F4F | Steven Furtick Comes Through Drippin

The Problem with Reading Your Experience into the Bible

Welcome to another installment of fighting for the faith here on YouTube. If you've ever been taught that the way you read the Bible is, you know, you read an Old Testament story. You know like the children of Israel, you know passing through the Red Sea and kind of figure out well What's your Red Sea moment kind of thingy?

Yeah, hit the subscribe button and ring the bell down below. You've been taught a Bible twisting technique called Narcissus. Yeah, that's Narcissus. It's narcissism and Isis is stuck together. We all know what narcissism is but Isis is is the reading into the biblical text stuff that ain't there and one of the the most expert narcissists on planet Earth is Stephen Furtick of Elevation Church.

I do think he's surpassed though in his Narcissistic greatness by TD Jake's, but we're heading over to the L of Elevation Church YouTube channel to listen to his New Year's Eve message titled come through Drippin and it's one of the most Miserable twistings of the account of the children of Israel crossing the Red Sea that I have ever heard.

It's jaw-dropping Lee Bonkers is the best way I could put it. So let's get to it. Here's Stephen Furtick, but this scripture.

The Red Sea as a Type of Baptism

In Exodus 14 Is of course all about transition and victory. So it's appropriate for tonight, but let me read it to you. Verse 26 Exodus 14. Then the Lord said to Moses Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.

Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and At daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward it. And the Lord swept them into the sea. The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen.

The entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived but the Israelites Went through the sea on dry ground. With a wall of water on their right look to your right and On their left look to your left.

Okay, why y 'all turn in two different directions. It's a universal kind of thing, but the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground. But the Israelites This is how you can tell I belong to God. Because I went through.

See. On dry ground. What does that mean? Yeah, I totally tell I belong to God, you know why? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I I went through the Red Sea on dry ground. Now you'll note Today they're just not any people, you know crossing the Red Sea On dry ground.

So what is he talking about? And everyone there's going? That's the most amazing thing ever. No, what he just said is nonsense. It doesn't make any sense at all. So I'm getting down taking notes here, you know where I know I belong to God.

As I went through the Red Sea on dry Ground, I'm beginning to wonder maybe I don't really belong to God, you know, this is weird.

Do me a favor. Since this is a party everybody participate and look at your neighbor on your right or your left you choose. I'm gonna leave that much up to you. But now let me tell you what to tell them.

You're gonna give them my title. Tell them this say I don't know What you went through in 2018. But you made it and tell them hold on. No, that's not it that's not it. We're not done. Tell them since you came through.

You might as well Come through dripping. I'm dead on earth on earth. I might as well come through dripping. Whoo. Yeah. Apparently they start, you know, they had leftover eggnog there at Elevation Church and they were serving it out in the you know, the lobby before people went into the the arena there.

Wow. This Makes zero sense. Whatsoever now he read out part of the crossing of the Red Sea narrative and and here's the thing in the Old Testament the Old Testament is type and shadow and The New Testament is the substance the thing that it was pointing to you if you want to talk about it in these terms.

You know the ancient church fathers, you know, for instance Eusebius talked in these ways in his ecclesiastical history that the that the Old Testament has the symbols and Then the New Testament has the substance.

So Crossing of the Red Sea is a symbol. It is a Type and shadow of something that is the real substance in the New Testament. So what would that be in and thankfully? We don't even have to guess on this one because the scriptures tell us first Corinthians 10 says this.

For I don't want you to be unaware brothers that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud in the sea. Yeah, you see the the crossing of the Red Sea is type and shadow of baptism.

And let me kind of flesh this out for you as far as how it how it works. So If you think of it think of Pharaoh as a stand-in for the devil, right. We're all born according to scriptures dead and trespasses and sins and we are under the dominion of darkness.

We are enslaved to the devil. So, you know. So think of Pharaoh as a stand-in as a symbol of the devil and then you know God setting his people through free, you know through mighty acts of judgment.

You know kind of culminating in the tenth plague. Which is the Passover and you think that Passover lamb clearly is pointing to Christ. And the idea then is is that anybody on that and that tenth plague, you know, the firstborn would all die Unless their house had on the door had the the blood of the Lamb over it.

You know, he said that sounds a lot like Jesus, right? Because that's all type and shadow pointing to Christ. So now you got the children of Israel. They have they have fled they've been able to escape from Egypt, but that despotic Leader that Pharaoh who's a stand-in for the devil.

