GET THEM OUT!

  Joyce Meyer fits the Bible's definition of a heretic for several reasons having to do with her ideas on the Person and work of Christ Christology and Soteriology.

 She teaches the gullible that "the Christ" descended upon Jesus at His baptism and "the Christ" left Him on the cross, that is, He ceased to be God. In her words: "He [Jesus] could have helped himself up until the point where he said, "I commend my spirit into your hands, at that point he couldn’t do nothing (sic) for himself anymore. He had become sin. He was no longer the Son of God. He was sin."

She goes on to declare that Christ didn't pay for our sins on the cross but went to hell for three days and three nights to do so there while the devil and the demons held a party and jumped up and down on Him! Then she says, at the Resurrection Jesus was born again and became the first born-again man.

 

 Not stopping there, she says that she gets her messages from God which would mean that God is contradicting His Word. Millions of sheep aren't discerning the howl of this wolf in sheep's clothing.

Not to be outdone, she contradicts I Cor. 15: 3-4 by saying, "You're not saved if you don't believe that Jesus went to hell." That's nowhere stated in Paul's declaration of the good news.

Going further off the reservation of orthodoxy, she brags, "“I am not poor. I am not miserable, and I am not a sinner. . That is what I were (sic.) , and if I still was, then Jesus died in vain. I’m going to tell you something, folks. I didn’t stop sinning until I finally got it through my thick head. I wasn’t a sinner anymore. And the religious world thinks that’s heresy, and they want to hang you for it. But the Bible says that I am righteous and I can’t be righteous and be a sinner at the same time.” She hasn't read and understood I John 1:8 or Is. 53:6 et al. nor does she have an inkling of understanding the vital doctrine of justification.

Her brag-a-mony of her achievement of impeccability fits with her outlandish claim that through faith in Christ, Christians are given back their little god status, and by growing in faith (becoming more and more aware of who they are as little gods) they can use the "force of faith" to get all that they desire from this life.

 

Therefore, check the shelves of your church library. Are any of her 80+ books lurking there? If so, you need to demand their removal to the incinerator yesterday. This is non-negotiable that cannot wait. Contact the elders of your church to do their God-given duty to protect the flock from heretics.

 Before you go, read and heed Titus 1: "For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception . . . They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain. . . rebuke them sharply . . . their minds and consciences are corrupted. They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good."

Then the elders, after the removal of whatever the wolf is howling in print from the church library, should explain to the congregation the biblical basis for what they've done. 

It would then be a teaching moment. 

SOMETHING WAS SERIOUSLY WRONG AT THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

 

The State of the Union Address is stipulated by the Constitution as follows: "The president shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” That's the reason President Joe Biden gave such an address on Tuesday February 7, 2023, at 9 PM EST. It was during that address that something happened that should chill the bones of every American in that hallowed hall and watching on television. 

In the speech, President Biden, waxing loudly dramatic and emphatic, said to the assembled Representatives and Senators, "If you try anything to raise the cost of Frisizhnjubs, I will veto it!" (The 10th word in that sentence is, obviously, not a word in the English or any other language.) The sentence made no sense. Are Frisizhnjubs for sale somewhere, anywhere in the world? To my knowledge, no one has asked what Frisizhnjubs are; no reporter followed up on the meaning.

It was after that sentence that it happened. 

The vice president, seated on the platform behind the President, immediately jumped to her feet and began  applauding vigorously, as did the members of the president's politic party. But what were they applauding? They didn't know; no one knows what Frisizhnjuubs means. And by all their hands clapping, unbeknownst to them, they were sending a message. 

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn would have heard the message loud and clear, as we see in the following text. 

"In a nightmarish 1938 incident from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, he wrote:

"A district party conference was under way in Moscow Province. It was presided over by a new secretary of the District Party Committee, replacing one recently arrested. At the conclusion of the conference, a tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for. 

