‘Since Satan is the god of this world and since the institutional church is also in this world, Satan has power and authority in the Harlot. His army of fallen angels and demons have strategically swooped in with false doctrine and practices. Many churchgoers have already departed from the faith and even some of the very elect have received false conversions and counterfeit gifts..
‘Since Satan is the god of this world and since the institutional church is also in this world, Satan has power and authority in the Harlot. His army of fallen angels and demons have strategically swooped in with false doctrine and practices. Many churchgoers have already departed from the faith and even some of the very elect have received false conversions and counterfeit gifts..
‘Since Satan is the god of this world and since the institutional church is also in this world, Satan has power and authority in the Harlot. His army of fallen angels and demons have strategically swooped in with false doctrine and practices. Many churchgoers have already departed from the faith and even some of the very elect have received false conversions and counterfeit gifts..
Some may think that to be born again stops all deception. If you have been reading my books and blogs or watching my videos, then you realize that when I was in the occult, I dealt with spirits outright. I had what was called spirit guides or guardians to whom I communicated every day. I called, they answered. They called, I answered. Once I got born again, the spirits changed their tactics, to try to cause me to believe I was communicating with God and for 25 years, they were successful.
I REPEAT. RELIGIOUS SPIRITS DECEIVED ME AS A SAVED CHRISTIAN FOR 25 years!!!!
First, an entity imitating God sent me three dreams that told me the same thing. I was urged to find Rev. Smith. Pushed and compelled by unseen forces, finally I followed their instructions and I found him. Immediately, I joined his church, where I entered into ministry two years later.
This is the key point to remember. I WAS BORN AGAIN!!! I followed the spirit’s guidance, deceived into believing that I was being led of the Holy Ghost. Instead, I was being led by a religious demon whose intent was to get me to join that evil, sinful church, pastored by Rev. Smith, a down low Jamaican warlock. Once a minister in training, I became in bondage to a wicked, corrupt international denomination.
The purpose of my personal example is to make a general point.
If the enemy can dupe and deceive the saved, what do you think religious demons can do with those who have had a false conversion who still believe they are saved but they are not?
Just because a person is born again does not make them “deception proof.”
The Lord would not have warned His disciples to “take heed and be not deceived” if there was no danger that they COULD be deceived. It does not matter how many things you are or were deceived about. In my case, for 25 years, I was deceived about a few things in comparison to what other churchgoers were deceived about. Yet the Holy Spirit did not release me from the deception until He was ready to. He simply stepped in when He chose the time to be right and started unravelling things.
What I remain cautious and watchful about is this. Just because I am undeceived NOW, does not mean that it is impossible for me to be deceived again. For me to think otherwise would be both proud and arrogant and I do not want God to resist me. Humility is a key factor to freedom from deception.
So what is deception?
Deception has to do with thoughts in the mind. Simply put, we believe a lie or a half truth. The worst of it are the assumptions we hold dear, for example, that the institutional church is the bride of Christ when she is not. The Bride is not a building or an organization. The Bride is not just one generation who goes to church. The Bride is spiritual, consisting of all born again believers who have lived and died believing on The Lord. So with even one wrong assumption like my example, deception will continue.
So The truth is that if you start off with even one little wrong assumption, everything else falls like dominos.
As I am reading some of the works of some ministers who have a decent portion of truth in their arsenal, I am watching how can those who started out with truth have fallen to deception. It is amazing how the enemy has used the truth truth they began with and led them into a lie. What happens is that the enemy takes advantage of our misconception of truth. He uses the weaknesses of our personalities to lead us into believing what suits us best.
This realization is humbling me quite a bit. I believe that once we are given truth, we have to seek God in prayer to help us not to misunderstand truth for our conception of truth may cause us to err.
So my question is “how do we make ourselves fool-proofed to deception?”
I think we can all answer this from experience. We begin by examining how we got deceived, what was it about us that caused us to be open to the deception, and how did we come out of it?
Consider the work of a grifter, a scam artist in search of a mark. The mark will have a glaring character flaw that the grifter will recognize as being perfect to the productivity and success of the scam. Greed, manifested as a desire to get something that he does not deserve at the expense of others or the system at large. Also the mark’s pride in his own personal sophistication and prowess will stop him from exposing the scam to the police, for fear of looking foolish.
Religious fallen angels and demons operate like grifters and scam artists before they implement their grand deception. Better to know ourselves better than they know us.
If you are in the process of being undeceived, your chances of success will be significantly increased with spiritual support from others. If you could use some help, contact RESCUE at 888-818-1117 or send an email to rescueonfb@icloud.com For more info, visit http://www.aboutrescue.com
If you EVER dabbled in the occult, then your personality is susceptible to witchcraft as a work of your flesh. What do you do with a work of the flesh? YOU CRUCIFY IT. Treat it like it is DEAD! You cannot cast out what is a part of your personality.
If you have any questions email rescueonfb@icloud.com or call 1-888-818-1117.
Do you find yourself unmotivated and wearied to follow after the things of God? Do you feel complacency upon your soul because you have believed a lie “That you have nothing to offer, that the work is already done, or it is impossible to do?” You have a SOUL ( your mind, will and emotions ) that you can control- You can acknowledge that you have transgressed against His Truth, that you have stepped off the path and you can choose to step right back on. It is simply a daily conscious effort on OUR PART. If we proclaim that we desire to follow His Truth, than we must do ( obey ) what is necessary to do so. We all must acknowledge that it is not enough to just be a part of its audience, but to long after IT tenaciously, so that we have something to GIVE to each other, and to be changed and set free from the bondage of deception all around us. His life is Truth, and as believers it is OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO contend for it.
As not Born Again, I was still interested VERY MUCH in the things of GOD. Many say they are, but have learned just to become religious, treating the WORD and the way of God as a compartment to their lives. This “following Truth” is either the essence of WHO YOU ARE or ‘who’ you are not. IF it is in you to long after it and you know this, then Born Again or not, you must HEED that which is in you, and keep yourself from getting weary in doing so. This is in ME, but I allowed myself to become ‘complacent’, because of being consumed with the temporal things of this WORLD, that don’t amount to spiritual freedom or growth, but instead, taking me down a slippery path to becoming more deceived in my mind. WE have to continually BE AWARE of ‘WHAT WE THINK ABOUT.’ We may not express it out loud, but we are in danger of believing ourselves to be something that we are not, in the spiritual vanities of our minds. The ‘religious’ are content to STAY THERE, after all, it is what feeds them over and over again, as their mindset is wired for the entrance of more and more spiritual vanities, until or if they are awakened to some undeception.. . It is not important to them to deny the things of the flesh, so as to follow TRUTH instead.
