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Investigating Charismaticism 

Here are resources to help you study through the issues around the Charismatic and penticostal movement in light of Scripture.

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Make sure you study through all of it and focus on Scripture not personal feelings or personal beliefs.

Understand why Christians explain the enclosed from the Bible, even if you lean a different way. Focus on seeing it from Scripture to the point of "what If I am wrong about my current views and what I have been taught", by doing that you will be like the Bereans, who searched Scripture to find the actual truth. If you investigate with that mindset, you will come to understand what you didnt before. And if you find your views were wrong, like Apollos you can correct your views to align with Scripture, and make proper decisions on next steps.

Questions to ask when reviewing the material:

The focus should be on 

1. What does Scripture say?

2. What were the reasons for some of these gifts? 

3. Where has any of "certain" gifts actually been seen again 'after' the NT was completed(?), [or are these seen and heard about in recent times from charlatans and fraudsters?]. 

>>These are things to think about as you listen thru the links, and read the books referenced herein, while you focus on Scripture. And ask God to reveal the truth to you, even if the answer is "cessationism is true". Go where the truth leads. 

The books are based on material from conferences on these topics and sermons, church history & Scriptural research. 

Note items are in sequence order

🌟Research 

Start here:

Important note 

Topical series 1

Gift of Tongues 

Topical series 2

A Word from Pastor 
https://youtu.be/dIAAyNEUqLg

Q&A after the messages

Part 1

Part 2 

private "revelations"

What happened after the Conference 

8 Lessons after

* article referenced  

*another another another another another another final

 Further discussion

Charismatics & the soverignty of Satan 

Critique of Chatismatic movement

What is a Kundalini spirit? 

Truth Matters 👉 @4:35-:53 

Message about the Holy Spirit 

God's Kingdom & the Miraculous 

Experiences 

Scripture completion

Clarity on the Trinity  Part 1. Part 2   Part 3 

🌟Solid Research on the subject 👈

Give these a serious read, prayerfully.

This is a full series on the topic.

Vol1 Charismatic chaos

Vol2 The Gospel according to Jesus

Vol3 The Gospel according to Apostles 

Vol4 Strangefire 

Thank you for taking the time to investigate and research this important topic. God bless.

Notes on Dr Martin Lloyd Jones

Below are testimonies, verses, and another resource section of links. 

Testimonies

Mark 

I was 35 years in the Charismatic movement. It took a major confrontation with Biblical truth and an exposure to the plainly ridiculous nature of Charismaticism to smack the heresy out of me. Thanks be to God!!

Violet

my life has changed since I have started studying the word of God and not just reading the Word. I thank God for Jmac and others who have the courage to stand and speak the truth of the Word of God. I have since left the foolishness of charismaticism for the truth, and repented ....and asked God to reveal every lie with in me

joe 

It is good someone is standing up to & challenged the Charismatic movement!! That conference was the best thing I have ever come across in explaining the issues. I wish people had this info years ago - wouldve saved me from all the heartache and failed prophecies I experienced as a Charismatic.  Thank you Lord Jesus for this biblical research

Travis

God Bless you jmac 🙏🏼 My eyes have recently been opened after being in the charismatic church for 23 years. I am totally shocked, embarrassed, disappointed (in myself mainly for not knowing the word in context) ashamed because of all the people I have influenced. On the positive side I am set free.

It was actually very self centred, I was waiting for all my desires, hopes, supposed prophecies and words to come to pass. So extremely messed up. So deceived. I repented. 

Haggen

Thank you for exposing error & helping me and others escape this false teaching and churches 

Upon research.... the Apostles era was not "charasmatic". In that there wasn't any of the goofy things going on in there that charismatics are doing today. No falling down, speaking in tongues, screaming, non stop hypnotic music, repetitious chanting and emotionalism, no selfishness or idolatry. Also no, faith healing or name it and claim it and the power is in you prosperity new age teaching. This false teaching came out of a branch from Calvary Chapel during a modern time where some were looking to help hippies, sexually immoral, drug addicts, and alcoholics. It did not come from historic Christianity nor the teachings of the Bible. 

Marie

I came out of an extreme Pentecostal church, and MacArthur [explaining it all] was used as part of the way God lead me out. Is speaking in tongues actually a fake language used by Satan the sower of confusion to deceive? It is not the language of God, men or heavenly angels. Thank God I have seen the truth. 

