Preface and Introduction

To the young Jonathan

How is it young man that in the books you read or the movies you see in
the world the pagans are portrayed as spiritual and powerful, even if in
fantasy, and the believers are not? Why is it young Jonathan that you can
say, 'Like Edward from Twilight I can sit in a restaurant and sense the
mindset of any and everyone around me and describe them accurately'?

Why is it Jonathan that you can say, 'As the dementors do to Harry Potter
in 'Prisoner of Azkaban' I have had evil spirits circle round above me and
descend to attack'? - And how did they look when they cried out, 'Let us
possess him, let us destroy him'?

I should perhaps write a book listing the fantasy and the factual elements
of the spiritual realm side by side comparing them and seeing how true or
false the fantasy is – and why it is that sometimes they get so close to the
reality when they don't even know it, as if they too are being manipulated
to subtly influence others for evil...

You have had in experience what the pagan world fantasises about and
what they teach the Christians know nothing of. On the other hand there
are Christians that would say that like the fictional characters of Edward
the vampyre and and Harry the wizard you are involved with unchristian,
supernatural powers; as they too see nothing particularly stand out in
Christianity but instead a rather bland, sectarian conformity to the world's
values as they were say, fifty years ago...

What mind is it in you my Jonathan that so sets itself at odds with all the
world, Christian and pagan, and sees what no other can see, knows what
no other can know and pays the price for it? It is of course the Mind of
Christ in you and of course to the Apostle tells us we have the Mind of
Christ... Yet no one seemed to believe it but you. So you have as you
believe and you are as God made you – and for what were you made?
That is the greatest mystery of all. We are so alike and yet so unalike, my
child.

In the Revelation there is a four faced beast before the Throne of God and
like that beast you are a lion and I am an eagle. We are the creatures of
legend, prowling through 'the mist of darkness' [2 Peter 2:17] and waiting
to attack, with great power and unending zeal. To destroy what others
would heal and to annihilate what others would save. Why do Christians
hate and fear us when they love and welcome the deceptive angels of
light? As we seek only to destroy the evil and exalt the good?

Jesus rebuked his disciples when they wanted to reign down fire on their
enemies the way Elijah did. He said they did not know what spirit they
were of. We know what spirit we are of. We are a fire. The anger of Jesus
our Prophet is building and will one day pour itself out in a torrent of fire.
Jesus revealed to me that he regards many nominal Christians as his
enemies and particularly those ones who using occult power foster
illusions regarding the spiritual life, creating a substitute for real
Christianity.

Since you had a vision and a developing interest in Christianity this is

written for you so that it may acquaint you more fully with the religion to
which have been converted. It will help you as a young person to orient
yourself and to understand the direction you might want to take in this
world. Also the general Christian readership may find it helpful, especially
if they have not made a prior commitment to blind dogmatism of some
kind.

My view is unlike any other as from a child, a small child, I was chosen, set
apart and taught by God Who chose to appear to me more than to any
other mortal. I have seen what no other has seen and learned about
things not even revealed to Prophets and Apostles of old. People can
understand my gifts when I speak of visions but what in fact is the real
evidence is the light in my mind which is deeper and purer than those
often considered to be great teachers of the Church.

You were brought up Jonathan, without religion or without much good

education but having a vision from God you may assume that the
Christianity of your own reality and that of the Bible is somewhere to
found on the earth. Yet, Christians do not go around calling one another
‘brother’ or ‘sister’ or share their belongings and in fact there has been a
long history of Christians fighting in wars and in religious persecutions.
Christianity is like a fallen statue that has fragmented into a few large
pieces and hundreds of smaller ones as well as innumerable tiny
fragments.

Even your own vision, by the standards of some believers, is a delusion as

they are convinced such things ceased with the Apostles.

I was convinced as a young believer that the older Christians who had
fought in the Second World War would have stories of incredible faith and
of how God had saved them in this or that situation. I never heard such
stories. I thought I was about to hear one once when a story was told of
how a believer prayed before landing on the beach of Normandy on D
Day. As the men got out of their pontoon and onto the beach many fell to
machine gun fire. Yet some did not and among them were some who did
not pray. The Christian who prayed was shot and wounded. It was not how
I expected the story to turn out. There was no great story of faith
conquering all and even some of the atheists in the boat faired better
than he.

It is not so strange though as men in English bombers were bombing

Lutheran men in Bible study meetings in German cities; and of course the
next night men in German bombers were bombing men, women and
children in Bible studies in England- And no doubt the Christians among
the bombing crews were all praying for the success of their missions. It is
no wonder that the aftermath of both world wars was an increase in
atheism in Europe.

Out of such religion modern Christianity was born. It is feeble, sectarian,

worldly, hypocritical and self defeating and many Christians are likewise
the same. But you- you are spoken to by God and awakened to true
righteousness and with myself and only Christ knows how many others
you are born from the faith established by the Apostles even if in the
world today Christianity is largely an apostate religion.

The ascent of the USA as the supreme world power led to the ascent of
American Christianity as dominant – floating as it does on a sea of money.
Today at the beginning of the 21st C. there is a pre-packaged religion sold
like Coca Cola that promises instant gratification and is fed to us in easily
swallowable globules. With simplistic platitudes, bright and breezy
positivism and religious consumerism this has made it easy for the
Charismatic churches to infiltrate every corner of Christianity and among
many circles become dominant.

As a result people claiming to have signs and visions, unlike yourself, are
pouring forth a steady stream or rather flood of religious nonsense. This is
an attack upon your faith as who will respect the few true visions and
signs among a sea of counterfeits? Would you recognise and therefore
appreciate a single organic rose among a field of plastic ones? These hide
your true vision from those who would benefit by hearing of it.

As a result of this recent history we live in a world filled with plastic

apostles, prophets and evangelists and overrun with plastic teaching and
fairy tale religion that bears more resemblance to magic than to Christ: To
Aladdin and his cave of wonders and his ‘Open Sesame!’, rather than to
Christ and his signs and wonders and his faith of true discipleship.

Whether non spiritual or super spiritual or even anti-spiritual, the

Christians that you are surrounded by are wrong, counterfeit, half formed.
Multitudes like to play religion and few follow Christ.

What you find hard to understand in these pages will nether-the-less

guide you in years to come and save you from a lot of religious dead ends
and even nightmares that are presented to you as paths to your spiritual
dreams coming true.

It concentrates on exposing the Charismatic Movement, anti-spiritual and

super-spiritual Christians, Catholic haters, Protestant dogmatists, false
prophets and teachers without attacking specific personalities: Bible
worshippers who reject God by exalting His word as a substitute for Him;
others that reject God by exalting a false spirit instead of the real Holy
Spirit.

On the positive side I honour Jesus Christ and give plenty of guidance on
humility, holiness, living close to God and the need for the Bible’s
fulfilment in a believer’s life – as opposed to using the Bible as a barrier to
God. In other words I insist upon the Gospel being a reality in the
believer’s life and hence there is no need for all this fakery.

My dear Jonathan I would not want Satan to seduce you as he seduced

Eve. What God has done in you has prepared your mind for this but to
older and worldlier minds realism is often confused with cynicism.

You may use each chapter, written to be read in sequence or

independently as the basis for Bible study and reflection on that topic.

What unenlightened people see in my writing as bitterness or even

harshness or even extremism may simply be the kind of insight that a
good psychiatrist, surgeon, or social commentator has in their particular
field. It’s like telling a dewy eyed girl her handsome hero is really a drug
dealer and pimp who has sweet talked her with the view to getting her
hooked on heroine and walking the streets. Should I shut up as it may hurt
her feelings and it is not seen a loving? Should I stand by and watch her
-the young Bride of Christ- fall? I will endure her tears, her protests and
even hatred and hope that she wakes up just in time. That is in essence
what I am doing in this book.

Because of mental conditioning, much of it that Christian people are

unaware of, this book needs to be read with an open mind and needs to
be read thoroughly before passing judgement – otherwise they may
simply just react. For you young ones, who are unaware of the history of
the last few decades especially and have seen only a little of the surface
of contemporary Christianity you may at first think I am being very cruel
in my dismissing and description of certain types of believers. This is
rather like living in a house next to a very nice family but meeting a
private detective who tells you they are a family that runs a credit card
fraud business and these nice people have left a trail of misery and
heartbreak behind them. I am that private detective and you need to
listen to my argument before you will really understand it.

As a young believer inexperienced in the world you may get very excited
about being invited to a meeting where you are told you will hear a
prophet or see an evangelist that has the power to heal or that there will
be a great outpouring of the Spirit of God and so on and so forth. I have
been to all those kinds of meetings, read books by or attended meetings
of some of the world’s greatest evangelists and teachers. Often I have
discovered them to be unbalanced Biblically and pretenders to faith rather
than possessors of it.
More importantly I have lived a life close to God. Very holy and knowing
from my first year as a Christian of what it was to be taught by the Holy
Spirit. I am the person that many believers do not believe exists as my
experience of God’s grace is deeper, purer and stronger than anything
they have been taught is possible. This it not an idle boast or a statement
of pure egotism but rather an appeal to conscience to accept spiritual
reality and the fact of God’s abundant grace toward me on behalf of you.

This book needs to be taken like strong medicine. It cannot do anybody

any harm even though its detractors will say it does. It will save some
people from Hell, I know that. It will give many who read it the tools and
light they need to escape the worst religious frauds and to focus on Jesus
as Lord. So, if you have the courage, the zeal for God or the faith, read on.

Jonathan, you were troubled after your conversion by evil spirits and their
vicious attacks, usually in the night, that can be compared to being
burned with a blow torch in terms of how it feels psychologically. It was
suggested to you by an older Christian that you could get psychiatric help.
Yet, you quickly discovered the power of the Cross. That fool however with
his false concern demonstrates a truth: They say ‘Christ, Christ’, when
they mean ‘World, World.’

There is a lot in here about spirits that have actually been seen. - Whether
it is the Spirit of Christ who I will describe to you my dear child and you
will see your Christ and my Christ are the same one! - Or some awful
demons that I have encountered on my spiritual journey. I have not
written a comprehensive book upon either the gift of the discernment of
spirits or upon contemporary false prophets. Rather it is in the use of this
very gift given by God that I have written this book and as you will see it is
unusually discerning of things spiritual and supernatural: Whether they
are doctrines, prophets, demons or powers.

It is spiritual discernment of contemporary Christianity and where it is at

enmity with Christ. If I say things that are shocking it is only as they have
been revealed to me in the light of the Holy Spirit since in this time of so
much darkness a lightning bolt can be shocking as it lights up the terrain
to reveal hidden monstrosities.

It is time in fact to cry out against all the lies and perversions of the truth
that have become so common place so that true saints are made sick at
the very thought of attending church. Much of the world’s criticism of
Christianity is true (because the world has overtaken Christianity and this
started with the Christian Roman emperors who created Pagan
Christianity and abuses and false doctrines have only been added since.)
So that today if a discerning person wants to observe the activity and
supernatural power of Satan they are more likely to find it in a certain
kind of church than anywhere else.
Christian historians have given us a view of their heroes that has been
whitewashed and modern condemnatory types want to dismiss every
saint down the ages that wasn’t a modern type fundamentalist as a
demon worshipper. So if a holy and humble man of the Middle Ages said
prayers to Mary he is regarded as saying prayers to Satan while his
modern critic is neither humble nor holy. How could Christians of Medieval
times act and think like American fundamentalists of the twenty first
century? Yet all who did not are classed as demon worshippers. This hate
filled, sectarian nonsense is everywhere.

The Great De-Spiritualisers

One common error is that those who claim to have ministries of
discernment and decry against false prophets of various kinds tend also to
reject anything deeply spiritual. They are skewed to be opposed to the
supernatural in all its forms assuming genuine Christianity is not very
deep or profound and therefore the most profound and deep spiritual
states described by various teachers of the past are condemned.
Association is used: That is they find something to associate the deeply
spiritual with that is obviously fraudulent: A believer who may spend hours
in silent prayer is compared to zombie like adherents in trance cults…

A superficial resemblance between the two is used as evidence that the

true saint is a demon worshipper; and time and again we are told that this
or that historical believer known for being extraordinary in some way was
really worshipping demons…

Underlying this is often the assumption that the genuine Christian

experiences something of God in turning from Sin to Christ but they will
never enter into any monumental or vast experience of the soul in God.
By having this attitude they imply that those who seek to be truly spiritual
cannot attain to it in Christianity but they may be deluded to think they
can attain to it.

Everything in the New Testament is prescribed, limited and without

realising it they dictate to the Holy Spirit what He can or cannot do in the
heart of the truly faithful. That is they are just one or two steps ahead of
atheism. Beyond being ‘born again’ and growing in grace which turns out
to be growing older and getting a little wiser there is nothing.

Every exceptional saint then is compared to those in other religions or

cults who speak of seemingly deeply spiritual experiences. They also have
a tendency to judge and condemn without justification and not
righteously, wisely or lovingly. The people who claim to discern error in
the Church are likely to condemn the obvious charlatans and frauds but
would also condemn Jesus likewise, even more so, if he were among them
in the flesh!

When I first had a series of visions of Heaven God did not order the saints
to run and hide but I saw them as well as Angels and the Lord himself. You
may think this is quite natural and it is but to many who have been
conditioned with an anti Catholic hysteria this makes me a devil
worshipper – but who among them have really seen God? According to
them the Lord cannot show me any saint in Heaven but He may show me
Jesus – who they often expect to be a blonde haired and blue eyed
European.

God cannot, they think, show me in a vision the child Jesus asleep in the
arms of Mary as this they think is Mariolatry and necromancy – contacting
the dead. If this is so the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus would be a
story of necromancy. Except that they have to accept that as it is in the
Bible but they cannot accept, in spite of the evidence to the contrary, that
the Lord could give any saint the same vision. It would they think, not only
be contacting the dead, even though the same vision is related by Jesus, it
would be adding to the Word of God as they think very unwisely that God
cannot shed much light upon His Word – and certainly not by visionaries!

You see then this constant tendency to keep the Holy Spirit at a distance
and to demonise those who go beyond superficial, often unreal and
sometimes hypocritical religion. In their Biblical justifications they quote
many verses about GOD condemning witchcraft and necromancy to
condemn those whose writings are full of an ardent love of Jesus! They
use Biblical justifications that see every example of saints appearing in
the Gospel or in the NT that explain these are not real saints but
metaphorical visions; that they are one off events never to be used as a
template of the Holy Spirit’s work in believers lives- As they think they
have the Biblical authority and right to condemn these things (found in
the Bible) if they are found in believers’ lives.

Often they cannot be reasoned with as they are both dogmatic and sour in
spirit. They love nothing better than to feel their own superiority by
condemning such believers and in their little sects and smaller groups pat
one another on the back for being clones of one another. Emptiness is
their middle name and self complacency and smugness they mistake for
divine assurance and the comfort of the Spirit.

If such believers could go back in time, and for a while forget everything
so they could speak from the heart; and then meeting say, Jesus, they
would be quick to state, ‘You love Mary. Is this not Mariolatry?’ Or, ‘You
heard my thoughts. That means you are a psychic and you must repent!’

If Jesus were to reply with, ‘It is my Father’s will that I know the hearts of
men’, they could so easily counter with, ‘Kurt Koch in his book Occult ABC
has shown reading minds is by psychic power that comes from demons of
Hell and therefore you are of Satan!’ – The exact position taken by the
condemnatory Pharisees.

The endless chant of, ‘Satan, Satan, Satan’, is taken up against so many
true saints by so many more hard hearted and ignorant Christians lacking
the true kindness and presence of the Holy Spirit they think they know.
Often they find a small error and condemn others totally. You see the true
servants of Jesus do not say for example, ‘Augustine was guilty of bringing
Roman paganism into Catholicism. Flee such abominations of the Great
Harlot.’

The true saint, and ‘saint’ is a Biblical word for

Christian; the true saint will say, ‘Augustine taught and did some
questionable things but he was a holy man of great wisdom and true
devotion to God.’
This is because the Spirit of Jesus within them is discerning but also loving
and He will allow them to see the good in Augustine who was a man close
to GOD.

I know what evangelical, Protestant believers hate and I know what they
love. Most believers will not tolerate teaching on holiness, unless it is
superficial and unreal and most believers want to run after the world and
its material things and call covetousness faith. ‘Thou shalt not covet’
became ‘Believe God wants to bless you with riches.’ Most of all genuine
love and the reality of abiding in Christ are absent. In this state they can
neither understand themselves nor the great figures of Christian history or
even contemporary Christianity.

This book gives a striking view of what it is to be spiritual, discerning and

close to God. It considers the simplicity and beautiful character of the real
Jesus. It contains some real encounters with Jesus and with the forces of
darkness. It examines certain cultic practises found within Christian
circles. Each chapter gives a brief introduction to the subject it speaks on.
This is not an in depth analysis of spiritual things but an introduction to
Jesus as a Spiritual Reality and to His enemies, mainly from within
Christianity.

Inevitably it reflects my gifts as someone called to discern the Spiritual

Realm. I do have the actual Biblical gift of Discerning of Spirits and I am
able to discern the many who claim to have this but do not – particularly
those in cults. Also I am gifted in revelations and visions, having seen the
Lord as a child and sometimes since. Jonathan, we need to bear more
resemblance to the early Christians of the first centuries of Christianity. In
those days it was still considered normal to be a visionary before the
years of Catholic excess - of Charismatic delusion.

What awaits you

If you continue as a humble and holy and therefore loving servant of Jesus
with your enlightened mind and your closeness to the Holy Spirit you will
encounter many wolves in sheep’s clothing but not only wolves, foxes,
badgers and rats and octopi! That is you will encounter every degree and
shade of hypocrite and religious sinner disguising themselves; usually as
the super-spiritual servants of Christ.
These will inevitably tear you to pieces at one time or another no matter
how well you are forewarned. In this book are the weapons of defence and
offence you will need and the guidance that is a must have for every
dedicated servant of God today in this Age of Delusion.

Use it well and it will save you from the worst and allow you to recover
more quickly and fully when you have been savaged by those who you
looked up to in humility and believed their wonderful testimonials about
how spiritual or even apostolic they are! By knowledge and pain you will
learn and then you will be able to teach others. Very few Christian leaders
take the trouble or seem to care or are even aware of how multitudes of
young believers are ruined almost before they start on their pilgrimage
with Jesus.
Chapters
. Spiritual Awareness – Accuracy and Balance
. Understanding Jesus
. A Vision of Jesus Christ
. Walking in the Spirit
. Loving God
. Discerning Spirits – A Spiritual Gift
. Charismatics - The Truth
. Jesus Sananda and the Would-Be Prophets
. The Devil in Disguise: How to Defeat the False Jesus
. The Witch and the False Prophet:
Jessie Penn-Lewis and Charles Finney
. They Lied About Holiness
. Experiencing Peace with God
. The Art of Happiness: A Christian's Response
. How to receive the Power of the Spirit
. Praying in Spirit and in Truth
. Deliverance Ministries: Their Tragedies and their Triumphs
. Slain in the Spirit
. Satan and His Secrets
. The Lost Millions
 Chapter One: Spiritual Awareness

Before considering the various aspects of the ‘deeper spiritual life’ as it

has sometimes been called let us consider the many who are claiming to
be spiritual today. We’ll consider how in intellectual understanding of
spiritual topics their knowledge is mixed but in terms of being taught of
God they often know little of this in experience. In fact very many are
uninspired, heretical, blasé and dogmatic: The opposite to spiritual
mindedness.

I’m not writing to critique you as you try to walk in the Spirit or say you
can sense within your spirit the truths of God. I am writing to help you to
be faithful to God. This book is written for a purpose: To focus your mind
on what is spiritual and to get you out of the nest to fly as an eagle in
Spirit and in Truth.

Have you wondered what it is to be spiritual but are confused that within
Christianity itself there are so many different ways? Have you noticed that
there is an End Times hysteria from certain quarters and a too relaxed
attitude from others? This book will have some answers and I will focus on
Jesus being the Antidote to spiritual confusion. It is Jesus the Lord who
gives clarity and simplicity to a believer’s faith.

After reading you may want to live this life in spirit and truth. It is easier
than you may think. You have been hindered by the evil one – expressing
himself through false teaching and the confusion it spreads. Remove that
stumbling block and the way becomes plain.

Concepts of Spiritual Awareness

“These things we speak, not in words that man's wisdom

teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches – Comparing
spiritual things to spiritual.”
[1 Corinthians 2:13]

A person may read the most spiritual books in the world and learn their
concepts. They may speak of these things and discuss them with others
who have studied them but do they understand these concepts because
the Holy Spirit has taught them or simply as they read the books of men?
Since it is a fact that if a person is not taught of the Spirit of God they
cannot truly understand the spiritual books. The Christian world is full of
people who use spiritual language about spiritual things and often say, “I
sensed in my spirit...” or “The Holy Spirit spoke to my mind...” or “I had a
word of prophecy...” How much of this is real? The various teachings that
come out of Christianity that contradict one another present a problem to
the believer: How to get straight to the truth.

I cannot count the number of times that people have said, “I sensed in my
spirit...” and then gone on to support a right wing or left wing politician, or
nuclear armament, or rejection of another, more sound, believer...and by
observation I have learned that when they say they sensed something in
their spirit it usually translates in reality that a petty prejudice, a feeling,
an assumption etc. has been spiritualized. Often using the concept of
sensing in the spirit is simply a justification for carnal prejudices that
could not otherwise be justified: The exact opposite of Biblical spiritual
awareness. In fact this is a principle of deception for those deceiving and
being deceived.

They have a tendency to believe they know, what is merely conjecture,

and this is based on the evidence of supposed inner spiritual sensing:
Sometimes, quite often on false prophecies. This usually means they
cannot really make a logical case to support their beliefs. Often they
develop a super-spiritual attitude to others who reject their supposed
divine revelations as false conjectures.

Before going on I should say that if you have trouble understanding me

you may like to read each sentence and then think on it. This is because I
will say more in a single paragraph than most authors will say in a book.
Secondly, everything I have written in this book you can understand if you
take the trouble to think about it. So often Christians are used to hearing
sermons in church that do their thinking for them and it may come as
something as a shock to realise you need to cogitate deeply to
understand spiritual books, of which this is certainly one.

How you can you tell

the genuine work of God?
Having a genuine gift of revelation I know that understanding and
material evidence are given by God to support His revelations.

In other words God first explains, then reveals and then performs a sign. It
works something like this. The gifted believer studies a subject in the
Bible and God gives them insight and a rational and logical view of the
subject. A consciousness of enlightenment from the Holy Spirit makes the
Word come alive. This is universal to holy believers. For those gifted in
other ways, and occasionally even if not so gifted, this holy enlightenment
may be followed by a revelation; perhaps a dream or vision or
discernment of something. Related to this, occasionally there are effects
in the material world of either healing or prayer fulfilling the teaching they
received from God. Sometimes it is Providence – a striking concurrence of
events obviously related to the Bible study and prayer and the
enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. As a result the gifted believer uses
logical, Biblical argument rather than insistence that they are superior and
must be believed! God supports them with a degree of evidence that
others can see. In the Gospels you will see this dynamic in the life of Jesus
more than anywhere else. His inner spiritual life effected change in
society and in individuals. Often these changes were miraculous and
physical.

Let us consider this dynamic more closely. A believer may be led by God
to study and meditate upon a subject deeply over years. As they become
wise, by the Spirit, this understanding is deepened by revelation – but this
must be preceded by the first search for wisdom. After the greater light
that comes in some form by the Spirit there is the outer evidence of
change in the believer, in their circumstances or in the world. So a degree
of outer evidence comes from God as proof of inner spiritual reality. That
is because there has been a greater revelation and deepened
understanding leading to a greater faith. It is rather like ascending a
spiritual ladder.

Example: I studied the doctrine of sanctification for years. I read books

on holiness. My understanding became greater than my teachers, as King
David said of himself. Eventually I was given a vision of the Tree of Life in
Heaven. In this vision an angel gave me some of the fruit which I ate. This
was followed by an experience of holiness which continues to this day, a
depth of experience in holiness and power over sin generally thought to
be impossible in this world.

You can see the dynamic at work: The seeking, learning, finding and
experiencing. As Jesus said we will find when we seek. First there is
understanding – under God; then revelation from God and then
confirmation in power. It is all about discipleship rather than
instantaneous gratification.

Let us now consider the opposite. One obvious element in the ministry of
those who are false and make false but grandiose claims about
themselves is the lack of seen evidence. Many may believe them on the
basis of trust. If they are healing ministers they trust others have been
healed by these ministers but somehow don’t get healed themselves…
Generally where there is a lot of noise there is little to show for it. This is
like going to a great fig tree full of luxurious foliage but finding no fruit!
We know what Jesus did to the unfruitful fig tree.

Jesus does give fruit that is spiritual and enduring, whether it is peace, joy
or even power. His servants give it out for free! On close examination they
bear the fruit of Christ and need no fanfare. These, if they claim to heal,
will likely heal you! Alas, there are so few. If they just teach, their teaching
will invigorate your faith. They are also kind and humble without
exception, as are all disciples of Christ.

The Bible as sole authority

It has been orthodox among many Protestants to believe and practice that
the Bible is the sole authority in matters of doctrine and practice. Often it
is part of a creed of Sola Scriptura. Some sects may allow the theoretical
possibility of revelation or experience to carry weight if it does not
contradict the Bible but in practice tend to reject such revelation on the
basis of Sola Scriptura. As a rule they see the Bible as the final word in
establishing any doctrine or experience. Anything not in the Bible must be
rejected.

To the Christians who are not dominated by the dogmas of the

Reformation however this presents several problems. Here is one:

On a basis similar to Sola Scriptura Jesus was rejected by Jewish

theologians:
Who said that according to scripture no Prophet was to arise from Galilee.
This carried a great deal of weight. They were in practice fitting a pre-
existing belief based upon prejudice into their Bible. They refused to
recognise that Jesus was born in Nazareth from where a great Prophet was
to arise! This is often how Sola Scriptura has been used in practice to
reject genuine voices for God.

Another problem is this translation error: Of course these verses below are
not the problem but what has been added to it by interpreters:

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for

doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly
furnished unto all good works.”

This King James Version of God’s words has been written to fit
into a pre-held doctrinal position:
The actual Greek scripture literally translated begins very differently:

“All writing inspired by God…”

The word ‘Scripture’ has been used culturally to mean the Bible
but in the Bible itself ‘scripture’ simply means holy and inspired
writing
The very verse used to teach Sola Scriptura teaches against it. It teaches
us that any writing inspired by God is useful to Christians. The question is
simply whether it is inspired by God. Among some of the writings that
have traditionally been seen as inspired by God, long before
Protestantism, are some of the early Patriarchs or Church Fathers. Some
of these writers referred to things the Apostles had told them personally
but which are not in the New Testament.

Sometimes the ridiculous position of those in error is revealed

when you carry their argument to its extreme:
Sola Scriptura would forbid almost everything a saint will see or hear in
Heaven, even if it is God Himself talking, as it will of course not be written
in the Bible. It also of course forbids God from communicating with His
saints on earth and leaves the most holy among them scorned, rejected
and slandered. Who is really behind that?

In practice strict Protestants do not practice Sola Scriptura but its

opposite
They read or are indoctrinated with the teachings of the Reformation,
which they believe were inspired by God. They use these to interpret the
Bible.

Many Protestants believe and teach that the Bible Alone is inspired by God
– Protestants like a lot of ‘Alones’ and a lot of dualistic arguments. I think
that a believer who does not believe Christians can and are inspired in
word, deed and writing are not really Christians. These Protestants read
lots of Christian books but why read them if they cannot be inspired?

Ironically in quoting the above verses Protestants use the Bible to

establish one thing while denying the other: That is they do not believe in
perfection but use these verses on perfection to establish Sola Scriptura.

Has God no authority?

If the Bible is sole authority this means in effect that men’s interpretation
of the Bible is the authority and that too men who are bound to narrow
denominational lines. So in effect men become the sole authority – men
who interpret the Bible and not God.

This teaching has replaced God Himself with his Bible!

It also contradicts the teaching of the Bible that they supposedly hold as
their sole authority. In the Bible we see it is the Holy Spirit Who is the
Teacher. A better creed would go –‘The Bible in the light of the Holy Spirit
is our sole authority.’ See how different this is. Man’s light or God’s light
upon the Bible is the choice. In practice it is evident too among such sects
that when they make the Bible their sole authority the Spirit is often
lacking – and his gifts. They may use the argument that many have been
deceived who sought revelation – and yet this is like saying that since
there were many who were deceived thinking they were Christ there is no
Christ! On the contrary regardless of how many are deceived or are
charlatans the point is about the authority of God Himself and His right to
teach His children His Word. This right is denied Him by so many sects in
Protestantism and this is a form of rebellion not only against the Bible but
against the Bible’s God.

For those who only have the Bible

they are no more than the religious and devout who crucified
Christ but who also read and revered Moses
The truth is that God is the sole authority and He expresses His authority
by His Word the Bible, by His Spirit and by His signs; by His miracles, By
His providence: By his acts, by His enlightened servants, by His given
dreams, revelations and answered prayers. If all you have is the Bible you
do not even have the Bible as in it all these things are not only taught but
insisted upon! So it is not so orthodox after all to say the Bible is the sole
authority. Once there was no Bible and what was the authority then?

How dare they say that God cannot speak to someone in a spiritual dream
or a striking turn of events? How dare they say these gifts have ceased
when in the future it is prophesied that even two great Prophets will arise
and prophesy? (Revelation) What seems so good and right on the surface
turns out to be in the end just another way of making man central and
banishing the Holy Spirit as once the Jews banished Christ.

Now we know the Bible has a lot to say about God as Teacher:
Guide, Prophet, Lord etc. but nowhere does it say, ‘Let the Bible be your
sole authority in matters of doctrine, practice and faith.’ So, by their own
reasoning these anti-spiritual types should at least admit that is not in the
Bible! Their authority for that is in the Reformation!

It is because they give great authority to Reformers and great

authority to creeds and great authority to an anti Catholic
historical perspective and little authority to God or His Bible! Who
in reality is their greatest authority? Is it Luther who attacked the Bible
and had rather the book of James wasn’t in it? Is it Calvin who liked to
burn his enemies at the stake? When he listened to his enemies
screaming through the flames was he filled with the Holy Spirit and had he
been led to murder those better and more enlightened than himself? Was
he so in tune with God he just had to kill old friends who decided he was
wrong? Or was it because Calvin was Calvin’s sole authority while
believing he was under the sole authority of the Bible, which he
interpreted in his way for himself and acted accordingly? Surely if he had
been under the guidance of the Holy Spirit he would not have done his
terrible deeds; not even in that time and that culture – the inner Spirit
would have held him in check. His followers therefore likewise are their
own authority and their god is the Bible.

Calvin was a very kind and sensitive man; one of high principles and deep
logic. -Too intelligent for his own good as he relied upon his natural gifts.
His insight taught him – not God. His consigning of believers to the flames
was itself a prophecy that his teaching would send many to the fires of
Hell! Of all the heretics in the world the Lord loved him most. He
understood holiness and humility to a great extent but was deceived by
his own mind. He was not like the more intelligent Apostle Paul whose
understanding was enlightened by the Holy Spirit. John Calvin had become
in his bitterness against whom he saw as heretics a raving lunatic. On his
religion Protestantism rests. He had no fear he would be judged for his
deeds as to him salvation was about grace alone and so his evil works
could do him no harm. He was wrong. We all reap as we sow.
They argue it must be this way to have the Bible in effect as their
god or they must follow the delusion of false prophets Nonsense!
Jesus taught his disciples they could be and would be taught of the Holy
Spirit. Some others follow this Biblical authority and believe me it is far
better and this is why we have some very powerful answers to prayers
and some very powerful gifts. It is also why our doctrines are not a mad
confusion of self contradicting compromises but harmonious wholes that
all fit together perfectly!

Here is an example of
Sola Scriptura in practice
A believer clearly hears the voice of Jesus to their mind saying, ‘Preach
the Gospel in Tokyo.’
Taking this revelation to his Sola Scriptura church they will inevitably offer
up a lot of arguments about people being deceived; about running off on
wild goose chases; stories of fanatics gone wrong and will quickly
conclude the revelation is not the word of God and carries no authority:
That is the actual and literal word of Christ is somehow not the word of
God – but must, under Sola Scriptura, be false.

This too is how history has been interpreted as there are a lot of believers
who had genuine revelations from God but who among them are referred
to or even known by those who practice Sola Scriptura? Neither can they
discern if they were true of false and so are ever driven to reject them-
Because they do not have the Spirit as Guide and cannot agree among
themselves under the Spirit’s tutelage. That is they are just not spiritual
enough or have faith enough to establish in practise the Bible they
seemingly revere.

In other words those who live without the Spirit deny the Spirit
Those who live in the Spirit see His light over the Bible and find His Bible
living in their dreams; their perceptions; their gifts. Its as if the things
Jesus taught were actually true as opposed to pretending; as these others
seem to do – in their cold, dead churches with their old men muttering
unbelieving prayers and patting themselves on the back for not being
deluded. Ever wondering why the promise of revival never came and what
happened to all the young people… How little they realise that in terms of
world Christianity, of the present and certainly of the future they have
virtually zero significance.

Yet, since some fleeing this religious formalism have indeed gone
into fellowships where deluded prophets speak deluding words to
overly subjective dupes I will concentrate on these second types
from now on.