Unfortunately, through the institutional church and all other world distractors, we have been taught to frustrate and complicate things, as it is part of the deception of the enemy. (If we are deceived, then everything seems MORE important than the work of GOD’S TRUTH.) It is a ‘fight’ we will fight to the end, but as we obey God’s call to HIS TRUTH, we will not only please Him, we will begin to feel a GREATER NEED FOR MORE AND MORE TRUTH TO BE FOUND IN HIM, – IT WILL CHANGE US AND MAY ALSO BRING ABOUT OUR SALVATION. If we are PASSIVE in our seeking The LORD, then we are LIARS BEFORE HIM. That may seem harsh to express, BUT TO BE PASSIVE, INDIFFERENT or CARELESS to HIS TRUTH…IS to continue to WALK in LIES. Whether you are Born Again or waiting for salvation, as a believer, you still have the power of choice to “follow after” HIS TRUTH and make it the NUMBER ONE PRIORITY in your life.
What motivates you? Who are you in this world?
If you would like more understanding on serving the Lord in these end-times, and believe yourself to be called to TRUTH, please contact getreadyforthelord@gmail.com or call 888-818-1117
Get ready to stretch your religious paradigm and be challenged by His Truth in this end-time read: The Church of the End-Time Zombies.
‘Since Satan is the god of this world and since the institutional church is also in this world, Satan has power and authority in the Harlot. His army of fallen angels and demons have strategically swooped in with false doctrine and practices. Many churchgoers have already departed from the faith and even some of the very elect have received false conversions and counterfeit gifts..
We know from scriptures that foretold what is now history of the need for separation of church and state. The state is the political world. We also know that Satan is the god of all world systems. In fact, the greatest temptation against the Lord was Satan’s offer of dominion over the world to Jesus as a bonus if only the Lord would worship him. So separation of church and state is an absolute mandate. Consequently, it should not surprise us that the coming together of church and state is a top priority for the devil.
Although we are not privy to exactly when the Lord Jesus Christ will return to earth, scripture DOES provide a rather complete picture of the state of both religious and political affairs of the season, with many metaphorical and physical signs and conditions. Although we may disagree with the order of endtime signs, the symbolic understanding of both Jezebel and the Harlot of the book of Revelation universally represent the institutional church. The IC is “that woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces the servants of God—the elect—to commit fornication with strange gods.” (Rev 2:20)
SO Jezebel is the apostate church. So is the harlot.
When we read that the harlot, or whore who rides on the back of the Beast, the interpretation is that the IC will seek to gain power offered by the political system. The beast is the Antichrist. For decades in our times, church leaders have sought and gained favor with local politicians by allowing candidates into their pulpits to promote themselves. In fact, pastors have successfully balanced on a legal tightrope, trying not to openly break the law by publicly endorsing any “favorites.”
The 1954 Johnson amendment legislates that any tax-exempt group can lose its exemption if it is found to have endorsed or actively opposed a candidate for political office. Actually, for decades now, the IC’s receipt of tax exempt status is in itself the blurring of the lines of separation between church and state. Yet just a bit less than 4 months into his presidency, Trump signed an executive order that allows church leaders to openly endorse any politician of their choice, from the pulpit, now fully unhindered from riding the back of the beast.
This is just the beginning.
Expectancy, watchfulness and preparedness must be our way of life in this 11 th hour. If you have been paying attention to the news, there is evidence that the newly elected administration in the U.S quietly has enhanced the already blurred lines of religious and political separation, particularly among white charismatic Christians and those who are bigots and racists. What these bible thumpers have overlooked by their prideful, ambitious patronage is the biblical warning that in the tribulation, the governments of this world shall turn on the institution called “church” and suddenly destroy Her.
Nevertheless, the Lord comforted us 2000 years ago, by saying “Fear not!”
The time will come, when the Beast is in full power, that the institutional church will be taken over by the state and ultimately destroyed.
Where will YOU be at that time?
Church-hopping?
It won’t help. You don’t want to have your name and address on any church roles in Endtimes.
Best to come out NOW! RESCUE is here to help you plan your transition, make your escape on the down low, without a lot of drama. Either call us at 888-818-1117 or send an email to getreadyforthelord@gmail.com
Right on the heels of the Charlottesville riots, Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport, Texas bringing with it death and the loss of property. One of the major headlines concerning this natural disaster had to do with Joel Osteen, a prominent, mega-preacher in Texas who sent a tweet stating that he and his wife will pray for the those affected. The backlash started almost immediately on alot of social media platforms. Many tweets, memes, videos were posted where people were berating Joel and demanding more than “prayers” from him.
Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church are experiencing a PR nightmare, we have seen corporations that have bounced back from corporate gaffes and others destroyed from it. We are yet to see how this incident will affect Joel in the long-term. The Institutional Church herein referred to as the (I.C.) is part of the world system so it uses the tactics of the world to get by, the Spirit of God is not in any of their dealings.
There are those who have shown unwavering support for Joel but what caught my interest is that there is a substantial amount of people as seen on social media who feel one thing for mega-preachers – ANGER. Gone are the days when people would shy away from speaking against a “man of God.” After Joel’s tweet, the comments came fast & furious making it seem like people were waiting for an incident to happen so they can let loose and tell Joel what they really feel.
There are people who are mad, fuming not just at Joel but at the I.C. and at mega-preachers. In some way it felt like there was nothing Joel could do to appease the critics, the arguments started with why didn’t he open the church early to he opened the church because of the social media pressure. Any interview Joel gave was dissected to show how his efforts weren’t genuine, even his body language was being analyzed to strengthen the claims that he didn’t want to be there helping people. Every thing he did was an offense.
Clearly, there are people who still love & support mega preachers but there is also another group that have become weary of mega-preachers and refuse to see any good in them. This group sees mega-preachers as scammers, Period! even acts of kindness are looked at suspiciously as many wait for the money grab to be revealed sooner or later.
I have belonged to both groups of people at different times in my life. I have blindly loved and supported mega-preachers and even defended them to critics, then as the years went by I became a critic as I noticed their teachings were pseudo-deep, they embraced the world and repeatedly taught the prosperity gospel. I left the church and would watch a lot of videos exposing ministries and false preachers we have today, which are plenty. The Irony is, in both states I thought I was walking in truth but the reality was I was still deceived. I had some partial truth in that I could see some of these leaders were false teachers but I still engaged in I.C. practices & believed I was born again because I had asked Jesus into my heart, I believed in a false gospel.
The major spiritual problem today is not the mega preacher phenomenon or false teachers – that is just a symptom of a bigger issue. If we spent time analyzing who is a false prophet and who isn’t we would be here for days as the list is endless. Time is really of the essence so what you need to see is that the entire I.C. is condemned and the Spirit of God is not there. For those who have left the I.C., if they still engaged in religious practices or hold on to church teachings, they could still be deceived.
Pastor Pam Sheppard addresses the Spiritual problem in our time in The Church of The End Time Zombies, an excerpt reads:-
“Statistics show that floods of people are leaving the I.C. daily. The question is, where are they going? It could be that many of these folk are just joining up with yet another branch of the I.C. or doing the I.C. thing at home. Opening a church in your home by teaching the same false doctrines and practices, causes your home to be just as dangerous.”
