First of all I'd like to start off by saying that if you like Dexter Yager, you should read this because I promise you this is going to be the most unbiased truthful thing you will ever read about him.
Second let's start off by setting some things straight.
I. There is no such thing as a man who
is never wrong.
II. The truth is not relevant, 2+2=4
for everybody. It doesn't equal 5 for
a stupid person or a big dreamer it still
equals 4 no matter what they think or
want.
OK. So Let's begin. Dexter Yager is one of the most successful men in network marketing Business or Training mentorship Business which ever one floats your boat better. The man is heralded as somewhat of a genius/philanthropist/prophet of God to those who are in his business under him. And he is practically idolized to the point of worship by millions of people and not for no reason let's find out why..
Dexter Yager wasn't born rich, but now he is, very much so i might add. Neither he nor anyone, in him family was a successful business owner, but now it seems like his entire family is. He didn't know anything about "wealth mentality" but now hes the guru. Dexter Yager grew up in a low income family and he drove a beer truck as his job when he got a bit older just to give you an idea of where he was. He gives away more money to churches and charities than you can imagine. Theres so much other things that can be listed here its not even funny, if you sit down with anyone who's made it in amway they can sit down and talk to you for about 100 hours on good points about Dexter Yager. This man has a big following! (*Remember this line, its very key*)That must mean that he's a really great leader because a great leader is not determined by anything else then the size of his following. What a successful man eh?
Let me engage you now, feel the message that is flowing through my heart, going from the tapping of my fingers as they are jabbing on the keyboard to your screen as you are reading it...
Join me in my mind for just one minute, let's just say that according to me, my premise before I even wrote anything in this article is that Dexter Yager is not a man worth following, and that he in reality not that successful at all, what would you say my friend?
You'd probably say "Hold on a second you twat, you just said a whole bunch of good things about him and how he went from being poor to rich, and great leaders--many followers , money to church and charities, you even call him successful yourself... now what are you saying?... that he is not?
Ok remember this is unbiased so i will go through both goods and bad.
Dexter Yager spoke and still speaks a lot of truth. When he says things like "Action cures fear", "Courage is not the absence of fear, it's the fear being there and going anyway", Money is not the root of all evil, it says the love of money is the root of all evil", "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still" or when he say general truths that everybody should know but seems like 21st century people have forgotten, stuff like "if you love what you do for a living it make life so much more fulfilling" or " The only place where success come before work is in the dictionary" These things are all true but when the average north american hears them they get blown away and say things like "wow this man is telling me things that are incredibly life changing, I feel the spine tinglies and my hair standing on end when I hear him talk. Where has this type of teacher been all my life, i'm not gonna waste anymore time i'll listen to everything he says."
But remember what I said at the beginning: "I. There is no such thing as a man who is never wrong." But there's also no such thing as a great leader who never tells some truths and just tells people big fat outlandish lies. Can you see or imagine a great leader raising a great following and support telling people that he has all the necessary technology and resources to reach the planet Jupiter and live there? Of course not. But if he talked about Mars and spoke convincingly some people might believe him because he can say they have landed there already, there is an element of truth to that, because robots have landed there but in reality what he's claiming is impossible and is just a big lie because although humans may reach mars one day his second proposition that we would be able to live there will never be true and is a lie that is only believable if mingled in with a truth or half truth which in this case is being able to reach Mars. Get it? read that
again..
See some of the people who have the biggest following are or were false prophets like Mohammed(islam), Joseph Smith(mormonism), Ron Hubbard(scientology). What makes a false prophet? Is it someone who just lies and lies all the time that he is so easily noticed. No. False prophets are described in the bible as wolves in sheep's clothing, which means that people will actually believe that they are sheep. How will this happen? Like I said they will say some things that are true as their bait to get people hooked, people won't get hooked on a big fat lie duh.. they just don't tell the truth where it really counts.
