Heresy Hunters and “Exposed” Ministries, Part 1 – Testing for Error With a Humble Heart

Intro – Preparing Our Heart to Receive Truth

Remember to judge correctly – neither the great prophet Samuel – nor the Pharisees and religious leaders of Jesus’ day knew how to judge correctly every time. See here what happened:

Please read the following to understand where I am coming from in the Bible study and to be sure you have strong Biblical foundations to evaluate and judge well – not the outside – but the heart – like Jesus said. We must come from a truly humble place – using the principles in Matthew 18:15-20 as in the Bible study mentioned above – and know that even great prophets and great scholars got the heart and will of God so very wrong at different times:

• John 7:24 = Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.
• 1 Samuel 16:7 = But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

Start with Personal Humility

• Are you a disciple? Are you personally bearing much fruit to the glory of the Father? Are you growing? Do you often spend quality time with no agenda with Daddyo? Are you broken, humble, there to love, bless, and lift all people?
• Look at your own heart:
• Is it generally suspicious, attacking, and rebellious? Is it generally critical and negative? Or is it like love is described in 1 Corinthians 13? Do you really really know and experience the love of the Father? Are you 100% submitted to Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues? Is it looking for the sensational more than the broken, relational and healthy?
• Do you personally need deliverance (are you bound in sin, disappointment, lust, rejection, suspicion)? I once was and sinned because of it. Have you personally, gone through a full deliverance form and a deep, structured, methodical deliverance session with an experienced Holy Spirit led healthy deliverance and inner healing minster? I recommend all to do this regularly. I do this myself.
• Do you – due to disappointments and hurts and trauma in the past – look negatively at the world – or do you believe: Anything is possible with God & anything is possible to the one who believes?
• Do you realize that you attract what you are? You tend to agree with what you already see as true. That is easier – but can be a huge trap – a huge blind-spot, leading to destruction of what the Holy Spirit is doing and what Jesus clearly commanded us all to do.
• What are your pre-conceived ideas and mine? Are you a cessationist? Have you grown up in a Christian tradition which is way under the New Testament example of Jesus and His way of training His first disciples? Are you a fruit-bearing believer whose life and fruit and level of revelation and world change around you can be compared to that of the disciples in the Book of Acts?
• What are our pre-conceived ideas? Same list as above. We have a filter on?
• Are you self-aware? How much? Have you compared all thoughts, beliefs, values, and actions with what Jesus said and did? Do you bear the same fruit as Jesus and the disciples? Have you completely laid down everything and every area in your life for Jesus? Also, the fear of man (what people think actually rules you – not what God thinks about you).
• Are you aware that even though we are sincere and have experiences that back up what we believe to be true – we can be 100% wrong – or 50% wrong in our interpretations and understandings and world views and conclusions. This was the truth of the Pharisees, Sadducees, lawyers (including Saul before he, blind as he was, deeply repented became Paul) and so many others at the time of Jesus and they ended up thinking they were serving God – by killing Jesus and killing Christians (and accusations and misunderstandings were the pre-foundation of killing). So – are you aware that you can be sincerely completely wrong? All this is true for who I am, what I do, my thoughts and ideas, interpretations and even what I write here – as well of course.
• The Bible is there to help us evaluate what is truly from God and not – not just the words – but taking all the actions Jesus did and that He commanded His disciples to do – this will help us remain humble, challenged, busy doing the Fathers will, and bearing true eternal fruit (and stay free from demons of rejection, accusation) – and will help us focus on what really matters (hopefully).
• Are you theologically healthy and well founded? Do you believe the Bible is truly the inspired, infallible, and perfect Word of God? Do you know the essential theological points to always absolutely agree upon and the non-essentials to agree to disagree upon? And do you personally act on all the essentials of basic discipleship training and execution stuff of Matthew 10 and Luke 10 etc.? There is much great ministry to do.
• Have you fully studied and understood the attitudes of the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Herodians and he Lawyers of Jesus’ time – and why they ended up killing Him – and His disciples out of genuine sincere “Love for God”?
• Do you agree that Christians – who are truly Christians in the eyes of God – born again, forgiven, kids of the Father – can be very very wrong about literally almost everything yet trust Jesus enough for forgiveness of their sins – that they can go to Heaven – though as through fire (1 Corinthians 3:15)?
• Do you agree that the foundation of everything in terms of salvation is justification by faith, through grace alone, through Christ alone, through the blood, the cross and the death of Christ alone? Again – see my Bible study about that subject here. It is absolutely foundational that we nail understanding justification, righteousness and perfection by grace and faith alone 100%. This will lead to a healthy foundation to our Christian life. We will then live from love, grace, acceptance, humility and the Love of the Father for us – and can then give that to others: bible.knowing-jesus.com
• And then after this is understood, over time (as short as possible) – repentance and alignment in our habits, decisions, including deliverance leads to strong sanctification and a stronger lifestyle of holiness and radical obedience will come. And over time good theology will come as well: openbible.info