Incidentally these few paragraphs above have summed up the evangelical

history of the 20th Century. It was the dead churches that gave rise to the
lively Pentecostal and Charismatic sects that have been the effluent of
Christianity. In their meetings, regardless of whatever good there may be
there is a constant flow of supernatural sewage mistaken by carnal minds
for the Waters of Life.

If there were a cult that gave to its attendees pills to cause diarrhoea and
in their meetings they messed themselves and messed over the floor who
would approve it? Yet, when Satan came as the Angel of light he did this
in effect with things supernatural. His given gifts that suck the life out of
the spirit while giving the soul an emotional and psychological uplift. If
you want to blaspheme God you can speak in so called tongues and vomit
forth the sounds of Hell –disguised but never justified!

See:
http://meta-
religion.com/Linguistics/Glossolalia/contemporary_linguistic_study.htm

Developing spiritual sensitivity

It is relatively easy to distinguish between those who can and cannot
sense things in their spirits or make correct spiritual judgements. When I
was a young believer a girl gave me a tract/leaflet by the deeply spiritual
Jessie Penn-Lewis. I made the assumption that because she recommended
the writing of a spiritual woman she had some spiritual sense, but then I
found out she also recommended writing by unspiritual authors; and later
as I came to know her I discovered that she was very carnal. By carnal I
mean non spiritual, with her heart fixed on many things besides the Lord:
Often things with which the Lord would not be happy. This demonstrates a
common truth: That those who appear to be spiritual often also do and
say things that make it clear they are not. One day they will recommend
the most spiritual books and the next they will recommend something by
a cult! One day they will speak passionately about prayer and fasting and
the next about their favourite soap opera... Often they get confused and
irritable when they are spoken to about spiritual things.

Recently I read some very poor articles by a carnal believer who attempts
to get the world to believe she is a prophet and who advocates the
reading of the most and the least spiritual and balanced writers at the
same time! It is rather like a contemporary of Jesus saying, “Jesus is a
great teacher but beware of John the Baptist. He is a false prophet!” Then
they say that the high priest is also a great teacher, the one who would
crucify Christ. In fact some of those high priests who crucified Christ did
have writings of their own and were known for being spiritual!

In the times of Jesus there was a lot of confusion about who and what He
was. Oftentimes He was called a false prophet or a servant of the devil. By
making the right judgement about Jesus many people came to believe in
Him and gained eternal life. Others who believed the lies told by pious
seeming priests continued in their places of worship unaware that the
Messiah they had been waiting for had arrived. This is how it is today with
spiritual believers and their opponents.

This kind of spiritual confusion and pretence is rampant and it makes it

very difficult for someone like me to teach the true way, as there are so
many would-be visionaries and teachers using the same language without
the substance. On the other hand I do not want to put you off as you are
not one of those who have pretensions and you do not see yourself as
something great. I also teach the simple way of love to Jesus as you will
see, and that is an antidote to all the super-spirituality of the times.

“If anyone thinks they are a prophet or a spiritual person,

let him recognise the things I write to you – that they are
the commandment of the Lord!”
[1 Corinthians 14:37]

Here we see the Apostle Paul realised there were some who thought they
were spiritual but he had to demand of them that they recognise him for
being a truly inspired apostolic writer! Generally, spiritual people are not
seen as spiritual. This is because there is in Christian culture a consensus
among those who refer to one another as prophets, or spiritual, but who
are in reality very much deceived. Their opinions of what is spiritual are
wrong. They keep out those who are spiritual and see them as worthless.
I will add that one of the hallmarks of those who are spiritual is to accept
the entire Scripture and see it as a balanced whole. Many say they accept
all Scripture. Few have a balanced and harmonious view of it.

Where does the term 'I sensed in my spirit' come from?

“When Jesus had said this He was troubled in Spirit and

declared, Amen and Amen – I say to you that one of you
shall betray me!” [John 13:21]

You will notice this is a literal translation and this is one of several verses
dealing specifically with awareness in spirit. It is where the term comes
from but it is misunderstood by people reading Watchman Nee, Jessie
Penn-Lewis and others who taught about the differences between soul and
spirit and spiritual sensing. Often these books are understood
intellectually and many assume this understanding makes them spiritual.

In the verse above we see Jesus was moved within Himself, not primarily
in His emotions although these too were deeply affected, but in Spirit.
There are natural feelings and there are spiritual feelings. As a rule the
spirit does not feel as the natural person does.
The manner Jesus felt in His Spirit is the template for believers feeling
things in their spirits. As we become more spiritual we have more spiritual
feelings. At first these are often confusing and sometimes contradict our
natural instincts. If we think of them intelligently they make more sense,
and especially as we study the topic in the Bible...

For example: On a beautiful summer's day while enjoying a picnic with

your family members there may be outward happiness, but in spirit there
can be deep grief over the state of the lost or the carnality of the world.
The spirit often sorrows when the flesh would rejoice. The opposite is true.
You may be cast down in a dungeon in misery, yet rejoicing that you are
there for honouring Jesus Christ. How many believers have experienced
this over the centuries? It is well known that the faithful martyrs went
from their dungeons to their deaths with their heads held high and smiles
on their faces to the amazement of the Roman crowds at the Coliseum.

“Yet, as being absent in body but present in spirit, I have

indeed judged already, as present, the one who did this deed.”
[1 Corinthians 5:3]

Here we see Paul the Apostle clarifies the issue. The spirit is so distinct
from the soul and body as to be able to be at another place on its own!
This is not merely an expression, being present in spirit, (as the Prophet
was known for telling the secrets of the Samarian King…) Of course Paul
was an Apostle and very advanced in spiritual things. Yet we see the folly
of assuming that deep emotional feelings are somehow the spirit. The
spirit has a life of its own and that life is centred in Christ. Therefore those
who sense things in spirit sense this: The continual Presence of the Lord
Jesus Christ, Son of God.

Here we have a clue too: Those who can sense things in spirit can sense
the differentiation between soul and spirit. They can sense their own
spiritual nature. If they can do this they may sense the spiritual nature of
others. This is why spiritual believers do not recommend carnal authors or
become authors of carnal doctrines. Spirit attracts spirit. Spiritual
believers are attracted to other spiritual believers.

If this ability to differentiate between spiritual phenomena and natural

aspects of life becomes very distinct the believer begins to experience the
spiritual realm, under God's power, more fully. Those who sense clearly in
their spirit will not go many years before they are gifted in some area – It
may be healing, or teaching, or casting out demons... Another way in
which such believers are used is in prayer as not all are called to be
ministers.

Every believer who has the Spirit of Christ and obeys Him is to some
extent spiritual and walking in the Spirit. In the ‘deeper Christian life’ or
spiritual life there are resources put there by God so that we keep on
growing in grace. For some this means power and grace few can imagine.
For a few this means power and grace that no one can imagine. A
necessary step along this path is to learn to walk consciously in the Spirit
being aware of inner things hidden from the eyes of men but revealed by
God.

In other words the ability to sense in spirit is connected with

spiritual power.
There must therefore be a stark contrast between those ones who “think
they are a prophet or spiritual” and those who truly are spiritual.

“Immediately I was in spirit – Look, a throne was set in Heaven

and One seated upon the throne!” [Revelation 4:2]

Here the Apostle John travelled to Heaven in spirit and by his spirit beheld
a wonderful revelation from Christ. This is far more than sensing in spirit.
It is seeing and hearing fully and clearly. Yet it demonstrates the nature of
spirit as opposed to the natural power of the soul. People may and do
have all kinds of experiences that they believe to be spiritual but how
many would match up to John's in essence?

By seeing things clearly in spirit they may help others to see clearly. I
know of no one like John the Apostle. Sure, you can go on the Internet and
find countless numbers of dreamers and their visions of God but you will
not find the clarity, the consistency, the power, the depth, the beauty and
the wisdom...

God supports with His Spirit His believers who sense in spirit.
They are a great blessing to others who are open to God. The Spirit of
Christ knows exactly who among His elect are deeply spiritual and who
are on the borderline. It is the second kind I am writing for in this chapter.
Not to tear them down but to build them up and to give a little help in
seeing things clearly.

“Why, from yourselves, do you not judge what is right?” [Luke

12:57]

Jesus teaches His disciples to judge and discern spiritually. Yet, among
themselves and from within themselves they can learn too. As it is
ordained and permitted by Jesus for His disciples to learn together I will
offer some lessons I have learned.

When a believer first begins to sense things in the spirit they

sometimes put down to God what is of Satan And to Satan what is
of God.
It is good advice when dealing with another spiritual believer who
disagrees with you not to say they are of the devil! It may well be that you
will think as they do one day. One says he is a great prophet in his heart,
but is too humble to tell anyone. I say he is a babe in Christ. Will he
condemn me or get really angry? If so it is likely I am right. One says I am
intellectualising the Gospel and have read a lot of books and I say God
taught me. Do I care? Not really as my concern is for the opinion of the
Lord.

I spoke of the servants of Jesus being humble and kind. Often the most
spiritual people take the least offence at the greatest insults. The
converse is true: The least spiritual people take the greatest offence at
the least criticism. Please think about that for a while and go over the
people you have known. Even go over your own behaviour. It may well be
that the Lord reminds you of certain things that will instruct you. I confess
that I have called others servants of Satan, but rarely, and after great
provocation. I feel sorrow when I have to distance myself or try to correct
a brother or sister. I’d rather cut my arm off than see them go astray.

Another piece of advice is to trust your spiritual feelings

When they consist of sensing the Spirit of Christ
It is important always to keep Him as Lord, even when His Spirit seems to
be guiding you in the opposite direction to your church!

Do not trust great promises of wealth, health and success.

A trick of the devil is to come as a natural train of thought or an angel of
light to ask you if you really believe the Word. When you say you do he
promises 'great things'. The devil will always promise you today what God
will take years to give you, after discipleship and faithfulness to Him. God
is interested in applying the Cross to your life. Satan wants you to
abandon it to a life of sensuality disguised as spirituality – that is Christian
Spiritism.

What has this got to do with sensing in your spirit?

It was thinking that the devil was God and believing him. You know you
have spiritual feelings but these are mixed in with natural ones, and
deceptions. Often you have been deceived but you still trust these
feelings. You trust them as they are often right and shown to be of God!
You cannot abandon them and they will not abandon you. What you need
is clarity and certainty.

Jesus helps with clarification

Jesus wants you to have clear waters and not muddy. There are a few
simple steps you can take to getting greater clarity and power.

1. Take time to read the Bible from cover to cover. What you
learn will rearrange your mind and deepen your understanding.
2. Continually pray for your mind to be cleansed by the Blood of
Jesus.
3. Pray in faith for clear leading from God.
That was quite simple, but how many practise it? Here it gets more
difficult.

Use logic.
When you are apparently told by 'God' that you are to be a great healer
ask Him to heal you of something significant as a guarantee! If He doesn't,
forget the revelation. The God of the Bible would heal you.

When you are apparently told by 'God' there is to be a great revival, ask
that you will lead just one person a day to Christ as a sign. If that doesn't
happen stop listening to that 'God'. It isn't God.

When God speaks in words to your mind ask Him to quote accurately a
Bible verse you do not remember, say Chronicles 1:5. Then look it up. If
the voice of God cannot quote it or makes excuses do not speak to it
again.

By getting rid of some of the mud the waters will become clearer
and more placid.
I am going to say something now that if you cannot accept will leave you
in an unspiritual state for as long as you cannot accept it. Any running
voice in your mind claiming to be God must know what God knows or be
rejected! I'll say it again. Any supposed voice of God in your mind that
cannot tell you tomorrow's news must be rejected - or you will be rejected
as being truly spiritual - by God. He will simply see you as carnal still.

Fortunately, I cannot hear their excuses. “God uses this voice as a help
and it is not meant to be a great revelation.” Another excuse might be,
“As I sense things in my spirit I need to put them into words.”

Here is an even better excuse:

“I am your Lord. Will I ever deceive you? Trust not in the words of men, I
will speak to you to the measure of your faith. This teaching (you are
reading) is not of me, says the Lord...”

I will answer back this example deception based on what I have learnt. If
you can hear God's words you already have the faith to speak to Him and
therefore He can tell you anything and everything. You would in fact be a
great prophet. Will it ever deceive you? Yes, it will continue as you
continue listening to it!

As you purify yourself from the supposed voice of God it will be harder to
go on. You will miss the support and be tempted, even forced, to fall back
into error. After a while however, you will notice you grow stronger and
your spiritual senses more acute. God is blessing you as you have courage
to depend on Him without 'lights'.
As you gain more insight into the spiritual world and begin to
sense things in your spirit more clearly you are likely to become
the author of error to others.
Others will listen to you as you are seen as spiritual. You will teach them
many true and deep things and help them in many ways but they will also
drink in your errors. You have reached the stage in your spiritual life
where you are of most use to Satan. He wants you as you will be believed,
just as Eve believed the serpent! Your pride is such that it is hard for you
to acknowledge your errors, already having been cleansed of so much!
For some of you, your supposed spiritual instincts cry “Satan!” as you
read my words - Be patient and God will bless you.

As you seek daily to humble yourself to God He will lift you up.
The more prepared you are to say, “I am wrong”, the more God will to see
to it that you are right. It is as you move, walk, think and teach in humility
that Christ begins to speak through you.

As you were reading my teaching did you become indignant or contrite?

The second is preferable but what is worse than becoming indignant
would be to regard yourself as superior and have a dismissive attitude as
it is to the modern believer this is directed. You see even Jesus humbled
Himself every day before God and taught with the greatest humility the
most carnal believers. Are we better than Him? What you need above
everything is this humility formed out of love for Jesus. It will purify your
mind and lift up not only your spirit but your soul to God on high.

So the path to spiritual awareness is to focus on Christ. It is to remember

the love and humility of Jesus and practice it. The studies on deep spiritual
things are of less importance to Jesus Himself. He will lead you and teach
you. As you are willing to do God’s will Jesus Himself will guide you. It may
be the reason you are reading this book.
 Chapter Two: Understanding Jesus

Admixture
Things I write here may be hard to understand but you may refer to them
as you need them in coming years and you will recognise them as you
enter situations where what I have described is in operation: Forewarned
is forearmed.

Does Jesus abandon people who have faith if they also have error? Does
Jesus sanction their errors by being among them? Does Jesus prove a
spiritual movement is genuine if some good things come from it? Does he
prove it is false if some bad things come from it? Most things are neither
black nor white and so why would Jesus act as if they were? Christians
however tend to be for or against this or that teaching or person or group.
They tend to see things in black and white. That is they tend to be
dogmatic and earth bound. The Spirit renews the mind and the more
discriminating yet open the mind the better the judgement and as a result
there are better effects of truth in a believer’s life.

You may go for example to a meeting where a preacher tells people that if
they receive Christ into their hearts they will be saved and you see a few
people are truly saved in this way. Yet at another time you see there is an
emotional appeal and people make an emotional commitment that isn’t
real and lasts as long as the meeting or until the next morning. These
spurious conversions are common place. Admixture happens when both
things occur in the same service. In one sense it is quite natural as the
Spirit will not speak to everyone’s heart in the same degree and not
everyone will respond in the right way.

Another example, Jonathan is that you hear a person stand up in a

meeting and make statements or explain an analogy that is obviously
expressive of the wisdom of God and you see it is inspired. Another
person gets up and says things that others think are good but is no more
than moralising or pseudo spiritual sounding assumptions.

At another time people may go to a meeting hoping to be healed and by

exercising simple faith in Jesus some are. At the same meeting there may
be over zealous evangelists who claim to heal people who are clearly not
healed. Or a person with a genuine gift of healing may also give a
prophecy that doesn’t come true. One prophecy I have heard in
fellowships over and over again is about the Great Revival that is to begin
in that fellowship and spread outward to the city and to the country and
the world!
Speaking of revival there may be a sudden influx of visitors to a church
and lots of meetings and lots of fanfare but little to show for it. On the
other hand you may go where there is little fanfare and notice a dramatic
increase in numbers of people believing in Christ and improvement in the
spiritual quality and tone of the church generally…

The grace of Christ is like a spring that bubbles forth its blessings
wherever faith is found. If some people put debris into that stream it will
still bubble forth its blessings. If they pile the debris up there may still be
a pure spring underneath but if they clear out the debris that stream may
turn into a torrent. This is how it is in the world and in the Church. In
varying degrees, in varying ways you have admixture.

Sincere preachers that teach nonsense and good teachers that aren’t
listened to: Soul winners that get no support and flashy evangelists that
are adored. Good Bible studies and little faith: Stronger faith and little
direction: Spiritual focus along with spiritual abandonment by others etc. -
It is all admixture.

In the world lying magazines and newspapers like to tell you that they
bring you the truth. In the churches the truth is diluted, added to,
distorted, let out, kept in, stamped on, exalted. Consequently believers
experience things in various ways and in varying degrees.

The concept of ‘Admixture’ I believe came from Jessie Penn-Lewis. The

idea is quite a good one and one that has been observed from the
beginning of time: Where God operates openly and in the consciousness
of people the Enemy also operates. Admixture is set in opposition to the
concept that certain places or people are exempt from temptation or
deception or delusion. If we have sinned we may take it for granted that
we have also been deluded and deceived and of course tempted.

Certain groups and individuals tend to assume that they are immune to
deception and delusion if they are in a church or if they imagine they have
been filled with the Holy Spirit. They see things as being either of God or
of Satan and as far as the intricate details go this is true enough. Yet in a
big church meeting there will typically be both true and false teaching;
true and false disciples; true and false gifts… sometimes there is true and
false physical healing and signs. That is there is an admixture.

To understand the Charismatic movement and other movements within

world Christianity you need to understand the concept of admixture. The
same is true for understanding individuals. Underpinning many things I
write in this book is the concept of admixture and to understanding the
teachings in this book you need to understand and also observe for
yourself this admixture.

If for example I went to my local Christian cult I could find people, most
likely, who are born again and have a degree of wisdom and
understanding from the Lord. They will be weak but often because of
spurious teaching and supernatural manifestations believe themselves to
be strong. The proud among them tend to have an air of infallibility, even
if they do not claim to be so. I may however find gentle, humble and
loving people there among them. I will also find others who appear to be
loving; kind; gentle; Christian but who turn out to be nothing of the sort
and this is very common. I will find lambs and I will find wolves in sheep’s
clothing.

You will find admixture within yourself. The Bible describes it very well as
the conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

What you see in practice then in a typically great tent meeting of a world
leading Charismatic evangelist will be hordes of people with genuine faith
and understanding in varying degrees of admixture. Among the leaders,
their signs, wonders and teachings you will find an admixture. Often what
is genuine and truly ‘of God’ is limited and what is of the devil is
abundant. This is because if a movement is wrong it will only have enough
truth in it to be believable by the weak and unenlightened believers.

Sometimes at big rallies genuine believers go hoping for healing and

sometimes they are healed. More often then not they are not healed but
sometimes they really are and you may witness it yourself. Almost without
exception among the crowds these healings are taken as divine sanction
for everything the leader of the meeting stands for and as a sanction for
everything that happens, is taught or asked for at the meeting. This
usually involves believers parting with cash. It also involves more sinister
things. The supposed proof of God is there to see however: The healings.

Healing miracles of today

God heals today and always has. There has never been a time when God
did not heal. On the other hand there has never been a time when Satan
did not either heal or fake healing. Typically in big healing rallies most
healings are spurious and you see apparent but fraudulent healing. One of
the most common tricks, and it is a trick, is to get people up out of
wheelchairs.

Usually people in wheelchairs can walk but they cannot walk far without
considerable discomfort or weakness. The public generally assumes
people in wheelchairs cannot walk. This fact is exploited all around the
world in healing meetings. Both by psychological inducement and often
supernatural influence people are made to think they are healed. As they
believe this they get up out of their wheelchairs to the rapturous applause
of the crowds and to the sanction of the evangelist and to his considerable
gain financially and in terms of power and influence: Publishing rights etc.

There are also real healings done by supernatural power that

does not come from God
It is assumed this does not happen but it evidently does. Some apparent
believers get healed by apparent ministers. These healings usually have
particular characteristics however. One is often that they do not last. The
supernatural power, or spirit behind it, was not strong enough to get it to
fix or stay and the healing passes away soon after the meeting lasting
usually no more than days.

At other times the healing will last and result in the person coming under
spiritual oppression. Many people healed in rallies therefore tend to get
nightmares; tend to fall into greater sin; and tend to die before their time.
Also in recent decades most famous healing ministers have died before
their time. Not understanding admixture these ill taught believers and
their leaders wonder about the mysteries of God not realising it is not
mysterious but a matter of principle. If you follow Satan’s rules you will
suffer at Satan’s hand.

Real healing
I said most healings are spurious but this of course implies that some are
not. Sometimes the believer is healed by their own faith as they trust in
God for healing - the evangelist is of little significance either way.
Sometimes the evangelist has a healing gift and often if they have this gift
they are not extremists with lots of ludicrous practises and beliefs – but
there is still an admixture so we all need to be discerning.

By observing the evangelist carefully before going to be healed the

believer may discern, if they have any sense, if the evangelist is for real.
Such a statement as this is true but it makes me sad to write it. You may
find too that there are things that make you weep; the foolishness of
believers; the exploitation by those claiming to be Gods’ servants and the
fact that most people’s ears are deaf to the truth.

I have seen genuine healers in operation and spoken to the people that
were healed. I would say this: The genuine ones also have better teaching
and a generally better attitude. However their gift may not be teaching
but healing. Do not think that if a man or woman is a gifted healer they
will be a good teacher. Often they are meant to find a good teacher to
work with as the teacher teaches and they heal! A healing believer
therefore cannot necessarily be trusted to teach on, say the importance of
Israel in prophecy…

Admixture is what those with discernment discern

It may be admixture in teaching; in supernatural powers; in signs; in
believers’ hearts or in meetings etc. However you need to focus on what is
pure and so for now we shall focus on Jesus in whom there is no
admixture, just absolute purity and truth in all things.
Jesus Christ the Son of God is the most hated man in history:
Jesus Christ the Son of God is the most loved man in history. Is it any
wonder then that you are loved by those who love Christ? It is no wonder
that you love those who love Christ.

“Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Anointed (Christ-

Messiah) has been born of God. Everyone who loves Him who
(brings to) birth, also loves what is born of Him. By this we
know we love the children of God, as we love God and keep
His Commandments.”
[1 John 5:1-2]

Before going on to talk of what these verses mean I will say what
they do not mean.
They do not mean that everyone who simply says they believe in Christ
today is born of God, or born again, or saved, or regenerated. At the time
the verses were written people were being thrown out of synagogues for
acknowledging that Jesus was the Messiah or Christ, both meaning
Anointed of God. In those days and in that situation those who rejected
mainline religion and its rejection of Jesus declared their allegiance to God
by stating they did believe in Jesus as God's Messiah. This cut the Jews
into two groups: Those against and those for Christ.

It was not intended by John the Apostle

to be a rule or formula
This is not a formula for being saved to simply say you believe Jesus is the
Christ. It is understood everywhere in the Bible and is implicit in the above
verses that belief in Christ that brings salvation is spiritual belief from the
heart that involves turning to God from your sins: Jesus being the Saviour
of sinners from Sin. Not to do this is not to believe in the Christ.

What the verses indicate

John clearly states the definition of believing to salvation. It is those who
love Christ and His disciples who truly believe to salvation. In other words
that belief in Jesus as the Jewish Messiah or world Christ is a belief
grounded in love to God. This shows that, as I said, it is spiritual belief. Not
a belief in something spiritual or about something spiritual but a belief
which by its very nature is spiritual.

Secondly this love is not merely sentiment

Obedience to God is the measure of the love that is expressed in keeping
His commands and in believing in Jesus as the Christ. In other words we
can paraphrase the message of John in the above two verses by saying
that those who love Jesus enough to obey God's commands, declare that
Jesus is their Messiah and also love other believers: Loving those who are
also born of God.

The strength of this belief

We can also update this by saying that, in principle, those who are willing
to be cast out of their churches, to risk execution because of their love to
Christ and their obedience to God are the ones who truly love whoever is
born of God, and they are of course born of God themselves.

Now if we or the early Christians before us were cast out of our places of
worship for loving Jesus we are the true children of God. At this point in
history there is no focal point, or rallying call, designed to call out God's
elect from corrupt churches; or no revival strong enough to reform the
churches... There is a spasmodic, often individual, basis for believers
coming up against hard heartedness, persecution, including defamation,
from other 'believers'. Often this results in believers who serve God
leaving their churches. Sometimes they try to form better ones but are
often dragged down by the same errors, thoughts, spirits, and lies that
have hitherto entrapped them...

I don't think Jesus finds the Gospel as hard to understand as His many
ministers seem to make out. The purpose of Jesus coming to earth was to
give people the chance to love Him. It is simply that. God's will is that the
world should love Christ. Because they didn't and don't, the rest
followed... God knew it all before hand of course, and so Jesus was
prepared to die as the sacrifice for Sin... The Apostle John focuses in his
teachings on loving God and His Son as well as our fellow believers. He
understood the Gospel in its simplicity and power just as he understood
Christ:

Modern Christians need to focus on loving Jesus.

To understand Jesus is to understand He desires above everything to be
loved, both for our sakes and for His own. Christianity is love to Christ.
That is all. All the rest flows from that. Christianity has been called the
religion of love. Today, even if many say it is about other things and love
is just a single grace like peace or joy they are wrong. God is Love. Jesus is
Love. We are to become Love!

I sense in my spirit, and know in my mind--

That the Lord Jesus of the Bible has complete confidence in His
own words coming true. Therefore Jesus has joy at the thought
that one day the Bride will make Herself pure. I think the Lord
Jesus wants this from contemporary Christians: A deep shift in
their 'religion' to a simple, straightforward, joyous and ardent
love to Him.

Some are wary of talk of love as it has been so abused by cults and by
some so-called mystics. However, the teachings of God are clear enough
and of course we just studied two verses about loving the Christ and His
people. We should remember what Paul the Apostle said, “Without love I
am nothing.” This is not the love of Easy Religion but of obedience to
Jesus and God.
 Chapter Three:
A Vision of Jesus Christ

In this chapter I describe Jesus. I am a visionary and have seen

the Lord, so unlike other chapters in this book this one is
devotional and experiential. In all my writing there is an element
of Bible study but here I would like to talk about how I have
experienced the Bible’s fulfilment.

For this reason I will not be taking a text and commenting on it

but taking my life and commenting on it. However you may see
time and again where certain verses would apply. You may do
this automatically if you believe I really am fulfilling the Word as I
should – As the Word flows it lives and lives again.

The Appearance of the Lord in Art

Before talking about my feelings or experience, of the character of Christ
in particular, I will comment on the appearance of Jesus Christ. Jesus does
not appear like any of His paintings, or who is to say if someone has
painted a picture that does look like Him? I have a drawing I did, literally a
portrait... In the early days of Christianity there were several visionaries
that had visions which gave rise to depictions of Christ in art, the kind we
are familiar with. Some of these visionaries were true and some false. As
for the true, no one can therefore calculate how many people have seen
Jesus. On the other hand, European artists tended to create Jesus after
their own image, as a European with, usually, light brown hair and
sometimes blue eyes. Early Christians did not do this as they were
unaware of blonde Europeans, the Romans not having enslaved them at
that time. There are also some icons of a black Jesus. Today pictures of
Jesus make Him look rather like a kindly hippy...

As He really is
The Biblical Jesus appears Jewish in His features with brown hair and eyes.
He has soft, almond shaped eyes and stands about 5'7''-8'' tall. That is
short by today's standards but tall for His era. He does have a beard in
accordance with Jewish tradition. Even though Jesus' hair is not as long as
it is in the paintings He does not have the short hair that came into our
culture with the First World War when men began to adopt the short-back-
and-sides haircut, after having longish hair in the nineteenth century!
When I first saw the Lord I did not realise how rare an experience it is.

Jesus is not the handsome type depicted in Hollywood films and neither is
he the black Jesus of some African American groups, although it would not
matter with what ethnic appearance He had been born. He is Jewish with a
larger than average nose. He is not strikingly handsome but plain looking.
However, I suppose you could say He is attractive to all in the sense of
having the presence and grace of peace upon Him.

The demeanour and manner of Jesus

The way Jesus carries Himself reveals His deep humility. I suppose if
someone could study the body language of Jesus they might well assume
He was a servant of some kind. I can never get over that - the manifest
humility. This is so when Jesus gives a revelation, you become aware of a
Personality of total humility and forbearance. I have met so many
supposedly spiritual Christians but none with this manner of humility. So
often they are proud and authoritarian. Do not trust their visions of God!
Jesus conveys humility in every gesture, word and the way about Him He
has. Jesus, if He were seen in a crowd, would hardly be recognised as the
Son of God. He is human after all. Some may think He was strong and
noble; others that He was deep and 'otherworldly'. Everyone, without
exception who spent more than a few minutes in His presence would feel
and recognise that there is no other like Him.

That is revealed in the Bible but probably we do not take enough notice.
Jesus was, and is, the most impressive, gracious, and powerful Person to
have walked this earth. I think so many people believed in Him upon
seeing Him, before He spoke or performed a sign. When He returns the
world will fall in love with Him and wonder how they were fooled by Satan
for so long.

Jesus is a man of few words

Jesus as the Word continually 'speaks' in silence to the believing soul. This
spiritual speech is very powerful and is the very salt and light that has
kept the world from total corruption and self destruction... When He
speaks in words it is not simply that, with believers who have had genuine
visions or even physical encounters with Jesus, His message is short and
simple; but Jesus says more in one word than anyone else can in a million.
If He does manifest Himself in the body He is more likely to use more
words with children than with adults; both because of their innocent minds
and lack of understanding. However, I am talking of my experience and
what Jesus has spoken to me could fit on a single page. Also I do not want
to give the impression that Jesus being seen is commonplace. It is
exceedingly rare.

Jesus communicates Himself

to the believer.
If this sense becomes quite distinct a person may find they become aware
of the attitude, desire, peace or even thought of Jesus. Revelation is all
about degrees; from the new Christian who feels a sense of peace to the
mystic who achieves oneness with God. In this oneness a river of life flows
into the soul. It overflows from the Spirit. That life cannot be contained
and must express itself. As a result there is a union with the Mind and Will
of Christ. If the Lord so wills, and often He does; He can reveal clear
thoughts and light especially upon Scripture. I know in experience that my
revelations and visions of and from God reflect a kind of living Bible
concordance: They are a miraculous form of Bible study. In every way God
exalts His Word.

Jesus' deeply emotional nature

I am one of those Bible teachers who warns against the excesses of
emotion in the flesh, especially in worship. The other side of the coin is
that spiritual people feel, and think things very, very deeply. In the case of
Jesus I have sometimes felt Him withdraw from me in Spirit when He was
so deeply moved that it was not right for His feelings and thoughts to be
revealed to my human mind. In fact the human race in general would be
very shocked if they even suspected just how deeply Christ feels and how
real are His tears and His joy. At other times Jesus reveals what was
previously hidden and this has transformed my own mind. Often these are
simple truths that should be obvious but are not as we are so unspiritual –
even we who are spiritual. (All believers who have the Spirit are to some
extent spiritual.)

Here is an example of what I mean about a piece of information

conveyed to the mind by Jesus
The Lord showed me that to saints He appears or they see an angel
because of their faith. It would be unjust according to God's holy principles
or Divine Law to give visions to sinners, except in rare circumstances. Yet,
He is so kind and wants unbelievers to perceive the spiritual realm, so He
permits them to see a ghost or an evil spirit. What appears to be a curse
is actually a message. It says there is a spiritual realm: There are spirits:
Only the Bible properly describes what they have seen and offers the
remedy in Christ. So, typically of Jesus, a bad experience is used to teach
spiritual reality and open the heart to grace... Even atheists see ghosts.

Jesus almost never rebukes but sometimes gently reproves

When Jesus does chide it is normally a gentle reproof that turns out to be
not only very correct but very insightful and needful. Yet, anyone can be
so enlightened by Jesus. I hope this inspires you.

Jesus tests us continually

When opposition comes Jesus uses it to get us to be patient and humble
and to endure injustice, as He did. If we were able to beat them down or
even take vengeance by intellect or in some other way but refrained from
doing so then this is meekness. The ego is bruised by opposition. The
Light in our minds put there by Christ causes us to have the opportunity to
behave like Christ in difficult circumstances – this is often what these trials
are about. The more spiritual we become; that is the more Christlike we
become the less we take offence at others’ hurtful and unjust words or
accusations. What once stang so bitterly can become no more than a
minor irritation. This is of course evidence of the love of Jesus in our mind
and soul. Older and wiser believers like sometimes to point out the need
to resist becoming bitter and for us to try, if we can, to always be forgiving
and accommodating without agreeing with sin. It is the flesh life you see
that gets hurt and hits back but the spirit is humbled by the same attacks
and pities the sinners that are so incensed by Satan’s agency, against us.

The Spirit of Christ within us causes us to be far less likely to call

opponents satanic, and if this does happen it happens after a great deal
or wrongdoing against us; and after entreaties to better behaviour
etcetera. Those who seem to say to a new acquaintance or at the
commencement of a debate, “I am of God and you disagree with me
therefore you are of the devil”, are hardly acting like Christ who was slow
to rebuke, and only did so after great provocation. In the passages where
Jesus rebukes the Pharisees or His disciples we see He was greatly
provoked and would not rebuke unless it was necessary. Sometimes such
a rebuke might have come after years of bad behaviour from an
opponent. If you find yourself in a situation where you are continually
attacked but you have not spoken a single word of reproach in reply this is
more likely due to being conformed to the will of Christ than any goodness
of your own.

