F4F | Jon Heinrichs Speculating and Imagining Rather Than Exegeting

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Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Roseborough. I'm 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. So one of the things

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I think I need to reiterate more often is the idea that it is physically impossible for me to review all of the things that you send to me as suggestions for an episode of Fighting for the

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Faith. And so every episode of Fighting for the Faith is designed to teach you something biblical or how to rightly understand sound doctrine in such a way that you can then take what you learned in that episode and apply it to any teacher, any and all of them.

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So today's kind of one of those episodes where I'm gonna highlight it, I'm gonna walk you through some things, and point out that when somebody is incapable of rightly handling a biblical text, 999 times out of a thousand you're dealing with a false teacher.

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Just straight up, there is no other way to look at it. So that being the case, we're gonna look at just an example of this, and we're gonna be listening to,

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I think it's John Hendricks from Awaken Church in San Diego, and he is going to be engaging in what's called theologizing.

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Pastors are called to preach the Word, which means they're gonna have to exegete text. They are not called to theologize.

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They are not called to speculate. You don't get to preach your experiences, or your ideas, or your speculations, or your opinions.

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The job of a pastor is to preach the Word. And so if you are dealing with somebody who, when he says things and then goes and finds a biblical text to try to make it look like what he's saying is what

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God would have us believe, but then when you put things back into context and it doesn't work, you know you're dealing with a false teacher, and somebody who is not qualified to be a pastor.

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Nope, there's actual qualifications for a pastor. We'll discuss some of those along the way. So let's do this.

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Let's whirl up the desktop, shall we? And we are going to pull up the web browser, and here's

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John Heinrichs of Awaken Church in San Diego, California, multi -site campi there.

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And he is going to talk about fasting for things, and then he's going to go to a in the

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Gospel of Matthew chapter 6 to kind of make it look like what he is doing is teaching what

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God would have us believe, but we're gonna debunk the whole thing, and we'll kind of show you the process that we use here,

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I use. I've been trained in this, and I'm trying to train you in this as well, so that you can spot a false teacher.

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But let's listen to the first part of this, and you're gonna know right off the bat he's gonna say something that's not found in the

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Bible. And so if you remember a previous episode, we talked about the fact that if it's not in the

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Bible, it's not biblical. I know that seems like so profound, right? But this is the days that we live in.

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We've got people theologizing, spewing doctrines without any biblical text to back it up, and Heinrichs is gonna do this here.

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Listen to this statement. Here we go. Fasting is an accelerator for your ministry.

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So I've always believed... Fasting is an accelerator for your ministry. He believes that fasting is an accelerator for your ministry.

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Which biblical text says that, that fasting is an accelerator for your ministry?

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There's no biblical text says that. The only way you can get that is by starting with your doctrine and then trying to read it into a biblical text.

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That's exactly the kind of nonsense that John Heinrichs engages in. Which, by the way, since he's one of the prominent teaching pastors at Awakened Church, along with Jürgen Methusias, this is a church that you should avoid, like the plague, because it is a plague.

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But let's listen in and then we'll talk about this a little more. It comes back in the power of the

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Holy Ghost. Fasting is an accelerator for your ministry. So I've always believed in fasting for an acceleration.

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You've always believed in fasting for an acceleration. Silly me.

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I've never believed in fasting for an acceleration because I don't have a biblical text that tells me to do such a thing.

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Fasting oftentimes goes with repentance. In fact, when you read about the Day of Atonement back in the

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Torah, that the people were expected to appear before God by afflicting themselves.

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That's kind of the Old Testament way of talking about fasting. You afflict yourselves by not eating.

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It goes in part with your penitence. And you'll note that when

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Jesus was asked how come his disciples don't fast,

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Jesus' disciples don't. John the Baptist's disciples did, as well as the disciples of the

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Pharisees. They fast, but Jesus' disciples were known for not fasting while Jesus was around.

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And Jesus said it would be inappropriate for them to do so because who can fast while the bridegroom is with them?

