churches, major segments of some denominations, as well as many of the apostolic networks of churches, ministries, and ministers that have emerged over primarily that last four or five decades. The problem has become so widespread that it has now reached pandemic proportions in Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal streams. The purpose of Uncovering the Myth of Spiritual Covering is to analyze against the foundation-stone of Scripture, one of the foundational elements of this hyper-authoritarian ecclesiastical culture, demonstrate its irrefutable incongruity with Scripture, and disabuse believers from acceptance of and adherence to it, thereby liberating them from the invisible chains of psychological enslavement that have been holding them in bondage to the illegitimate authority structures of men. Hyper-authoritarianism is predominance or psychological control imposed by spiritual leaders upon their followers or congregants regarding not only their involvements within the church or ministry, but also regarding their personal and private lives. Ministries and church-groups practicing this illegitimate domination employ various means and degrees of psychological indoctrination and coercion to compel congregants or adherents to subject and conform their personal activities, behavior, and affairs of life to the leadership-prescribed standards, rules, expectations, and collective corporate goals of the church or ministry. The purported pretext for the imposition of this religious governance is an adulterated or perverted concept of ecclesiastical authority. Promulgators and practitioners adamantly claim that the mechanisms of manipulation they employ are a perfectly Scriptural system of "discipleship" or "spiritual training" in fulfillment of the role and responsibility of spiritual leaders to "make disciples." However, the fact of the matter is this kind of "discipleship" exceeds by far the bounds and intents of legitimate, that is, Scriptural and Godly, authority. This kind of so-called "shepherding" is not that which is inspired by the Good Shepherd, but by His arch-rival, Satan, rather it is blatant misuse and abuse of authority, and is Scripturally-prohibited usurpation of believers' God-given prerogative or right of personal autonomy. This series conclusively demonstrates that so-called "spiritual covering," as theorized by those who teach, promulgate, and adhere to it, is an absolute myth and an unmitigated lie, and that indeed no semblance of the version of "spiritual covering" taught by its proponents exists anywhere within Scripture. It is a complete fabrication concocted by the originators of these fallacious doctrines by which to facilitate and perpetuate their purely self aggrandizing objectives of subjugation, domination and control of the sheep of God's Flock. Every believer in Christ who has ever been exposed to the deception of "spiritual covering," whereby hyper-authoritarian ecclesiastical autocrats use it to subjugate, dominate, and control their followers, desperately needs to read Charismatic Captivation, and follow the "15 Rs of Recovery from Authoritarian Abuse" delineated in the book's last chapter.
This is the first part of a series on the subject: Uncovering the Myth of Spiritual Covering, consisting of excerpts from the audiobook of that title. The book and audiobook is adapted from a chapter of the widely disseminated book, Charismatic Captivation—Authoritarian Abuse & Psychological Enslavement in Neo-Pentecostal Churches, which exposes the widespread problem of authoritarian abuse that has been flourishing virtually unabated for decades since it was first infused into the very fabric, foundation, and functions of the Charismatic/Neo-Pentecostal church during the false movement known as the Discipleship/Shepherding Movement (1970-77). Owing extensively to that Movement and the teachings that were promulgated during it, hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices have become cemented into the foundation, fabric, and functions of many churches, major segments of some denominations, as well as many of the apostolic networks of churches, ministries, and ministers that have emerged over primarily that last four or five decades. The problem has become so widespread that it has now reached pandemic proportions in Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal streams. The purpose of Uncovering the Myth of Spiritual Covering is to analyze against the foundation-stone of Scripture, one of the foundational elements of this hyper-authoritarian ecclesiastical culture, demonstrate its irrefutable incongruity with Scripture, and disabuse believers from acceptance of and adherence to it, thereby liberating them from the invisible chains of psychological enslavement that have been holding them in bondage to the illegitimate authority structures of men. Hyper-authoritarianism is predominance or psychological control imposed by spiritual leaders upon their followers or congregants regarding not only their involvements within the church or ministry, but also regarding their personal and private lives. Ministries and church-groups practicing this illegitimate domination employ various means and degrees of psychological indoctrination and coercion to compel congregants or adherents to subject and conform their personal activities, behavior, and affairs of life to the leadership-prescribed standards, rules, expectations, and collective corporate goals of the church or ministry. The purported pretext for the imposition of this religious governance is an adulterated or perverted concept of ecclesiastical authority. Promulgators and practitioners adamantly claim that the mechanisms of manipulation they employ are a perfectly Scriptural system of "discipleship" or "spiritual training" in fulfillment of the role and responsibility of spiritual leaders to "make disciples." However, the fact of the matter is this kind of "discipleship" exceeds by far the bounds and intents of legitimate, that is, Scriptural and Godly, authority. This kind of so-called "shepherding" is not that which is inspired by the Good Shepherd, but by His arch-rival, Satan, rather it is blatant misuse and abuse of authority, and is Scripturally-prohibited usurpation of believers' God-given prerogative or right of personal autonomy. This series conclusively demonstrates that so-called "spiritual covering," as theorized by those who teach, promulgate, and adhere to it, is an absolute myth and an unmitigated lie, and that indeed no semblance of the version of "spiritual covering" taught by its proponents exists anywhere within Scripture. It is a complete fabrication concocted by the originators of these fallacious doctrines by which to facilitate and perpetuate their purely self aggrandizing objectives of subjugation, domination and control of the sheep of God's Flock. Every believer in Christ who has ever been exposed to the deception of "spiritual covering," whereby hyper-authoritarian ecclesiastical autocrats use it to subjugate, dominate, and control their followers, desperately needs to read Charismatic Captivation, and follow the "15 Rs of Recovery from Authoritarian Abuse" delineated in the book's last chapter.
God has decreed and is doing a NEW THING in this last hour as He declares in His Word (numerous times) He will do! The "New Thing" He is now doing in the Church Jesus is building is the restoration and reactivation of the genuine Apostolic Anointing and function!
The Apostolic Anointing and function are absolutely vital to the fulfillment of God's end-times purposes and plans! In fact, they cannot be fulfilled without the functioning of the apostolic in that the apostolic office and function is one part of the two-part foundation of the Church Jesus is building (Eph. 2:20).
Despite the plethora of problems associated with the restoration of the apostolic and prophetic functions in the 21st Century, God has no other plan to work through than that which He was published in his Word for the spiritual development of individual believers and the collective church, i.e., the Fivefold Ministry Offices (functions) working together in tandem and concinnity to fulfill this task (Eph. 4:11-16)! Every other "plan" or "program" for that end goal is merely "man-made" and therefore inferior to God's and doomed to failure! This is the cold, hard fact!
Literally every former restorational move of God transpiring since the Protestant Reformation (1517) has been fraught with human failures and humanly-caused faults and frustrations to the fulfillment of God's purposes and plans for each of those movements! Nothing on this earth is perfect now in this dispensation, before "the perfect comes." The fault with every such former restorational move of God was neither the move itself or God who initiated it! The fallenness of humanity is the foundational cause for all such failures, for "we have this treasure in earthen vessels!"
This movement in the 21st Century, continuing from the Prophetic Restoration Movement transpiring in the last quarter of the 20th Century, is no exception; neither should it be expected to be. Man always makes messes in the fulfilling of God's messages to His Church. It's never perfectly carried out without flaws and blemishes! That's just the way it is! We can bemoan and complain about the imperfections all we want and wish it was otherwise but that won't change it one iota. Unfortunately (or not), the perfect group left the building a long time ago! We are left now with the IMperfect--like me and you! We, imperfect vessels, are all God has to work with at this time!