Power in Spirit
There are many blessings in life not asked for that occur to believers.
Many we take for granted and don't give thanks, but Jesus thanks God for
us! My greatest answers to prayer are not answers to prayer but the
unwarranted kindnesses of Jesus. They are simply blessings the Father
gave me for Jesus' sake; blessings that I could not even have imagined. I
have seen, felt, understood and been shown what no mortal could
possibly conceive – will you likewise fulfil the very Scripture this refers to?

Here is something about the Mind of God

God's religion is very simple. It consists of loving His Son, Jesus. Many
cannot accept this - they would have to quote a confession of faith... A few
may well see my Jesus as insipid as He is not the arrogant “I'll promise
you a million dollars if you serve me” character of so many books and TV
shows. Who needs that character? We have the real Christ.

In the Mind of God there is no shadow of evil and there never has been a
bad thought. The trials of life are designed to turn people to Him and the
blessings of life are designed to get people to appreciate Him. Most
people will do neither but He never harbours an evil thought about them.
There is unperceived love in everything. It is the world that is hard on
God, not the other way around. Those who suffer most are offered
absolute peace, as they are offered Jesus Himself.

I am writing this so you can see what kind of life you will have if
you follow Christ
Jesus is very powerful but to worldly minds He may appear weak, as those
who practice forbearance are often seen as weak. By not being arrogant
Jesus does not fit in with the spirit of this Age. The false representations of
Jesus often demonstrate this arrogance and preoccupation with the things
of this world – especially money. The Jesus I know has always been more
powerful in His gentleness and mighty in His Spirit than the false Jesuses
put about by the manipulative and super-spiritual.

Jesus is Love Incarnate and not Capitalism Incarnate or Cosmic

Consciousness Incarnate. It is important to understand that Jesus is Love
expressed as Truth and He is the Image of God. Jesus is not simply a
cosmic god with superpowers. In God’s eyes a humble and loving child is
far better than a vain god. It just so happens that Jesus is the humble and
loving Child of God. On the other hand God is the Spirit of Jesus. That is
why we need no one besides Jesus and will exalt no one above Him, Who
is more humble than all.

Difficult doctrines like sanctification are simple to God

God simply wants loving souls to be absorbed into Himself. We are ever
being drawn deeper into God. It is where we should dwell; living and
moving within Him as God is the centre of our being. We are transformed
and aware of it; but I have learned that the things I am unaware of are the
most powerful of all. I am a man who is completely, totally and fiercely in
love with God as God is with me. If you understand just how passionately
God in Christ loves, you will understand you are loved and if you
understand that the Bible will make far more sense to you. ICTHUS will
feed you better than - fish and chips.

The Mind of God in you

Everyone has thoughts put into their mind by God. No one is totally devoid
of grace. Imagine then how this will increase as you believe. Often
becoming a Christian means accepting those things God has already
shown you; things you have not understood or things you resisted. It is
being won over by Christ. It is similar to a lover finding their true love. As
you come to know Christ His Mind and Character are imprinted upon you
like the image on a seal, those old ones used to seal letters.

The Mind of God for you

The Way of Jesus is a gentle way, yet disciplined and committed. It is a
holy way and often times a difficult way. It is not the easy way of so many
churches where shallowness often prevails. It is a way of discipleship.
Letting Christ's Mind dwell within you conforms you to that way. This will
focus your thoughts on Jesus and simplify your attitude to one of loving
God. Instead of running around to hear the latest big preacher or read the
latest faddish book, or fretting continually, you will dwell happily in the
presence of the Son of God by faith, Amen.
I invite all readers to come on this Way.

A Simple Prayer:
This can be prayed by those wanting to become Christians and those who
are already Christians.

“ Dear God, Please give to me the Mind and Heart of your

Son, Jesus. I intend to follow Him in the Way of Life. I turn
from all that displeases You and put it behind me. In Jesus'
Name I ask that You give me a faith that is purer, simpler,
happier, more loving and powerful than any I have ever
imagined or could imagine! Forgive my sins and come into
my heart now by Your Holy Spirit, Amen.”
 Chapter Four:
Walking in the Spirit

‘Walking in the Spirit’ is an expression that means behaving or

acting in accordance with the Spirit of God: A walk through life
along the Way of Christ by spiritual means for spiritual ends.

In the Greek New Testament there is not the differentiation we have in

English between spirit and Spirit as it was all written in capitals. We are
left to judge whether any verse refers to the human spirit or the Spirit of
God or both at the same time. Since we learn that those who walk in the
Spirit are also using their human spirit as the means of this walk we see
the dual meaning is intentional. Where the Spirit alone is intended it
always will say the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of the Lord.

“I say to you, you walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfil the
craving of the flesh” [Galatians 5:16]

By walking in the spirit/Spirit we do not live out the lustful or sinful desires
of the flesh. What is the flesh? It is not merely the body but rather a
certain type of nature that is ruled by the desires of the body and
secondly by the desires of the mind but not by the desires of the Spirit.
The flesh is everything a person is without the Holy Spirit. Whatever we
were before we were saved by Christ was flesh: All of it – body, soul and
spirit.

It is called 'flesh' to denote its fallen nature. 'Fallen Nature' is the Biblical
expression and not 'sinful nature' (as in the NIV). If we were sinful by
nature we would be guiltless and it would be unreasonable of God to ask
us to act contrary to our nature. Like demanding a bird to to walk on four
legs or a frog to fly. God asks and requires that we conform to the nature
He originally created in us and that lies fallen within us, which He is
resurrecting in us. Nature in which spirit dominates the soul and body
under God. Only in this sense God creates a new nature in us - by filling
us with his Spirit but He does not change our nature from body, soul and
spirit to something else. To have a body, soul and spirit is not intrinsically
sinful. It is simply the condition that it is in. It is broken and needs to be
fixed; can be fixed. This is very different to thinking, as multitudes do, that
a life of holiness is impossible as we are doomed ever to live in the flesh
and are irredeemably sinful: That we wear a church face and pretend to
be righteous even though we know God is unreasonable and demands
impossibilities.

I will tell you a secret, Jonathan, that in no sense should be a secret but
church teachers being what they are they have obscured rather than
revealed the truth of Christ: As we live a holy life and grow in spirit and
truth we become more natural; we become more in tune with our true
selves; we become more in tune with nature; we become more in tune
with God.

In the flesh sinners are always in disharmony firstly with themselves and
then with everything else! They take it for granted this is their nature and
spiritual life an impossibility of dreamers perceived as being out of touch
with reality. They are very subjective. They think that as they are they
must ever be. Christian 'sinners' think the same and greatly limit God. The
True Self is created in God for a life of holiness and good works as its
effect and only those who know this know how natural it is and how much
more they are in touch with reality! The world as usual has treated the
holy thing as its opposite and fulfilled the word of Christ in that they
regard good as evil and evil as good, black as white and white as black.

After salvation comes through Christ and His Spirit indwells us the human
spirit is made alive. The human mind and soul begins to take upon itself
the attributes of the spirit which is remade in the image of Christ. The
body conforms to the desire of the Spirit...

If you meditate on the above paragraphs you may see how they save you
from the error of mistakenly thinking the soul is the same as the flesh or
the body is the flesh. In the Bible ordinary words take on a spiritual sense.
Ultimately, God's plan is to conform the entire nature to the Spirit of Christ
so that body, soul and spirit are entirely holy. In Resurrection too the
spiritual body is in no negative sense 'flesh' even though it is flesh and
blood as well as soul and spirit. It is entirely in the Spirit.

I know these things are hard to understand and have been distorted by
many teachers trying to understand the spiritual life. They muddy the
waters and all too often emphasise a corrupt soul in contrast to a pure
spirit. Actually, God intends the soul to become as the spirit/Spirit, so that
every thought, motion of will, motive and desire is pure. Those who find
their minds are full of purity and peace are walking in the Spirit- even
though their minds are part of their souls. Their bodies too are used in a
holy way, not the way of lust, of gluttony or laziness... So their bodies too
are spiritual. In this way everything that comes out of them is pure: Their
looks, gestures, words, tone of voice, deeds etcetera are all Christ centred
and Christ is the Spirit of the Lord, Amen.

The carnal man is one whose body dominates their soul and
whose soul dominates their spirit. A spiritual man is one whose
spirit dominates their soul and whose soul dominates their body
and of course God dwells within their spirit! The first is ‘fallen
nature’ as the spirit has fallen from its supreme place in God and
over human nature. The second is the ‘new man’ and comes
about by the resurrection life of Christ. The process of moving
from one state to the other by faith is called ‘sanctification’.
Belief in sanctification varies among Christians. In the nominal it
is non existent. In the basically evangelical it is being born again
and growing slowly in grace. In those of strong faith it involves
realisable holiness that is generally scoffed at but is all too real
for those who attain it. For the most perfect it is a total
transformation from darkness to light.

The danger of reading spiritual books

There are any number of false prophets, foolish teachers, cults and crazed
individuals that take their teachings from their misunderstanding of
spiritual books. I often read on the Net how this or that cult follow the
errors of Madame Guyon or Watchman Nee or even Jessie Penn-Lewis or
John Wesley. Just as Arminius (one of Calvin’s old friends turned
theological opponent who escaped being burned by him) was not totally
an Arminian so too these great writers are not responsible for the people
who try to imitate their teachings - but use them to ensnare others in all
kinds of things, including mind control and Spiritism. This is equally true of
the Bible. It is not the fault of God that His Book is quoted by every
charlatan under the sun. You may check the teachings of this small work
against the abundant teaching of Scripture as its root source to see if it
matches up...

To recap then: To walk in the Spirit is to have your entire being imbued
with the power of Christ. To walk in the flesh is to be as any worldly
person, whether they are a garbage collector or a guru.

“...So the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us,

since it is not in the flesh we walk in but in the Spirit”
[Romans 8:4]

The purpose of walking in the spirit is to fulfil the righteousness of the

Law. Here again I need to explain terms. By righteousness it is meant both
outward and inner goodness: Thinking and doing right. The Law is not
simply a set of commandments or the books of Moses – as some will say it
is. When Jesus used the Law He quoted Psalms! The Law is the
righteousness of God expressed in both the written Word of God and in
nature as well as conscience. It is revealed Truth. It is actually the Mind of
Christ. Could you write out the Mind of Christ you would be writing out
God's Law. Yet, you do not need to do it. The Bible is a reflection of the
Character of Christ. The entire Bible exists as a revelation of the Mind of
Christ. The Law then is both revelation and principal. It is the expression
of the Spirit of Truth.

Some people try to say the ceremonial Law of the Jews is done away with
for Christians but there remains a moral Law. It is far more correct to say
there remains an eternal, spiritual Law that is never done away. This is
what is fulfilled in those who walk in the Spirit of Christ. Jesus gave a more
simple explanation. All the Law is summed up by loving God and loving
your neighbour as yourself. That is both spiritual and eternal. Yes, certain
ceremonies and rituals have passed their use by date but the love of God
in Christ remains forever. It is this love that is the righteousness that is
fulfilled in those who walk in the Spirit. Even if these things I write are
hard to understand they may yet help you understand difficult passages
of the Scripture.

To recap again: To walk in the Spirit is to walk as a spiritual being

centred in Christ. An effect of this is that the flesh life is subdued
and the spirit, soul and body come under the influence and power
of Jesus. When this happens the spiritual principles of life ensure
that the goodness of God flows from within and out into our
words and deeds. This means we actually fulfil God's Law which is
summed up by loving God and our neighbour.

Conflict among brothers

and sisters in Christ
Not all Christians have the same understanding or the same degree of
faith and neither can this be so. As a result there are often disagreements,
controversies, inroads by cults, petty hatreds. Conversely there is
pleading for truth, sound teaching, repentance and strong faith expressed
in love. In the following verse Paul the Apostle expresses his exasperation
but points out his and Titus's practical righteousness. Those who walk in
the Spirit will come up against others who chide them, decry them, who
are fickle etc. Yet, when two or more walk in the Spirit they will walk the
same steps. They will have peace and unity.

“I requested Titus and with him I sent a brother - did Titus

defraud you? Did we not walk in same Spirit - in the same
steps?” [2 Corinthians 12:18]

Unlike the many televangelists and others that soak up vast amounts of
money from within Christendom and use it mainly on themselves after
giving a fraction, very publicly and with fanfare, to a good cause, Paul and
Titus were not avaricious and calling it faith. They walked in humility,
peace and love with joy.

To walk in the Spirit is dangerous

It will set you at odds not with immature believers that can be corrected
but with the Big Guns with their big talk who cannot walk in the Spirit. Yes,
as a typical example; they may have put out glossy books and preached
on Nigerian TV at 3a.m. - Or flown in private jets to counsel rich Tokyo
business men while signing deals that rake in billions, but they have no
idea what it is to walk in the Spirit. The Dollar dominates Christian
publishing, TV and media. Those who worship the Dollar have most of
them! Therefore they are over-represented. After all, the world would
not allow true saints to preach without raising up a great
persecution against them. The world therefore hears little good
Christian teaching and a lot of what is pure tripe. What Christians really
believe, living sacrificially, walking in kindness and love by faith in Christ,
conquering sin and Satan, these things are under-represented in the
media. Therefore when you begin your walk in the Spirit many will try to
silence you, neutralise you, excommunicate you and slander you.

I should not need to teach these things but sadly the time has come when
believers are in danger in their churches from persecution and would be
better off out of them! Yet, as Titus and Paul walked in step together with
the Spirit so you will find others that also are in step with Christ. You will
not find many. You will not agree 100% or close to it but a time is coming
when such believers will have a home and such churches as Jesus would
enjoy attending will come into being. I know this because I know the Spirit.
 Chapter Five:
Loving God

Jesus taught us to,

“...Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul
and with all your strength, and your neighbour as yourself.”
[Luke 10:27]

This is a simple guide of how to love God and by loving God to

love your neighbour as yourself
The Love that Jesus spoke of was spiritual in the sense that it was pure in
motive, selfless and created in the heart by the Holy Spirit. That is we are
to love God with His own love as our love is often not love at all. When we
love of ourselves we are full of impurities and failings...

This in turn means we are to love God by faith.

“There is no fear in love but perfect love casts out fear; as

fear is related to judgement. The one who fears is not
perfected in love.” [1 John 4:18]

Here is a simple prayer.

“Lord Jesus, I pray you will give me your love for all and especially
for God. My own love or effort to love is not sufficient. I pray I may
receive your pure love by faith. Please grant me this love as a gift,
Amen.”

This prayer will help focus your mind and prayed purely, will show God
your intent and dependence upon Him.
All spiritual life is created by God within us by His Holy Spirit We
should not assume we can make this life within ourselves by our own
effort as the unspiritual Self cannot create the spiritual Self. God creates
within us a new spiritual life.

“We are His creation - created in Christ Jesus for good works;
which God has preordained that we should walk in them.”
[Ephesians 2:10]

This new creation, made of the fabric of Christ, is the centre of our being
and has a nature like His. It consists of our spirit being given new life, the
Life of Christ, as its mainspring. In that sense we become united to God by
Christ. Deep within ourselves we feel this life. We are to trust this life will
be manifested in our outer selves, our conscious selves, by the power of
the Holy Spirit. That is we experience Christ by faith.

The Life and power of Christ become ours by faith.

“So Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, so you being

rooted and built in love may be able to comprehend, with all
saints, the breadth, length, depth and height – To know the love
of Christ – which is thrown beyond knowledge: So that you may
be filled with all the fullness of God.” [Ephesians 3:17-19]

All the spiritual life that peoples all over the world have sought; all the
graces and qualities of Jesus; all the sum of what is perfect, wonderful,
holy and godly can be found in Jesus and Jesus can be found in you, if you
believe.

All the failure, shallowness, loss and dead ends you find in church or in
striving to be spiritual can be vanquished by Jesus Christ from within you.
It is easier than you think as most people that seek these things or seem
to, seek them outside of Jesus and by Self Effort, not by the simple and
pure way of faith.

“By grace you are saved through faith: That is not of yourself; it is
the gift of God.” [Ephesians 2:8]

Jesus is completely willing to give His Life for everyone and

anyone who will receive it on His conditions
These conditions are simple. One is to ask God to have these things: To be
active and willing to follow and obey Him. Another condition is to repent.
Repent is a word translated from the Greek word ‘metanoia’. This means a
change of mind in the deepest sense. In other words we are to transform
our minds by turning from what is evil or corrupt to what is God's will,
which is always pure. Along with repentance comes believing; believing in
Jesus.

Read this prayer; as you pray it in the faith which is God’s free gift, it will
bring you into fulfillment of God's will and on the path to truly loving God.

“Heavenly Father, I repent of all my sins. Please forgive me and

grant me eternal life. I ask Jesus to come into my heart by His
Spirit. I trust this is so. Amen.”

Here is another prayer for those who already have Jesus in their
heart. Think
about it and if you have grace pray it.

“Heavenly Father, I consecrate myself to a life attitude of loving

holiness, in Christ by faith. Please grant that I may abide in Him
in such a way that I will no longer depend on Self but upon Christ
alone. I trust that this will lead me to fountains of living water I
have not yet tasted. Amen.”

Such prayers as these or any that God will lead you to pray are
not about us willing what is to be but about trusting in God’s
grace freely offered to us in Christ. To repent and believe and
then to be consecrated to Christ is the path that leads to loving
God fully. Remember, God's love, as it comes from Him returns to
Him and it returns as it came, freely, purely and in power. You
will see the following verse also balances the activity of the
believer with that of God. God sovereignly rules over our hearts
and in this sovereignty He wills us to obey; to respond and act -
but it is all of grace, Amen.

“Keep yourselves in the love of God, seeking the mercy of our

Lord Jesus Christ to Eternal Life.” [Jude 1:21]
 Chapter Six:
Discerning of Spirits: A Spiritual Gift

In I Corinthians chapter 12 the Apostle Paul lists various spiritual gifts. In

verse 10 he speaks of “discerning of spirits”.

The Apostle John states,

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit but test the spirits to see if
they are of God, since many false prophets have gone out into
the world.” [1 John 4:1]

Firstly I will explain what this gift of discerning spirits is not and
then what it is.

The gift of discerning of spirits

Is not called ‘discerning of demons’
for a reason
Multitudes seem to think that there is a gift that it is unfortunate to have
as it results in you seeing demons everywhere. This is backed up by many
who claim to do this among Pentecostals in their various denominations
and sects.

You will notice in the above verse that testing of spirits was connected
with identifying false prophets. That is what I am doing in this book. All
God's gifts are good to have and are not burdensome or oppressive. They
do not disconnect people from reality but have the opposite effect. The
gift of discerning spirits is a work of the Holy Spirit and it is an amazing
and wonderful gift to have. Here is an example of a deluded person's
behaviour, one who claimed to have the gift of discerning spirits.

I sat down to lunch with a Christian friend and their guest. The guest who I
will call Nelson was supposed to have been baptised in the Spirit and
could see demons. He informed us that there were demons in the room.
Nelson then opened a window so they could leave and commanded them
to go in Jesus' Name. However, he noticed one was still hiding under the
salad bowl so he picked up the bowl and shouted at the demon to leave....

As ridiculous as his behaviour may seem it was quite orthodox for his
‘Jesus Only’ church – a Pentecostal sub group. Everything he did was
related to their teaching. For example he needed to open the window as
they regarded demons as somehow bound by physical obstacles. He
needed to shout as they believed demons could not hear thoughts and
had to know also you meant what you said. Also shouting was seen as
spiritual authority as when men are convicted of something deeply they
often raise their voices... It was however, pure lunacy. I do not use that
word as an insult. This kind of religion does drive some people mad and
gives others mental problems.

Unreality the hallmark of deception

I implied above that false spirits manifesting through false gifts give their
users a false sense of reality; that they tend to lead people into unreality
and delusion: Fantasy rather than fact. Religious hyperactivity and
extremism based upon exotic beliefs and the sensational claims of their
leaders etcetera. It is a kind of caricature of the spiritual realm and its
deep reality of spirits as a realisable and often felt or seen array of
phenomena. There is a sense among them that since they believe in these
things in distinction to the majority of Christians who do not; that they are
frontline warriors involved in a great spiritual warfare and enlightened and
equipped by the Holy Spirit where others are sleeping in spiritual stupor.
They import in the flesh knowledge that can only come by the Spirit. They
grasp the rudiments of the problem of spiritual conflict and make
simplistic rules backed up with simplistic assumptions. Other believers
regard these types of Christians as spiritual and close to God. They would
not dream that this class of beliefs and believers constitute an attack
upon the Kingdom of God, but they do, they do. To use a simple analogy:
If God has given a Spiritual Rose to his people that stands alone in a field
they are likely to find it. If however that field is filled with millions of
plastic roses soaked in cheap perfume finding the real one becomes
impossible to most and they would even give up the effort to look - Often
settling for a false one in its stead. You can see then how God’s people are
defrauded and prevented from God’s richest blessings. It is the super
spiritual who are burying the truly spiritual in a sea of false claims,
emotionalism and supernatural phenomena as well as unbalanced
teaching that leads ever deeper into unreality. Who will recognise the one
true vision of Christ among a sea of false claims? Who will see the real
Holy Spirit through the mists and fog created the Spiritist delusion?

Spiritual reality the sign of the true

In stark distinction to the above the real believer gifted in various ways
and means by the Holy Spirit has a sense within themself of reality purer,
stronger and deeper than any other. They are hallmarked by a sense of
grounding in the real world; by fact rather than fantasy and by
demonstrated belief rather than theory. Their reason and intelligence are
heightened by the Holy Spirit and their judgement is both sound and wise.
In their very presence others feel this sense of reality as opposed to the
sense of bluff and bluster common among Pentecostals. That is they
sense and feel the reality of Christ made all the more real by the power of
the Holy Spirit.

Such believers are inevitably persecuted by Pentecostals and their ilk. If

the genuine saints kiss a baby they will be vilified as paedophiles; if they
shake the hand of a Muslim they will be scorned as supporters of terrorism
and if they speak of demons they will be put down for devil worshippers!
All this is true and the few holy ones really know it. It was Christ’s power
over demons that led to the accusation that he, ‘casts out demons by the
power of the devil’ and so it is with his disciples.

So the most interesting thing about the super spiritual is that

they attack the truly spiritual. Those who falsely claim to see and
discern demons inevitably discern the Holy Spirit as a demon and try of
cast out Jesus in the Name of Jesus!

Remember then Jonathan, this very simple fact that among those who are
full of hot wind and false, sensational claims there is a sense of unreality
and fantasy but among those close to Christ there is a deepened sense of
reality. Above everything spiritual reality is needed in the real fight
against Satan’s kingdom.

The gift of discerning of spirits

is not a weapon for church politics
As Charismatic sects in particular eat one another up or have mutinies
and struggles for power it is often a weapon of church politics for A to
accuse B of having a demon... If believed this is very effective as they
think the Holy Spirit 'told' them.

The gift of discerning of spirits is not defined,

As confined in a little box
All gifts from God are aspects of the grace of Christ and His power. These
gifts are of course specific spiritual abilities but they are also wide in
scope and have more than one or two specific uses.

What the gift of discernment of spirits is

Having, hopefully, removed the obstacle of false teaching, used by Satan
to divert people from the truth, let us now consider those truths he has
attempted to obliterate through his teachings.

The gifts of God bleed into one another

All Spiritual gifts are distinct but not completely separate. They are like
faces of a diamond. They bleed into one another by the Blood of Christ. If
for example the Lord had set the average life span at 10,000 years it
would inevitably occur that a person who had one gift would end up with
all. Spiritual discernment or wisdom regarding spiritual matters is not the
same as discerning actual and literal spirits. Yet, those who can discern
actual spirits have greater spiritual discernment or wisdom. Spiritual
discernment is sound judgement but discerning spirits is the ability to
detect actual spirits, their character and effects. These are some of the
attributes of the gift:

Primarily the gift of discernment of spirits

Is to 'see' the agency, presence and nature of the Holy Spirit
More than anything else God wants us to discern Him – His Spirit. Before a
person with the gift of discerning of spirits begins to identify the forces of
evil, as they do, they will see the positive side of their gift. It brings them
closer to the Holy Spirit and they will see His hand at work where others
are unaware. Up until now I have been speaking of Jesus and this is
because the Holy Spirit glorifies Jesus Christ. The working of spiritual gifts
however, as you have read, is the work of the Holy Spirit.

The gift of discerning of spirits

Is to see what is contrary to the Holy Spirit
As all gifts are of the Holy Spirit their very use will use the Spirit's power.
The light of the Holy Spirit reveals the darkness of Satan – not the other
way around.

Discerning spirits
contrary to the Spirit of God
It is a fact that false teaching, false prophets, and false supernatural
experiences are engineered by evil spirits. Therefore the gift is used to
discern the spirit behind, within, inspiring, empowering etc. what is false.
We saw in John's word that prophets were discerned as false by the
discerning of the spirits that animated them... It is so with everything.

The gift is to discern the spiritual realm

I said that gifts bleed into one another and it is not unusual for the person
with the gift we are studying to also have spiritual dreams, sound
teaching, words of wisdom – of course, and to be generally more
spiritually aware than others. This is for the benefit of others not for
themselves. It is very important to understand that a person with this gift
will inevitably see into the spiritual realm. That is the nature of the gift.
That is where spirits are, and not all spirits are demons. It is not just the
Holy Spirit and His enemies but also Angels and saints that people with
this gift discern. You may understand this better as I describe how the gift
operates.

The operation of the gift

of discerning of spirits
It is primary to understand that it is the Holy Spirit Who initiates, and then
leads in the use of His gifts. The gift is not a wide open door that never
shuts. It is often, and usually the case, that the gift operates by revelation.
Some examples follow:

Fallen angels in church

In attending churches of various kinds, as the Lord led me to do, He would
often open up the spiritual realm so I could see what spirits were at work.
One of the things I saw time and again, although it is grievous to me to
say, were fallen angels that would stand just behind the preacher or
evangelist and seek to influence them. This does not mean that these
preachers were evil but rather that most preachers are not resistant to
such influences and are continually tempted. In cults and such the co-
operation with fallen angels is heart-willing, if unknowing. In more
mainline churches it varies depending upon the state of heart of the
ministers. Such a spiritual state as this revealed is of course abysmal. I am
sure this teaching will be rejected by most, if they were aware of it.
However the spiritual state of churches has fallen so low that no revival or
reformation is enough to sort it out, unless God works in power the world
has not yet seen! Christians should seek the Lord and those pure in heart
should gather together and start afresh with the Bible as their guide, or
pastors should try to lead their flocks to renewal, to the living Waters.

Discerning of hearts
Had it occurred to you that each human has their human spirit - their
inner self? It is obvious to those with the gift that human hearts can be
discerned. This happens in two ways. The gifted may discern the leanings,
inclinations and basic character of a person or they may literally sense
and discern their spirit. The latter only happens with those advanced in
the gift...

When I meet people, and if I take the trouble to think of them, I feel and
know what they are really about. Wherever I have had the opportunity to
confirm what I have sensed I have had 100% accuracy. Sometimes this
gift is very revealing but the Holy Spirit assures the privacy of those we
see. Today I literally used this gift. I met a new teacher at my child's
school. On the surface she was friendly and warm but I remember some
horrible teachers I had that were friendly and warm to my parents. After
sensing her heart however, I knew that God had given her a gentle heart
and she would present no problem to my child in the future. Also there
was an element of sensing the future... (Update: Since then that teacher
has moved on and she was no problem but had remained a positive
influence for her whole time at the school.)

On other occasions however, I have sensed people's sins. This is good as

it has meant I could protect my child from the man with paedophile
inclinations or steer clear of the habitual liar etcetera. If there is a burden
to the gift it is this: I see people as they are and not as they want to be
seen. It can sometimes be very sickening. On the other hand God has
consoled me by allowing me to see Angels. Much of this may be
seemingly irrelevant to the reader but if I have deep spiritual awareness
given by God it is on behalf of His children and there will always be an
effective and positive grace for them.

You will see how such a life gives insight into Scripture: Jesus often being
exasperated with the hard heartedness of those around him and yet being
comforted by Angels in His trials. I should say I do not compare myself
with Him but it seems I just did, so I'll say we should all experience
something of the Life of Christ. That is God's intent after all.

Discerning demons
Finally we get to it! Yes of course this gift is designed by God as a great
weapon against demons. By the exercise of this gift you become strong. It
must be so or how will you grow? It is about standing firm on Scriptural
principals. Discerning demons sometimes means seeing demons. It can be
scary. We learn to fear God and not to be intimidated by Satan. It is
metaphorically, like a bloody battlefield strewn with corpses of good men.
In the midst you stand, scarred, sometimes weary, but ever vigilant and
ever mighty in the Name, Amen.

Demons in Christians
Christian counsellors sometimes need to counsel Christians regarding
demons that are oppressing them or to some extent controlling
(possessing) them. You will see a lot of this fight to free captives from
demons, often 'religious demons' such as false tongue speaking demons-
in missionaries, counsellors and others who see the reality of the spiritual
warfare around us. However, Christians need to pick their counsellors
wisely.

Spirit of Christ versus Antichrist

I am not advocating what I observe but reporting it. In terms of the
struggle of emerging Christians from churches, like butterflies emerging
from their cocoons, there is a movement of Christians away from churches
and from the spirit of Antichrist. Hopefully this will lead to a latter
gathering together of saints... It is not necessary or even advisable for
believers to leave their churches if their churches seek the Lord to be
revived, reformed and remade in His Image... In the mean time you will
probably see in coming years fragmentation, disintegration and union of
churches. Much of this will be a sifting work of God and some judgement,
but also the devil will be gathering his disciples who go by the name
'Christian' in preparation for building his own peculiar brand of religion for
the Antichrist himself. God of course wants one Church united in Biblical
truth and filled with His Spirit.

WARNING
If you have felt oppressed or frightened in what you have read so far do
not read any further in this chapter. Also pray before reading and leave off
reading if it is too much for you. Not everyone is given grace to deal with
such things as I am about to reveal.

The appearance of demons:

A double meaning is intended. I will describe some ways in which
demons make their appearance as well as how they look. Generally
demons do not appear except to saints who have uncovered the reality of
the spiritual realm; and so their cover being blown their attacks become
more open to that believer; yet they will secretly insinuate to others that
such believers are crazy.
Appearances of demons: It is usually the case that demons take
upon themselves grotesque forms. They appear hideously evil
and exude the very essence of evil. Often the appearance of demons
is strikingly similar to creatures you may see in supernatural movies or
read of in horror stories. This is because the movies have been inspired by
folklore that was inspired by actual events, long ago untraceable.
Secondly demons inspire much of what passes for human creativity.

The appearance of snakes and other creatures such as cats and

spiders: Demons often look for bodies to inhabit and will sometimes
enter the bodies of animals. When those animals die the demons retain
the appearance of the creature they were in. This is because there is a
spiritual law that the spirit will conform to the body. Historically there
have been wizards, shamans and witches of various kinds that have had
familiar spirits. In European legend we are all familiar with the witch's
familiar black cat; a demon possessed cat, or a raven etc. When these
animals die the evil spirits remain to be spies for Satan. These spies report
back to the more powerful spirits.

On the outside the spiritual realm seems mystifying and weird but in truth
it is well designed and planned; full of stratagems and orders of powers
and legions of demons under the control of higher spirits; that are
themselves under the power of fallen angels whose chief is Lucifer that
once was - Satan.

Spies are one of the most common forms of demons and therefore
one of the most common appearances of demons is in the shape
of animals and insects.

Gigantism: Demons do increase their size so as to be more intimidating.

A poor child not so long ago spoke of seeing a giant spider above her bed
in a great web that filled the ceiling. Why should I believe such a thing -
especially from a child? Without her knowing or the subject even being
hinted at, I had seen several large demon spiders in webs in the same
house. Two others had also seen 'disappearing' spiders of unusual size
there without each one knowing of the other's experience... Fortunately
after prayer this season of demonic oppression ceased. Although truly
frightening, especially to a child, these represent the lesser
demons of limited power.

Demons as evil looking people: It is often the case that demons

appear as men and women with gruesome and malevolent features.
These kinds of demons are those that have possessed humans. It is
normally these kinds of demons that are cast out of the possessed. Such
demons also work as spirit guides to occultists of various hues and they
operate in the guise of the Holy Spirit to deceived 'believers' in cultic
groups.

In regards to the above two types of demons you will notice that in the
story of the demon possessed man and the Gergesene swine the demons
left the man to go into the swine... [Matthew 8:28-34]

Sometimes ghosts are really such demons but not always. Ghost
phenomena can relate to other things I will not go into here.

Satan works almost exclusively through these kinds of demons when

dealing with his servants and with others who are deceived. In the
spiritual realm however there are many kinds of spirits.

Monster demons: These are those that take the appearance of

fearsome, half human creatures. They may have fangs, long claws, scaly
skin etc. Their purpose is to appear as frightening as possible to intimidate
those who see them. Often the real appearance of the evil spirit is not the
one they reveal to the viewer. The more powerful demons can change
shape and appear as one thing or another as it suits their schemes.
Intimidation is a principal they use against the servant of God to frighten
them away from spiritual warfare.

