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Doreen Virtue was a big time in the New Age movement but came to Christ several years ago. We will discover what the New Age movement is and the dangers of it.
Can you show me because we're gonna use some hermeneutics. Can you show me anywhere in the Old Testament where that word perpetual is not perpetual. Because again, I understand you're appealing again.
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There you go, I will mute you because it's not your show. You asked a question I'm gonna give you the answer. Jet. Genesis 6 for the word Olam is used referring to those who are of old Deuteronomy, I'll get just rattle off all the ones where it's used not referring to perpetual Genesis 6 for Deuteronomy 32 7 Joshua 24 to 1st Samuel 27 8 Job 22 15 Psalm 247 24 9 25 6 41 13 77 9 90 verse 2 103 verse 17 106 verse 48 119 52 1 feet of 43 3rd verse 3 Proverbs 8 23 Proverbs 22 28 Proverbs 23 10 and Ecclesiastes 110.
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That was a long time ago. We gotta get him back on. He's got a new book out. So I should do that and he got a debate actually we're someone who I can't seem to debate. The guy wanted to was very excited, but then Found out my debates and didn't want to.
I guess that was rabbi Tovia singer, but welcome to apologetics live. We should have started off that way. I am your host Andrew rap report. We're here to answer any question that you have about God and the Bible.
In fact I make the bold claim to say that I Can answer any question that you have about God and the Bible and if you doubt that? Well, my challenge to you is to come on in and give me your hardest question whatever you think I just can't possibly answer give that to me and We are gonna see and if you give me some really really hard.
I may actually say I don't know and I also believe that's a perfectly good answer. So if I answer with that I have answered your question. All right. We're gonna be talking tonight about the New Age movement with someone that I've just recently been able to get to know.
I was blessed with the privilege of being on her show and we Been I was supposed to okay. I'm gonna just I'm gonna bring her in. It's Doreen virtue, and I I'm I think I told you this Doreen, but I How when was it you did the interview with Justin Peters.
How long ago is that that would have been 2019. Yeah, cuz it was pre kovat. Yeah, that's right. So he he told me that I should have you on and I had in my to-do list since then. That I was to call you I Forget how we got hooked up.
I was like, all right, let's just talk and set this up.
Yeah, I think it had to do with the g3 conference or something oh.
So well during it's a I'm glad to have you in and for folks who don't know you don't know your background and I Want you to explain your background and like I had told you I didn't before you did that with Justin.
I didn't know anything about you and Really what got me into looking. Even looking up your background and trying to figure it out was you had Justin on and you had one of his haters Joshua Chavez, he goes by service Christy on YouTube and I Referred to him and well actually our entire evangelism team that met him in New York referred to him as the effeminate hairdresser.
Because he just came off very effeminate to all of us and he was well he managed a hairdresser hair salon and so When people can remember his name now, that's what he was referred to as. But he he he was going after Justin and it was interesting.
He took clips of your interview with Justin and because of what he did I went and watched your whole interview with Justin and Realized what he did was he was trying to claim that you were still in the New Age movement as if you're still believing in it still having dreams and things and Justin speaks against that stuff and and he was trying to say Justin went on your show and you're still believing this stuff and and You were like you were talking about stuff.
You had believed and it was years ago and Then he was taking clips of stuff that wasn't from there. You know from the that interview is really very creative editing he did we'll say. But if you listen to the whole interview in context what he said, yeah, it wasn't wasn't accurate.
But so that was that was where I first heard of you and heard a little bit of your background. But you're you may be new to to my audience. And so I'll first let give you an opportunity to share your background.
And then how did you come to know Christ?
Thank you for having me on this program and hello everybody. It's an honor to be here and I To be a born-again Evangelical Christian is a miracle. It definitely wasn't on my life list. It was all God a hundred percent our sovereign merciful God who saved me out of a lifetime of deception.
I was raised in a as a fourth-generation Christian scientist, which is neo Gnosticism and just heretical beliefs about Christ as a mortal man a created being who was a Role model for us and in my mom was basically the preacher of our church they call it a reader at Christian Science, but this is I grew up just so liberal and Heretical and I was told we were Christian because we were going to church twice a week.
I had a King James Bible we read from every day out of context and I didn't understand the old Elizabethan Language very well. And then from there, I just grew up and became a psychotherapist. I got a BA and an MA in psychology from Chapman University and I was doing psychotherapy and I wrote a bunch of Psychology books and then I was invited to become a speaker With the whole life Expo, which was this roving band of mind-body-spirit teachers who went to convention centers around North America and Gave inspirational talks and at that point I was still I was a Christian scientist.
But in my off time when I wasn't speaking I would go to Visit the booths they had on the convention room floor that were all new age and they they were like nothing I'd ever seen before there was copper brass pyramids you'd put on your head and and Chakra clearing and tie-dye this and that and and yoga and Reiki and and and I was just really curious about it.
So I started researching and talking to these folks and learning and taking classes and and the more that I would learn The more I would then share it with others and pretty soon. I was teaching this new age Material to others and I was using it myself.
So I became a Reiki master. I was a psychic I was well known for these cards that had angel images on them very similar to to row cards. And and so by the time that God saved me I was at the peak of my career, which I think is really Amazing because if I was going down in my career people could rightly say oh, she just she's a has-been She wants attention, but I was at the very peak of my new age career.
I at that point was One of the top new age teachers according to the Watkins list that came out every year and the most influential top ten most influential new age teachers and I was touring with all the New age teachers, you know the Deepak Chopra Wayne Dyer Louise.
Hey. All the famous psychics. They were my friends. We were touring all over the world together first class I was similar to Kosti Hinn's testimony where it was all limousines and first-class penthouse suites.
And you know just the living the life of like a rock star. But still thinking I was a Christian for my Christian science days still thinking that I was following Jesus and I had no idea until I finally read the Bible that I was I Was breaking God's commandments, but even more when I when I read Deuteronomy 18 I realized that I was a detestable abomination to God for practicing divination mediumship and interpreting omens and that was the moment that broke me and I was finally repentant and Knew that I was a just wretched sinner and I just prayed to God for Forgiveness and that Jesus would take over my life as my Lord and Savior.
That was late 2017 September 2017 I if I was already a public figure I was on All the time I was on YouTube and Facebook and everything and I'd written all these books and cards in the New Age. And so I I made the decision against some Discipling I should I should have gone away for three years.
It's like Paul to Arabia but I stayed in the public eye and I had super bad theology as one might expect coming out of a lifetime of Deception like that I'd also I'd been having visions my whole life and I'd had this one vision before I was saved I thought was Jesus and and of course, it's not and it just took a while for me to sort through.
I ended up going to seminary so I could learn theology the right way and I Went for two and a half years full-time to Western Seminary where I got a master's degree in biblical and theological studies.
With highest honors, which was a miracle to me because if I had gone the seminary before I was saved with my old heart I would have got straight F's. But just God revealed the gospel to me and I was so hungry I still am for his word that I just drank up seminary and just oh, it was like going to a feast and So poured myself into all these papers you have to do in seminary and learning and and just To learn how to rightly divide God's Word and also to get feedback from my professors.
Do it do I am I understanding this correctly? And and so here I am just warning people about New Age deception because after I was saved I naively thought that all churches would be pious and just biblical.
Silly me and and I was so shocked to see that so many of the churches were Identical to the mind-body-spirit festival world that I had just come out of. Where instead of calling these folks psychics on stage they called them prophets.
But they were nothing like the biblical prophets who call people to repentance. They were like the psychics saying Oh, here's your soulmate you get a promotion at work. You're they would throw in a bite this Bible verse for master.
You know, you're born for such a time as this just to they stroke people's egos. That's what psychics do and So I've just been ever since then warning people that the New Age it cannot blend with Christianity.
It's it's just it's like drinking of the cup of demons and then drinking of the cup of the Lord. You can't blend the two because New Age is all about glorifying yourself. It's all about positive affirmations.
And I'm perfect whole and complete where Christianity is a hundred percent about glorifying God. So this polar opposites can never be blended ever.
So did you have Opportunities, I mean you you're with the crock choper and these others. Did you have opportunities after you get saved to share the gospel with them?
I was I was pretty much shunned and Listed yeah. Yeah right away. I'm pretty sure my ex-publisher who fired me immediately I'm pretty sure that I would they were given a do not talk with her clause. But every now and then I hear from a New Age teacher who says to me Jesus is calling me too.
And so of course, I will pray for them and share the gospel and encourage them but it's you know, this is something that when you are successful as a New Ager or Anything like a celebrity that anything ungodly and the devil pays a lot of money to be ungodly to to leave that whole lifestyle is It it's it is all God that gives you the strength to do that.
Because I had employees I had to let go of my Family, a lot of them are still New Age and won't talk to me. My friends won't talk to me. I was laughed at by both New Agers and Christians when I first came out the New Agers laughed at me.
Because I'm now talking about this, you know the patriarch. They they think it's all patriarchal. They have a lot of arguments why Christianity can't be true and and then the Christians were laughing at me because my theology I was a baby Christian, you know just I shouldn't have been in the public eye.
And so I didn't fit in there anywhere in the beginning. The only people who friended me in the beginning were some hyper charismatics who were into Smith Wigglesworth Work and I am just so grateful to God to pointing me away from that.
Yeah, no, you know, it's interesting because we we think of the the folks that are involved in New Age and the spiritualism as being so tolerant and loving toward others. And yet just because you Had a change in your belief system.
They didn't want to talk to you.
They didn't want to talk to me and I got hate mail every day I'd get. Because I get all my mail on Instagram direct messages and I would get maybe five to ten hate letters a day on Instagram in the beginning just cussing me out from the love and light community that the day before it said that I was a goddess that God had sent me into their life because my work was comforting them.
They were so angry with me. It was really scary in the beginning and and then plus our whole life was disrupted. I'd gotten fired and so we had to give back this ranch in Hawaii that we were buying From this couple and we had to move and I had my parents that I'd been elderly parents.
I cared for them for seven years. So we had to scramble and find a place that would be good for them. And and so just it was like going to a different planet or different country for a while. And and everyone's speaking Christian ease.
I don't know that language. I know New Age language. Christians don't know it and I'm going to church in tie-dye goddess gowns, you know, my old New Age clothes. So it was so foreign to come out of all that and to be in this new culture, of course now I've I Wouldn't trade it for anything and praise the Lord.