This is Part-4 of this series.
God has decreed and is doing a NEW THING in this last hour as He declares in His Word (numerous times) He will do! The "New Thing" He is now doing in the Church Jesus is building is the restoration and reactivation of the genuine Apostolic Anointing and function!
The Apostolic Anointing and function are absolutely vital to the fulfillment of God's end-times purposes and plans! In fact, they cannot be fulfilled without the functioning of the apostolic in that the apostolic office and function is one part of the two-part foundation of the Church Jesus is building (Eph. 2:20).
Despite the plethora of problems associated with the restoration of the apostolic and prophetic functions in the 21st Century, God has no other plan to work through than that which He was published in his Word for the spiritual development of individual believers and the collective church, i.e., the Fivefold Ministry Offices (functions) working together in tandem and concinnity to fulfill this task (Eph. 4:11-16)! Every other "plan" or "program" for that end goal is merely "man-made" and therefore inferior to God's and doomed to failure! This is the cold, hard fact!
Literally every former restorational move of God transpiring since the Protestant Reformation (1517) has been fraught with human failures and humanly-caused faults and frustrations to the fulfillment of God's purposes and plans for each of those movements! Nothing on this earth is perfect now in this dispensation, before "the perfect comes." The fault with every such former restorational move of God was neither the move itself or God who initiated it! The fallenness of humanity is the foundational cause for all such failures, for "we have this treasure in earthen vessels!"
This movement in the 21st Century, continuing from the Prophetic Restoration Movement transpiring in the last quarter of the 20th Century, is no exception; neither should it be expected to be. Man always makes messes in the fulfilling of God's messages to His Church. It's never perfectly carried out without flaws and blemishes! That's just the way it is! We can bemoan and complain about the imperfections all we want and wish it was otherwise but that won't change it one iota. Unfortunately (or not), the perfect group left the building a long time ago! We are left now with the IMperfect--like me and you! We, imperfect vessels, are all God has to work with at this time!
God has decreed and is doing a NEW THING in this last hour as He declares in His Word (numerous times) He will do! The "New Thing" He is now doing in the Church Jesus is building is the restoration and reactivation of the genuine Apostolic Anointing and function!
The Apostolic Anointing and function are absolutely vital to the fulfillment of God's end-times purposes and plans! In fact, they cannot be fulfilled without the functioning of the apostolic in that the apostolic office and function is one part of the two-part foundation of the Church Jesus is building (Eph. 2:20).
Despite the plethora of problems associated with the restoration of the apostolic and prophetic functions in the 21st Century, God has no other plan to work through than that which He was published in his Word for the spiritual development of individual believers and the collective church, i.e., the Fivefold Ministry Offices (functions) working together in tandem and concinnity to fulfill this task (Eph. 4:11-16)! Every other "plan" or "program" for that end goal is merely "man-made" and therefore inferior to God's and doomed to failure! This is the cold, hard fact!
Literally every former restorational move of God transpiring since the Protestant Reformation (1517)has been fraught with human failures and humanly-caused faults and frustrations to the fulfillment of God's purposes and plans for each of those movements! Nothing on this earth is perfect now in this dispensation, before "the perfect comes." The fault with every such former restorational move of God was neither the move itself or God who initiated it! The fallenness of humanity is the foundational cause for all such failures, for "we have this treasure in earthen vessels!"
This movement in the 21st Century, continuing from the Prophetic Restoration Movement transpiring in the last quarter of the 20th Century, is no exception; neither should it be expected to be. Man always makes messes in the fulfilling of God's messages to His Church. It's never perfectly carried out without flaws and blemishes! That's just the way it is! We can bemoan and complain about the imperfections all we want and wish it was otherwise but that won't change it one iota. Unfortunately (or not), the perfect group left the building a long time ago! We are left now with the IMperfect--like me and you! We, imperfect vessels, are all God has to work with at this time!
God has decreed and is doing a NEW THING in this last hour as He declares in His Word (numerous times) He will do! The "New Thing" He is now doing in the Church Jesus is building is the restoration and reactivation of the genuine Apostolic Anointing and function!
The Apostolic Anointing and function are absolutely vital to the fulfillment of God's end-times purposes and plans! In fact, they cannot be fulfilled without the functioning of the apostolic in that the apostolic office and function is one part of the two-part foundation of the Church Jesus is building (Eph. 2:20).
Despite the plethora of problems associated with the restoration of the apostolic and prophetic functions in the 21st Century, God has no other plan to work through than that which He was published in his Word for the spiritual development of individual believers and the collective church, i.e., the Fivefold Ministry Offices (functions) working together in tandem and concinnity to fulfill this task (Eph. 4:11-16)! Every other "plan" or "program" for that end goal is merely "man-made" and therefore inferior to God's and doomed to failure! This is the cold, hard fact!
Literally every former restorational move of God transpiring since the Protestant Reformation (1517)has been fraught with human failures and humanly-caused faults and frustrations to the fulfillment of God's purposes and plans for each of those movements! Nothing on this earth is perfect now in this dispensation, before "the perfect comes." The fault with every such former restorational move of God was neither the move itself or God who initiated it! The fallenness of humanity is the foundational cause for all such failures, for "we have this treasure in earthen vessels!"
This movement in the 21st Century, continuing from the Prophetic Restoration Movement transpiring in the last quarter of the 20th Century, is no exception; neither should it be expected to be. Man always makes messes in the fulfilling of God's messages to His Church. It's never perfectly carried out without flaws and blemishes! That's just the way it is! We can bemoan and complain about the imperfections all we want and wish it was otherwise but that won't change it one iota. Unfortunately (or not), the perfect group left the building a long time ago! We are left now with the IMperfect--like me and you! We, imperfect vessels, are all God has to work with at this time!
This is Part-4 of a 4-part Series on "The Spirit of Fear."
Fear is an evil spirit that God has not given to us (2 Tim. 1:7); thus it must be proactively resisted (Jas. 4:7) and in cases in which it has made incursion into a believer's soul (mind, will, emotions), but be cast (driven) out (Mk. 16:17, et al.). Because the evil spirit of fear has not been given to believers by God (we only want to receive and retain whatever God has given us), it is critical that believers have ZERO TOLERANCE for the spirit of fear in their lives!
The spirit of fear operating in a person's life is not a benign or innocuous thing! Rather, it will at the maximum decimate your life and at the minimum severely limit your ability to appropriate and walk in all that God has already given you of His Nature and Kingdom by the grace of God! He says in His word, He has already granted believers EVERYTHING pertaining to Zoe-Life and godliness by His divine power (2 Pet. 1:3)! It is up to us to appropriate and manifest it in our own individual lives.
But fear is an inhibitor, a limiter, the enemy of the believer in Christ, because it will effectively negate everything that God has already granted you by His divine power! Don't let the evil spirit of fear dominate or even have any place in your life! Fall out of agreement with it and what it says to you!
Listen to this message and DO what it says and DRIVE the spirit of fear out of your life permanently!
This is Part-3 of a 4-part Series on "The Spirit of Fear."
Fear is an evil spirit that God has not given to us (2 Tim. 1:7); thus it must be proactively resisted (Jas. 4:7) and in cases in which it has made incursion into a believer's soul (mind, will, emotions), but be cast (driven) out (Mk. 16:17, et al.). Because the evil spirit of fear has not been given to believers by God (we only want to receive and retain whatever God has given us), it is critical that believers have ZERO TOLERANCE for the spirit of fear in their lives!