Dead relatives, famous people and spirit helpers: These of course

relate to the deceptions that demons use to get practitioners of various
belief systems to invite them into their lives and homes. They give
guidance, comforting messages, often vague and super-spiritual teaching,
prophecies etc. Such demons also inhabit Christendom posing as saints,
angels and the Lord Himself. This does not mean that all believers down
the ages that have seen saints, angels or the Lord have been deceived. I
have already pointed out the discerning of spirits includes all spirits, good
and evil.

To go further into this subject I would need to talk about fallen angels but
it is not suitable for such a book as this. Few of you will ever come up
against a fallen angel. Yet, if you do: “...He who is in you is greater than
he who is in the world.” [1 John 4:4]

Some thoughts on spiritual discernment

You may have noticed that I have said some things you are unfamiliar
with and that are different to what you have read in Christian books. This
is because I know what I am talking about and speaking from experience
rather than from conjecture; or worse still from a consensus of experts
that know nothing of their subject! Some of the things that I have heard
preached, read or seen on ‘Christian’ TV are ludicrous, without rational
basis, unreliable in the extreme and centred in sensationalism rather than
in edification of the saints. This seems to be a ploy of Satan so that the
world will easily ridicule everything to do with spiritual warfare. Most
books on spiritual warfare are written by people who base their teachings
on the books of others. These authors gather momentum and copy each
others’ teachings and often come to a consensus of opinion, sometimes
starting as false revelations, on various aspects of demonology or spiritual
warfare. The consensus gives an impression of spiritual authority among
the elite but it means that many ideas and beliefs float round that are just
plain wrong, unfounded and stupid.

I actually listened to an international evangelist who said that after many

years of preaching on spiritual warfare he saw a demon. This expert on
fighting demons had seen one. This would be rather like having a healing
ministry and after many years healing one person. To preach on any
subject is good and well but to claim to be an authority called in a
particular area as the evangelist did means direct and continual
experience of God’s power in that area. I say this as I want to point out
something that many believers of various kinds have trouble with. It is a
simple distinction – one which judges and lawyers are used to making but
which many Christians neglect: To distinguish between opinion,
assumption and conjecture on the one hand and fact, direct experience
and well founded knowledge on the other.

Too many ‘spiritual warfare’ books are based on the testimonies of single,
unreliable and sometimes mentally unbalanced individuals that talk to
Christian writers who faithfully record their delusions. Others, as I have
said are all about Christian culture and consensus regardless of spiritual
reality. So learning to distinguish between fact and theory, which is often
in experience distinguishing between fact and fantasy, is vital to spiritual
discernment. A person lacking spiritual wisdom or discernment is hardly
likely to have a gift of discerning of spirits.

However there is an honest mistake some souls make. Many people

regard all strong stories of demonic activity as intrinsically false. They
assume that the reality lies in subtleties. They may accept that an evil
presence or bad atmosphere exists in an individual or an object. They
cannot accept that Satan is a person that would actually appear to his
servants or to some believers…

The reality is that although there is a lot of nonsense written and put out
by publishing houses to make money – and sensationalism sells- and it is
also true that those in genuine deliverance ministry often are dealing with
things that aren’t that dramatic: Yet there exists for some a revelation of
evil that goes beyond anything any one could possibly imagine and no
Hollywood movie with machine gun toting angels out to save the world
could compare to. The depths of spiritual things – both good and evil and
the powers with them are beyond human imagination. Any true ‘spiritual
warrior’ has therefore had their mind stretched and their eyes opened to
what the world cannot possibly conceive.

The worst kind of demons: Demons are lesser spirits but they vary in
degrees of power and intelligence. The worst are those that influence you
without you knowing it. It is the awful fate of the human race. If you have
ever sinned you have been deceived. What I am going to tell you is one of
the secrets of the spiritual realm and this will be particularly hard to
accept by persons who see themselves as spiritual warriors: Satan often
uses seasons of demonic oppression to hide his real workings. They are
merely a distraction. The believer goes through a tremendous battle and
gets the victory. They are pleased and grow stronger. All the while Satan
had been secretly planting something elsewhere in your life without any
sign of his working.

If you are discerning this tactic would have been used against you. You
have been deceived by this distraction, of spiritual warfare and victory,
which you could hardly ignore- which allowed Satan to work in secret on
something else. Ruses, diversions, distractions are standard in human
games, marshal arts and warfare: While general A fights and wins a great
battle on the plain his enemy general Z has secretly sacked his castle! It is
always best in dealing with demons to assume you don't know what is
going on, even if you are enlightened, and to pray in principal this:
“Father in Jesus Name, deliver me from the unseen realm, the unknown
stratagems of evil and from the seeds of evil that will bear fruit in years to
come if You do not root them out today!...” - Something along those lines.
You need this information and this idea.

Here is a more comforting secret of the spiritual realm: God does

His greatest works in silence. Deep within you, unseen, unfelt and not
guessed, you have seeds of grace that will bear fruit in their season if you
will persevere, Amen.

The danger to others It

is sometimes the case that evil spirits will attack those close to us or
related to us in some way. These attacks are almost always unseen and
unrecognised. Often they are unrecognised by Christians and this makes
them more effective as they are not prayed against.
These attacks usually appear to the world as ‘bad luck’
The most common forms of this intensified bad luck are illnesses,
accidents and misfortunes. This results in such things as mysterious
illnesses that doctors misdiagnose and mistreat; severe injuries or death;
marital break up, loss of work, bullying at school etc.

It is interesting to note that these are the opposite of the Christians’

blessings and to those blessings God gives to those who bless such
Christians!

I implied that demons will make the spiritual warrior appear

foolish, insane or proud to observers. Many
believers, often very famous historical believers, give accounts of
profound ecstasies, visions, encounters with Satan, wonders, signs,
miracles and strange Providence or events… Is it exaggeration and are
they like the deceived Christian, Nelson whom I mentioned? You will need
to discern. Some of the most spiritual people who have ever lived have
more detractors than respecters and many of the least spiritual people
today – miracle workers among them – are heralded as great Christian
leaders and they have very powerful testimonies and sometimes even real
attested miracles: Yet, among them are some of Satan’s chief servants….
You see how important it is to have the Holy Spirit as your guide and to
discern.

To understand the spiritual realm and spiritual life you must

understand this simple fact: The human spirit is expanded by God
both in trials and in blessings. In this way
the human consciousness is expanded by God. The human spirits (of the
spiritual Christians) are capable of experiencing far more than any
ordinary persons. This is why the scriptures themselves are full of
profoundly deep and powerful sayings of the strength and wonder of God:
Abundant life as a river, filled to the fullness with God, cups of blessing
overflowing etc.

On the other hand it is true that many modern Christian books in

particular use adjectives in such over-abundance that they seem to the
wary as being full of bluff and bluster- and they are! You must judge
yourself if the books you read are like this or are the fruit of believers with
years of true discipleship and fellowship with God – and therefore
opposition from the evil one.

Christians of strong faith are like the Ark of the Covenant: They
are a great blessing to people of faith and can be a great terror to those
who are opposed to God. The world’s Dagons will fall but blessings abide
upon the dwellings of the righteous.

Satan
I said I would not go into talk of fallen angels but I can hardly teach upon
this subject without speaking of their chief. Satan rarely bothers Christians
directly - and this will be the opposite of everything you have ever heard.
He uses lesser demons. He will take a look at the stronger Christians and
appoint far more demons to attack them. Therefore if you know for certain
that Satan has taken an interest in you then you must have given him
cause to. Like Napoleon Satan is a skilled general and strategist and not
easily defeated. He is usually busy with the great ones on earth and only if
you defeat some powerful evil spirits will Satan personally take an interest
in you. If he does most of the books you have read will be of little use to
you but the Bible will come alive in ways you never imagined.

It is important to learn not to be intimidated by him; even if he kills

those close to you; destroys your fortunes and leaves you like Job. He is
acting from fear. When I say fear let me tell you that Satan is literally
terrified of powerful believers. His power is so great he could easily
destroy the strongest of them but as God is their Protector he knows that
for every strike he takes he must pay a terrible price. In this way the
Kingdom of Light advances and the kingdom of darkness recedes.

If you have received the gift of discernment of spirits it will take

time for it to develop but even so the veil of the spiritual realm will
quickly be torn away. You will either stand or fall. I you fall GET UP AGAIN,
and again and again. The time will surely come when you will see Satan
tremble at your feet.

Satan’s army
This is just an introductory chapter to the subject so it is neither
comprehensive nor thorough. One more thing I should mention is that
Satan organises his servants as a great army. Just as in any army you will
have sappers, sharpshooters, pilots, gunnies, technicians in
communications etc. and of course the all important propagandists, so it
is similar with the powers of darkness.

There are territorial spirits, ancestral spirits, spirits related to particular

kinds of deceptions, others related to particular sins... There is no rule
book. In relation to sin there are certain sins that humans could commit
without demonic influence and certain ones that would only be committed
under demonic influence. One of Satan’s chief works in humans then is to
counterfeit human personalities – to humans - to make a person feel they
are really one thing until they become that thing. With the various
satanically inspired philosophies popular among people this is made
easier.

Strategies
In any army you have long term strategies for conquering territory so it is
with Satan’s army. Among strategies in recent history are these: To keep
the Middle East in a constant state of instability. This is a first move at
aiming at a Third World War. (I am certainly not saying he will be
successful.) Another stratagem is to prepare the world for a pseudo
scientific belief in God since evolutionary theory has been falling from
within. A ‘scientific’, impersonal god is useful to Satan. A third stratagem
is the keep the Church divided. There are literally thousands of
denominations and as long as Christians are proud of this instead of being
ashamed of it- it is a great travesty – the enemy will continue to conquer.
Only a united Church of Biblical truth can defeat Satan.

None of these views came from reading others’ opinions. All are my own
personal views formed by my relationship with God in the context of the
gift of the discernment of spirits.
 Chapter Seven:
Charismatics- The truth

Christian Spiritism is the combination of Christianity and

Spiritism. It resembles Spiritualism and certain pagan religions
within a Christian belief system.

Christian Spiritists are those people who have been deluded regarding
the teachings and experience of the Apostles. They have fake versions of
apostolic gifts and graces. They are deceived by demons and have very
cultic tendencies. To themselves they are ever so spiritual but to outsiders
they appear bizarre, artificial and usually obsessed with money, success,
and influence over others. Their leaders tend to be domineering and
oppressive but their followers have been indoctrinated to believe
themselves to be free, happy and virtually infallible. Smug, self righteous
leaders have adoring, blind followers and together they destroy the good
reputation of Christianity world wide. Point by point Spiritists within a
Christian culture counterfeit the doctrines, graces and gifts of Christ to his
children. It is essentially a false and artificial, fake and harmful version of
Christianity. Its overall effect is to persuade the world that Christianity is a
false religion as anyone with any sense who observes them will find them
at least to be enthusiastic rather than holy, emotional rather than spiritual
and often very stupid and ignorant rather than wise and enlightened as
the disciples of Christ should be.

Christian Spiritists are by and large

Charismatics and Pentecostals
In this chapter I severely criticise Charismatics and Pentecostals and use
one church in particular as an example. This is not because I have a
tendency to be censorious but because Satan will often reveal his claws to
me where he will hide them from others. I am a target as are all believers
with the gift of discernment of spirits. There is a generalised sense of
unreality among Pentecostals but what brings about persecution is usually
talk of holiness or something genuinely spiritual. It is this that often acts
as the catalyst to opposition to genuine saints and the genuine Holy Spirit.

When believers are a spiritual threat to Satan because of the degree of

knowledge they have from God incredible attacks and persecutions will
occur. This is especially so if you get a bad pastor or a super-spiritual
clique… The most important point in this chapter is that although there
are some very nice and very sincere Christian Charismatics and
Pentecostals there are many who have never been truly born again but
have soaked up the culture and jargon of ‘Spirit filled’ Christianity. These
can be easily manipulated by the evil one.

Instant and direct communication with God

In essence Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement seeks to
establish a ‘hotline to God’ just as in a telephone conversation. This
conversation takes place in the mind of the believer and usually happens
in the form of an inner voice. For less strong Charismatics it may simply
be messages interpreted by tongues, prophecies and messages from the
pastor and preachers…

This is a shortcut to direct verbal communication with God and also there
may be visual communication such as pictures in the mind. This
constitutes by and large a subtle from of self hypnotism. The Spiritist
whether Charismatic or Pentecostal will feel that the Holy Spirit is being
attacked when they hear such criticisms as these and often conclude, with
quite alarming speed, that such critics are devilish.

Traditionally Christians stretching back two thousand years have sought

discipline, holiness and trial and tribulation as the means by which slowly
and gradually they from a deeper communion with God and rarely if ever
speak to Him in a conversation. In the early days of the Church there are
very few conversations with God recorded and those that are, are usually
very brief. The running commentary that many Spiritist believers of today
get in their minds, much like that extolled by New Agers, is either vastly
superior to the experience of the Church Fathers and early saints or a
deception.

It is easy to tell the difference as an inner god that is pathetic, weak, and
ignorant and seems to be a puffed up version of the believer is obviously
no god at all whether good or evil. In fact the believer, without realising it,
has become their own god and follows their own guidance; of the altered
divine self. That is they are practising paganism.

This confusing and contradictory inner god often leads to a crisis of faith
and this in turn leads to such Christians becoming ex-Christians and then
often anti-Christians. The Internet is full of ex Christians speaking of their
former delusions. Most of them in fact were never Christians to begin with
but they do not realise this. They speak of being caught up in the life of
fellowship and the power of emotion and of the failures of prayers and the
failures of promises from ‘god’. They then often go through a re-
evaluation and turn to atheism and a deep spirit of antichrist. In essence
the Charismatic Movement has given rise to an army of antichrist ex-
Christians but never a word is said of this and never a one of them takes
any responsibility for the inevitable fruit of their teachings!

The inner god is limited

by the knowledge of the believer
It is an enhanced version of the believer. What the believer knows that
god knows and when the believer hears from the Voice in their mind they
hear according to their own understanding and their inner god inevitably
agrees with the doctrinal errors of the believer, with the things the
believer approves of but it may reprove for the things they feel guilty of;
and they may try to repent… Usually such believers are promised ‘great
things’ and these great things usually mean revivals, healings and signs
and wonders… Almost never anything comes of it and only a minority of
Christians with this kind of religion stay Christians for their entire lifetime.
Under the bluff and the brave face a spirit of disappointment with God is
evident and it is only a matter of time before their faith wears out and
their excuses wear thin, even to themselves. They turn away, even turn
and attack what once they considered sacred.

This implies the Holy Spirit

has been dethroned
While all this has been going on in the believer’s life the real Holy Spirit
has been dethroned, if He was ever there to begin with. Something else
has taken His place. That Other Thing is not God obviously and cannot do
what God can do. The believer has shifted ground under false teaching
and guidance, found everywhere today. They are not truly Christian but at
least half pagan. Spiritist rather than spiritual they are prone to many
errors and defects in personality.

States of infallibility
Such believers do not literally believe they are infallible but they do incline
that way. How can they be reasoned with when god has told them you are
wrong? How can they believe you when god has told them otherwise and
of what use is logic and reason to them?

Domineering others
Those among them with dominant personalities inevitably domineer over
others and generally the leaders among Spiritists feel their ability to
dominate is the power and authority of the Holy Spirit within. They take it
for granted they should be leaders and others should obey them.
Whatever humility they have is in deference to more powerful believers
and only superficial. Almost inevitably their power broking results in
playing for more and more money and power and so some of the most
famous Charismatics and Pentecostals are not only rich but billionaires.
Yet are they really Christian? Did the Apostles and leaders of the early
Church become super- rich?

Easily deceived
by supernatural experiences
Spiritists are easily moved by experience and inner feeling especially
when it exalts the self and comes with supernatural power. Unlike the
prophets of old They do not seek to live in deserts and spend their lives in
prayer. They do not give all their money to the poor. They do whatever
makes them top dog. They become suitable vessels for the deceptions,
powers and perversion of evil spirits if those spirits simply have the power
to appear holy to their minds. Considering the state of their minds and
how their base and carnal desires have simply been spiritualised and
justified this is a given.

“God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be
opened and you will be as God, knowing good and evil.”
[Genesis 3:5]

The Charismatic Movement began in the Garden of Eden and has

been found in all religions since the dawn of time. It is the
promise of godly power and greater gifts based upon deception.

The term Charismatic Movement is a misnomer as it implies they are a

movement from God with ‘charismata’ or spiritual gifts. The proper term
for the Charismatic Movement is Christian Spiritism. This implies that the
principles of Spiritism are used within a Christian culture, language and
philosophy. The modern Charismatic Movement started out as the
Pentecostal Movement around the turn of the Nineteenth Century. In the
1800’s Mormons, individual sects and occultists falsely believed they
‘spoke in tongues’ while speaking gibberish from human imagination and
demonic deception. As the Pentecostal Movement was being rejected by
the holiness preachers for its abuses, emotionalism and lack of discipline,
a split occurred. (See Aaron Merrit Hills)
Pentecostalism is a breakaway from the Holiness Movement. At first there
was a dual emphasis on both holiness and tongues but soon the latter
took over.

The Pentecostal Movement then, started as a subversion of the Holiness

Movement and its great revivals and also as a syncretic movement
including practices found in occultism. This is important to understand.
Many critics of Christian Spiritism (Charismatic/Pentecostalism) speak of it
as originating in the Holiness Movement not realising the rift that occurred
and not realising the strong similarity to spiritualism and other pseudo
spiritual practices. A rift occurred between those who were disciplined,
holy and powerful in revival and between those who were lax, and sought
revival by means of the flesh life or natural means. This lowered the
whole standard of Christian Life. By ignoring this call to holiness then and
ever since, they were opened up to be deceived by the very spirits that
were with the Mormons and others in the occult. They also attracted to
their early meetings known practitioners of the occult. There was only one
provision; they had to call those spirits that deceived them 'the Holy
Spirit' and be as undiscerning as possible, preferring to exalt experiences
above principles of holiness. In other words there was a fundamental
change of principle. They moved from the spiritual principles of
Christianity to the principles of Spiritism.
The Christian Spiritist Movement of Pentecostalism and Charismatics is a
falling from Scriptural Christianity into a form of occultism. This is true
even if for a few decades in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s there were
some powerful Christians who were healers and evangelists of note – yet
debased by false tongues and prophecy. The genuine healer Maria
Woodworth-Etter for instance taught that the Kaiser was the Antichrist.
Before going on I will share a brief story of my last involvement with
Christian Spiritism to illustrate the point I am making:

Innocent destruction
I spent much of my life as a missionary to a particular kind of people. My
quest was to convert supposed Christians to Christ and to teach Christians
of the neglected spiritual life in the Bible. One day I went with my family
to a Pentecostal Pastors’ house and there my youngest child pricked her
foot on a thorn in his garden. Yet, it immediately got infected and she had
to go into hospital. I remember her scream when she was pricked. It was
not a natural scream but one of unusual intensity and anguish. My second
daughter suddenly got a very bad case of conjunctivitis on her birthday
and her party had to be cancelled. The present she had for her birthday, a
rabbit, suddenly died in her arms, also on her birthday, as she wept.
Things like this continued to happen. If I were to list them all you would
see that there was a series of events that amounted to intensified bad
luck both in terms of frequency and extent. It was incredible. I realised we
were under a satanic attack but from where?

I said that sharing spiritual things

are often the catalyst to persecution
One day I shared my testimony and spoke of a vision God had given me.
After doing so I wondered what the fallout would be. It came quickly as
the pastor’s flesh life in particular had been provoked. When they
discovered I was writing a children’s book I was seemingly supported at
first but suddenly there was an explosion of opposition. I felt a strong
witness from the Lord that it was to attack my book that the opposition
had risen up. I discovered something that shocked me. They were not
simply opposed to my writing as it was spiritual but as it was creative!
Like so many within cults they were bound in mind and unable to get out
of their self imposed, mental strait jacket which found even imagination
and intellectual thought threatening.

I also became concerned that they were pushing the false prophecies of
one who the pastor called the ‘true prophet’ Bernard. I saw that I would
make little headway for Christ in this church. I was beginning to realise
that all this ‘bad luck’ (besides the bad attitude) was related to the
Pentecostal church itself and was not merely a general attack from the
enemy but was being channelled through them. I was slandered by
someone who did not know me. When I spoke to the pastor he took their
side! His entire attitude changed or rather was revealed for what it had
secretly been as he expressed his totally obstinate, unreasonable and
unchristian spirit. I realised that the satanic attack my family had come
under began on the very day we went to his house. As he dropped his
former warm to neutral persona and revealed his true self I recognised the
primary origin of the problem, the medium through whom Satan was
acting. Quoting a long list of wrongs I rebuked the self righteous pastor
and ended all connection with the church.

They needed spiritual delusion and I offered spiritual reality. The two
cannot abide one another. This rebuking of the Pastor was actually very
unusual for me as I cannot count the times I have been condemned or
slandered and I have not replied in defence but was as a lamb. Over the
years however, my patience began to wear thin, especially as my eyes
were being opened more and more to the true character and motives
behind the spiritual masks that many supposed Christians wear.

The Christian Spiritist Movement is itself full of people that do not

associate their ‘bad luck’ with being Charismatic or Pentecostal. Instead
they will ‘bind the powers of darkness’, ‘speak in tongues’ and usually
give up being a Christian before they are grey headed and advanced in
years.

By God's providence in allowing a clear and discernible attack I was forced

to acknowledge various elements that I had noticed over the years and to
put the pieces together: The spirits behind these Charismatic gifts - pale
imitations of God’s power are evil spirits and do act continually to subvert
the cause of Christ and kill, steal and destroy –especially souls. I was well
aware of persecution and its effects and of the lack of real faith among
their numbers but not clear on the powers that caused ‘bad luck’. Looking
back over the years I could see other examples in myself and in others
when contact with Christian Spiritism, whether Charismatic of Pentecostal,
was also related to 'bad luck' in health, relationships and demonic attacks.
When I joined the dots up a clearer picture emerged.

I had learnt from the very beginning in mixing with Pentecostals decades
ago that their gifts were false, having begun by testing the first
prophecies I heard given... I was also familiar with the stratagems of evil
spirits but on the other hand I was working among them as a missionary
and in several churches I had had some success. It was always a
balancing act. Very much like being a missionary to Africa in the 1800’s.
My gentle manner and silent prayers would often lead to more people
being saved and the level of blessing rising, as God richly blessed my
faith. If I had found open hearts this would have happened again but at
this church it did not. I felt the Holy Spirit was terribly grieved.

In every Pentecostal church where there are still some people saved; and
in many churches they are purely nominal even when they speak in
tongues and prophesy; there is an admixture of spiritual and natural
influences. They are neither completely holy nor completely pagan.

The concept of admixture is one to be learnt by every disciple

As a rule where you will find the Holy Spirit you will find angels of light or
deceiving demons as well. The more the 'believers' fall prey to deceiving
spirits the more the Holy Spirit withdraws so that there are very many
fellowships of Charismatics and Pentecostals in the world where they are
not born again or regenerated but they will have pseudo spiritual gifts;
and this confirms to their own minds that they are saved and safe… It also
explains why some of Christendom’s greatest sinners have been
Charismatic leaders. There is now a long list stretching back over a
hundred years of Pentecostal and Charismatic leaders found out in tax
fraud, financial deception, adultery, paedophilia, sexual exploitation of
various kinds; and of course failed prophecies and empty promises;
unverified healings, including unverified raising of the dead etc. It is also
good to remember that most of the Christian cults on the periphery that
Christians in general avoid arose out of Pentecostal splits and Charismatic
sectarianism.

How God helps in such circumstances

In the last meeting I attended at this church some visitors that were also
Pentecostal came along. It was a group of women who were regarded as
very spiritual. Ostensibly they came to join in the worship but it was
actually to take a look at this small fellowship with a view to infiltration
and takeover: A recurring theme among Charismatics and Pentecostals.
The Lord opened up my spiritual eyes further, giving me greater
acuteness and spiritual awareness. As they spoke in tongues I noticed that
on the outside they were all smiles and warmth, if somewhat saccharine
but this time I could sense the demons around them influencing them in
their tongues speaking. This little step meant I could not only discern the
tongues were false as I had been doing for years but I could clearly sense
the demons operating these particular pseudo gifts. They acted in swarm-
like bees from a hive. They were operating on the women’s senses, their
thoughts. This meant feelings, thoughts, and sudden inspirations, a
certain blankness of mind, and an artificial air were the manifest work of
the demons.

Providence and God’s teaching

by experience
On the other hand the dramatic nature of the satanic oppression against
my family that was allowed by the grace of God provoked a review of my
own and others experiences over the years. This review led to new
discoveries in which I began to see that time and again involvement with
Pentecostals led to spiritual darkness and satanic oppression.
Particularly stark was the connection between new converts that
fall away soon after they were supposedly 'Baptised in the Spirit'.
This is a common phenomenon. Over the years physical intimidation,
sexual promiscuity, lying, slandering, unfulfilled and mean spirited
prophecies, splitting up churches, attacking individuals, and financial
piracy were common elements to be observed among Charismatics.

Satan hides himself so well that it is often hard to detect his works but the
Lord allowed this episode simply to clarify years of observations and
reservations about those Disneyesque style Christians with their
saccharine love and fantasies of power: Pentecostals and Charismatics…

Its effect upon me

I had never sensed the Holy Spirit as angry as I could sense He was. The
Lord was angrier than I was. He revealed He would judge the church and I
know He has. This was a particularly bad church that had appeared at first
to be better than average. After expressing my anger I feel nothing but
the usual love I feel for all, whether friend or foe. In other words its effect
upon me was exactly what it should be. I took the side of the Lord in
opposition and in mercy. I feel nothing but tender love toward them.
What then did I do to provoke them so? I did not teach on spiritual
discernment but I simply encouraged about Christian things in general so
that I did not come up in direct conflict. I did not speak to them of the
things I have said here but simply spoke of general spiritual things in a
humble and kind way. This is of course the problem. It is that Spirit of
Christ, revealed in gentle wisdom that so provokes those who are secretly
proud, infallible, and super-spiritual. I did let the pastor know however
that I thought Prophet Bernard was false. In cults there is no room for
difference of opinion. To their mind and their way of thinking, seen
everywhere in Charismatic and Pentecostal Christian Spiritism there is a
simple form of logic that they express: They are of God and therefore
whatever disagrees with them is of the devil. In one to one encounters the
Pentecostal will say to himself, 'Aðalsteinn disagrees with what the Holy
Spirit has said; he does not recognise I am a prophet... He is therefore
opposed to the Holy Spirit and he is therefore working for Satan.'

It may have simply been that by not accepting the True Prophet I was, to
the pastor’s mind, declaring myself to be an antichrist. The Christian on
the contrary who finds another believer disagrees with them will say in
their heart, 'This person is sincere and humble and clearly serving God
but either they are unenlightened on this point or perhaps I am in error.'
You see how both responses are reflective of an entirely different attitude.
The first is harsh and unbending; superior and infallible. The second is well
intentioned, conscientious and reasonable...

At present the Christian world is full of the 'I am of God and whoever
disagrees with me is of the devil', type of believer. Jesus perhaps could
have said that with many but he did not. Rather he would implore humbly
and appeal to conscience, such as, 'If you do not believe me at least
believe the signs...'

Theirs at the Pentecostal church was not the Christian attitude and true
Christians do not behave like they did. I was attacked by the pastor
without justification or basis in fact. People from that fellowship I have
seen since avoid me or glare at me with mouth agog as if I were a
monster from Mars and I can only speculate on what the pastor has said
behind my back… If a believer were to rebuke another believer it would
be after some serious wrongs for which the wrongdoer was unapologetic
and had not listened to the fellowship. Sundar Singh had complained that
Fundamentalists were unchristian in their criticisms of others and he had
a point. Too many supposed believers are wearing a smiling mask which
under pressure from the Spirit drops to reveal the snarling teeth of the
biting, devouring, carnal wolf within. I hope I have conveyed that
difference of spirit and that I am not merely talking about disagreements
over doctrines or supposed prophets. Why should one believer be sincere,
gentle and holy and another turn out to be vindictive, deceptive and
hateful?

I could write dense volumes listing the abuses, destructive spirit and evils
of Christian Spiritism in Pentecostal and Charismatic circles I have
observed over decades. Yet this is not the worst of it. The worst is that
there should have been great and holy revivals throughout the twentieth
century but it was prevented as the Church was distracted by false
revivals and false spiritual power. Spiritists are like children playing with
plastic gems and believing they are rich when God wants them to grow up
and mine the real gems!

Tongues and prophecy

Central to the Pentecostals and their offshoots the Charismatics are the
'gifts of the Spirit' and in particular 'tongues' and 'prophecy'.

Tongues and Linguistics

There have been over the years professional linguists who have studied
the phenomenon of tongues speaking – the claim that Charismatics make
that they speak in angelic and unknown tongues the deep things of God.
Linguists are able to tell if an unknown language is a real language by
listening for evidence of syntax and speech patterns that are common to
all languages but not found in gibberish. In their studies, suppressed by
Pentecostals and Charismatics in their own circles, they discovered that
tongues speakers within the Charismatic Movement speak gibberish and
not real languages. If you Google the subject and look at serious social
science sites you are likely to come up with examples.

Testing tongues interpretation

Christian evangelicals who do not believe in tongue speakers have also
tested tongues. Leading Pentecostals and Charismatics have been known
to give a different interpretation to the same message in tongues
presented to them in the test. No two Charismatics gave the same
interpretation to the same message in tongues played to them. However,
you do not need to Google that if you have any experience of Pentecostals
and Charismatics as in their meetings there are often confusing and
conflicting interpretations to everything!

For example brother A gives a message in tongues and sister B gives an

interpretation that lasts ten times longer – and vice versa. Then brother C
prophesies there is someone with a bad back and that person needs to
come to the front to be healed – and five people come to the front. Or the
brother with his eyes closed keeps imploring a clearly identified person to
come up to the front, ‘Thus says the Holy Spirit come, do not be afraid for
I shall bless you, says the Lord…”
All the while the person has been standing there waiting for them to open
their eyes (so the Holy Spirit can know they are there!)
Then there is the classic case of cliques within the church prophesying
against one another. What? Is the Holy Spirit schizophrenic? They
certainly imply He is.

The mode and manner of these meetings is similar to that of the meetings
of spiritualists who get messages from the Other Side. In general the
meetings of Pentecostals are like the gatherings of various religious
groups outside of mainstream Christianity; whether they are Native
American, Spiritualist, Mystical Islamic, or Voodoo etc.

Early tongues movement

The early tongues speakers a century ago went out as missionaries with
their 'tongues of men' to other countries and were unable to make the
natives of China, India etc. understand their 'language'. Soon after this
they claimed to speak in angelic tongues only! This is still the claim today.
Yet there is a new suggestion that tongues are not languages at all! This
is purely self serving as they cannot prove they speak spiritual languages.

Prophecy in recent times

Dr. Bernard Blessing also known as Prophet Bernard prophesied that
Hilary Clinton would become President of the USA in 2008. He even staked
his reputation as a prophet upon it and yet he still claims to be a prophet.
Barack Obama became President. Others among Charismatic leaders had
prophesied that George bush would be the last US President. Today
(2009) some are beginning to prophesy Barack Obama will be the last US
President with hardly blinking their eyes or taking a breath after the last
set of false prophecies. Is that Christian behaviour? This brings us to the
question of moral responsibility. I say it is immoral to continually prophesy
of things that do not happen and as they fail move on to the next
prophecy. That is essentially Christian Spiritism.

Morality
To tell the world in effect that Christianity is a false religion that produces
failed prophecies and ministers who are often being caught out in matters
of sexual conduct or tax evasion – as many well known Charismatics have-
is downright evil. Christians would not so defame the name of Christ. What
right do they have to tell the world at large that Christianity is a bad joke?
The simple answer is that Christians do not do this. They would not. A
Christian would rather die than let the Lord suffer shame at their failed
prophecies. Charismatics and Pentecostals have the opposite attitude:
Multitudes of people can testify to failed prophecy given to them in
Charismatic circles.

Who benefits from Christianity being made to look foolish, ineffectual,

unprincipled and immoral? According to Pentecostals it is the Holy Spirit!
It is obviously Satan who benefits the most from the effects or fallout of
the Pentecostal Movement. The one who inspires it is the one who
benefits. He should in a sense as it is his servants the evil spirits who
control the whole movement! Ask the Holy Spirit, those very few of you
who really can, what He thinks of it. Learn of Christ. What I have been
shown would shock the Christian world. The Lord I know is ready to judge
and condemn the vast majority of Pentecostal leaders who have judged
themselves unworthy to be called by His Name. In short Christian
Spiritism is a road to Hell. Only a minority among them are not filled with
delusion and are saved. These ones are universally blind and weak.

Among the leaders however, who have had years, even decades to
witness the false things, and practice them, things that I have written
about here - they may think they are free, eternally saved and above
judgement but they will learn that they are the prophets of lies and
delusion and their salvation is a delusion. How many have been fooled by
subjective experiences supposedly from God, church jargon that sounds
Biblical and Christian, and group psychology that bolsters them all up
when they lack the deep repentance, humility, holiness and love that are
the hallmarks of all true believers: Only these are His.

