The Same Is A Thief And A Robber-From This Week’s Spirit Journal
As we write this week’s journal I want to make a few statements concerning several current events taking place in our nation at the moment. Over just the past two weeks we have witnessed two separate school shootings, two major earthquakes, a series of devastating tornado events that have destroyed lives and caused billions in property damage, flooding in parts of the Northeast, and drought in the southwest. At the same time the nation seems to be screaming for political change embracing a candidate that uses “change” as his motto yet with very little substance as to how he will bring about that change. Neighbor, let me tell you this.
NO MAN can affect the type of change America needs. No political party can bring about the radical change this nation must experience if we are not to face judgement in the sorest of terms and instead reap revival, blessing and restoration. The change America needs can only be brought about by a Holy Ghost revival that wakes up a sleeping church and brings the church back to the Cross of Christ! It’s at the CROSS where men’s hearts are changed and in affect society.
I don’t mean this to be disrespectful but if Mr. Obama thinks he can do this with his empty rhetoric and dialogue then he has deluded himself as well as the American people who follow him. In many ways he embodies the spirit of Antichrist who will spring forth very soon upon the world stage offering the same type empty promises of change, peace, prosperity and the like if the world but bow down and worship him as God. Billions will do so thinking this demonic creature is the Christ when in fact he will be the Antichrist, the son of perdition, the devil incarnate. He will plunge the world into Great Tribulation waging war against Israel and all those who are left behind yet who get saved after the rapture and name the name of Jesus. It will be Israel’s final holocaust and as she faces certain destruction at His hands, God Himself will come down and rescue her at the great Battle of Armageddon. The spirit of Antichrist is at work today in both the world and the church offering humanity another “door” to God and eternity in heaven outside the path of the Cross! One of Mr. Obama’s biggest supporters in this current Presidential race is none other than TV Mogul and host Oprah Winfrey who has just began a year-long course on the New Age teachings of “A Course in Miracles.” Within this course, lesson #29 asks the reader to go through their day affirming that “God is in everything I see.” Lesson #61 tells each person to repeat the affirmation “I am the light of the world,” and lesson #70 teaches the student to say and believe “My salvation comes from me.” This wholly redefined spiritual mindset—a New Age worldview that includes the belief that there is no sin, no evil, no devil, and that God is “in” everyone and everything- has caused millions once grounded in the faith to sadly rethink everything they believe about God and life.
The Course Workbook even bluntly states: “This is a course in mind training” and is dedicated to “thought reversal.” Teaching a Course in Miracles will be Oprah’s longtime friend Marianne Williamson—who also happens to be one of today’s premier New Age leaders. She and Conversations with God author Neale Donald Walsch co-founded the American Renaissance Alliance in 1997, that later became the Global Renaissance Alliance of New Age leaders, that changed its name again in 2005 to the Peace Alliance. This Peace Alliance seeks to usher in an era of global peace founded on the principles of a New Age/New Spirituality that they are now referring to as a “civil rights movement for the soul.” They all agree that the principles of this New Age/New Spirituality are clearly articulated in A Course in Miracles—which is fast becoming the New Age Bible.
Along side this same heresy is a global peace plan being promoted at the present time by the author of the Purpose Driven Life book that sounds eerily similar to this same course in miracles. The ideology of both are the same. According to the founders and writers of a Course in Miracles, this program/course is allegedly “new revelation” from “Jesus” to help humanity work through these troubled times. This “Jesus”—who bears no doctrinal resemblance to the Bible’s Jesus Christ—began delivering his channeled teachings in 1965 to a Columbia University Professor of Medical Psychology by the name of Helen Schucman.
One day Schucman heard an “inner voice” stating, “This is a course in miracles. Please take notes.” For seven years she diligently took spiritual dictation from this inner voice that described himself as “Jesus.” A Course in Miracles was quietly published in 1975 by the Foundation for Inner Peace. For many years “the Course” was an underground cult classic for New Age seekers who studied “the Course” individually, with friends, or in small study groups.
Here are some quotes from the “Jesus” of A Course in Miracles:
“There is no sin. . . “ A “slain Christ has no meaning.” “The journey to the cross should be the last ‘useless journey.”
“Do not make the pathetic error of ‘clinging to the old rugged cross.’” “The Name of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol… It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods to which you pray.” “God is in everything I see.” “The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself.” “The oneness of the Creator and the creation is your wholeness, your sanity and your limitless power.” “The Atonement is the final lesson he [man] need learn, for it teaches him that, never having sinned, he has no need of salvation.”