The I.C. has been taken over by fallen angels and demons, nothing good can come out of it. The Lord Jesus already prophesied the future of the I.C. in the parable of the mustard seed.
As people who are preparing for the return of the Lord Jesus, we need to understand that holding on to partial truths is just as dangerous as believing a lie. It is good to know who is a false teacher, so you can avoid their traps, but spending time studying and exposing one preacher to the next is a tedious task as there are many.
The I.C isn’t under attack by being infiltrated by false teachers, it’s actually the I.C. that creates an environment for these preachers to grow and thrive. A word from Pastor Pam concerning mega-pastors in her own personal experience.
“A word of caution. The religious demon assigned to me tried to set me up to become a false prophet. In several dreams, he showed me standing before huge audiences, walking up and down across a platform with my bible in my hand, preaching and teaching. He even showed me pastoring a church of about 10,000 people. Because I sought after the power to slay in the spirit, after 10 years of seeking, I got it. I could wave my hand, and certain ones would fall out, unconscious. However, I began to question this power because I noticed that the ones in my congregation who fell out the most, were also those who could not STAND for the Lord, relapsing or backsliding constantly. So I said to myself, “Pam, there is something wrong with this so-called gift. This cannot be from the Holy Ghost!” Once I prayed to the Lord and asked Him to “show me the darkness,” I got quite the wakeup call that revealed that the mega preacher phenomena of today is NOT of the Lord. It is a combination of human charisma, “anointed” by the enemy’s power.”
Understand the times that we live in so you won’t be deceived with the spiritual blindness that’s all over, if you don’t know where to start, read “The Church of the End Time Zombies”, you can get a copy at:-
We know from scriptures that foretold what is now history of the need for separation of church and state. The state is the political world. We also know that Satan is the god of all world systems. In fact, the greatest temptation against the Lord was Satan’s offer of dominion over the world to Jesus as a bonus if only the Lord would worship him. So separation of church and state is an absolute mandate. Consequently, it should not surprise us that the coming together of church and state is a top priority for the devil.
Although we are not privy to exactly when the Lord Jesus Christ will return to earth, scripture DOES provide a rather complete picture of the state of both religious and political affairs of the season, with many metaphorical and physical signs and conditions. Although we may disagree with the order of endtime signs, the symbolic understanding of both Jezebel and the Harlot of the book of Revelation universally represent the institutional church. The IC is “that woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces the servants of God—the elect—to commit fornication with strange gods.” (Rev 2:20)
SO Jezebel is the apostate church. So is the harlot.
When we read that the harlot, or whore who rides on the back of the Beast, the interpretation is that the IC will seek to gain power offered by the political system. The beast is the Antichrist. For decades in our times, church leaders have sought and gained favor with local politicians by allowing candidates into their pulpits to promote themselves. In fact, pastors have successfully balanced on a legal tightrope, trying not to openly break the law by publicly endorsing any “favorites.”
The 1954 Johnson amendment legislates that any tax-exempt group can lose its exemption if it is found to have endorsed or actively opposed a candidate for political office. Actually, for decades now, the IC’s receipt of tax exempt status is in itself the blurring of the lines of separation between church and state. Yet just a bit less than 4 months into his presidency, Trump signed an executive order that allows church leaders to openly endorse any politician of their choice, from the pulpit, now fully unhindered from riding the back of the beast.
This is just the beginning.
Expectancy, watchfulness and preparedness must be our way of life in this 11 th hour. If you have been paying attention to the news, there is evidence that the newly elected administration in the U.S quietly has enhanced the already blurred lines of religious and political separation, particularly among white charismatic Christians and those who are bigots and racists. What these bible thumpers have overlooked by their prideful, ambitious patronage is the biblical warning that in the tribulation, the governments of this world shall turn on the institution called “church” and suddenly destroy Her.
Nevertheless, the Lord comforted us 2000 years ago, by saying “Fear not!”
The time will come, when the Beast is in full power, that the institutional church will be taken over by the state and ultimately destroyed.
Where will YOU be at that time?
Church-hopping?
It won’t help. You don’t want to have your name and address on any church roles in Endtimes.
Best to come out NOW! RESCUE is here to help you plan your transition, make your escape on the down low, without a lot of drama. Either call us at 888-818-1117 or send an email to getreadyforthelord@gmail.com
Do you find yourself unmotivated and wearied to follow after the things of God? Do you feel complacency upon your soul because you have believed a lie “That you have nothing to offer, that the work is already done, or it is impossible to do?” You have a SOUL ( your mind, will and emotions ) that you can control- You can acknowledge that you have transgressed against His Truth, that you have stepped off the path and you can choose to step right back on. It is simply a daily conscious effort on OUR PART. If we proclaim that we desire to follow His Truth, than we must do ( obey ) what is necessary to do so. We all must acknowledge that it is not enough to just be a part of its audience, but to long after IT tenaciously, so that we have something to GIVE to each other, and to be changed and set free from the bondage of deception all around us. His life is Truth, and as believers it is OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO contend for it.
As not Born Again, I was still interested VERY MUCH in the things of GOD. Many say they are, but have learned just to become religious, treating the WORD and the way of God as a compartment to their lives. This “following Truth” is either the essence of WHO YOU ARE or ‘who’ you are not. IF it is in you to long after it and you know this, then Born Again or not, you must HEED that which is in you, and keep yourself from getting weary in doing so. This is in ME, but I allowed myself to become ‘complacent’, because of being consumed with the temporal things of this WORLD, that don’t amount to spiritual freedom or growth, but instead, taking me down a slippery path to becoming more deceived in my mind. WE have to continually BE AWARE of ‘WHAT WE THINK ABOUT.’ We may not express it out loud, but we are in danger of believing ourselves to be something that we are not, in the spiritual vanities of our minds. The ‘religious’ are content to STAY THERE, after all, it is what feeds them over and over again, as their mindset is wired for the entrance of more and more spiritual vanities, until or if they are awakened to some undeception.. . It is not important to them to deny the things of the flesh, so as to follow TRUTH instead.
Unfortunately, through the institutional church and all other world distractors, we have been taught to frustrate and complicate things, as it is part of the deception of the enemy. (If we are deceived, then everything seems MORE important than the work of GOD’S TRUTH.) It is a ‘fight’ we will fight to the end, but as we obey God’s call to HIS TRUTH, we will not only please Him, we will begin to feel a GREATER NEED FOR MORE AND MORE TRUTH TO BE FOUND IN HIM, – IT WILL CHANGE US AND MAY ALSO BRING ABOUT OUR SALVATION. If we are PASSIVE in our seeking The LORD, then we are LIARS BEFORE HIM. That may seem harsh to express, BUT TO BE PASSIVE, INDIFFERENT or CARELESS to HIS TRUTH…IS to continue to WALK in LIES. Whether you are Born Again or waiting for salvation, as a believer, you still have the power of choice to “follow after” HIS TRUTH and make it the NUMBER ONE PRIORITY in your life.