The spirit of fear operating in a person's life is not a benign or innocuous thing! Rather, it will at the maximum decimate your life and at the minimum severely limit your ability to appropriate and walk in all that God has already given you of His Nature and Kingdom by the grace of God! He says in His word, He has already granted believers EVERYTHING pertaining to Zoe-Life and godliness by His divine power (2 Pet. 1:3)! It is up to us to appropriate and manifest it in our own individual lives.
But fear is an inhibitor, a limiter, the enemy of the believer in Christ, because it will effectively negate everything that God has already granted you by His divine power! Don't let the evil spirit of fear dominate or even have any place in your life! Fall out of agreement with it and what it says to you!
Listen to this message and DO what it says and DRIVE the spirit of fear out of your life permanently!
Fear is an evil spirit that God has not given to us (2 Tim. 1:7); thus it must be proactively resisted (Jas. 4:7) and in cases in which it has made incursion into a believer's soul (mind, will, emotions), but be cast (driven) out (Mk. 16:17, et al.). Because the evil spirit of fear has not been given to believers by God (we only want to receive and retain whatever God has given us), it is critical that believers have ZERO TOLERANCE for the spirit of fear in their lives!
This is Part-2 of this two-part series. Jesus' ministry did not cease with His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension! Jesus' ministry is ongoing through the Sons of God, His Brethren, Born Again Believers who comprise the Church He is building, including through Fivefold Ministers of His choosing, appointment, and anointing!
Jesus' ministry did not cease with His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension! Jesus' ministry is ongoing through the Sons of God, His Brethren, Born Again Believers who comprise the Church He is building, including through Fivefold Ministers of His choosing, appointment, and anointing!
With all the proliferation and promotion of the prophetic that has happily takien place over the last 3.5 decades in some streams and camps of the Church, it is critical that we understand what the true purpose of the prophetic really is. Some prophetic novices and neophyte prophetic groups appear to think that prophecy itself, whether in the form of personal prophesying over people or publishing prophecies on the Internet, for example, is the goal of the prophetic. Moreover, the actions, attitudes, and speech of some regarding the prophetic seem to indicate they think that the prophetic is an end in itself. But, it's not.
To many people, including many who claim to be Christians or believers in Christ, the matter of the existence and operations of the devil on earth are either basically an unknown or a spiritual conundrum. That is understandable, given the fact that unbiblical or in some cases, antibiblical, preaching and teaching on the matter is ubiquitous, even in the context of self-purported Christian churches. The central theory of that biblically-incorrect teaching to varying degrees is the somewhat misleading assertion (in whatever terms it is expressed): "Jesus defeated the devil on the Cross of Calvary."
While that statement and the set of teachings it represents bears some truth, it nevertheless is not "the whole truth and nothing but the truth!" Rather, it is actually partial truth.
The purpose of this message, while it is far from being a theological treatise on the topic, is to shed some light on this seeming spiritual enigma that has caused many to hold untrue opinions and maintain destruction-producing misunderstanding about this somewhat complex matter.
For Christians to claim Christians cannot have demons simply because they are Born Again is like saying their car cannot break down simply because they are Born Again, or even sillier, that they don’t have to fill their gas tank or change the oil or refill the oil if it is low because they are Born Again, or that they are free from the Law of Gravity because they are a Born Again Christian. (I wouldn’t recommend attempting to prove that one by jumping off the roof of a tall building any time soon, if you really believe that one!) That’s all mysticism, which is naturalizing the spiritual and/or spiritualizing the natural. In psychology parlance, such refusal to recognize and acknowledge reality is what is known as “being in denial.”
At first blush, such a theory may sound plausible and rational, and to the religious mind it certainly has the sound of being righteous and right, but it’s all carnal thinking from the carnal mind, not the Spirit. In other words, it’s a lie and a deception! It’s not spiritual at all; it CAN’T be, because it’s totally contrary to Scripture! It’s exactly what Satan wants you to believe! He’s got you totally deceived, if you believe that! I don’t care who you are, or who you THINK you are!
Don’t be deceived by the utterly false carnal rationalization that “Christians can’t have demons.” Christians can have whatever they want and are willing to tolerate! That’s the REAL TRUTH!
It is appointed unto all men once to die, after which each will be judged by God.
And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment; (Heb. 9:27, ASV)
For as in Adam ALL DIE, so also in Christ all will be made alive. (1 Cor. 15:22)
SPOILER ALERT: One day you will die! You cannot escape, evade or avoid physical death! Death is inevitable. Death is inescapable. Death is unavoidable. Death is an inextricable part of life.
Not only that, (and I hate to be the one to break it to you) but at this very moment you are in the process of dying. Everyone is…from the very moment they are born and gasp their first breath. That’s the nature of human existence. It is inexorably and constantly traversing toward death.
“Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm” (1Ch 16:22; Ps. 105:15).
Though this Divine command is too often abused and misused, God said it twice in His Word, which is special emphasis indicating He certainly meant it! Though, of course, God always says what He means and means what He says! Thus, I would say it would be a good idea for anyone to give heed to that warning. Anytime you think God is leading you to engage in an ad hominem attack of words and/or actions or some sort of an insurrection against a genuinely anointed and appointed man of God, another good idea is to remember the fate of the company of “Korah & Sons,” who participated in a personal attack and insurrection against the man God had chosen and anointed to deliver Israel, Moses, and the principle of unintended consequences!
This podcast is adapted from an article Dr. Lambert authored and published of the same title, which can be found at: https://www.slm.org/do-my-prophets-no-harm/.
This is Part-2 of the series. At the very core of hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices is religious enslavement. Irrefutably, religious enslavement is WITCHCRAFT! Thus, it follows then that hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices are, at bottom, WITCHCRAFT! Intrinsically, witchcraft is of the devil’s domain, not God’s. Though it be so that hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices amount to witchcraft, the problem is, they have already been infused into and become an integral part of the doctrinal and structural system of a large segment of the Charismatic/Pentecostal ecclesial realms. Thus, the majority of Charismatic/Pentecostal believers who have been deluded into accepting the validity of them would have extreme difficulty in understanding and accepting that they are Scripturally invalid and amount to witchcraft, despite the absolute veracity of both of those assessments. Indeed, the very fact that it has been in otherwise legitimate and normative Pentecostal and Neo Pentecostal churches that these occultic doctrines and practices have been taught and instituted has itself augmented their obscurity and continuance. In this two-part series, the true nature of sorcery or witchcraft and how it is employed by unscrupulous church leaders to dominate and psychologically enslave their followers is identified and explained.
At the very core of hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices is religious enslavement. Irrefutably, religious enslavement is WITCHCRAFT! Thus, it follows then that hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices are, at bottom, WITCHCRAFT! Intrinsically, witchcraft is of the devil’s domain, not God’s. Though it be so that hyper-authoritarian doctrines and practices amount to witchcraft, the problem is, they have already been infused into and become an integral part of the doctrinal and structural system of a large segment of the Charismatic/Pentecostal ecclesial realms. Thus, the majority of Charismatic/Pentecostal believers who have been deluded into accepting the validity of them would have extreme difficulty in understanding and accepting that they are Scripturally invalid and amount to witchcraft, despite the absolute veracity of both of those assessments. Indeed, the very fact that it has been in otherwise legitimate and normative Pentecostal and Neo Pentecostal churches that these occultic doctrines and practices have been taught and instituted has itself augmented their obscurity and continuance.
