Dear friends and readers,
I just finished watching this video. I have known about each one of these false teachers for a long time and I have been critical of each one of them for a long time as well. I also know the good men in the video who are exposing the truth of this corruption and deception. The stumbling blocks are everywhere. They are found in Australia, Nigeria, and America in particular. The reality is that this problem is getting worse with new names seeming to join this cast of frauds on a daily basis. Justin Peters rightfully identifies them as charlatans. It is important to remind everyone that these people are not teaching Christianity. They teach a false gospel.
Chris Reimers
If you can stomach more of this heresy, Justin Peters shows how ridiculous other false teachers are by using humor:
“For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires…” 2 Timothy 4:3
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These people are everything that Jesus was not! Their insane riches and boasting, you would imagine, are transparent to those who claim to know the Lord but many are unfortunately blinded in these days. Thank you for sharing this Chris. The Lord Jesus Christ, unlike these false prophets, looks upon people with love and compassion and wants to give them something which this world’s riches can never buy.
Yes, Elizabeth, you would think this would be transparent to anyone who even remotely knows their Bible.
I was more than happy to share this, so you are very welcome. I hope someone who follows or supports any of these pretenders sees and is impacted by this video. It is on YouTube so hopefully many will see it. I pray that the Holy Spirit will help those who watch it to see that this is obviously wrong in so many ways.
As you stated, God wants to give us something that this world’s riches can never buy. We are saved by grace through faith alone. Along with that come the fruits of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. None of these can be bought. We cannot buy God’s love nor His forgiveness. We certainly can’t buy a miracle.
There is a lack of Biblical literacy in our day that is shocking. It is the main reason for this problem as you well know. Those who follow false teachers don’t know the God of the Bible. He is against the doctrines that they preach.
It’s not that difficult, really. We know that all we need do is read God’s Word, trust it, and pray that God’s will be done in all matters. We ask God’s forgiveness for our sins and He meets us where we are. Again, these verses (this time more complete) are so important:
8 “For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 it is not from works, so that no one can boast.”
The things we receive from God are gifts, not something we can buy.
We know these things, Elizabeth, but unfortunately so much of the world is lost. We do what we can by asking for God’s help in guiding others towards the truth.
I hope your daughter is doing well.
You are both on my prayer list.
Have a great day and…
God’s blessings!
Thanks for the video, Chris. All of the televangelists identified in this video are Pentecostals, except for Furtick who is Pentecostal-friendly. Where experientialism/emotionalism/ecstacism become the standard rather than God’s Word, people open themselves up to all kinds of fraud. Otherwise solid pastors have done their sheep a disservice by not pointing out the charlatans. The church we’ve been attending since November is solid Biblically, but in eight months we have not heard one warning from the pulpit specifically about the RCC or TBN charlatans. We hear warnings about “false gospels,” but the sheep are left to draw their own conclusions. Some probably go home and tune into TBN or read their Joyce Meyer devotional.
You’re welcome, Tom. I appreciate that you have given some background on these false teachers. I know that you featured Steven Furtick on your recent Roundup. That man shouldn’t be allowed in any pulpit anywhere. The word “fraud” fits him just as it fits the rest of the people in this video.
I’m not that surprised that you haven’t been warned about the RCC or TBN at your church. There aren’t many pastors out there that will mention such things. We both know that Martyn Lloyd-Jones and Charles Spurgeon had no problem identifying RCC error. They certainly would not have had any difficulty identifying the problems with Paul and Jan Crouch and the things they taught. I can’t speak to current TBN programming since I don’t get it from my cable company. My guess is that it is as bad as ever but you would know better than I since you get it.
These days many of us are left to listen to Justin Peters (featured in the video) and others like him to navigate the murky waters. Videos like this can be helpful as well.
Joyce Meyer’s YouTube channel has over one million followers. The comments below those videos are hard to read when you know what she is really selling. I have always had a very difficult time watching her.
We have heard of most of the people in this video. There appears to be a new generation of false teachers on the horizon. In fact, many are already here. It’s really hard for me to keep up with all of them, Tom, but I’m trying.
God’s Word will continue to stand strong in spite of all this false teaching. For that, I praise God.
I always appreciate your comments, Tom.
God’s blessings…
Thanks, Chris. I periodically skim through TBN, Daystar, and SLB to see what the heretics are up to. So bad. Yup, it’s shameful that otherwise-solid pastors won’t confront the heresy. They surely don’t want to offend contributing members.
Thanks, Chris, and God bless you.
Ugh. It sounds like things are not well at these Christian T.V. stations. Of course, we know that things were never well at any of them. I wouldn’t mind seeing the things going on there just to be able to warn people but I’m not going to go out of my way to support them. When TBN used to be part of our cable plan, I would watch it just to get some education on the latest wares being sold by false teachers.
Years ago I saw this program where Dr. Walter Martin, a man I respected because he was theologically solid as far as I could tell, spoke truth and was never allowed back on TBN: ( I think we’ve discussed this before.)
I think the moderator that night was also never allowed back to host a TBN program.