What motivates you? Who are you in this world?
If you would like more understanding on serving the Lord in these end-times, and believe yourself to be called to TRUTH, please contact getreadyforthelord@gmail.com or call 888-818-1117
Get ready to stretch your religious paradigm and be challenged by His Truth in this end-time read: The Church of the End-Time Zombies.
Do you find yourself unmotivated and wearied to follow after the things of God? Do you feel complacency upon your soul because you have believed a lie “That you have nothing to offer, that the work is already done, or it is impossible to do?” You have a SOUL ( your mind, will and emotions ) that you can control- You can acknowledge that you have transgressed against His Truth, that you have stepped off the path and you can choose to step right back on. It is simply a daily conscious effort on OUR PART. If we proclaim that we desire to follow His Truth, than we must do ( obey ) what is necessary to do so. We all must acknowledge that it is not enough to just be a part of its audience, but to long after IT tenaciously, so that we have something to GIVE to each other, and to be changed and set free from the bondage of deception all around us. His life is Truth, and as believers it is OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO contend for it.
As not Born Again, I was still interested VERY MUCH in the things of GOD. Many say they are, but have learned just to become religious, treating the WORD and the way of God as a compartment to their lives. This “following Truth” is either the essence of WHO YOU ARE or ‘who’ you are not. IF it is in you to long after it and you know this, then Born Again or not, you must HEED that which is in you, and keep yourself from getting weary in doing so. This is in ME, but I allowed myself to become ‘complacent’, because of being consumed with the temporal things of this WORLD, that don’t amount to spiritual freedom or growth, but instead, taking me down a slippery path to becoming more deceived in my mind. WE have to continually BE AWARE of ‘WHAT WE THINK ABOUT.’ We may not express it out loud, but we are in danger of believing ourselves to be something that we are not, in the spiritual vanities of our minds. The ‘religious’ are content to STAY THERE, after all, it is what feeds them over and over again, as their mindset is wired for the entrance of more and more spiritual vanities, until or if they are awakened to some undeception.. . It is not important to them to deny the things of the flesh, so as to follow TRUTH instead.
Unfortunately, through the institutional church and all other world distractors, we have been taught to frustrate and complicate things, as it is part of the deception of the enemy. (If we are deceived, then everything seems MORE important than the work of GOD’S TRUTH.) It is a ‘fight’ we will fight to the end, but as we obey God’s call to HIS TRUTH, we will not only please Him, we will begin to feel a GREATER NEED FOR MORE AND MORE TRUTH TO BE FOUND IN HIM, – IT WILL CHANGE US AND MAY ALSO BRING ABOUT OUR SALVATION. If we are PASSIVE in our seeking The LORD, then we are LIARS BEFORE HIM. That may seem harsh to express, BUT TO BE PASSIVE, INDIFFERENT or CARELESS to HIS TRUTH…IS to continue to WALK in LIES. Whether you are Born Again or waiting for salvation, as a believer, you still have the power of choice to “follow after” HIS TRUTH and make it the NUMBER ONE PRIORITY in your life.
What motivates you? Who are you in this world?
If you would like more understanding on serving the Lord in these end-times, and believe yourself to be called to TRUTH, please contact getreadyforthelord@gmail.com or call 888-818-1117
Get ready to stretch your religious paradigm and be challenged by His Truth in this end-time read: The Church of the End-Time Zombies.
I find that the easiest people for me to work with in regards to rational, commonsense conversations concerning the evils within the institutional church and the fact that their own local church is not immune from Satanic deception, is when someone contacts me who is in torment, and who also is suffering from the delusion that they are born again. Does not the bible declare that “God did not give us a spirit of fear and of torment, but He gave us a sound mind.” So if your mind is not sound and you are in torment, it becomes clear and logical to ask the question, “How could I possibly be born again?
Furthermore, if you’ve been in a local church for several years , and the leadership still has not recognized your problems, nor have they helped you with them, it becomes a lot easier to ask yourself “how could God be in there?” When a churchgoer starts to think outside his or her religious box, the result is that he or she is free to also to take note of how many people in his local church are patients in the mental health system or the substance abuse system with all kinds of strange health and medical problems, yet healing and deliverance is consistently preached. Finally, when you are free in your mind to consider that the pastor’s family is not delivered, aren’t these apparent contradictions signs that God is not there?
I find it best to reason with the deceived, rather than use the bible as a weapon to “bang, bang, bang, bang” folk over their heads. People need to be encouraged to operate with a sound mind so as to come to their own conclusions. When a sound mind is delivered from the bondage of passivity, churchgoers will pose their own questions like ” how is this happening , and why is that not happening?”Church folk quickly pick up the lingo, and will go about declaring “I’m blessed! I’m blessed, I’ve got this, I’ve got that, so I’m blessed!” And most of the time, they either really don’t believe that; or they are in serious bondage to a delusion. And so, when I hear such a declaration, I enquire “what does it mean to be blessed? ” I will do a church folk thing and ask “how does the bible define the nature of being blessed?” For example, in Psalm 1. “Blessed is the man (or woman) that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly.” And then, I share with them that what their church is preaching is ungodly counsel. As the most important example of ungodly counsel, you have been taught that you can accept God. The truth is that if you are to be born again, God has already chosen YOU and not the other way around.
Then Psalm 1 continues with not walking in the counsel of the ungodly, or standeth in the way of sinners. Then I would ask the question, “Can you tell the difference between the folk in your local church and sinners by the way they look, the way they operate, the way they talk, the places that they go? this is a subject for yet another post.
“Or sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” One of the things I get the churchgoer to notice is that the devil loves to mock the church and people who present themselves as the pillars of the church. For example, with Benny Hinn, they haven’t been able to find anybody of all those people that he has waved his hands at, or prayed for, or declared healed. Among all those thousands upon thousands of people. the last I heard is that there is no proven record that even ONE really got healed.
So I think its important to ask church folk who come our way this important question. “What is the I. C. really doing for you? Why do you say you’re blessed? Are you really? Is there any fear and torment operating in you or in your family? Are you in captivity to the devil? How can you be in captivity to the devil and you go to church every time the doors are open? Why are you suffering with this or that and you’re a faithful and committed churchgoer?” These are some of the kinds of questions that people will be offended by but they will ponder when the dust clears. . “Do you hear from God? Are your prayers being answered? Tell me some of the prophecies that have been said over you. Have they come to pass?”
When I was in the IC as a pastor, the devil was talking to me constantly. I thought I was hearing from God. He would make me promises in dreams that he KNEW would never come to pass. His motive was to cause me to weaken in faith and to distrust God. Once my eyes were opened to the truth, I rarely hear from the enemy in this manner. Once his tricks were exposed, he did exactly what the Apostle Paul wrote that he would do. I resisted him and he fled from me.
