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Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Roseborough. I am your servant in Jesus Christ.

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This is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God. Now, if you've ever heard anybody in a church or a

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Christian leader or a special guest speaker talk about how your words and what you visualize in your mind, that there's biblical principles that say that you can create your ideal outcome for your present or your future or your life or whatever through your positive visualization and things like this.

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If you've ever heard this, go ahead and hit the like button down below. Don't forget to subscribe and ring the bell because what you've been taught is part of what's known as the

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Word of Faith heresy. We got a salient example of this today that we're going to be working through from the daughter of one of the most well -known

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Word of Faith heretics, very good friend of Ken Copeland's. His name is John Savelle and his daughter is

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Terri Savelle Foy. You get the idea. So let me go ahead and whirl up the desktop.

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But that's a different story. Here is Terri Savelle Foy's channel, and the name of this teaching is titled

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Visualize Your Dreams in Three Simple Steps. And this one's going to take a little bit of time to unpack, and the reason for that is that not only is what she's saying not biblical, but the way she handles

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God's Word. Remember, it was not that many segments ago where we talked about what

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I call the pop bead way of twisting scripture, taking verses out of context and then stringing them together.

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This one's worse than the pop bead metaphor, and the reason why is because the verses that she's quoting doesn't, they don't even say the things she's saying they say.

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So, we've got to go from pop beads, which are way more precious than what it is we're going to be talking about.

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So, we're going to, this is going to be the string of macaroni method. Yeah, we've had to go to uncooked pasta to make the metaphor here because, boy, this is just a horrifically awful teaching on her part.

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But let's let Terri Savelle Foy explain this to us a little bit, and we're going to know, we've got to spend some time in the biblical text because she's going to quote a whole bunch of them along the way, and we're going to show you that none of them, like not even one, is properly quoted or cited.

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And we'll apply our three rules for sound biblical exegesis, which are context, context, and context.

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And we'll also have to do a little cross -reference work with the original languages, at least in one of the texts.

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So, you know, grab something to drink, pop some popcorn. Let's get to it.

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Here's Terri Savelle Foy. Wow, I hit the button too quick. Terri Savelle Foy, your cheerleader of dreams. I found this story on Instagram of this kid who grew up in Florida and dreamed of being a news anchor.

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I mean, he totally knew what he wanted to do with his life at such a young age. Yeah, I wanted to be a fighter pilot.

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That didn't work out. You know, my eyes and me and the Navy could never agree on that, by the way. I wasn't quite that clear, even at 30.

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Well, he would even get this little microphone and when it was raining outside, he'd have his friends video him acting like he was reporting live the thunderstorm that shook the area.

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Now, note here, this fellow she's talking about, he's not found in scripture and I don't know whether or not he's even a

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Christian. So what she finds is people who are successful that apply this particular technique and hold them up for us, regardless of whether or not they are

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Christians, as if this is some kind of weird law that exists, a rule that can be applied to the general population.

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And the precipitation to follow. He even had a fake stage name and he acted like this anchor man for years.

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Like I said, I follow him on Instagram and it's so cute. You know, from time to time, he'll even post those old videos from when he was a kid doing his anchor job.

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It is the cutest thing. Well, he said he even went to Office Depot at 12 years old and had a little nameplate made.

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So his name is Jason Kennedy. So his Instagram name is THE Jason Kennedy.

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Got it. Said Jason Kennedy Anchorman. It sat on his news desk, he said, for years growing up.

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And guess what he became? A news anchorman? One of the greatest anchormen on TV today.

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Interviewing the biggest celebrities in the world. And he just has the greatest personality. You just can't help but like him.

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You can watch him actually on E! News. And I have to say, he's one of my absolute favorites. But what can we learn from the real anchorman,

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Jason Kennedy? What did he do? Yeah, as a

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Christian, what should I be emulating in this guy's life? You know, that it's actually biblical.

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He used his imagination to create his ideal future. Uh, what?

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He used his imagination to create his ideal future. Now this is where I want to talk a little bit about what is the ideal future that Christians really are to focus on.