In this two-part series, the true nature of sorcery or witchcraft and how it is employed by unscrupulous church leaders to dominate and psychologically enslave their followers is identified and explained.
A fundamental and essential tenet of the hyper-authoritarian Discipleship/Shepherding system is a dogma which is best described by the term "absolute submission," in which followers are required to, in effect, surrender their personal will unto the many ascending echelons of leaders in the pyramiding chain of command, and to obey explicitly and comprehensively the dictates and whims of those many "leaders." Adherents are taught that they cannot simply hear from God themselves, but must "submit" virtually every matter of importance requiring a decision in their life unto their "leader." They are taught that God requires them to "be in submission," which extrapolates into total obedience and obeisance to the chain of human leaders of their group, and into those leaders making most or many of their decisions for them, whether overtly or by employing subtle manipulation that leads the member to the conclusion to which the leader wants them to arrive.
In these groups, it is quite common for members to be compelled to receive the approval (which is usually spoken of as a "confirmation") of their "leader" with regard to such mundane decisions as major and even minor purchases, going on a trip, visiting with relatives, matters concerning the care and nurturing of children, dating, marriage, relocation, and a host of routine decisions individuals and families must make as a normal course of life.
Absolute submission is an integral and essential element of the Discipleship/Shepherding theories and practices. However, it is manifest in varying degrees of covertness and overtness by different groups employing them. At one end of the spectrum are proponents and practitioners of these doctrines who hold to and implement an extreme and dogmatic version of absolute submission to the group’s leadership, which is very manifest in the structure and modus operandi of the group, both publicly and behind the scenes. At the opposite end of the spectrum, are groups who employ a much more subtle and oblique form of absolute submission, which is deliberately kept out of the public services in order to give the impression of freedom and liberty. It is only manifest in the behind the scenes aspects, among those who have completed all the requisite indoctrination, initiation, and "proof of loyalty" "tests" prerequisite to them becoming a part of the "inner circle" of leaders and prominent "insiders."
In any case, however, absolute submission is by no means a benign and inconsequential premise, but is an extremely malevolent and destructive mechanism the sole goal of which is unauthorized and ungodly predomination and control. Invariably and inevitably, in the case of those who have accepted the premise of absolute submission as being meritorious, and have integrated it into the structure and operations of their ecclesiastical society, whether it is manifested privately or publicly, it becomes the basis for a demonic and extremely injurious form of "brainwashing" and psychological "conditioning" of the constituency. Multitudes of naive and unsuspecting individuals as well as whole families have been psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually damaged by these very powerful mechanisms of domination and control oriented indoctrination. Some have suffered such total spiritual shipwreck and disillusionment that recovery requires the supernatural intervention of God.
In this, the final episode of this series, discuss the literally thousands of of organizations that have been established in America that purportedly to promulgate and promote beneficial purposes but in fact are nothing more than front organizations dedicated to the Marxization of America by whatever means necessary and not necessary. None such organizations have done more to break down our national unity and solidarity and to institute Marxism in America than BLM, that its founders have openly and publicly stated "is much more than just a hashtag, but is a 'spiritual movement'" that engage in biblically condemned practices of witchcraft such as supposed communication with the spirits of the dead (i.e., necromancy) and the invoking of evils spirits to "work through" them. This episode reveals the real truth about and true nature of BLM and organizations like them.
This episode concludes our look at the 45 goals of the communist agenda taken from the book, "The Naked Communist," that were read into the official record of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1963 by a Florida Congressman as a dire warning to America of the intents and designs of those malevolent forces in America working behind the scenes to carry out the Marxization of America and how every single one of those goals have in the 57 year span since are now fait accompli or nearly so. The episode continues then to discuss the literally thousands of organizations that have been established in America that portend to promulgate and promote beneficial purposes but in fact are nothing more than front organizations dedicated to the Marxization of America that they set about to accomplish stirring up strife, hatred, division, chaos, and confusion intended to erode the very foundations and fabric of American society. None such organizations have done more to break down our national unity and solidarity and to institute Marxism in America. We examine BLM and the integration of thousands of such organizations in the Democratic Party in particular.
In 1963 a Florida Congressman read into the official record of the U.S. House of Representatives 45 goals of the communist agenda taken from the book, "The Naked Communist," as a dire warning to America of the intents and designs of those malevolent forces in America working behind the scenes to carry out the Marxization of America. Fifty-Seven years later, there is no evidence that America did anything to heed the Congressman's warnings. This episode picks up enumerating those goals where the previous episode left off, and focuses on the goals that relate to the infiltration of the nation's public education system. Abraham Lincoln quipped that “The philosophy in the classroom of one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” What has taken place in the education system of America spanning the 19th, 20th, and now 21st centuries demonstrates just how prescient and prophetic, unfortunately, Lincoln's statement was.
America's morality always has been and remains the unseen bedrock of its unrivaled, enduring success. But, that success always has had and will have its villainous enemies who are intent on obliterating it.
Unfortunately, the irrefutable fact is that the covert, systematic secularization and socialization of America has been transpiring in earnest right under our proverbial noses since the latter part of the 19th Century.
The question now remaining before America is will our beloved nation become the United States of Communist America pursuant to capitulation to the communists' agenda, or will that band of indefatigable patriots still composing the overwhelming majority of the populace rise up to do what they can to defeat the tyrannical overthrow of "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?"
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” —Edmund Burke
This is the 6th episode of a special series regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic. In this episode we conclude our focus on the issue of Abuse of Power by US Governors during the Coronavirus "Plandemic" based on a video presentation hosted by Rev. Dr. Jonathan Hansen of World Ministries Inc joined by Immigration/Constitutional attorney Dr. Stephen Pidgeon. Both panelists are residents of the Washington state, and address in the video the appalling and mindboggling blatant abuse of power by Washington Governor Jay Inslee in coordination with other Democrat US governors. This series is an eye-opener for many who are not aware of the attempted communistic takeover and coup behind the pre-planned faux Covid-19 pandemic!
This is the 5th episode of a special series regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic. In this episode we focus on the issue of Abuse of Power by US Governors during the Coronavirus "Plandemic" based on a video presentation hosted by Rev. Dr. Jonathan Hansen of World Ministries Inc joined by Constitutional attorney Stephen Pidgeon. Both panelists are residents of the Washington state, and address in the video the appalling and mindboggling blatant abuse of power by Washington Governor Jay Inslee in coordination with other Democrat US governors. This episode is an eye-opener for many who are not aware of the attempted communistic takeover and coup behind the pre-planned faux Covid-19 pandemic!
This is the 4TH episode of a special series regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic. The world/unbelievers does/do what the world/unbelievers does/do in a time of crisis, but how should believers respond in such a time? This series addresses that question from a Biblical viewpoint.
This is the 3rd episode of a special series regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic. The world/unbelievers does/do what the world/unbelievers does/do in a time of crisis, but how should believers respond in such a time? This series addresses that question from a Biblical viewpoint.
This is the 2nd episode of a special series regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic. The world/unbelievers does/do what the world/unbelievers does/do in a time of crisis, but how should believers respond in such a time? This series addresses that question from a Biblical viewpoint.
This is the first episode of a special series regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic. The world/unbelievers does/do what the world/unbelievers does/do in a time of crisis, but how should believers respond in such a time? This series addresses that question from a Biblical viewpoint.