So if you are constantly hearing things or receiving visions and you believe it’s the Lord, you need to check yourself by trying the spirits. The devil was talking to me just about every day, and every day I thought it was God. His pattern was to reveal 3 things about my future. When two things came to pass, I was duped into thinking the third and most important thing would transpire, BUT IT did not.
So what kind of blessing is that? To be mocked is NOT A BLESSING.
So be bold and sincere enough to ask a deceived churchgoer this question. “Are you being mocked as you sit there on that pew? ? Is the devil using sickness, disease, depression, substance abuse, pornography, to mock you?”
Well if he can mock you this way, without you figuring out the deception, and if you’ve been over to that church all this time, and you STILL don’t see it, then perhaps you ain’t saved either, and God is not there.”
What stirred your own intellect that caused YOU to receive the truth and become undeceived?
If the game is still being played, then why are you STILL stuck on stupid?
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Here is an interesting quote from a blog called Detox From Church For Real, as it pertains to those who have left the
institution called “church.”
“If you’re not careful, keep harping on what’s wrong with church can become YOUR religion. An obsession. An addiction as real as that to crack cocaine…Keeping your spirit’clean’ also means turning away from that which poisons you, that takes you back to that place of being wounded by churchianity. I don’t see recovering drug addicts going back to the crack houses…trying to ‘save’ those who are caught up in the drug scene. SO what’s with religious folks trying to ‘save’ the lost and misguided, the bamboozled, the deceived in church?vThat’s NOT your job anyways…THAT IS THE JOB OF THE HOLY GHOST.” (Wenona Russ)
In ministry while in a denomination for 25 years, I was once one of the wounded, so I personally know the truth of this quote. When the Bishop manipulated the leadership council to remove my name from the membership rolls back in 2004, even though I had been shown by God what would happen nine months before the deed was done, I was still both hurt, bitter and angry. The truth is that when you focus on individuals and not the religiously political system that my enemies represented, bitterness and even outrage will naturally surface. I took out my rage on them in a book, where I changed names but I identified the denomination. I re-wrote the book a few years later, with a new title “Come Out of Her God’s People,” and without identifying the specific church. BT,.I no longer market the original. You see, once a critic stated that I sounded “bitter,” I realized that my literary articulation was being negatively affected by the outrage that I thought I had successfully suppressed.
The truth is that I had allowed “looking back” at their scandals to tarnish my own soul. I have purposed in my heart to refuse to allow any person, place, thing or entity to shape, or even slightly influence the essence of who I am according to who God created me to be. .
Once the Lord revealed to me the deep truth as to why I was rejected by church leaders, I never again looked back at them or their SCANDALS.
You see, there was and I expect continues to be much SCANDAL in this particular sect—so much so that I am reminded of the TV series that bears the same name.
SCANDAL
In this regard, as a former pastor among them, I once knew of loads of COVERED UP denominational scandals among the religious white- washed tombs of the persevering hypocrites. So watching the politicians cover-up of scandals on the TV series reminded me of the games religious folk play.
At first, like everyone else, you look at the individual characters to make an assessment as to who is to blame, who is at fault. With the TV series, you wonder if it is the President or his monstrous Chief of Staff! Or is it his power-hungry First Lady, or perhaps the head of the secret agency called B613? In my “church situation,” , I first looked at the people involved in trying to bring me down in the church. There were three of them.
On the TV series, when you begin to watch each character lie, plot, scheme, manipulate, and even murder, I noticed that at the heart of their behavior is their yet naive attempt to be the good guys, wearing the white hat. The characters are able to live with their mess because they can still rationalize that they did their best to protect the republic. So with all of their political tactics, you have to ask yourself “well! who is the republic?”
And this is the institutional church. . Both politics and religion use the same tactics. Religious folk” kill off” other churchfolk because they believe they are protecting their territory within the IC. Therefore, it is understandable that both politics and religion have their part to play as Mystery Babylon.
Consider the IC.
By any means necessary, whether a famous mega preacher or the choir director or trustee of a 50 member church, the goal is the same. To protect the IC, which like the republic is a non-human entity. A system. A religious system.
The reality is that the problems and SCANDALS of the IC have been built into Her system for the last 17 centuries. so there is no one in the IC today who is really the originator of any of her present circumstances.
Olivia Pope had an interesting revelation about the republic. As the re-election campaign manager for the sitting President, she came to realize that it really did not matter who wins. All three candidates committed murder. The democrat committed a premeditated murder of his wife’s lover, the independent killed her closet gay husband in a fit of rage and covered it up, and the incumbent President killed a dying woman who was about to release a damnable secret to the press!
In other words, ALL THREE CANDIDATES ARE MURDERERS!!!!!
Upon this realization, Olivia got yet another revelation. Working for the republic at any cost changes who you are because through passivity, you lose yourself. Engulfed in darkness, you can no longer stand in the sun.
Herein lies what happens in the IC. Each individual loses him or herself trying to sustain Her. When a member or a pastor become a target of destruction in the denomination I was ordained in, the expression was “the Bishop or the Council killed him or killed her. When a church scandal has been covered up, the devil comes in and takes over.
That is why, rather than spend my energy bashing Her, I focus on restoring individuals who desire freedom from Her. Seeking freedom? Check out RESCUE at www.aboutrescue.com or call 518-477-5759
What are some other reasons why it is fruitless to continue to look back at HER to expose, criticize or blame?
Well, If she were alive, I know of someone who can answer the question by her own personal experience. God warned those He led out of two decadent cities not to look back at what He was destroying. For to look back is a sign that you want to GO back.
One of the main purposes of “the Church of the End-time Zombies: A Guide To Religious Detox” is to prepare YOU to stand alone as the author did for 8 of the 11 years she has been out of organized religion. Once Pam Sheppard started the online Christian fellowship called RESCUE, she now has supportive friends from several American states and others from South Africa, Dubai, India, Antigua, Finland and Canada. A prolific writer, Pam’s books are really an outgrowth of her main passion: deliverance counseling and pastoring. So this book is a labor of love to all the people around the world that Pam would love to personally pastor, particularly those who have been damaged and deceived by religion as peddled by “the religious.”
Since she is without the resources and capability to personally pastor the millions who are in dire need, she is using this book to coach those who will one day have to stand alone as she did. So as a labor of love, Pam has jam-packed almost 300 pages with loads of truths to prepare you for the evil day. It was a book written a century ago that turned Pam’s life upside down and served as the catalyst to open her eyes to comprehend just how deeply the enemy’s infiltration into the institutional church had personally hindered her walk in the spirit. “War on the Saints” set her free from being a Christian zombie for 25 years.
