Flee From Furtick

Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Justin Peters. I hope that you and your family are doing well today

I want to thank you very much for joining me for this podcast And today we're going to be taking a look at Steven Furtick I've not yet done a video on Steven Furtick, but I am often asked about him in Q &A sessions and things like that.

In fact, I've just recently There goes Mia. I've just recently Put in some videos in fact these two videos that I'm going to show you in my seminar clouds without water

That is a biblical critique of the word of faith movement and you may be thinking. Oh, well

Steven Furtick He's not word of faith is he? Yeah for all intents and purposes He is and we're going to be looking today at him saying and teaching that I am

God Almighty Now that has gotten that clip has gotten quite a bit of traction and some have said well, yeah, that was really bad

But it was just a gaffe but I'm gonna show you that I really do not think that that was a gaffe on his part because It's not the first time that he has made a statement like this.

So Steven Furtick teaches For all intents and purposes the word faith doctrine known as the little gods doctrine

And so I'm going to show you two clips of this and have some comments And then

I will show you more evidence of why I think he is We should pretty much call him word of faith, even though on paper

He is Southern Baptist his church Elevation Church of Southern Baptist, but the theology has

Really become now indistinguishable from word faith theology. So this is the first clip.

This is from this year 2021 Don't let anybody put anything on you

That will cause you to forget what God put in you the fight that you have to win for your life

Has not been with them It's always been in you

Because if you believe it's in you There's nothing anybody can put on you that can cancel what

I put in you Before you were born. I appointed you a prophet to the nation's

It's always been in you and There's nobody that can leave my life that can keep

God from keeping his covenant with me I'm not in covenant with a person.

I'm not in covenant with a political party. I've been covenant with God Almighty Get that off you

That's not your station It's in me

Now the first thing I want to say is that red flags and go up with me

Everywhere when I see any preacher who is obviously trying to bring attention to himself to his looks to his physique and Stephen Furtick Does that Regularly, you saw it on full display right there wearing those tight shirts showing off his physique and beating his chest

He's obviously trying to bring attention to himself and that is a huge red flag with me

I've seen this before telling you vision comes to mind. He did the same thing. So that that is a problem when any preacher tries to bring attention to himself a pastor's job is to Exposit the

Word of God Feed the sheep bring attention to Christ he is to make as much of Christ as he can and make as little of himself as He can and Stephen Furtick To any fair observer does not do that.

So that's that's the first thing I want to say aside from that the theology I am

God Almighty now People again, I've tried to pass that off as a flub.

It was a gaffe He didn't really mean it and I was kind of tempted to say man

I'm just a just a Joe Biden moment or something like that, you know Just a gap, but I don't think it was a gaffe because it's not the first time he has said this watch this

I'm going to show you some clips from a sermon. He preached just two years ago 2019 where he says basically

The same thing the Lord has given me something today That is so beautiful to me and I pray that I can show it to you

Okay, I want to interrupt here just for a moment Did you notice the source of his authority what you're about to hear is something that God has given to him

And this is something you hear regularly from Stephen Furtick that God speaks to him God gives him this

What he presents to people is from above so he is claiming divine authority

For what he is about to say typical by the way of word -faith preachers. Let us make man in our image

God needed someone to show the world what he looked like or else he would have just been a concept God would have been an abstract theory

So he made man and woman to reflect who he was He needed someone to show his nature through so he made me and you

Okay, dear friends you just heard Stephen Furtick say twice that God needs us

This is standard word -faith theology the belief that God needs us

Creflo dollar is one example. He says God needs your consent and cooperation to bring forth a manifestation in the earth and that is just one of I could literally give you hundreds of Examples of word -faith teachers saying that God needs us.

It's pretty standard Word -faith theology and here you see Stephen Furtick teaching the same thing because his theology is becoming increasingly

Word faith dear friends. God has need of no one and no thing and I would say too

That Stephen Furtick, even though he's a graduate of Southern seminary He should probably brush up on the attributes of God because God Did not create us because he needed us

God does not have a man -shaped hole in his heart This is just absurd theology.

It's actually quite heretical God has need of no one and no thing

Now here comes the little God's doctrine James said something curious

He said if you listen to the word and don't do it, you're like a man who looks at himself in a mirror

In the beginning was a word and the word was with God and the word was God my maker is my mirror

God said let us make man in our image in our likeness You are not my maker

You will not be my mirror When God said

I am to Moses, you know, my name is I am He was trying to get him to see

You are as I am. I Want to play that part again so you don't miss it

When God said I am to Moses, you know, my name is I am

He was trying to get him to see you are as I am

Dear friends, let me tell you something. That's heresy. What you just heard is heresy and it is absolutely

Indistinguishable from the little God's doctrine of the word faith movement. In fact, let me show you this

This is a quote from Kenneth Copeland Kenneth Copeland says and I say this with all respect

So it don't upset you too bad, but I say it Anyway, when I read in the Bible where he says I am

I just smile and I say I am too and that quote when

I present that quote in my clouds without water seminar, that is that Garners a lot of gasps from the audience

Rightly, so every time I show that people in the audience gasp when they read that it's heresy and Stephen Furtick teaches the exact same thing.