"Now I Declare New Things!" Part-5 | God declared through the prophet Isaiah, “The former things have all now come to pass — now will I do a NEW THING! — will you be aware of it?!” God is doing a NEW THING in the ekklesia (church) HE is building in this last hour! The question God is posing to you today is: Will you be aware of it of the NEW THING God is doing? Are you aware of it? You cannot comply with it and implement it in your life if you do not know what it is! This podcast is the first in a new series, entitled, "Now I Declare New Things!" That title is taken from the first passage of the series' three foundation Scriptures, Isaiah 42:9: “Behold, the former things have come to pass, Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.” Describing Himself, God said through the Prophet Malachi, “I am God, and I change not!” While He Himself does not change, nevertheless, in His dealings with His Mankind Creation and the Church Jesus is building, our Father God is a God of new things; i.e., CHANGE! Unlike humans, who, as a whole, are change-averse, God specializes in constant change or movement, and is never static in His workings upon the earth, but rather is forever instituting change — breaking molds and casting new ones. God is the God of new things! In the establishment of His Kingdom on Earth, He is forever declaring “new things before they spring forth” regarding paradigms and patterns He is establishing. In this series we will examine a number of "new things" God did in the past in the lives of his people as well as what He is doing in the collective church as well as in the lives of individual end-times believers. In this episode Dr. Lambert discusses God's Change Agents He uses to bring about change in the Church Jesus is building--PROPHETS.
"Now I Declare New Things!" Part-4 | God declared through the prophet Isaiah, “The former things have all now come to pass — now will I do a NEW THING! — will you be aware of it?!” God is doing a NEW THING in the ekklesia (church) HE is building in this last hour! The question God is posing to you today is: Will you be aware of it of the NEW THING God is doing? Are you aware of it? You cannot comply with it and implement it in your life if you do not know what it is! This podcast is the first in a new series, entitled, "Now I Declare New Things!" That title is taken from the first passage of the series' three foundation Scriptures, Isaiah 42:9: “Behold, the former things have come to pass, Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.” Describing Himself, God said through the Prophet Malachi, “I am God, and I change not!” While He Himself does not change, nevertheless, in His dealings with His Mankind Creation and the Church Jesus is building, our Father God is a God of new things; i.e., CHANGE! Unlike humans, who, as a whole, are change-averse, God specializes in constant change or movement, and is never static in His workings upon the earth, but rather is forever instituting change — breaking molds and casting new ones. God is the God of new things! In the establishment of His Kingdom on Earth, He is forever declaring “new things before they spring forth” regarding paradigms and patterns He is establishing. In this series we will examine a number of "new things" God did in the past in the lives of his people as well as what He is doing in the collective church as well as in the lives of individual end-times believers. In this episode Dr. Lambert discusses God's Change Agents He uses to bring about change in the Church Jesus is building--PROPHETS.
"Now I Declare New Things!" Part-3 | God declared through the prophet Isaiah, “The former things have all now come to pass — now will I do a NEW THING! — will you be aware of it?!” God is doing a NEW THING in the ekklesia (church) HE is building in this last hour! The question God is posing to you today is: Will you be aware of it of the NEW THING God is doing? Are you aware of it? You cannot comply with it and implement it in your life if you do not know what it is! This podcast is the first in a new series, entitled, "Now I Declare New Things!" That title is taken from the first passage of the series' three foundation Scriptures, Isaiah 42:9: “Behold, the former things have come to pass, Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.” Describing Himself, God said through the Prophet Malachi, “I am God, and I change not!” While He Himself does not change, nevertheless, in His dealings with His Mankind Creation and the Church Jesus is building, our Father God is a God of new things! Unlike humans, who, as a whole, are change-averse, God specializes in constant change or movement, and is never static in His workings upon the earth, but rather is forever instituting change — breaking molds and casting new ones. God is the God of new things! In the establishment of His Kingdom on Earth, He is forever declaring “new things before they spring forth” regarding paradigms and patterns He is establishing. In this series we will examine a number of "new things" God did in the past in the lives of his people as well as what He is doing in the collective church as well as in the lives of individual endtimes believers. In this episode Dr. Lambert discusses Elijah and David and their new thing, as well as the Church Jesus is building and it's new thing.
"Now I Declare New Things!" Part-2 | God declared through the prophet Isaiah, “The former things have all now come to pass — now will I do a NEW THING! — will you be aware of it?!” God is doing a NEW THING in the ekklesia (church) HE is building in this last hour! The question God is posing to you today is: Will you be aware of it of the NEW THING God is doing? Are you aware of it? You cannot comply with it and implement it in your life if you do not know what it is! This podcast is the first in a new series, entitled, "Now I Declare New Things!" That title is taken from the first passage of the series' three foundation Scriptures, Isaiah 42:9: “Behold, the former things have come to pass, Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.” Describing Himself, God said through the Prophet Malachi, “I am God, and I change not!” While He Himself does not change, nevertheless, in His dealings with His Mankind Creation and the Church Jesus is building, our Father God is a God of new things! Unlike humans, who, as a whole, are change-averse, God specializes in constant change or movement, and is never static in His workings upon the earth, but rather is forever instituting change — breaking molds and casting new ones. God is the God of new things! In the establishment of His Kingdom on Earth, He is forever declaring “new things before they spring forth” regarding paradigms and patterns He is establishing. In this series we will examine a number of "new things" God did in the past in the lives of his people as well as what He is doing in the collective church as well as in the lives of individual endtimes believers.
God declared through the prophet Isaiah, “The former things have all now come to pass — now will I do a NEW THING! — will you be aware of it?!”
God is doing a NEW THING in the ekklesia (church) HE is building in this last hour! The question God is posing to you today is: Will you be aware of it of the NEW THING God is doing? Are you aware of it? You cannot comply with it and implement it in your life if you do not know what it is!
This podcast is the first in a new series, entitled, "Now I Declare New Things!" That title is taken from the first passage of the series' three foundation Scriptures, Isaiah 42:9: “Behold, the former things have come to pass, Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.” Describing Himself, God said through the Prophet Malachi, “I am God, and I change not!” While He Himself does not change, nevertheless, in His dealings with His Mankind Creation and the Church Jesus is building, our Father God is a God of new things! Unlike humans, who, as a whole, are change-averse, God specializes in constant change or movement, and is never static in His workings upon the earth, but rather is forever instituting change — breaking molds and casting new ones. God is the God of new things! In the establishment of His Kingdom on Earth, He is forever declaring “new things before they spring forth” regarding paradigms and patterns He is establishing.
In this series we will examine a number of "new things" God did in the past in the lives of his people as well as what He is doing in the collective church as well as in the lives of individual endtimes believers.
PROPHETIC RESTORATION PART-3 | This is the third episode in a series regarding the Restoration of the Prophetic Gifts & Office to their proper place of function in the Church Jesus is building. The series will span the history of the prophetic, past, present, and future, and address what God has been doing with the restoration of the prophetic gifts and office since the mid-1980s, and what He will be doing in the 21st Century as well.
PROPHETIC RESTORATION PART-2 | This is the second in a series regarding the Restoration of the Prophetic Gifts & Office to their proper place of function in the Church Jesus is building. The series will span the history of the prophetic, past, present, and future, and address what God has been doing with the restoration of the prophetic gifts and office since the mid-1980s, and what He will be doing in the 21st Century as well.
This is the first in a series of regarding the Restoration of the Prophetic Gifts & Office to their proper place of function in the Church Jesus is building. The series will span the history of the prophetic, past, present, and future, and address what God has been doing with the restoration of the prophetic gifts and office since the mid-1980s, and what He will be doing in the 21st Century as well.