So this her 7th book is motivated by her democratic belief in the free will of the individual to be un-deluded in this Laodicean age of deception where “Satan has deceived the entire world.” For those who have an ear to hear and an eye to see, this eye-opening book will take you on the narrow road to meet the true and real Jesus Christ of Nazareth for yourself, without the influence or the mediation of the blind controlling and leading the blind. This book will pull you out of your religious ditch and cause you to stand on solid, good ground that will prepare you to “really be born again.” In fact, You will be able to clarify for yourself what has kept you deceived and what you need to know to address your own vulnerabilities and triumph over them.
In her 6 earlier books, Pam established and presented a framework to unravel religious deception which she elaborates on and enhances in “the Church of the End-time Zombies.” Nothing is withheld that would be useful to you but one subject, demonic soul-ties, the subject of its own book. This book is conversational in its language style as Pam personally coaches you from each page.
Then there are those of you who do not have to stand alone, as RESCUE still has the capability to receive your membership. To know more about RESCUE, watch these videos.
Don’t forget to get your coaching book to help you stand alone.
I have been watching reruns of one of my favorite TV series of all time, SCANDAL.
Each time, I watch it from a different perspective.
At first, like everyone else, you look at the individual characters to make an assessment as to who is to blame, who is at fault. Is it the president or his monstrous chief of staff! Or is it his power-hungry First Lady, or perhaps the head of the secret agency called B613?
When you begin to watch each individual lie, plot, scheme, manipulate, and even murder, at the heart of their behavior is their yet naive attempt to be the good guys, wearing the white hat. The characters are able to live with their mess because they can still rationalize that they did their best to protect the republic. So with all of their political tactics, you have to ask yourself “well! who is the republic?”
And this is the IC. Both politics and religion use the same tactics. Therefore, it is understandable that both have their part to play as Mystery Babylon.
Consider the IC. By any means necessary, whether a famous mega preacher or the choir director or trustee of a 50 member church, the goal is the same. To protect the IC, which like the republic is a non-human entity, a system. A religious system. The reality is that the problems and SCANDALS of the IC have been built into Her system for the last 17 centuries. so there is no one in the IC today who is really the originator of any of her present circumstances.
Olivia Pope had an interesting revelation about the republic. As the re-election campaign manager for the sitting president, she came to realize that it really did not matter who wins. All three candidates committed murder. The democrat committed a premeditated murder of his wife’s lover, the independent killed her closet gay husband in a fit of rage and covered it up, and the incumbent President killed a dying woman who was about to release a damnable secret to the press!
In other words, ALL THREE CANDIDATES ARE MURDERERS!!!!!
Upon this realization, Olivia got yet another revelation. Working for the republic at any cost changes who you are because through passivity, you lose yourself. Engulfed in darkness, you can no longer stand in the sun.
Herein lies what happens in the IC. Each individual loses him or herself trying to sustain Her.
That is why, rather than spend my energy bashing Her, I focus on restoring individuals who desire freedom from Her. Seeking freedom? check out RESCUE at http://www.aboutrescue.com or call 518-477-5759
what are some other reasons why it is fruitless to continue to look back at HER to expose, criticize or blame?
Just as the spirit of the Anti-Christ has permeated the entire institutional church, it should not be surprising that the enemy of our souls has his hand in the out-of-church movement as well. His goal? To discredit the movement at the ground level. Since I have been a part of the “leave the church scene” for the last 8 years, I have met all kinds of folk, each with a different motive–a different agenda. Yet behind the personalities, the persuasions and the strategies, the enemy is in the midst to bring a stumblingblock against God’s true endtime movement to replace the Harlot.
Churchgoers are varied and diversified,with complex and hidden motives and desires. Out-of-churchers are no less complex. To identify but a few strategies, the out-of-church movement is plagued by the damaged and the deceived. Here are but a few of the enemy’s strategies as they relate to the Harlot, the institutional church:
1. Satan has recruits who have been spiritually raped by the Harlot—former churchgoers who are ruled by an unconscious hatred of Her. Consequently, on a subconscious level, every video they make, every blog they write is compelled by that hatred in a very obsessive fashion. In truth, they are outraged that the church not only abused them but also rejected them like a drunken patron is kicked to the curb and thrown out of “the club.’ There every action breathes “I am gettin even with that whore.”
When you have been stabbed in the heart by people who profess to “be Christian,” it certainly is a hard pill to swallow and Satan knows it. So he is actually the one who staged the abuse and the rejection so that once “out of-church,” Satan can then use their retaliatory attack against the institutional church as a visible indictment od the entire out-of-church movement. As an example, a growing number of damaged ex-churchgoers have YouTube channels and blogs whose sole purpose is to criticize and destroy the Harlot. Yet the enemy ignites their venom toward the goal of making THEM look like merciless and disobedient rebels, in an attempt to do the reverse—discredit the entire out-of-church movement.
2. Satan also has also groomed a new breed of come-out-the church folk who seem to have left the institution because they got tired of following man and desire to wholeheartedly follow God, a noble reason indeed. They speak of intimacy with God, hunger for Jesus and they have left the comfort of stain glass and pews because of an overwhelming love for the Lord and a desire to be led by Him alone. They desire to tear down the Harlot’s walls and to go deeper into a fellowship of closeness with Jesus.
It all sound good.
Yet when you dig deeper and really get to know these folk, all kinds of hidden motives surface. Some are secretly ambitious yet they feign piety. Elitists and separatists are also among them . Yet the worst of it is that many of them have experienced false conversions and they are actually worshipping the fake Jesus Sananda Immanuel. The more they distance themselves from others, the more they teach when they need to be taught, the more they resist any kind of spiritual authority—-the more extreme they become,—- the more they also discredit the out-of-church movement.
There are several other strategies.
However what unites each strategy together to fulfill Satan’s agenda is that they ALL become “religiously non-religious.” In other words, they too become the thing that they are against. They become “religious.” So appalled at anything that even looks like the Harlot, they are against all order, all leadership, all gathering together, all worship—in other word’s they become anti-everything that even remotely reminds them of the IC. As a result , they turn the out-of-church movement into just another sect, pleasing the father of all religion and all sects, Satan himself.
My situation is unique in that as an ordained minister for 25 years, I could not perceive how I could even function in my calling outside of church walls. In fact, when the Lord led me out, He did not provide me with details. He simply said “Pam, If you stay, I cannot use you here. But let them PUT you out.” Nine months later, what I assumed was an impossibility happened. The Harlot PUT me out.
I stayed in my wilderness for the next 7 years. I waited for three years to be sent to another branch of the IC. It never dawned on me that I would not return to a sect or branch of what I had become familiar with, and loved, by the way. Instead, He spoke in 2007 and with these words. ” I am not there. She is like a condemned building. I have judged Her already.” I waited for 4 more years for Him to provide me with a plan and to answer the question, “where do I send folk who come out, and they are seriously damaged?”
In April 2012, I received the plan, Shortly thereafter, the laborers. The faithful five!!!