I Indictment on the Southern Baptist Convention that this man in his church is

Quote unquote church Elevation Church is allowed to remain in the Southern Baptist Convention. That's heresy straight -up word -faith theology

When the Bible says that God created man in his image that means that as human beings you and I are the pinnacle of his creation and We have the potential the capacity

Through a saving relationship with Jesus Christ to know God none of the other created order has that privilege and ability and as the pinnacle of his creation as human beings created in the image of God that means that we as humans share in what is known as the

Communicable attributes of God. Okay. Now, let me Let me explain so The attributes of God the characteristics of God also known as the perfections of God they are divided into two different categories incommunicable attributes and communicable attributes the

Incommunicable attributes of God are those attributes those perfections which God and God alone possesses sometimes referred to as the the omnis of God the omnipresence he is

Everywhere all at the same time. He is in all places at all times omnipresent the omniscience of God He knows all things the omnipotence of God He can do all things that are within his will.

So those are the omnis Those are the incommunicable attributes of God that God and God alone possesses.

We do not in any shape form or fashion Participate or share in the incommunicable attributes of God the communicable attributes of God However, we do share in sometimes referred to as the moral attributes attributes such as Faithfulness mercy kindness patience these are

Some of the communicable attributes of God So these these communicable attributes

God per God possesses in perfection in their fullness we just kind of Dip our toes in the water a little bit if you will we share in them

But only in a very minuscule way God has them in their fullness in their in their perfection

We just kind of dip our toes in the water We can be we can be faithful, but we cannot be faithful like God is faithful We can we can show mercy to people but we cannot show mercy to the extent to the perfection that God Shows mercy.

Does that make sense? So yes, we share in his communicable attributes not in his incommunicable attributes

But friends that does not mean that we are God's that does not mean that we are

God Almighty Like Stephen Furtick says or that when God said to Moses I am he was

Telling Moses who he was who Moses was at it at his sheer heresy The Bible is very clear.

There is only one God and we ain't him That may not be very good grammar, but that's real good theology

There is only one God and he will not share his glory with another he is a jealous

God and so this this little God's doctrine, this is standard fair for the word faith movement

Speaking of word faith Let me give you a little more evidence of why I say now that Stephen Furtick is now for all intents and purposes

Word faith Stephen Furtick has been hanging out and partnering with and endorsing known word faith false teachers and we can begin by looking at who

Stephen Furtick Openly says is his model preacher the man to whom he looks up more than any other man any other person any other preacher his model in ministry is

TD Jake's the pastor of Potter's House Church in Dallas, Texas Well, this is problematic because TD Jake's is not only prosperity gospel

He's not only word of faith. He is oneness Pentecostal and what that means is as a oneness

Pentecostal TD Jake's rejects the doctrine of the Trinity He does not believe in the

Trinity. He holds to something known as modalism and Modalism is the belief that God as the name implies basically changes modes

Sometimes God has his father hat on then sometimes God will put his son hat on and then he'll put his

Holy Spirit hat On but he is not three in one. He is Modalism rejects that God is one being in Three distinct persons

In fact, this is a screenshot that I took of the Potter's House statement of faith

TD Jake's statement of faith I took this screenshot today and it says that we believe that there is one

God creator of all things infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three manifestations father son and Holy Spirit not persons

Manifestations, so sometimes God Manifests as the father then he will manifest as the son then he will manifest as the

Holy Spirit But not three in one. So this is One God and three manifestations that is classic

Modalism and that's classic modalistic terminology, so his model in ministry is quite literally an

Objective heretic TD Jake's is not a Christian if you do not believe in the

Trinity You cannot be a born -again Christian and his word of faith credentials continue

This is a screenshot of a conference at which he spoke a few years ago and you see here

He is gathered with Jesse Duplantis. Jesse Duplantis is a No, gosh,

Jesse Duplantis is one of the most obvious False teachers that you could ever imagine.

This is a guy who claims that he went to heaven on a cable car I mean Jesse Duplantis is just I mean if you if you can't tell that Jesse Duplantis is a false teacher.

Then you probably should not be allowed outside of the home without adult supervision I mean it is just that obvious that he is a false teacher just blatantly obvious But along with Jesse Duplantis you got

Samuel Rodriguez and that is Perry Stone word faith false teacher, of course

Rod Parsley there and Stephen Furtick and Kim Patia Kimberly Jones Patia Kimberly Jones Patia is the

Pastrix of limitless church in Fayetteville, Georgia She calls herself real talk

Kim and very What's the word? Eccentric looking when my wife first saw her she thought that she was the the singer pink.