I've got a solid church that I'm under a really solid pastor and I've got amazing Sisters in Christ who've come around me and they know my story and they still love me. I've been making Christian friends and it's such a blessing to go to the g3 conference recently in Atlanta.
Andrew that was so amazing because I used to speak in that Convention Center. I used to be on that stage as a heretic and go back there and to be receiving and Saturated in God's Word and in the worship music with we had 8 ,000 people.
They're all singing these hymns that I now know I wouldn't have known him a few years before. It was it was so heavenly to go in that atmosphere. I just loved it.
Yeah, that I can. I can occur agree with both they when I became a Christian. Yeah the Christian ease. Yeah, I did not. I still remember the first time for a Resurrection Sunday that someone walked up to me.
You know because they if you're raised in a Christian Church, you know Resurrection Sunday. You know, someone says he is risen and you're supposed to respond he is risen indeed and. So someone walked up to me, you know, he is risen and I went yes he has.
Like no, you're supposed to say this. I'm like, why am I supposed to say that? Cuz that's what you're supposed to say. But why am I supposed to say? I'd have feel like oh you need a Christmas tree and I've to this day said I.
You know I'll be glad to get a Christmas tree. Someone can give me a good reason why I need a Christmas tree other than the fact that they grew up with one. I Didn't grow up with a Christmas tree. I grew up with a menorah, you know, I think you need light eight candles or eight days.
Hebrew, you know, it's like. So much of it. We have language. We don't think of.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, but my husband and I had been Episcopalians before we were saved. It's a long story, but just in brief God started calling me out of the new age in 2015 and I heard an Alistair Begg sermon on 2nd Timothy 4 at the end times people will want their itching ears tickled by false teachers and then he went on to describe a false teacher and it was like he Was describing me and so I I said to my husband, you know, there's some yeah God convicted me with that Alistair Begg sermon in 2015.
So I said to my husband, you know I think we need to start going to a regular church because we'd been going to new age churches and he's like, okay He was raised Methodist and Back when it before it's like it is now.
So we started to go to different churches and We were living in Hawaii and the churches there are super liberal and they have the Hawaiian culture mixed in with Christianity. So you've got prayers to the Hawaiian gods and goddesses and such and anyway, so we ended up in Episcopalian Church, which is Episcopalians are renowned for their hospitality and You know, we're Reformed Baptist now, I don't think I could have gone from New Age to Reformed Baptist.
Immediately, I think it would have whiplash. So the Episcopalian was a nice coast into Reformed Baptist. And and so they did that He is risen. He is risen indeed and thanks be to God and this is the Word of God.
They did all those rituals there. So I knew a little bit of that from the Episcopalian time, but the When I when I was saved I Don't know. It was just like such culture shock to have all my former friends and some of my family stopped talking to me and to Learn how to trust in the Lord who I'd never know.
I didn't know him before I thought I knew Jesus. But I knew him the wrong way as the progressive Jesus that he's a wish granter and and he everything goes with this Jesus as long as you're positive and you don't hurt anyone and I Absolutely did not know God.
Christian science taught us that God was mind like an energy and that's what New Age teaches too that that God is source or the universe and so my first step when big one as a Christian was who is God and studying his attributes and.
And and just reading that whole Bible from front to finish and and I've been reading it every day ever since and then at night. We listened to a book of the Bible at night. And that's been really helpful by the way for spiritual warfare.
Which is something that a lot of people deal with for the first time consciously after they leave the New Age that all of a sudden these demons who were masquerading as angels of light when you were a New ager the demons are super restless and unhappy apparently that you've now left them for Jesus so the spiritual warfare was horrible in the beginning and I didn't know what to do.
So I got involved with deliverance ministry initially I didn't have discipleship to tell me that deliverance ministry is a scam. It's a waste of time and money and that Jesus delivered us on the cross Through his shed blood.
So and and I also didn't know that in the Bible is all the instruction we need for spiritual warfare. So I went to deliverance ministry and it would make things temporarily seem better. These people casting out demons from me.
But then it would get worse again. And so I'd go to the next deliverance ministry same thing and all the while these deliverance ministries are Aggressively pushing that you give them money donate their donations.
But it's like they're charging and the third man that I went to named Bob Larson. He I had an online session with him where he waves around this wooden cross in front of you on the screen and he's dressed in a priest garb and.
And that and that was expensive you had to pay up front for that. And so none of these things were working and. That's when I turned to Ephesians 6 10 through 18 to put on the armor of God and started listening to audios of the Bible every night and Mortify sin pray Resist the devil and he will flee it's all the instructions are there and it's free of charge and it works because it's biblical.
Yeah, so, you know we got some some comments here that let me see if I can get them up on screen. See, where did we put that? So some of these I'll encourage you and then got some questions in here for you as well.
So here's Kathy is saying I follow her meaning you obviously. To learn about the new age that crept into the church. She said I'm we're so so glad you're doing this show. Thank You Kathy. KT and Jesus.
Oh, no, that's a different question. I'll get it. So let me just answer that so I put up KT I could try to get Kevin on. I don't know if we're going to do any more. There wasn't there was a video or an audio that Kevin found for folks who don't know who Kevin is.
Kevin was on we did a Series with him. He was a deacon in a church that we discovered was a cult and so so there is a response audio that after we had done those series of shows that Basically he was Tony Miano was responding to some of the things we said and they were woefully Out of context so we talked about maybe doing one more show.
But it'd be good to have him on. Okay, Linda said Love my new sister in Christ had the privilege of meeting her at g3. I Linda great to see you sister. Yeah, and then we have Melissa who said I am very grateful for Doreen virtue and her ministry.
She is a precious sister in Christ.
No, that's so encouraging. Thank you.
We have a good guess who this person this next comment is from but we also know why we have to call him what we call him. Facebook user says no. Okay Facebook user is usually Mr. Hap's Addison and I'm gonna assume that's who it is from the context of this state of the comment here.
He says I met her at g3. We invited her over to Jeff's booth and took a picture. Love her testimony. So Hap's was working at Jeff's booth, but Hap's Addison who is a great brother. You'll remember him Doreen because he can't you'll never be able to forget him once you see him.
He's got the you know, long beard actually he and Jeff they kind of go with a real long beard and long hair. Oh, yeah. Yeah, real real both of them have that real like Southern kind of laid-back. Jeff does the Bible rebindings.
Hap's is is or happy he's called. But he he doesn't seem to ever want to follow the rules because if he if he did if he went to politics live Calm like we instruct him every single week. He would be able to put give permission to Facebook so we can see his name.
So we know that's you have. Even you know, even though Drew's not here. We know that's you. When we can to. All right. So here's here's a question for you that Was asked is where did the term Christian science originate from the devil?
It's not it's neither Christian nor scientific it was.
That's what I always use.
Mary Baker Eddie. She actually plagiarized Phineas Quimby who really yeah, and there was a lawsuit. Fascinating his troubling history of Phineas Quimby was a mesmerizer. They called it back then a hypnotist who went around doing shows of how he could somehow somehow heal people very much word of faith.
Somehow Kenneth Hagen is connected to him. I haven't got the complete link. Stephen Kozar knows the story though if you ever want to ask him. Okay, Phineas Quimby taught Mary Baker Eddie and then the founders of Unity Church and Divine Science Church and also, there's there's a lot of connections of a lot of False New Age teachers have a Christian science connection including Helen Shookman.
She was Jewish and somehow Christian science who channeled the heretical book called a course in miracles that was popularized by the former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson who I used to tour with and it's the Supposed channeled book from Jesus explaining what the Bible really means and almost every New Ager Reads this book, of course in miracles.
It was popularized by Oprah. So so Christian science is is absolutely a plagiarism of something that seems to work. It's like a lot of New Age and deceptive products. It seems to work. In fact, that's what I had interviewed Justin about was how come sometimes People go to a false healer and it seems like they really get healed and Justin said it's really nuanced that there's demons That can actually Create the situation that seems to be an injury or a sickness and then the demons leave the person to a false Teacher and then they leave the oppression so the person seems to have gotten a healing but really they've just no longer being spiritually oppressed and Then they get hooked into that false teacher, but that was so fascinating.
Yeah, and it originated as you said.
Mary Mary why just. And so she had and she I mean is it's kind of a mind over matter type of thing. There is it's. I remember reading on her deathbed. Even on her deathbed. She couldn't admit That she was dying because that would write us and do everything.
She she taught so she supposedly Her last words were tell my followers that I'm committing mental suicide.
Yeah, it's a nuts nuts. Oh theology, but I was steeped in I was raised in it. And so it's neo Gnostic in that they believe that Matter and the body do not really exist. It's an illusion. And and they also do not believe in Genesis 3 at all.
They think it's just a lie. And so there's no talk about the fall or crucifixion or sin or repentance or hell. It's all about cherry-picking. What they believe are the you know, the positive and air quotes.
Say it's talk that Jesus did about healing and that's all they focus on and they think that Jesus was giving us the key. To learn how we can heal and you're right. And my parents were married for 62 years when my dad died.
My mother did not shed one tear. Because she said he wasn't dead and then she died about two and a half years ago. And I just pray that like the thief on the cross. She somehow repented. Yeah where she died because it's it's it is heretical and blasphemous.
Fortunately, it's a dying religion. Praise the Lord. Yeah, it's one of those things that came out of the 1800s though. The 1800s was a big time of apostasy with madam Blavatsky who really was the grandmother of New Age Deception that we have now and Satanism.
Yeah, and it's it's a thing where some refuse Medicine kind of like general witnesses, but for a different reason. I mean they're in their senses that their mind can fix it, you know, right when we were growing up.
We would never be allowed to go to doctors and we were not allowed to go to health classes in school. They we were put in art classes because the belief was if you learn about illness, you'll manifest it.
So we were not allowed to listen to medical commercials. We were just complete mind control of Only thinking positive thoughts, but the trouble is when you're have when you have. That's this fear that if you have a negative thought You're gonna have a negative Reaction, which is what the law of attraction and the secret teach by the way.
Yeah that that fear it it how can you get saved if you won't have What seems to be the bad news or the negative thought that you're a sinner and that was what kept me for so long from Really realizing I was a sinner because that just seemed so negative.
Then if you thought it that would make it true make it true.
But then you would attract because in these these New Age thinks thinking you are the creator and you create your reality with your thoughts and. So that puts you in the seat of being responsible for everyone and everything.
It's a horrible responsibility and burden and also it makes all of your relationships including with God Superficial because you can never admit that there's any problems or negativity. Yeah. Yeah, that's.