Ndinya

A very hard but truthful message. Glad someone spoke out and educated Christiandom on Charismatic cult teachings, so people can see truth and get out 

 Lujan

I'm glad that I investigated this series came out and the Q&A, because it enabled me to listen to all of it with an open mind. I now have a better understanding and appreciation of what the Bible actually reveals & reality of it today.

Ronin

I wish looking back that I had never spent one minute of my life in a Pentecostal Church. You know what that religion does is lie, and steals someone's identity. It deceive them in many ways. It takes away your freedom to live your life, it causes health problems, mental problems, and spiritual problems. It causes you to lie about the Holy Spirit, it keeps you in a selfish cycle, a pride cycle, a self righteous cycle, and prevents you from growing in the faith in truth. And really feels like one is not actually saved if they live in the religious lies of that cult. I am still traumatized by it, but working through it to heal. 

Reynolds

I was raised in a pentecostal church.  After finally hearing the gospel in my 30's I was born again. While reading and studying the Bible, I began to research the charismatic beliefs I was always taught.  My eyes were opened- what happened on the day of Pentecost is not what is occurring today.  What is happening today is a counterfeit.  Jesus said it is wicked generation who look for signs and wonders.  The Holy Spirit points us to Christ, and Christ is enough!  As someone who grew up in the midst of pentecostal chaos I am truly grateful for this information.

Doreen

I've just discovered the teachings of this Pastor. I wish I had heard this 50 yrs ago when, I was young in the 1970s! I was feeling so depressed all this time because I couldnt get those supposed "miracles". Thank you! I have left that movement and idolatrous belief system.

Danne

Thanks to Pastor John MacArthur, for the information. It has illuminated my understanding of the Word and removed the blinders from my eyes. My faith in Christianity and church leaders has been restored. After over 30 years in the charismatic movement I have turned from it. Enough with the chaos, deception, and manipulation! 

Kelly R

I, too, am SO thankful for this work. I was so caught up and confused by the teachings in my former church. Thankfully a Christian friend reached out to me and just simply said, "Friend, I see some red flags with your church's doctrine" And inquired what she meant. I then did my own research and I was shocked by what I found. I praise God for His mercy and grace

We share because we care. 

These false teachings are so destructive because it creates a false religion, false God, false Jesus, false Holuly Spirit.... and does not bring true salvation. It is highly likely majority of the people in this cult are not even saved. Just pew sitters, attention seekers, and heading straight for Hell. If you are not converted by God... any Christian "religiosity" is in vain. 

Twice son hell vs

According to the World Christian Database, nearly half of all Nigerian and South African Christians were Pentecostal by 2010, while the movement accounted for the majority of Christians in Botswana and Zimbabwe. 200 million have been deceived in charismaticism religion there. 

Scripture warnings

Galatians 5:7-9

You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you. "A little leaven leavens the whole lump"

Matthew 24:4

And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires

Jude 1:4

For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God 

1 Timothy 4:1-3

But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron

2 Peter 2:1-3

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies among you..... bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow... and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep

Galatians 1:6-8

I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed

Mark 7:7

But in vain do they worship Me. Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men

The Apostles were concerned that believers (then & now) would be led astray by false teachers, false teachings, being duped by Satan, subtly being decieved into idolatry and trusting in a lie whether another gospel, another Jesus, another spirit or teachings contrary to what Scripture teaches. Those weak in the faith are tossed around by false teaching that pops up here or there and is embraced because it sounds good vs being biblical. Why? Because they listen to the teachings of men (that come from the spirit of Satan and demons) instead of being daily saturated in the Scriptures- so they can see red flags, subtle deception, using discernment to avoid all the quicksand of Satanic lies. 

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience

Matthew 7:15

“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves

Acts 20:29-30

I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Titus 1:10-11

For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of sordid gain

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10

one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved

2 Corinthians 11:3-4

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray...For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel 

Ephesians 4:14

So no longer be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings

2 Peter 2:18-19

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires....those who barely escape from the ones who live in error, promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved

2 Peter 2:14-15

They never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children; forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness

*Balaam used trickery to profit off the people of God and caused them to be cursed and harmed. Like the charismatic and prosperity preachers today. Was selfish, sought attention and money at the peril of others, not caring if harm came to them as long as he profited. 

Mark 13:5

And Jesus began to say to them, “See to it that no one misleads you.

Matthew 24:24

For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ

Galatians 1:6-9

I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel... there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if [anyone] we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we  have preached to you, he is to be accursed!

