F4F | Andrew Wommack's False Doctrine of Purpose

The Show Opens by Framing Andrew Wommack’s Teaching on God’s Will

Welcome to another installment of fighting for the faith. My name is Chris Roseboro. I am your servant in Jesus Christ. This is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God.

So quick question. Have you ever been told that you you God has a very specific and unique destiny purpose for you to fulfill. But then again, you're not exactly sure what it is and how you go about figuring out how to find out what it is.

Stuff and thingies, but it's a very and you can miss it. You could like totally miss God's entire purpose for your life. You've ever heard that. Go ahead. Hit the subscribe button down below. Don't forget to like the video and what we're gonna do today and let me whirl up the desktop here and we're gonna head over to the the ministry YouTube channel for Andrew Womack.

Andrew Womack and We're gonna be listening to the first installment of a multi-week series that he's doing on a book that he wrote think about that and How to find how to follow and how to fulfill God's will now, by the way talking about God's will.

That's a biblical topic. The question on the table is is Andrew Womack teaching us What the Bible says regarding God's will for our lives. You know so many people, you know, they they think that you know, there I there I am.

I've I've got to find the unique.

Purpose.

Destiny that I have to I I've always felt that I had a special calling on my life and stuff like this. And and you're gonna note here. This is a Sneaky sneaky sneaky doctrine think of it this way. You guys remember this guy, you know, remember that guy Hermie.

Yeah Hermie from from ranking and basses, you know that Rudolph the red-nosed Reindeer, that's that's what that was. And what what would it hurt. Hermie didn't want to make toys because he had a different purpose all together.

Listen to what her answer someday. I'd like to be a dentist.

Dentist.

Okay. Yeah, you get the idea. So what happens is is that well bad teaching on Finding the will of God will have you chasing your destiny tale and Constantly trying to go in circles and figure out what is God's destiny for me?

The Bible talks about what God's will is for Christians and what we're created in Christ Jesus to do and Oddly enough. It's not for a specific.

Unique.

Purpose.

Nope not at all. In fact, let's let's let.

Andrew Womack. Spin this out a little bit. Shall we welcome to our Monday's broadcast of the gospel truth today? I am really excited to start sharing with you about how to find follow and fulfill God's will.

He just happened. Has he happened to have merchandise on this. Okay. All right. I've got a book on this.

This has been out quite a while and I have seen lots of people's lives touched through this. In my own personal testimony is that this is what got me to seeking the Lord and.

I'm gonna be sharing. Oh, so his personal testimony is gonna play into this now a little bit of a note here. I'm gonna go ahead and speed this up just a smidge just a smidge. Not because of copyright, you know.

But because we have a lot of ground that we need to cover. So you should be able to still understand him pretty well. He's one of these word-of-faith heretics and it just seems like the nicest guy ever but here's the thing if we're gonna have a biblical doctrine about discovering God's purpose for your life unique and Individual destiny kind of thing.

What are we gonna need in order for a doctrine to be biblical? You have to actually have biblical texts that teach it and this is where he's super sneaky, but that's alright. We'll we'll we'll note how he's smuggling things in here and then we'll take a look at a large portion of scripture as it relates to what God's will is for us as Christians and It ain't gonna be any of this stuff he says but let's let him keep going here.

Shall a lot of things but I'm excited about this because I really believe and I'm gonna be giving you scriptures to verify everything I say but just as a way of introduction. I believe that God has a perfect plan for every single one of you.

I'm perfect plan in an imperfect sinful world.

Okay know that based on the Word of God and I also know that most people are not really doing what God has called them To do. They let life kind of control them and just push them.

So already we're up to a bad start. We're one minute 22 seconds into this teaching and he's making the claim that oh man. There's people out there that God has a perfect plan for their life, but they're not living it.

And so what does this do to the person who's? Falling for this Answer it's creating anxiety within them. I want you to think about it this way. So there you are. You're a husband. You've been married for five years to your lovely bride and in that first five years of your marriage you've had two children one's a toddler one still an infant and.

At this point you're still you don't have enough money saved up for a down payment on a house. So maybe you're living in a condo or an apartment you get the idea. But what are you doing? You're you're working super hard you you get into your.

Car.

Every single weekday and you commute to work or maybe for the past couple years because of kovat. You've been commuting via zoom, right? But you that means you have to get up you have to do your thing and you put in the work and there you are.

Slaving away, you know your clock in your clock out you Submit your TPS reports you do your things that you're supposed to do and at the end of the day you get in your car or Commute to the living room because of you know, zoom and what do you do your kids?