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And so I didn't set this one up ahead of time. So let me go ahead. I'm going to duplicate this tab here.

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And the ideal future that we as Christians look to, it's found in one of the places it's found, it's found at the end of the book of Revelation.

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And here's the ideal future that we are looking forward to. And our imagination has nothing to do with this ideal future's arrival.

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It's coming when God planned for it to come. Regardless of if you're ready or you're positive or you're negative, if you're an optimist or a pessimist, it doesn't matter whether you decree it or declare it or whether you don't decree it or declare it.

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It's coming because God has said that it's coming. And here's the ideal future that we're looking for.

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So then I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. And the sea was no more.

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And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

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And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, behold, the dwelling place of God is with man.

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He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes and death shall be no more.

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Neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore for the former things have passed away.

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And so he who was seated on the throne, this is Christ, behold, I am making all things new.

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Also said, write this down for these words are trustworthy and true. And he said, it is done.

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I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty, I will give from the spring of water of life without payment.

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The one who conquers will have this heritage. I will be as God and he will be my son. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for the murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.

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So you want to talk about the ideal future that we're looking for. New heavens, new earth. Now, why is that necessary?

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Well, the reason it's necessary is because of our rebellion, because of our sin. So the way to think about it is that there is no ideal future for you in this present life, and that's not the goal of this life or the thing that we're striving after, some kind of ideal present.

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Instead, we should expect persecution, Christ has told us that, we should expect suffering,

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Christ has promised that. And in this world, we still struggle with our own sinful flesh.

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And so, there's nothing ideal about where we currently are, because every human being and the creation itself is under the curse, and the creation has been subjected to futility.

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So the ideal future we are looking to, where the scriptures constantly are referring us to as the hope that we are to look to to get us through our present circumstances, is what's talked about here at the end of Revelation.

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You can also find descriptions of it in the prophet Isaiah and things like that.

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There are other passages of scripture that refer to it. So already, she's got us on a wild goose chase.

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And I'm going to back this up, because she says that our imaginations make this possible.

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So I'm going to back it up 15 seconds, see if that's enough. Let's see, here we go. You just can't help but like him.

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You can watch him actually on E! News, and I have to say he's one of my absolute favorites. But what can we learn from the real anchorman,

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Jason Kennedy? What did he do? He used his imagination to create his...

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He used his imagination to create. That is a strange sentence.

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My imagination creates things. Backing it up here again.

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Kennedy, what did he do? He used his imagination to create his ideal future.

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He took it a step further and surrounded himself with visuals of what he dreamed of.

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He spoke as if it would one day, you know, be his future, an anchorman. And he became what he believed.

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Well, everything I just pointed out from his story are principles in God's word to achieve success.

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All right. So notice what she just said. Everything that she just mentioned, they are principles in God's word to achieving success.

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So immediately the question is going to be, does the Bible teach principles that anybody can apply?

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Believer, unbeliever, pagan, not pagan, so that they can achieve success in this world?

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The answer is no, by the way. And so this is going to be an example of what scripture warns us.

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And so the apostle Paul, in fact, let me back this up. The apostle Paul writing to young pastor

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Timothy, who was a pastor of one of the congregations in the city of Ephesus, here's what he says,

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Paul is writing as he's nearing his death, this isn't his last, oh, actually this is his last letter. Second Timothy is the last letter that he is writing in this lifetime.

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And here's what it says. In fact, let me get this in the right spot here.

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Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus, they will be persecuted. That's a, you get the idea.

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They will be persecuted. While evil people and imposters, they will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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Yeah. But as for you, young pastor Timothy, continuing what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you've learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, this is scripture.

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Which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is breathed out by God and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete and equipped for every good work.

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So note, Peter, Paul, just like Peter, as he's getting ready to go to his death, he's pointing people to the written word of God.

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And so note then what he says, he prophesies, so Paul prophesies what's going to, what it's going to be like in the last days.

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He says, I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead and by his kingdom, and is appearing to preach the word.