Similar to like in Mormonism where it's like you have to have this perfect life on the outside and yet on the inside. Everyone's falling apart. It's so sad. Yeah, Frank says he's saying God has been working in pulling many high-profile New Age and Neil Pagan influence out of darkness in these last few years.
It's amazing. I don't know. Other than you know, maybe he's referring to you Kosti hin, I don't. I don't know who else is there others that you know of that.
Well, I do know that when I was first saved it was very lonely. I didn't know any many people who'd come out of the New Age except for Warren B Smith. Who's been an amazing mentor? And and so now if you type in New Age to Jesus on YouTube, you'll pull up hundreds of testimonials.
So there has been somewhat of a mass exodus out of New Age.
Ali be struck. This is a stuck. He just had on and I don't Cat Von D or so, I forgot don't know the name. She's did did some TV show about tattooing. Yeah, if you During you don't know this this audience gets it.
I'm pop culture illiterate. So no one expects me to know any of this. I only heard about her because it was mentioned her baptism was mentioned in daily wire. But then I saw this interview and she had mentioned she had come out of a lot of that New Age thinking and and you know, I mean a lot of times you get these people and You you find that they Hey, well you take someone like a Kanye West it's like they make a profession of faith and everyone like wants to rush them into the limelight like they're gonna be the The one that can bring so many people to Christ.
And I've always taken the position. Let's let's wait. Let's hold off and I Don't you know that was very helpful when? You know we had As folks know on this show Lindsay Davis and She came out of supposedly came out of Bethel and came to the truth and was totally against word of faith and new epistolic Reformation and people were telling me how you got to get her on your show and I'm like According to her testimony.
She just got saved like I'll give her at least a year and I told her that we I you know I spoke to her on the phone and said like I won't have you on Just so you know and I and I told her you shouldn't go on anyone's program, you know and but for good reason because now we see she's totally Totally promoting deliverance ministry, which we did have a question with that.
Yeah, so yeah, I I learned the hard way by interviewing Lindsay when she was first saved. She had just gone on cultish and so I learned that you you've got the wisdom. Wait for a while before someone.
You know to see the soil. Is there good deep roots there?
Yeah, and it seems like with this cat von von D you know, she she was actually it seems saved for a while before she was even baptized and Had been. You know, she's not like coming out now and being like trying to build a platform.
It seems so.
Understand and I'm sure praying for her yeah, because it's not easy to be a public person and come out and and She's been criticized for this recent vampire video that she did and it's not my taste at all.
But when I was first saved I had contracts that I had to fulfill that it wasn't like I could just immediately sever all these contracts. So I had this New Age Kind of quasi Christian video series coming out just as I was Leaving the New Age and then I had a couple speaking engagements that I had contracts that had already been paid for.
And so I went to those New Age conventions. There was two of them one in Australia and one in Hawaii and I shared the gospel there. I thought well, I'm just gonna go into go into the enemy camp and went over real.
Well, I'm sure. Yeah. Well, what happened was that the New Agers because because I was at a New Age convention and the ones who were not there Who were just seeing it from social media started to gossip about me see she's not really saved.
She's at a New Age convention, but the people who were there saw that I I was completely not teaching New Age I was immediately Sharing the gospel and while we were in Australia for this we went to Hillsong there in Sydney and we were attracted to Hillsong because of the music because I was listening to that kind of music when I was first saved not knowing the difference but even as a baby Christian Brian Houston and his wife Bobby were on the stage and talking about how the the worst thing happened to them the very worst thing and they said they just got back from vacation and Their swimming pool was green with algae and then they said wait.
That's not the worst thing that can happen to you the worst thing that could happen to you is that you don't have a swimming pool and then all of a sudden these signs light up on this the stage with text this number to tithe to them and they start just Completely saying that you tithe you too can have a swimming pool.
Bobby Bobby Houston is waving around her credit card and saying you can be like me. I mean it was complete prosperity gospel. And like I said, even as a new Christian I could see that this was not biblical.
Yeah. Yeah.
So it's like we got some more think comments here that came up. Let's see, Melissa said it really bothered me when I saw Christians attacking Doreen. We must be careful not to equate Justification with sanctification when someone makes a profession of faith and and I think that's a good point when I think a problem that many Christians have Doreen and I don't think they they do this purposely but when they've been a Christian for a long time and especially I find this more with with Christians that are not out evangelizing and discipling newer believers.
They kind of forget how where they've come from, you know. And they expect everyone to just know like what we talked about earlier the Christian ease. They should just know that.
Well, I mean I can see both sides now because I Also now I disciple women coming out of the New Age and a lot of them immediately want to become in Instagram and tick-tock influencers when they are babies and so I discourage them from doing that and yet that's what I was doing.
And so I shouldn't have been out there. I should have taken three years. I should have waited till I was You know finished seminary and also I was offered a publishing contract. After I was saved one year with Thomas Nelson.
And so I said, okay. And wrote this book when I just started seminary and I mean, it's an okay book. But there's two parts that are absolutely serious issues that if I could pull back the paper book I would rewrite they let me rewrite the Kindle so that that worked out but New Christians need to be discipled.
I mean, that's just that's absolutely and they've got to be in the word every single day and It's a big process. So thank you for that Encouragement and that support it was hard to be criticized. By the Christians is confusing.
But Christ gave me strength to keep going. So praise the Lord.
Yeah, I mean, it's I always I remember a time in in my first church. There was a guy he was his probably in his late 50s early 60s and We had someone who had just gotten saved. I'm talking like within weeks and the guy's sitting there and he's he's got his Bible and and pastor s turned somewhere and he's doing this and he's just he's just flipping flipping back the other way and flipping and just you know, I'm just going back and forth and This one guy He just he got so frustrated who's sitting next to him with the pages flipping he takes his Bible and just There and shoves his Bible in the guy's face and like grabs that guy's Bible so he could turn to the page.
I Was just like, you know, so afterwards after service was over, you know, I didn't want to be embarrassed things I the new believer I talked to him privately and I just said hey, you know I know what that struggles like when you can't find your way through the book.
I I didn't know the New Testament at all and The Old Testament is not organized the way it is in the Hebrew Bible I said, but there's a neat thing and I just showed him the table of contents I said, that's what that helped me tremendously and then I had showed him that I had these tabs in in my in my Bible that I put in that actually helped me find my way around.
That guy thanked me and I turned to the the older Christian. I said Danny Do you remember when you were first saved? He's like, yeah, I said, did you know your way around a Bible? He goes? No, I The way you did that and he was like All that, but he's flipping pages and it was frustrating me.
I said But you didn't have to do it. Like you expect him to know what you know after walking with the Lord for 40 years, right?
Yeah. Yeah, and then you know, I have this past of I was 59 years old. I'm 65 now. It's 59 years old when I was saved. So I'd had multiple Relationships I had written something like 70 books and 38 languages that were all heretical New Age that were licensed to Foreign countries and the US publisher and so people expected me to get all those things off the shelf when if they were self-published no problem, but they were published through publishers and they some of them are still for sale out there and Praise the Lord that I'm seeing that things are moving in the right direction.
I just got a letter today I put up on Twitter that my one of my foreign publishers is finally agreed to stop publishing my old stuff Praise the Lord. Yeah, but that's six years of me working on this. So it just doesn't happen overnight I actually I met a woman who was who's a sister in Christ who used to be a porn star and I asked her I said, what's that like for you?
Your porn movies are still out there. She said it's similar that her old publisher of her movies will repackage them every now and then and then Re-release them with a new title and people say aha See, you're not a Christian because it's still for sale.
And this is just what happens when you've got a pass. So Yeah, it comes out of a public place like that people don't understand that the publishers own the rights.
You you give the rights away when you sign these deals and once you do that, you have no more say in it. No, and so Yeah, I was gonna mention because I know when I was on your show. You had you had said before we started recording that you finally was we're gonna be able to get one of the publishers to stop reproducing.
Yes, so Frank says this Frank said I got burned by Charismatics in the Word of Faith circles for the better part of 10 to 15 years and finally ended up in a reformed church. So we're glad Frank that you're that you got out of that.
I I did the same thing. Now this next comment I have to admit You know this this next comment won't mean much to you. It means it but it scares me. Tina Christina says Wow Doreen virtue. I follow her now.
The reason that that that this makes me nervous is this is my pastor's daughter-in-law. So She's watching From myself Tina. Oh, so Tina is really funny. So Tina Unbeknownst to me I was in the Philippines preaching with with Justin Peters.
We're doing a conference at the Sky Dome Tina had been recently saved and Starting to get sound in her faith and she decides that her and a friend are gonna go to that conference. Okay, fine. Not a big deal.
I mean there were like 1 ,500 people there. So So What ends up happening is she's her and her husband now, you know after that she had gotten married to My pastor's son and they're coming now stateside.
They've been missionaries overseas and so pastors and the wife Pick up the kids from the the airport bringing them home and they're just mentioning this new couple. That's at church. And so My pastor's wife says, you know mentions My name and she goes wait a minute.
Did he speak in the Philippines? With Justin Peters and and so she goes, I don't know because you know, I didn't really you know in my church I didn't really let folks know That the ministry so much. It was just that's where I go to church.
And so she's texting me goes Did you speak in the Philippines? I said, yeah, she's like back in April before Kovac Was there a Justin Peters there? I said, yeah, she goes. Oh our daughter-in-law was there.
So We have sister Tara is asking. What is deliverance ministry? So you use that term? So.
I'll let you explain. And I know that you know quite a bit about it too, so yeah, so deliverance ministry is built on an unbiblical premise that Christians who have the indwelling Holy Spirit can also have a demon inside of them and that's just not possible.
But the deliverance groups now have morphed their theory because they've heard us argue that and say well We have a mind body and soul. So therefore the demons are in the body not in your soul where the Holy Spirit is and That's what we used to teach in the New Age.
We didn't call them demons. We called them earthbound spirits. And we used to say that they were in your toe tips your toes hiding in your body and we would do this elaborate spirit releasement therapy and it's identical to deliverance ministry and It's it's a big big money-making machine.
Yeah, it's huge and they have movies and they have Groupies and such and and in lots of theatrics, so they'll say that they're going to cat they're going to Mimic what Jesus empowered the disciples to do.
And they're going to cast out gene demons in Jesus name and then supposedly the person starts vomiting and throwing up and and and having seizures and that's a sign that's positive that Demons are coming out of them and then you need maintenance to keep this going.