For example.. The "prophet" Mohammed gained a huge following and i mean huge, because in his day where he lived people were worshipping 300 different gods so he came in and reformed and rebuked and said that there is only 1 God, people having a conscience knew this was true so they followed Mohammed the only thing is, although that is a basic truth that there is only 1 true God, the 1 God that mohammed pointed them to was not the right one but was in fact the statue of the moon god allah currently inside the black box in mecca whcih every muslim bows down and worships when they face mecca. See.. a truth and then a lie. its very deceiving.
Another example is when Mr. Hubbard said the very true thing that human beings are not living the way they are supposed to be living theres a gap and a void, something missing from men's lives, so he created scientology to fill that gap with new age psycological crap that is cultish and by taking your money(literalliy). Part of the religion is how much money you give per year. Ridiculous right? But he's only able to get followers because what he said is true, there is something missing in the life of man which man himself recognizes there is, but its not scientology! Its a relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ who through dying on the cross payed the price for our crimes opened the way to God for sinful man and made that possible. On the 3rd day he rose from the dead it's simple hes alive right now, he defeated death.
According to Mr. Yagers most popular book,"The pursuit" it's right on the cover, "Success is found in the journey". For those who don't know what that means I read the book and I can tell you what it means for him because this statement can be very true depending on the context.
What Dexter means is that success and fulfillment are found in the pursuit and hunting down of a personal dream or goal and not in the achievment of it, his clause being that if you get a dream and achieve it then that's it, it's over for you no more growth or prosperity, but if after you achieve that dream of lets say getting a lamborghini you then get a bigger dream of a jet plane, you hopped off the pursuit of the lambo because you achieved it but now you hopped on the pursuit of the jet plane so you never stop striving to produce and achieve so its a continous cycle where you won't lose momentum andyou keep growing and prospering. This is of course an idea that comes from 100's of years of fine tuning the thoughts and ideas of captitalists and business moguls who wants to make lots of money and be very successful.
What he is saying is literally true now, if you get a dream and you do whatever it takes to achieve it and don't let anything get in your way, your "pursuit" is the part where your putting all the effort and work in to achieve the end result, so its true.
When you come to Christ, all striving's and uneasiness' of the soul cease and end. Because when you come to Christ you finally find rest for your soul. When a man finds Christ and is truly born again this is the closest thing a man can get to success, you didn't even do anything Jesus did all the work yet you get to go to heaven for all eternity and don't have to go into the lake of fire.
When Dexter Yager says: Fullmilment is found in pursuit of the dream not the achievment, he is wrong. This is a replacing way to fill the void which can only be filled by God, with a silly lust and personal desire(covetousness), which in the Bible Paul calls Idolatry.
5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.NKJV
Idolatry is basically having others gods besides the one true God revealed in Christ. These gods can be money, dreams, cars, people anything that you put above God.
Here are some correct ways to say Dexters famous quote.
Success(not worldly success but spiritual) is found in the achievement of a relationship with Jesus Christ and God the Father.
Fulfillment and joy is found in the pursuit of knowing God, knowing we can never achieve knowing him fully because he is infinite.
Jesus Christ succeeded where we failed, he defeated sin and death on the cross. We need to trust in him and his work to free us from the sin that we are enslaved to and so easily besets us, so we can be free from sin and free from the condemnation of the second death in hell.
P.S remeber when I wrote up there ^ (*Remember this line, its very key*)
The reason is because I wanted to make a point here. The Amway leaders and teachers say that great leaders are know by the amount of their following, but what does "great" signify here? Does it mean good or righteous in the eyes of God or does great simply mean Large and Big. Because according to the Parable of the Sower 1/4 truly follow God truly through Christ but 3/4 follow the devil so he has a greater following then that of God. So what does that show? it shows that great amounts of followers prove nothing. In the last days every single person who is on the planet will worship the antichrist and recieve the mark of the beast except the christians who refuse. Trust me though the amount of Christians will be wayyyy less the the non-christians. Jesus said:
13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. NKJV
Few there be that find it not a lot.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
What I learned about evangelism at the academy
I actually learned alot at this academy so bear with me please :) These are the things that were on my mind throughout the entire weekend which flourished in my mind with the help of the academy.