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Be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with complete patience and teaching, or you can say doctrine, didache here can be doctrine.

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For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching or sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions.

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And these are like sinful passions here that are being referred to, and they will turn away from listening to the truth and they will wander off into myths, and it is the word mythos.

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So people in the last days, they're not going to tolerate sound doctrine. They're not going to tolerate people teaching them what the

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Bible really says. No, they want to hear things like, oh, if I speak and if I think, and if I use my imagination,

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I'm going to have a great life. I'm going to be successful. I'm going to be on TV. I'm going to be a bazillionaire.

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All this kind of stuff. That's scratching itching ears. This is all mythology that Terri Savelle Foy is teaching here.

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So backing it up just a little bit. Let's listen again. The Bible and the story are principles in God's word to achieve success.

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Every successful person practices a secret that's caused them to live their dreams. What is it?

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The art of visualizing their future. So what is visualization? Where in the scripture does it teach visualization?

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The art of visualization. No scripture teaches this. Creative visualization is a new age practice.

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It's simply seeing the invisible, or you could say seeing with the eye of faith. You know, it's your ability to see what other people can't see concerning your future.

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And I'm convinced that you cannot just arrive at success without seeing something. You can't get there.

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You have to see it first. You can't just arrive at success. Forehand. So with visualization, success coaches say that the sharper the images are and.

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Success coaches. Was Jesus a success coach? Was Paul a success coach?

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You know, I just have to ask because, you know, the Apostle Paul really didn't seem to experience an ideal life.

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Let me see. I think it's second Corinthians. I'm doing this from memory. Hang on a second here.

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And of course I did a typo along the way. I think it's second Corinthians. And if I'm not mistaken,

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I think it's 11. And the Apostle Paul talking about what happened in his life.

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Oh yeah. He, he, here we go. Let's see here. I think this is it. Um, yeah.

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So listen to what he says, talking about the so -called super apostles. So it says what

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I, what I am doing, I will continue to do in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission, they work on the same terms as we do.

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You know, talking about true apostles. For such men, they are false apostles. They're deceitful workmen.

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They're just, they disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

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So it's no surprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

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So I repeat that I wouldn't think me foolish, but even if you do accept me as a fool, so that, um, so that I too may boast a little, what am

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I, what I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not as the Lord would, but I'm now talking as a fool.

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So Paul is going to compare himself to the so -called super apostles. And he's going to speak foolishly on purpose to make a point.

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Since, uh, for you will gladly bear with fools being wise yourselves, for you bear it if someone makes the slaves of you or devours you or takes advantage of you, uh, or puts on airs or strikes you in the face.

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Well, to my shame, I must say we too, we were too weak for that. You know, we never did that, but whatever anyone else dares to boast of, and he says,

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I'm speaking as a fool on purpose. I'm now, no, I'm talking foolishly here. I also dare to boast of that.

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He says, are they Hebrews, these super apostles? Well, so am I. Are they Israelites?

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So am I. I'm an Israelite too, yeah. So, uh, so are they offspring of Abraham? Well, so am

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I. Yeah, that's right. So, um, are they servants of Christ? And now watch what he does here.

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This is brilliant. I'm bet, I'm a better one. And now I'm talking like a madman. Now he's, no, he's talking foolishly on purpose.

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And then watch his, uh, watch his resume at this point. Talk about, did, did

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Paul have his best life now? Watch what he says. So with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, often near death, five times

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I received at the hands of the Jews, the 40 lashes less one, three times

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I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned and he's not talking about the kind of stone you get in Colorado.

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No, once I was stoned three times, I was shipwrecked a night and a day.

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I was adrift at sea on frequent journeys and danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers in toil and hardship through many a sleepless night and hunger and thirst, often without food and cold and exposure.

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And apart from the other thing, the other, uh, from other things, there's the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches who's weak and I'm not weak.

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Who's made a fall and I'm not indignant. So if I must boast, I'll boast of the things that show my weakness.

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So, uh, so there you go. You want to know what the normal Christian looks like. You want to know what success looks like in Christianity.