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That doesn't make sense. So fasting oftentimes goes with the concept of contrition, of repentance, of sorrow for sin, and things like this.

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So that's oftentimes the context in which fasting appears in Scripture. But fasting for an acceleration.

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I would note that if I were to do a biblical search for the word acceleration, probably not gonna find it in the

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Bible. It sounds like a newfangled concept, if you would.

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So let's continue. So I've implemented that in my life, but I used to just fast for stuff.

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I used to just fast for things. God, I want more power, so I would fast. God, I want this break. What kind of prayer is that?

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God, I want no more power? Okay. God, I want this breakthrough financially, so I would fast.

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God, I want to be able to heal this sick, so I would fast. God, I want this new job or this new career, so I would fast.

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So I would fast with an agenda to get something from God. I would only fast if I needed something from God.

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I would note that Jesus teaches us to pray and pray for the things that we need from God. We'll talk about Jesus's prayer shortly here.

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Until a few years ago, God sort of confronted me on my strategy of fasting. So John, I have to ask the question, how did

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God exactly confront you? Did you have a come -to -Jesus meeting with Jesus?

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Did the Holy Spirit send you a harshly worded email? Hi, this is the Holy Spirit and I need to confront you on your strategy for fasting for acceleration and things like that.

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How did God sort of confront you? And he brought me to Matthew 6 32 and 33.

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So God, by confronting you, brought you to a portion of the

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Sermon on the Mount out of context. I seriously doubt that.

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Like more than seriously. I 100 % completely deny that that is

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God doing that. But let's listen to what apparently God was showing him. Here we go. It says this, it says, for after all these things the

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Gentiles seek. After what things? For your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

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So I'm fasting for something that I need, but this verse says God already knows what you need. Then it says, but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added to you.

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So now instead of fasting for something specific, I fast to build my relationship with Jesus.

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I fast to seek him first. I fast to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness. And what

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I found as I started... And people are applauding this. Clearly they don't know they're bothering. I started to seek him instead of trying to seek something from him.

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Is that all of the things that I need and even desire, they just get added to me. Wow. They employ a bullpen there.

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People who sit in VIP seating and their whole job is to go, oh wow, whenever the teaching pastor says something that may or may not be profound.

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So where I would used to just press in for stuff, now I press in to him and the stuff just comes.

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The breakthrough just comes. The title of this message tonight is POV. If you're hip, if you're relevant like me, you know what

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POV means. It means point of view. Tonight I want to shift your point of view on how you engage with God.

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I want to shift the way you approach him. Have you ever had a friend? All right, now before we go any further, we got a big problem, and that is how he handled the biblical text.

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So God sort of, not a hundred percent, but sort of kind of confronted him about his fasting strategy by taking him to Matthew 6 32 and 33 out of context.

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So let's put this back in context, shall we? So when we go to the Gospel of Matthew chapter 6, you'll note that this is the

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Sermon on the Mount. Jesus is delivering his first sermon, and that being the case, probably is going to be a good idea to let

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Jesus make his points and not take him out of context since he's the one preaching.

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You know what I'm saying? So here's what Jesus said. When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites.

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Nope. They love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners.

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Today, oh, they grab their phones and they go on Instagram and, you know, and here's me with a cup of coffee with my

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Bible, you know, things like this, right? Truly I say to you, they've received their reward, but when you pray, you go into your room, you shut the door, and you pray to your

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Father who's in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. You're going to note I'm applying the three rules for sound biblical exegesis here.

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Context, context, context. Do you need to go all the way back to verse 5? Yes, absolutely.

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So when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they'll be heard for their many words.

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Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. So note here, one of the things that John Heinrichs noted is that God already knows what he needs, and so he's gonna go on later in the sermon, and you'll see this, to basically say he doesn't even pray for what he needs anymore because God already knows it.

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God just gives it to him. Jesus says, do not be like them.

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Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him, so you pray like this instead. Are you ready?

