Rick Warren on TBN / John MacArthur Responds to Driscoll Sword Swallower / Man Centered Pragmatism

Hello in this video we're going to be looking at statements made by Rick Warren on Trinity Broadcast Network.

TBN is spreading the prosperity gospel all around the world.

It's a man -centered message where basically if you just have faith and send in your money to the guys

on TV God will bless you with health and wealth prosperity.

And of course, this is what people want to hear.

This is a generation that loves self so we can't preach the gospel and magnify

Christ.

No, we have to kind of blend that together with this promise of money and you

know success and good health.

This is what everybody wants.

So that's why it sells, you know, it's it's all about it's all about you.

It's not about God.

It's about you know, if it's about God, it's what God can do for you.

You know your best life now your purpose -driven life.

It's all the same Kind of thing.

So let's listen to what Rick Warren has to say and we'll ask, you know, is this biblical watch?

So the books all about all five purposes.

The most important one though and I want to say it here is The first one that your number

one purpose in life is to let God love you.

Oh my goodness, not for you to love God, but to let God love you.

Now, let me explain this from cover to cover in this book from Genesis Revelation.

The Bible says the whole reason the universe exists is God wanted a family.

God wanted a family.

All right.

So the first statement that it's not about you loving God the most important thing

is Allowing God to love you.

Well, if it's number one if it's really the most important thing there should be at least I don't know one or two Bible

verses that say that of course Rick Warren doesn't quote a Bible verse.

Because the Bible doesn't say that anywhere.

He's literally just making it up and Matt crouches there and he's like wow.

Whoa.

He's.

He pretends like that's the most profound thing he's ever heard so that is not true the

the most important thing for a person to do is Basically repent believe on the Lord Jesus

Christ.

That's the most important thing and then from there we worship God.

We love God we serve God.

But Rick Warren has twisted it around to make it a man -centered Message and he did that with the next thing

where he said that the reason why God created.

It's not because God wanted to glorify himself.

It's not because God Wanted to create man in his own image who he knew would fall and then

Christ would redeem This people and God could give the church as a love gift from

father to son.

It's not about you know God and Jesus no, it's you know, God wanted a family see it's about you now.

Where does the Bible say that it doesn't?

So It's more of the same where these guys and I've talked about this before how the local church

is being replaced by the megachurches.

And what are they doing?

Well, they realize that we're living in a generation that Does not know God

men, you know Paul prophesied about this in the latter days.

You know perilous times would come men would be lovers of self and people don't want to go

To this church building where they worship God and hear sermons about Jesus and no they

don't want that.

They don't want to sing hymns glorifying to the Lord.

So the hymns are out the window and in comes the rock band.

The verse by verse preaching through the Bible now, we don't want that.

They bring in a self -help motivational message.

So that's how the local churches are being replaced with these megachurches, which they really are a

corporation and it's not God -centered it's man -centered and that's how they appeal to

so many people just like the prosperity gospel appeals to people because Everybody wants health and

wealth and by the way, the video that Rick Warren is on here that I got straight from the TBN

YouTube channel, it's a fundraising video.

It's about making money.

Rick Warren is selling his new book.

It's about making money and they don't make money by you know, and listen, there's nothing wrong with making

money and There's nothing wrong with someone being compensated for the work

of ministry.

But when people twist the Bible when they lie about God when they distort the teachings of the

Bible.

That's where we have a problem and that's what the prosperity gospel does and that's what Rick Warren is doing.

He's turning it into you know, a God thing.

Christianity is about Christ.

And he's he's flipping that around to make it all about you.

And sometimes these guys these megachurches are a little more blatant about it.

For example, watch this clip from Joel and Victoria Osteen.

Okay, so I think you're getting the point Rick Warren saying that the most important thing is not it's not

loving God.

It's allowing God to love you.

We need to say yeah said no verse ever the Bible doesn't say that so in Conclusion

if you want to learn more about the Lord if you want to learn More about the Bible get into a

good local Bible believing church.

Stay away from these megachurches.

Are there a couple megachurches out there that are handling the Word of God properly?

Probably yeah, I think there are a few.

But Saddleback Church is not one of them.

Rick Warren is not a guy you want to listen to not if you want the truth.

And now here are the statements from John MacArthur.

This is from the for the valley Bible conference the Q &A panel posted by the

Grace Church of the Valley YouTube channel, so here are the comments and then we'll close the program.

It's just kind of continued.

We've begin to see more and more riffs within

Evangelicalism at large so just to kind of start us off.

What I would like to hear from you is is how do we sort through those things?

How do we sort through those different issues in terms of what things?

Are things that we you know break fellowship over.

What kinds of things are things where we can put our arms around someone and say Hey, this is a brother.

We just disagree on This doctrinal point or this issue, so how do you sort through those different issues,

and how do you navigate relationships?

Within the family of faith.

Where we maybe don't fully align on issues.

I.

Would say I would say first of all that it's

It's important to understand that this culture encroaches

on Everybody in a massive way.

So that people are making decisions not based upon scripture.

But it based upon how they think they can successfully engage the culture.

So they're not willing to offend the culture.

That they want to give in to the culture as if.

And this is kind of what I'm addressing in the last two session if if if you're

if you think that your ability to Accept the culture and have the culture accept

you has anything to do with the advance of the kingdom of God.

You're mistaken.

But that's what drives it.

They're.

They don't want to offend the culture.

Needlessly and that needlessly can extend far beyond what it ought to.

So at that point There is necessarily going to be a shift

in the intensity of relationships.

It doesn't change how I feel about people whether I Consider

them friends have affection for them but obviously

When everything is publicly discussed on the internet.

It's easy for people to appear to be pitted against each other.

But I don't want you know, any anything that is not a cardinal issue.

I don't want to be the guy that broke fellowship with a

fellow believer a brother in Christ, but at the same time I I can't

give in to the culture.

The culture has no influence on Me in terms of

what I understand my ministry to be.

But it does have an it.

I mean, this is the legacy of pragmatism been around for 20 years or more.

Being pragmatic.

You're trying to reach the unconverted by some form of

technique or style.

It's it's gotten so severe now.

You saw probably some of the stuff on the internet about Easter Sunday services.

There were just more than one of them was recently was a sword swallower a male stripper or something like that.

Yeah, I mean, where's the end to that as if that had anything to do with the kingdom at

all?

So I think The first breach comes when people feel like they have to give in to the

culture that was huge with CRT and the the

racial hustlers and the race baiters.

They they wreaked havoc in in evangelical leadership.

Because people caved into that.