This is the second of a two-part teaching concerning some of the basics of the Ministry of the Prophet in the 21st Century.
This is the first of a two-part teaching concerning some of the basics of the Ministry of the Prophet in the 21st Century.
PRESSING ON TO MATURITY PART-2 | SPECIAL PROPHETIC MESSAGE TO THE CHURCH JESUS IS BUILDING! In this hour of prevalent deception, the true ekklesia -- the Church Jesus is building -- must press on to a new, higher level of spiritual maturity, in order to combat and counter the supernatural workings of the "deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons" that Satan has unleashed throughout the world in order to deceive myriads, including "even the elect, if possible!"
SPECIAL PROPHETIC MESSAGE TO THE CHURCH JESUS IS BUILDING! In this hour of prevalent deception, the true ekklesia -- the Church Jesus is building -- must press on to a new, higher level of spiritual maturity, in order to combat and counter the supernatural workings of the "deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons" that Satan has unleashed throughout the world in order to deceive myriads, including "even the elect, if possible!"
CHARISMATIC CONTROL Part-6 | Multitudes of sincere and trusting believers are caught unawares in the virtually invisible web of religious captivation in certain Charismatic and Neo-Pentecostal churches. They are unwitting victims of spiritual abuse, psychological enslavement, and various forms of exploitation perpetrated under the heavy-hand of hyper-authoritarianism. That is to say, the leadership of the church-group of which they are a part is dominating, controlling, manipulating, and exploiting their followers for personal gain and private kingdom-building. High-profile incidences of authoritarian abuse and exploitation in Christian churches that emerge from time to time are only the tip of the iceberg. This subject of this episode is Religious Enslavement: Sorcery/Witchcraft. This is the final episode in this series.
CHARISMATIC CONTROL Part-5 | Multitudes of sincere and trusting believers are caught unawares in the virtually invisible web of religious captivation in certain Charismatic and Neo-Pentecostal churches. They are unwitting victims of spiritual abuse, psychological enslavement, and various forms of exploitation perpetrated under the heavy-hand of hyper-authoritarianism. That is to say, the leadership of the church-group of which they are a part is dominating, controlling, manipulating, and exploiting their followers for personal gain and private kingdom-building. High-profile incidences of authoritarian abuse and exploitation in Christian churches that emerge from time to time are only the tip of the iceberg. This subject of this episode is Religious Enslavement: Sorcery/Witchcraft.
CHARISMATIC CONTROL Part-4 | Multitudes of sincere and trusting believers are caught unawares in the virtually invisible web of religious captivation in certain Charismatic and Neo-Pentecostal churches. They are unwitting victims of spiritual abuse, psychological enslavement, and various forms of exploitation perpetrated under the heavy-hand of hyper-authoritarianism. That is to say, the leadership of the church-group of which they are a part is dominating, controlling, manipulating, and exploiting their followers for personal gain and private kingdom-building. High-profile incidences of authoritarian abuse and exploitation in Christian churches that emerge from time to time are only the tip of the iceberg. This subject of this episode is Religious Enslavement: Sorcery/Witchcraft.
PART-2 OF A 3-PART SERIES ON FATHERHOOD | America has become a fatherless nation. Fatherlessness is anathema, and elicits a curse from God that becomes a decimating scourge on the nation that proliferates and promotes it. America is now, and perhaps has been for many years, ensconced in the curse of fatherlessness. The state of affairs in the world in this hour makes it evident that the land has been smitten with a curse as the prophecy of Malachi predicts (Mal. 4:5-6). We see revealed in this one passage of Scripture culminating the Old Testament, the fundamental root-cause of all that corruption and criminality—a dearth of fatherhood. Corruption and criminality is ubiquitous; so much so that in some regions of America governments cannot build and maintain the number of prisons needed to incarcerate all the lawbreaking criminals. History and sociological statistics tell us that wherever and whenever there is an absence of fatherhood there is an increase in sin and rebellion, along with the resultant crime and corruption that sin and rebellion engender in any society so affected. The produce of a dearth of fatherhood, in individual lives and collective society, is disobedience of all sorts and kinds. Indeed, America is now essentially a fatherless nation, both spiritually and psychologically. Today, it is a nation in which a high percentage of its citizenry reject, deride, and denigrate the concept of fatherhood and need for same. America has evicted God the Father from our schools, our courts, our government, our politics, our financial systems and economy, our homes, our public discourse, even many of our churches, and from many American's hearts and lives. Father-God is an outcast in America. America's all-out assault on fatherhood is a direct affront unto God the Father! God's message to America and Americans in this hour of fatherlessness is "REPENT! — before it is too late!"
America has become a fatherless nation. Fatherlessness is anathema, and elicits a curse from God that becomes a decimating scourge on the nation that proliferates and promotes it. America is now, and perhaps for many years, ensconced in the curse of fatherlessness.
The state of affairs in the world in this hour makes it evident that the land has been smitten with a curse as the Malachi prophecy predicts (Mal. 4:5-6). We see revealed in this one passage of Scripture culminating the Old Testament, the fundamental root-cause of all that corruption and criminality—a dearth of fatherhood. Corruption and criminality is ubiquitous; so much so that in some regions of America governments cannot build and maintain the number of prisons needed to incarcerate all the lawbreaking criminals.
History and sociological statistics tell us that wherever and whenever there is an absence of fatherhood there is an increase in sin and rebellion, along with the resultant crime and corruption that sin and rebellion engender in any society so affected. The produce of a dearth of fatherhood, in individual lives and collective society, is disobedience of all sorts and kinds.
Indeed, America is now essentially a fatherless nation, both spiritually and psychologically. Today, it is a nation in which a high percentage of its citizenry reject, deride, and denigrate the concept of fatherhood and need for same.
America has evicted God the Father from our schools, our courts, our government, our politics, our financial systems and economy, our homes, our public discourse, even many of our churches, and from many American's hearts and lives. Father-God is an outcast in America.
America's all-out assault on fatherhood is a direct affront unto God the Father!
God's message to America and Americans in this hour of fatherlessness is "REPENT! — before it is too late!"
(The numbering of this episode is out of sync with the previous post deliberately to allow for additional episodes of the Charismatic Control Series that will be posted after the series on fathering is completed, which coincides with Father's Day in the month of June.)
CHARISMATIC CONTROL Part-3 | Multitudes of sincere and trusting believers are caught unawares in the virtually invisible web of religious captivation in certain Charismatic and Neo-Pentecostal churches. They are unwitting victims of spiritual abuse, psychological enslavement, and various forms of exploitation perpetrated under the heavy-hand of hyper-authoritarianism. That is to say, the leadership of the church-group of which they are a part is dominating, controlling, manipulating, and exploiting their followers for personal gain and private kingdom-building. High-profile incidences of authoritarian abuse and exploitation in Christian churches that emerge from time to time are only the tip of the iceberg. This subject of this episode is Religious Enslavement: Sorcery/Witchcraft.
CHARISMATIC CONTROL Part-2 Multitudes of sincere and trusting believers are caught unawares in the virtually invisible web of religious captivation in certain Charismatic and Neo-Pentecostal churches. They are unwitting victims of spiritual abuse, psychological enslavement, and various forms of exploitation perpetrated under the heavy-hand of hyper-authoritarianism. That is to say, the leadership of the church-group of which they are a part is dominating, controlling, manipulating, and exploiting their followers for personal gain and private kingdom-building. High-profile incidences of authoritarian abuse and exploitation in Christian churches that emerge from time to time are only the tip of the iceberg. This subject of this episode is Religious Enslavement: Sorcery/Witchcraft.