I learned that problems in the Christian life(ex:lack of: love,courage,creativity,wisdom,etc) come from lack of prayer. At this weekend I learned that even problems in the area of evangelism come because of a lack of prayer. We have not because we ask not. If only we would just be honest with ourselves and with God and admit that we hate talking to people and ask him to change our hearts and deposit in us the gift of courage and boldness rather than pretending that we like it and trying to fix the problems ourselves with our puny attempts and out puny resources. I mean if God put every star in the sky in 6 days and held the sun in its place for Joshua could he not through answering out prayers, change our inner-wiring to be able to preach the gospel if it was His will for our lives.
Also as Christian's we are supposed to worship God and make him known to the world, but not all of us are going to be John Wesley or George whitefield, God allows each of us to grow at different paces and to different levels and its perfectly fine.
The pressure is not on us its on God, its his name and his glory that's at stake not ours, we just need to pray, worship and be obedient.
One of the things that helped me was when I realized that, just like how its perfectly normal for a businessman to try to solicit deals and a mechanic to fix cars, so it is normal for a religious person to proseletyze and make converts. Once I got this fixed in my head and I realized that the people who get offended at christians for evangelizing or soliciting them really don't have any reason to become upset. It took alot of weight off my shoulders as well because I always thought that imposing on other people when preaching but in fact it is perfectly normal to try and make converts, if islam is doing it unashamedly then we who know the true God should do it even more unashamedly.
I learned that problems in the Christian life(ex:lack of: love,courage,creativity,wisdom,etc) come from lack of prayer. At this weekend I learned that even problems in the area of evangelism come because of a lack of prayer. We have not because we ask not. If only we would just be honest with ourselves and with God and admit that we hate talking to people and ask him to change our hearts and deposit in us the gift of courage and boldness rather than pretending that we like it and trying to fix the problems ourselves with our puny attempts and out puny resources. I mean if God put every star in the sky in 6 days and held the sun in its place for Joshua could he not through answering out prayers, change our inner-wiring to be able to preach the gospel if it was His will for our lives.
Also as Christian's we are supposed to worship God and make him known to the world, but not all of us are going to be John Wesley or George whitefield, God allows each of us to grow at different paces and to different levels and its perfectly fine.
The pressure is not on us its on God, its his name and his glory that's at stake not ours, we just need to pray, worship and be obedient.
One of the things that helped me was when I realized that, just like how its perfectly normal for a businessman to try to solicit deals and a mechanic to fix cars, so it is normal for a religious person to proseletyze and make converts. Once I got this fixed in my head and I realized that the people who get offended at christians for evangelizing or soliciting them really don't have any reason to become upset. It took alot of weight off my shoulders as well because I always thought that imposing on other people when preaching but in fact it is perfectly normal to try and make converts, if islam is doing it unashamedly then we who know the true God should do it even more unashamedly.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Angry with our creations?
Here's a little story about a lesson I learned from my stupid wristwatch.
So when my dad came back from his trip to see his family I was very happy to see him and even ore so because he brought me back a gift. It was a brand new watch and I valued it so much more because I was in dire need on of one. Well as it turns out, bracelet was too big for my wrist when I put it on so I had to adjust it, when I was trying to adjust it though I found it extremely difficult to pull out the extra links and it started to become a nuisance. Instead of asking for help I continued on, mostly because of my stubborn pride and the "I can do it by myself attitude" I insisted on trying to do it myself until I began to become very irritated and started hollering curses at the wristwatch(I know this is funny) you know I kept at it cuz I believed I was super skilled at this I've done it before so many times, but this time there just seemed to be no dice it was like trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Well it got to the point eventually where I became so stressed and angry that I said "forget this stupid watch!" and I actually threw the wristwatch right into the garbage can. Keep in mind that this is the brand new watch that my dad just got me and that I needed( I know, just thinking about it can still kindle my anger to this day arghhh! stupid watch!)