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There was the apostle Paul, most successful missionary ever. And, uh, what was this life marked by?

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Was it him, uh, having well -behaved children, being a millionaire and having perfect health and using vision and boards and things like that to create his ideal future?

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That is clearly Paul did it wrong. Uh -huh. But then again, maybe

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Paul did it right. And what, uh, Terri Savelle Foy is teaching here, and she's not the only one who teaches this stuff.

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She's just an example of a lot of people who teach this stuff. Maybe she's teaching false doctrine because that's what she's doing.

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Let's continue. The more intense you feel, the more likely you are to create that desired result.

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Did you hear that? The sharper the images are and the more intense you feel, the more likely you are to create the desired result.

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Says who? Success coaches? Yeah, fine. That's not what the Bible teaches. Well, I've discovered that's exactly what you and I must do if we want to achieve our dreams.

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You know, I remember the first time that I started practicing visualization stuff and just, you know, seeing.

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Visualization stuff. That's what we call a vision board right there. With the eye of faith. I imagined myself walking into a bookstore and seeing my books on the shelf.

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So I put a photo of me at a bookstore on my vision board. I remember imagining, literally imagining.

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Imagination. Yeah. Okay. Meeting John Maxwell and speaking at events with him.

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I even made a fake photo of me and him and I put it on my vision board. I remember when I gained some weight after I turned 40 and I hated the way

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I looked. So what did I do? Got an image of what I did want to look like. And I put it.

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So that's the reason why I don't have six pack abs. I haven't put a vision board together.

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In my vision book, because I didn't want anybody to see it on my board. And after practicing what I'm sharing with you today, plus the seven step checklist for success,

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I'll explain later. It's your free download. Everything I visualized happened.

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Here I am walking into a book. Well, it's got to be true because everything she visualized happened. Yeah. This is the new age.

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Um, uh, the new age doctrine known as the secret. Yeah. The law of attraction.

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Actually seeing my books on the shelf. Do you know how incredible it felt to see what I had visualized actually happening?

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Here I am speaking at events with John Maxwell. Oh my goodness. I was freaking out.

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We both spoke for LTD and here he is kissing my head. Oh, what?

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That's a John Maxwell kissing your head. That's not creepy. Uh, that, no, that's, you know, that's not wrong at all.

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That, that, that that's inappropriate right there. The very thing

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I visualized was happening. I mean, I didn't actually imagine him kissing my head, but you know what I mean?

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And then here I am reaching my fitness goals in my bikini. I'm just kidding.

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I would never post that. I did reach my fitness goals. So I wanted to break this apart in three steps.

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I wish I had known sooner, but real quick, I wish I had time to teach the entire seven step checklist for success.

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I wanted to focus on three today, but I want you to have all seven, the entire checklist. So you can just go down this list and make sure you're applying them in your life.

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And here's the thing is she's now going to go into biblical texts. This isn't a biblical teaching.

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It's not based on actual biblical principles. And she's going to be twisting God's word horrifically here.

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I mean, this is scratching itching your stuff. And why is it that things go bad in our life, by the way?

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Why? Because of sin. The thing that we're called to do is to repent and to trust

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Christ for the forgiveness of our sins. He's going to make all things new. We just read that out of Revelation 21.

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So this is, there's no repentance here at all. The reason why things are not successful in your life is because you haven't applied the magic principle.

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It's magic of visualizing your future and it'll come to pass. To do is click the link in the description and get that free download right now.

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Again, it's the seven step checklist for success. So number one, visualize your ideal future.

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Now, my question. I already did that. Revelation 21, ideal future. That's, that's the ideal future that we're to look for.

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Face to face with God, new heavens, new earth, no sin. Yeah. In a world without end, life eternal.

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That's the ideal future. And scripture explains it to us, not as a visualization technique, but that's the thing that we are hoping for.

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So nothing in this life could ever be qualify as my ideal future for you.

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Is what do you see? Do you just see reality, a pile of debt? Do you see reality?

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Reality is an important thing to see here. Let me back this up and listen to the list for you is what do you see?

