"Is not My word like fire?" declares the LORD, "and like a hammer which shatters a rock?" (Jeremiah 23:29)
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Images are from Bethel’s School of Supernatural 
Ministry – the first year Commissioning ceremony (2023). This is an expensive school of Simony – $5,750 for the year. Students are “knighted” and receive “impartations” from Bethel’s leadership…these lucky ones received an impartation of “splendor.”
“Twelve-Step programs are in essence…Archetypical precursors of a one-world religion.”
—Twelve Steps To Destruction by Martin and Deidre Bobgan, p 116
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.” (1 Tim 4:1)
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Tim 4:3-4)
Since…well, since never.
Martin and Deidre Bobgan write:
The extreme naiveté of Christians comes through when they confidently assert that their higher power is Jesus Christ. Since when did Jesus align Himself with false gods? Since when has He been willing to join the Pantheon or the array of Hindu deities?
Jesus is not an option of one among many. He is the Only Son, the Only Savior, and the Only Way.
All Twelve Step programs violate the declarations of the Reformation: Only Scripture; Only Christ; Only Grace; Only Faith; and Glory to God Only.
Instead they offer another power, another gospel, another savior, another source, another fellowship, another tradition, another evangelism, and another god.
Jesus’ majesty and His very person are violated by joining Him together with the gods of the wide gate and the broad way. Jesus emphatically stated that His gate is strait and His way is narrow. He is the only way to life, while all other ways lead to destruction (Matthew 7:13-14). Source
You may have heard or read about early A.A. and spiritualism. Even so, Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson’s well documented communication with evil spirits is sometimes disbelieved.
C.S. Lewis believed it. When a concerned Tony Guggenheim wrote Lewis a letter informing him of Bill and Lois Wilson’s biblically forbidden activities, C.S. Lewis wrote back, “This is necromancy. Have nothing to do with it.” [1]
Lewis was clearly horrified the A.A. co-founder was involved in spiritualism.
His letter gives good advice regarding these biblically prohibited practices. This is good advice, too, regarding A.A. and the 12 Steps.
Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 19:31)
Source Notes:
1. Susan Cheever, My Name Is Bill, pg. 207
Related: Seances, Spirits, and 12 Steps
I know this guy. He is a Christian. He was homeless in four cities, addicted to alcohol and heroin. He has been to hundreds of A.A. meetings in years past and now flat out refuses to attend. He has this crazy idea that Christ is Holy, and therefore should never–NEVER!–be placed in A.A., which is essentially a modern day temple of the gods.
“I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images. (Isaiah 42:8)
Yeah, I know, pretty out there, right? But he would say, there is only one God. He would say that Christ is not some invented higher power of one’s own imagination and design.
So this guy, he works for this great firm that helps other organizations. But if one of these outfits is Christian and uses A.A. or the 12 Steps, this guy will not work on the project. What a pinhead.
He was even going to quit, leave a company he loves, over this issue. But his bosses, who are Christian, know that for this guy it is a biblical issue–this guy by the way would say this applies to all Christians–so he doesn’t have to work on anything that is 12 Step related.
This costs this man some money in missing work hours, and the bosses lose some productivity, but they allow him this anyway.
But come on, that is crazy, because Christians use A.A. or a “Christian” version of the 12 Steps all the time.
If you try and tell him that the 12 Steps are Christian in origin, he will tell you they are demonic, and were channeled through A.A. co-founder Bill Wilson. Like I say, he’s a pinhead on this issue. But he would tell you his understanding of A.A. and the 12 Steps is based on Scripture, history, and research.
When someone tries to justify A.A. by sharing how it has helped, he will reply he is happy for those who are free from addiction but A.A. is far more successful in public relations and publicity than in treatment effectiveness. If the church had never become involved with the 12 Step religion (ruled as religious in numerous court cases), people would have been saved and sanctified by the power of the Holy Spirit.
And do not get drunk with wine,for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, (Ephesians 5:8)
He will say (sometimes in a hard tone, totally unnecessary in my opinion) that A.A. has not helped the Body of Christ but has weakened us. He will say that Christians in A.A. are really worshiping in two religions–and that long before the New Apostolic Reformation, or The Shack, or The Chosen, it was A.A. that infected and weakened the visible church.
The infection (deception) is so strong and all encompassing, he will say, that Christians cannot even see it for what it is.
Or don’t want to.
Like I say, he’s kind of a pinhead.
Related Question: “Since when did Jesus align Himself with false gods?”
“My attitude to the question of Tongues and other gifts is this: I have never been able to accept the traditional teaching as stated particularly, perhaps, by Warfield, that all gifts came to an end at the Apostolic era. I cannot see any scriptural warrant for this teaching; indeed it seems to me to be a kind of dispensationalism which renders much of the epistles useless. For instance it implies that the teaching of 1 Thessalonians 5, verses 19 – 21 has no application today. All I say is, that while it is clear from the history of the Church that certain gifts seem to have been in abeyance over the centuries the Holy Spirit in His Lordship may give them at any time. Indeed there is clear teaching that towards the end of this age such gifts are likely to reappear in great power, and at the same time many counterfeits.
The result of all this is that while I am very unhappy about this Charismatic Movement, and regard it as a real danger to the true Church and the Gospel, because it implies constantly that doctrine does not matter at all, I am equally concerned that we should not become guilty of “quenching the Spirit” and tying ourselves up in a dead orthodoxy.”
-Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Do not quench the Spirit, do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully, hold fast to that which is good. (1 Thessalonians 5:19-21)
For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel. (Ezra 7:10)
Make me know Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day. (Psalm 25:4-5)
Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. (Psalm 34:11)
Teach me to do Your will, For You are my God;
Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground. (Psalm 143:10)
He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying, (Matthew 5:2)
When Jesus had finished giving instructions to His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities. (Matthew 11:1)
When Jesus went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and He felt compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things. (Mathew 6:34)
“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. (John 14:26)
But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I shall find out, not the words of those who are arrogant but their power. (1 Cor 4:19)
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” (James 4:13)
Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. (James 4:14)
Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” (James 4:15)
He went away again a second time and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done.” (Matthew 26:42)
Heed the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God,
For to You I pray. (Psalm 5:2)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)
In my distress I called upon the LORD,
And cried to my God for help;
He heard my voice out of His temple,
And my cry for help before Him came into His ears. (Psalm 18:6)
Indeed, true companion, I ask you also to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. (Philippians 4:3)
We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone. (1 Thessalonians 5:14)
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. (Hebrews 4:14)
For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15)
Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4:16)
Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. (Ephesians 2:3)
Haven’t watched many of these Fight For Truth videos. But if you or your church follow Tim Mackie’s Bible Project, you may want to watch this one from beginning to end. There is, however, one issue that should be corrected in this video.[1]
Note:
1. With all due respect to the creator of this mostly excellent video, he should not tell people to go ahead and watch Bible Project but with caution. Not after pointing out Tim Mackie’s heretical stance on the Atonement, the wrath of God, and hell. As my friend points out, Fight For Truth should have warned the saints with this verse:
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. (Romans16:17)
Mark and avoid.
Or, when you get right down to it, I should have emphasized this scripture (and others) myself when I originally posted the video rather then my previous mild comments.
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