They need help with you know, they need help with all kinds of things. You know when they're at that age where there's diapers to change those bedrooms to clean there's laundry to do. There's meals to be made.

There's oh man, and you got to get them ready for bed. And then you got bedtime stories and of course, you got to have some, you know. Quality time with their kids and play with them and stuff and there you are.

You know, you're you're your day-to-day existence is super predictable and.

Mundane oh.

Man, and what are you doing? You're working hard working yourself to the bone. How shall I put it biblically toiling By the sweat of your brow in order to put food on the table to care for your wife to care for your children and.

Somebody like Andrew Womack comes along and there you are. You know you fall for this thing and you sit there and go, you know. What what if I've missed my purpose and that God all along wanted me to be a dentist?

You know. And so what happens is is that you start to get this niggle. You start to get this doubt you start to get This thing, you know, I I've got to be made for something more than this. Because this is so much and anybody can do this you know.

And and so what ends up happening is is that you know, you fall for this and you're going to despise being Married. You're going to despise the fact that your children and in having to support them may in fact be getting in the way of.

You.

Having that purpose that God wanted you to give get wanted to give to you and oh You what do you do? And so this is this is satanic the best way I can put it because when you understand what God's will is for you.

It's laid out pretty clearly in Scripture. You'll never think that way again, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's keep going here.

God’s Will Is Not a Secret Unique Destiny

Shall we in whatever direction. It's kind of like water, you know. They just always seeks the lowest level. Whatever is the easiest is what most people go for but God's will for your life is never going to be the easy thing to do.

Says who? God what will are you specifically? Specifying.

That makes sense. Yes is what most people go for but God's will for your life is never going to be the easy thing to do. It's gonna be something you have to pursue if you don't pursue it.

You won't get it. But if you don't pursue it, you won't get it. Can you imagine how awkward that'll be? Yeah, there you are. You stand before Jesus on the Day of Judgment and Jesus looks at you and says oh.

Man.

You blew it. Here I you could have changed the world and instead you were changing diapers. Oh You you didn't pursue my purpose for your life and so you got like fifth best, right?

Hmm God has a purpose for every single one of you and I tell you it's only when you discover that purpose that you will Really find true satisfaction joy and peace and I'm saying this in love here.

But there so you have to find your purpose to have joy and peace and satisfaction.

Are some people watching this program. That you are dissatisfied and you're trying to use everything that you know from God's Word to rejoice and to be happy and yet you're Dissatisfied you just can't figure it out.

Sometimes it's because.

You know.

You just take your eyes off of the Lord and stuff. But some of you are seeking the Lord and are still dissatisfied and one of the reasons is Because you aren't in that spot that God has for you. There is right you're out of position man.

You're you're you haven't discovered the unique specific purpose that God had for you.

Such a thing as a holy dissatisfaction. And this is one of the ways that God motivates you towards fulfilling his will is that you just won't find that true happiness and peace And satisfaction until you are in the center of God's will, you know, let me give you a.

So you got to pursue this man.

You got to get in the center of God's will and once you get there, you'll you'll lose the holy dissatisfaction. Which biblical text says these things? There isn't one. No biblical text says any of the illustration of this in my own personal life.

So we're gonna go with an illustration from his personal life. Oh. We can't possibly go wrong that way can. I've used this before but for me.

It's just one of those moments in my life. That is one of the greatest things I ever experienced.

But well Andrew Womack's life is not the Bible. It's not the Word of God and it's not where we're supposed to go to find Christian doctrine.

I went to Charlotte, North Carolina for 32 years. I believe it was in a row every September and I had a partner there that owned a business with about 30 35 Employees and he would always invite me to come speak to his employees.

He would tell them the clocks run and you just listen to this guy talk as long as he wants me I'm paying you and you listen and then after it was over I'd go to the break room.

Yeah, when the theology and the doctrine that you're creating depends upon your personal life experiences. Yeah, you got a big problem.

This isn't this isn't a biblical doctrine and I'd pray with people if they had problems and we saw lots of people saved and Healed and miracles happened and it was good. Anyway, one time when I did that I walked out after finishing ministering to the people.

And there was an oriental woman that was sitting at this front desk. And she wasn't back there with the rest of them. And so I asked her I said so who are you and she told me your name and I said how come you weren't back With the rest of the employees and she says well I'm the new kid on the block and they left me here to answer the phone.