In Hell itself, as the Lord has shown me, there lie multitudes of
Charismatics and Pentecostals. There at least they can see the spirits that
influenced and inspired their hopelessly fallacious doctrines and tongues
speaking. In Hell, the Lord does indeed place people in groups and so
Pentecostals and Charismatics are placed near to one another. Often it
happens that the demons that deceived them, that they thought were
Jesus or the Holy Spirit, come before them to bewail with loud and bitter
lamentations the awful doom that awaits them for having deceived the
Christian Spiritists. These Pentecostals and Charismatics do not speak in
tongues or prophesy in the Pit or command miracles to occur in Jesus’
name as they thought they did on earth. They never really liked the real
Christ anyway; always rejecting what was truly pure and holy and finding
it offensive – calling true believers ‘holier than thou’ or ‘Pharisees’ and
‘not having the freedom of the Spirit’. They dwell without hope, in utter
darkness and misery no man can describe – but if someone could describe
it in doing so they would be destroyed by the grief of it!

Sexual immorality
Statistics are actually kept by denominations on such things as church
attendance and church expulsion. It has long been on record that those in
the Charismatic circles, who claim to be filled with the Holy Spirit, have
the highest rates of sexual and other types of scandal.

Some characteristics
of Charismatics and Pentecostals
It is clear from the evidence then that the spirit of the Charismatics is not
the Bible Holy Spirit but some other spirit or spirits. I am not making a
generalisation however, as some Charismatics and Pentecostals are
saved. They do not perceive that many around them, the majority, are not
born again as they judge them as spiritual when they prophesy or speak
in tongues… Also they do not judge themselves as weak and oppressed -
those who are saved, when they are constantly being told they are
prophets who will do great things.

It is a feel good religion, that often results in people being broken and
giving up entirely. By definition all Pentecostals and Charismatics are
deceived and the minority that have some measure of grace are
unspiritual without exception. Their leaders fall into two categories: The
Sincerely Deceived and the Pure Evil. Of the latter group come the
greatest claims, the most apparent wonders and the greatest success. As
a religion the Charismatic and Pentecostal movement is a form of
Christian Spiritism. Charismatics and Pentecostals have a relation to
Christianity similar to that of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Seventh Day
Adventists, and Spiritualists. In practice they are most like Spiritualists but
using Christian terminology and philosophy.

Failed deliverance
What I have written here will be seen by those who see themselves as
discerning as extreme and they would rebuke me where they would not
rebuke the Spiritists. This is because those in ministries of
discernment have totally failed to do what was needed. There are
experts everywhere that will tell how Christians should be wary of this and
that obvious cult or this or that obvious false practice, whether it is astral
travel or mantric mediation. Yet, very few Christians go into cults outside
of Christianity or are likely to practise New Age or occult teachings. These
experts have failed to point out the obvious, glaring and overwhelming
movement of Christian Spiritism that has infected vast numbers.

Supernatural darkness too subtle to be discerned –

By the undiscerning
Lukewarmness and falling away are directly due to speaking in tongues
and prophesying and generally being Charismatic. It is not a harmless
practice. It is very dangerous and its effects upon Christian society
are one of the greatest successes for Satan since time began. The
Great Falling Away that many predict will happen in the future,
that great Falling Away prophesied by Jesus has happened. It
occurred after the rejection of practical holiness in the nineteenth
century and by the ascendancy of the Charismatic /Pentecostal
Spiritism of the twentieth century.

Unconvinced Spiritists
Many Pentecostals will regard what I have said as manifestly false and
quite self evidently so. They will say that they know the Holy Spirit is with
them; that they have not seen these abuses; that they have seen
wonders; that they have the joy of the Lord etcetera. Yes, it is true that in
terms of a purely subjective experience Spiritism is designed to appeal to
the flesh. It will aggravate against the spirit however. Holy people will ever
find a conflict with Pentecostalism. The gooey, emotional, hypnotic,
passive minded, cauldron of sensory experience that is Spiritism is meant
to be seductive. It is not so with Christ. His disciples are clear headed,
contrite, sincere, holy, wise, loving without faking it, and always in some
degree powerful.

Charismatics are known for

persecuting true saints
Many believers, even though a small percentage of all believers, who have
led true lives of holiness and devotion can testify to being slandered,
abused and persecuted by Charismatics. So, we see it is not simply that
Charismatics embrace a false spirit as the foundation of their religion, but
they reject the True Spirit of Christ! This is the spirit of Antichrist at work.

Anti-Charismatic Charismatics
Many Charismatics after living for years in disquiet, disturbed by what
they have seen behind closed doors, eventually leave their churches.
Then they try to expose the lies and deceptions that they had formally
practised. Good for them, but sadly it takes many years for them to come
out of all these deceptions – if ever. This gives us the phenomenon of the
anti-Charismatic Charismatic: Those who see themselves as delivered
while yet still having false guidance and gifts. The enemy has refined his
craft and for them makes everything seem holy whereas for others he
does pretty much as he chooses and they accept it!

Anti-Charismatic Charismatics vary a great deal in terms of their

knowledge. Among Charismatic sects various false prophets prophesy
against other false prophets. That is the more refined, slightly more
evangelical and dedicated prophesy against the openly covetous and
down right ridiculous. Yet these first prophets cannot be trusted as they
are also unlike Biblical Prophets. A real Prophet could potentially change
the world and certainly get the world's attention.

Help for the half delivered.

Some useful tests:
If the voice in your head that you think is God is God it will answer any
question on any subject whatsoever without error. What is 5,678 x
34,456? God would know but that voice probably won't. What is
tomorrow's news headline? The voice will not know – it is not God!!!

It is okay to say, “I feel led”, or “I am inspired with the thought that ...” or
even, “It was almost as if God had spoken to me...” but never to say “God
said...”, when He has not said. That is false prophecy. It is the lack of this
discipline that is one of the hallmarks of the Charismatic Movement and
the work of deception.

Another hint is do not let the voice in your head test the voice in
your head!
Satan is smarter than you will ever be. Such a God-like voice will tell you,
“If you trust in me the blood of Jesus will cleanse you of error. Are you not
more discerning than the multitudes of deceived? As your faith grows I will
answer questions but for now I can speak only according to the limit of
your faith...” i.e. “You can't question me but you should go on trusting me
as you are so spiritual...”

True saints have very quiet minds – clear like crystals, without
Charismatic confusion. In the Bible when God does speak it is often
audible and sometimes sounds like thunder! Miracles normally follow. Exit
all the false prophets... When Moses saw a burning bush he saw a miracle,
then saw God as Fire, and then heard God clearly. There was no guess
work or error; the modus operandi of the Charismatic Movement.

“Seeing, Moses marvelled at the sight and he came up to

look - a voice from the Lord came to him:
"I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."
Beginning to tremble, Moses did not dare to look.
The Lord said to him, "Loosen the sandals from your feet
because the place where you stand is holy ground.” [Acts
7:31-33]

How to find Christ

If you are a Pentecostal you need to find Christ. The Lord has the power to
cleanse you and make you His own. Christians have a relationship with
God through Jesus Christ –not through pastors or big evangelists or so
called prophets. These intermediaries are not Christ and usually don’t
speak for him. You may find Christ in the Bible. Abandon all those
magazines and Charismatic books. You may find Christ in the world. He is
secretly at work everywhere to help the oppressed. This means that both
Jesus the Spirit and His book are here with us. By following the teachings
of the Book you may have Christ in your life as Lord. You must ask Jesus
to help you interpret His Book not a televangelist!

Do not follow voices in your head

Apart from deceiving you they can lead to serious mental health
problems. Charismatics and Pentecostals live in a constant state of
unreality and confusion. You have seen some who are bizarre and possibly
deranged. They often started out as normal. You need to forsake these
principles of Spiritism and adopt the principles of Christ: That is you need
to reverse Satan’s work.

Principles of Christ
God seeks honesty.
God seeks those willing to obey Him.
God wants obedience from the heart.
God gives His Spirit to those who obey Him.
You will see this is grace as it is God Who is doing the seeking. Yet, He
commands repentance from evil deeds. In other words God is more willing
to save us than we are to save ourselves. What part do we play?

We can pray to God for His help.

We can ask the Lord for forgiveness if we repent.
We should repent.

For a Pentecostal this means beginning again and laying the foundation of
Christ away from the dead works of Spiritism. How often have you claimed
the Lord told you something and it didn’t come to pass? Don’t call God a
liar. Repent of putting words into God’s mouth. That is a good start.

Expect help from the Lord. He will not disappoint.

Have faith.
How? It is a free gift if you have honestly responded to free grace.

Some more help

Stop saying that those who prophesied falsely were in the flesh but those
who ‘got it right’ were in the Spirit. God is not a God of confusion and
would not fill His churches with false prophecies. The same Movement
that gives rise to the failed prophecies and pointless prophecies gives rise
to a few that come true. The whole Movement of Spiritism is wrong and
you need to come out and be separate.

A big thing to do
Get out!!! Run for the hills. (Unless called to work among them as a
missionary.) It is killing you and you don’t know it as your flesh and the
devil are telling you how wonderful it is. Use logic and see Christ is holy! If
you need books read the great evangelical preachers of the 1700s-1800s
or devotional writers. Stop speaking in tongues. Seek to follow Christ by
simple faith with reason rather than by supernatural lights or signs. It will
purify you. Resist Satan as he tries to lure you back.

A big mistake to avoid

Don’t join in with anti-Charismatic Charismatics. Don’t make the mistake
that so many make by being more refined and seemingly Biblical. A gentle
and evangelical counterfeit of the Holy Spirit is just as deadly, often more
so, than a wild and strange counterfeit. Stop trying to be a prophet or a
great revivalist and concentrate on doing Christ’s will day by day in
simplicity and truth. He will then become very powerful in your life and do
with you as He wills. He can, once you are purified of evil spirits and their
deceptions.

Many new believers need the information written here as it will save them
from falling into Charismatic error. It is so terrible to see believers
make a good start only to be lured into Spiritism under a
Christian guise; and then see them become less holy as they
become more Charismatic! This hour is crying out with the need for
such guidance. Send all your Christian friends a copy of this writing,
especially new converts so that they will follow Christ and not the power
of delusion posing as the Holy Spirit.

Conclusion
Christian Spiritism commonly known as Pentecostalism and the
Charismatic Movement is based upon deception. It is by its very nature
intrinsically opposed to the Spirit of Truth – Jesus Christ. It is not merely
another gospel but another religion. Almost all the heresies,
misdemeanours and cultic practises coming into Christianity begin with
the Spiritists. Their religion has as its very foundation the experience of
their deceptive and false gifts rather than the Person of Christ – Who is
belittled in favour of a false Holy Spirit.
 Chapter Eight:

Jesus Sananda and the Would-Be Prophets

Who is Jesus Sananda?

New Age teachers say that in the spiritual planes Jesus Christ is known as
the Ascended Master Sananda. He will come again to earth as the World
Teacher. They believe that Jesus was just one of many ascended masters
and that Jesus has had many incarnations. He is known in the Orient as
Lord Maitreya. Other ascended masters include Christian saints and
Eastern mystics. (The New Age Movement picks bits and pieces from all
religions.) Sananda will be reincarnated again as the World Teacher. The
ascended masters were the teachers of mankind coming from out of the
spirit realm.

Not all New Age teaching is consistent and also taking into account that
these characters are continually being reincarnated it is hard to work out
a logical account. There are elements in Ascended Master teaching that
are similar to Freemasonry and its guilds. There are all kinds of
committees of light and angels that oversee mankind.

So, there are various versions of Jesus/Sananda and Lord Maitreya but
there is an underlying unity among New Agers based upon their
philosophy. New Agers look for a New Age of world peace and spiritual
enlightenment. This fits within their worldview of...
Western Rationalism
meets Eastern Mysticism

There is a fundamental idea however underpinning the New Age

Movement; that is the concept of evolution applied to spirituality.
They combine Western and Eastern philosophy and end up with an
evolutionary leap of spirit for mankind. Many teachers on the New Age
Movement seem to miss this vital point. New Agers combine western
Liberalism and its science: All religions are equal + all humans evolve.
That is why it is called the New Age. It is the period for humans evolving
into gods during the Age of Aquarius: 2000AD to 3000AD. Therefore a
world teacher is to appear to guide all into this god state...

Likeness
Already that World Teacher Jesus/Sananda gives messages through
various mediumistic New Age teachers and these can be found over the
Internet. Also they like to post images of Jesus/Sananda based on
paintings of Jesus from European art in past centuries. A popular one has
Jesus with long, light brown hair and blue eyes. An important point I want
to make here is that some Christians believe in these teachings of
ascended masters in this sense; that they are revelations of what Satan is
up to. They literally believe that the Biblical False Prophet of the
Antichrist, the second Beast of Revelation, will look like Jesus/Sananda:
Long hair and blue eyes and definitely European. They even go on to state
that Christians are unknowingly worshiping Satan by worshiping such a
Jesus or his image… This is the topic of this chapter as it concerns two
sets of confused teachers, both New Age and Christian.

Who is Lord Maitreya?

He is the Master of Masters who is known in religions around the world.
Particularly significant to Buddhism, he is also worshiped in China as a
wandering god with an eye in his back. There have been many claimants
to the title of Maitreya as there have been to the title of Christ. For a
summary of Buddhist and New Age views of Maitreya see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya

Various interpretations
among New Agers and Christians
For New Agers the first incarnation of Jesus/Sananda was Adam and the
next is to be the World Teacher. During the New Age the World Teacher
brings peace and spiritual consciousness or God Realisation. For Christians
who believe these false prophecies, they divide the identity of Lord
Maitreya and Sananda between the Antichrist and his prophet mentioned
in the book of Revelation. They too have evolved their teaching! This
means that Lord Maitreya is the Antichrist and Sananda is the false
prophet. However will that false prophet call himself Sananda?

Lord Maitreya is the expected messiah and Teacher of all religions and his
main prophet among New Agers seems to be Benjamin Creme, although
there are more and more contenders and sources for channeling Lord
Maitreya’s messages. It is said by some including Benjamin Creme that
Lord Maitreya has been active behind the scenes in present times and it is
predicted (again) that he will soon make his appearance. Lord Maitreya
will reveal his identity and telepathically communicate with everyone on
earth, as well as by TV, in a soon to be televised event predicted this year
(2009). Of course this will not happen but it has both New Agers and some
erroneous Christians excited. Why would Christians believe in the New
Age predictions of the appearance of Lord Maitreya when previous
predictions of his appearance failed to come off?

Lord Maitreya’s –Jesus/Sananda’s

earthly name
Lord Maitreya is the Eastern name, meaning Kindness or Benevolence, of
an incarnation of life energy that became Jesus. Jesus is Sananda in the
spirit world: Is the World Teacher Sananda or Maitreya? Or are there two?
New Agers themselves seem to point to one World Teacher.

Sananda is the higher spiritual name. Jesus is the name used in one of his
earthly appearances. Sananda/Jesus may well have another name in the
next appearance. This means he may well be here already known by
another name. The result is a lot of wild speculation dignified by some
Christians who know no better. Yet, since Lord Maitreya’s identity is not
yet revealed some speculate that it is Barack Obama. Others say it is
Rahmat Ahmad a Pakistani spiritual teacher…

The end of the world?

Many believers are committing themselves to proclaiming an immanent
Second Coming of Christ and also to identifying the Antichrist and the
False Prophet or Beast of the Book of Revelation. Among others Prince
Charles has been named as the Antichrist. The Popes have historically
often been named as the Antichrist... All predictions about the Second
Coming and the Antichrist have so far failed. Across Europe in the year
1000AD multitudes gathered on hilltops awaiting the end of the world.
After it did not happen faith in the Catholic Church that allowed this error,
if not actually preaching it, waned. This in turn led to the later rise of
Protestantism. Many will lose faith in Evangelical Christianity for the same
reason.

Some Christians, who for some reason believe many of these New Age
prophecies, see in them a fulfilment of Biblical prophecy and in particular
regard Jesus/Sananda as the coming second Beast and False Prophet
depicted in the Book of Revelation (See Revelation 13. Both the Antichrist
and his false prophet are called beasts.) For what reason they would
believe this is not apparent other than it is very typical of the
Apocalyptic Hysteria that has taken hold upon large sections of
evangelical and Charismatic Christianity, especially in the USA. There is
however, no reason to believe in the prophecies of Benjamin Creme or
Ascended Master Teachers and others.

The Would-Be Prophets

The would-be Christian prophets also seem to have no signs to verify their
prophecies and warnings. The Powers of Darkness only tell lies to their
dupes. Jesus/Sananda does not and will not exist. That is the only reason
he has consistently failed to make his appearance. There have been and
there will be people who claim to be the world messiah or Sananda or
Maitreya but they will not telepathically communicate with everyone on
earth or anything similar. It is true there will be fulfilment of Biblical
prophecy but Biblical prophecies can in no way be compared to the
prophecies of those claiming to know who the Antichrist or his servant the
false prophet really are, and implying of course that they know they are
alive and secretly working today for their ever immanent appearance!!!

I want to make this point quite clearly: That sincere Christians are
strengthening the prophecies of the New Age Movement and
forwarding its interests. In giving credence and respect to various New
Age predictions they are in effect helping them along. Yet, as I have said
they cannot make a good argument for their beliefs other than the usual,
“I sense in my spirit”, or “God has told me” and regard rejection of their
speculations as a lack of recognition of their true prophetic stature. They
are would-be prophets without solid argument or divine support.

The would-be prophets want to be seen as prophets and so must have

something to prophesy, even if they borrow it from New Agers. It is false
insight or discernment to 'see' that the confused messages from Sananda
and about Sananda are the secrets of the Antichrist. These would-be
prophets are being opportunistic and bolstering their image as
prophets by taking various popular topic threads from the
Internet and tying them in with End Times fanaticism. They appeal
to the unquestioning attitude that many have that the end is nigh. This
belief held by many is based upon trusting teachings that are equally
unfounded and put out by self centred people who need to be admired.
They see themselves as important and significant to world events, without
actually having an impact on the world or being able to teach well on any
spiritual subject.

God's Prophets, whether great or small, were recognised as Prophets by

those who were close to God and by world leaders. Their prophecies were
clear and came to pass. Some performed great signs. All were known to
be holy. In stark distinction the would-be prophets are often known only to
themselves or a few people with the same teaching – as they all copy one
another. They have no signs. Nothing they have said has come to pass.
They are known to have been wrong in the past. It is not our job to flatter
their egos but to avoid their persons and teaching. There is no prophet
prophesying about the coming Antichrist lord Maitreya and his prophet
Sananda that has been recognised as a prophet in the world or had
prophecies that have come true.

Hundreds of years of prophesying

The identity of the Antichrist
These kinds of false prophets in past times told the world that the Kaiser
(of World War I) was the Antichrist and later the same kind of people said
it was Adolf Hitler. Before that time they said the Antichrist was Napoleon,
etcetera. In more recent times we have been told that Saddam Hussein
was the Antichrist... I rather suspect that when the Lord does raise up a
Prophet that performs great signs and wonders these very types of
'believers' will prophesy he or she is the Beast! In fact it is true to say that
thought was given to me by the Lord. It is not unusual for such would-be
prophets to recommend other teachers that are spiritual and others that
are unspiritual, while at the same time attacking ferociously some of the
most spiritual figures in Christian history. Their knowledge then is as
confused as their prophecies- and all underpinned by their pride.

False lights
Many of the so-called experts on prophecy and spiritual warfare take their
knowledge from their own past experiences in the occult, believing falsely
that they were given insight into the spiritual world. Yet, the Enemy will
only tell lies to those involved in the occult. When, thankfully, they
become Christians they should not assume their 'knowledge' is in any way
reliable or a means with which to interpret Bible prophecy! To give
credence to the teachings of various Spiritists is to unnecessarily advance
the interests of those opposed to the Bible Faith.

Spirit and Soul

Often the need to discern between spirit and soul is put forward by both
legitimate teachers and would-be prophets as necessary for spiritual
discernment, as indeed it is. To correctly discern things one needs to be
spiritual and to be spiritual one needs to be able to distinguish between
human emotions and thoughts and divine leadings in the spirit. Those who
have really experienced a division between spirit and soul, as we are
taught in the Bible that the Word of the Lord is a Sword that divides
asunder even soul and spirit, know that such an experience comes by the
Cross. The application of the Cross upon the believer's nature by the Holy
Spirit means suffering for Christ by faith which bears the fruit of spiritual
awareness. A life of discipleship in holiness and truth is essential to an
experience of deeper discernment. As they become spiritually minded
they are in tune with God and able to distinguish spiritual things in a
spiritual way.

The lukewarmness of the Charismatic movement cannot produce such

discipleship. Therefore those who rehash the teachings of Jessie Penn-
Lewis, Watchman Nee or the Christian Mystics without really
understanding them have an appearance of wisdom, as those teachers
were wise, but they also put forward many errors their idols would not
have tolerated. By trying to be overly spiritual instead of resting on the
Lord by simple faith they often undermine the things of the Lord which, in
their zeal, they want to exalt.

This was a common error of the Charismatics in the 1980's when for
example Watchman Nee inspired teaching, contrary to what he really
taught, helped the Shepherdship Movement develop into an authoritarian
cult. Often spiritual writers are quoted as the cause of Charismatic error
when they are really exploited and debased by those who pretend to be
spiritual and get things twisted inside out.

Putting things right

They could begin to correct things by, for a start, stop calling themselves
prophets! Being supposed prophets that are more evangelical than the
obvious false prophets does not make them prophets. By being anti-
Charismatic but having words in their minds supposedly from the Holy
Spirit means they are still mediumistic! To say you are a prophet when
you are not is a sin. To call yourself a prophet when you simply mean you
are exposing the errors of the Church is to misuse Scripture.

Biblical Prophets were supported by God so that both believers

and unbelievers came to understand they were Prophets. Every
word they spoke was truth and every prophecy they gave came to
pass.

Some things that those who have experienced the division

between
spirit and soul can do.
Spiritual Christians can teach by experience rather than by theory.
However, what they teach will be gibberish to the theoretical Christians.
Spiritual Christians can and do continually sense the near presence of
Christ. They can discern errors in teaching and practice and errors of
emphasis. They experience the power of the Holy Spirit as the Abundant
Life of Christ flowing within them. That is they abide in Christ as depicted
in John chapter 15. They can recognise fakers. They can give a strong
testimony which will inevitably have an element of the miraculous. THEY
CAN, DO AND MUST, LIVE ABOVE THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL,
AMEN.

“May the God of peace Himself entirely sanctify you - may

your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
[1 Thessalonians 5:23]

Coming beasts of Revelation

In regards to the coming Antichrist and his false prophet, who are
correctly named beasts; they will of course bear many similarities to true
prophets and appear to be saviours of the world – for a time. Yet,
inevitably their true natures will be revealed and because of their great
power they will entrap the world. Phrases like “one world religion” are not
in the Bible but relate to the fact that “all will worship the beast”. This
does not mean that all people will have the exact same religion but that
they will have philosophies of religion and science which at that time can
accommodate these beasts.

A challenge to the would-be prophets

Are you a prophet in your own eyes? Are you teaching the immanent
return of Christ? Were you one of those who said George Bush would be
the last President of the USA? Are you one of the multitudes that claim to
'know', not believe, deduce, hold the opinion, but know, in your spirit or
otherwise that the Lord will return while some of us are yet living? Even in
the next few to several years? Prove it!

Proof is not saying, “I sense it”, or “When the Lord returns they will see!”
Where are your prophecies about the last ten years that have
been recorded as coming true? Where are your prophecies, not
generalisations, about world events that are about to come true?

I say, and I could add 'know', that those who say they are prophets and
are prophesying the Lord's return anytime within the next twenty years
are false prophets, bad Bible students and vainglorious, pseudo-spiritual
dupes of the Enemy.

Unrepentant would-be prophets

The world is full of prophets these days and those whose prophecies
concerned things that were to happen in the eighties and nineties have
been shown to have been fools. Many of these are still prophesying about
the End Times. If they were to repent and say, 'I am not a prophet but I
was deceived', it would mean being humbled in the sight of others. As
these prophets are generally driven by religious pride few will ever do so.
They prefer to blame others for their mistakes or to attempt to cover them
up. If they stopped being would-be prophets who would listen to them, or
flatter them of give them heaps of money? They cling on to their false
claims and false identities and preach their false teaching -Why listen to
them? Are they not the servants of the very lies they are supposedly
combating?

Summary
I want to point out that there is a very close correlation between the
prophets of the ascended masters and the would-be prophets of the Holy
Spirit. Their prophecies fail. They recoup their ground by offering new
ones without repenting of imposing former false prophecies on believers.
They depend on End Times hysteria to be taken seriously and are always
running about thinking their prophesied ones are about to appear. On the
other hand they often leave out definite dates and predictions. They
usually like to imply immanence without actually promising it. Yet, if they
are prophets why can’t they be clear? If they are prophets why is there
always lack of clarity and abundance of confusion? Did you find it hard
following the identity of Lord Maitreya? I put it down as logically as I could.
It is a total mess of insinuations, implications, false deductions and
inferences out there, put out as prophecy by both New Agers and some
Christians.

The True Purpose of False Prophecy

Many Christians feel that to openly criticise other Christians whom they
know to be in error is wrong. They think that since these preach Christ
they cannot be all bad and we should not judge etcetera. In reality there
are multitudes of ex Christians in the world. There are so many now
working away at Christianity and where did they come from? They came
out of the Charismatic confusion created by false teachers and prophets.
There is a kind of Christianity that is specifically designed to fail and lead
to despair. It offers high hopes, empty promises of wealth and power and
when it fails, as it does its adherents come crashing down to earth. In the
aftermath there is bitterness, disillusionment and often a reaction against
God, the Bible and Christianity.

I should say here to those who are suspicious of my motives that my God,
my Bible and my Christianity has not only not failed me but has achieved
more than I ever dreamed it would. That aside there are others who say
the opposite of themselves as it was not my Christianity to which they
were converted or discipled in. They are doomed to failure from the start
and their worst enemies are not Satanists or atheists but the would-be
prophets with their pretty emptiness and gold laced promises that turn
out to be tinfoil. Satan then achieves his purpose and has a whole army of
ex Christians ready to testify that Jesus does not answer prayer, that the
Bible is proved false; and they the once true believers as they think have
seen through it all and come out as rationalists!

It is the duty of true Christians then to resist the false prophets to the
utmost and teach weak and foolish believers that a disciple of Christ is
disciplined and that a person who receives the Holy Spirit is holy... These
have their prayers answered: Not every prayer but more than enough to
prove God and powerful enough to astound the believer! In essence God
answers every prayer however but not in the form the believer would like
as God is far more knowing and wiser than they. He does reward the faith
inherent in every true prayer and gives blessings not asked for too.
Almost all of this kind of believers endure to the end. Very few turn away.
Among Charismatic/evangelical Christians today however most fall away
within one, five, ten or fifteen years. Only a few live their entire lives as
Christians and many were never really saved to begin with while others
were ill taught and misled and some exploited and abused.

This is why it is important to return to the simplicity of Christ and practice

humility and love to God. Real believers are kind, loving, peaceful, holy
and meek. Those who seek to cultivate these traits within by the power of
the real Holy Spirit tend to achieve their aim, even if they remain poor and
of no account among the super-Christians and their false prophets.
 Chapter Nine:
The Devil in disguise:
How to defeat the False Jesus

This chapter is a short introduction to spiritual victory over the

forces of evil, particularly as they imitate Jesus, the Holy Spirit or
the Father. It represents only a shard of Satan's devices -
exposed.

Over the years I have encountered many false representations of Jesus

from the one world religion guru to the black activist, African Jesus, and
everything in between. These false philosophies have their equivalent in
the spiritual realm too, as evil spirits can and do take on aspects of
Christ's image or character to imitate Him, or the Holy Spirit or the Father,
as well as imitating Angels and Saints.

Here is a list of some of the Jesuses you may come across in

modern culture or even in modern churches
The muscle bound Health and Fitness Jesus
The Cosmic Hippy Jesus
The Black Jesus
The Aryan Jesus
The Pacifist Jesus
The Gay Jesus
The Communist Jesus
The Female Jesus
The Mad Jesus
The Ignorant Peasant Jesus
The Social Worker Jesus
The Confused Jesus
The Sexual Jesus
The Pathetic Jesus
The Identity Crisis Jesus
The God Hating Jesus
The Lucifer Betraying Jesus
The Joking Jesus
The Bigot Jesus
The Anti-Semitic Jesus
The Drug Induced Jesus

Here are some of the more supposedly Christian Jesuses

The Weak and Ineffectual Jesus
The Silent Jesus
The Money Mad Jesus
The English Middle Class Jesus
The American Right Wing Conservative Jesus
The Pentecostal and Charismatic Jesus
The Laid Back Non Religious Jesus
The Never Condemns Anyone Jesus
The Party and Alcohol Jesus
The Forgot About You Jesus

There are two other Jesuses

The Bible Jesus
The Spirit Jesus
These last two are one and the same.

All of the above Jesuses have a spirit to go with them. Only the
last Jesus, the Bible Jesus has the Spirit of God.

As there are Jesuses so there are versions of the Holy Spirit and the
Father, such as the Stern and Vindictive God... Also, versions of the
Gospel, such as the Gospel of Lifestyle, rather than discipleship.

There are also artistic images of Jesus. Some of these reflect the views of
past centuries. Usually Jesus is handsome but serene, often blonde and
usually white. European culture and the British Empire gave the world a
European Jesus. In some Christian Books and Bibles for Children this Jesus
is still clearly seen. Most characters in many of these Bibles are white,
including Adam and Eve from whom all races descended. Fortunately,
today we also have an ordinary looking Hebrew Jesus depicted for
children. This is a small but significant clue to a cultural shift. Some
people want to know Jesus as He is - not as others would like Him to be.

The Devil is a Shape Shifter

We can see from the above lists that the false Jesus is a chameleon
melting into its surrounds and accommodating to peoples'
misconceptions. It has the power to shape shift and is slippery as a
snake. It is not one but many like the mythological hydra of the Greeks:
Chop a head off and another will grow! This hydra has so many heads
they are uncountable but there is a weapon that can destroy it.

“...the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God” [Ephesians

6:17]

This weapon will destroy the false philosophies and any ugly head that
rears its evil self up against us!

Similarly there is the Non Existent Devil, the Personification of Evil Devil
and the Little Red Devil. These are fabrications of the devil - the devil of
the Bible. As there is an intelligent and real Jesus so there is an intelligent
and real devil. We need to defeat his disguises.
How to defeat the false Jesus:
Discipline under the Bible
Know your Bible. People will tell you the Jesus of John the Apostle is not
the Jesus of Paul the Apostle and the Jesus of the Gospel of John is not the
Jesus of the Revelation written by that same John. Then again modern
theologians will tell you that John is not the same John... As the Bible is
trustworthy it reveals the true Jesus. The best way to defeat the False
Jesus is not primarily by spiritual discernment, as few believers have
enough, but by discipline; by knowing and studying the Scripture.

For example the person who believes Jesus when He says,

[Luke 16:13] “You cannot serve God and Mammon”
(The god of wealth), is hardly going to accept the Money Mad Jesus or its
gospel of Get Rich Now I'll Show You How.

The second way to defeat the false Jesus

is by spiritual discernment.
All genuine believers have the Spirit and therefore all have some degree
of wisdom in spiritual matters and therefore too, the ability to judge,
weigh, discern the things of God and their opposites. You may not have
enough discernment to do it alone but with the Bible and the discipline of
its application to your life this makes a formidable weapon against the
devices of the devil.

The third way to defeat the devil in disguise is by faith in prayer

By praying to God you may ask for spiritual light or intelligence upon
these matters. You must pray in an attitude of trust and with a view to
changing your mind! Think about that.

Regular prayer along these lines,

“I am not infallible. Please show me my errors, and where the

devil may have deceived me, in the Name of the Bible Jesus,
Amen.”

Such prayers prayed seriously and regularly really do help in the renewal
of your mind and in keeping you alert. God really does answer too, so be
prepared for a few shocks!

Make God alone your Lord

Finally, as this is merely a brief introduction to the subject, do not trust in
human wisdom, yours or others, especially if they are prophesying over
you! Here is one of those Bible verses you really need to remember and
pray over,

“So says the Eternal, 'Cursed is the man that trusts in man, and
makes flesh his arm (strength), and whose heart departs from
the Eternal.'” [Jeremiah 17:5]
A warning
All Christian cults and mainline churches teach some form of spiritual
discernment. Many teach on the subject of combating evil spirits. All
Christian cults in particular claim to have spiritual gifts and revelations
exposing the works of the devil. They do have some truths too, but not
about the delusions they are bound with or that they will bind you with.
Make the Bible your sole authority in matters of doctrine.
Experientially, cling to the Lord alone: That is study the Bible Jesus with
the Spirit of the Bible Jesus.

Beware of extremes
This is a difficult time for Christians to live in as there are so many
denominations and sects and even more teachings. Everything I teach has
versions by other spiritual writers and by cults- and all originate in the
Word of God. When you read of the false Jesus or any spiritual thing, there
will be true and false versions. Among true versions there will be errors of
emphasis. Among many false versions there is often a lot of truth
that acts as the sugar to cover the arsenic of deception. In dealing
with the various forms of Jesus you meet in the world or in churches it is
good to be gracious, humble and accommodating to a point. Many people
are sincerely trying to follow God. I am not of the ones that want to cry
against them over their errors but to encourage them to greater
enlightenment. Let us consider then the greatest false Jesus there is in the
world.