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Do you just see reality, a pile of debt, marriage problems, an overweight body bills, a failing career, hopelessness, unfulfilled dreams?

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Yeah. Um, everything you've described and talked about and listed there, these are all the consequences and the result of our sin.

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Hello. Anything, you know, from the word of God, we can see a powerful principle that says powerful principle is you become what you behold now, where in scripture does it say you become what you behold?

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And you're sitting there going, it's right there. Roseboro second Corinthians three 18, really second Corinthians three 18.

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If I were to go to it right now and read it, would it say you become what you behold, is that what it would say?

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So let me back it up here. And so, uh, let's, let's have her kind of spin out this doctrine and, uh, and then we'll go take a look.

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We'll do a little fact -checking in second Corinthians three. We can see a powerful principle that says you become what you behold.

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Now to behold something doesn't mean to just glance at it every once in a while. It means a constant, immovable and firm gaze to look at consistently and constantly.

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Hmm. She even, so we, we, the behold thing that she even told us what the word means. Is it in second

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Corinthians three 18? Yeah, let's take a look. All right. So what we're going to do, we're going to apply our three rules for sound biblical exegesis.

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They are context, context, and context. And for second Corinthians three, we want to get to verse 18.

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Uh, but before we get there, we're going to put it in its context. We're going to read before it to see what's going on in this passage, to see if it's teaching that you can create your ideal future by beholding in your mind, seeing in your mind, what you want to behold, or, you know, you get the idea, what she just said.

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So second Corinthians three, four is where we begin. Such as the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.

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Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything is coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit, for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.

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So no, God is, he's made us sufficient, uh, sufficient to be preachers and teachers of the new covenant.

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Okay. Now, if the ministry of death, this is talking about the Mosaic covenant, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the

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Israelites could not gaze at Moses's face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end.

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Will not the ministry of the spirit have even more glory? Talking about salvation by grace, through faith, the new covenant of the forgiveness of sins.

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For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.

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Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all because of the glory that surpasses it.

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For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory.

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Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses who would put a veil over his face so that the

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Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end, but their minds were hardened for, to this day, when they read the old covenant, that very same veil remains unlifted because only through Christ is it taken away.

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Yes, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the

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Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the spirit and where the spirit of the

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Lord is, there is freedom. And we all with unveiled face beholding the glory of the

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Lord are being transformed into the image from one degree of glory to another for this comes from the

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Lord who is the spirit. So does the text say that whatever you behold, you become?

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No, not at all. It's, it's using a metaphor here that Moses behold the face of God, but he had to put on a veil, but we behold the glory of the

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Lord with, without a veil. Okay. And so we all with unveiled face because of the gospel, okay, we behold the glory of the

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Lord and we are being transformed. We are not transforming ourselves. We are being transformed.

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And you'll note that the, the word for transformed there in verse 18 is a passive verb.

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We are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another for this comes from the

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Lord who is the spirit. So now we've got a problem. All right. Terri Savelle Foy has quoted second

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Corinthians. She's made allusion to second Corinthians chapter two, chapter three, verse 18.

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And the text doesn't say what she said. That's a problem.

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It's a big problem. Let me back it up. And, uh, and again, listen to what she says.

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We can see a powerful principle that says you become what you behold. Now to behold something doesn't mean to just glance at it every once in a while.

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It means a constant, immovable and firm gate. You become what you behold. That's not what second

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Corinthians three 18 says at all. Not at all. To look at consistently and constantly.

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Number two, find visuals, images, or even objects like Jason Kennedy. Creative visualization is a technique taught by the new age.

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It is not a biblical practice at all. With the nameplate of where you want your life to go.

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You know, just as Jason had the plaque made, what could you create? Is it a business card with your name on it?

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Maybe even a fake degree hanging on the wall that says bachelor's degree. Yeah, that, that would be bad.

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Well, look, I got a fake degree on my wall here, you know? Uh, yeah, people would accuse you of deceit, but then again, uh, all the, uh, the word of faith teachers who have, uh, doctorates, those are fake degrees, you know, or a book cover with your photo on it.

