Is Something Wrong With Charismatic
By Dr. James. A McBean D.Th., MCC
Copyright © 2007 Library of Congress
Washington.D.C.20559
T he story you are about to read is heart rending, but it is true. I remember well. In one of our church, a brother had financial need and went to his pastor to barrow certain amount of money to buy food. He was told that when the sister church was having their yearly fund rising, he went down gave them $xx amount of money, but when his church was having their fund raising he only give $x amount. So they cannot help him. What really happen is, the brother work in construction, and when he gave the $xx to sister church= Church from the same denominations it was summer. But now it was winter when he was not working. I had to drive from Connecticut to new York to give him money to buy food, in those days.
Luke 9:55-56 (NKJV) But He turned and rebuked them, and said, "You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. 56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them." And they went to another village.
They do not know what spirit leading them and what spirit to obey. They just do anything come to their mind and say whatsoever come to their mouth without thinking about the consequences. One night we had a great service at the church, people jumping expressing themselves. As soon as Church was over and we were in the Church’s van going home. The gossips and the slaughtering of other people reputation that was taking place in the van, make me thing that all that bawling that was going on in church a few minutes ago was all a joke.
Luke 9:51-56 (NKJV) Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem, 52 and sent messengers before His face. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans, to prepare for Him. 53 But they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. 54 And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?" 55 But He turned and rebuked them, and said, "You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. 56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them." And they went to another village.
I got save in charismatic church. To (date) I spent more than thirty years among them as I observe these people behavior daily I arrived at the conclusion that something is wrong. I begin to study them secretly as I worship among them and find out that ninety nine percent of the time the people had a wrong spirit. Some people right out demons possess, fell to the ground as dead and foam. Some of them were good people before they claimed that they got fill. After they got fill they became gossip mongers. One brother in the church has a little feminine ways about him and when they finish with his character he has to run away. These condemn other churches, that do not speak in tongues, but failed to see that all the songs in the hymnals were written by these nominal so call churches.
Mark 9:17-18 (NKJV) Then one of the crowd answered and said, "Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. 18 And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not."
Ten Acts of the Demon: He Caused
Matthew 7:22 (KJV) Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? Matthew 7:23 (KJV) And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Matthew 7:24-26 (KJV) Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: [25] And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. [26] And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
1.A mute condition (Mark 9:17,25)
2.Deafness (Mark 9:25)
3.Foaming at the mouth (Mark 9:18,20)
4.Fits (Mark 9:18,20,26)
5.Gnashing of teeth (Mark 9:18)
6.Pining away, lifelessness, complete exhaustion (Mark 9:18,26)
7.Prostrations (Mark 9:20)
8.Suicidal tendencies (Mark 9:22)
9.Screaming (Mark 9:26)
10.Lunacy or insanity (Matthew 17:15)
WHERE IS THE LOVE OF CHRIST?
John 13:35 (KJV) By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
1 John 4:20 (Living Bible) If anyone says "I love God," but keeps on hating his brother, he is a liar; for if he doesn't love his brother who is right there in front of him, how can he love God whom he has never seen?
1 John 3:11 (KJV) For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 Cor. 13:2 (Living Bible) If I had the gift of prophecy and knew all about what is going to happen in the future, knew everything about everything, but didn't love others, what good would it do? Even if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, I would still be worth nothing at all without love.
James 2:14 (KJV) What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
James 2:15 (KJV) If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
James 2:16 (KJV) And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? James 2:17 (KJV) Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
FAITH CANNOT WORK WITHOUT LOVE BEHIND IT DRIVING IT.
Gal 5:6 (NKJV)For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love
The lord promise to make each believers perfect in his own time, but this perfection will not become a reality in the believers lives until the believers perfect love. What are the purpose of making a believer morally perfect if he or she does not have love for others? Where is that perfection going to get them?
1 Peter 5:10 (NKJV) But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
WHERE IS THE PEACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT?
Philip. 4:7 (KJV) And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
This is some of the most miserable believers you will ever came across. I might sound like I hate them but do not. However, things must be known.
John 16:13 (KJV) Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Hearing a voice talking to you does not mean that it is the Holy Spirit talking to you. Just look at those Christians who always hearing voices talking to them, and you will see that within five years in the church Satan just filter them right out into nothing ness. Just look at those sisters who always hearing voices. Even if the voice directs them to a husband, the man turn out to be a half man half donkey. Or a complete mule brain for a man. All the voices that is talking to them you do not see what the voice teaches any of them. The voice does not love them enough to even tell them what lotto number to buy. I am just being funny here; do not go say I am teaching you to gamble.
John 15:26 (KJV) But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
John 14:26 (KJV) But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
HOW DEMONS ATTACK ADVANCE BELIVERS.
In The book “War On The Saints, by Jessie Penn-Lewis. Page 149-150. 1-3 The agency of demons is always brought more conspicuously into notice, in proportion to the manifestation and power of God’s work among souls. When the son of God was manifest in the flesh, in called forth the activity and outspoken agency of demons more than ever before.
VARIOUS KINDS OF DEMONS.