RESCUE, our online out-of-church ministry is up and running well. If you need us, call 518-477-5759
Holding on to tightly to the past can be a dangerous thing. Especially when the Spirit of the Living God is trying to move you forward!
I speak especially to those people who have ‘left the church,’ per se. But the church has NOT left you.
Oh, you do well, you write well, you blog superbly of how you have left the institutional church. But you speak of Her more like a spurned lover than you do of a healed, delivered WARRIOR.
I used to be that way. I spoke of my past and wore it like a tattered garment. A LOT!
But I stopped doing that when I got DELIVERED! FOR REAL!
You see, what you have to realize is that the Word says to FORGET THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND AND P R E S S!
No, you wont forget the stuff literally. You WILL forget how much it hurt you. Or angered you. Or disappointed you. Or frustrated you.
How can you tell you are still wearing the garment of religiosity, even though you left ‘the church’ 10 years ago?
Classic tell tale signs are:
1) Anger, frustration, depression, remorse or guilt that won’t go anywhere when you hear of something else going on in the church.
You will understand that the closer we get to the end times, the worse this institutional church is going to get. You are prepared for that. You accept it. So when you hear of another scandal, another child being raped, another devout woman contracting HIV from a preacher, you will know that all of these things are plagues of the end time institutional church.
2) A strong desire to return.
If you find yourself missing ANY aspect of the institutional church (i.e. the service, the praise and worship, the covering, etc.) , there is still some religion left in you. You just got to find a reason to go there. That religious demon still has its hooks in you. That’s not a condemnatory statement; it is the truth, in love. I love enough to tell you the truth…that ultimately SETS YOU FREE!
3) All of your time and resources are spent exposing things going on in the institutional church.
Now, I am a proponent of exposure. And I wholeheartedly do believe that things not of God should be exposed. But ALL of my time, resources and energy are no longer spent on exposing the fakes. I mean, come on! If I spent all that time exposing the fakes, I would have no time to do what it is I am CALLED to do….point people to the REAL JESUS, help people recognize the voice of God for themselves and help them in their transition OUT of the church, when they are ready.
4) Pride/Inability and Unwillingness to be Taught
Religion and pride goes hand in hand. People with this trait use the excuse that because ministers and leaders in the institutional church have abused their authority, consequently that in and of itself is supposed to eradicate the necessity to be taught by another. A trick of the enemy is to get folks to get huffy and puffy and refuse to be taught based upon the fact that there are false teachers out here. Remember, there would NEVER be a fake unless there is a REAL. A fake anything is only a cheap replica of the real! Without the real, the fake could NOT exist. Your job is to discern that which is fake and that which is real!
5) You rehearse trauma, abuse and mishaps suffered in the church….over and over again.
And you do so with a victim’s mentality. You are not a victor, but a victim. And God cannot use a victim.
6) You are sort of the Rhona Barrett, the Wendy Williams, of the church. You may or may not go to church, but you sure got all the news about whats going down there. You are obsessed with reporting the latest on what’s going down in ‘the church.’
Instead of focusing your energies on helping the REAL people of God heal from abuses suffered in the church, you are still moaning, crying, reporting, complaining, and getting frustrated over what is happening there. You left, like Pam said in the video, but its really like you never left to begin with!
You have left the church, but the church has NOT left YOU!!!!!!
7) You have this hero mentality. You believe that God has ‘called’ you to rescue folks out of the clutches of the I.C.
This is one of the last things the enemy will deceive folks who have come out with…that it is your job, your calling, to snatch folks out of the I.C. The enemy has you deluded with grandiose perceptions of yourself being a savior of some sort. Super Christian! With the big ‘S’ on your chest! You can leap skycrapers in a single bound…and snatch innocent people out of the clutches of the satanically-driven I.C.
And you are SO deceived with this perception of yourself that you will even DISOBEY GOD and go back to church, under the guise of rescuing souls out of religion! Or out of a plague-ridden church.
THAT is a trap of the enemy.
I remember this movie, one of my favorite, Superman II, where Superman was in this fight with some villains from his old planet Krypton before it was destroyed. There were three of them, two men and a woman. One of the men was called Zod, he was the leader. In this fight scene, Superman was going toe to toe with all three of the villains in the city of Metropolis.
The villains were winning the fight, per se, because Superman was on the WRONG turf.
Superman wisened up and took the fight to HIS turf, his pad in the North Pole. THERE Superman whipped some villain booty!!
Superman realized what a lot of ‘christians’ have not: you cannot go into a den of demons, somewhere where GOD IS NOT and expect to win ANY confrontation with evil.
The VICTORY IS IN JESUS CHRIST. And if JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH is NOT with you, then the fight won’t be won.
You cannot go into a corrupt, condemned, plagued, sin ridden entity that GOD HIMSELF HAS JUDGED AND GIVEN OVER TO THE ENEMY and expect to do any real damage to the kingdom of darkness.
That luring that you feel to go back and ‘fight’ for souls is a T.R.A.P. set up by the enemy for your destruction!
You no longer walk in the power of God when you are in rebellion, or disobedience. You may feel ‘a power’ with you while you are in there. But it is NOT the HOLY GHOST POWER.
It is a false, demonic, wicked, religious demon that empowers those who follow it…straight to their demise.
If this is you, don’t feel bad. I was once there. But I thank GOD for deliverance, and for bringing people like Pamela Sheppard into my life to help me!
If you are looking for help/deliverance, just call 518-477-5759.
I’ve attended church ALL of my
life…been raised in church, in fact. But, to be honest, I had been
confused about what the truth really was because I have heard so
many different gospels from so many different churches, so much so
that I became damaged spiritually by religion. The Holy Ghost
called me out of the church SEVERAL times, but the religion in me
just wrote it off as the devil, thinking that surely God would not
call me out of the church! Indeed, HE DID!
After some very legalistic practices
had been revealed at a church I had faithfully attended for 16
years, I started realizing that something was HORRIBLY wrong with
churches, and so I left that particular church, yet still believed
that there were possibly some “good” churches still left. Not so. I
had gone back and forth to several different types of churches,
only to constantly find the false doctrine and heavy religion that
was being practiced in each one, which was a huge turn off to me. I
was never really satisfied, but DESPERATELY searching for a church
home. The problem was that regardless of the Holy Ghost’s efforts
to call me out of religion and into TRUE salvation, I held onto the
hope that maybe there was still yet a church home, preaching truth,
and a perfect fit for me.
Never found it. I just wanted the
TRUTH!!!! I then started earnestly praying to God for him to lead
me to the truth. I kept praying and kept seeking. HE NEVER LED ME
TO A MAN-MADE CHURCH. Then, I met Pam online. I noticed that her
posts and videos always seemed to resonate with me, and I could
relate to what she was talking about. Everything started coming
together, and I was beginning to see the truth I had been praying
for continue to unfold! Furthermore, she was preaching
TRUTH!!!