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Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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Give us this day our daily bread. I would note that Jesus teaches us to pray, not for a month's supply of groceries from Sam's Club or Costco.

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He teaches us to pray for daily bread, so if I'm praying for daily bread today, what do

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I need to pray for tomorrow? Daily bread. So this is a daily prayer. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts or our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

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Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Note, these are things that we need, and Jesus taught us to pray for them daily.

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Already we're seeing a big contradiction between John Heinrich's theologizing and what the biblical texts say.

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For if you forgive others their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your

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Father forgive your trespasses. Next, a whole section on fasting. When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites.

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You'll note that, again, fasting, in the biblical sense, oftentimes goes with repentance.

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They disfigure their faces so their fasting may be seen by others. Truly I say to you, they've received their reward.

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But when you fast, anoint your head, wash your face, that your fasting may not may not be seen by others, but by your

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Father who is in secret. And your Father who is in secret, he'll reward you. Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

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But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, where thieves do not break in and steal.

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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The eye is the lamp of the body, so if the eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

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But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness?

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No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one or love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.

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You cannot serve God and money. Now we get to the full context of the verses that John Heinrichs quoted,

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Matthew 6 starting at verse 25. Therefore, therefore in light of all the things he's already said,

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I tell you, do not be anxious about your life. What you will eat, or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on, is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing.

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Look at the birds of the air, they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.

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Are you not of more value than they? And which of you, by being anxious, can add a single hour to his span of life?

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And why are you anxious about clothing? Jesus asked some pretty straightforward questions.

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He says, consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even

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Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you,

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O you of little faith? Therefore, do not be anxious saying, what shall we eat, what shall we drink, or what shall we wear?

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Now, note, this is the verse immediately before Heinrich's quotes, Jesus.

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And he quotes verses 32 and 33, but leaves out 31. 31 isn't saying, don't ask

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God for what you need. It says, don't be anxious. What shall we eat, what shall we drink, what shall we wear?

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For the Gentiles seek after these things, and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them.

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But, seek first God's kingdom, his kingdom, and his righteousness, and these things will be added to you.

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Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself, sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

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So, immediately I have to ask the question, because it says, seek first the kingdom of God and these things will be added to you, is

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Jesus therefore nullifying what he said earlier in the chapter, when he said God knows what you need before you ask him, and then teaches us to pray daily for our needs?

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Of course not. So, the anxiety that Jesus is addressing is a form of lack of belief.

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It's not trusting that God is looking out for your good, or that God will care for your needs.

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And that lack of faith is a problem, because without faith it's impossible to please God. That being the case,

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Christ is calling them to trust God, and God knows what you need, and Christ has already taught us earlier in the chapter to ask

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God daily for the things that we need. And so, this portion right here, the

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Gentiles seek after these things, and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

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This isn't talking about a fasting strategy, this is talking about faith.

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And by the way, what does it mean to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness? Note, it doesn't say your righteousness.

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Jesus is referring to salvation by grace through faith, apart from works. Because we, as Christians, when we trust

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Christ for the forgiveness of our sins, and eternal life from him as a gift, we are clothed with a righteousness that is not our own.

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Let me give you the cross -reference on that, by the way. If you were to go to Philippians chapter 3,

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Philippians chapter 3, Paul, warning about the Judaizers here, says, look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, and look out for those who mutilate the flesh.

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We are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.

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Though I myself, I have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, will

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I have more? I was circumcised on the eighth day of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the

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Hebrews, as to the law, a Pharisee, as to zeal, a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

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But whatever gain I had, I counted as a loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing

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Christ Jesus my Lord, and for his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I count them, all of his good works as a

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Pharisee, I count them as rubbish in order that I might gain Christ, and watch the words, and be found in him not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law.

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Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you, is a call to belief that God will save you all by the merits of Christ and not by any merits of your own.

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That's the point, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but the righteousness that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness that is from God and depends on faith.