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What you constantly look at, you become, that's the law of vision. You know, Joshua one, eight, where in scripture does it teach the law of vision tells us to behold the word of God.

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Do not let the word depart from your eyes. Keep it in the midst of your heart. Why? Because what you behold, you become.

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Now let's take a look at Joshua one eight. All right. So she claims that Joshua one eight teaches this idea that what you behold, you become behold the word of the

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Lord or whatever. And the reason why is because you, no, that's not it. So you get the idea.

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Let's take a look at Joshua chapter one. We'll start at verse one for context sake.

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And, uh, we'll see, cause all we got to do is get to verse eight. Here's what it says. Uh, it's, it begins after the death of Moses, the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh said to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses's assistant,

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Moses, my servant is dead. Now, therefore rise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel, every place that the soul of your foot will tread upon,

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I have given to you just as I promised to Moses from the wilderness and from this Lebanon, as far as the great river, the

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Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the great sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.

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No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life, just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

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I will not leave you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers, to give them only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all of the law, the

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Torah that Moses, my servant commanded you do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

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This book of the Torah of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it, for then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success.

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Yeah, interesting. Peter points us to the word of God in his last epistle. Paul in his last epistle points us to the written word of God.

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God points Joshua after the death of Moses, what? To the written word of God.

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Nothing here about creative visualization or by the idea that you can, so what you set your mind to, you become whatever you behold.

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So that's two passages of scripture now that Terri Savelle Foy has twisted terribly.

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Again, this isn't even pot beads at this point. This is macaroni. This is uncooked pasta.

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That's how precious this teaching is. I mean, not only is she quoting these passages out of context, she's not even quoting them correctly.

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They don't say what she's saying. Let me back it up so you can see that.

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Paul 1 .8 tells us to behold the word of God. Do not let the word depart from your eyes. Keep it in the midst of your heart.

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Why? Because what you behold, you become. So you need to see images of what your life can look like.

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Stop looking at reality and thinking this is as good as it gets. No, you have to see something before you can have something.

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So I need to see something before I can have something. Where does it say that in the Bible? Make your own dream book or vision board or hang pictures up of your financial future, your ideal physical body, your dream vacation, your debt paid in full, your marriage restored, your kids serving

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God. Again, note here, what she's describing are the consequences of sin. No call to repentance.

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Nothing about Christ bleeding and dying for these sins. You want to overcome the consequences of your sin.

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It's real simple. All you got to do is engage in creative visualization. God, your business flourishing.

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You know, Jeremiah 1 .11 says, the Lord said to Jeremiah, he said, what do you see?

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And Jeremiah said, I see a branch or shoot of an almond tree, you know, blossoming in late winter.

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Then the Lord said to him again, you've seen well. He said, for I am alert and active watching over my word to perform it.

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You are aware that God was causing Jeremiah to see a prophetic vision, right?

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Then it says the word of the Lord came to him again and said, what do you see? Now, what if Jeremiah had said, uh, nothing?

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All right. So this is going to be our third text, Jeremiah chapter one. All right.

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So let's take a look here. We're going to start at verse four context. Now the word of Yahweh came to me,

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Jeremiah writing first person before, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you before you were born. I consecrated you.

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I appointed you a prophet to the nations. And then I said, ah, Lord God behold, I do not know how to speak for I am only a youth.

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But Yahweh said to me, do not say I'm only a youth for to all to whom I send,

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I send you, you shall go and whatever I command you, you shall speak.

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Do not be afraid of them for I am, I will, I am with you to deliver you declares Yahweh. So then

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Yahweh put out his hand. He touched my mouth and Yahweh said, behold, I have put my words into your mouth.

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Notice there, God put his words in Jeremiah's mouth. I see, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

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And then verse 11, and the word of Yahweh came to me. So this is a word that came directly from God to Jeremiah saying,

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Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see an almond branch. And he said to me, you've seen well for I am watching over my word to perform it.

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And the word of the Lord came to me a second time saying, what do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot facing away from the north.