So before I tell you the conclusion of the story lets find out and examine why I acted the way I did. In the Bible in Genesis 1:26, God says: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness..." and then it says in verse 27: "And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them." And Genesis 1:31: "And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good..." The Bible makes it plain that when God created man he created him perfect without blemish, and we were created in his image and likeness. So when Adam was still perfect his nature and actions would be very similar to those of God. But check this out when Adam sinned God became very upset with his creation fro not obeying him and then cursed the world and everything in it just because of one man's sin, which by the way was eating a fruit. Does this sound familiar? Just like how God became angry and upset at Adam when he disobeyed him and brought suffering and death into the world through curses, I also who am a son of Adam made in the image of God reacted the same way when the stupid watch didn't do what I wanted it to do so I threw it in the garbage can.
Ever notice how we always get angry when the computer freezes and the blue screen of death appears that people become very angry and smack their monitors? This happens especially when they've been working on an important paper all night and the computer crashes before they get a chance to save it.When the car breaks down, or the cell phone cuts off in the middle of an important call, or when the printer jams for the 50th time and the stress has been building up for a while, you feel like doing the same as the guy from Office Space. Or the most common one of these is a parent with their disobedient children. God has allowed these things to happen so that we could get just a tiny taste of what kind of predicament and dilemma hes in. Can you imagine if you crafted a chair from scratch and as you finished it you said: "Ah what a beautiful chair this my creation is" and as you went to sit down on it it came to life and moved out of the way so you fell on the floor. What would happen? Wouldn't you become very frustrated? The thing that you created is not doing what you made it to do!
So check this out. Right after I threw the watch in the garbage, in my anger I layed down in my bed and was just thinking about these things and why I did what I just did, and I got the revelation of us being made in the image of God and was thinking about all the things I just talked about above. And it just hit me like a brick in the head... wow just like the Bible teaches God is perfect and he has every right to hate and be angry with those creations that don't do what he commands them to and we have disobeyed God so many times and made him so angry, why hasn't he thrown us in the garbage can yet(which is hell) It's because God is Love, and he has provided a way for us to be forgiven and cleansed of our sins and our crimes by the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ is beloved Son so we can become his children again. If I was able to get that angry with an inanimate object, imagine how much worse it is with God when he disobey him. This just triggered the question, How God? how are you able to be so forgiving and have so much mercy, I threw that watch in teh garbage right away and yet you are so long suffering. It is because God is love, even though He's perfect and His justice is perfect God is the epitome of love. This entire experience just took away more of the veil that was blinding me from the true nature of God. As soon as I realized how much mercy was bestowed upon me I was filled with compassion and went to grab the watch out of the garbage and just dropped it off on my dad's desk to fix. It's funny because this was an inanimate object yet I learned so much from it, now lets just replace the watch in this story with the people which we havn't forgiven yet and do the same. Let's take them out of the garbage cans of unforgiveness that we have thrown them into and forgive them from the bottom of out hearts because we have received so much forgiveness.
Bible Passage:
21 Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”
22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. 23 Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.24 And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. 25 But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made. 26 The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, ‘Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’ 27Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. So his fellow servant fell down at his feet 28 “But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’ 29 and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’ 30 And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt. 31 So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done. 32 Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. 33 Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’ 34 And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.
35 “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
No one knows how to make a man better than God
no one knows how to make a man into a man better then God, for he himself is the perfect God man
God is love
Sometimes when Bible believing Christians begin to seek after knowledge and doctrinal truths(which is good), the devil can play a trick on us where we just focus on the justice, holiness and perfectness of God and we completely forget that God is also love.
Don't get me wrong, meditating on the holiness and perfect justice of God is not wrong, but when you focus only on this then when you stumble in your walk and you sin, then you will fall into a big trap hole that is hard to get out of. I have experienced this myself so I know, and I'm pretty sure every Christian has gone through this at some point as well. When you forget that God is love then its a continuous perpetual cycle of guilt and an unhealthy type of fear towards God.