Demons are of a multiplied variety. They are of various types, greater in diversity than human being, and these demons always seek to possess a person congenial to them in some characteristic. The Bible tells us of unclean demons, with craft and fortune-telling demons, of insanity, of drunkenness, of gluttony, of idleness, of wonder or miracle working, of despotic demons, theological demons, screeching and yelling demons. There are demons that act more particularly on the body, or some organ or appetite of the body. There are others that act more directly upon the intellect, or the sensibilities, and emotions, and affections.
There are others of a higher order that act directly on man’s spiritual nature, upon the conscience, or the spiritual perceptions. These are the ones that act as angels of light, and sidetrack and delude many who are real Christians.
HOW DEMONS FASTEN ON HUMAN BEINGS.
They seek out those whose make-up and temperament is most congenial to themselves, and then seek to fasten themselves on some part of the body, or brain, or some appetites, Or some faculty of the mind, either the reason, or imagination, or perception; and when they get access, they bury themselves into the very structure of the person, so as to identify themselves with the personality of the one they possess.
WILD ABNORMAL IMPULSES BEHAVIOURS.
“A very holy and useful woman says, that soon after receiving the baptism of the Spirit, there came to her one night in the church, a wild abnormal impulse to throw the hymn-book at the preacher, and run over the church screaming; and it took all her will power to keep her hand from throwing that book, but she had common sense to know that the Holy Spirit was not the author of such a suggestion. If she had yielded to that sudden feelings, it would have likely given that fanatical demon admission to her emotional nature and ruined her life-work.
Another person said he felt like rolling on the floor, and groaning and pulling the chairs around, but he distinctly perceived that the impulse to do so had some things wild in it; and a touch of self-display contrary to the gentleness and sweetness of Jesus; and, as quick as he saw it was an attack of a false spirit, he was delivered. But another man had the same impulse, and fell down groaning and roaring, beating the floor with his hands and feet, and the demon entered into him as the angel of light, and got him to think that his conduct was of the Holy Ghost, and it became a regular habit in the meetings he attended, until he would ruin every religious meeting he was in.
SELF PURIFICATION.
Self-purification will prevent Satan from setting you up in the future. When you and I clean up our life Satan demons have very little things to hide behind. For Satan demons to possess a person the demons must find some trash in the person life to hide under. When Christians talk about self-purification they are in most case talking about sexual purity. When I talk about self-purification I am talking about covetousness. Covetousness can kill a church. You go into some church and none of the sisters had any husband, because every time one of them get a man the other ones say thing to the man and cause him to leave. Each sister failed to see that their husbands are going to turn up at the other ones wedding.
King Saul failed to purify himself and that is how he picks up that evil spirit which causes him to make twenty-one attempts to kill David. We will talk about this later. When you read the word you must first applied it to yourself first before thinking about others.
1 John 3:3 (KJV) And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 2 Cor. 13:5 (KJV) Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
PURGE YOURSELF OF COVETOUSNESS.
Exodus 18:21 (KJV) Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Exodus 18:25 (KJV) And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. Numbers 11:26 (KJV) But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp. Numbers 11:27 (KJV) And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
Numbers 11:28 (KJV) And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. Numbers 11:29 (KJV) And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!
Galatians 5:18 (KJV) But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Galatians 5:18 a [ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law] This verse also refers to the Galatians who had left grace to go back under the law (Galatians 1:6-8; Galatians 3:1-5; Galatians 4:9-11,21-31; Galatians 5:1-4). Paul simply told them that if they would receive again the gospel of the grace of God and permit again the working of the Spirit in their lives, as they used to do (in Galatians 3:1-5) and if they would renounce the law again, they would not be under its bondage. If they would do this, they would not have the struggle of Galatians 5:17. The flesh with its affections and lusts would be crucified again and they could live the Christian life again (Galatians 5:16,22-24).
] Self-ignorance is so often manifest in connection with religion. The only remedy is crucifixion and study (Galatians 2:20; 2 Tim. 2:15; 2 Tim. 3:17). The zealous must always be self-controlled and act in knowledge or the work they seek to help will be destroyed (Romans 10:1-4; John 16:2). The disciples did not yet understand the true mission of Jesus (Luke 9:44-45). Christianity is not to be propagated by the sword.
b [manner of spirit] The Christian spirit is not one of retaliation. Even the law of Moses commanded not to avenge or hold grudges (Leviticus 19:18; cp. Proverbs 24:29). The gospel commands the same thing (Matthew 5:38-44; Matthew 7:1-2; Luke 9:52-55; Romans 12:17; 1 Cor. 6:7-8; 1 Thes. 5:15; 1 Peter 3:9). But the law and the gospel allow the law to take its course when men have sinned (Exodus 21:23-25; Leviticus 24:17-22; Deut. 19:19-21; Romans 13:1-8).
Sometime Only Jesus Can Help Us
Acts 4:12 (KJV)Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Romans 5:6 (KJV) For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 5:7 (KJV) For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. Romans 5:8 (KJV) But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:9 (KJV) Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Romans 5:10 (KJV) For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Romans 5:11 (KJV) And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Matthew 6:33-AV But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Isaiah 55:6-AV Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Isaiah 55:7-AV Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
The Bearer's Of The "Mind Sword"
