“The Chosen” Fiction

“Those who are drawn to the Jesus of The Chosen have been seduced into believing in a character who is not the perfect God/Man presented in God’s Word, but rather a man-made counterfeit Christ whose ministry had to be enabled through the input of his disciples. That’s not the Jesus Christ of God’s inerrant, infallible, and all-sufficient God-breathed Word,” writes T.A. McMahon of The Berean Call.

“Those who claim to believe the Scriptures but are drawn to The Chosen need to heed the Bible’s far-reaching warning: ‘For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before.'” (Matthew 24:24-25) — T.A. McMahon, The Berean Call Newsletter

More from the man who gave us the 12 Steps

There are a number of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson’s spiritualistic experiences documented in his official A.A. biography. Wilson wrote:

The ouija board got moving in earnest. What followed was the fairly usual experience—it was a strange mélange of Aristotle, St. Francis, diverse archangels with odd names, deceased friends—some in purgatory and others doing nicely, thank you! There were malign and mischievous ones of all descriptions, telling of vices quite beyond my ken, even as former alcoholics. Then, the seemingly virtuous entities would elbow them out with messages of comfort, information, advice—and sometimes just sheer nonsense. [1]

There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord (Deuteronomy 18:10-12)

End Notes:

1. Pass It On: The story of Bill Wilson and how the A.A. message reached the world (Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1984), p. 278

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Living in the Light by Cedric Fisher

Pastor Cedric Fisher writes:

When we are living in the Holy Spirit, we know we are right because He is right. When we are living according to the flesh, we need everyone to agree with us to be assured we are right.

Sadly, most professing Christians accept whatever is popular without question. Too many people would rather be popular rather than right. Being right shines the offensive light.

The fact is, the majority of professing Christians do not “shine” because they fear the repercussions. The ones that love darkness hate light.

Now that Christianity is nearing complete apostasy, everyone that shines will be quickly identified and attacked. Who will unflinchingly rebuke spiritual wickedness, and speak what is right to those who are guilty, and call them to repentance?

The answer is:

“Everyone that is living in the Holy Spirit.”

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” — Galatians 5:25

There are dark periods when God has only one person who will ignore the great majority, and the consequences of speaking and being right in a near completely wrong world.

When the entire world was wrong, Noah still built the Ark.

When 400 prophets prophesied and supported falsely, Micaiah still spoke the truth.

When an entire nation was wrong, Elijah still rebuked and exhorted them.

When Israel’s  religious hierarchy hated the light, John the Baptist still called them a “generation of vipers.”

The multitude had a “light bulb” moment when Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, preached repentance on the Day of Pentecost.

“Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?” — Acts 2:37

Who is willing and bold enough to speak today? They are the ones that have an unsatisfied satisfaction. They are satisfied that they are redeemed, but unsatisfied because Satan is gathering many souls into his kingdom of death and darkness. They are the ones truly living in the Holy Spirit.

Link to Cedric Fisher’s website

Dictation from unclean spirits

On this “spiritual silence” [Oxford Group cult leader Frank Buchman] places special emphasis, and puts it in a more important place than even reading the Bible and prayer. He teaches his votaries to wait upon God with paper and pencil in hand each morning in this relaxed and inert condition, and to write down whatever guidance they get. This, however, is just the very condition required by Spiritist mediums to enable them to receive impressions from evil spirits… – J.C. Brown in his book The Oxford Group Movement, p.15

The Oxford Group of the 1930s, led by Frank Buchman, has had a profound effect on the culture and the visible church. Through the blanking of the mind and the resulting automatic writing, we have been given God Calling, Jesus Calling, and the 12 Steps. The Oxford Group can be credited, directly or indirectly, for all three of these.

God Calling, Jesus Calling, and the 12 Steps. So beloved…and so bewitching. We will have more to say about this.

Commerce with the mark in your hand

No, it’s not the mark spoken of in Revelation 13:16-17. But it sure shows the way things are going.

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Revelation 13:16-17)

Jeremiah 2:27-28 vs. America’s dominant religion

From the Bible:

Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to Me,
And not their face;
But in the time of their trouble they will say,
‘Arise and save us.’

“But where are your gods
Which you made for yourself?
Let them arise, if they can save you
In the time of your trouble;
For according to the number of your cities
Are your gods, O Judah. (Jeremiah 2:27-28)

Official literature from America’s dominant religion*:

[The alcoholic] “may choose to think of his Inner Self, the miracle of growth, a tree, man’s wonderment at the physical universe, the structure of the atom, or mere mathematical infinity. Whatever form is visualized, the neophyte is taught that he must rely on it and, in his own way, to pray to the Power for strength.”1 (bold emphasis mine)

In 1941, Jack Alexander of the Saturday Evening Post wrote the above words in an article that provided A.A. its first national publicity. Please note that Alexander’s article, with this A.A. definition of “god,” is distributed as official Alcoholics Anonymous literature.

1. Jack Alexander, “Alcoholics Anonymous: Freed Slaves of Drink, Now They Free Others” (Saturday Evening Post, March 1, 1941). According to the A.A. website, A.A. World Services publishes the article in pamphlet format and sells about 22,000 of them each year; http://www.aa.org/lang/en/subpage.cfm?page=472.

*The 12 Step movement has diluted, melded with, and pushed aside Christianity as the primary religion in the United States.

Another Shack betrayal: A Cat Named Judas

“The name Judas has been described as the most hated name in all the world. Except for Shack author William Paul Young and maybe a few exceptional others, hardly anybody ever names anyone or anything Judas. It is one of those forbidden names like Jezebel or Lucifer that people would never dream of naming their child, their dog—or their cat. The very name denotes a sense of treachery and betrayal,” writes Warren B. Smith.

Smith asks, “After all, Judas was the one who openly betrayed Jesus and paved the way for His crucifixion. So what was William Paul Young thinking?” …continue reading Warren B. Smith’s article