She says what did you do back there? And I told her what we did and she says and who are you and I told her my name and she says what do you? Do. And I said, I'm a minister and she her eyes got big and she said for who and I said for the Lord Jesus Christ and man.

She looked at me and she says you're the one and I said I'm the one what? And she told me that she was a Buddhist and the previous night She had been going through her rituals and she just stopped right in the middle of it and she started praying and she says God I know that you exist, but this can't be it and she says who are you?

She says reveal yourself to me and she said that this ball of light came in front of her and it was just pulsating. And she heard an audible voice that said tomorrow I will send you a man who will tell you who I am.

And she says you're the one and I said man, I am the one and I got To lead this lady to the Lord and prayed with her to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and his joy.

Yeah, there's only one Lord one faith and one baptism and the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

It's the second baptism and it ain't a biblical since that was to see her life change. When I got out to my car I couldn't even go anywhere for a while. I just sat there praising God thinking God I was in the right place at the right time.

I was in the center of his will.

So you you want to be in the center of God's will don't you just like Andrew Womack is he knew I'd be there?

And I tell you the reason I told that story is to say that there is such a satisfaction.

And a joy that. Are you dissatisfied? Do you have holy dissatisfaction thinking there's got to be more to life than this?

The Claim That God’s Will Must Be Pursued to Find Satisfaction

Okay comes of knowing that you aren't just doing your thing and asking God to bless it.

You aren't just doing your thing and asking God to bless it. Where do the apostles and disciples.

Talk like this.

Nowhere, but to know that you are doing exactly what God created you to do is something that defies explanation. You just nearly have to experience it and there's somebody watching this program right now that you're.

You love God. You're born again. You're seeking God. You're asking God to use you and to bless you and you're trying to.

Note the self-centeredness of this here.

This is.

This is a doctrine that appeals to narcissists live a Christian life and influence other people. And there's still a dissatisfaction. In your life, and I believe there's multiple reasons. But one big reason is because many of you aren't exactly where God called you to be.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, I don't think anybody is because of sin. My personal testimony is that when God. My personal testimony, so no this theology is really hugely dependent on. What?

His personal life experience. It has revealed his will to me. It has never been the easy thing to do.

So has God revealed his will for your life to you? I mean, you've got to go through steps and things you got it. You know step one and step two and you got to really be intentional about step three and four.

Whatever they are. And then once you do those steps, then God will finally say congrat. Congratulations, I'm gonna now reveal and speak to you your Destiny. And you're going to be a dentist.

It's like I have to see it and then I have to pursue it and Satan marshals all of his forces against me as we Go through this series. I'm gonna be using a lot of personal testimonies and I'll yeah, I know that's the big problem.

I'll share stories with you. But I tell you Satan has done everything he could to stop me from fulfilling God's will in my life. It hasn't been easy. Right. Yeah, I'm not saying it's bad. I'm not saying it's terrible.

It's a but I'm just saying it's a fight. It's worth the fact the victory is well worth the fight, but doing God's will isn't the easiest thing and I yeah.

What is God's will by the way? I'll just throw it out there because I biblical text it'll explain to you exactly what God's will is and What we are made to do as Christians and it's not to find a unique purpose.

You'll note this whole theology depends on you going through the steps where God finally says good job. Now I'm going to reveal to you why you're here and And then and it's gonna be like an audible voice or a vision or a dream and you'll finally by earning it Get that that voice from God will say here's my best plan for you and everything else is less than best.

No biblical text teaches this. I believe that most people have just let circumstances in this life dictate to them and Control their things. Many people, you know. Their future was planned for him by their parents and they did what was expected of them.

Took over the family business. How many biblical texts are we into at this point? None. Seven minutes in no biblical text. How much you want to bet the ones that show up are out of context.

That's what God wants you to do. That's just fine. I'm saying sometimes people have plans for you and you just head in that direction. Like a sheep to the slaughter not realizing it.

So you can head and head like a sheep to the slaughter. Sounds terrible man. You know just oh good night. God has a special unique purpose for you.

But you've been led to the slaughter and you're not a dentist. God has a special plan for every single one of you.

Where does it say that in the Bible? Now, here's what we're gonna jump off. All right, so where we're gonna go first, we're gonna go to Ephesians chapter 2. Ephesians chapter 2 and this is a good place to go because we actually have a specific Sentence in this portion of Ephesians chapter 2 that explains what all Christians are created in Christ Jesus to do every single one of us.