The Perilous Path of Doctrinal Deviation Series/Part- [Final Episode of Series] | In this series Dr. Lambert addresses the perilous path of doctrinal deviation that so many professing believers and churches are traveling today, whether knowingly or unknowingly, in particular the matter of heretics and heresy. Multiplied millions of people around the world are caught up in what the Word of God calls the GREAT FALLING AWAY or GREAT APOSTASY! We are living in it right now! The collective church and myriad purporting “Christians” desperately need to be shaken out of its/their spiritual slumber to the irrefutable reality that we are right now in the very midst of the greatest time of apostasy and falling away from the true God and His Truth in human history! Doctrinal deviation, degeneration, and denigration is a perilous path leading not to genuine unity of the Spirit but rather disunity with the Spirit, apostasy, perdition, and ultimately hell itself! Be sure to listen to all NINE of the episodes in this series!
Multitudes of sincere and trusting believers are caught unawares in the virtually invisible web of religious captivation in certain Charismatic and Neo-Pentecostal churches. They are unwitting victims of spiritual abuse, psychological enslavement, and various forms of exploitation perpetrated under the heavy-hand of hyper-authoritarianism. That is to say, the leadership of the church-group of which they are a part is dominating, controlling, manipulating, and exploiting their followers for personal gain and private kingdom-building.
High-profile incidences of authoritarian abuse and exploitation in Christian churches that emerge from time to time are only the tip of the iceberg. The truth of the matter is: ecclesiastical enslavement and exploitation is widespread in some sectors of Christendom, but the perpetrators, many of whom are prominent and respected church leaders, often go to great lengths to disguise it and have thus far been successful in concealing it.
Moreover, it is transpiring in churches/groups espousing otherwise orthodox Christian beliefs, whose membership is comprised of a cross section of average Americans--individuals and families--of every race, education level, station, and walk of life, rather than radical, fringe religious sects and cults as many would suppose.
This series is adapted from the audiobook of the book, Charismatic Control, written and narrated by Dr. Lambert. Thousands have "seen the light" of the Truth with the help of the liberating message of this series!
EASTER OR RESURRECTION SUNDAY?
The annual religious observance known in Christendom as “Easter Sunday” is celebrated by the vast majority of organized Christianity as the highest Holy Day on the religious calendar, and has been so celebrated now for centuries since the Church Council at Nicaea in 325 A.D. set the first Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox as “Easter Sunday.” At first glance, Easter festivities may seem innocuous…until it is understood that it was the early "Universal Church's" adoption of the pagan day of veneration of the Babylonian goddess Ostara (alternately spelled "E-o-s-t-r-e" and pronounced [æːɑstrə] , aka, Ishtar), the entire system of which is squarely centered in Babylonian pagan astrology, the anti-God religious system devised by Satan himself to redirect humanity's worship of God to himself. While Easter festivities are now observed by Christian groups around the world, the irrefutable fact is that the observance is entirely without Biblical precedence, and in truth owes its origins to paganism. Indeed, many of the festivities associated with Easter today, such as “Easter Egg Hunts” and the “Easter Bunny,” which have no connection whatever to the resurrection of Christ, and are carry-overs from the pagan festivals. Eggs and rabbits, for obvious reasons, have long been symbols of fertility and reproduction in paganism and mythology. So, the question then is: is celebration of Easter Scriptural, or more importantly, God-pleasing, at all?
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CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: PEACE ON EARTH? (Part-1)
One of the things that makes the Christmas Season such a special time of the year is that for a few days and weeks at the close of every year virtually the entire world is confronted with the belief held by millions throughout time that two-thousand years ago a Baby was born in a lowly manger who was the long-awaited Messiah of Israel and the Savior of all Mankind. “You shall call His Name, Jesus,” the angel of God instructed His human parents, which means Savior, for He would save the world from their sins. His Name would also be Immanuel, which means, God with us; and that He is! for all those who receive Him, are infused in their human spirit with His very Life, His Being, His Spirit, the Divine Nature. All of that is the glorious aspects of the Christmas season and why it exists!
Perhaps the most familiar refrain of the master-collage of Christmas-related narratives, poems, songs, melodies, tunes, and orchestral odes is that of “Peace On Earth and goodwill to men.”
What a pious-sounding adage and noble longing—"Peace on earth and goodwill to men!" Who in his right mind could be opposed to the prospect of goodwill among all men and greater peace in any segment of human relations than that which currently exists?
But, if "peace on earth and goodwill to men" was the primary purpose of the Christ-Child’s birth more than two-thousand years ago as the Christmas carols proclaim, why has so little of it transpired on Earth since then?
Indeed, the fact is that Man has never achieved peace anywhere, at any time on the Earth. There has never been a time in the history of the world when peace was ubiquitous on Earth, i.e., the absence of all conflict among nations or peoples. Rather, nations have always been at war, either against one another, or against themselves in the form of civil wars or internal conflicts.
The fact is, as annoying as the question of why peace on Earth has never existed in the history of mankind is to many Christians, it is nonetheless a valid and fair one. Why hasn’t there been peace and goodwill in the affairs of men through the last two millennia? Is the prospect of peace on Earth really even a scriptural concept? Even more pertinent to our real lives, is it a viable possibility?
In this two-part series, Dr. Lambert provides some Scriptural answers to those questions, separating the holy from the profane, the true from the fictitious, and the mythical from the factual.
The Role of Fivefold Ministry Series/Part-2 [First Episode of Series] | In this series Dr. Lambert addresses the reality and role of the Fivefold Ministry from a Biblical perspective.
The Role of Fivefold Ministry Series/Part-1 [First Episode of Series] | In this series Dr. Lambert addresses the reality and role of the Fivefold Ministry from a Biblical perspective.
The Perilous Path of Doctrinal Deviation Series/Part-8 | In this series Dr. Lambert addresses the perilous path of doctrinal deviation that so many professing believers and churches are traveling today, whether knowingly or unknowingly, in particular the matter of heretics and heresy. Multiplied millions of people around the world are caught up in what the Word of God calls the GREAT FALLING AWAY or GREAT APOSTASY! We are living in it right now! The collective church and myriad purporting “Christians” desperately need to be shaken out of its/their spiritual slumber to the irrefutable reality that we are right now in the very midst of the greatest time of apostasy and falling away from the true God and His Truth in human history! Doctrinal deviation, degeneration, and denigration is a perilous path leading not to genuine unity of the Spirit but rather disunity with the Spirit, apostasy, perdition, and ultimately hell itself!
The Perilous Path of Doctrinal Deviation Series/Part-7 | In this series Dr. Lambert addresses the perilous path of doctrinal deviation that so many professing believers and churches are traveling today, whether knowingly or unknowingly, in particular the matter of heretics and heresy. Multiplied millions of people around the world are caught up in what the Word of God calls the GREAT FALLING AWAY or GREAT APOSTASY! We are living in it right now! The collective church and myriad purporting “Christians” desperately need to be shaken out of its/their spiritual slumber to the irrefutable reality that we are right now in the very midst of the greatest time of apostasy and falling away from the true God and His Truth in human history! Doctrinal deviation, degeneration, and denigration is a perilous path leading not to genuine unity of the Spirit but rather disunity with the Spirit, apostasy, perdition, and ultimately hell itself!