With enough time of doing this then gap between you and Christ begins to widen and the separation begins to cause you anger and you now begin to blame God for everything that is happening, without ever realizing that the devil has got you right where he wants you. Just because God is sovereign does not mean that every bad thing that happens is his fault, if you read the book of Job you can see that its was the devil doing the damage and the harm, and God allowed him to do it because of his accusations against Job.
Why would God allow the devil to do it? There are many different answers to this, a really popular one is purification that comes because of grace, God is sanctifying us and molding us into the image of His Son, (which by the way suffered more than any man) and through struggles we learn the greatest lessons. The bottom line is that we are sinners and we deserve so much more, theologically we deserve hell for our crimes against God but because He loved us so much he came down and lived a perfect life resisting every temptation and willingly went to the cross and endured the wrath of God so we wouldn't have to. If that doesn't describe the love of God then I don't know what does.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1John 4-8 NKJV
If we only knew the fierce and vigorous love that God has towards his saints. We are His bride and if a godly man loves his wife then imagine how much more the SON of God will love His bride. If a godly man loves His son then imagine how much more God the Father will love His son. The shepherd holds his lambs in his arms and caresses them and He loves them, for they are his own.
Pray this prayer: Father God who is in heaven, grant me a greater revelation of your love and your grace, open the way for me to see the fierce love that you have for me and all your saints, and help me to share it with others.
Don't get me wrong, meditating on the holiness and perfect justice of God is not wrong, but when you focus only on this then when you stumble in your walk and you sin, then you will fall into a big trap hole that is hard to get out of. I have experienced this myself so I know, and I'm pretty sure every Christian has gone through this at some point as well. When you forget that God is love then its a continuous perpetual cycle of guilt and an unhealthy type of fear towards God.
With enough time of doing this then gap between you and Christ begins to widen and the separation begins to cause you anger and you now begin to blame God for everything that is happening, without ever realizing that the devil has got you right where he wants you. Just because God is sovereign does not mean that every bad thing that happens is his fault, if you read the book of Job you can see that its was the devil doing the damage and the harm, and God allowed him to do it because of his accusations against Job.
Why would God allow the devil to do it? There are many different answers to this, a really popular one is purification that comes because of grace, God is sanctifying us and molding us into the image of His Son, (which by the way suffered more than any man) and through struggles we learn the greatest lessons. The bottom line is that we are sinners and we deserve so much more, theologically we deserve hell for our crimes against God but because He loved us so much he came down and lived a perfect life resisting every temptation and willingly went to the cross and endured the wrath of God so we wouldn't have to. If that doesn't describe the love of God then I don't know what does.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1John 4-8 NKJV
If we only knew the fierce and vigorous love that God has towards his saints. We are His bride and if a godly man loves his wife then imagine how much more the SON of God will love His bride. If a godly man loves His son then imagine how much more God the Father will love His son. The shepherd holds his lambs in his arms and caresses them and He loves them, for they are his own.
Pray this prayer: Father God who is in heaven, grant me a greater revelation of your love and your grace, open the way for me to see the fierce love that you have for me and all your saints, and help me to share it with others.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Everybodies Favorite Subject
Today I'm going to be talking about anti-christ, who and what it is. This topic is very relevant to jehovah's witnesses, mormons, quixtians(amway,BWW,LTD and all other MLM affiliates that try to take the place of christianity), and all of the prosperity gospel followers. Yay everybodies favourite subject... lol.
So first let's find out what does the word "anti"-Christ mean. Is it a word that means against Christ? Yes and no. Only recently has this word began to mean against, kind of like how anti-semitic means against jews, or some people even think it means hating jews.
Although with today's dictionary this word can be used in this manner, tradionally this word "anti" does not mean against or hating, so it becomes confusing. The word "anti" in the original greek and in almost every instance of the new testamant, was only used in terms of replacement. The most correct use of the word "anti" could be seen in the bold italic word in the next sentence.
-They were expecting Greg, but Billy came instead of Greg.