The trouble is that if you look at the New Testament epistles After acts you never see anyone instructed to cast out demons at all. I mean, it's just not there we've got the disciples who did it and then One man in the that was recorded in the book of Luke that the Apostle John was upset with because he was casting out demons In Jesus name and he wasn't part of the the inner circle and you remember Jesus said no, it's okay.
And but then that's it. There's no. There's no instructions in the New Testament for us to cast out demons and and there's also no born-again Christians. Anywhere in the Bible who have demons cast out of them.
There's the demoniac. There's you know, lots of demons that Jesus cast out, but they're not born-again Christians. So this whole premise just is not biblical, but they are just angry when we say that Reminds me of an axe 19 when Paul got in trouble with the silversmiths remember.
Because his their income went down when he was So sharing the gospel and they're selling Artemis statues and they try to kill him. And so it reminds me of that. This is a big industry that doesn't like to be called out.
I think is the bottom line.
Yeah, and so there's there's a lot behind it. So one of the things you have to realize with this is everything every sin you do is the is not your fault. It's it's a demons. It's a demon of drunkenness.
It's a demon of pornography. It's a demon of this, you know. You know, you have a Jezebel spirit, you know, it's it's it's all this stuff. The the reality is what you see is really it's it's a it's a form of Gnosticism from the first century the idea that there's the the physical body.
Anything physical is evil, but anything spiritual is good. So the Gnostics taught that you could sleep with a prostitute and as long as you didn't give your spirit over to it. You didn't sin because just your body and your body's evil anyway.
And so you see some of that in this. Where it's this idea that You know, somehow you could separate your spirit from your your flesh. And I mean for folks to realize why did Doreen say well a believer can't be possessed.
Well very simply part of the covenant the new covenant that we Get to enjoy is the fact that the Holy Spirit indwells us. Scripture's clear that greater is he that is in you than than is in the world if we're indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
We cannot at the same time be indwelt with a demon because the Holy Spirit's not going to Partake with that. So if you if you are saved then you have the Holy Spirit indwelling you a demon can't possess you and There's no, you know, I'll go a little further than Doreen did and say that there's there's no instruction for us to cast out demons.
And someone's gonna say oh, but wait Andrew Matthew mark 16. That's right mark 16. But keep in mind that I don't believe mark 16 much of the ending was in the original canon. Okay, and that now some of the people are going what?
No, I'm not saying that, you know, we got a wrong Bible. I'm saying that we do have a there's actually four different endings to mark. Mark ends very abruptly and What we see in the in the different manuscripts is we see that there's four different endings to mark okay, and What we have now is basically all of those endings kind of put together.
Alright, let me read where where the earliest manuscripts of mark ends in verse 8. They went out and fled from the tomb. For trembling and astonishment had gripped them and they said nothing to anyone for they were afraid the end.
Many people think that was just a strange way to end it. So they took different parts from other verse other passages of the Gospels and kind of put them in. We have a little Matthew 28 in here and elsewhere.
And so This is the only place that you have instruction to cast out demons, but I would argue that wasn't from God this was what from men early on added to the book of of Mark just from the textual testimony that we have.
Let's see. There were some more comments. And so mr Huff himself who who's should be in here to tell you this himself, but he says so thankful thankful. By the way is an all-cap so thankful for Doreen.
I wish I could have met her at g3. Thank you for all you do may the Lord continue to bless your endeavors. Thank you, brother Chris. I Appreciate your ministry if he could have been here to tell you himself.
He also said this when we were talking earlier. He said see to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception according to the traditions of men according to the elementary principles of The world and not according to Christ.
And when it says hey where he sounds really eloquent what he said there. Well, actually what he did was just quote Colossians 2 8. So we got Here I stand theology podcast. He says he or she I should correct there because I don't know not that I'm saying they haven't told me their pronoun but I don't know who they are.
Hello, Andrew. Hello, Doreen. I greatly appreciate the work that y 'all do for the Lord. Thank you. This encouragement is Is a blessing. Thank you. And D says I have profited a lot from Doreen's knowledge of the New Age.
Also, and I don't know who this is Marsha Montenegro. She's one of my good friends who also was saved out of the New Age. She was a professional astrologer and now she's a meticulous researcher for Christ and writes.
She writes amazingly detailed blogs every day from her Christian answers for the New Age website and also her Facebook page and I highly encourage people to follow her work because She goes into the weeds and shows why these New Age little Methods and beliefs just don't stand up to scripture.
Yeah, so let's see I'm gonna go out of order cuz. This is answering some we were saying earlier Chris says. Also nowhere in Scripture. Do you see that we're to address demons and Satan directly. We pray to God Through the completed and ongoing work of Christ through the Holy Spirit.
And and that's true, too. You know, I like what what Justin Peter says in his in his talks, you know for all the people that are binding Satan. Instead of praying for to bind Satan we should just pray for the guy who keeps letting loose.
Yes, and and brother Chris makes such a good point because in these deliverance ministries and in these Quasi-christian movies like war room There's this modeling that you're supposed to say not today Satan and you're supposed to talk to the demons and say get away from me.
But these are evil demons there. They will manipulate people. They're not they're not going to sit there and go. Okay, I'll go home then. Talking to them directly. I think is spiritually dangerous. I absolutely agree with brother Chris here and We we go to Jesus to cast out demons and now I get letters from people who say they used to do deliverance ministry.
But now they pray for Jesus to cast out the demons and that is something that's completely effective with spiritual warfare.
You know, there's a account that John MacArthur talks of when Someone came in his office and they had a woman who they said was demon-possessed and There were a couple couple men trying to hold her down and and big men.
She was a small girl and they couldn't hold her down and MacArthur went in there and people didn't know whether they should what to do to cast the demon out and MacArthur figured well if she has the Holy Spirit and dweller than the demons got to leave.
So he just preached the gospel and she got saved and calmed down, you know so. That that's been my way. If I if I is demon-possessed. I'm gonna give the gospel. Mm-hmm.
You know absolutely in the Lord's Prayer deliver us from evil. We're to turn to God not to try to be this man-centered approach that deliverance ministries advocate for.
So, let's see. So oh I see that the R &B studios he says this is Claude Ramsey at the here. I stand.
Yeah, I've been on his program. Yeah, he's got an awesome podcast. Hi Claude. Yeah, I've preached with him.
So down at the open-air theology conference. But he's now got two accounts. So he's got now he's in on a different account. Here I stand and you know, so he's posting on that one too. So he's he's getting double action there.
Pastor Claude. Yes. Yeah.
He's another one with that Southern real nice. Mm-hmm. He's he going. If he works fits in real well in the New Jersey attitude, all right.
Justin Pierce. This is your life, these are my friends. Yeah, I pastor Justin.
Justin we we you know, the fact that we have a comment here from Justin folks. We should all give him a hard time I think because. Where's he been? He said he can't be here to help host. To co-host with me, you know all this time because he's got school on Thursday nights, but yet.
Okay, so folks we should do a poll. Is he is Justin playing hooky from school a B. Is he not paying attention in class and just watching this show and commenting. Or C. Should he just get in here and help host?
I Wonder if actually I think there's a way and I could do a poll in this. I don't know if there's a way in here. I can we should all right, so Justin says Doreen it is so wonderful to see you here. Finally.
I think that was a rip on me the finally part. Thank you so much for everything you are doing and thank you for having me on your show to talk about Halloween and the book. What a blessing. Yeah. No, so that came from you Andrew.
You actually posted about Justin's Halloween book on your Facebook page and and then I got the book and then through that I Requested to interview Justin two years ago with my friend Jen Nisa who was also saved out of the New Age seven years ago and His book is a blessing.
I shared his interview again this year. And what I love about pastor Justin is he confronts the church about their their trunk-or-treat events that are kind of conforming to the world and They're supposed to be an alternative to Halloween, but a lot of them.
They're not sharing the gospel out. They're they're just basically making a so-called safe alternative to Halloween instead of an opportunity to witness. So he's. I like his book a lot.
Well, I would say that at our church it was not that case. We did have we do a trunk-or-treat and we have the trunks outside and we what we did this year was lead people in and when they came in we did have like an escape room and we had an area for crafts and I set up right in that area and with my booming voice.
Everybody would hear. If you wanted to or not and so as parents are sitting around I was doing good person tests with people one after another and Do I had my IQ test and and I'd pull people in to take my IQ test.
Then I'd give them the good person test and I you know, so clearly we were we were using it for the gospel. We had one autistic young man teenager. This was really interesting. I don't think I shared this here with folks on the show.
But he he was I guess giving people outside a really hard time. He was walking up to every trunk and He he has I'm gonna I think he probably has Asperger's and so he was just going God doesn't exist and he was like shouting it to everybody and so he came in and I guess I Didn't know that everyone had was having problems with him outside because he was making a scene for everyone.
So he was he he comes in and he's I'm sharing the gospel so he starts, you know shouting God doesn't exist he's getting angry and I'm sitting there talking to him. I said, well, you know, I said, you know what?
Well, we can we can talk about that and. So he he's Justin saying if I give him the code I can he'll come in. Well, okay I have to go look for the code. He you should be able to sign in yourself there Justin.
So, let's give him the code so he can come in and and he can give his excuses so so I Man, and what happened was the guy this guy was given was giving me a real hard time. You're screaming. Yelling he you know, God doesn't exist and I Start to explain to him, you know.
He I said well he says prove to me God exists and I said I just looked and I said you just did. It's what do you mean? I said your ability to reason. You how do you explain an immaterial thing like your ability to reason apart from God?
You can't do that and I started, you know, he we we start I started to get into. You know the whole thing of you know, the first law of thermodynamics. You can't you know the universe had a beginning law of non-contradiction the universe can't you know create so so there's there's the only choice is To have You know God existing.
This is where I where I get I get distracted so Cole who is in the background. I was gonna say that later. Cole is in the background. Folks regulars are gonna know Cole is but he created a poll. So let me let me share the screen.
This is gonna be this will be funny Doreen. Where is it? So here we go. He created a poll and it is he says does Andrew need a co-host? Jesus take the wheel. 100 That's a good one Cole. I Have to do that because I've given Cole a hard time in the past days.
So he gets me back I have to show that so so this young man's family was really upset with him see, I don't lose track of my of where I am and but he gets uh, he gets. Really? I rate really upset his family's now like we're tired of it all night, I guess and he called me an idiot and You know and his his sibling was like, you know, will you stop telling people they're idiots, you know?