I went to see Dr. Martin in person in California when I was a teenager. I really liked him. The night that I was supposed to see him there was a bomb threat and everyone was asked to leave the church. Evidently, someone called the church and said there was a bomb planted under the stage. After we were all sent home, the police found no bomb. That evening’s topic was Mormonism and and there were Mormon missionaries in the crowd so who knows what happened. They never found the guilty party but a year later Dr. Martin returned to the same church to tackle the same subject. I thought he did a great job exposing the errors of Mormonism like:
“As man now is, God once was: “As God now is, man may be.”
Dr. Martin made it a point to thank the local authorities for checking the place and making sure there was no bomb on the premises.
I’m sure some may read our comments here and be offended, but our intentions are to try to help people learn the truth. How can someone think that they could possibly become a god themself? The Bible is our guide and it certainly doesn’t teach that.
Thanks for your kind words, Tom.
(I’m rewatching the video and I’m 10 minutes in. Wow. We could sure use a guy like Walter Martin in today’s world.)
(I asked my daughter to help me see if we have TBN and we do after all. I won’t be signing in anytime soon but I guess you can also tune in online where I just noticed that “Joyce Meyer: Enjoying Everyday Life” is live right now.)
Thanks for all of the comments, Chris. Dr. Martin was solid on the cults, but he was a bit of a disappointment for me because he was soft on RC-ism and that influenced others. Like many of the Protestant clergy of his era, he got sucked in by pope John XXIII and the rapprochement veneer of the Second Vatican Council, even though the RCC changed none of its basic doctrines.
Below is a link to my 2017 post in which I described how Martin’s softness on the RCC sowed the seeds for the Hank Hanegraaff controversy (which most people have forgotten about at this point).
Have a good day and don’t watch too much TBN! (just being facetious).
Hi Tom, comments are getting thin so I’m going to start a new thread. Please check that out.
It is so sickening to the spirit of worldliness with some of these popular preachers.
Sickening is a good adjective to describe it, Pastor Jim. Using a false gospel to take advantage of people has got to be anathema in God’s eyes.
Just so you know, I am trying to decide whether to write something new or use of of my blog posts for my guest post on your blog when you are away on your missionary trip in August. Either way, I will pray about it and ask God to help me decide on something that might help someone in some way.
God’s blessings…
Wow looking forward to the guest post content!
Nice. Please send me an email where you would like me to send the post, Pastor Jim. My email is chrisreimers6@gmail.com. You can contact me there to let me know when you want the post, where you want it sent, and if there are any length restrictions.
If there is some different way you want me to handle this, please let me know.
God’s blessings, Pastor Jim. I hope you have a great day!
(The thread was getting too thin above. This is a continuation of that “conversation”…)
Thank you, Tom. This is very helpful.
Hopefully all who followed the ministry of Walter Martin are aware the the shenanigans that occurred with the Hannegraff takeover. Thank you for the link you shared. I was aware of most of what had transpired but I hadn’t seen the interview with Walter Martin’s daughter. Here is an important part of the interview with Jill Martin Rische, Martin’s oldest daughter:
“…Hank Hannegraff had been Chrismated (confirmed) into the Greek Orthodox Church (also known as the Eastern Orthodox Church). This is a big deal because part of the Chrismation service is a section call the ‘Renunciation.’ This is a key thing. The renunciation means what? To renounce. So, what Hannegraff had to do as part of his confirmation is renounce the Reformation, renounce the reformers, and renounce the key points which are doctrines of the reformers. One of which is Sola Scriptura. If we look here we see (she shows a slide showing the following) that Eastern Orthodoxy rejects: Sola Scriptura, the absolute and final authority of the Bible, and Sola Fide: salvation by faith alone.
She continues with various other differences between Protestants and members of Eastern Orthodox churches.
Anyone who wishes to see this comment need only go to the link you shared in your blog post about:
How Walter Martin sowed the seeds for the current Hank Hanegraaff controversy
I highly recommend all Christians read this post that you have shared because there is information there that may be difficult to find for many. It sets the record straight, Tom,and I appreciate that.
I had heard about Hanegraff’s move into the position of “The Bible Answer Man,” and it was concerning when I learned that Mr. Hannegraff was joining the Eastern Orthodox Church. I did not know much of what you have shared in the “Controversy” post and I greatly appreciate you helping me out.
Walter Martin had a great impact on me as a youngster. I learned about so many of the Cults and their wayward doctrines and I still think this video of him at TBN is very good:
He had so much knowledge about the Cults and other things but it is unfortunate that he said that “Catholicism teaches the basic core beliefs of Christianity including ‘justification by faith.'”
We, of course, know that this is not true. I know many Catholics might say the same thing but we know it’s only because of a lack of knowledge or because they have been blinded as you have stated.
We must pray for our Catholic friends…
There is something sinister about the picture of Joyce Meyers’ that’s on this post. I have seen her pictures from years ago, but compared to now, it’s downright evil. Look at the corners of her mouth, and above her eyes. Think of the Joker, she looks like his sister. This cannot be just coincidence.
Welcome to the Wings of the Wind, Michael.