I contacted
Pam, desperate for help, guidance, mentoring, direction,
fellowship, and support as I transitioned out of the religion I had
learned my entire life…the Institutional Church. I learned about
the fellowship and support I could gain from RESCUE, and joined. I
had concerns about my salvation because certain things just weren’t
adding up, and I knew that it would be almost impossible for me to
be saved, if my entire life, I kept hearing a different Gospel from
the TRUE GOSPEL.
When I spoke with Pam, she preached
the True Gospel of Jesus Christ to me…but it was NOT recognizable
to me…in ALL my years of being in church! I knew I wasn’t saved at
that point. I prayed for God to reveal to me if what Pam had said
to me was true. And within a DAY, the Holy Spirit began working on
me, showing me the evil of the world, and putting MY sin before me.
Saving faith entered into me when I realized that A DEAD MAN LIVES,
NAMED JESUS CHRIST, AND HE IS GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suddenly, I realized that HE DID ALL
OF THAT FOR ME!!! I realized who I was before God… the wicked,
wretched person who NEEDED salvation because there was NOTHING I
could do to atone for my wicked nature…NOTHING. I was then led to
the cross. God loved me so much that Jesus Christ came in a
horrible crucifixion and death, paid the ultimate debt for MY
sinful nature through his BLOOD, and then BECAME ALIVE AGAIN 3 DAYS
LATER IN THE VERY SAME BODY, just so I could have a chance to be
reconciled to the Father. NOBODY, would have done that for me or
even has THAT KIND OF POWER OVER DEATH!!!!
That’s how I knew HE WAS GOD! THAT’S
THE POWER IN IT ALL!!! In RESCUE, we continue to proclaim the TRUTH
that is so obviously missing from the churches today. We are
devoted to one another through fellowship, and are a support system
to others who have been called out of the Institutional Church and
are desperately seeking deliverance, counseling, mentoring, and
safe shelter. Pam loves the sheep, and is committed to watching
over you and helping you through truth and love, to defeat the
schemes of the enemy. I don’t know what I would do or where I would
go if I did not have Pam and the RESCUE ministry. If you are
searching for love, counseling, mentoring, friendship and support
of believers OUTSIDE of the Organized Church who preach TRUTH, then
you, my friend, have come to the right place!
RESCUE Mentoring through Pam
Sheppard Ministries has given me the support I needed when I didn’t
know where to turn after being called out of the Institutional
Church. I now have online fellowship, mentoring, teachings, and
basically someone to guide me as I encounter issues I face after
leaving the I.C. I love it! And I have built some wonderful
relationships and get more “meat,” ministry, and fellowship than I
have EVER gotten sitting in any church!!! I also get personal phone
sessions each month! It is a phenomenal service!
When I had no one who understood,
when I searched DESPERATELY for truth, when I had nowhere to turn
for shepherding, no one to guide me and be there for me, God led me
to Pam, and she was there, to give me the strength and tools I need
to have TRUE Freedom in Christ. I thank God for this
ministry!
In 1979, I was sent to the Institutional Church because of the urgency of 3 dreams that compelled me to find a particular pastor. In the book, “Come Out of Her, God’s People,” I describe the events of that particular time.
“I preached my first sermon with such fire and conviction that even my enemies in that church voted for me to be licensed. They believed that this was the Lord’s thing and they did not want to mess with me. Even though I was treated like an unloved step child for the next 25 years, my skill at preaching made room for me, no matter how uncomfortable the listener. A few hearers were bold enough to sit and do crossword puzzles right in my face, while others sat with bland faces, pretending that they were not convicted, but they were. I’d come out of the pulpit and stand at the aisles of the un-attentive—bible in hand,— preaching powerfully through their resistance. In the early days, some would not come to church if they knew in advance that I was the preacher of the hour. However, my skill caused those who did not like me personally to love the way I preached. These were those who were eager to have me prick their hearts. pg.70”
Consequently, when I left the Institutional Church in 2004, I was carrying a lot of baggage–particularly in the area of religious doctrine and various practices. Yet the thing I loved the most was preaching.
When I entered the IC in 1979, I did not know what a sermon was. When I witnessed my first sermonic performance by my first pastor, Rev. Lester, all I could do was sit there on that pew and cry. Once I entered ministry a few years later, I was required to preach a sermon. I said to myself, “Sermon? What in the world is that?”
Actually, the first sermon I preached was at night. I preached it in a dream. In fact, I awakened from sleep, “sermonizing”. Since then, I have uttered at least 2000 sermons in various pulpits. I went from long outlines, to short ones on index cards hidden in the bible, , to notes on little pieces of paper, to simply opening the bible and submitting myself to the flow of the text and what I believed at the time was the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.
Then one day—-the Monday after my 25th anniversary of preaching–October 25, 2006, the Lord spoke. On Sunday, I had preached a sermon called “What Do You Have to Burn.” The irony is that when I preached “What Do You Have to Burn,” I did not have the slightest idea that what I had to burn was “preaching.” For those who have the time to listen, click the title link to hear my last sermon.
So as I sat before the Lord on Monday, “I heard Him speak into my spirit, “Preaching is not building 3 point messages from isolated texts and creating a sermon. Sermonizing or homiletics is not of Me. It is manmade.”
Immediately I knew that anything spiritual that is manmade is religious and that anything religious has a form of godliness that is without power to bear genuine spiritual fruit. I also had a great deal of experience with people who heard a sermon that they they could not remember shortly thereafter. I may have been deceived but not blind. Clearly, the one who got the most out of my sermons was ME!
That was all the Lord needed to say.
It is important to state that He did not ask me to stop preaching, nor did He say that sermonizing is of the devil. Yet I could read between His lines. I began to recall how uncomfortable I always was sitting in pulpits. Then I remembered various images of my colleagues who seemed to be “taken over” by a force that I always suspected was not the Holy Ghost.
Instantly—-cold turkey—-I dropped the baggage of “sermonizing” and I have not looked back. It was not difficult. Once the Lord revealed His heart, my desire to preach immediately left me.
Do I utter today? Yes, but I am very careful in how I use the scriptures when I teach, making sure that I remain in accord with the text within its original context. However, if a pastor was to invite me to his or her church to speak, I would decline. I do not step foot in churches.
To look back is TO GO BACK. Anyway, All I would say to the Harlot is “Come Out of Her, God’s People.”
Among those who have left the IC, there are many of you who are still carrying a lot of religious baggage and you need to be de-programmed. I can help with that so call 518-477-5759.
I find that the easiest people for me to work with in regards to rational, commonsense conversations concerning the evils within the institutional church and the fact that their own local church is not immune from Satanic deception, is when someone contacts me who is in torment, and who also is suffering from the delusion that they are born again. Does not the bible declare that “God did not give us a spirit of fear and of torment, but He gave us a sound mind.” So if your mind is not sound and you are in torment, it becomes clear and logical to ask the question, “How could I possibly be born again?