Just because people aren't as smart as you and he looks at me and says well He is an idiot and I just looked at him and I said well I have a hundred and sixty eight IQ and I've passed the test of men's passed the test for Mensa.
Do you understand what that means? And he just like started looking at me. I said, yeah, it means I'm technically considered a genius. So before you call someone an idiot who's trying to explain to you things like thermodynamics and laws of logic maybe you should learn to listen because that's what a smart person would actually do and this guy just like settled down and.
Then you know, they got irate again his mother comes over and she's trying to like she was all worried for me. I'm like I do this in New York City. Look, you know, he's fine. She's like really I said, yeah, this is this isn't a problem.
I'm happy talking with him and she was like Wow, okay. She was like so happy. She could walk around the other kids. So, yes, so let me bring in our used to be co-host here who hasn't been here in so long that he didn't.
Again, yeah, I don't know what my name is anymore. Hello, Doreen. How are you?
Justin so great to see you brother. It is so great to see you guys.
Oh, look, he has he has a saint on his on his. Is that what that is? Shepherd Theological seminary, yeah, no, it looks like it's I don't know.
Yeah, I knew I knew that one of you would about take about three seconds. Oh second commandment second commandment. Yeah.
You came in it is Wonderful to have you in. I appreciate the opportunity to glorify God the fellowship and the opportunity to call out new-age Deception because it's it seems to be growing. It's such an issue.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. And and what's amazing is is how it's interconnected so much with the word faith the charismatic movements and it's it's almost tied in just to the point where it's it's it's unreal how.
How. If you look at the two you can almost not tell the difference, right?
And NAR wouldn't I mean Chris Vallotton? He's basically giving new-age talks most of the time. And so I have a couple of videos where I have Chris Vallotton talking and then my old videos and it's the same thing.
Yeah.
You know Andrew you was asking about what I've been doing so this stack is about a quarter of what I'm reading through for a Term paper. I'm writing on the charismatic movement. Oh, I'm writing. I'm writing a term paper on it for my final.
For my final paper and I have been studying I listened to About eight or nine hours of Benny Hinn. And these big giant mega church things.
The the different revivals and stuff and you're you're reading. Let's see. You're reading Holy Spirit baptism by Anthony Hokenene and your Pokemon. You're reading the nine gifts of spirit by BF Kate. Yeah, cuz he sends me this stuff.
For me I actually want you to get these I'm telling you if you're gonna be talking to Michael Brown who actually was the Is the one that affirmed the Brownsville revival? If you want to talk to him get BF Kate's book and she talks about the When the perfect comes and how that is the answer for the the the secessionist argument.
Very good. Very good information.
So, yeah, you know, it's interesting what you're saying because with the New Age to the Word of Faith and and you know, I don't know maybe maybe someone out there has has done the research and knows this but I I Was I mean I was in the Word of Faith when I after I had gotten to to you know two years after becoming a Christian when I got to college and I had I Don't remember seeing so much a New Age influence then but I was seeing it in More conservative churches, you know, it was like it was coming in but it they were somewhat more the charismatic still charismatic but they weren't the Word of Faith that I saw the New Age seeping in and I Wonder how much of it like did it start in the in the charismatic or the Word of Faith?
Circles the New Age Influence, I think has heavily come out of the Jesus Calling series because that popularizes transchanneling and having this different Jesus and different gospel and It seems to be comforting women love it because this paints this kind of quasi romantic view of Jesus who's your BFF and a lot of the the Teachings in Jesus Calling are about visualization about gaze into my eyes and very occultic subtle influences that came through.
Sarah Young. So I think I think that was a really big turning point for the church and then and then allowing Idolatry to come in that is New Age idolatry. Like the essential oil movement has been seen as a way for Christian women to make some extra pocket money.
But they're selling it's like a Trojan horse because of course there's distilled oils in the Bible and God made the flowers that led to the oils, but the essential oil movement has a lot of veiled New Age promises such as you buy this bottle called abundance from young living and They promise you that if you use the oil you're going to attract and manifest money into your life.
That's witchcraft. That's New Age. Yeah, and and they say use this joy Essential oil blend you'll have joy in your life. You'll have forgiveness with the forgiveness blend. But it's allowed in the church because these are women who don't know enough about New Age to spot that and that's where people like Marsha Montenegro and Janissa myself are calling this out often.
Getting a lot of pushback because they this is their favorite thing. And then the other big thing that I I get a lot of hate mail about is yoga. I did yoga for over 20 years in the New Age. I would not step on a yoga mat today because it is violation of first and second commandment each of the yoga poses.
Which is a Hindu worship practice each of the end the the yoga poses or asanas are using your body to become a graven image to mimic a different Hindu God or goddess or a plant or something like the moon or a flower and There's an there's an embeddedness to it that it is glorifying a God with your body instead of as we're commanded glorifying God with our body and there's You you can't there's this study that was done by Candy Gunther Brown.
She's charismatic. But she is a sister in Christ and she's really researched what happens when women get involved with yoga. She's found that the average woman got into yoga for stretching and exercise and health and relaxation.
And she found that in six months they were embedded in the spirituality of yoga even if they use Psalms or hymns while you're singing, you know doing yoga or Bible verses and you never say namaste. You don't say on all those blasphemous Sanskrit sayings of yoga if it is a spiritual practice and It it does open doorways.
So We can stretch stretching is good exercise good, but the Sun salutation series. Oh, I just want to give you one example if we have a moment because this is so important. So every yoga class no matter what has a series of movements called the Sun salutation series.
Which in itself is Sun worship. But one of the poses in particular is a good example of what I'm talking about. It's called vera bedrasana or warrior one two and three and you've seen women do this they have their arms straight out and In what they're doing asana means pose it's the pose of vera bedras who was one of the sons of Shiva who's one of the counterfeit Trinity of Hinduism.
They have three million gods, but they have a Trinity Vishnu Shiva and and Brahma and so Shiva had a son named vera bedras and he was sent out as a warrior to to avenge the death of his wife and. And so the warrior poses of the Sun salutation series are not natural stretches.
First of all, they're unnatural. But they're there you're mimicking a murder scene with your body of a Hindu God. I Really break down what each pose means you would never do it again as a professing Christian.
I.
Know a lot of a lot I know a lot of professing Christians that do yoga because they they think that they're they can divorce the Religious aspect from the physical and and as you just said they can't do that because each one of those poses is actually a it's a torture pose to get you into the the act of worship of a Specific deity.
It cannot be redeemed. It absolutely cannot be redeemed. Stretching is good exercise. Absolutely important, but not the yoga poses even if you call it holy yoga. Even the woman who started holy yoga has some very troubling theology.
Yes.
Yeah, let me and let me address that so I went to a church years ago where The pastor was actually on the board at holy yoga and his wife taught it. Okay, and so He got on the board because he was more he wanted to see them use it for evangelism and.
You know his wife was you know using it for that purpose and so. But he discovered that they had a lot of teachers who were lesbians. And so he was like you can't know this can't happen and and they had people on the board who?
Some I guess didn't have a problem with it or whatnot and. But but you know, he kind of cleaned up the board. But you know, they're making so much money that They had to basically decide. The government was saying you have to be for profit and so he got off the board he because what happened was he he wanted it to be that they that the Nonprofit that has the accountability is over the for-profit and a founder did it the other way where there's less accountability.
Okay, so this has become a major moneymaker, oh, yeah.
Including the the company that puts the mandatory yoga in public schools for elementary children and it's called the Joyce Foundation and they actually pay the schools to let them put the The classes in there and they have we have documentation that they're doing it to evangelize Hinduism to children and they have the kids saying namaste Which is a blasphemous statement that the God within me recognizes and honors the God within you exactly and saying um, which supposedly is the vibration of the universe and Indoctrinating these kids and I've talked with moms several moms who said that their kids when they got involved with yoga suddenly started having demonic nightmares and Bedwetting and they could no longer focus.
So it's not making the kids Calmer like it promises their grades aren't going better. And then another man that I interviewed Doctor down in San Diego a Christian doctor. He said that he's getting lots of cases of children getting injured from yoga because their bodies can't handle the stretches That are involved as well as adults getting injured from it.
So yoga just is not something that any professing Christian should be involved in. There's a question. I wanted to pop up here. I was going for Doreen.
Rebecca Burr swinger. She said Doreen have you heard before you get is they say who she is?
So folks know she is one of our podcasters on the Christian podcast community has a podcast called one little candle. And if you listen to theology throwdown that we just released this week. She was on there as we talked about the situation with Israel.
So.
Yeah, now go ahead and read it, okay, so and Rebecca you need to reach out to Doreen and get her on your podcast. Doreen have you heard of the praise moves the Christian alternative to yoga and if so, what are your thoughts on it?
I and there I'm gonna be honest and up front the reason that I Want to want to have this discussion personally since I've come in and Andrew drug me in. You know, no since since I since I'm on you and it with anything.
But but the reason I'm on here is I have friends of mine that are in yoga and they are they claim to be Christian and They will not listen to me talk about this At any time. So if you if if they can listen to us somebody else influence and teach them about it.
That praise the Lord for it. Is that is that like how you won't listen to us talk about how Pfizer was. You're bad with the vaccines. Which was demonic so. By the way, Rebecca is saying she would love.
Well, it's so nice to meet you sister Rebecca. And yes, I have done a little bit of research on praise moves. But the trouble is I don't have it in front of me right now. So I don't want to misquote but there was a reason why I dug into it and then did not recommend it.
But I cannot remember exactly what the reason is at this moment. Too many things to study and research. I Found something troubling on there that caused me not to recommend it. I don't remember that I if someone wants to stretch I would be more inclined to recommend.
The stretching that physical therapists give injured clients, which I've used. My mom had to go through physical therapy. So I started using those stretches where you're in a doorway and you lean into it and they're very neutral.
There's no spiritual component to them at all. Yeah, I think that's what we need to be doing.
You know, I wonder yeah, so I have a background in martial arts and. Back when I started it was very much tied to you know, the the Eastern religion as well and people said he couldn't redeem it and they're like people told me I wasn't saved because I was doing martial arts and and things like that and.
There were some places where they did get into all the spiritual stuff and but most did not. And I think now it's it's completely removed from any. Any of that? I mean you have different styles like Brazilian jiu-jitsu doesn't have any of that.
So, you know, I wonder if it's if it there is somewhere can be redeemed in a sense of as being seen as just stretching. But but you're saying it would have to be removed from all of the specific.