I agree with you that Joyce Meyer does look a bit sinister here. She could be mistaken for the Joker’s sister but that is nothing compared to the real problem.
Joyce Meyer has led people astray for years using her Word of Faith “theology.” She seems to have no real regard for her listeners.
No one should be listening to Joyce Meyer.
I appreciate your comments, Michael.
God’s blessings…
I read her 2007 book “Never Give Up!” a few years ago before I knew anything about her. I thought it was a good book. And even if I reread it today, I don’t think I would find a lot of faults with it. And her picture on the cover, she looks normal. Nevertheless, something did seem a bit “off” with the way she looked, even back then. Of course, looks can be deceiving, but not all the time. But since then, it seems her evil doctrines and teachings have been growing and coming to full fruition. Word of Faith theology has no place in the life of a Christian.
I’ve never read that book, Michael. It may not have many faults in it but I’m glad you see clearly that Joyce Meyer’s “theology” has no place in the life of any Christian.
Here is a short video featuring Justin Peters who also sees Joyce Meyer and those like her as charlatans:
Praise God that, like Justin Peters, we can both see how deceptive Joyce Meyers is.
I appreciate your comment and I hope you have a great weekend!
God’s blessings…
I agree with most of Justin Peters teachings. I have seen that video and others of Joyce Meyer’s, and many other preachers just like her. Her prosperity doctrine twists the Scriptures, in ways it was never meant to go. Peter said, silver and gold have I none. What really bothers me, are the multitudes that fund her ministry and follies. But do not see her for what she really is. Of course, all she does is not evil, however, for the most part, her dreadful practices are clearly in the open.
To become wealthy by investing, starting a business, creating products needed and wanted by people, and the numerous other ways wealth is acquired or gained, if it’s all aboveboard and done honestly, I don’t think God has a problem with that.
But to become wealthy, and immensely so, as Meyer and many others, preaching and teaching perverted biblical dogma, there must be a special place of punishment God has reserved for them, when their lives are completed.
The Thread is getting thin, Michael. I will respond to you in a new thread…
Hi Michael.
I like most of Justin Peters’ teachings, too. Prosperity preachers like Joyce Meyer certainly preach a false gospel. People who fund her ministry are unwise.
Your reference to those who make their livings honestly is a good one. There are many ways to put food on the table decently.
Those who become wealthy by dishonest gain will have to answer to God.
I hope you have a great week!
God’s blessings…
Justin Peters uses humor to help us see their lies. We should stick to real teachings.
Thank you for your comment, Pritam.
I like it, as well, that Justin Peters uses humor to help us see their lies. As Christians, it is very important that we hold to true doctrines as we find them in God’s Holy Word.
God’s blessings…
I remember years ago being a follower of some of most notorious false WoF/prosperity teachers. What they taught was enticing food. Kenneth Copeland was one of those teachers. Years after having realized his false teaching (largely because of reading the Bible for myself) I actually found a set of his “Power of the Tongue” tapes when we came to Colorado.
Hi Dan.
Kenneth Copeland has got to be one of the worst! “Fight For Truth” calls him the “grandfather of all false teachers” in this video:
In the video, Copeland tells two young men that God gave him a jet airplane. Something like this might be acceptable except that Mr. Copeland certainly is not a good steward of the millions of dollars given to him every year. He tells people (many who can hardly pay their bills) that they will be healed if they just sow a seed.
In the end, Kenneth will reap what he has sown.
Thankfully, there are pastors who are good stewards. Justin Peters and John MacArthur are two good examples.
Thanks for the comment, Dan.
I hope you have a great Sunday!
It was the late 70s, early 80s and we were attending a charismatic Assembly of God church near Ft. Devems, MA. We still have good friends from back then. The church didn’t teach WoF but definitely taught that all of the spiritual gifts were still in effect, which didn’t help at all. We went through “stuff” like everyone else. We were reassigned overseas and when we went back to Ft. Devens we connected to a good chapel on post and have served in military chapels since that time.
Hi Dan.
It is interesting that you are still serving as a military Chaplin.
How long have you been a Chaplin?
Here is a quote from the internet:
”(The) Assemblies of God, (a) Pentecostal denomination of the Protestant church, (is) generally considered the largest such denomination in the United States. It was formed by a union of several small Pentecostal groups at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1914.”
Internet grammar isn’t the best it seems.
Anyway, I’m surprised that The Assemblies of God churches started in the town in which I live.
I’m glad you and your wife left the Assembly of God church near Ft. Devems, MA. It’s nice that you still have good friends from that experience, but the things they were teaching were not scriptural, and you guys had good reason to leave.
Thanks for sharing, Dan, and I hope you and your wife have a great week!
God’s blessings…
Actually, I’ve never served as a Chaplain, but there’s a special place in my heart for those who do. And you have a great week also!
Okay, Dan.
Thank you!
I thought about it for a time, but when I learned I needed 8 years of school, I decided to be ‘boots on the ground’.
Yikes! Eight hours of school? I can see why you changed your mind! 😊
That was supposed to be “8 YEARS” of school.
Oops! Sorry, Dan. I don’t know how I messed that one up! 😊