The Iconic Jesus

In Europe and the East Christianity has tended to standardise Christ so
that he became meek and mild, very human, serene, and idealised. The
representation of Christ lost his zeal for God, his power and his deep
spirituality. He also lost his certainty and his deep animosity toward sin.
The Iconic Jesus, who is literally seen on icons, is therefore not so
much God incarnate as Religious Humanism incarnate. If he were
real and you met him no doubt he would be a beautiful character, a true
saint; but would he be able to cast out evil spirits, performs signs in the
Heavens and many other wonders? Would he return again as the world's
conqueror? I am making this distinction to point out what is missing. It
does not mean, as many of you I am sure realise, that I think Jesus is to be
a hyper character who is casting out demons all the time- it is just one of
several of the characteristics left out of the Iconic Jesus.

Out of all the false Jesuses the Iconic Jesus is the one closest to the truth
and the one the world loves. The Iconic Jesus lives in the hearts and minds
of multitudes and is the present dominant religious Jesus in the world. The
great distinction with the Real Jesus is this: The world did and does today
hate the real Christ. That's why He was crucified by the religious and
pagans together.

Jesus is hated for this reason in His own words:

“The world cannot hate you but it hates Me; for I testify of it,
that its works are evil.”
[John chapter 7:7]

The Spirit of Christ continually witnesses against what is evil within

mankind. In response there has never been nor can there ever be a man
more hated, defamed, abused, slandered and attacked than the Lord
Jesus Christ, Son of God.

Jesus is holiness itself and to come into his Presence is to come into the
Light and that Light blinds the eyes – until they see. Jesus is Love and
mitigates against everything that is selfish - and humans by nature are
Self-ish: That is, what the Bible calls 'fallen nature', as there remains an
ability to repent and come into the Light.

How many of those who love the Iconic Jesus would hate the Real
Jesus?
The answer is quite simple: By loving the Iconic Jesus they do hate the
Real Jesus. They are rejecting Him in favour of an inferior impostor
created out of human tradition.
 Chapter Ten:
The Witch and the False Prophet

Jessie Penn-Lewis and Charles Finney

God warned before time of the Pentecostal movement and its

false revivals
As abuses were emerging in the 1800’s in revivals and the numbers of
believers claiming to be prophets were gaining some ground in them, as
they had been in ages before, God graciously gave warning in two books
by two genuine revivalists. They and their significant books are examined
along with their influences. This chapter also looks at some of the history
leading up to the great Christian Spiritist movement.

Nineteenth century revivals

and revivals in Wales
Jessie Penn-Lewis was a feminist Christian from Wales who was very
active along with Evan Roberts in the Welsh revival of 1904. As a
contemporary of suffragettes Jessie Penn-Lewis put forward her own book,
Magna Carta of Women which pleads for women's ministry in the
Church. She is best known for her book, among many others, War on the
Saints, which is a book about spiritual warfare based on her experiences,
along with Evan Roberts, of Satan's deceptions in the Welsh revivals. This
was the keystone work for discernment of spirits. Prior to its arrival
however there was an even earlier work concentrating more on the outer
abuses of psychology and emotional manipulation by fleshly or carnal
believers: Letters on Revival by Charles Finney.

Nineteenth century opposition to emotionalism and false spirits

In the nineteenth century there were more or less continual revivals in the
USA and other places. In the mid nineteenth century revivals spread from
North America to Wales mainly on the reading of Charles Finney's
Lectures on Revival. These were among an abundance of other revivals
that were sporadic throughout the nineteenth century. I remember
reading how that book spread and as it spread revivals sprang up. It is on
historical record that Welsh revivals were among them. The Welsh
revivals continued intermittently until the early twentieth century. They
had the stamp of holiness teaching all over them and in Jessie Penn-
Lewis's case of course there was the spiritual connection to Charles Finney
who had written earlier articles about abusive practises in revivals,
Letters on Revival also known as the book Revival Fire. Finney put
forward a case that the emerging (what was to become Pentecostal
Movement) was ‘in the flesh’ and over emotional. His was the spiritual
forerunner to Jessie Penn-Lewis's book War on the Saints, in which
Jessie Penn-Lewis made an analysis of demonic activity among believers.
There is a clear spiritual connection between the two works; Finney's
being almost an introduction to Jessie Penn-Lewis's book. The two books
put together represent a timely warning from God of everything that
happened after, since both these books were largely ignored by modern
believers.

Christians and social reformation

Charles Finney is now known for influencing Abraham Lincoln to
abolish slavery after the President asked for his advice in two letters.
Finney was also known for organising part of the Underground Railway
for runaway slaves at Oberlin College where he was a professor of
theology. Racists today still attack Finney for being a social reformer
rather than a Christian. It is interesting however that most of the revivals
in America at that time happened in the northern states and not the south
where slavery was practiced. It seems that the Holy Spirit was part of this
social reformation.

Altar Call
In studying the Bible Finney recognised in the rite of baptism that
believers made an open air and public declaration of faith in Jesus Christ.
The churches in Finney’s day largely baptised people at birth and Charles
Finney saw the need for a public declaration and a stand for Christ. At that
time it was often expected that people would simply be converted by God
if they were preordained. The issue of baptism was controversial and
divisive but Finney decided to follow the principle of public declaration of
faith. He simply asked for a public declaration of faith by introducing the
Altar Call. This was designed to help those under deep conviction from
the Holy Spirit to make a clear and intelligent response to that work of
grace.

The whole idea was to get sinners to act upon the manifest and felt calling
of God, combining both divine and human action together. In this way God
would call and the people would respond openly by coming to the altar for
prayer. Thereby acting clearly and decisively as the early disciples did
who responded to the call to baptism while the Gospel was being
preached by John the Baptist. The actual use of the Altar Call was based
primarily upon the obvious convicting work of the Holy Spirit among
listeners to the Gospel in great revivals. This was later used everywhere in
great revivals. As I say Charles Finney could have simply called for sinners
to repent and be baptised as in the gospels but most had already been
baptised in churches and the issue was divisive.

Finney was very thorough however, about his teaching on True

Repentance – even writing a book with this title. It was not simply a case
of saying you 'accepted' Jesus! (Erroneously practised today by those who
reject Finney's principles of revival.) This true and open repentance
became standard practise in revivals, at the Altar Call, including the ones
Evan Roberts and Jessie Penn-Lewis were active agents in. It became
standard practise for evangelists both Arminian and Calvinist since. It was
used to combat the (now almost extinct) extreme Calvinistic position
that people would be saved if it were God's will without any form of
human intervention, including witnessing, prayer in faith for souls,
preaching etcetera. Those who want to return to extreme Calvinism
however today attack the introduction of the Altar Call without revealing
their true motives.

Until the Altar Call was introduced sinners under conviction from God were
often left without any direction of how to be saved, as these extreme
Calvinists believed they should not lead people to choose to believe God.
As a result, often the convictions would wear off and sinners would go
away unsaved, with Calvinists assuming they were therefore not Elect.

The harsh critics of Finney in Calvinistic Bible colleges and elsewhere say
his was purely a man made religion of no value. Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones
scathingly called it ‘Decisionism’. Finney has variously been called a mere
social reformer, an ethicist, or even accused of being responsible for
preparing the way for the Antichrist! As there are plenty of historical
accounts of mass conversions in continuing revivals this sovereign work of
the Holy Spirit is often dismissed today as the result of Charles Finney’s
‘animal magnetism’. That is there are those who read of accounts of great
revivals in which tens of thousands are saved; they will even read of some
wonders of God in them and of the transformed lives of new believers
going on to live long in holiness and faithfulness to God and they conclude
it is all manmade religion of no value; and see in it the root cause of
spiritual weakness in churches today! This is a bit like seeing in Jesus the
false prophet who needed to be sacrificed to save Israel – the theological
position of the High Priests that had him executed.

Yet, what did Finney do? He was the centre of revivals non stop for fifty
years in which multitudes were saved. He warned against false revivals
and delusions. He was known to have been a man or extraordinary
holiness. What then is to be achieved by his character assassination and
obliterating his legacy? His example of how to convert masses, deeply and
truly, his warnings against false revivals and abuses, his call to holiness all
abandoned. - In favour of what? This: Lack of true and deep repentance,
entrance of ‘in the flesh’ revivals, and lukewarmness. Often you can tell
what someone really stands for by who they reject, far more so than by
whom they honour. I see no reason to slander Finney to surreptitiously
defend extreme Calvinism. This is all harsh and unfair criticism used by
the evil one to undermine the works of God.

If you are aware of what is being taught as doctrine these days in Bible
colleges and elsewhere you will see that Charles Finney has become a
prime target for attack. His ‘errors’ are often referred to and he is
dismissed as irrelevant. The reason for this is that being a lawyer he used
the techniques of a lawyer to argue a case for God. In his theology and
letters he takes the tone of an advocate for Christ against sinners bringing
a strong case for faith and repentance. His clear, analytical and thoughtful
style is anathema to those who see the Christian religion as unthinking
and dependent upon blind faith.

Secondly Finney is attacked for being the one person who is most like Paul
the Apostle in the stature of his intellectual understanding of the Gospel,
his accuracy, and his profound holiness and faith; proven by his works and
their spiritual success. In other words Finney is attacked for his
Christlikeness. No Christian who had read Finney’s works and understood
them would attack him but they might have some questions about certain
emphases on certain points. Finney is attacked by those who want
Christianity to be mystified, unthinking, emotional, and above all
lukewarm. I have not yet met a critic of Finney who really understood
what he taught as they are all unthinking critics representing one form of
heresy or another- whether super-spiritual or anti-spiritual.

Many of Charles Finney’s critics exude the very tone and spirit of
antinomianism and Phariseeism. It is a great credit to Charles Finney that
this present Laodicean age regards him as a Pharisee. Yet, it is the
destiny of every Christlike person to be treated as Christ was by the kind
of religious people that opposed him. In fact there is something
deeply spiritual going on: That people see the Spirit of Jesus as
Satan and Satan as Jesus. This is the underlying basis for their
interpretations of doctrine, of people and of spiritual phenomena.

Problems with the Altar Call

Finney leant strongly to Arminianism but Jessie Penn-Lewis inhabits a
place between Calvinism and Arminianism. In that sense she is more
balanced. (Watchman Nee is Calvinist.) Charles Finney insisted and
taught that salvation is by grace through faith and could hardly fall into
the stereotype of the Pharisee so often used against him. Much of his
teaching was a reaction to the Universalism (all people get saved) and the
extreme Calvinism (the will is not really free and therefore cannot be used
virtuously.)

As a standardised practise of evangelism the Altar Call has presented

some problems as often there is no revival and no deep call from God for
multitudes to take an open and public stand for Christ. As something
forced it becomes, in effect, an emotional acceptance of Christ that
usually, quickly wears away. This is why the drop out rate after the
evangelical crusades is so high. Evangelists have a tendency to try and
force conversions.

As a matter of principle:
When people are under conviction by God they need
. Direction.
. Encouragement to obey God in repenting and confessing Christ. These
principles will always hold true but it is a matter of form how they are
expressed and in certain circumstances one form is better than another.
Usually where revival power is absent a long drawn out process of
invitation, encouragement and teaching must precede any crying out of,
“Repent and believe the Gospel”. It is a credit to Finney’s faith that he
could call people to repent and they did do so! It is this extraordinary faith
that is under attack.

Jessie Penn-Lewis and Evan Roberts and the Welsh Revival

Jessie Penn-Lewis was known for advocating the Baptism in the Spirit
for Power to work in revivals as was Charles Finney. Jessie Penn-Lewis had
the emphasis of spiritual awareness, particularly in regards to the
demonic. Hence her book War on the Saints... During the Welsh Revival
Evan Roberts' constant, unmitigated labours to save the lost resulted in
him being burnt out – or having a 'nervous breakdown'. Jessie Penn-Lewis
spent a lot of time, along with her husband, looking after Evan Roberts.
She used her time not spent in revivals writing about the spiritual life.
From her lessons in the Welsh Revival she wrote of many manifestations,
strategies and deceptions of evil spirits that she had uncovered – and how
to combat them! Charles Finney and Jessie Penn-Lewis represented
two things: Inner spiritual depth and outer spiritual power. Those
who oppose these things usually oppose one or both of these authors.

Finney's Law and Gospel

There are many verses in the New Testament about the Law of Christ, the
Law of the Spirit, being judged on our deeds at Judgement Day etcetera.
Finney understood that the Law of the Levitical Priesthood was changed
when Christ came, as it says in Hebrews. It changed from a dead letter to
a Principle of Life. The Gospel life is that life: That is it is a life that fulfils
God's Spiritual Law, which is often expressed morally. To abrogate that
Law or to do away with it completely is to do away with Conscience.

Psychologically and of course spiritually that would be disastrous. Jessie

Penn-Lewis and myself for that matter and many other believers regard
the Bible as Harmony. If there is an unexplainable tension between living
holy and grace in people's minds there are some pieces of their jigsaw
puzzle missing. When everything fits together to form a balanced whole
those pieces have been found. There should be no, and in the Bible there
is no contradiction or conflict between doing holy, being holy or being in a
state of free grace. In this way God is the Sovereign of our hearts.

God's voice through His servants Rejected!

Historically the rejection of Finney's teaching on holiness,
genuine repentance and faith and warnings of false revival, led to
a false outpouring of spirits many believe to be the Holy Spirit at
the turn of the last century. The rejection of Jessie Penn-Lewis's
teaching on demonic deceptions in churches and revivals led to
the supremacy of false Spirit baptism in many places today. By
rejecting two emissaries of the Holy Spirit and their timely
warnings the modern Church received the opposite of what was
rejected: They therefore received lukewarmness instead of
holiness; emotionalism instead of revival and spiritual deception
instead of the power of the Spirit.

I cannot help but think, and know, that if Jesus came in the body, but in
disguise, and preached for a while, many of the supposedly spiritual
people and guardians of the truth etcetera and those who pride
themselves on spiritual discernment would misrepresent Him and teach
He was the Antichrist!!!

Spiritual principles of God's government

Another way in which Charles Finney laid the ground work for Jessie Penn-
Lewis was in his Systematic Theology (which to understand is difficult
as it requires deep analytical thought.) Finney examined the spiritual
principles of God's government of the universe: His Divine Laws. Jessie
Penn-Lewis used the same concepts, as indeed they are Biblical,
particularly the idea of Legal Ground: That is that demons would gain
legal ground in a believer under the principles of God's inviolable Law. So,
in three respects War on the Saints reflects very similar teaching to that
of Charles Finney.
It is opposed to 'in the flesh' false revivals.
It examines the spiritual principles upon which spirits operate under the
dispensation of God's Spiritual Law.
It teaches a real sanctification, holiness and power – the burden of
Finney's works...

In the Providence and grace of God then, War on the Saints was the heir
to Finney's legacy in Lectures on Revival and particularly his letters of
reflections on revivals (Revival Fire).

Principles of opposition to spiritual reality

People opposed to understanding spiritual principles, instead claiming
these things are mysteries we mortals are not meant to understand, are
opposed to Finney's and Jessie Penn-Lewis's teachings as they are
analytical, clear and thorough in style and presentation – and particularly
so on matters of principle. People opposed to the life of holiness in the
belief that a state of lukewarmness is a state of grace, are opposed to
Charles Finney and Jessie Penn-Lewis and many others, including
Calvinists who taught holiness and a deeper spiritual life such as
Watchman Nee. People opposed to clear understanding and knowledge,
and who put forward exaggerated, negative stereotypes of these authors
and their teachings, stand for Ignorance and Religious Bigotry.

I have noticed that their critics tend not to read them but read other
critics' exaggerations then add to that! As a result they see and portray
these spiritual teachers as the opposite to what they really were. I would
advise reading Finney's revival letters if you are going to read War on the
Saints and you will see how the first foreshadows the second, deeper
analysis.

Deeper spiritual life

As we follow we grow. Jessie Penn-Lewis was influenced by the teachings
of Madame Jeanne Guyon and Andrew Murray; this shows in various books
about the awareness and Presence of God. Jeanne Guyon in her English
translation of her works speaks of passivity to the will of God. It would
have been better translated as acquiescence. Jeanne Guyon was known
for accepting every hardship by quiet faith and enduring terrible
persecutions. She did point out, very lucidly, in her writings that her mind
was ever active and this was an effect of being close to God. The passivity
we are to guard against, as Jessie Penn-Lewis teaches, is that relaxed
state of mind people have when they want others to do their thinking and
tell them what to do. This is exploited by many preachers today who
practise a subtle form of stage hypnotism on large crowds. At a more
serious level believers become numb in mind and open to all odd and
strange manifestations from the supernatural realm in the mistaken belief
this is of God. This was a key concept in War on the Saints. Jeanne Guyon
taught that believers should not trust in visions and 'lights' but live by
'naked faith' in God.

Understanding Jessie Penn-Lewis's critics

I once heard a Pentecostal say that Jessie Penn-Lewis was a witch. So, we
have a situation where the one person who has done more to free
Christians from false and deceptive works of the devil is accused of being
his servant. That must be so: The wicked always see good as evil and evil
as good. Finney, as I said spent his life preaching holiness. I once heard a
Charismatic say, “The trouble with Finney is that he didn't preach
holiness.” What could be more ridiculous than these statements? Yet
these off-the-cuff remarks are indicative of the teaching these people got.
In both cases these men had not read the authors they were criticising
but they had been taught by others.

I recently read hysterical attacks upon Jessie Penn-Lewis

- Another upon Charles Finney. She was portrayed as a lunatic and he as
responsible for Christendom's present lukewarmness and false spirit.
Historically, Finney is known for his opposition to lukewarmness and
remains the greatest revivalist outside of the Bible; a man who personally
converted by his preaching, over a million souls (if you count up the
numbers in his memoir and those that came later.) Often these and other
spiritual writers are attacked on the basis of doctrine and the premise that
responsible and Biblical Christians must reject their terrible errors which
have been the cause of all evils we see today. They then go on to
misrepresent what they taught and how much God used them. This is why
we get believers saying the remarks already quoted. What their critics do
not tell you is their own motives.
Generally, it isn't because spiritual teachers were unbiblical or heretical
but because many 'worldly' Christians despise the thought of a deeply
spiritual life and do not believe in the reality of the power of the Holy
Spirit. To disguise this attitude they talk about theology etc. Just as Jesus
had controversies with Pharisees and Sadducees so any and every
spiritual person will have the same controversies.

The Great Controversy: Law or Gospel?

Consider these verses and see if they represent the teaching of
contemporary Christianity:

“(God) Who will render to everyone according to their

deeds: To those who by patient endurance in doing good
seek for glory, honour and immortality – eternal life: To
those that are rebellious and do not obey the truth, but
obey unrighteousness – indignation and wrath, tribulation
and despair – upon everyone’s soul that does evil; that of
the Jew first and also the Gentile. Yet, glory, honour and
peace to every man that works good, the Jew first and also
the Gentile.” [Romans 2:6 -10]

This opening argument relating to works and salvation precedes most of

what Paul has to say on being saved by grace through faith. It seems he
wanted to make it clear that the grace and faith he would go on to speak
of at greater length was that which fulfilled the Law rather than overthrew
it. That is, Paul the Apostle was by Calvin’s standards, a Pharisee unable
to see the truth about grace salvation. Yet, it was largely upon Paul’s
unfolding argument in Romans that Calvin based his theology.

There are other aspects of the above verse by the Apostle that are not
being believed and therefore not preached. Seeking immortality by good
works? Eventually rewarded with eternal life? Most Protestant believers
would argue that Paul is not talking about Justification, but simply the
effect of it: Good works being the proof of Justification. Taking that
position they never will preach on or satisfactorily explain what Paul
added just after these verses:

“It is not the hearers of the Law that are just before God but
the doers of the Law shall be Justified.”
[Romans 2:13]

He adds:

“…who reveal the work of the Law written on their hearts –

Their consciences also bearing witness as their thoughts
continue to accuse or excuse each other.” [Romans 2:15]

This Law as I said reflects the spiritual principles of holiness and

perception (“obeying the truth”) implicit in the works of Finney and Jessie
Penn-Lewis.

I said some of us see the Gospel as being about balance and of course this
is the very thing the Apostle Paul taught. What follows is not contradiction
but complimentary to the verses we have read.

“Therefore by the deeds of the Law shall no flesh be

Justified in His sight: Since by the Law is the knowledge of
Sin.” [Romans 3:20]

We read how the doers of the Law are Justified before God but here we
are told, as the logical argument unfolds, that none will be Justified on the
basis of “deeds of the Law”!

As a consequence of this Christianity split between those who believed

the first and those who believe the second. At least that is how they see
themselves. Catholics teach good deeds and Protestants (Who are almost
all Calvinists even if they don’t know it) ‘Faith Alone’.

Dualistic versus holistic thinking

Almost every believer and almost every person I have ever met thinks
dualsitically. Dualistic thinkers over the years have taken verses on a
subject in the Bible to combat other verses in the Bible they see as
arguing its opposite. Listening to believers debate over decades it almost
never occurs that they do not argue dualistically. They argue for works as
opposed to grace or grace as opposed to works. They argue for mercy as
opposed to judgement or judgement as opposed to mercy etc.

Holistic thinkers often see a subject as complimentary and see the

rainbow rather than the black and white situation. The Bible is entirely
holistic. Everything harmonises and ultimately makes perfect sense.
Holistic thinkers alone then can have balanced views on the Bible. Their
holistic thinking is an effect of the ‘renewal of the mind’ brought about by
the agency of the Holy Spirit: It is divinely inspired. Dualistic thinkers think
and act like chess players and medieval combatants at a jousting
tournament. They are of necessity adversarial.

The trouble is that these contradictions 'seen' in the Bible are man made.
One reason for the debate between faith and works is that historically the
Reformers overlooked an important discrimination of Paul's. In the verses
just quoted he talks of deeds of the Law. The deeds of the Law are those
deeds done under Law not under Grace; deeds which by their nature are
done in the flesh to fulfil outward requirements. They cannot Justify
anyone.

On the other hand we first looked at verses that speak of fulfilling the Law.
A person can only love their neighbour as themselves, as the Law says, if
they are full of faith and the Spirit. The great failure of Calvinism was not
to distinguish between carnal deeds of Law that don’t fulfil God’s spiritual
Law; and holy deeds of faith that fulfil spiritual Law. The first condemns
and the second saves. They do not and cannot believe this. That is they
cannot believe most of the verses we have just quoted. They use Paul to
overthrow Paul! They are adversarial dualists- fighting a duel over
doctrine!

Here is a very simple analogy describing the relationship between works

of faith and the act of faith. If works are like breathing the air is like faith.
You cannot breathe in the air without working your lungs. Working your
lungs without air will likewise leave you dead. Together however you have
life and both things are mutually beneficial and mutually fulfilling. They
are symbiotic, natural, holistic and true: Simple and clear. - Also believing
is an act!

Here is another very simple analogy. Consider the works that Calvinists
accept. Bible study is a work. Praying is a work. Church attendance is a
work. If a person becomes a believer and then they never read the Bible,
pray or go to church what happens to them? Isn’t it in doing these works
they are saved and in not doing them they are lost?

In reality Calvinists can’t say, “Paul preached Law and we reject it”, as
they take their verses on faith mainly from Paul. They cannot say, “Paul
got some things right and some things wrong”, as they like to maintain
the Bible is the Word of God. What they do is to find someone who takes
Paul’s side by having a balanced view and attack that balance as heresy.
The rejection of Paul’s Gospel (which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ
explained in doctrinal terms) is the rejection of Jesus Christ. In His stead
you have a Church that is lifeless, nominal, weak--- and will savage the
greatest revivalists and spiritual teachers! They live in a spiritual vacuum
and cannot breathe in the life giving Spirit of faith. In person they are
often aggressive and adversarial.

Calvinists reading this will have their alarm bells ringing and tingling down
their spines. Yet, how does Paul conclude the first part of his great
argument? In the strongest terms possible he states:
“Do we make the Law Void through faith? God forbid! Rather we
establish the Law.” [Romans 3:31]

Being saved by Grace

by God’s sovereign choice
Jesus said, ‘You didn’t choose me but I chose you.’ In other words if we
chose to believe it is because we are first chosen. The first effects the
second. Yet we still must make that choice and continue to make choices
for, not against God. Grace is that which renews the human mind and its
will and makes it God oriented and acceptable to Him. God is the First
Cause of all things and of necessity then is responsible for all things. His
power created all and is over all. We are then the emblems of grace and
the proof of the faith of Christ. We are an answered prayer of Jesus’. If you
do not realise it we exist as Jesus prayed for and got the answer to having
a kingdom filled with saints who will follow him....

How are we chosen and how does that election by God make us
Christians?
We are chosen after being called. Or you could say we are effectively
called, like sheep coming to their master’s voice. We are a work of Jesus-
a work of faith! His power made us believers. Experientially for us this
meant at a certain point we dedicated our lives to Him.

Why are not all called and chosen?

The Bible says, ‘Many are called but few are chosen.’ This means really
that the The Many or the All are called but only few are chosen.

What is the deciding factor

in who is chosen?
It is here that Calvinists and Arminians separate. Calvinists believe this is
a mystery we are simply to accept and Arminians believe we are chosen
on the basis of God’s allowing us to chose Him. You notice that contradicts
Jesus’ statement about being chosen by him. The deciding factor is this;
and I am getting this straight from Jesus: We are chosen by a principle of
love from Christ and this love is offered to all. So in fact everyone is
chosen. We need to distinguish between fact and effect. In effect few are
chosen but in fact all are chosen. A dualistic thinker will only see a
contradiction here. The answer is this that without active resistance to the
Holy Spirit all would be saved. The deciding factor is not Jesus choosing or
believers choosing but sinners not choosing. To break this down even
further those chosen for destruction are chosen on the basis of their free
will but those chosen for salvation are chosen on the basis of effective
grace or by Jesus’ choice!

All are meant to be saved. God is wiling and prepared to save all. God will
not save sinners against free will. If you think of this concept that is subtle
and obscure it will help you to understand the Bible when you read it- and
to understand sinners when you encounter them and their excuses
against God!

Charles Finney's 'Reflections on Revival' or 'Revival Fire' can be accessed

here:
http://gospeltruth.net/1845OE/letters_on_revival_index.htm

Jessie Penn-Lewis and Evan Roberts' 'War on the Saints' can be accessed
here:
Internet Archive: Free Download: War on the Saints - A Text Book for
believers on the work of deceiving spirits among the children of God - by
Mrs. Penn-Lewis & Evan Roberts - brought by Peter-John Parisis, founder of
The School of Prayer

Madame Jeanne Guyon's 'Justifications' can be accessed here:

Internet Archive: Free Download: The Justification by Madame Jeanne de la
Mothe Guion (Madame Guyon) - translated by Bryan Edwin Dean (Also
known as Peter-John Parisis) of Linden, Michigan, USA
 Chapter Eleven:
They Lied about Holiness

“Eagerly seek peace and holiness,

without which no one shall see the Lord.”
[Hebrews 12:14]

To live a holy life is the most wonderful life; a life that goes far beyond
what many can even imagine. Why do they mock it then as Phariseeism?
Is it not to undo the work of Christ in the Gospel? The above verse in
Hebrews is one of the most misquoted of the Bible as it is often
interpreted according to the gospel of Calvinism in which holiness is
legalistic. I.e. God sees us as holy even when we are not! Actually God
sees us as we are. Are we holy?

To be filled with the Holy Spirit

Is to be filled with the holiness of God.
John Wesley, Charles Finney and others have described holiness as
love to God which purifies the heart of Sin. Love to God becomes so
intense that it hates sin, avoids it, crucifies it and abandons it in favour of
what it loves; the holiness of Christ: Real, actual and true and not a
Calvinistic (modern Christian) fable. So, you see holiness is an intense
love to God that purifies the heart from sin by trusting in the
righteousness of Christ as a reality to be received by faith.

Sanctification
To be set apart from the crowd by God, whether the Christian crowd or
the world, for a life of holiness is to be 'sanctified'; that is set apart for
holiness.

“Yes! - all those who long to live godly in Christ Jesus shall be
persecuted”
[2Timothy 3:12]

The effects of holiness are many. One common to all the holy is to be
persecuted by other Christians. According to this verse all those believers
who are holy will be persecuted. It proves so in experience. All saints have
been persecuted including Jesus the “Man of sorrows acquainted with
bitterest grief” [Isaiah 53:3] ... Who was persecuted by the 'spiritual'
people of his day.
Some attributes of holiness
Another effect of holiness is love of all that is holy and hatred of evil. Also
there is grief over sin. There is broken heartedness over the lost. As a
consequence there are heartfelt prayers for the unsaved. Is this how the
Christians in your church or fellowship are? No they are not are they?
They cannot be filled with the Holy Spirit can they?

Baptised in lukewarmness
Many who say they are baptised in the Holy Spirit are lukewarm and
others are practising many of the sins condemned in the Bible. Baptism in
the Holy Spirit is primarily a baptism in the Life and Holiness of Christ by
the Power of the Holy Spirit who glorifies Christ. Have you noticed how
multitudes who say they are filled with the Spirit have little to nothing to
say of Jesus? Their supernatural baptism has led them to make a division
between Christ and what they believe is the Holy Spirit. They are drawn
away from Christ. They talk always of the Spirit and rarely of Jesus. In
other words we see a spirit of Antichrist at work. The real Holy Spirit
makes Jesus more real to the believer.

Abundant Life
“I came that they should have life and have it more abundantly.”
[John 10:10]

Those filled with holiness, because they are filled with the real Holy Spirit
also have the abundant life Jesus promised in the above verse. They know
peace, love, humility, joy and discernment as experience from within not
theory from the pulpit.

Warning
Without this holiness you will never 'see' the Lord. The New Testament is
full of holiness. Christ's disciples are full of holiness. Don't be fooled. Most
modern believers give up being 'Christians' sooner or later. It is a fact
(they will not tell you in church) that around 80% fall away! Yes, most of
those who have said, “I know I am saved. I know I am going to Heaven”,
have fallen away! They built upon the sand of modern Christianity and not
the Rock of Christ’s holiness. You can do this test. Ask those around you
how long they have been Christians. You will see that most of them have
been Christians one, two, five maybe even ten years. Where are all those
multitudes that were Christians in past decades? Those who live holy have
a tendency to remain however. Please read the New Testament with fresh
eyes and you will see that in God’s eyes Christianity and holiness or
spiritual reality are one. Only this Gospel, Christ's Gospel, causes His
disciples to persevere to the end. It is these who will 'see' the Lord.

Have you been cheated of the life

you were promised in the Bible?
Do they preach a wonderful view of the Christian life and do you have to
pretend to keep up with it? Is there a great gulf between what you aspire
to or think you should have and what you really experience? It is because
your gospel is all wrong. The Gospel of Jesus Christ does bring fulfilment.
It is an abundant life and the promises of God are not ideals but real
promises. If you have holiness you will love it. It is hard to come by; rarer
than gold encrusted with diamonds and overlaid with platinum beads….
Yet, it is free and easy to get if you follow the Maker’s instructions. The
Bible as I have said is full of holiness and holiness is Life.

Self Denial
Let me tell you why you do not have this abundant life of closeness to
Jesus. You have foolishly believed what you heard preached or read in
contemporary Christian books when you knew full well it never quite
matched up to the Bible. The very thing they are fleeing from is the very
thing you need to embrace. It is Self Denial. As the Self life is crucified
with Christ the life of the Spirit begins to flow out. Modern Christianity is
intrinsically selfish. Multitudes want power, wealth, healing, success and
few want holiness. In God’s eyes this means few want Him – they just
want what He can do for them. To escape this deadly snare you must read
the Bible afresh and you will see holiness everywhere.

All those things that were either neglected or explained away but never
explained are the very things you must take into your heart and mind. We
live in a generation of ‘believers’ who have been taught that holiness is
Phariseeism but that real Phariseeism is the freedom of grace. When they
say, 'We live in grace and are saved by faith', they really mean, 'We live in
lukewarmness and are saved by assumption.'

Why on earth is it then, that holy people like me get to see God and have
great answers to prayer? – Are full of peace and strength? All of the
strongest and most effective believers I have ever known have been holy.
If you say, “I don’t need to be holy as I am seen as holy because Jesus is
holy for me”, or something equally foolish you might as well go on to say,
“I don’t need to go to Heaven as God sees me in Heaven since Jesus has
gone to Heaven for me.” After all without holiness no one will ever see the
Lord.

Don’t cheat yourself. I am not saying believe me or read the Puritans. Just
read the Gospels without that usual Christian interpretation that goes, “If
Jesus said A He Means Z.”
 Chapter Twelve:
Experiencing the Peace of God

This is a simple guide on how to experience the peace of God.

Jesus said to his disciples in the Gospel of John,

“These things I have said to you so you may have peace. In

the world you will have trouble but be courageous – I have
conquered the world!” [John 16:33]

Peace is that deep yet creative stillness that comes upon the soul by the
power of God. I will tell you a secret however, that peace is a person and
that person is Jesus. Jesus does not simply give peace but He gives
Himself and it is His peace we know, as we know Him and to the measure
we know Him.

Imagine that you were a great supernatural being and you could give
peace to humans. Yet, would you give yourself? To be able to inhabit the
'heart' of another person is a great miracle indeed. Jesus comes to us not
as an invasive personality with a constant yaketty yak but as a divine
Presence within giving peace and power over evil.