He's not thrilled with the fact that the these slaves have got away so he's gonna chase them and pursue them overcome them and and destroy them and they are saved by passing through water while The Egyptians when they try it, you know God causes the sea to collapse in on them and they all die and so you have the old ultimate destruction of the devil in water kind of so Salvation through water is a major theme of the Old Testament.

You can see that that same theme again in The story of Noah and the flood. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's another type and shadow of baptism. Peter himself in first Peter 3 makes that connection. So if you're if you really want to understand what's going on in the crossing of the Red Sea your participation in that was actually when you were baptized into Christ and You were set free from the dominion of darkness read Romans 6 that'll kind of help flesh this out.

Manipulating the Crowd with a False Application

So apparently Furtick is no clue about this idea that scripture interpret scripture. And so he's now engaging in Narcissus and watch where he goes next because this is just awful.

Please be seated. How many of you 2018 didn't go like you planned for it to go messed up your workout plan. And your knees started hurting. You were paying off some stuff and then your transmission and plan for that.

Which is why of course I don't come up here and do the predictable Preaching maneuver. Where I challenge you to make a New Year's resolutions because Resolutions are cheap. Resilience is priceless.

Okay, resolutions are cheap. Resilience is priceless. What did that have to do with the crossing of the Red Sea? I'm gonna fast forward just a little bit so you can kind of see how he ends up working this text.

But man, this is weird. We continue.

Now we're at the text in verse 26 where the Lord said to Moses Stretch out your hand. I'm so excited to share this with you. God showed me something this week. That was so cool because.

That's a manipulation technique right there. Yeah. When a preacher says, oh God showed me something. Yeah, like this is some kind of like inspired Interpretation. I'll beware of that guy. Yeah, cuz I'm pretty sure God didn't show him what he's about to tell you.

But we continue. First time Moses stretched out his hand.

Which had a staff in it the sea parted so that the Israelites could go through. So that they could walk through what they shouldn't have been able to walk through. Now there are some things that God did in your life this year.

With a strong east wind.

That if he didn't so you're gonna note that he understands that the Old Testament is type in shadow. It's a symbol of something but he thinks it's a symbol of something. Like, you know some ordeal you went through last year last week or last month.

No. No. No, no, no, that is a twisting of God's Word. Do those things.

You wouldn't have been able to go through within yourself. Come on a minute within your own strength with your DNA and With your dad and your mom and their genes still kicking around in a cage fight inside of you.

You would not have gone through it. You would have stopped in the middle of it and you would have drowned. But one thing about God is.

He In Exodus 14 which of the Israelites stopped in the middle of the sea and then drowned by accident, you know. What are you doing.

Is only known by the evidence of what he does he is not experienced directly. The Bible says that the reason they went through is because a wind blew from the east and made the waters. Stand at attention so that the people could go through now.

You can't see wind you can only see the effects of the wind. You ask me how I know God is real. I can't point to his nose or his ears. I've never heard his audible voice, but there are just some things in my life that don't make sense.

Unless there was a wind blowing.

Exegesis Versus Narcissistic Eisegesis

Yeah, yeah, I know I'm having a hard time here resisting the temptation to talk about, you know, my self-made manufactured winds. What on earth is this? And why are people standing up? I mean this lady in the center here, you know, she's oh.

She looks like she's ready to pray to Stephen for this. You guys are being fed horse manure. This is not an exodus 14 means at all, why are you standing on your feet acting like you're receiving? Manna from heaven from this guy.

These are turd biscuits. There are just some things. How about you. There are just some things that I went through. That I know me and I would not have had the grace to go through it if there hadn't been something working with me.

We're all at the Hammond b3 man. We go man. He's supposedly preaching. He ain't preaching. I don't know what this is. It's it's a form of manipulation. He's just working him up into a frenzy. They don't know what they're really clapping about anyway, cuz he ain't saying nothing that makes any sense.

Now, let's get into the text. This is a good part. Touch somebody say come through so Moses is stretching out his staff so the people can. Oh, yeah, I'm trying to get you tonight. You got to come through.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to get you tonight to.

To come through total manipulation. This guy's not knows how to work a crowd.

Oh, I think it would be a shame for you to be stuck in an inferior version of yourself. Clutching on to a beta blessing when there is an update available in this house. Oh.