So here's what the Apostle Paul says in this wonderful ten verses. Here you Paul writing to Christians in the at the Church of Ephesus and Reminding them of what they were before they were Christians.

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked following the course of this world following the Prince of the power of the air the spirit that is now at work in the sins of Disobedience among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh Carrying out the desires of the body and the mind.

And we were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind. You'll know that. This verse I go to with with some frequency here verse 3 says we were by nature children of wrath. That's how we know that in verse 1 that we were born dead and trespasses and sins.

None is righteous. No, not one.

All right.

So we were conceived and we were by nature because of our conception. Having inherited a sinful nature from Adam and Eve. We were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind. Now a little bit of a note here.

There's a word that in here and the word is walked. Okay in which you once walked and this is a Hebraism. All right, the Greek word is peripate. Oh and The Apostle Paul is kind of thinking through biblical texts in the Old Testament That use the Greek not the Greek the Hebrew word halak halak, which means to walk.

But it's not talking about, you know, grabbing your backpack and then walking from your door to the bus stop. It's talking about how you conduct your life. And this is gonna be an important word because we'll note that there's a there's a logic to this passage.

Verse 1 and verse 10 Mirror each other in thought but it's the opposite. So this is what we call a Hebrew chiasm. So you were dead in the trespasses and sins in what you once conducted your life following the course of this world following the Prince of the power of the air the spirit that is now at work in the sons of Disobedience among whom we all once lived how in the passions of our sinful flesh.

Carrying out the desires of the body and the mind and we were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind.

But.

God being rich in mercy Because of the great love with which he loved us. Even when we were dead in our trespasses God made us alive together with Christ. By grace You have been saved and God raised us up with him and seated us up with him in the heavenly places.

So that in the coming ages, he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. Now watch these next verses. For by grace you have been saved through faith. This is not your own doing It's the gift of God Not the result of works so that no one may boast.

And here comes We are God's workmanship. Watch next. Created in Christ Jesus for what. For good works. And You know created in Christ Jesus. So Katase this is tough.

KT.

This Fenton tests and Christo yesu epi ergo is Agatha is good works. Ergo is is plural. You are not created in Christ Jesus as a Christian for a unique destiny a unique Purpose. You are created in Christ Jesus for plural Good works, which then begs the question What are the good works.

And watch this you were created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God? Prepared Beforehand that we should Conduct our lives peripate. Oh Halakh walk in them. So everybody who is a Christian is Created in Christ Jesus for good works.

How then do we determine what a good work is? Well, we see this at the tail end of the Epistle Ephesians 5 says. Therefore be imitators of God as Beloved children and watch the word walk. Conduct your lives in Love as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and a sacrifice to God.

So here we can then see. All right, Paul's gonna explain again How the the passions of our sinful flesh and the things were not to be walking in? The things we walked in before we were Christians and Give us the other side of it.

The good works that we are to walk in and conduct our lives in so he goes on but sexual immorality all impurity Covetousness must not be even be named among you as is proper among the Saints. Let there be no filthiness or foolish talk nor crude joking which are out of place instead.

Let there be Thanksgiving for you may be sure of this that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure or whose Covetous not as an idolater has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. So let no one deceive you with empty words for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Therefore do not become partners with them for at one time you were darkness. But now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light. So no, why do Christians do good works. Because they are already Christians.

You are a child of the light. Walk as a child of the light. Be what you are in Christ. This calls by that can only be done by faith through the power of the Holy Spirit. So for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true.

And Try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness. But rather expose them it is shameful to speak of the things that they do in secret. But when anything is exposed by the light it becomes visible for anything that becomes visible is light.

Therefore it says awake. Oh sleeper rise from the dead. Christ will shine on you. So then look carefully how you. Here it is again. Walk how you conduct your life. We are created in Christ Jesus for good works.

Which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. So look carefully then how you walk not as unwise but as wise. Making the best use of the time because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish understand what the will of the Lord is.

All right. So what's the will of the Lord answer? Don't get drunk with wine. That's debauchery. Be filled with the Spirit. Addressing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing making melody to the Lord with your heart.

Giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord for the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of The church his body and his is himself its Savior now as the church submits to Christ.

So also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands pay attention here because I would it always irritates me that. Certain men seem to think that these are the only verses that exist when in marital relationships.

You'll note there are two three set. There are three verses here three. Husbands have a lot more than that. So you husbands pay attention. This is the will of the Lord. Husbands love your wives how as Christ loved the church.