Without a spiritual component. No spiritual component because this is the thing. Okay. Why do we have to call it? Holy yoga? We don't have to argue and justify baseball. There's no holy baseball or holy volleyball or holy swimming.
Well, why yoga. Because people know deep down that it's violating God's law.
Well in every time you're talking about yoga in any any of the forms that are being that are being made out. All the forms are worship. All the forms I mean. So if you rename it, it doesn't matter, you know if instead of just saying, you know Namaste, you know, so you say, you know bless you or whatever and you're intending the meaning behind it.
You know, that's where you have to look at that. What's the meaning behind those things? It's funny you say that.
Pastor Justin because women argue with me all the time about this and I I'm not gonna back down. So don't even try to change my mind. One of the things they tell me is God knows my heart God knows my intention and you know what I say to them.
I say yes, he does and you should be scared of that. That's right. That's you're. You're in rebellion right here.
Yeah, I mean he does know our heart. He knows that every time we lust he considers that adultery every time we're angry. He considers that murder. So yeah, he does know our heart and that should cause us to be afraid.
Exactly. We shouldn't use that as a justification of sinning.
Yeah, I remember somewhere. He said something along the lines of the heart being deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Yeah, so if that's the case, I would not want to use that as a justification for whatever sin that I can I can Conjure up and then try to Christianize it.
I mean, you know, but you gotta think you know Christians Around this around the world and I'll say especially in America love to Christian eyes sinful things in the world. You know that they there's a lot of love for you know Christianizing sinful things and trying to say it's okay.
It's not that bad. It's not that big of a deal and it just shows there where their heart is for the Lord. Yeah.
Yeah, and then of course Christians will want me to go to Paul saying that the meat that was praised over in the pagan temples is an example of how yoga can be redeemed and and that doesn't even anyway.
Match up with yoga. And and he also Paul says that if it would cause someone to stumble He would not eat the meat. And a woman who's a professing Christian going to yoga class could easily cause someone to stumble.
Because what she's doing is she's saying? Oh Christians can do a pagan practice. And maybe she's in a very innocuous place taking yoga. And at YMCA where there's no Flax of alm or statues of Hindu gods but that person who sees her and Knows she's a Christian doing yoga might end up in a yoga studio and those are dens of paganism.
That's where I spent over 20 years. There are Shiva statues and Buddha statues and you pray to those statues you do guided meditations that are Occultic a new age called Shavasana or the corpse pose in those places.
It's you don't want to cause someone to stumble. So, you know.
Let I'm gonna I'm gonna take it again to the martial arts because people made claims like that with martial arts and. Here's the thing though. There was a time where people who do karate that would be the case.
There was a time here in America where that that what it it definitely had a spiritual component to it and. There was it some that you know a Christian shouldn't be doing in there was there was a time when it had the that connotation.
It doesn't have it now. So I wouldn't have an issue with people doing it now. However Yoga hasn't removed that connotation yet. No, they brag about it. Actually. Yeah, so for people that make that the argument I don't think it holds because.
It's it still has that connotation. Yeah, it's it's not spiritually neutral. And go get some physical therapy books or go online and find what a physical therapist says for stretching and. It's actually I think more pleasant than yoga practice and they do it.
They do have places that do stretching.
I mean people say what they want to do it as a group. There's places that they'll do group stretching. So, you know, so some of the things let me just rattle off some things that we had here Justin. It says here.
Uh, hey Justin nice to see you back on the show. See you you were missed and Melissa says Miss you JP. Oh. See you you were missed and and you know, I made a crack. So, mr. Mr. Tracy is saying is he saying Pfizer's not demonic?
Yeah. Yeah, no, I I think it. I think Pfizer is demonic but since you know, someone's someone's wife works there, you know. They may not agree.
Maybe see that the thing is is what you're conflating with demonic. So there's a there's a logical fallacy is called conflation. What you're doing is you're saying something's demonic and and so the implication is that the the entire the entire?
Business and all the people are demon. Well, no, it's easy. Mr. Tracy's name at what I'm saying is.
That their company just knew what they were doing and since they've said that now you're just saying Okay, so Andrew. Andrew says this is he's from down under in Australia. So he says what gets me is that these people seem to be able to back to the demonic stuff we're talking about with the Oh What I hate getting older the words just deliverance ministry.
He says when it gets me is that these people seem to be able to identify when others have a demon in them. But they can't notice like if they have a demon in themselves, right. Kevin is saying here. He says.
Kevin says glad to see Doreen on here. I've been following her since I got saved out of the New Age.
Oh praise the Lord for saving you also out of New Age brother Kevin.
I would say you need to come in here and and share that yourself. That's that's what I'm thinking. So, yeah, you know this is the thing like This is so so let's let's talk a little bit more and I noticed a little bit ago Just when you came in that Cole dropped for for regulars that you know of the show Cole Hasn't been seen for a while last week we mentioned that and he popped back in which was which was good and I was about to go to him just as Justin came In and he dropped so sorry about that Cole.
So let's let's deal a little bit with the the New Age the one of the things That I find is that the the teachings of the of what we call New Age we see them in a lot. Right, we see it in the Eastern religions.
We see it in Gnosticism. This isn't a new thing. It's I think what it is. It's something that It appeals to people's flesh. It appeals to people's just wanting to feel good. Mm-hmm. I think it. And this is a generalization I get it but it it seems to be more Attractive to the women being more feeling based.
But it is it's got this connotation. I believe and you're the expert you could tell me if I'm wrong. What I think it does for many people is give this Feeling and this thought as if they're superior there.
They're enlightened. They have a little bit more and so when when someone like me Criticizes it. I'm I'm not enlightened. I'm not as as smart as them or I mean as enlightened as them is what they would say and therefore they they don't really give a lot of credence to What I would say now, I guess in your case story.
They can't say that because You believed it taught it and and you know did did seminars were not on this I think that that's the I Guess what I'm saying is it seems that they have an emotional reaction.
When you criticize this very very much of the way I think that many charismatics have an emotional reaction when you say that you believe the gifts have ceased. Because they tie up their spiritual spirituality with their with their experience and so you're saying the experience isn't good it's you know, they They tie those together and I think that I get the sense or I always have That New Age is similar in that way that people tie their spirituality to this enlightenment that they think they have and so if they're If their beliefs in New Age are wrong.
It seems like that leads to the thinking of well then I'm not an enlightened person, but I want to be enlightened is that.
Yeah, it's very very narcissistic. I mean, it's Genesis 3 on eternal repeat. We're just promise of.
You're gonna have to repeat that. Never heard that word. I love that.
Well, it is it's a promise of secret wisdom that you're going to get and you'll be better than someone else. And I I was living proof of that. I thought I thought I was a Christian, but I called myself an open-minded Christian and I thought That the born-again evangelicals were fear-based guilt-based and closed-minded in and I didn't know about the narrow path back then you have to be closed-minded you have to.
You have to so I get that now, but at the time I was just like you were describing Andrew I thought I was superior and even more the gospel was shared to me throughout my life. I mean, I grew up in the 60s when there would be Gospel preaching Pastors on TV regular TV and even Billy Graham with his ecumenical issues would go on Johnny Carson and share the gospel back then.
I mean, so I was exposed to it. My neighbors were mostly Baptists and and And I actually went to a Baptist VBS as a child with my next-door neighbor. So but the thing is you are brainwashed in the New Age to believe that if you have any negative thoughts Something horrible is going to happen.
I mean, it's like how kids say if you if you step on the crack in the sidewalk It'll break your mother's back. It's like that. And so you're just have this this complete Phobia which in itself is negative to negative thinking so if I if you came up to me as a New Ager Andrew I would have been defensive because I would have thought that you had negative thoughts.
So you're there for inferior you don't get it. Yeah, your negative thoughts are creating your problems. And that's why I couldn't see that. I was a sinner and couldn't be saved until God used Deuteronomy 18 to convict me to see that.
Oh, it's right here in black and white. I am a sinner. I have broken God's laws. I'm a detestable abomination to God. I didn't know that for 59 years of my life because I was just told that I'm perfect whole and complete God.
We would rest on Genesis 126 that we were made in the image and likeness of God and therefore God's sinless. God's perfect. So I'm in his image and likeness. I'm sinless. I'm perfect, too.
Yeah, I think what's amazing about the whole discussion here is How it ties and I keep tying it back to what I've been studying with the Pentecostal charismatic movement. They have what's called the positive affirmation Movement where you can speak truth, you can speak things into existence and if you if you speak positively.
You're gonna you can speak to yourself wealth. You can speak to yourself, you know happiness about Joel's. Yeah, and you think about that it's the same thing you're talking about. So I was actually watching a video from Ligonier from W Robert Godfrey and he talks about the Pentecostal ism in his church history survey and and he was talking about the history of of the these movements and saying that They're all appealing to something that is in an innate in every person and that's a desire to find and know God on their own apart from by their own effort, but apart from The inner working of the Holy Spirit the way God truly does it, you know.
They're they would say that they're seeking after God or they're seeking. They're speaking spiritual enlightenment or whatever and he would say he says that that is it's so tied into emotionalism. That that is why that's the catalyst for all of this is that we are so emotional or a lot of people are so emotional.
About you know about their you know, they're felt their feelings they experience something and since they've experienced these things. You're not unless the Holy Spirit does something you're not going to you know.
Talk to them out of this of this experience. They had they've had the fire of the Lord. They had a fire tunnel at Bethel Church they had you know, Chris volatile talk to them about you know, smoking the spirit or smoking the.
Toking the spirit or whatever. I think he's smoking something. Oh, yeah.
You know and it's it's it's it's so tied in with New Age spiritism and it's so much a part of it but if you go back to people like Dowey John Alexander Dowey you go back to Smith Wigglesworth. I heard you talk about him just a minute ago earlier.
You know you you mentioned him and I think you have some yeah some well knowledge. These guys were spiritist. They were not Christians, you know, you had Kathleen Kuhlman, you know, these guys were were calling themselves God.
They were saying that they were Isaiah. They were channeling demons. They were channeling everything. They said you could manifest anything you wanted to manifest, you know. Your words had power and meaning you could do anything you wanted and that's what we're seeing in all of these different movements.
You know and it comes, you know. It comes out of this this positive affirmation it does yeah.
I did some research on the law of attraction which is something that's been popularized from the secret the book in the movie Right, and so the history of that is that there was a spiritualist a medium named Andrew Jackson Davis in the 1800s.