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So you're going to note here, this is a prophetic vision that Jeremiah is experiencing.

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And this is not an example of creative visualization of an ideal future that Jeremiah can create with his imagination.

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That's three texts now out of context that do not teach what she's saying they teach.

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This woman's dangerous. My word to perform it. Then it says the word of the

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Lord came to him again and said, what do you see? Now, what if Jeremiah had said nothing?

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What is God asking you today? What do you see? God's not asking me what

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I see because God has not put a prophetic vision in my head. And this is not an example of God teaching

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Jeremiah the principle of using your imagination to create an ideal future. You got to see something before you can have something.

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No text says that most of the world's highest achievers do this. Most of the world's highest achievers do visualize their dreams.

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They have dream walls, dream boards, dream books, and they're very specific about their dreams and goals and what they want to accomplish.

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Did Paul have a dream board? Did Jesus? Which of the prophets had a dream board?

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Did Moses have one? Did Peter have one? How about Thomas, who was martyred in India?

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And which of the apostles had dream boards? Which of them taught us to have dream boards? Over the next five years and more.

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So have fun with this. And point number three, become what you believe. In other words, act as if you already have accomplished your dreams and goals.

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So put on pretenses like, I'm already a bazillionaire. I'm already skinny.

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I'm already successful. I'm already a CEO. That's delusional.

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Now, when you do this, your spirit will go to work to make this a reality.

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My spirit will go to work to make it a reality? What biblical text says that? I can't help but think about Jesus being approached by two blind men in the

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Bible. And they asked him to heal their eyes, to give them sight. Well, instead of healing them, you know what

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Jesus did? He put the responsibility back on them by asking one simple question.

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You know what it was? Do you believe I can do this? Without hesitating.

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So the responsibility is back on them now. And they answered, yes, Lord. Now listen to what she says

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Jesus says next, because it's not what he says at all. The next verse says, become what you believe.

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Become what you believe. All right, we're going to fact check here.

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Gospel of Matthew chapter nine. And this one's going to require a little work in the biblical languages.

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And so here's our text, verse 27. As Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, have mercy on us, son of David.

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That's a good prayer, by the way, and that's what they're doing. So when he entered the house, the blind men came to him and Jesus said to them, do you believe that I am able to do this?

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Now notice it doesn't say anything about putting the responsibility back on them. He just asked him a question. Do you believe I am able to do this?

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They said to him, yes, Lord. Then he touched their eyes and here's what he said.

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According to your faith, be it done to you.

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Now, let me, I'll show you this in the Greek so you can kind of see how this works. So Lagone here, and this is our

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Lagone, he said, he said, kata tein piston humon.

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Kata, according, tein piston, according to the faith, humon of y 'all, of y 'all two.

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So according to y 'all's faith, genethe to humon, be it done, humon is in the dative, it's to you, be it done to you.

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Now let's go back and listen to what it is that Terri Savelle Foy said the next verse says, do you believe

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I can do this? Without hesitating, they answered, yes, Lord. The next verse says, become what you believe.

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No, it doesn't. It says, according to your faith, be it done to you.

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It does not say become what you believe. That's four texts now that do not say what she says, they say, at all.

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This is deadly poison here. This is deadly. This has only the thinnest of veneers to make it look and appear biblical, but this is not a biblical doctrine or teaching at all.

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This woman is dangerous, and I mean it, really dangerous. But let's go ahead and finish out the text.

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According to, cata, cata ten piston, humon, genethe to, humon, according to your faith, be it done to you, their eyes were opened, and Jesus sternly warned them, see to it that no one knows about it, but they went away and spread his fame throughout all that district.

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We can see the text doesn't say what she says it said. That's really bad. We continue.

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And he healed them. Well, how do you express what you believe with the words of your mouth? So you have to learn the language of success.

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I have to learn the language of success. Where does the Bible teach me I need to learn the language of success?

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Well, successful people declare the end from the beginning. They do what Romans 4, 17 says. They speak of non -existent things as if they exist.

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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Scripture says that I'm supposed to speak of non -existent things as if they exist.