If you are reading this and you are a relatively new Christian – know that I have written this due to experience dealing with new Christians – not because I want to accuse you – but because I want you to receive wisdom early and not fill yourself with the accusation, doubt, critical negative attitude of the enemy – that seems to protect – but does not lead us to be like little children in attitude – trusting our loving Daddyo.

5 Major Distractions and Limiters

I have found there are 5 major distractions and limiters for new and old believers

https://www.blueletterbible.org/niv/mar/4/14-20/

Mark 4:14-20

Please read the above in the Bible. Then read the below:

14 The farmer sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown.

As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, they last only a short time.

When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. 20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”

The 5 Things That Become Distractions Are Having a Too Big Huge Focus on

• End times, the antichrist and mark of the best etc., heresy hunters & conspiracy theories and huge focus on demons (they do not always first and foremost always focus on the love of the Father – intimacy with Him – and bearing much healthy fruit from that simple child-like faith and that biggest and only foundation of all things – and the very meaning of life)
• Girl- / Boyfriends (who pull them away from the faith). This is literally the biggest idol coming out of Hollywood: “Falling in love”
• Money – job / carreer – prosperity (they are offered work on Sundays and other times where they should be in healthy Christian family)
• Persecution (their family or friends pull them away and they allow it)
• Recognition from people – (fear of people’s opinion and judgment of you) what will people think? (they are afraid to confess faith and be radically obedient to God due to the consequences among people’s opinion)

Also – are you by the Pharisees of your day accused of being “A wine-drinker and an over eater – friends with sinners and tax collectors”? If you are not – you are probably a self-righteous Pharisee in some areas. We all are in some areas, and we need to repent and humble ourselves – and I must start with myself first!

Now We Go Deep – Are You Sure, You Are Ready for This?

You can see something wrong – like compromise with sin or higher adherence to tradition than the original lifestyle of Jesus – or a lack of deliverance and discipleship and the fear of man. Or you can disagree on the speed of baptism etc. Then you conclude something on that basis.

And you find new ways of doing it that are more true to the Bible and the way of Jesus and the first disciples. AND it WORKS. And you then get confirmed in your beliefs – you are right! It works – and you bear more fruit than the old / traditional churches and Christians.

But you might have some errors with you as well. Like:

• “baptism saves” (I deal with this in teachings here)
• “If you have a sinful habit, you are not saved” (dealt with in section 4.c.iii below)
• You somehow feel you have to go into extreme broad non-nuanced criticism and public exposure and attacking confrontation against everyone who loves the real Jesus, but who you don’t agree with (dealt with here)

A Big Danger When Bearing Much Fruit as a Disciple – Pride

Then out of bearing much fruit – where the next thing after you bear fruit due to genuine faith in action – then you think your entire theology now is correct and endorsed by the Father – due to fruit.

So, fruit, which comes due to faith (not perfect theology and practice) if we are not very very careful – can lead us into both pride, fear of changes, and attack of others who don’t do things like us or who criticize of reject us fully or partly. And now there’s even the bigger twist.

You might feel rejected by other Christians due to false accusations, pride, insecurity, misunderstandings, even certainly from Christians who don’t bear the same big fruit as you, and then – when they reject you – you now counter-reject them. Because: “They started. I do more than them. I bear more fruit.

Where is their similar fruit? I can now do to them what they are doing to me. Now – the attack is on!” You could even call them non-Christians because they are rejecting you and not recognizing the goodness of God through you. So sad! It is childish – not mature reaction patterns.

Grow up – and gently, humbly, fully practice Matthew 18:15-20 – and Matthew 5:23.

Pride tries to come in right after fruitfulness. Inaccurate judgment of counter rejection – right after rejection. Be careful. Serve! Lift up! Take people on the journey you have been on into more fruitfulness.