It was 1846 who wrote a book about the law of attraction and then 11 years later a Russian Spiritualist named Helena Blavatsky who was a Satanist also. She wrote a book called Isis Unveiled which was a best-selling book and it talked about the law of attraction use that phrase in there and and the the book also said in the Gnostic Gnostic way that Lucifer was an unsung hero that was he was Misunderstood hero and that Complete Satanism along with law of attraction and it reminds me of what you're saying pastor Justin that this whole putting us on the seat of God as the creator is Part of the New Age movement that you're in charge.
Your thoughts create your reality. Your your positive thoughts create positive outcome your negative thoughts create negative outcome. Now the Bible does say that in Proverbs that your cheerful spirit is good medicine so there's nothing wrong with being optimistic, but this is idolatry of yourself and You know when you look at Job the final chapters where God says in essence to Job Where were you when I hung the stars in the sky?
That's the kind of humbling we need as New Agers because we start to think that we are God we're goddesses and Particularly when we know God is omnipresent. That was a big thing. We talked about in New Age.
God's everywhere. We were pantheists and panentheists. So we said well God's in us. Therefore we are God, too. It was it was so scary that we believed that way praise the Lord for opening my eyes to the gospel.
It's a very you know, let me find it D said. Yeah here here it is. He says it's very self-focused going to the selfish desires. And I think I think that's why it's popular humble clay says sounds like Psychological abuse and and yeah, it is but this is not unique in that.
So Melissa Lex. And Melissa likes by way is another one of the Christian podcast Community podcasters her show is called thoroughly equipped and it is a show devoted to really going through women's ministries materials and Closing some of the issues there.
So I I Think that hey, Melissa, you may want to have Doreen on it with the series. You've been doing just saying I think it would fit in. Well, all right. She's he she says New Agers not only feel They are in the quote-unquote.
No, but God Resonates within and are Connected to the universe or Christ. They are little gods and this is this is the thing This is why I titled the show unveiling the New Age because The veil that people have that I see is this idea that I could be God I could be like God or I am like God.
It's just how enlightened I am how much I accept that and That's the deception of it. That's that's in the those who are using these Ideas within Christianity they want to hide that part of it. They don't always want to come right out and say it though I mean, you'll have people that teach the little God doctrines and then deny that they teach it.
Oh, yeah, right.
Yeah, and so they the New Agers if you ask a lot of them, they will say that they Love Jesus also and and so when you're evangelizing to a New Ager, they'll say well, what's the problem? I love Jesus.
I follow him too. And the follow-up question needs to be well, who is Jesus to you? Yeah. Yeah, which Jesus? Yeah, which Jesus?
Nation, of course, he's gonna like you.
Yesterday I was talking to a woman who is it is a Kabbalist. She follows the Kabbalah. And she started to argue with me that Jesus also had studied the Kabbalah. This is big in the New Age. Jesus is so called lost years between 12 and 30.
The silent years. The silent years, yes, so her in her mind Jesus studied the Kabbalah.
Since that's before Kabbalah started. Yeah. Thank you.
Well, see this is her argument and I've heard this before that they argue that the the Bogota of the Gita the Hindu scripture and that the Kabbalah Predates the Bible. And they always want to say that and it's not true historically.
And then they want to rip apart the Bible that Constantine took out parts about reincarnation and the Roman Catholic Church took out parts and there's lost books. They they always want to diminish the Bible's authority.
No, I may I may have to agree with them though because there is a part of it that predates the Bible. This there where they got the teaching from now. The serpent. Than any of the beasts of the field which Flea the field which the Lord God had made.
And he said to the woman. Quote. Indeed has God said to you. You shall not eat of any tree in the garden. Unquote. And a woman said that To the serpent from the fruit of the trees God said we may eat but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden God said you shall not eat of it or touch it.
And the serpent said to the woman. You surely shall not die. Quote. For God knows that in that day you eat of it. Your eyes will be opened and You will be like God knowing good and evil. Unquote. So so in that sense, I might have to agree with them.
It does predate the Bible. Not God, but the Bible. When Satan was teaching this. Right. He's teaching that yet. They're gonna be enlightened. Right, is that not what he says. Right. Your eyes will be opened.
You're gonna be enlightened. You're gonna be like God. You're gonna know good from evil. This is gonna be a little God.
Yeah, the argument is that because something's older I mean Abraham came out of the Chaldean or and he was a polytheist probably because of that culture. But they're arguing that if something's older it's therefore more valid.
Which which which see right there though as we're seeing here is something older and It's coming right from Satan. Yeah, and so does that make it better? No. What should concern them is the fact that as I just read right? their teaching comes right out of the mouth of Satan.
That should be concerning. This is what I say to Mormons all the time when they say they're gonna be they're gonna be God of their own planet. No, and I'll say, you know where we see that in the Bible and they're like no where I go out of the mouth of Satan.
In Genesis 30. Yes. You have a demonic teaching.
It's not good. Well, you know Kenneth Copeland. He says, you know, whenever I read where God says I am I smile and say yes I am too and I I tell you what, he says that all the time, you know, and and you know.
It's that little God's doctrine is everywhere. Here's the thing for.
Folks, I mean like as you're saying that I'm just thinking of people who you know okay, we cringe at this and You know, we have a tendency or maybe it's just me not you guys. How I have a tendency to say man.
What's gonna be like for that guy on Judgment Day? Right and there's a part of us that wants to see God's justice. You know tear them down. But on another note, I mean think about this is what will it be like for many of these people on Judgment Day?
When they suddenly come face to face with God and he is going to judge them for all of eternity. Because of their belief that they could be God and he's gonna explain there's only one God and they're not it.
And then they're gonna be judged for all eternity and that's that's very concerning. And that's why this is it's extremely deceitful as to see it's very much deceiving and the problem with it is That these people get wrapped up into it and it is hard to pull yourself out when you convince yourself.
You're God.
When you've had when you've had an emotional experience. Where you think that you've touched to God? Talk to God visited with God. Yeah, when you've had that that I mean, I I've watched Todd Bentley at the at the Lakeland revival and this has been a while back.
But it's still His what he taught has affected so many people. Bill Johnson is still saying it everything else. He said that there were little children that were having trips to heaven and they were visiting with Jesus and coming back and Being anointed to little children and he said, you know, we've got one one five-year-old.
He said we got one five-year-old boy in here and they had an audience of more than 10 ,000 people in that in that arena that he had Bill Johnson Mike Bickle all these guys were right there and he said there's a little five-year-old running around here and he is anointing people with the anointing oil from God and they shouted and screamed and prayed and praised God and and Did music worship for no less than for 45 minutes?
Send the oil send the oil send the oil send the oil send the oil and people were pouring anointing oil. You're talking about this this oils. They're pouring this anointing oil thinking it's giving them spirit power.
They have these little kids that are you know doing all this stuff and and it's still affecting people today. I mean, you know, you have the New Age the charismatic movement and the Pentecostal movement is the largest Denominational quote-unquote movement in all of quote Christianity today.
Well, you know Justin the thing is if I was in a service like that where they're just saying Anointing all bring the oil bring the oil bring over and over again. That would that would probably put me to sleep.
You know. And so, you know, so really if I was gonna go to one of those places, you know what I should do. I should go to my pillow and get myself a good pillow before going to one of these services and Use the promo code SFE to not only get my discount off of that good pillow But also support striving for eternity at the same time.
Because if they're gonna put me to sleep, I might as well have a good pillow to sleep on just saying I See Doreen's not used to how I can how I do. But yeah, so If you if you need yourself a good pillow, you know, it's you won't get a robe.
Yeah, I'm trying to look that I I'm getting different gifts for Christmas. This is unique Christmas ideas. You got towels. They got robes. They got the mattress topper for the person you really love because that's it.
You know, I'll just say that I do have an interview coming up on the rap report and I was interviewing a pastor. And he he said when I got done explaining my pillow. He says hey, can I give it can I give a plug for your for your sponsor?
And he said he basically they've had the same bed since they got married and he made the decision. He either gets a new bed or he just went to my pillow and got their three-inch mattress topper. And he said it was like having a brand new bed again.
My husband that's all he'll sleep with is a my pillow. I I got him a fancy new pillow and he's like, where's my my pillow? Yeah, he made me go get it and bring it back. I.
Was mine. It's it's packed in there waiting for Texas. So yeah, I I'll take mine with me even when I went to Israel and I was limited to one bag the pillow made it so.
One thing I want to talk about guys for just a moment. Is this growing? Goddess movement that's that's coming up. It's an outbranch of the New Age with women who primarily tell me they've been abused by a man in their life and so they're rejecting and they're not trusting men and they see that Christianity is patriarchal with the male pronouns and.
They so they want to worship something and they go and they worship goddesses and it's a nature-based Theology where you go outside and you it's Panentheistic where you think God or goddess is within the trees and you worship the moon, which is supposed to be feminine.
I was in the goddess movement for about a decade and it is something that I think is the church needs to pray about and be aware of it and. And counsel women who've been abused that there are men that are trustworthy and that our father God is not like those men who hurt her.
Yeah, and and so. You know, I know we only have about 15 minutes. There's some things I did want to get to on here. Well first off I'll just put this one up. Melissa Lex from thoroughly equipped says I would love all caps.
Love Going on. So so what we'll have to make sure that we said busy. Doreen.
Trying to be trying to get busy. That's that my whole life is is, you know, I was hell-bound and God saved me. So anything I can do to glorify God, I'm all in.
Well, we'd love to have you come back on and you know. If you have more stuff to talk about because I tell you I I know that I know and I've you and I have been Friends on Facebook, you know. We met I don't know how this two years ago.
I believe it's been two years ago. We met and I came on the show with you and and that was such a blessing for me. You know just to be able to come on and talk with you and and I've seen so much of the work that you've done and I know that you have a strong passion for you know, especially for the ladies for women and Women.
But for you, I know that you don't try to step out and say hey, let me go teach everybody but you're trying to help so many people see that the danger of this of.
These movements and it's it's so needed. It's my heart breaks for the lost new agers because I was there. Yeah, well, you know, there's a.
Soon so many people that are talking like of these prayer labyrinths in their churches the The what is that called anagrams?
That too because there was there was some there was a question we had on that as well. There's a lot to do. Yeah, yeah. That that would be one that is affecting a lot and I know Melissa did a show on that on her podcast as well.
