A Dangerous Spiritual Revolution - Part 2

A Dangerous Spiritual Revolution - Part 2


Sandra D The Undoing of Faith



On page 166 of the book, Faith Undone, the introduction says this:



"My goal is to destroy Christianity as a world religion and be a recatalyst (rebeginning) for this movement of Jesus Christ..... Some people are upset with me because it sounds like I'm anti-Christian. I think they might be right.

-----Erwin McManus



"The Kingdom of God is a central conversation in emerging communications. .... And let me tell you "Kingdom of God" language is really big in the emerging church."

-----Doug Pagitt



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"In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace."

---------Ephesians 1:7



"For He has made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him."

---------II Corinthians 5:21



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There are groups today who have been planning this spiritual revolution for a great number of years. Just like the revolution taking place in our economic and political institutions today, this spiritual revolution will take away the Truth of God's Word and replace it with an anti-christ.



The heart and core of the Christian faith i based upon Jesus Christ's shed blood at Calvary as the only acceptable substitutionary atonement for mankind's sins. The Gospel message requires this foundation. The Bible says the wages of sin is death -- thus every person alive should receive the penalty of spiritual death because none f us is without sin, since we are born with our sin nature intact. Satan hates the Gospel message. He understands what the Gospel means, and his agenda is to deceive mankind from understanding and believingso they can suffer eternally with him. While Scripture is very clear about the necessity of Christ's deat in order for us to be saved, some believe this would make God a blood-thirsty barbarian. Embedded within the structure of the emerging church is just such a belief.



The people of the emergin church movement think they can establish a utopia (perfect world) here on earth. But the Bible says we will continue to have wars and rumors of wars. The conflict between good and evil will remain until Jesus returns, and we find in John's description of the human heart in the last days:



He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still;

and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let hm be

holy still. (Revelation 22:11



John's prophetic statement makes it clear that this is how conditions will be until Jesus returns. But today a theology called Kingdom Now or Dominionism is permeating Christian thinking, and the emerging church movement is taking this theology full speed into the next generation. With the idea that the church can establish the kingdom of God before Christ returns and essentially turn our world into a Christian world, this belief system has literally changedd the way countless Christians view the world and go about their Christian living. What most of these Christians don't realize is that this kingdom-of-God-on-earth mindset is an all out effort by Satan to distort the message of the true kingdom of God and thus negate (do away with) the Gospel message of Jesus Christ.



In the study of this movement, there is a need to know the difference between modern thinking and post-modern thinking. I will include a post that has some of the important definitions in it for those of you who need it. That will come next.



McLaren, a leader of this movement and a prominent writer for it, says that the prophetic view of Christ's return and other things are not valid in this world of post-modern thinking. However, the modern world didn't make up this prophetic view, God did. And the Bible backs up these theologies.



McLare reworks many scriptures in order to support his belief that the kingdom of God will be established here on earth sometime in the future by human effort.



Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world." John 18: 36. and "the kingdom is within you." Luke 17:21

In these passages, Jesus was referring to the Holy Spirit living inside those who receive Him by faith. The kingdom now people twist the scriptures to mean that since God is in us, we are god.



This same concept is the foundation of Rick Warren's Purpose Driven church growth model.



I will begin here tomorrow if the Lord is willing. If you have any questions, please ask them at the end of each message. This is why I am numbering the messages with numbers. They will get out of order when people comment, but you can find them in the right order by the numbers.



Sandra