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Is falling backwards a sign of judgment? I posted a clip from my recent podcast with David Loewe on the topic of tongues. During that podcast, David dropped the mic with an epic side note about the practice seen in the charismatic movement today of falling out in the spirit, or as it's otherwise known, being slain in the spirit.

Falling down every time the faith healer communicates in some way that it is time for them to fall down. Touch the squabble. But there's something very odd about this practice of being slain in the spirit.

We fall upwards we fall into a trance we fall into love. The only one who tried to ascend was Satan. I will ascend into the hill of the Lord. We only ascend because he's already taken us there because it's impossible to go.

Just if you, say, went up in a helicopter or an airplane and dropped a rock out of it, it's going to fall pretty fast. But it's not going to reach speeds anywhere near fast enough to glow and explode because of the friction of the air.

You don't do that overnight. You take baby steps to get to that final disaster. And so you don't just fall out of a tree, you've got to climb up at first. So I'm giving you things not to do to make sure you climb no tree.

As you're walking, maybe you fall into that. The reality is what we end up seeing when we look at that sidewalk and we see that it settles kind of like our houses as we hear the creaks and usually late at night, right?

You ever have that happen? Any of you ever have a dream that it would, how many of you think it would be cool to be able to fly? And then others, others are kind of like, flying sounds great, but the idea of falling, you're not so sure about heights or whatever, but the words of his father in that process.

You know what it feels like to be weary. That's physical exhaustion.

And when you are always looking for that next spiritual moment that's going to throw you back up to where you feel like God is the most important thing in your life, nothing else matters, you're floating on air, and when you can't find it and years start passing by, it creates all kinds of theological problems.

So that's what it feels like here.

But it doesn't seem to take. You hop back on the horse. You fall off. You hop back on the horse. You fall off. You hop back on the horse. You fall off. I'm trying, man. I really am. But it just doesn't seem to take.

I'm so happy. Apparently transformed by this unexplainable experience thingy that blasts you and throws you to the floor without actually hearing the Word of God preached or taught in any meaningful way.

Okay thank you. Or you'll yell a word like fire by the way if you're yelling fire fire is not really what you want but he'll yell the word fire or hit somebody with his sport coat and they'll fall to the ground and they'll act as though they're dead because they've been slain in the Holy Spirit and that's that's an experience that charismatics and not all of them because there's some charismatics who do not go along with that at all but many people will claim that yeah that was the turning point in my spiritual life and I received a special anointing of the Spirit and it's not in the Bible and like I said people I know personally have experienced that and they said something actually did happen but they've been afflicted ever since so it's just yeah I think it's a demonic practice personally but it's just think about the term slain in the Spirit you're being killed in the Spirit.

You don't feel. There are times that I don't feel very good. Everybody's got feels. JP.

And now it feels like you're walking through through the pits of despair. If that, if you can feel that and what I want you to do is for a moment, I want you to allow your heart to settle. I want you to allow yourself to rest before your mind goes on reeling.

We often think that it's like a mirror image with God. As I back away from God, He backs away from me. That is what a pietistic brain teaches. To reemphasize, why it's a slow and painful death is because you are relearning how to drive a vehicle that you've been in before, which is the Christian life.

They therefore went up here with much agility and speed, though the foundation upon which the city was framed was higher than the clouds. They therefore went up through the the regions of the air, sweetly talking as they went, being comforted because they safely got over the river and had such glorious companions to attend them.