Sacrificially. You want to know what real patriarchy looks like. Real love looks like look at Christ on the cross and bleeding and dying for the sins of his bride. But that wouldn't sink in husband husbands.

Love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her so that he might sanctify Her having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word so that he might present the church to himself in splendor without spot or wrinkle or any such thing so that she might be holy and Without blemish in the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.

He who loves his wife loves himself. So note here. We are created in Christ Jesus For good works, which God prepared ahead of time that we should walk in them and here we have text. Teaching us guess what?

It is the will of God the good works that you conduct in your life begin in your vocations as wife as Husband, you'll see as children as employees and employers. In other words the good works that Christ would have you do you're doing them in those vocations.

Mm-hmm. So you you don't need to go and earn to hear the voice of God to learn what your unique purpose is if God has made you a husband or a wife or a father or a.

Mother.

The good works that Christ would have you do. You're doing them. Changing diapers nappies, whatever you call them wherever you are in the world. Commuting going to work and earning a living, you know taking care of your children in the in their bodily needs in their Emotional and in you know emotional and spiritual needs.

Helping them with homework. These are all the good works that God calls you to do. That's the point here. So in the same way husband should love their wives as their own body. He who loves his wife loves himself.

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it just as Christ does the church. In other words Christ wills the good work. The will of God for you husbands is to cherish and to love your wife.

Sacrificially the way Christ has loved us. So because we are members of his body. Therefore man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife the two shall become one flesh. Now this mystery is profound and I'm saying that refers to Christ and the church.

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. Honor your father and your mother. This is the first commandment with the promise that it may go well with you that you may live long in the land fathers.

Don't provoke your children to anger but bring them up in the discipline and the instruction of the Lord. Bond servants. Obey your earthly masters. Think here, you know employers and employees. You know.

So I'll obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling with a sincere heart as you would Christ. Not by way of I service as people pleasers, but as bond servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart.

Rendering service with a goodwill as to the Lord and not to man. Knowing that whatever good anyone does this he will receive back from the Lord whether he is a bond servant or is a free. Masters do the same to them and stop threatening.

Knowing that he who is both their master and yours is in him is in heaven and that there is no partiality with him. What's the will of God for you? Love your neighbor and your vocation according to this and you're gonna note that Peter yeah, that guy Peter, you know who denied Christ three times and then was restored and Forgiven by Christ.

Listen to what he writes in his epistle. Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ. Pay close attention. Christ commissioned him to write these words for us.

All right.

May grace and peace be multiplied to you blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to his great mercy He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

To an inheritance that is imperishable undefiled and unfading kept in heaven for you who by God's power You are being guarded through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time in this.

Then you rejoice though now for a little while if necessary. You have been grieved with various troubles or trials so that the tested genuineness of your faith Which is more precious than gold that perishes though It is tested by fire may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Though you have not seen him. You love him though. You do not now see him you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and Filled with glory obtaining the outcome of your faith, which is the salvation of your souls.

So.

Concerning the salvation the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating. When he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the Subsequent glories and it was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves.

But they were serving you in things that have now been announced to you. Through those who preach the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven things into which even the angels long to look.

Therefore. Preparing your minds for action and being sober minded. Set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Christ as obedient children. Do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance.

Note that Paul and Peter are saying the exact same thing just with different words. Do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance. But as he who called you is holy. You also be holy in your conduct since it is written You shall be holy for I am holy.

And if you call on him as father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds. Conduct yourselves then with fear throughout the time of your exile knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways.

Inherited from your forefathers not with perishable things such as silver or gold. But with the precious blood of Christ like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these in the last times for your sake.

Who through him you are believers in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory so that your faith and hope are in God. So then having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth think belief in Christ for the forgiveness of your sins for a sincere brotherly love love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

Since you have been born again. Not of perishable seed but of imperishable through the living and abiding Word of God. For all flesh is like grass and all of its glory like the flower of grass and the grass withers and the flower falls.

But the Word of the Lord remains forever and this word is the good news that was preached to you. So put away all malice all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and slander like newborn infants long for the pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up into Salvation if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good and as you come to him a living stone rejected by men.

But in the sight of God chosen and precious you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ for it stands in Scripture behold I am laying in Zion a stone a cornerstone chosen and precious.

Whoever believes in him will not be put to shame. So the honor is for you who believe but for those who do not believe. The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.

They stumble because they disobey the word as they were destined to do but you are a chosen race. You are a royal priesthood. You are a holy nation a people for his own possession. So that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.