These words are not coming from some bearded guru in the Arabian desert with a few hundred followers; these words are coming from a book/course promoted by one of America’s leading talk show hosts whose influence is go great some who claim their born again, especially women, worship her as a source of truth and godliness. SHE IS NOT!
Let this writer scream this to the top of his lungs today through the words of this journal: Jesus Christ’s death DID have a meaning and that meaning is that mankind was bound by sin’s grip; the powers of darkness so controlled man that because of the fall man would never be right and man is STILL not right even today. Man’s problems are not tied to man’s lack of self-esteem or lack of education. Man is a SINNER and man needs a Redeemer! Sin’s grip is so powerful that millions are caught in its grasp, not knowing where to turn or where to go for help. When this imbecilic individual who wrote this course says “the name of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol,” they are so deluded and in such desperate need of saving faith words beggar description.
Jesus Christ’s atoning death on the cross of Calvary was hardly a “useless journey but it was where He triumphed over the powers of darkness, broke Satan’s chains and the shackles of sin; He TRIUMPHED over sin’s penalty which was death then and is still death today - the WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, but the GIFT of God through Christ Jesus is eternal life! His triumph on the Cross and HIS TRIUMPH ALONE provides man’s ONLY salvation to all those who confess their sin, accept Him and follow Him as their Lord and SAVIOUR. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO VICTORY, HEALING AND SALVATION.
THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO DELIVERANCE and there is NOT ANOTHER way into the presence of God except one come by faith through His precarious death, burial and resurrection. His victory on the cross rings throughout the New Testament and has been gloriously sung about in beloved hymns through the ages and is at the heart of our Christian testimony. It’s AT THE CROSS where man FIRST saw the light and the BURDEN of my heart ROLLED AWAY; it was there by FAITH, I received my sight and NOW, and NOW, and NOW, and NOW, I am happy all the day.
It is rank blasphemy and deception to the uttermost that some new age guru with the backing of one of America’s most powerful voices would come in His name claiming that a “slain Christ has no meaning” and that we are all “God” and that we are all “Christ.” But ah, let me get down to where you live. This same attitude and spirit not only prevails in society, but it has crept into the church as well. That is why I feel led this week by the Holy Spirit to deal with this passage in John concerning the DOOR to God and how there is not two, three, four, ten, twenty or fifty other ways to get to the Father. There is only ONE DOOR and that door must come through CHRIST and CHRIST ALONE!
The New Age teachings of A Course in Miracles is being taught as we speak and write these words by Marianne Williamson to millions of listeners on Oprah’s XM Satellite Radio program. Popular author Wayne Dyer told his PBS television audience that the “brilliant writing” of A Course in Miracles would produce more peace in the world. Williamson’s New Age colleague, Neale Donald Walsch, someone by the way that is quoted over and over again in Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Church AND the Purpose Driven Life, said his “God” stated that “the era of the Single SAVIOUR is over”22 and that he (“God”) was responsible for authoring the teachings of A Course in Miracles.
Meanwhile, Gerald Jampolsky’s Course in Miracles-based book, Forgiveness, was sold in Robert Schuler’s Crystal Cathedral bookstore as Schuler hosted this past January, “Rethink Conference” at his Crystal Cathedral. At this critical time in the history of the world, the New Gospel/New Spirituality is coming right at the world and the church with its New Age teachings and its New Age Peace Plan. But this New Age Peace Plan has at its deceptive core the bottom-line teaching from A Course in Miracles that “we are all one” because God is “in” everyone and everything. And along that same thought is the feeling that “all paths lead to God” and it matters not whether you are a Buddhist, a Shintoist, a Muslim, a Mormon, a Jehovah Witness, Catholic, or whatever other false faith there may be. We are “all going to the same place,” is the cry heard behind news media outlets and now an alarming growing number of pulpits in this nation.
It is time for the Purpose-Driven and Emerging church pastors to address the real issue of the day and become a voice, a trumpet and a prophetic hammer against such. However, instead of that taking place, most pastors are gleefully embracing this false gospel and in turn damning millions of souls to an eternal devil’s hell. Our true Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is being reinvented, redefined, and blasphemed right in front of our eyes and hardly anyone seems to notice or care. Read the rest of the journal here
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