The peace of Christ is also a power:

It resists the miseries of the world and overcomes them. The realistic
peace of Christ is not the peace preached by cults who think that if you
put your hand in a fire you will produce a clenched smile and say, “Praise
the Lord” to force yourself and others to believe you are spiritual. Christ's
peace is like a flowing stream of life. If you have sorrows they will have a
counter current in this stream of life from the Lord Jesus that gives peace
and joy and love. The peace of Christ does not deny or take away your
humanity or naturalness but rather empowers it and redefines it as
something victorious over the world, and that takes great power. To have
this peace, as I have said, is to have the Peaceful One.

Some problems you will likely encounter.

In seeking to establish this peace in your inner being or 'heart' you will
have to overcome many difficulties because the road to a successful
spiritual life is not instant like instant coffee or easily bought from a
televangelist. It takes time and discipleship. Yet, on the other hand
anyone who asks in faith for peace will have it but they will need to grow
in it as the spiritual life is life and is therefore ever growing.

One problem will be distractions by Christian teaching. Much

present teaching is based on presumption or false analogy or
pretence...
Churches are full of people who feel they should put on a good face and
often feel from pride that they should be seen as spiritual. As part of this
charade they teach rather than learn. What they teach is usually what
others have taught and sometimes, often, they are just pushing the latest
Christian fad or in teaching. Christian book stores too are full of such
books. So, when you see a book with a picture of a lightning bolt on the
cover saying, 'The Power of God' or 'Spirit of Peace' or whatever, you are
likely to have found fine sounding theories and emptiness.

Jesus said this,

“Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you and it is not as the world
gives, that I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled or be afraid.”
[John 14:27]

We see that whatever the world gives and however the world gives what
Jesus gives He gives better. He does not give what evaporates under
duress. Jesus does not give what costs money. Jesus does not take it back
or only give it to the in crowd. You need not climb a mountain top, wear a
long saffron robe and chant until that peace comes to you...

Jesus gives to ordinary people extraordinary peace. He does this

because He loves you. He gives Himself and in giving Himself you will feel
something of His peace, joy and love...

Other hindrances you will find within yourself but if you submit
them to Christ you will find they are just fuel for the fire and
eventually your inner light will glow brighter...

How do I know this for sure?

I am writing not as a theorist or as someone remembering what he has
been taught. I am simply writing about the Jesus I know and the peace I
feel. So, let me tell you a little more about the experiential side of things.
Peace from Jesus of the Bible is like an underground watering system for a
dry garden. The outside, the world, may be dry as a desert, but from
within rises up the moisture that continually waters the garden. This is an
analogy of course but it feels like that too. I really do, and you really can,
feel the Living Waters well up from within. When things happen that would
make 'normal' people go crazy or lose control I feel peace within myself
and often am not disturbed by things that others cannot handle. Yet, I will
be more honest than the pseudo spiritual teachers. I get a great deal of
stress. I have lots of issues to deal with. I know what it is to suffer and be
in a living nightmare. During the worst storms of life I feel peace within
me still. It never leaves. It does not mean I never cry. It means I am very
strong within myself, steady and enduring. I am also very, very grateful to
the Lord Who has saved me. What would I be without Him?

The following prayer should be read and prayed if you

feel you can. It is designed to help those who need
peace:

“Dear Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, I pray you will give me
the eternal peace of Jesus within my inmost being. I turn from
all things that displease You. Please forgive my wrongdoings. I
am Yours to command. I trust You will honour this prayer
prayed in Jesus' Name, Amen.”
 Chapter Thirteen:
The Art of Happiness:
A Christian's Response

His holiness the Dalai Lama and the American psychiatrist

Howard C. Cutler are a unique team known for their books on
happiness. This is my response to their book about happiness in a
troubled world.

My expectations, standpoint and impression:

I had expected spiritual philosophy but to me it was more like reading
sociology or social psychology. I wondered in past years why so little time
and effort has been given to teaching people how to be happy. I am glad
that the two authors have made a decent effort. I am concerned with the
spiritual side of things – or rather I see all things as spiritually connected
and so my comments will be both on the spiritual and the natural, which
to me is one. The authors, in conversation, spoke a lot on alienation,
disconnectedness, loneliness, lack of community, depression and put
forward advice to tackle these problems worldwide. If they seem utopian
and idealistic they are; but they do give practical guidance on combating
these social ills.

Summary of their book

It seems to me that the Dalai Lama has identified one of the greatest
problems facing humanity and attempted to put forward an alternative;
much like a doctor identifying a disease and offering treatment, if not a
complete cure. Being a Buddhist monk the Dalai Lama is yet practical in
his concerns and identification of life's problems. He sees that the world is
full of failing communities and misery caused by lack of human
connectedness and lives made drab due to lack of meaning. There is a
dehumanising of society. The causes are not analysed but the MD in
particular, Dr. Cutler, identifies problems such as lack of social interaction
and belief in society as community, and the Dalai Lama identifies lack of
awareness of our neighbour and lack of willingness to build bridges of
friendship and hope. This in turn is due to not seeing the benefits of
human interaction and strong community. Both put forward practical
suggestions and Dr. Cutler backs it up by quoting various studies by social
scientists...

Among their simple and practical suggestions is to think of the benefits of

health that come from better social interaction. These include such things
as better mental health, less depression: Better physical health, less
illness and greater life expectancy in those who are community beings.
They tell us of our need to join groups, to take the trouble to know our
neighbours and share in community life. Implicit is the idea, and ideal, of
making the world a far better place to live in and its inhabitants a far
happier and a more united race.

Some Observations
To me this philosophy is sound on the whole and has a strong note of
communality as opposed to typical western individualism. We are not to
be hyper individuals carving out our existence in a rat race but caring
members of a wider community concerned with the welfare of all... This is
actually far healthier, and as to the subject of their books, a far happier
alternative life style.

Some criticisms
These are not really serious criticisms in the sense of trying to tear them
down but some more cynical warnings or concerns. Hitler built his Nazi
Party on the promise of Folk or strong community identity. Often the poor
and oppressed rebel by forming strong social groups that seek revolution,
war, enslavement of others... Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution may be another
example. They were idealists who painted utopian pictures for the
masses. So, as with everything else we must be wary of how a good idea
or practice can, and will be abused by some.

Another criticism is that the studies quoted in their book tend to assume
that communities where there is greater social involvement have lower
rates of crime and depression; rather than seeing that in communities
filled with crime it is far harder for people to have successful social
interaction- It can be just too plain dangerous! These are the only
criticisms I want to make. Community is good when it is wholesome and
moral.

Love and community

Love is the greatest human emotion and the greatest human ideal. It is
also, perhaps the one most faked. Yet, on the other hand love is the most
practical expression of humanity, from the mother's natural love for her
newborn to the love of the saint for their God.

God is love. Therefore, in my humble opinion, a society filled with God, is

a society filled with love in its power, grace and enduring character. That
is what I aim at. It may be seen as more utopian but to me is more
realistic. It is the love I feel and practice. Therefore I know it can be felt
and practised and is successful. As has been said, talk of God is divisive:
Yet, it is divisive as people do not choose the love God offers. Talking of
God in faith is not intrinsically divisive, rather it is uniting: The greatest
uniting force in the universe is God’s love. This love is summed up in Jesus
Christ the Lord of all, Amen.

Revolution
I have met various revolutionaries and I was just as ready to dismiss them
as non revolutionary. This is because what they think of as revolution
would leave people themselves basically the same. A selfish society based
upon sin will always be corrupt no matter its religion, politics or
utopianism. On the other hand the very worst kind of social system that
experienced Christian revolution would inevitably become the very best.

It is always the inner nature of a thing that really defines it. Everything the
world offers is narrow and superficial and this is often covered up by use
of dramatic, overreaching jargon. Christians, or rather I should day those
Christ would see as His disciples, do not want to tinker with the world or
its social-economic systems but to recreate them in the Image of God. We
have also been promised in prophecy we shall be successful. We have
proven in our hearts and families that love is greater than anything the
world can offer. Wherever there have been true revivals of holiness, God’s
love has deeply affected communities, far more so than any revolution. In
microcosm these revived communities are like models for a better
form of human society.

Also societies in which it is the norm for people to be disciplined morally

and spiritually; to be generous; to receive divine healing; to banish evil
spirits; to care for the neediest in reality rather than on paper; to have
enduring peace and to advance in all knowledge and sciences rapidly; is
far more enduring, powerful and real than any revolution the world offers.

In the light of this, and it is light, the world offers alternatives that include
condemnation and misrepresentation of what is truly Christian. The truth
is portrayed as bigotry, sin, stupid evil, anti-scientific and irrational etc.
The world steals the truths of Christianity and perverts them. It denies its
proofs of which there are far more than any one would guess. This is
because we live in a world that has carefully rewritten history and
suppresses the hard core facts of spiritual truth and reality on a
daily basis to an unbelievable level.

Therefore, can you have either truth or happiness ruling in a world full of
evil people? No, but you can have revolution. I am the revolution. You are
the revolution inasmuch as you abide in Christ. We are the truth; God’s
evidence that is undeniable to honest minds. We live the Bible, breath out
its fires and tell its wonders in our lives… Christ is coming. Are you ready?

As for the Dalai Lama he believes that all religious people may practice
their own religion, whatever is most natural for them. For him it is better
to be a Buddhist for another it may be better to be Muslim or Hindu. I
think Jesus wants all to be Christians as he has seen Buddha and
Mohammed and all the so called gods or spirits behind them. He knows it
all, knows what the truth is and says, 'Repent and believe in the Good
News!'

Who has the Holy Spirit of God living within them? Is it not those who love
and exalt Jesus their Saviour?
 Chapter Fourteen:
How to Receive the Power of the Spirit

“You shall receive power by the Holy Spirit coming upon you
and you will be My witnesses in both Jerusalem and in all Judea,
and in Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” [Acts 1:8]

“Look! - I send the Promise of my Father on you, but tarry in

the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on
high.” [Luke 24:49]

I am concerned with what this power is and how to receive it. I am not
going to invent rules to follow as if these could be deduced from Scripture.
It is true that in the verse from Luke the Holy Spirit came upon the
disciples after Jesus had risen from the dead but He still told them to wait
for power from Heaven. This was because the outpouring of the Spirit on
the day of Pentecost was yet to come -after the ascension. In a very real
sense the Holy Spirit was sent as the replacement for the once physically
present Christ who was now in Heaven. It is also true that the power
spoken of in the verse from Acts primarily concerned power to witness
effectively to the Gospel.

This power in my experience

We considered the Dalai Lama’s teaching on happiness and social
interaction. I said I found the basic idea sound – the social element. I also
believe in something far more powerful than good social organisation -the
power of Christ. Here I describe how applying this Christian belief affects a
social group.

I had prayed for a church to be more effective. I noticed that afterwards

the numbers of visitors and Christians increased dramatically. In the youth
group specifically the numbers of conversions rose sharply. In other words
the Gospel is a spiritual power that produces a social phenomenon. It does
bring happiness and peace to many and how they relate to each other
afterward is thereby changed forever.

Secondly I noticed that the nature of the fellowship within the church
became more spiritual. People felt the Presence of God more and worship
was more spontaneous and heartfelt.

Thirdly I found this phenomenon could be repeated from church to church.

Fourthly I found that the outpouring of the Spirit was misunderstood in

Calvinistic terms, as an experience sent by God for them to enjoy, rather
than as a call to greater faith and holiness. As a result the outpourings
would cease after a period of months.

Finally and less importantly it was generally recognised by the believers

that these were works of the Spirit because of the dramatic change and
upsurge in numbers and the spiritual quality. No one took these things to
be man made and they did not come from efforts to get up revivals. They
were a sovereign work –Yet a work or call that required a response. This
element was not taught from the pulpits. It was all grace but grace offered
and acted upon means more grace is offered! This principal was missed. It
is like feeding hungry children or teaching students who want to learn… It
implies there could have been more and more growth.

When success is a failure

In these prayers I had guidance from God and understood that things
would turn out pretty much as they did. To me these great answers to
prayer were also great failures as the churches concerned, as I said,
seemed not to know what to do in response to God's call. I put this down
to the Lazy Grace attitude prevalent in churches. They did not see that
these small scale revivals were just a demonstration and foretaste from
God and He was waiting for a response. If the proper response had been
given the revivals would have deepened, expanded and surpassed
whatever they could have imagined. However this was not possible as
their hearts and minds were so indisposed to the realities of the spiritual
life that it was inevitable these revivals would be shallow and short lived –
what they saw as Mysterious Grace.

Inner reality related to outer effect

– by grace
All of these small scale revivals came as a surprise to the believers. They
were no more expected than thunderstorms in summer. I felt a deep
connection between the reality of the power of the Spirit within and the
natural effect of it without. In other words I saw my reality impose itself
upon the greater world, and Christian world, by faith and realised that
whatever God had put within me was inevitably affecting the sphere in
which I moved. The Lord’s happiness was becoming their happiness as
God’s sovereign grace and power were understood and I responded in the
right way. This presumption of mine was really faith and the faith was
God’s gift, so it was all of grace.

Almost as an affront to rationalism I could trace the power of faith in my

mind and then upon the community. I suppose it is comparable to being a
lightning rod but not the Lightning. I want to stress this, the knowing, the
intelligence of it. God keeps certain things in balance and in tension, like a
bow and arrow. The very real social and spiritual movement was simply
the arrow hitting its target. Even very specifically I'd say and sense things
that were to be, as I had been led, as I had prayed etcetera. I said once to
a pastor, “The meeting will be slow but toward the end you will see God's
power at work.” This is just what happened: Or I'd tell a brother, “You will
see an outpouring of the Spirit upon the assembly.”

There are very many effects of the power of the Spirit and very
many gifts in the Bible related to God's Power. In relation to the
verses quoted I am confining this small chapter to revival power.

Success for Ministers

Here I mean those who serve or minister, whatever they may be called. In
the first of these small scale revivals a tiny youth fellowship became the
biggest and most successful in the capital city. It became the template for
many other youth fellowships in the country. It was central then to the
Christian youth culture and very influential. It carried with it its own
momentum and gave to its participants in leadership, opportunities to
prove themselves and build their reputations. This is not necessarily a bad
thing if they are pure in motive. It’s good to know who God really uses.
The point I am making is that today many youth workers or evangelists
and pastors follow formulaic plans related to leadership training or use of
media... without a real understanding of the primary role of the Holy Spirit
these methods ultimately fail or are an unspiritual success.

How to Receive this Power to Influence the Masses - Christian and

Pagan.
A single prayer is all that is needed to have revival. Just as a single bolt of
lightning is all that is needed to start a forest fire. This does not mean
necessarily that the one reading this may pray one prayer and have
revival. It means that a person who has this power needs but to pray and
see it fulfilled outwardly, as it was designed by God to be. So, the person
praying needs to be empowered. Their faith has to have a depth of truth
and God-earnestness lacking in churches today. Then a single prayer can
begin a revival.

If we are to use a rather poor and basic analogy: Consider a believer is

like a battery and the power of God like the charge. A 12 volt battery will
only carry 12 volts. A million volt battery will carry a million volts. In other
words the believer needs the capacity to receive power, which is freely
given by God. It is primarily the holy heart that can be filled with holy
power from the Holy Spirit.

Once again we are driven back to the evangelical truth of the

Bible that there is indeed a connection between personal holiness
and blessing from God.
Before the carnal screamers cry out, “That is performance based
religion!” let me say it is effective performance religion. That's what we
are talking about; being effective witnesses, effective revivalists by God's
power.

A heart stretched by God, emptied of Self, broadened by love has

the capacity to receive what narrow, hard and carnal hearts
cannot. It has the capacity to believe what they cannot.

The simple answer is this:

To have power become a true saint.
That is repent deeply, according to the light God gives, believe it fully.
Practice it openly. Honour the Light completely. The more light acted
upon is the more light received and this in turn is acted upon ad infinitum.
It is discipleship. The growing Christian is the effective Christian. It is God
causing you to do and will according to His good pleasure. The desire to
act is simply the inspiration.

Receive by faith – not indifference

This advice is often given before the guidance about working on your own
heart in the light of the Holy Spirit. Faith is believing the light you have. By
standing steady in faith the light within shines in the darkness without...

A total lack of doing is reflective of total apathy. Apathy is not grace.

Often these terms are abused so that when people say, “It is not by works
but by grace”, What they really mean is, “It is not by obedience but by its
absence; not by inspiration but by indifference; not by drawing close to
God but by resisting Him; not by grace but by its rejection.” Similarly
when they say, “That is Popish works and Phariseeism”, they mean, if
they could but be honest with themselves, “Holiness of life is dead
religion.” Yet, of their own lack of Christ likeness they say, “God knows
we are but human and accepts us just as we are.” If you understand them
you know that they stand for the overthrow of the Gospel and a state of
perpetual, church going sin as a state of grace: Since they neither believe,
practise nor understand a life of holiness. It is the gospel of lukewarmness
that they ferociously propagate, time and again denouncing true and
powerful saints as heretics, based simply upon misbegotten dogma and
their own defective spirit.

Of these hypocrites were the very people who crucified Christ and are
doing so still in a spiritual sense. They know in their experience that God
sends them no revival, they are not filled with His Spirit, they lack power
over sin and in prayer, and yet they see this as a divine mystery for which
they cannot question God. However God will exact answers from them on
Judgement Day as this religion has been the basis for turning multitudes
away from the true Way and into the darkness of Hell. It is the
underpinning theological philosophy of the present Laodicean age that
leaves multitudes unsaved who could easily be with a proper preaching of
the true Gospel.

Consecration
Consecration to faith in Jesus to send the power of the Spirit implies
rejection of the life of lukewarmness. That is a rejection of the common
gospel preached to multitudes in favour of the Gospel of Discipleship.
Consecrating yourself to Christ to serve Him in the Holy Spirit cuts you off,
dramatically, from the carnal believers that fill churches in their
multitudes. You will suddenly find you are walking a different path,
another Way. On this way the Holy Spirit will show you many sins, wrong
attitudes and beliefs that He hates. You will in turn reject them, and adopt
His Mind. It is then you are ready to believe and receive power.

Receiving power
No Christian is a carbon copy of another. Whatever God does it will be
different in you than in your neighbour. Having said that, just as all faces
are the same yet different, so the basic principles of God's work are the
same. God will empower you in spirit to operate your gifts successfully
and to have an impact in prayer and in person on those whom you meet.

A warning
There is so much taught on this subject today that you are bound to have,
and to get wrong ideas. This is one reason why I kept this chapter narrow
in scope, to focus on what's important. You need not have ecstatic or
dramatic experiences to receive power. Often it is unfelt but seen in its
effects. It is very much the modus operandi of the real Christian: Both in
terms of their usefulness to God but also in terms of their deep
connection to reality itself.

False teaching on the Spirit has the opposite effect on its practitioners.
They have many big words and unsubstantiated claims and live in a
dream world or a nightmare world if you really understand it for what it is.
I would spare you that if I could. It is not a state of mental passivity, this
state of power with God. It is a state of mental activity, of alertness in
spirit and in truth. As I said earlier it is a knowing intelligence. So many
see this as a threat as they want you to have uncritical acceptance of
their wishy-washy, overemotional, hyper-spirituality...

Always stay focused on Christ

I am going to tell you a simple truth rejected by multitudes of Christians:

The reception of power from the Holy Spirit

makes Jesus more real.

That is rejected. Everywhere people are talking as if the Holy Spirit grows
while Jesus shrinks. In some circles Jesus is hardly mentioned at all!
Whatever detracts from Christ is by its nature Antichrist. No matter how
spiritual the language, be sure to reject and totally reject, whatever does
not put the centrality of Christ and His Cross as your life. Some of you
reading this, I'm sure, will go on to receive power when the Holy Spirit has
come upon you. Just as I was sure that God would pour our His Spirit on
those churches.
 Chapter Fifteen:
Praying in Spirit and in Truth

Jesus said to him, “If you are able to believe - All things are
possible to those believing.” [Mark 9:32]

Faith and its scope

The nature of faith is such that prayers prayed in faith, purely, humbly and
according to God's will, will not only gain effective answers but will grow in
scope and power until the person praying becomes, inevitably, the most
powerful person on earth. Faith unchecked would conquer the universe.
That is the scope of prayer. I am not concerned with what praying people
call realistic answers to prayer as these often are no answers at all.
Neither am I concerned with the great saints of God and their great
answers to prayer as I believe the Church should surpass them. I am
concerned with the limitless degree of power available to the believers
who pray in the will of God. This is not to be fantastic or dreamlike. It is a
fact that there are, and will be answers to prayer equal to and beyond
those recorded in Scripture. First let me discuss the supposed lack of
realism in the above statements.

Books and stories about answers to prayer are usually limited to such
things as praying for healing, revival or mass conversions to Christ;
success in business and relationships, church building etcetera. Answers
to these things are recorded but there are also claims made and books
written regarding spurious, fictional and one sided accounts of spiritual
power and answers to prayer put about by the unscrupulous. The net
effect of these second types of teachings is to encourage unbelief, as
those who practise their teachings find they don't work and often give up
trying. That is the real and underlying purpose after all.

Here is an example of an answered prayer that goes beyond what

is normally considered even as a topic of prayer in most Christian
circles.
Here is the background to the answer to prayer. Two young men were
discussing faith and the Christian life. One said, “God doesn't expect too
much of us. It's not as if He expects us to fly to the moon.”
The other agreed and would even use the same analogy for what is not
realistic in faith. “God asks us to pray according to His will. It's not His will
for us to fly to the moon!”
Charles Finney the American evangelist said something similar when
speaking of the life of holiness God expects us to lead. He taught that God
does not expect us to live as Angels.
The second young man a few years down the line felt the presence of
Christ in prayer and it was as if the Lord almost spoke to him. He felt that
Jesus would give him a great answer to prayer, even with his limited faith.
He blurted out, “I want to stand upon the moon!”
He sensed in spirit the Lord laugh. The Lord had, had something else in
mind when He inspired him with a unique faith. However he felt his spirit
lift up and stand upon the surface of the moon. He understood that the
Lord himself was giving a commentary on his former teaching about the
limit of faith. God's reply was in effect, as Scripture says, “Nothing shall be
impossible to God.”

This taught the young man that he should not say it is not God's will for
this or that great thing to happen as it is unrealistic. Rather He should say,
“God does as He wills and whatever you can believe He can do far more.”

This is what the young man felt and saw as for a minute or two,
with his fleshly eyes closed, his spirit stood upon the moon.
He saw the brightness of the stars above without clouds hindering the
view; they were sharper, brighter... He felt the ancient nature of the moon
rock. He saw the earth in the distance and it seemed smaller than he
would expect. He sensed that in the future many would leave their
footsteps upon the moon. He could not see clearly. It was like looking at a
reflection in a glass. It passed. He then prayed according to the will of God
for the thing the Lord had originally wanted him to pray.

Let us think of the realism

Versus the surrealism
of this answer to prayer
Most Christians probably would state that though they agree the Bible
teaches, “...Ask and it shall be done for you” [John 15:7] It is expected
the scope of these things to be within traditional, evangelical concerns.
Another criticism would concern the pointlessness of such an experience.
This is failing to see it as a comment by God upon limiting faith and His
fulfilling, on a spiritual plane, the very thing the young men had
considered impossible. The faith to pray such a prayer was itself a gift.
The Lord's felt response of laughter did not equate with “No!”

Another criticism would be the weakness of the answer. The young man
did not physically stand upon the moon, or fly to the moon, even if his
spirit was literally present there. Also he did not see things as clearly as
he would have in the flesh. However, this response neglects to
acknowledge the spiritual abilities of sensing the nature of things around
him and even sensing the future, as he was both in spirit and in the Spirit.

Another criticism, perhaps a more serious one is that there is no claim to

the Lord actually speaking. The young man sensed and felt things in his
spirit, in some detail, but he did not hear, see or touch materially the Lord.
Another criticism is relevance. How is this real to other Christians? Are we
now expected to ask to travel to Mars and Jupiter in spirit? -And what for?
The relevance is that it is like a parable for teaching we should not
prescribe God's activity. Also it tells us about the nature of life in the spirit
– how spiritual believers sense, feel and know things by God’s inspiration
and Presence. Finally of course it is an example used to open minds and
hearts to God's limitless power; and the poor human response of tending
to limit God.

To mainline Christians; those dogma bound; to those unable or unwilling

to accept the spiritual realities of the Bible in experience; the prayer and
its answer are purely sci-fi fantasy that would have a debilitating effect
upon believers that follow this course. To those who have some first hand
experience of sensing God's very real Presence and especially to those
advanced in the Christian life in both spiritual knowledge and experience,
it will definitely remind them of some of their very own experiences of
being in spirit before the Presence of the Lord. In other words the most
spiritual Christians will believe it!

We have a very potent symbol of a representative of Christ

standing upon the moon and looking upon the planet Earth.
Yet, what is its real purpose? Is it not a call, an evangelical call at that, to
believers to exercise similar faith? - To do with that faith whatever God
wills, whether it is healing the ozone layer, raising the dead or simply
being a being of true and deep kindness?

Here is an even greater answer to prayer;

or for many a greater example of vain imagination
A believer wanted to see the Lord Jesus. He was thinking of seeing His
Spirit. He had wanted to seek the Lord. - A practise common to praying
Christians; believing Christians. For three weeks he prayed on his knees.
After three weeks Jesus did appear. This is what happened:

Seeing Jesus the Lord

Unlike the above answer to prayer in which the Lord Jesus was manifest as
a felt Presence this time He was seen in Person, in Spirit. While the
believer was in prayer Jesus appeared and stood in the doorway.
Interestingly, He did not enter the room. When the believer realised the
Lord was so humble He would not enter without an invitation the Christian
asked the Lord to come in. For some time the Christian then prayed
before the Lord.

This was also a strong/weak experience as Jesus did not speak but
listened. What would it take for a believer to have a conversation with
Christ? Yet the answer to his prayer was very strong. The Christian knew
by first hand experience the manner and features of Jesus. Also the Lord
stayed for several minutes, close to half an hour. As a matter of degree
this answer to prayer, in experience and in fact was stronger, purer and
greater than that of being upon the moon in spirit.
These are the only two answers to prayer I am discussing here as this
chapter is simply an introduction to power in prayer for spiritually inclined
believers. I hope I have opened the door by a crack to the wonder, the
grace, the power and goodness of the Lord in Spirit and prayer to
believers.
 Chapter Sixteen:
Deliverance Ministries:
their Tragedies and Their Triumphs

This is a short review of some types of Christian Deliverance

ministries. It is based on those I have come across and read of
over a number of years. I draw my own conclusions. Before we
continue into our subject it would be a good idea to consider
language, terms and concepts.

Deliverance ministry or minister

There may be different terms to describe this but Deliverance Ministry
concerns exorcism of evil spirits from persons or places by Christian
ministers and lay people.

Demon possession
The control by evil spirits of the whole of a person. This includes control of
the body, mind and soul.

Demonic oppression
As distinct from possession, oppression is an evil influence or attack upon
body or soul by spirits.

Casting out demons

Implies the casting out from inside a person the evil spirits that have
possessed them.

In the Name of Jesus

Implies faith in the full authority of Jesus Christ, Son of God over all forces
of evil. Christian ministers use the name of Jesus to cast out evil spirits.

Legal ground
The concept that God's Spiritual Law by which He governs the universe is
binding upon all creatures. Demons gain control over believers and others
by legal ground. That is by use of deception or intimidation or temptation,
causing a person to 'open a door' to the evil spirits, either knowingly or
more likely unknowingly. In this sense evil spirits have used God's
Spiritual Law to gain access, as God regards those who give legal ground
as giving permission to evil spirits to work.

The Power of the Cross

and the Blood of Jesus
It was through the Cross that Jesus personally defeated Satan and by
shedding His blood that He provided the means of deliverance. This is all
related to God's Law but it means in practise that deliverance can come
specifically by faith in the Cross or the Blood of Jesus. The Blood of Jesus
cleanses us from sin (legal ground) and the Power of the Cross is applied
by the Holy Spirit against the Powers of Darkness.

The Powers of Darkness

Primarily Satan and his fallen angels, as well as demons but it can also
include those who use dark arts or evil spirits; such as Satanists, occultists
and so on. I will explain any other terms I use. This is only a brief
introduction to the subject.

Types of deliverance ministries

Today evangelical Christians in various denominations would have gained
ideas of Deliverance Ministry mainly from Charismatic or Pentecostal
sources, including literature. Before considering these let's consider more
traditional deliverance ministers. Many more traditional types of Christians
know of Deliverance Ministry under different names.

Catholic Exorcists
The Catholic Church does have some ministers trained in performing
exorcisms. In the Catholic Church there are set prayers and rituals that
are gone through in cases of demon possession or other types of demonic
activity where exorcism is required. Today there is also training in the
areas of counselling and psychiatry and priests are trained to forward
people with mental problems, who believe they are possessed, to qualified
professionals. In practice it is very difficult to cast out evil spirits. Success
is measured by the change that comes over the person being delivered or
exorcised. The Catholic Church is failing to identify and free captives.
Where there are earnest exorcisms the success rate varies according to
God's free grace offered to all who pray and believe. In fact before going
on I should say, contrary to conventional wisdom, that God often frees
captives from pure kindness. As God indeed gives many blessings to
people in the hope they will repent. Because of this principal of God's
undeserved help and kindness, exorcists in other religions are sometimes
successful and generally exorcists who invoke the Name of Christ have
some measure of blessing from God.

Anglican exorcists
The Church of England also has minsters that are trained in deliverance.
These few priests within Anglicanism that practice deliverance ministry
are usually evangelicals. They too read prayers and sing hymns as well as
using set rituals and language. Some of these ministers have been very
successful. This is due to a lot of sound teaching in the area of
shepherding congregations and following the basics of faith in Christ and
His power over evil. They tend to reject as bizarre and purely frictional the
kind of phenomena often depicted in Charismatic 'personal testimony'
books. This caution is legitimate but they are also unaware, as almost all
deliverance ministers are, of many of Satan's works.
Pentecostal and Charismatic
deliverance ministers
How they conduct deliverance is based upon their religious culture;
according to its assumptions and prejudices. They tend to be more hyper-
active and have many rules and beliefs that in no way reflect reality,
spiritual or otherwise. For example many have a cultural belief that
Christians who have a demon will 'manifest' it, often by writhing as a
snake upon the floor. People who believe they have a demon tend to do
this. The minsters then shout; shouting is seen as being authoritative,
something like, “We cast you out in Jesus Name!” This may be, and
usually is, said over and over again. After a while the person delivered
gets up off the floor to the praise of all. Often speaking in tongues,
supposedly a spiritual language from God is used in deliverance as well as
prophecy and other gifts.

The tragedy of all this is that the whole spectacle is itself a delusion from
beginning to end. Much of it is psychological. Much is psychogenic in
terms of manifesting symptoms of possession and deliverance by the
power of the mind. The apparent remedy is normally psychogenic as they
believe they feel, and they feel as they believe.

There have been cases in history where demons caused people to writhe
as a snake but generally this is not a symptom of most demon possession.
Another tragedy is that there are many signs of demon possession and
oppression that are seen as real manifestations of God's Spirit by
practising Pentecostals. Among these are confusion, passivity,
paranoia, censoriousness, super-spirituality or religious pride,
sexual immorality, petty blasphemies, strange illnesses,
madness, hatred of holiness and the holy...

These are disguised, excused and justified variously as righteous

indignation, grace (i.e. “God knows we're only human”), freedom of the
Spirit, anointing, natural etcetera. To go further into the subject I'd need
to write a book on deliverance alone but for now I will give you one or two
real examples of Christian exorcism.

A spiritualist's demon cast out

A young friend of mine complained that a spiritualist neighbour had been
causing trouble for Christians and that they felt oppressed and believed
an evil spirit was at work connected to the spiritualist. I prayed against
the antichristian spiritualist and her demon. Into the room where I was
praying an old woman entered. I could see her clearly but I could also see
through her. She walked toward me with an evil sneer upon her face. I
realised that she did not know I could see her. Behind her a great pit
opened up in the floor. As I turned my head toward her she realised I
could see her and as I commanded her to depart into the pit in Jesus'
Name, she screamed in terror, fell back into the pit and it closed.
I am not going to defend, justify or explain this exorcism. It was after all,
engineered by God. It was not what I had read or been taught. It was just
reality. Few know it as fact. The demonic oppression of my Christian
friends ceased.

The demons' ultimate terror

I have often not followed the rules in Christian books about casting out
demons. Once I came up against an evil spirit and I said, “I command you
in Jesus' Name to appear before the Father in Heaven and He will tell you
what to do!”
I learnt from this that they fear going before God more than they do going
down to the Pit. The evil spirit rose up to God in great terror.

“Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out
demons. Freely you have received, freely give.”
[Matthew 10:8]
 Chapter Seventeen:
Slain in the Spirit

Among the several gifts used by the Charismatic and Pentecostal

movements there is one called 'Slain in the Spirit.' This small
chapter describes this gift as it is experienced and used.

Biblical basis
The expression 'Slain in the Spirit' is not in the Bible. The description of
the experience is not in the Bible. The Biblical basis for the gift, according
to Charismatic teachers, is when various saints and Prophets have lain
prostrate before God or His Angels, often overcome with fear or awe. They
are always lucid and their response to the revelation of God is always
intelligent and meaningful. The description of the experience of Daniel the
Prophet comes closest to the Charismatic understanding of being slain in
the Spirit.