For nearly a century, the debate has continued in American churches regarding if it is right or wrong for believers to participate in Halloween. The tragedy of the enduring controversy, however, is that the issues of overriding importance regarding Halloween are overlooked in the heat of the debate and almost never discussed even among anti-Halloween believers. Those oft forgotten issues are my focus in this stand-alone episode.
The Perilous Path of Doctrinal Deviation Series/Part-6 | In this series Dr. Lambert addresses the perilous path of doctrinal deviation that so many professing believers and churches are traveling today, whether knowingly or unknowingly, in particular the matter of heretics and heresy. Multiplied millions of people around the world are caught up in what the Word of God calls the GREAT FALLING AWAY or GREAT APOSTASY! We are living in it right now! The collective church and myriad purporting “Christians” desperately need to be shaken out of its/their spiritual slumber to the irrefutable reality that we are right now in the very midst of the greatest time of apostasy and falling away from the true God and His Truth in human history! Doctrinal deviation, degeneration, and denigration is a perilous path leading not to genuine unity of the Spirit but rather disunity with the Spirit, apostasy, perdition, and ultimately hell itself!
The Perilous Path of Doctrinal Deviation Series/Part-5 | In this series Dr. Lambert addresses the perilous path of doctrinal deviation that so many professing believers and churches are traveling today, whether knowingly or unknowingly, in particular the matter of heretics and heresy. Multiplied millions of people around the world are caught up in what the Word of God calls the GREAT FALLING AWAY or GREAT APOSTASY! We are living in it right now! The collective church and myriad purporting “Christians” desperately need to be shaken out of its/their spiritual slumber to the irrefutable reality that we are right now in the very midst of the greatest time of apostasy and falling away from the true God and His Truth in human history! Doctrinal deviation, degeneration, and denigration is a perilous path leading not to genuine unity of the Spirit but rather disunity with the Spirit, apostasy, perdition, and ultimately hell itself!
The Perilous Path of Doctrinal Deviation Series/Part-4 | In this series Dr. Lambert addresses the perilous path of doctrinal deviation that so many professing believers and churches are traveling today, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Multiplied millions of people around the world are caught up in what the Word of God calls the GREAT FALLING AWAY or GREAT APOSTASY! We are living in it right now! The collective church and myriad purporting “Christians” desperately need to be shaken out of its/their spiritual slumber to the irrefutable reality that we are right now in the very midst of the greatest time of apostasy and falling away from the true God and His Truth in human history! Doctrinal deviation, degeneration, and denigration is a perilous path leading not to genuine unity of the Spirit but rather disunity with the Spirit, apostasy, perdition, and ultimately hell itself!
The Perilous Path of Doctrinal Deviation Series/Part-3 | In this series Dr. Lambert addresses the perilous path of doctrinal deviation that so many professing believers and churches are traveling today, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Multiplied millions of people around the world are caught up in what the Word of God calls the GREAT FALLING AWAY or GREAT APOSTASY! We are living in it right now! The collective church and myriad purporting “Christians” desperately need to be shaken out of its/their spiritual slumber to the irrefutable reality that we are right now in the very midst of the greatest time of apostasy and falling away from the true God and His Truth in human history! Doctrinal deviation, degeneration, and denigration is a perilous path leading not to genuine unity of the Spirit but rather disunity with the Spirit, apostasy, perdition, and ultimately hell itself!
The Perilous Path of Doctrinal Deviation Series/Part-2 | In this series Dr. Lambert addresses the perilous path of doctrinal deviation that so many professing believers and churches are traveling today, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Multiplied millions of people around the world are caught up in what the Word of God calls the GREAT FALLING AWAY or GREAT APOSTASY! We are living in it right now! The collective church and myriad purporting “Christians” desperately need to be shaken out of its/their spiritual slumber to the irrefutable reality that we are right now in the very midst of the greatest time of apostasy and falling away from the true God and His Truth in human history! Doctrinal deviation, degeneration, and denigration is a perilous path leading not to genuine unity of the Spirit but rather disunity with the Spirit, apostasy, perdition, and ultimately hell itself!
The Perilous Path of Doctrinal Deviation Series/Part-1 | In this series Dr. Lambert addresses the perilous path of doctrinal deviation that so many professing believers and churches are traveling today, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Multiplied millions of people around the world are caught up in what the Word of God calls the GREAT FALLING AWAY or GREAT APOSTASY! We are living in it right now! The collective church and myriad purporting “Christians” desperately need to be shaken out of its/their spiritual slumber to the irrefutable reality that we are right now in the very midst of the greatest time of apostasy and falling away from the true God and His Truth in human history! Doctrinal deviation, degeneration, and denigration is a perilous path leading not to genuine unity of the Spirit but rather disunity with the Spirit, apostasy, perdition, and ultimately hell itself!
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-28 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. This is the FINAL episode of the series and it focuses on ministering the Baptism in the Holy Spirit to everyone who wants to receive it!
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-27 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. The episode continues focusing on The Great Apostasy of the Dark Ages and how the church began proclaiming a powerless gospel void of the dunamis-power of the Holy Spirit.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-26 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. The focus of this episode is The Great Apostasy during the Dark Ages and how the church began to change the Gospel of Christ into a powerless Gospel void of the power of the Holy Spirit.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-25 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. The focus of this episode is the refutation of Cessationism that erroneously theorizes that the gifts of the Spirit have ceased to exist and be operable by Christians.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-24 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. This episode continues to address the matter of the supernatural gift of tongues and interpretation of tongues, and concludes with a powerful illustration showing the validity of the gift.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-23 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. This episode addresses the matter of the supernatural gift of tongues and interpretation of tongues, and the biblical instruction concerning the proper operation of them.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-22 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. This episode continues the focus begun in the previous episode on the "Charismata," which are the supernatural gifts of empowerment of the Holy Spirit believers receive when they receive The Baptism in the Holy Spirit.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-21 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. This episode focuses on the "Charismata," which are the supernatural gifts of empowerment of the Holy Spirit believers receive when they receive The Baptism in the Holy Spirit.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-20 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. This episode focuses on the The Early Church Example demonstrating that the gift of tongues is the INITIAL evidence that a believer has received The Baptism in the Holy Spirit.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-19 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. This episode focuses upon the Ephesian Example demonstrating that the gift of tongues is the INITIAL evidence that a believer has received The Baptism in the Holy Spirit.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-18 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. This episode focuses upon the Gentile Example demonstrating that the gift of tongues is the INITIAL evidence that a believer has received The Baptism in the Holy Spirit.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-17 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. This episode focuses upon the Samaritan Example demonstrating that the gift of tongues is the INITIAL evidence that a believer has received The Baptism in the Holy Spirit.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-16 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. This episode Saul's (who became the Apostle Paul) role in what is known as the Great Persecution of the First Century Church and his Damascus Road experience with the very Jesus whom he was persecuting.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-15 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. This episode addresses the fact that the cause of what is known as the Great Persecution of the First Century Church was demonic supernatural perpetrated by Satan himself in retaliation against the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-14 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. This episode is about the Apostle Paul's experience in receiving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and how this matter was the primary cause of the Great Persecution of the First century believers in Christ.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-13 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it. This episode is about the Pauline Example of the gift of tongues being bestowed upon a believer as a result of receiving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-12 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-11 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-10 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-9 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-8 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-7 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-6 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-5 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-4 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-3 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-2 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it.
DUNAMIS! Power from on High! Series Part-1 | This series is an in-depth teaching about The Baptism in the Holy Spirit, explaining the Biblical basis for it, what it is, the benefits of it, and why God wants every believer to receive it.