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So when Jesus says, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you, that's a call to believe in Christ and believing that he will give you salvation and eternal life for free as a gift because of what he has done, his vicarious, sinless life, his vicarious death on the cross for the forgiveness of your sins, his resurrection from the dead, his ascension to heaven, him clothing you with his righteousness, all of that is in the phrase, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

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So now that you know what this passage is about and what it says, then you can see here that we've got a big problem when we come back to John Heinrichs.

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And I'm gonna back up so that you can again hear what it is that he's saying, because what he is saying shows he's not rightly handling the biblical text at all, which shows this is a red flag that everybody should be able to identify and go, okay, this guy's more than likely 99 .99

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% sure here. He's a wolf and a false teacher. First things, God, I want more power, so I would fast.

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God, I want this breakthrough financially, so I would fast. God, I want to be able to heal the sick, so I would fast.

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God, I want this new job or this new career, so I would fast. So I would fast with an agenda to get something from God.

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I would only fast if I needed something from God. Until a few years ago, God sort of confronted me on my strategy of fasting, and he brought me to Matthew 6 32 and 33.

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Out of context, God's not gonna do that, because Jesus can't be taken out of context if you want to rightly understand what he's preaching here.

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We just put it back in context. Watch what he does. It says this, it says, for after all these things the Gentiles seek, for your

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Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. So I'm fasting for something that I need, but this verse says

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God already knows what you need. Out of context, Jesus earlier in the text says

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God knows what you need even before you ask him, and then teaches us to pray daily for our needs.

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Explain that one, John. It says, but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

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So now instead of fasting for something specific, I fast to build my relationship with Jesus.

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I fast to seek him first. I fast to seek first his... You don't even know what it means to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

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You haven't properly exegeted that text. Kingdom and his righteousness, and what I found as I started to seek him instead of starting to seek something from him, is that all of the things that I need and even desired, they just get added to me.

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So without you even asking, they just get added to you. Yet Jesus taught us to pray daily for our needs.

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But used to just press in for stuff, now I press in to him and the stuff just comes.

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What does it mean to press into him? What is the cash value of that sentence?

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The breakthrough just comes. The title of this message tonight is POV. If you're hip, if you're relevant like me, you know what

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POV means. It means point of view. Tonight I want to shift your point of view on how you engage with God.

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The guy thinks he has exegetical riz. I would say he's just cringe.

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Shift the way you approach him. Have you ever had a friend that the only time he ever comes into your world is when he needs something or she needs something?

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Like after a while that gets old. Yet Jesus taught us to pray daily.

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Let me back up and show you this. Jesus says, your father knows what you need before you ask.

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Pray then like this. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Give us this day our daily bread.

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Christ teaches us to pray daily for our needs. We've got a big problem here.

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Let's come back to it though, and I hit the wrong button there. Let's keep going. I mean it's cool to hook people up every once in a while, but if that same friend is just coming every time they come and they want something, it gets annoying.

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I felt like that's what God was doing. To me, it's like... You felt like that's what

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God was doing. So you're basically saying when you come to God, asking him for your needs, which

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Jesus taught us to do daily, that somehow we are annoying God. Here we go again.

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Quod non es biblicum, non es biblicum. If it's not in the Bible, it's not biblical. Where in Scripture does it say that God is annoyed when people come to him praying for their needs, especially since Jesus taught us to pray daily for our needs?

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It's in the same chapter that you quoted out of context. Listen again. I mean it's cool to hook people up every once in a while, but if that same friend is just coming every time they come and they want something, it gets annoying.

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I felt like that's what God was doing. So God was telling you he's annoyed when you come to him with your needs.

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To me, it's like I can imagine how God feels that when we only press in... You can imagine how

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God feels. Is he preaching from a biblical text? No. What's he preaching?

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His imagination. Imagination. Right? We're not supposed to preach our imaginations.

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Now here's where I think a little excursus might be helpful. Let's do a sampling from the pastoral epistles, shall we?

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We'll start in 1st Timothy chapter 1, starting at verse 3. As I urged you when

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I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, nor to devote themselves to myths.