“I, Daniel, alone saw the vision as the men who were with me
did not see the vision. Yet, great trembling fell upon them so
that they fled and hid themselves.
Then I was left alone and saw this great vision but there
remained no strength in me. For my greatness was turned within
me into nothing, and I lost my strength.
Yet I heard the sound of his words and when I heard the sound
of his words I was upon my face, stunned, with my face toward
the ground.
Look! - A hand touched me and set me, shaking, upon my knees
and the palms of my hands.
He said to me, ‘Oh Daniel, a man greatly loved, comprehend the
words that I speak to you and stand up. For I have been sent to
you.’ When he had spoken this word to me I stood, trembling.”
[Daniel 10:7-11]

The Vision of the Angel continues for the remaining chapters of Daniel. As
Daniel fell upon his face in fear and his strength gone this is seen as a
proof text, by Charismatics, of the gift of being slain in the Spirit; since in
that gift believers fall down and lose their strength. They lose their motor
skills and often their power of speech and lull about like rag dolls... Unlike
Daniel, however these believers could not hold a lucid conversation or
take in detailed information. Also Daniel did not lose his motor skills or
become as a rag doll. He could control his body and movements and his
mind. Also unlike Daniel, Charismatic and Pentecostal believers do not
talk to great, holy Angels or have great revelations of truth that are
calculated to make someone full of terror and awe. In fact apart from a
partial and superficial similarity, in most aspects the experience of Daniel
differs greatly from the experience of people being slain in the Spirit.

The historical basis

It is on record that in revivals that took place under Jonathan Edwards,
John Wesley and Charles Finney it was common for large numbers of
people to fall down under the power of God. In the writings of these great
evangelical preachers however we have very clear descriptions of these
events and in the case of Charles Finney in particular descriptions of deep
convictions of sin coming upon the consciences of sinners so that they
were overcome, often crying out, “Lord have mercy upon me, a sinner!”

When Finney's revival practices were criticised in his day he defended the
revivals by saying that if God convicted sinners of the greatest truths, and
these were applied to their hearts and consciences in great power by the
Holy Spirit it was not unusual or unnatural for them to have a
corresponding emotional response. He pointed out that the shock of a
sinner's realisation that they might be going to Hell was good enough
reason for them to cry in fear or to fall down in anguish. He further added
that often, as they gave their hearts to Christ they would rise up praising
God with great joy...

This is so strikingly different to the Charismatic 'slain in the Spirit'

experience as to be obviously a different experience altogether. The use
of these historical revivals as justification for the 'slain in the Spirit'
phenomena smacks of desperation.

Loss of ability to function as a normal human being, resembling

drunkenness, or partial anaesthesia is not an experience of
revelation of truth from God that has a strong response from the
believer.

The experiential basis

In Charismatic and Pentecostal assemblies the experience of being slain
in the Spirit often and usually happens after people have been praising
God, repetitively, when they begin to feel closer to the Lord. The
experience seems timed in other words to happen at the crescendo of the
meeting. As a result these undiscerning believers assume it is the work of
God. It seems to them that as worship becomes more intense and
spiritual there is an out flowing of this gift.

Timing
Here is another interpretation for this timing aspect of the gift in
experience. It is true that as believers feel more adoration to God this gift
strikes. This can be observed time and again. The real reason is to fool
them into thinking it is of God and secondly the timing is to stop them
from getting too close to God and praying intelligently to Him. They are
turned into zombies! Often just at the point a believer feels they are
opening up to God and ready to exercise greater faith they are suddenly
zombified!

Slain in the Spirit in other religions

Whereas this gift is not found in the Bible or in great revivals of the past it
is found abundantly in all kinds of Spiritist cults. Whether it is Native
American spirit worship or Pagan Ritual; falling down in a state of mental
and bodily passivity is common coinage of these religions.

Other aspects of the gift

It is very common for there to be other aspects of the gift when the
person has fallen down. These include strange body movements, jerking,
shaking, laughing and screaming. Also sexual arousal, confusion, feelings
of embarrassment, feelings of spiritual pride...

Techniques used
to get people slain in the Spirit
It is well known that repetitive singing of the same choruses over and
over again induces a form of euphoria and this is useful to Charismatic
and Pentecostal evangelists and pastors. Standard stage hypnotics and
especially suggestion is used. Also, teaching them to open up to the
experience by blind faith and with a passive mind.

Denials of negative aspects

I read a post from a female Pentecostal pastor who said that in over
twenty years of ministry she had not come across anyone injured by
being slain in the Spirit and she thought this was not possible. However
this post was put on a forum after several pages of posts and dozens of
Christians talking about how they were injured by being slain in the Spirit!
There have even been some court cases. Since this pastor could not
acknowledge what others were saying how reliable was her testimony
about her decades of ministry? Where it is acknowledged to be a problem
a glib dismissal follows that in such cases they can't have been in the
Spirit!

The correct name for being slain in the Spirit:

Temporary Sudden Spirit Anaesthesia
Or: Sat-anaesthetic
This is the correct term. This is what really happens. Undiscerning
Christians and many who simply believe they are Christians without ever
having been spiritually born of God, who are badly taught, poorly
instructed and misinformed are invited to practice the very means
Spiritists use to get entrance of spirits into their bodies: Spiritists often
open up blindly to the supernatural, regardless of whether they believe it
is angels, demons, God, good spirits; spirits of what or whoever.
Charismatics and Pentecostals take a stance of being immune to
deception and possession in this matter and that the Christian orthodoxy
of being slain in the Spirit is settled. They might as well claim to be
immune to temptation or sin.

Conditions for the use of Sat-anaesthetic

Another fundamental condition apart from euphoria induced by repetition
and mental passivity as well as stage hypnotics; is to have low,
unchristian, moral and spiritual standards. The various aspects of the
false gift and its effects are consistent with Paganism and Spiritism but
not with Biblical Christianity in either its moral of experiential aspects. Did
Jesus and His Apostles fall down as rag dolls losing control of themselves
and making a spectacle of themselves as being just like the Pagans they
were trying to convert?

Resisting the Holy Spirit

The real Holy Spirit continually witnesses against this gift. He has also
sent many teachers and many good books, which the churches that
practise the gift have ignored, while suppressing the liberating
information within them. (What I have written here they know but have
rejected it and will not inform new converts...)

Lack of love
The concerns raised over Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement
have been many and genuine but have been dismissed on the grounds
that they are too spiritually superior to accept correction from those they
see as opposed to the Holy Spirit. Spiritual pride and vindictiveness often
come from this lack of love too.

A new religion
Those who base their religion, even if they say, “I'm not religious I'm a
Christian”, upon false gifts and experiences rather than upon Jesus Christ
and His Word are practising a new religion. It is an experience based
religion which puts faith in what they believe is the Holy Spirit but as we
have seen is spiritual deception involving false teachers and demons.
Some of them to be sure have some measure of faith and some measure
of truth. No Charismatic or Pentecostal knows just how many of their
fellows have never really been born again!

Cure for the disease

The cure is Christ. He can de-baptise you from what you thought was the
Spirit and baptise you into the Spirit of Truth. You may adopt the old
religion of Biblical Christianity. It is far better and you will inevitability feel
it to be so. You can read about it in the Bible. All those things there that
have been explained away or neglected are really true! Will you leave the
Church of Babylon and join the Church of Christ?
 Chapter Eighteen:
Satan and His Secrets

This is a brief introduction to some of the things Satan does not want you
to know. It is not an exhaustive investigation or a treatise but rather a
tasty morsel of information that will appeal most to those who already
have some firsthand knowledge of Satan and his activities...

Demon possession and psychiatry

In the 1800's as the new social/medical science of psychiatry was being
developed the underlying liberal philosophy was both anti-spiritual and
deeply antichristian, as with the other liberal, pagan pseudo sciences. At
that time and until today psychiatry tended to dismiss everything it could
not explain. Yet rather than dealing with the ‘possessed’ or issue of
possession they would divert and they would conveniently explain in
psychogenic terms only those illnesses that were easily seen to be mental
illness. For example they would not speak of patients that accurately
predicted the future or of appearances of spirits or the levitation of
objects and other aspects of demon activity. They would, and do
purposely relate only those things that they can easily explain and treat
the rest as if it does not exist, even when they find it. Occasionally
something gets through the net but even then it is simply labeled as if the
labeling is itself an explanation. So, in the case of a young, uneducated
peasant girl that suddenly received the ability to speak knowledgeably of
the world and its history in fluent Latin; she was labeled as suffering from
Multiple Personality Syndrome.

In the battle between the psychiatrists and the missionaries that gave to
the world examples of verified demon possession; the missionaries clearly
won the debate. However, the world does not listen to missionaries - and
their works, largely out of print are buried in history: We have the
pretensions of psychiatry.
See:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3027319/-Rev-John-L-Nevius-Demon-
Possession-And-Allied-Themes-

A modern case of demon possession

It was related to me by two honest and reliable relatives that they, and
several other people, saw a young woman who would sometimes have an
evil green face materialise over her own face. They found it terrifying. It
was something the girl had lived with all her life. The interesting thing
about this 'illness' is that there were several witnesses and the event
happened several times, often with different witnesses. Some of these
witnesses were rationalists and atheists. I had witnessed a similar thing
happen to another young woman. In journals of psychiatry you will not
find such 'cases' involving seen spiritual phenomena as it is not easy for
them to label a small community of diverse people as schizophrenic.

This example is simply given to show the reality of Satan's work and the
kind of worldly philosophy he uses to cover it up. He is at the moment
aiming at introducing another philosophy, already here but in its infant
stage...

Satan's new religion with which he will entrance the world is not
the One World Religion or the New Age Movement that many
preach but it will be centred in concern for the environment and
planet Earth.

Environmentalism is good, I subscribe to it myself as should every person

of conscience but all good things are debased by the evil one. In the
future, wars will be fought and dictators will arise using the very
terminology and concerns of saving the environment and taking care of
our planet.

The new social engineering

The present debate over global warming is not actually about global
warming even if everyone involved acts like it is. It is about standardising
the relationship between the sciences and world governments as
politicians, business people and those who lean to left and right in politics
have discovered that science is the new god that has limitless influence.
Mass populations accept the proclamations of 'science' for fact on a
number of issues. In the past political-economic arguments and
movements were used to change the world but after the success in past
centuries of scientific propaganda dominating the world the new power
resides in scientific consensus and all are trying to jump on the
bandwagon. This is the sole reason why the Left and Big Business are tied
together with governments around the world to fight global warming. It is
the pretext that solidifies their power and influence. Much of their science
may be and often is propaganda and sometimes apocalyptic too and the
reason for this is as stated. It's about power.

Satan controls most of the Christian teaching and in particular

pseudo spiritual teaching that comes out of the Church worldwide
In vague, general terms there is a similarity between the spiritual teaching
of Christ and His Apostles and Greek philosophers, ancient and modern
religions and modern cults. Like multitudes before me, and after me, I too
teach a walk in the Spirit, but what I mean by that and what other
Christians mean by that can be diametrically opposed. I teach death to
Self as do Sufi poets and Hari Krishna devotees but what I mean by it and
what they mean by it is very different. Christian sounding teaching by
Christian seeming teachers and prophets is flooding out of Christian
circles that reflects the mind, intent and subtleness of Satan.
Satan is preparing future science
To acknowledge the existence of God
Already, notable atheist philosophers and scientists are becoming theists
and many Christians see this as a good thing not realising that a
movement to belief in an impersonal 'scientific' god is in preparation for
the future fall of many present rationalist assumptions. More scientific
discoveries and greater international communication via the Internet
means that strict, atheistic rationalism and its 'science' is crumbling.
Future generations will be both 'spiritual' and antichristian. This goes hand
in hand with the environmentalism... These philosophies together will
allow the world to embrace the Antichrist.

Some Christians will support Satan and oppose the servants of

Christ
Due to the pseudo spiritual teaching I have already mentioned that has
gripped Christianity many sincere and even zealous Christians will identify
miracle working servants of God as false prophets while becoming
ensnared into approving of those who really are wolves in sheep's
clothing. Some will realise this too late but others will repent and get
straightened out. These latter will become a great threat to the evil one.
Already such ones are being targeted, attacked and neutralised.

Prophecies of the End abound

when it is not due
When the Lord really is about to appear few will be prophesying His
coming as Satan's servants will try to distract the world from that
immanent event. When they think they are in peace and safety that Day
will close upon them like a trap... Conversely the many that are today
prophesying the immanent return of Christ is itself a sign He is not about
to return.

Satan never reveals his secrets

In Christian culture the self proclaimed experts on Satan are usually ex-
occultists who mistakenly believe the secrets they learned in darkness are
the truth about Satan. He only ever tells them lies. When they expose
these secrets after they become Christians they help Satan still. The
secrets of Satan can only be revealed by God to godly men and women.
These ones are known for their holiness, whatever they may have been
before they were saved. It is the Holy Spirit Who is the Teacher, not the
evil one. In consequence their teaching is genuine.

Consider
Simple, childlike love and devotion to Jesus as Lord is an antidote to all
kinds of strange teachings and practices common to society today. His
true people are known by their humility, holiness but especially their love.
This is in sharp contradistinction to those who are proud, overly spiritual
and cold – behind a false smile.

The Father’s love is in His children and the faith of Christ is within them.
As this is true there is evidence supplied by God to the world beyond that
of their holy characters. They sometimes heal or cast out demons. Their
effect upon society is positive bringing life and joy...

The Pentecostal religion claim to be such believers as these but they are
the very wolves that tear these lambs to pieces when they find them. The
Charismatic movement is the cloak of lamb’s wool covering the body of
the wolf Antichrist.

More traditional churches have severe reservations but cannot penetrate

the spiritual depths to see the underlying threat posed by this Spiritism.
They have a tendency to be cold and formal. As a result it is like the days
of Jesus where the super-spiritual Pharisees and the cold, legalistic
Sadducees both persecuted the Disciples of Christ. But where are the
Disciples of Christ?
 Chapter Nineteen:
The Lost Millions

The Lost Millions

I had said above that there is a phenomenon in modern Christianity that
where young converts especially are supposedly 'baptised in the Spirit' in
the Charismatic sense this often leads to a sudden falling away from
Christ. Usually they have so many hopes and dreams and promises given
and after an initial emotional high these beliefs do not materialise into
anything substantial – it is delusory. Many feel this to be so and not
having yet been established in a continual and close walk with Christ they
conclude that God has let them down and they turn and walk away. They
hit an all time low. This is what this false baptism in supernaturalism is
designed to achieve – among other things.

Those who preach, advocate and practice this baptism into

supernaturalism are in effect destroying the Kingdom of God.

There is another side to this phenomenon, hardly if ever acknowledged by

self serving evangelists and teachers. When people feel Christ has
abandoned them or rather the Holy Spirit since they are taught little of
Christ to begin with; they feel they are justified in taking a stance against
Christianity, the Bible and God. For taking an aggressive stance against
Christianity they are partly justified but neither the Bible nor God had
anything to do with their disappointments and unfulfilled dreams; this was
the 'baptism' and its advocates. The wolves in sheep's clothing.

Sometimes these ex-Christians were really 'saved' or really Christian even

if weak and misinformed. A reaction to the holiness that dwelt within is to
become more sinful and corrupt. In the case of true saints that had been
both strong and holy- to fall away after being baptised into
supernaturalism there can be an even more adverse counter-reaction.
They may be among the world’s most unsavoury characters: Antichrists,
paedophiles, murderers and occultists practising demonic oppression over
others.

Without the first you will not have the other. Without the false baptism in
the Spirit practised by Pentecostals and Charismatic Christian Spiritists
you will not get the great falling away of new converts and you will not get
the new army of antichrists nor some of Satan's greatest servants – who
like fallen angels will reap their vengeance upon the religion that betrayed
them.

The false Christians make excuses for this. Not that they will ever
acknowledge this is going on but they will acknowledge a lot of people do
not persevere and their excuse is that they were never saved to begin
with and they really do not care about them. I care about them, about the
backsliders, the antichrists and even the monsters that once were
Christians. I want them to know it was not Christ who betrayed them but
his enemies.

On the other hand many among them were never really Christian to begin
with this is true but the Charismatics would not admit to this when they
were baptising them in the supposed Spirit!

Another rather stupid excuse they use which has nothing to do with reality
is that these lost ones are all still saved since once saved is always saved
they erroneously believe. So even an ex Christian turned Satanist would
be saved by their reckoning – but if they change ground and say that one
was never saved how do they explain they baptised that one in the 'Spirit'
and that one prophesied and they acknowledged these prophecies and
tongues were of God? In their fantasy world reality has no place. As I said
before an effect of religious delusion is to disconnect people from reality –
so how can they acknowledge it?

Christ is the reality and how much more in tune we are with the real world
because of him. He gave us eyes to see and they want to blind the world
with their religious candy floss laced in arsenic. The greatest argument
against the Pentecostal and Charismatic and other Christian Spiritists is
themselves: Their monumental stupidity on any number of issues. Their
mental gymnastics in regards Bible interpretation. Their many leaders
who are trying to bed every pretty sycophant, demand their first class air
travel at churches' expense and avoid paying taxes...

Many sinners choose to worship them and call themselves 'Spirit filled
believers' but inevitably they persecute the true saints.

Another effect of the false baptism is this: Satan does indeed lure certain
people into Pentecostal and Charismatic circles; particularly ones he
knows will be very useful because of their exceptional evil and guile.
These he lures in and gets baptised in the Spirit in the Charismatic sense.
This is their introduction to supernatural power. It is where they first
begin to be equipped and whether he later uses them as ex Christian
antichrists or Charismatic leaders he has planned it all very carefully.
Satan has singled out and used a vast multitude of sinners to be sinners in
Charismatic circles. He knows full well that if someone says to them,
'Serve Satan and he will give you power', they would reject it. So he has
Charismatics or Pentecostals give them the offer of worldly Christianity
and its pursuit of wealth, power and influence and says, 'Serve God and
receive power!' Often they take the bait.

There are no doubt in excess of a million young or weak but genuine

believers that fell away from Christ due to the occult power and emptiness
of the false baptism in the Spirit. There are many more millions of
unsaved due to a general malaise in the Church caused by the Spiritists.
All of their prophets and apostles are false without exception.
All of them are under the dominion of evil spirits and are either
neutralised if they were genuine believers or at least subverted in
degree; more often than not they are useless to God but useful to
Satan.

If you wanted to check this out – all that I have said in this book- and if
you thought it cannot possibly be so and so visited three different
Christian Spiritist churches... You might well find that in a Black and rather
conservative Pentecostal church the men sat on one side of the church
and the women on the other; the pastor preached a boring sermon and
after some superficial chit chat the people went home... At least that
would show how dead they are who are supposedly filled with the power
and holiness of God.

You might go to a Charismatic meeting and after half an hour of praise in

'choruses' you hear a religious pep talk about leadership and you meet
some friendly people you may at least hear many speak in gibberish, see
some enter an altered state of consciousness by repetitive vocalising of
some kind and may see someone or two writhing on the ground, making
loud animal noises. This would at least tell you they are superficial, overly
saccharine and sometimes weird if not bizarre.

You might go to a big rally and see people healed and saved but question
why the evangelist says, 'God gives miracles to those who truly serve
him', and later in the event he says, 'Those who truly serve God give
where it hurts' and later still he says, 'A man who gives God (via the
evangelist) a thousand dollars is blessed but a true servant would give
God 50,000 dollars.'
At least you could work out from this that for 50,000 dollars you can buy
a miracle and that they are avaricious and foolish...

In truth you will never really know what is going on, beyond common
sense appraisals, without careful research and even more so without the
help and guidance of the real Holy Spirit.

All the above examples I have taken out of life and can be seen, if you
will, but much worse is done behind closed doors, but sometimes openly!
In conclusion Jonathan, many ordinary Christians will never see either
what I have written or what their eyes see. It is the mind that sees and
Spiritists themselves are very plasticine in mind. Yet you, being a true
servant of Christ, not by money but by faith, I would not advise to check
these things out as who knows what the Enemy might try to do to you? It
takes special prayer and wisdom too to handle what seems on the surface
to be innocent. Unlike worldly social scientists who may see in the
Charismatic Movement religious freedom of expression and group
psychotherapy but who will not see the true servant of God targeted for
either subversion or all out attack. It takes time for them to recognise you.
Share what is true and at first they will try to match you as if they were in
a competition. Continue to share true visions, or teaching or grace and
you will step on a spiritual land mine realising too late you have been
meandering through the mine field from the moment you decided to go to
said churches.

Do not be surprised in those circumstances that introducing the catalyst

of the true among the false you have yourself primed the bomb. Do not be
surprised if those you liked become frightened to talk to you after the
pastor has told them privately they will get a demon from doing so. Also
don't be surprised if they literally run from you in the street. Neither get
too hurt if you hear on the grapevine that you are said to be a thief, or
drug user or something worse. It is the self life that resents these things.
Try to take it in your stride and see them for what they are.

So you see my young Jonathan, that after all, you are God's lion that can
rip open the lies and deceptions of the evil one and tear off the masks of
the angels of light to reveal the monstrosity behind. I am the eagle of God
that breathes fire through the 'mist of darkness' to disperse them so all
can see Satan's stratagems. For these gifts Christianity will crucify us.

I remember that 'years ago now' I underwent a period of persecution from

Christians. I had kept my address private as I did not want to be harassed.
Sometimes walking down the street could be uncomfortable and
Christians would stare and gawk at me as though I were Judas Iscariot.
One night however petrol was poured through my front door and
unusually for me I was wide awake in the dark with my bedroom door
open. I heard the movement at the door in the early morning and
disturbed the perpetrator who ran before I could see them. God had
obviously made me take a position where I could defend myself, by His
kind providence, as I never before or after lay in the dark facing the front
door.

On the same road there were two number 57s as the road veered in a
curve its name changed from Place to Crescent. That other 57 was also
visited by the arsonists and as a result a young woman and her two
toddlers died. They did not die by smoke inhalation but were burned alive.

I think they never were sure of my address but tried both houses having
an almost identical address, trying to get me.

I suppose this can all be dismissed as coincidence. After all who is going
to believe it, they are always so innocent? I am not of course doing a PR
job for the evangelical type churches. In the future, as the Lord has
prophesied, Christians will turn on one another and so I am experiencing
out of time and out of place the future – as ever. Ever a sign of what is to
be.
 It perhaps would have been advisable to write before hand what I stand
for and why I found myself so at odds with sections of the Church, even if
respected by the strongest of believers. There were these three
unpardonable sins that I would ever commit. Things which horrified those
who barely knew me; they would never really want to know me. The least
of these abominations to the Church was that I was very poor and often
lived in places that by Americans would be called ghettoes. In England
more-so than in other places this was a great sin.

The second deadly sin was holiness as I not only taught that Christians
were supposed to be holy I was in fact and in deed holy. This was enough
to get me killed. Even though there are people that give lip service to
holiness the reality is that it was generally rejected by the late 19th
Century and condemned as Pharisaism.

The third abomination for which no religious hypocrite may ever forgive
me was love. I loved my enemies and would have willingly died for them.
Once I told a Christian brother that I would be willing to go to Hell for ever
if people could be saved – to his abject horror. Sometimes things I said
would get a dramatic reaction so that the flesh on their face would
shudder or they would ejaculate, 'That's sick!' or say, 'I pity you.' I noticed
too that at particular times the presence of Christ was more strongly with
me and at these times I was likely to be persecuted, even if I said nothing
– and I never was permitted to say anything or to preach. It was in 1981 I
was first prepared to preach on Sundays to Born Again Evangelicals and to
this day I have not been permitted, as their churches have been firmly
locked to me, the one person that could have brought them true revival.

I also noticed that things believers did not understand and difficult
doctrines great theologians thought of as divine mysteries I understood
easily and quickly and this was so from my early days as a believer. I
found that this great gift of teaching had no value to the churches. To this
day they listen to tripe by false apostles and prophets and uninspired
preachers that haven’t been deeply sanctified or renewed in mind.

I found that time and again I was dismissed completely and in fact
rejected totally by the Church yet I would regularly encounter Christ and
sometimes Satan face to face. These two and almost no one else took
notice of me.

Then I began to pray prayers to change the political structure of the

world. I saw leaders rise or fall as I prayed they would. I saw economies
rise or fall as I prayed they would and exactly when... So sometimes I'd sit
and watch my prayer answers unfold on the TV news, and as you know
the biggest stories of the last few years have been related to things God
has shown me and prayers He has answered – some of them prayers of
judgement. I could refer to my own journal, quote it here if I wanted
detailing how before certain significant events occurred I had already
written of them or prayed for them to occur. The World Financial Crisis of
recent times only began to happen after I prayed it would and exactly
when and how I prayed it would. I had discerned clearly God wanted to
judge corporate and government indifference to poverty...

So here I sit and I am valued less than the least member of a ridiculed
cult, while I see prattling fools leading GOD's flock astray. Everywhere
Satan is exalted through false Christians who for the most part were never
saved to begin with. In such a Church how could we be accepted?

This brings me back around to young Christians. Everything in the Bible is

true. I haven't proved everything but I ave certainly proved a lot in my
own life. I represent the fact rather than the theory; the spiritual reality
rather than the religious con. If I am rejected what hope for those who are
weak and frail? This is why judgement must come and God will purify and
winnow not only the Church but the world as a whole – and of course I
know how and when He will do it.

So you see this book is a very good example of the truths that modern
Christianity has rejected and of the characters. I am one of thousands
from among the stronger element of Christianity. I meet them here and
there and the story is always the same: They can't stand their church any
more and no they are not going to a new one... but at home the fellowship
is better!

The new church for strong believers is of course the Internet where they
can read or fellowship with like minded holy ones in varying degrees of
enlightenment and usually argue among themselves about doctrine and
practice...

Politics
I had hardly touched on politics even though it intersects with the
spiritual. I noticed that in Latin American countries where socialism was
prevalent and Christianity too strong to be got rid of the Christians were
often socialist and would speak of Jesus as the ideal revolutionary. In
north America where capitalism and its democracy is dominant the TV
evangelists in particular represent the other side of the coin, so there are
socialist and capitalist wings of Christianity. Both of course are wrong,
even if we are told all the time in the West by implicit means that
capitalism is the essence of Christianity. In the introduction I mentioned
how German and British Christians were killing one another in the Second
World War and this is analogous to socialist and capitalist Christianity.

Christianity is devoured and controlled by false philosophies from within

and without and tends to conform like a chameleon to its surrounds. The
very opposite it was designed to do by God. Paul's Christianity was in
stark contrast to the world and its philosophies but I found that if you see
things in terms of right or wrong instead of in terms of right or left you are
quickly branded a communist for speaking out on social issues or a fascist
for speaking out on moral issues! - And that by Christians! As long as
Christians are dominated by this world's philosophies and hopelessly
useless and disproven political theories Christianity will simply remain an
adjunct to the world and be used to justify the prevailing oppressors of
whatever ilk. This means it will be used by the Antichrist himself!
Now if you are one of those Charismatics, typically a right wing,
conservative with fundamentalist leanings but a genuine knowledge of
God and unuttered questions about all the things you have seen gone
wrong over the years – things supposedly from God you will actually find
this book helpful. That is if you have read it all the way through. Even if
you have rejected it, its ideas and truths are now in your head and if they
descend to your heart it is bound to free you to some extent. This is
conditional upon obeying the light you have and that is the reason why
these truths are rejected to keep you, the genuine but very erroneous
believer, a prisoner to this world's philosophies and tyrants whether
political, religious or other.

The Antichrist spirit may appear in left leaning, revolutionary social

movements or liberalism and it may appear in right leaning, hard headed
'realism' and corporate business agendas that encompass the world.
These two broad schools Satan plays off against one another to give the
world, among other things, the illusion of independent thought and
freedom of expression. They are two sides of the same coin. You must
remember the the Antichrist himself will be both a false Christ who speaks
of love and peace and a false god and powerful military leader who seeks
the world's worship. There are world leaders alive who are antichrists
without knowing it. I can think of one who sought freedom for his people
and espoused liberal socialist type idealism and another who was a great
political leader who started an unjust war. Both are nominal Christians. It
takes spiritual discernment to recognise who is an antichrist as opposed
to who is merely a brutal dictator or a dangerous idealist leading others to
destruction...

In essence an antichrist is usually nominally Christian, but not necessarily

so. They tend to be great idealists and have grand visions of a better
world. They start off as deliverers and end up drenched in the blood of
countless innocents. (They speak peace but act war.) Sometimes they are
blatantly outspoken against Christ but others speak for him, supposedly.
In the last fifty years some of the worlds favourite, top political leaders
have been antichrists. This is perhaps a sign of the times.

I said in the Introduction that things I say would seem critical and harsh
but for those who have come out from false supernaturalism that was
wearing the cloak of Christianity and have been free for many years much
of what I have said may well appear quite tame. Man made religion is no
substitute for the real thing and if it ends up in making cult adherents of
people who should have been Christians, well only those who are free can
actually see the evil of it all.
I only have one more thing to say; that on your outward journey to the
Light remember to keep Jesus as the centre of your being and your
thoughts and affections firmly upon him rather than upon your grievances
or Satan's schemes. If some people are made to forget Jesus by focusing
on a false Holy Spirit others may be made to forget him by focusing on
Satan.

Jesus is supreme, all Good all Gracious and all honour to him!
After word
To speak the truth in love is still to speak the truth. It does not mean to
speak comforting delusions. That is neither truth nor love. The righteous
judgement is the Lord’s. What am I? Here ends the book of introductions
to spiritual themes. Should the grace of God allow I may write a whole
book on each theme I have covered and move beyond skimming the
surface, which is all I have done.

In the depths of silence and peace who knows what dwells? God is so
good. I am too blessed. There is such ineffable peace, such goodness… If I
could take you on a journey with me I would take you into my heart. It has
been caressed by both Heaven and Hell. It is now the dwelling place of
God, as you know the scriptures plainly declare. What will He do next I
wonder? I am less and less concerned as those who dwell in God’s
presence have a tendency to simply be happy being there. Isn’t it ironical
that in a world full of Hell’s devices Heaven can dwell in a single human
heart? Christ is so real.

Aðalsteinn Eagle-Hawk

November 23, 2009

Postscript
In reading this you tried applying its teachings. Some of you have tried to
abandon your mysticism or Pentecostalism or you have asked for signs to
confirm what you thought God had told you- they didn't come and so you
need to run back to your delusions. Run to Christ. He is no delusion.

The Achilles heel of the Protestants is Calvinism – the fact most of them
fall away while believing they shall persevere. Their preachers lack the
honesty to face the truth on this matter. It is time to acknowledge that
Calvin was one of the world's greatest heretics. Christ is real and His work
is real and if you cooperate with Him and remain faithful you can prove
everything He really has taught you.

Answered prayer is a greater test of character and faith than inner lights
that often come to nothing. Abandon all that charismania. Prayer that
changes the world guarantees by its very power evidence of the faith
within. God gave Moses great signs to perform to show the elders of Israel
he was a prophet. Throw away all that nonsense about believing you are
prophetic when you have nothing to show for it. Do not join the parade of
fools who will all tumble down together.

If you were a prophet wouldn't the world be at your feet? Wouldn't people
be marvelling at how you spoke of important world events before they
happened and you would not need to call yourself a prophet – they would
do it? Don't call yourself a prophet or you may be judged as a prophet.
The Biblical prophets were sure of their message but look at how today's
chattering prophets are always wondering if what they have said will
really happen.

As I have tried to say, come in simplicity to Christ and love Him as He

should be loved. That is essentially what a disciple is. In simplicity, love
and faithfulness you will achieve more than all the deluded prophets and
dreamers. One day then you may speak and it comes to pass. Let the
word of God dominate your heart and mind. It is being neglected - the
Bible.

So, I as a visionary who has seen Christ and done some mighty things tell
you to be wary of trying to be more spiritual than you really are. This
actually hinders you from growing. I am the genuine article but I am not
powerful enough to be a prophet or a great one. If I have seen and done
things greater than these prophets who do not know what it is to fight
demons or see God how can they be prophets? They would need to be
stronger than me. They are children lost in the woods and eating at the
ginger bread house, thinking it’s all so good.

I have met prophets and apostles or those who call themselves such. They
seem so weak and pathetic to me. I have seen some of the world's
Christian leaders and recognised them as ravenous wolves tearing souls
apart – while those victims grovel at their feet blinded by the false light
like rabbits about to be shot. Haven't you seen that – how these great
ones are surrounded by those who fawn over them? Their favourite Bible
quote is, 'Touch not the LORD's anointed, do His prophets no harm.' They
are anointed by another lord and prophets of delusion. Hell awaits them
so do not follow them there.

Get back to Christ, get back to His Bible and love God.

There is a river of life that flows from Christ – all that is true. It is all true
you know, all those wonderful things the Bible says. Do you really think
that so called Christian leaders would be harping on about money all the
time if they had this river of life? Their pursuit of wealth and power
testifies to their spiritual emptiness. Men of the world often flee the vanity
of riches and power to come to the peace of Christ. They value this peace
more than their riches. What motivates those who preach covetousness
and call it faith? Spiritual delusions suit them as they can use them to
deceive the flock while they pillage and plunder with a syrupy smile.

You on the other hand, will you be the friend of Christ?

See Also:

http://www.scribd.com/Adalsteinn%20Eagle-Hawk

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22655013/The-Holy-Spirit-and-the-Visionary