2 Timothy 3:1-9

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also 

2 John 1:9-11

Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds

Romans 16:17-18

Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them. For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting

1 Col. 3:2

You were not ready for solid food so you only had milk. And even now you are still not ready 🙁

Ephesians 4:15

but speaking the truth... we are to grow up in all aspects 

2 Peter 3:18

 grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

2 Timothy 1:13-14

[So now] Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus

One of the main reasons people are easily led astray when they first come to faith or Christianity.... is the lack of knowledge.  They do not grow in the faith but are in a beginners plateau and are happy to stay there because they do not know the deep wealth that is there for them in Scripture, nor realize where they should be. 

The question here is, even if your whole family or close friends are in this movement... are you willing to turn from it, the lies it teaches, and embrace truth? Are you willing to give up all for Christ?? Or will you continue in its idolatry, sorcery and lies, following what is false and from Satan? That is the real question. Go to God in prayer with a contrite heart.

Jesus said: 

“And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life." Matt 19:29 

Your eternal life, meaning your salvation, rides on following the true Jesus, true Gospel and truth of Scripture... because all together it is the truth. And if you dont follow the real God, Real Jesus, and believe in the real Holy Spirit, then whatever Gospel you believed in, was a lie. And not the true Gospel. That is the Only means by which someone can be saved. False gospels cannot save. This is why we are give many warnings in Scripture, and told also not to turn to idols, false doctrines of devil's and their lies. 

Dont be like those who: 

" will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to lies" 2 Timothy 4:4

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge

Don't reject the truth and the actual teachings in Scripture to follow some other gospel and teachings of man. What should I do? 

We must make reading the Bible, (cover to cover), a daily discipline in our lives, just like prayer. 

Read the Bible daily 

Did you obey the real Gospel ? 

Additional Sources:

All of the below have, along with all the above info, has been put together to help you investigate cessationism, what Scripture says and historic Christianity, because I care about you and want you to do actual research and take the blinders off so you can live free in Christ in and by truth for a truly blessed life. 

 

1. Your Best Life Later 

Now or later? 

2. Inerrancy of Scripture & Prophecy

Messages playlist.   Q&A session 

3. Holy Spirit sermons for study 

God's Prosecutor

The Promise of the Holy Spirit.  Pt2 

Reclaiming the Worship of the Holy Spirit 

Essential ministry of the Holy Spirit.  Pt2   Pt3 

Right thinking about the work of the Holy Spirit 

Design of the Spirit for the Church 

Filled with the Holy Spirit 

Spiritual Power for Holy Living 

The Perfect Model of Spirit Empowered Life 

Prayer for Spiritual Power

The Illuminating Role of the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit as Illuminator 

Modern Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit 

Stanley 

The Awareness of God's Presence

Spiritual Growth 

Walking in the Holy Spirit 

The Holy Spirit our Helper

Living by God's Guidance 

Power of a Discerning Spirit

The Mission of the Spirit 

Requirements for effective meditation

Adrian Rogers

The Authority of the Holy Spirit

The Personality of the Holy Spirit

The Purpose of Penticost 

When the Spirit Speaks

Godly Meditation

Pray in the Spirit

The Warfare of Prayer 

Steve Lawson

The person & ministry of the Holy Spirit 

Life in the Spirit 

The Trinity in Sanctification 

Deep Grownings of The Spirit 

Justin Peters 

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I hope this had been a blessing to you. 

It is a vital subject because it has wreaked havoc on the church. 

The charismatic movement is largely the reason the church is in the mess it is today. In virtually every area where church life is unbiblical, you can attribute it to the charismatic movement. In virtually every area—bad theology, superficial worship, ego, prosperity gospel, personality elevation. All of that comes out of the charismatic movement.

And if the charismatics are in fact lying about these special gifts, if they have ceased, but are claiming to posess them,.... they are lying about God and the Holy Spirit and must realize then...all that 😱comes from Satan and not God. It should scare you straight. People can be manipulated by subtle false doctrines of demons, and be duped into false teaching. Especially if they rely on feelings and experiences over facts and Biblical truth.  The truth will set you free, but it cant if you do not diligently seek it. Do not choose a lie over the truth. Your eternal destination is at stake here. If you fell for this false teaching, repent and run from it, to truth. 

Pray over it after you honestly research this seeking the truth. Do not dismiss it, but be like the Bereans. Investigate it. And if you believed in it, & now realized it is wrong, repent and leave that movement & its "churches". Flee to a biblical church.

God bless.