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Problems in Pentecost
Most Protestant Churches these days have been reduced to local religious entertainment centers and social clubs. Submission demanding control freaks abound in the leadership of both the Charismatic and the more Apostolic type Pentecostal Churches. That is not to say that all Charismatic and Apostolic Preachers fit this description. And yet the abuse of spiritual authority in a lot of these circles is beyond all reason. Some actually teach that if they baptize you, then you are obligated to them for the rest of your natural born life under the spiritual slavery of their religious authority. And they are not even nice when telling you about it. Like the Mormons and the Jehovah Witnesses they will come right into your home and demand for your submission and obedience to their cult systems. In my honest opinion such men ought to be arrested and then forbidden from abusing their religion against others in such a way; just as they would lock up an intrusive and abusive relative or neighbor and serve them a restraining order to protect others from their abuse.
That might sound a bit extreme and perhaps even vengeful, that is of course until one of these psychos is invited in by an undiscerning loved one. And they begin to share their teaching only to get half way through it before serious questions arise due to the unsoundness of their heresies. And then they start insulting everyone in the house and disrespectfully demand submission and silence until they have made their point. Then they refuse to leave until you admit that their heresies are right and because you can not agree with them you must risk violence by physically removing them or you must call the police just to get them out the door? I've had a couple of such like experiences and they leave you feeling mentally and emotionally vandalized and spiritually violated. The only word to describe it is "evil."
Sadly, I foresee laws coming that shall criminalize the most innocent and honest efforts of true Christians for exercising their God given freedom to respectfully Preach the Gospel and to Minister God’s Word. And yet the abusive practices of the Cults shall be totally ignored by the same governmental authorities which shall persecute and prosecute true believers.
Now understand, I did not say that all Apostolic or Pentecostal Churches are Cults! As a matter of fact some of the godliest, most anointed, convicting and spiritually liberating sermon messages I've ever heard have been preached by both Trinity and Oneness Pentecostal Preachers. Yet I do believe that the Charismatic Church at large is indeed cultic in their beliefs and practices. The idolatry of giving mere men godlike status and placing extra Biblical experiences on the same par with and even above the written Word of God is only a couple of examples of their extreme heresies. In my personal opinion God has written ICHABOD across their movement and has turned it over to the Devil. And this is in no way some far fetched notion that has no factual or visible support to validate such a conclusion.
To the contrary; when the Assemblies of God and the Charismatics all began to manifest animal like behaviors as they fell under demon possession in their laughing revivals throughout the nineties, it became rather obvious that God’s presence and glory had departed from that movement. And while there are a precious few Assembly of God Churches left in America which are congregated by mostly godly middle aged and elderly Christians, there are not many young adults left in these Churches who have not been seduced into the compromising spirit of worldliness that has all but damned an entire generation of Christian young people into the perdition of an antichrist delusion.
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