JUL 6

Matthew 24:15-28
Memorise 1 John 4:1-6
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits”

WHAT IS THE ECCLESIASTICAL SIGN? (II)

Another very famous false evangelist is Rodney Howard Browne (“Laughing Revival”). Rodney Howard Browne once demanded of God, “Either You come down here and touch me, or I will come up there and touch You” (the prayer Howard Browne prayed before he got the so-called “anointing”). Rodney Howard Browne went on, “Stop praying now and let the joy bubble out your belly. Joy, Joy, Joy. Don’t pray! Laugh!…You can’t have revival without stirring up the flesh. When revival comes you will see manifestations of these three things in meetings: (1) the Holy Spirit, (2) the flesh, and (3) the devil. But, I’d rather be in a church where the devil and the flesh are manifesting than in a church where nothing is happening because people are too afraid to manifest anything. Don’t worry about it. And if a devil manifests, don’t worry about that either. Rejoice, because at least something is happening!”

“One night I was preaching on hell,” Rodney Howard Browne says, “and laughter just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like, the more they laughed. I’m just the Holy Ghost bartender. I just serve the new wine and tell them to come drink”. O what a mockery he makes of hell and the filling of the Holy Spirit!

Prominent “Televangelists” like Benny Hinn and Rodney Howard Browne are deceiving thousands and millions of people today. Living in the midst of such great deception and danger, what should we do? The Bible tells us to “try the spirits.” To “try” means to “test” with the idea of discerning between truth and error. We cannot be gullible and ignorant in the things of God.

Dear teen, true Christians must be well grounded in God’s Word. In order to know that a counterfeit dollar note is counterfeit, we must first know what a genuine dollar note looks like. We must know how it feels like; we must pay attention to the watermark, to the printing and to every detail that tells you that the dollar note is genuine. In order to identify erroneous teachings, we must know the truth of God’s Word very well.

In these days of great deception and falsehood, what we need is not shallow Christianity, but discerning Christians.

Thought: Are you able to tell the genuine from the counterfeit?
Prayer: O Lord, grant me discernment.