The WORST Group of False Teachers

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What do all of these pastors have in common? They are the pastors and teachers most associated with a radical movement called the

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New Apostolic Reformation. The New Apostolic Reformation. The N .A .R. is the New Apostolic Reformation.

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The New Apostolic Reformation Movement. Most people are already at least somewhat familiar with the

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Prosperity Gospel, which is represented by some of the most visible figures in Christianity today.

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Joel Osteen. When you do your part, God will do his part. T .D. Jakes. You can't be anointed to receive and not be anointed to give.

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When you say to God, I'm anointed to give and that I'm a channel of giving, then you and God start working together to be a point in the earth that he flows through.

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Joyce Meyer. Why would anybody want to get mad at somebody because they wanted to believe that God wanted them to be blessed or healed or to operate in the gifts of the

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Spirit? And Kenneth Copeland. He's continually bumping me in that direction, trying to get me over into my prosperity place, trying to get me over into my healing place.

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Of course, the big problem with the Prosperity Gospel is that it basically replaces teachings about sin and repentance with a guarantee that God will materially bless

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Christians who faithfully give. Instead of teaching, come to Jesus because you're a sinner who needs a

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Savior, they teach come to Jesus to live a great, fulfilling, prosperous life.

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Because what I would teach would just be more how to live a great life. You better believe the topic was not the gospel.

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The topic was not, you know, come and have your sins forgiven. Come and repent and believe.

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No, you know what it was. Come get your blessing. Come get your miracle. Come get your deliverance.

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Come get your and the list goes on and on. These are the things that thousands flock to.

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And, of course, the Prosperity Gospel is really bad. But what if I told you that there was a movement that takes everything wrong with the

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Prosperity Gospel and takes it to an even further extreme? Welcome to the

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New Apostolic Reformation, or the NAR. The New Apostolic Reformation movement, this is kind of an offshoot of the

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Word of Faith movement. It's everything that Word of Faith is, even worse. The NAR movement is unique from the

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Prosperity Gospel in a few significant ways. First, an unbiblical view of miracles, signs, and wonders today.

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They have even more emphasis on miracles and signs and wonders. Take a look at this scene from Bethel Church, where Bill Johnson pastors.

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Anyone who is at all familiar with the Bible should recognize that this kind of crazy, uncontrolled behavior is completely foreign to Scripture.

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So why do radical, charismatic Christians like these do this kind of thing? The answer is pretty simple.

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They think this kind of crazy behavior displays the power of the Holy Spirit and they really don't think the

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Word of God is sufficient for the Gospel. This is also why the NAR teachers like Kenneth Copeland feel a need to pretend to heal people who are clearly not at all healed.

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It's already bad enough that Copeland completely ignores the fact that the man in the wheelchair fell over and he just tells everyone that the man is okay.

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What makes this even worse is that Copeland needs to continue pretending that he actually healed the man because Copeland needs to convey that he has a special anointing from God.

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Now, why are

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NAR pastors like Bill Johnson and Kenneth Copeland so desperate to give the impression that they are actually healing people?

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Well, one reason is because NAR leaders teach that the office of apostle still exists today.

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There's Geno Jennings, who claims to be an apostle. But God sent us.

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That's right. He sent us and gave us a divine skill.

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That's right. Just like he gave him the apostle fall. There's Kenneth Copeland, who thinks he stands in the office of a prophet of God.

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Standing in the office of the prophet of God. And here's

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Che Ahn, teaching about God calling people to be apostles today. I feel what's more important first is alignment before the assignment.

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Because what we have to do is recognize who are the ones who really are called as apostles to those various mountains.

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And here's Bill Johnson, teaching that apostles have a greater ability to perform miracles and display

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God's power. There's also the power role. They really help to set a standard of power, not just focused on apostles doing all the stuff, but really training up, raising people.

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And when you have the apostolic in place, there tends to be a greater dimension of power for miracles and for endurance.

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Both both are essential parts of display of God's power. But there's a major problem with what these

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NAR pastors teach about the office of apostle, which is that scripture is clear that the office of apostle no longer exists today.

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And it's interesting. A lot of people today will call themselves apostles. And let me say unequivocally, we have no apostles today.

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Amen. They're gone. The age of the apostles is over. There are no apostles today.

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According to the book of Ephesians, chapter two, the apostles. Right. And the prophets were the foundation upon which the church is built.