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And I would note when a pastor is preaching his imagination, I can imagine how annoyed

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God is when you keep coming to him every single day telling him what you need. That's a myth.

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Okay? You don't... Timothy was charged to tell people not to devote themselves to myths, as well as endless genealogies, which promote what?

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Speculation. Isn't John Heinrich saying, well,

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I can just imagine how annoyed God is when you come to him all the time with your needs. That's a speculation because there's no biblical text that says that God is annoyed when we come to him daily asking for our needs.

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Jesus taught us to pray that way. So, endless genealogies promote speculations rather than the stewardship that is from God that is by faith.

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The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

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Certain peoples, by swerving from these, sound doctrine, they've wandered away into vain discussion.

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I would note that this sermon that we're listening to is a great example of completely vain, worthless discussion.

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The worthless theologizing and imagination of John Heinrich's, desiring to be teachers of the law without understanding either what they're saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.

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Same book, 1st Timothy chapter 6, starting in verse 3. If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our

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Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and he understands nothing.

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I would note that John Heinrich's here legitimately contradicts what

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Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount and misquoted Christ. And so, I would note the condemnation of 1st

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Timothy 6, 3, and 4 comes down on him. Anyone who teaches a different doctrine and doesn't agree with the sound words of our

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Lord Jesus Christ, John Heinrich clearly disagrees with the earlier part of Matthew 6 and the teaching that accords with godliness.

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What do we know about John Heinrich's? He's puffed up with conceit. He understands nothing.

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He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words which produce envy, dissensions, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth.

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Imagine that godliness is a means of gain. What he was fasting for proves that.

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2nd Timothy chapter 2, starting in verse 15, young Pastor Timothy is charged, do your best to present yourself to God as one approved.

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Alright, how does one need to be approved by God? As a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

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Yeah, that's right. Pastors are required by God's Word to rightly handle the word of truth. Is John Heinrich doing this?

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No, not at all. He's not qualified. Avoid irreverent babble.

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It will lead people into more ungodliness, and I would note his imagination that he's preaching about is exactly that.

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It's irreverent babble and it's leading people not into godliness but into ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene.

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Gangrene will kill you left untreated, by the way, and so that's what Paul is saying about false doctrine and false teachers.

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Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus. Oh, look at that, Paul named names who have swerved from the truth saying that the resurrection has already happened, and I would note that John Heinrich has swerved from the truth by claiming that you annoy

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God when you keep coming to him and asking him for what you need. Yep, that's right.

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They are upsetting the faith of some, but God's firm foundation stands, bearing the seal the

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Lord knows those who are his, so let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.

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Titus chapter 1, wonderful passage, this is why I left you in Crete so that you might put what remained in order and appoint elders.

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These are pastors in every town as I directed you. If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, his children are believers, not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

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An overseer as God's steward must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick -tempered or drunkard or violent or greedy for game, but hospitable, a lover of good, self -controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

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He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught. Note here, he must hold firm to the trustworthy word what?

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As taught. Show me one example from the writings of the

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Apostles in the New Testament to the sermons of the early church fathers who taught that John 6 32 and 33 teach us that we shouldn't ask

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God for what we need because that annoys him. Nobody's taught that.

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So John Heinrichs is not teaching the trustworthy word as taught and he claimed that God sort of confronted him with that passage, you know, so that he may be able to give instruction in what?

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Sound doctrine and to rebuke those who contradicted. For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers, deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.

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They must be silenced since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful game what they ought not to teach.

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One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and lazy gluttons. So this testimony is true.

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Therefore rebuke them sharply so that they may be sound in the faith and not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.

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2nd Timothy chapter 1 verse 13 says, follow the pattern of sound words that you have heard from me in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

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So you get the feeling here. Pastoral epistles put a high priority on rightly handling

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God's Word and rebuking those who are twisting it up and warning against those who are twisting it up.