Well, my background of course is that I have a BA and an MA in psychology and a master's in theology. And and so as a psychotherapist I used to do personality tests on people and some legitimate ones like the MMPI is legitimate but the the Enneagram was the brainchild of a man who Was a trans channeler an occultist who he actually Didn't care whether he was talking that he said this he wrote this it's on his website.
He's deceased now, but his writings are there, but he didn't care if he was talking to a demon or not. He just wanted the information so he trans channeled and I have a video clip of him admitting this the nine anyotypes and he brought those in and those are a doctrine of demons that people are saying is Christian because The marketing behind the Enneagram has been this lie.
That's been Exposed that it was from some ancient monk and even that why would the church pay attention to some ancient monk? But but the reason they like the Enneagram is it's it's self-focused self-glory.
Who who am I what's my identity when our identity is are you saved or not? Am I a child is adopted by God or not? That's all that matters. But instead the Enneagram Elevates you and says oh, I'm a one really.
Well, I'm a two. Oh, we're compatible and and it's just it's psychobabble and new ageism the worst of both.
Yeah, let me see if I can get through some of some of these just with the time we have and by the way Folks you heard the way Justin said that to Doreen. We have to have you back on which means we expect to see Justin back on right just saying.
All right. So as soon as I finish my paper, I'm coming back inside. Yeah.
You know, just Justin Peters did his thesis on the charismatic church. Yeah.
Kate Kate T says all that repetition like transcendent meditation or something. That and that's what is it? It's the idea. It's the red. It's just repetition repetition repetition.
And you know where you know who started that? Catherine Coleman. She actually brought a band in and it was it was hours of Montrich you know just Drum beats and everything else and that's what she did for hours.
And then she would come in and and that's where Benny Hinn got His. I mean he he has videos where he goes to her grave and he's bowing down and he's worshiping in her grave. What the Lord. Because it's not her these words.
But you know, he's he's he's doing this for hours. Talks about her and her influence on his life and he models her. Yeah.
So so let me put this up because we got a prayer request that came in. Leslie said please pay for my daughter who is in Wicca. Folks Leslie Asking for prayer for her daughter. I know folks out there already.
You know mentioned they're praying so. To two quick things left is Kevin says Doreen would you say that psychics are generally communicating with demons?
Impersonating dead people. That's a great question and something I usually address. So I'm glad you brought that up brother Kevin. I was a psychic. I was a stage psychic who was talking to people I'd never met and I was getting accurate information.
That I couldn't have known like names of their deceased loved ones. What their career was just how it's someone died next to them and and all that information was coming from demons. Absolutely. Second Corinthians.
Yeah. Second Corinthians 11 14 and 15 are in view because it says that Satan masquerades as an angel of light and I would say that includes Pretending to be our deceased loved ones and then 15 is people like I was Seem to be servants of righteousness, but we were servants of the devil at the same time.
And so I was channeling unbeknownst to me demons. And giving people what seemed to be comfort, but it was messages that were not passing Apostle John's test of the spirits from first John for where we were not pointing people to the biblical Jesus in these readings.
We're not pointing them to Bible study or to join a biblically solid local church. So we failed the test of the spirits. Yeah.
Yeah, and you know, there's a little side note that is one thing I'd love about our audience. If you're not watching this show live and in the chat on YouTube you're missing out but Leslie just gave an update and all the people are praying or mentioned they're praying.
And that's what I love about this audience. If you Mention a prayer request the audience is is praying right away. But and Leslie said thank you. She's her daughter's also choosing a lesbian lifestyle.
She wasn't raised that way. So so that's that's the Wicca movement. Oh, it's all women. It's all about goddess and divine feminine and it's just it's women obsessed. But it's interesting if you ask them they all believe in reincarnation.
And they will admit that they might come back as a man, even though there's no such thing as reincarnation. But it kind of you can kind of put a stone in their shoe with that question.
So let me end with this question that was asked and I and this is Regular listeners, you know, this is where I would have wanted to end anyway. So I'm glad this was asked but Barry Moss is saying please discuss how to witness to these lost souls.
Well, of course, the gospel is the power of God unto salvation. So they need to hear the gospel, even if they reject it. People who were telling me the gospel I would get so mad at but God's Word does not return void so they need to hear the gospel.
And one of the best ways I think to share the gospel with a new ager is Listen for any if they do admit there's problems. They rarely will but might just pick up there's some problems and say can I pray with you.
And new agers love to be prayed? Over a part of its narcissism, you know pay attention to me and while you're praying with them out loud. Whether you're with them physically or not, but they need to hear this.
Put the gospel in that prayer or it or pray grace. Before you eat and be bold for the gospel put it clearly into saying grace and and trust that That's the seed we're to plant and God does the rest.
Yeah, that's a really good point is. You know people really they. Even if they're gonna reject the gospel, they they won't usually reject someone praying for them. I was down in Florida and a pastor had there's a very very wealthy Jewish man and the pastor his this wealthy man's Secretary would go to his church.
So he was able to set up a meeting and The You know, they they brought a missionary that was a missionary Jewish people because they you know. They wanted to try to get the gospel to this gentleman. And so since I happen to be in town, they they said hey you you want to come so it's their show I'm gonna let them right they had it set up.
I was gonna let them Talk and whatnot and and they were just shutting these guys down. I mean he was just he wanted none of it he's willing to sit there and talk and and he's being polite and so. You know, I I took a little bit of a different tact being that you know.
He's in real estate. My father's in real estate and and they live in the same state and he actually knew of my father and so. You know, I kind of used that to start talking. But when we went to leave I just turned to him I said cuz he he just did not want to hear the gospel at any any, you know attempts.
So I said, can I just pray for you before we leave? And he's like, oh sure. And So I did like you said, I just prayed the gospel message and You know, he sat there, you know, he's not gonna interrupt do you like he everyone's eyes are closed, right?
They're not gonna interrupt you. Right and and if they do you just keep going right and so. It's it's a great way to share the gospel with someone that is that way. And so and when we say well like what is the gospel?
Maybe someone's listening because you saw a new age and you're you're actually saying hey I don't like anything that I'm hearing tonight because I disagree with all of it. Well, and and you're hearing me talk and during talk about the gospel.
What is the gospel? Well, the gospel is really this it's the fact that you and I even though you as a listener. Maybe I'm far more moral person than I am. The reality is both of us have broken God's law both of us rightly deserve God's Justice which means because he's infinitely holy and infinitely just it means we have an infinite consequence so we deserve to be punished forever and.
So because of that we could never pay that debt off. We can never pay the punishment but God. Those are two great words in the Bible, but God He came to earth as a man. Being an eternal being he could pay an eternal fine.
Becoming a man having never broken the law. He could pay the fine for us. He'd be a substitute. That's what makes Jesus unique is that he could come to earth and who he is. He could pay that fine not only for me, but for many others.
He could do that for you. Or he's done that because it was at the cross. But you have to turn from trusting yourself. Stop thinking that you could be God stop thinking you could do good work. Stop trusting in in your good nature.
None of that's gonna get you right with God. We have to turn to Christ and trust what he did on that cross is the only payment of sin. So we turn from self and turn to Christ and I know if you're in the New Age movement that is really hard.
To do to turn away from self because so much of the New Age movement is about self. But that's the problem. That's what's gonna condemn you to an eternal lake of fire if you don't turn to Christ. So my plea with you is that you would do that that you'd be as Doreen has done to come out of that movement and to come to know the true biblical Jesus and to have a Saving loving relationship with him then.
You know, we'd call you brother or sister, you know as Doreen did with Kevin earlier. We'd love to hear that testimony if that is you even if you know, if you're the one that's saying hey, guess what?
I'm still I'm New Age. I still disagree. You could come in next week and let's talk about it because. You know, we'd love to hear your side. Look this show if you anyone who watches this show regularly, you know.
We're we let people explain their views when we had the gentleman for that want to promote gay Christianity. I didn't cut him off we we didn't get to his eight pages of notes because we kept trying to get to Definitions and he was too wishy-washy on definitions and we couldn't get a clear definition.
But the reality is we'll let you you know, say what you think and and explain your views but we're gonna critique it and and address it too, so. But you have a welcome invitation to come in. So Doreen I want to thank you for coming in I hope this is very enlightening for folks in in a biblical way that is.
But there's a whole lot that the new this this New Age Eastern mysticism has weaved its way into Christianity in so many different ways that we're talking about tonight that some people may not have even realized and so.
You know, I want to encourage you though with you know, you mentioned earlier, you know you were living this way for 59 years and and you know now you're you're saved and you know God brought you through that because you are able to have an impact that Pastor Justin can't have I can't have I can't speak with the same authority on these issues that you can and.
So God has raised you up uniquely in this way and and not unique. Like you're the only new age that can do that came out a new age that can do this I mean others as well. But but I want to encourage you that even though you you spent so much time in it and it may feel like a waste the reality is is that You know what this is is God bringing you through so you could be a blessing to many of us who Didn't go through that book from from your all that you have.
Experienced and studied. Thank you. That's that's. My prayer is to glorify God with my and then for him to use my past for his glory. So I appreciate that.
Yeah. Yeah, so with that.
You know, we thank you going on. Is there. Is there any good way for folks to get a hold of you and.
Yeah through Instagram. It's just my name Doreen. Virtue just the direct messages. It's only me reading and answering so I'm a little slow but I try to get to everybody and if I don't get to you right away right again and I'll pop to the top and and I answer everyone who's Kind if there's.
If they're really mean I just don't answer those anymore. I'll pray for you.
You know. Yeah, I think they're just getting like an AI program to deal with those. So so. Doreen one thing you can do is just send them to Andrew.
Yes, okay. He gets all that. I don't get any mean emails from anybody. Yeah, I know I do forward a lot of them too, but I do get mean emails too. So.
Rebecca says you're gonna be hearing from her. And I think maybe Melissa as well. So so during thanks. Thanks for coming on folks. Don't actually have a plan for next week's show being that. What I may do.
I'm just gonna let you know we won't be doing a show on Thanksgiving. Surprise no. But if the video is ready. By next week. I have a debate on Wednesday when I'm out in Dallas. With an atheist with the topic of is Christianity true.
So if I have that video by then what I may do is just re-air that. On the show and if not, we'll do that after Thanksgiving but and so we'll either air that or do a live Q &A. So in an open Q &A, so come prepared with questions just in case and.
If not, you'll get to watch a good debate. So with that just we want to remind you guys to strive to make today an eternal day For the glory of God and we will see you next time. Bye now.