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I don't know how many foundations your house has. Mine only has one. The foundation is done.

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We do not have apostles today. The apostles have the authority to give us the scriptures. We do not have people today who have the authority to give us the scriptures.

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We do not have apostles today. If you like this video, subscribe to help spread the truth.

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Besides having an extraordinary ability to perform miracles, these so -called apostles of the

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NAR movement also supposedly have the ability to decree and declare things to be true, just like God.

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Many of them try to decree an end to COVID, such as Kenneth Copeland.

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COVID -19. I blow the wind of God on you.

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You are destroyed forever. And you will never be back.

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Chris Vallotton. So I want to make a decree against this virus right now.

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In Jesus' name, I break the power of this coronavirus. You will not have the crown.

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Jesus has the crown. He is king of kings. And so I command this virus to leave people's minds, to leave people's hearts, to leave the earth.

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Bill Johnson. We decree in Jesus' name that God will protect His church from this virus.

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Sean Bowles. And we decree that you're moving mountains. You're moving mountains in society. You're moving mountains in the spirit over this virus.

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You're moving strategy from heaven and wisdom into heaven on the earth. And we decree an end to this in Jesus' name.

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And here is Paula White declaring, well, just watch. I hear victory, victory, victory, victory in the corridors of heaven, in the corridors of heaven.

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Angels have even been dispatched from Africa right now, Africa right now. They're coming here. They're coming here.

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In the name of Jesus from South America. The big problem with what these NAR teachers are doing is that they are completely misinterpreting

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Scripture. They tend to interpret passages like Matthew 18 as teaching that Christians have this kind of power to declare and decree in this way.

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And that's what Jesus is saying. Whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound. He's saying it's already been bound.

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And if you loose him on earth because he has been forgiven, he's repented, he's been forgiven, has already been loosed in heaven.

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It's not that we pronounce something and then heaven follows suit. No. Jesus is saying if you follow these directives, whatever conclusion to which you come, heaven agrees with you.

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You can have 100 % confidence that heaven agrees with the action that is taken.

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Why? Because you followed the directives that Jesus gives in Matthew chapter 18. This has absolutely nothing to do with physical healing.

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You can take verses of Scripture out of their context and you can make the Bible say just about whatever you want it to say.

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It's got nothing to do with healing. It's got everything to do with church discipline. A key characteristic of the

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NAR movement is dominionism, which has to do with the mountains that we heard

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Che 'on reference earlier. The seven mountains of culture. What do you call to, how can you take arts and entertainment mountain or the media mountain or the government mountain?

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Dominionism is based on the idea that the world has been under the influence of Satan since the fall of man and that it is

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Christians who have the authority as well as the duty to reclaim it for God.

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As an interpretation of the Lord's prayer, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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Of course, there is certainly an element of truth in the NAR concept of dominionism. The problem is that NAR teachers teach that Christians take dominion over the earth through the exact same kind of display of miracles that Jesus and the apostles displayed.

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But as we heard from Vody earlier, the miracles, signs and wonders that Jesus and the apostles displayed serve the purpose of authenticating and establishing the word of God, which is now complete and closed.

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Christians now take dominion over the earth primarily through the proclamation of the gospel and the word of God, not through the same kinds of miracles, signs and wonders that Jesus and the apostles performed.

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Now it's obvious why the NAR movement and dominionism are so attractive to so many people.

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Many Christians have trouble believing that the Bible is truly sufficient. They think more is needed to attract people to the gospel, and so they work hard to make the gospel appear more powerful and impressive.

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If you go to a place that's been through a difficult time, you go to New Orleans after a hurricane or whatever, and you start reaching out to people, if you go and sit them down and say, let me tell you why you need to come to Jesus Christ because you're a sinner and you go through the gospel, what kind of reception are you going to get?

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You're probably going to run out of the house. It's going to be very difficult. People aren't going to buy in. But show up with food.

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Show up with clothes. They will love you. They will embrace you and say you're doing this in the name of Jesus.

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That kind of stuff is easy. What's hard is the gospel presentation. Well, I think they've captured some of this desire to change the world, which is always appealing to young people, and that's who you see in these things, young people.

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And with a kind of crazy megalomania and a kind of a vast overestimation of the power that they have, they define their eschatology.

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I don't think it comes from studying the Bible and coming up with a post -millennial view. I think it comes from egotism gone mad, and it may be aided and abetted by Satan himself.