Of course, everyone stood up (just as everyone had leaped to his feet during the conference with every mention of his name). The hall echoed with 'stormy applause, raising to an ovation.' For three minutes, four minutes, five minutes, the “stormy applause, rising to an ovation,” continued. 

But palms were getting sore and raised arms were already aching. And the older people were panting from exhaustion. It was becoming insufferably silly even to those who adored Stalin. However, who would dare to be the first to stop? 

The secretary of the District Party could have done it. He was standing on the platform, and it was he who had just called for the ovation. But he was a newcomer. He had taken the place of a man who’d been arrested. He was afraid! After all, NKVD men were standing in the hall applauding and watching to see who would quit first! 

And in the obscure, small hall, unknown to the leader, the applause went on—six, seven, eight minutes! They were done for! Their goose was cooked! They couldn’t stop now till they collapsed with heart attacks! At the rear of the hall, which was crowded, they could of course cheat a bit, clap less frequently, less vigorously, not so eagerly—but up there with the presidium where everyone could see them'

The director of the local paper factory, an independent and strong-minded man, stood with the presidium. Aware of all the falsity and all the impossibility of the situation, he still kept on applauding! Nine minutes! Ten! In anguish he watched the secretary of the District Party Committee, but the latter dared not stop. 

Insanity! To the last man! With make-believe enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope, the district leaders were just going to go on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out of the hall on stretchers! And even then those who were left would not falter. 

Then, after eleven minutes, the director of the paper factory assumed a businesslike expression and sat down in his seat. And, oh, a miracle took place! Where had the universal, uninhibited, indescribable enthusiasm gone? To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down. They had been saved!

The squirrel had been smart enough to jump off his revolving wheel. That, however, was how they discovered who the independent people were. And that was how they went about eliminating them. That same night the factory director was arrested. They easily pasted ten years on him on the pretext of something quite different. But after he had signed Form 206, the final document of the interrogation, his interrogator reminded him: “Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding!” 

The elite leaders of our nation applauding and applauding and applauding, registering their approval to the nonsense just uttered. But that's the way it is when leadership abandons God and His Word. Government becomes the god to worship, reminiscent of the story, "The Emperor's New Clothes." 

THE LADY AND THE CHRISTIAN CELEBRITIES

 The lady stood at the microphone. Before her, seated on the platform, were three celebrities of Calvinism. The three were there to answer questions from the audience and that's why the woman stood at the microphone. She's going to ask the question of the ages. 

She stands ramrod straight, looks at the distinguished, well dressed men on the platform and asks, "Is God's grace and mercy available to all?" That's it. A simple question. The answer? 

The Bible answers the question, as we see in:

Psalm 149:9: "The Lord is good to all,
And His mercies are over all His works."

Titus 2:11: "For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people,"

Romans 11:32: "For God has shut up all in disobedience, so that He may show mercy to all."

John 12:32: "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to Myself.” 

It was a simple question. The three texts give a simple answer, so simple, a child can understand it.

The attention switches to the three Calvinists on the stage and one of them, R. C. Sproul, begins to answer. What a great opportunity to cite the three texts above and tell her and the audience, "Absolutely."

His answer is devastating as he begins by using a term found nowhere in the Bible, "You're talking about regenerative grace." 

She says, "Yes." 

In order answer, he has to add a word to "grace" that no author of the Scriptures uses. He has to do this to make his answer fit with his philosophical system. (This is frustrating; does the lady and does the audience see what he's done?)

He answers, "No. The grace of God is not available to all. God determines who will receive regenerative grace." According to Sproul, God decided that in eternity past without the person ever having been born.

What has happened is that he people and the lady will walk out of the auditorium having been given false information that damages the character of God who arbitrarily gives the "regenerative grace" to only a tiny fraction of the 8 billion people on the planet today, arbitrarily withholding it from all the rest. 

One would hope that somehow, in some way, she and they would read and understand those verses and reject what their celebrates told them and then that entire philosophical system on which their system is based will collapse.