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Hmm. John Heinrichs is imagining that God is annoyed when you are constantly asking him for what you need.

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Yet Jesus in John 6 teaches us that God already knows what we need before we ask and then teaches us to ask daily for what we need.

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Hmm. Let me back this up just a little. A friend that the only time he ever comes into your world is when he needs something or she needs something, like after a while that gets old.

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I mean it's cool to hook people up every once in a while, but if that same friend is just coming every time they come and they want something, it gets annoying.

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I felt like that's what God was doing. You felt like that. God was getting annoyed when you kept coming to him and asking him for what you need.

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To me it's like I can imagine how God feels that when we only press in. Imagine. That's what this is.

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Just it's pure imagination. When we need stuff from him or when we need something, he would get annoyed.

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And I felt this recently actually in my prayer. So God would get annoyed and you don't have a biblical text that says this, but you felt this recently when you were praying.

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It was like for almost like the last year I've been praying a similar prayer around financial breakthrough.

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We moved into a new house and expenses went up, salary didn't. And so I've been praying for multiple streams.

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I've been praying for financial breakthrough. I've been praying for God to take me to another level. I mean after all God you gave me the property so now

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I'm believing you to give me the provision for the property. Which isn't a bad prayer. It's kind of like a good prayer.

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Reminding God, hey God you gave me this. Now I need to pay for it. But I recently felt like can recently felt convicted like God already knows what

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I need. So why do I keep praying for what he already knows that I need? I felt like he was getting annoyed.

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He felt he felt like he was getting annoyed. Let me back this up. Listen again. This is based on his imagination in his field.

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But I recently felt like convicted like God already knows what I need. So why do

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I keep praying for what he already knows that I need? I felt like he was getting annoyed with me. It's like...

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You felt like God was getting annoyed with you. I got it. You need provision.

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Shut up. I got it. You need provision. Shut up,

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God said to Heinrichs. Jesus said, your father knows what you need before you ask him.

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Pray then like this, give us this day our daily bread. Note that Jesus doesn't...

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God gets really annoyed when you keep asking him for the things he needs. Because God already knows what you need. So stop asking.

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Jesus said, the father knows what you need before you ask him. So ask him. That's what

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Jesus said to do. So my question is, who are you gonna believe? Jesus or John Heinrichs who is imagining that God gets annoyed and feels that God could be getting annoyed by coming to him and asking him for the things that he needs?

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Listen again. So why do I keep praying for what he already knows that I need? I felt like he was getting annoyed with me.

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It's like... Yet Jesus taught us to pray daily for our needs. Heinrichs, I got it. You need provision.

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Shut up. That ain't God. This isn't a biblical text.

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Quod non es biblicum non es biblicum. Whatever is not in the Bible isn't biblical. This is all his feelings, his imagination.

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I'm working behind the scenes. I'm doing something behind the scenes. And here's the thing, wouldn't you know, when

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I stopped praying for what he already knew I needed, the need got added to me. Hmm.

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When I stopped praying for what I need, again Jesus says, your

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Father knows what you need before you ask him, so pray then like this, our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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Give us this day our daily bread. Yep, we got a big problem.

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Big, big, big, big problem. And that is that John Heinrichs doesn't agree with the sound words of our

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Lord. Like, not at all. If anyone teaches a different doctrine and doesn't agree with the sound words of our

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Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching that accords with godliness, he's puffed up with conceit and understands nothing.

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John Heinrichs ain't teaching biblical Christianity here, he's teaching John Heinrichism.

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He's come up with his own doctrine, his own theology, based on his feelings and his speculations and his imagination.

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You see the problem? And here's the thing, anybody who is doing this, you need to mark and avoid.

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John Heinrichs, Jorgen Matthesius, any of the teachers at Awaken Church, just mark and avoid.

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These people are not leading you into truth, they are leading you away from Christ, not to him.

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And the fact that they're preaching their imagination rather than preaching the word as they are commanded to, shows you that they are corrupt beyond all reason.

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