I Don't keep up with such things But but yeah, but you see does kind of is kind of a dead ringer for pink

But I mean this is uh, I mean look at this I mean, that's that's that's just the image that you have right when you think of a pastor you think of a shepherd of a local flock a

Local body of Christ. That is exactly the image that you should have in your mind, right? Just absolutely absurd a word of faith false teacher and here you see

Stephen Furtick with Rod Parsley Rod Parsley is the pastor of World Harvest Church in Columbus, Ohio And he is lock stock and barrel word faith.

He makes several appearances in my seminar clouds without water I've watched him for a number of years He is one of the worst of the worst and Rod Parsley just lavishes praise on Stephen Furtick and vice versa

Here you see Rod Parsley saying of Furtick the man the myth the legend and my friend

Ladies and gentlemen the next great general of a generation It's interesting you can when you watch

Stephen Furtick preach and you watch Rod Parsley preach. There's there's a lot of almost eerie similarities they not only teach

Basically the same thing same theology have a lot of the same mannerisms and the same Persona is just one example

Watch this Because when Nehemiah obeyed that instruction the miracle of God was released just like I'm believing with you right now

Somebody's laying hold on a miracle. I can I can perceive it. I I can perceive that virtues going forth out of me

I feel your faith pulling on me right now That is a shocking statement what Rod Parsley just said there he said

I feel virtue going out of me I mean when you hear that phrase you automatically think of what storing the

New Testament the The woman with the issue of blood right and touched the hem of Jesus garments

He said who touched me for I feel virtue power go out of me that that in and then

Rod Parsley says I feel your faith tugging on me You Rod Parsley feel my faith tugging on you so I so I guess now

Rod Parsley should be the object of our faith just Stunning just absolutely stunning but compare that with This from Stephen Furtick If you don't have faith today borrow mine

Very similar is it not Rod Parsley says he feels your faith tugging on him

Stephen Furtick says you can borrow my faith if you don't have enough borrow mine

Birds of a feather and Stephen Furtick has also been a great promoter endorser and partner with Joyce Meyer Who also is word of faith and who also teaches the little

God's doctrine So you see dear ones Stephen Furtick is now just absolutely indistinguishable from word of faith theology indistinguishable from some of the worst of the worst charlatans and heretics ever to disgrace the name of Jesus Christ and to bring reproach upon the gospel

As with all the false teachers many of you have heard me say this before I do not hate them I do not hate

Stephen Furtick I do not hate Kenneth Copeland. I don't hate Benny Hinn. I Pray for these people.

I pray that God would bring them to repentance and if God truly does Bring them to repentance and the first evidence of that will be that they will shut their ministries down Because these men and women are not qualified to be preachers

They're not qualified. They are not biblically qualified to be behind the pulpit They don't meet the qualifications for being an elder

They're not gentle. They're not peaceable They're not self -controlled

They're not qualified to teach the Word of God. They are not qualified to be behind the pulpit in fact

Christians in general, but elders especially Should not be known for coarse jesting or sexual overtones in their

Communications much less in their preaching but Stephen Furtick does this in fact, let me show you a short clip from this very same sermon watch this is

That when God found Abram, this was before he had a consonant in his name the artist formerly known as Abram He went on to be

Abraham. He was the father of many nations, but when God called him his stuff wasn't even working anymore

Abram did Abram did even though he had a hard time getting with it Even though he was like you got any pills for that or anything like that because I'm old now

So when God found Abram, he was so old that his stuff wasn't even working anymore.

You got any pills for that? Come on That is just unbelievable.

That is coarse jesting that that has no business coming from a preacher

Standing behind the pulpit ostensibly to convey something of the holiness of God To his people that is just completely out of bounds.

This man is not qualified in any way to be a preacher And so if you are watching this and maybe by some chance

Maybe you are a member at Elevation Church, or maybe you've been going to this church or you're thinking about going to this church

You've been watching Stephen Furtick, please Dear one. I beg you to leave

Stop listening to Stephen Furtick. He's a false teacher. Stop listening to the to these people find men who are

Biblically qualified to do what they do who rightly divide the word of truth.

I would commend to you men like John MacArthur and Steve Lawson and Paul Washer and Jim Osmond and and there's there's a lot of good

Truly qualified men to preach God's Word. Stephen Furtick is not one of them.

If you're in this church Please understand that you do not have a shepherd Stephen Furtick is not a shepherd.

You're not in a real church. You're not in a church that that meets the

Bible's definition for what a church is. You need to leave. A church

Generally speaking a church is not going to rise to a level of spiritual maturity above that of its leadership

It's just not and so if you're in one of these bad churches and you think well

I know there's some stuff wrong, but I want to be a I want to be a source of light I want to try to influence some people because I do have some truth.

No, don't you're not gonna change the church You're not going to get out and flee Leave that place and find a good

Doctrinally sound biblical church that is led by biblically qualified men

All right. Thank you very much for watching dear ones I hope that this has been helpful for you until our next time together