I'm clutching on to a beta blessing and there's an update available in 2019. Where do I press the download button? Oh Man this guy is Scratching their ears telling them what they want to hear and they're just sitting there eating it up is pig slop, man.

Tonight by the Spirit of God. So I'm trying to get you to come through. But by the time verse 26 hits they've already done that. Yeah, they're already on the other side. Yeah, they already came. I mean you already you already made it through 2018.

You don't have to come to a church for that. The odds are good.

The Red Sea Is Not About Your Personal Ordeal

Exodus 14 has nothing to do with whatever you came through in 2018.

You wouldn't have died over these three hours that you're gonna be in church. You were good. That's not why you came that is not why you came and sometimes We get so focused on Whatever we went through and it makes sense because it's traumatic.

Yeah, I get it. Well, I really don't. I shouldn't say that that's not fair for me to say cuz I don't know what you went through. So how dare me stand up here and say I know what you I? Don't know. I.

Know what I would. You just exegete? No, you don't know how to exit you do you? Yeah, that's problem. Yeah, you went to a good seminary. You'd think you'd learn how to engage in exegesis there through.

This year and It wasn't all stuff that you could see like this water that was on either side of the Israelites. To me it'd be easier if Everybody could watch you go through what you went through so they could have some pity on you and be extra nice to you.

Give you extra sprinkles on your cupcakes because after all If I went through what you went through I'd be in a bad mood, too. Wouldn't be cool if everybody could see what you went through and they could experience, you know, it'd be nice.

But every storm that we survived this year wasn't something that other people could see.

Again Exodus 14 has nothing to do with that.

It's one thing when you walk through something physical like certain things you go through. People see you going through it. It's like man. I I Heard your husband has cancer. We got you and pray for you.

We're gonna Let me get through this together. You're gonna come through this we're gonna do it. When when you lose your job, you know people hear about that. Maybe you don't even want them to but they hear about it.

And then it's kind of embarrassing on one hand because everybody's coming up. Yeah again Exodus 14. It ain't about having cancer. It's not about losing your job. Nope.

No, we're praying for you. If you need anything, let us know. I know you're going through right now and although that's a little humiliating on one hand It's helpful on the other because then you get to be the beneficiary of other people's empathy and maybe even their material support.

What's a little different is when the thing that you went through? isn't something that you can point to and Directly name because sometimes I find myself going through things That that aren't like the Red Sea I.

Have never gone through anything. Even remotely like the Red Sea. Like not even close, you know. And I've never been honest. Well, maybe the submarine ride at Disneyland. Does that count? Yeah I've been through you know.

They see the different seas in the Magic Kingdom. Is that what you mean?

It's not something I can Exactly describe to you. No. No, did you ever go through something? And while you were going through it, you didn't even know what it was. Yeah.

Sure, why not? I don't know what this has to do with Exodus 14, but sure I'll play along just.

Just a phone. Just a thing. Yeah, just some stuff stuff just I'm going through. I Even tell some people that from time to time that that pray for me. I'm like, I'm just going through I.

Can't even name it. Yeah, just you know, just through. Just leave it as a preposition. I'm just going through. Won't tell you what I can't. I couldn't even tell you. I don't know. I'm just going through.

They what I don't even know it's like it's like a it's like the Bible describes the arrow by day or the terror at night and Sometimes the thing about what you go through in the night is you can't exactly see it to name it or to know what it is and In the passage that I'm preaching from tonight.

They were they were going through. What they went through was able to be seen visibly. But maybe what you went through this year wasn't maybe.

Final Rebuke and Closing Appeal

What I'm going through right now is a whole pile of false teaching. Big it's it's like the Brown Sea smells bad, too. Unfortunately, I need a shovel cuz it's not partin for me. Good night. What? a load of Scoobalon, yes whole thing was just that.

So yeah, that's what we call Narcissus when you totally misidentify What the with the Old Testament types and shadows are pointing to a Red Sea is not pointing to some invisible thing that you went through this year or some difficult time or any of that kind of stuff.

First Corinthians 10. First Corinthians 10 makes it clear. It's it's it's a type and shadow of baptism. Yeah, so if you found this helpful, yeah, go ahead and hit the subscribe button ring the bell and don't forget to share this With other people so that they can be warned about this Bible test twisting technique.

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Amen.