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That's what Romans 4, 17 says? No, it's not. All right. And I know that those of you who've read your

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Bible say, well, that sounds kind of like what it says. But the reality is, it's not what it says at all.

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Let's pay attention. Okay? So we're going to back up into the context. Again, context, context, context.

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So Romans 4, 13, the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he would be the heir of the world did not come through the law, but through the righteousness of faith, for if it is the adherence of the law who are to be heirs, then faith is null and the promise is void.

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But the law brings wrath. But where there is no law, there is no transgression. That is why it depends on faith.

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Salvation depends on faith. In order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring, not only to the adherent of the law, but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

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So Abraham is the father of all who have the same faith as Abraham. As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations, who's speaking there by the way

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God is, in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead,

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God is the one who gives life to the dead, and God calls into existence the things that do not exist.

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So in hope, Abraham believed against hope that he should become the father of many nations.

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Why? Because God, who is the one who made the promise, is, he doesn't lie. So you'll note,

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God is the one who calls into existence the things that do not exist. Not me and not you.

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And Romans 4 .17 is not a command for us to call into existence the things that do not exist.

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That's, it's not a principle. It's not a command. It's not a law. It's describing what

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God does. And God is the one who calls things into existence that do not exist.

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If you don't believe me, read Genesis 1. You get the idea here. So now we've got a problem.

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And that is, is that Terry Savelle Foy has twisted this text, which describes what God does and says, this is what we are supposed to do.

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And that's not what this passage says at all. Listen again. Well, successful people declare the end from the beginning.

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They do what Romans 4 .17 says. Romans 4 .17 doesn't tell us to do this at all. It says that God is the one who does this.

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They speak of non -existent things as if they exist. No, no, no.

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I've lost track. Is that four or five passages? She's completely twisted at this point. Yeah.

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You'll, you'll note that we got a problem here. We got the string of macaroni going on here. But I've saved

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Stuart Smalley for the end here, because I think you can see that her theology is the same as his concepts.

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So let's keep going here. So what I'm saying is start declaring where you want your life to go. Declare things like,

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I am in the best physical shape of my life. I am enjoying a debt -free life. I'm flourishing in my business.

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Yeah, this is exactly what Stuart Smalley would say, you know, right? They remember daily affirmations with Stuart Smalley?

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Yeah, he'd stand in front of a mirror and he would do these affirmations, these declarations. And this is the one that everybody remembers.

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Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.

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People like me, yeah. And people like me. Yeah, see, there you go. So what is she doing here?

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She's just flat out, you know, teaching the same self -help, new age garbage, but trying to make it appear that this is a biblical teaching, that these are biblical principles, and they're not.

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Every single text she touched, she twisted. And here's the thing, you cannot overcome the consequences of your sin via magic or creative visualization, via vision boards, or speaking and decreeing and declaring and all that kind of stuff.

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How'd that work out, by the way, for Kenneth Copeland regarding COVID -19? I'll keep bringing that one up.

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COVID -19, I command the south wind to come up and burn you up.

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COVID -19, yeah, that didn't work out. Yeah, and why? Because this isn't

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Christianity. This isn't biblical. This isn't even lucid.

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This is as delusional as Stuart Smalley's daily affirmation nonsense, which, you know, when the world's making fun of it like that, you might want to pay attention.

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So if you're caught up in this, you do not know what the Bible teaches at all.

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You've got to turn these people off, and it's time for you to actually learn what the Bible says, and what the Bible teaches is so much better than this.

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The real hope we have is not your best life now or your most ideal outcome or success in this life.

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No, I already read it at the end of the book of Revelation, and that's the promise for everyone who believes in Jesus.

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Their sins are forgiven, and they have eternal life given to them as a gift by grace through faith because of God's great love for us in sending

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Christ to bleed and to die for our sins. So biblical Christianity calls you to repent and to believe and be forgiven of your sins, and that ideal future is given to you as a gift.

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No effort on your part, no creative visualization needed at all, all given as a promise, and God always makes good on his promises, best way

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