Originally Posted by Enow
I can't tell you which church to go to, but I gotta warn you not to go to a Pentecostal nor Charismatic church either.
Matthew 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you before. 26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
They all will have a focus solely on the Holy Spirit in the worship place regularly as other denomenations do it eventually on occasions, whenever supernatural phenomeon makes it way in to steal the spotlight off of the "Holy Spirit" to themselves with their visitations.
That is why the Holy Spirit will not speak of Himself in seeking His own glory, but of the Son in seeking His glory as those led by the Holy Spirit will be doing the same thing.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: 27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
The reason why "holy laughter" had occured in other denomenations like the Catholic and Protestant churches was because they ignored how they were to come to God the Father in worship in getting to know Him personally:
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
As approaching God the Father by way of the Son in worship by honouring and glorifying the Son ONLY and thereby honouring and glorifying the Father is what every believer and every church will be judged by.
John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
John 13:31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
That is what the Holy Spirit, Whom is God, in us is leading us to do: to honour the Son in seeking His glory and by Him, honouring and glorifying the Father in the process.
The Father is not honoured nor glorified by honouring and glorifying the Holy Spirit in its "visitation of signs and lying wonders" which is proof that it is not the Holy Spirit when in according to our faith, He is in us as promised by faith and not by sight.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Nowadays, if any believer or church experienced a visitation of the "Holy Spirit" where believers "feel" the presense in the worship place and coming over them, they believe every spirit, thus not even testing them to see if they are of God or not. The fact that they feel the spirit coming over them again and again and again proves it is not of God.
1 John 4:1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.... 4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
The irony is lost to those that have gone astray because if these are not seducing spirits in these "holy laughter" movement which is mainly a Pentecostal/ Charismatic streamlined event, occurs in Catholic and Protestant churches, what is?
1 Timothy 4:1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Many will tell you that they believe the Spirit is in them, but yet preach and seek to receove the Spirit again as if they had not received Him, ignoring this warning from Paul:
2 Corinthians 11:1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
Or from Jesus about the fruit of a false prophet:
Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
The churches have broadened the way by including the Holy Spirit to be addressed and worshipped along with the Father and the Son: which is stepping outside of the will of God and what the Holy Spirit in them is not leading them to do.
Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
The fact that it is ecumenical in nature proves it is a fruit of the false prophet.
That is why to avoid this inqiuity is by keeping your eyes on our forst love, the Son Whom is called the Bridegroom for a reason: Jesus Christ is how we are personal with God the Father. Luke's version of the warning from Jesus gave this solution to avoid this iniquity.
Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
May those that have gone astray shun vain and profane babblings and return to their first love by His grace and by His help as Jesus Christ is the Good Shepherd as well as the Saviour.
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