So basically the simplest way I can put this is that when the anti-christ comes he will be a replacement christ that tries to come instead of the real Christ at the time of the second coming. What does this mean? Is he going to be a man so completely opposite of Christ? Someone like adolph hitler, that everyone is going to know that it's him, that is warring against the Annointed One of God? No not at all, what this is means is that the anti-christ is going to come and fool and deceive everyone who's name is not written in the book of life, into believing that he is the true messiah that has come to save him and they will believe it to a point of zealous worship.
On the outside he will seem to be an exact replica of Jesus Christ, by being loving, kind, authoritative, angry when he has to be,gentle and meek,working miracles, he will have one come before him just like John the Baptist and the bible says he will speak boastfully whatever that means. How will a true Christian be able to quickly notice that this is the beast? What is the dividing line? The determining factor? It is the cross of Jesus Christ and all those things attached to it: his resurection, sin, judgement, wrath of God, Hell, guilt, and need for forgiveness + grace.
You will say how can these things be how will this man come and replace Christ without ever talking about sin or the cross? Just look around today there are probably billions of people worshiping the anti-christ or what I like to call "fueling his coming". For now there are many anti-christs just like it says in 1 John 4 ... many anti-christs will come, but when the fueling is complete he will manifest and there will be only one and he will fit the bill for all of them.
Let's examine some of them:
The jehovah's witnesses claim to be worshiping a saviour messiah but this messiah did not die on the cross to pay for sins and did not endure the wrath of God because there is no hell to them. Thus they believe that Jesus only came to set an example of the works we must do to get to heaven. The Christ that I praise and worship is the one that endured the wrath of God hanging on the cross for my sins so I wouldn't have to. If they are not worshiping this Christ then what christ are they worshipping? It is an anti-christ. You see a Hindu person who is worshiping a false god like vishnu or a greek worshiping zeus is in reality just worshiping a demon and in the long run the devil because they are just idols, false Gods. But when you claim to be worshiping Jesus Christ, the Messiah like figure of the Bible when upon closer examination (crucifixtion, sin) you are not. Then you are worshiping a replacement christ.
The mormons also claim to be worshiping a messiah like figure who's name is Jesus. But this Jesus of theirs was the brother of satan and born of a sexual realtionship between Mary their god which they call Elohim who has also granted all judging privileges to joseph smith. Thier Jesus was married to several wives and had children but apparently he did die on the the cross for their sin. Is this what they believe though? If one were to actually join the mormon church they would quickly find that their salvation is completely works oriented, no grace at all. And since judging privileges were hand over to joseph smith they are likely to obey him and what he wrote in his works rather than God, and how can they resist worshiping this man. The christ that they worship is Jesus Smith or Joseph Christ. They are worshiping an anti-christ.
So the mormons and jw's think we can work our way to heaven. Here is the answer to this: This is assuming that we start with a clean slate and every sin we do gives us a -1 and when we do a good deed it gives us a +1 to get back to 0. But the Bible says that we are conceived in the womb of a sinner and born in sin. And if we just commit 1 sin then the infinite wrath of an infinitely powerful God, the wrath of the God that created all those big huge stars out there in 6 days, abides on us. Why does it abide on us? Its because Before God is a loving God he is a God of Justice and since he's perfect the best analogy I can describe it with is like someone who is a perfectionist and has obsessive compulsive disorder who loves straight lines, when he sees a bump in the line you know what his greatest desire is, its to make it straight again, and since he is super powerful this is a very scary thought. But God is not a maniac who loses control of himself he does it because that is what he wants to do and since God is also a loving God who is the epitome of love we can see that he worked around his perfect Justice by unloading his wrath and crucifying the Lamb before the foundation of the world was set. Praise the LORD!
Ok now I'm going to do my best to thoroughly describe the replacement-christ that has so gripped the christian church that I have given it its own name: "The anti-christ in emotional Christianity."
This heresy is so bad that it needs it own introduction.
-Because of certain things that have happened to Christianity, like christian leaders thinking that cultural relativity and being inoffensive is more important than preaching truth, and a belief that man has the awesome power to convert sinners by his own enthusiasm and motivation, a very dangerous 8-legged venomous belief has crept into the Christian Community. It is the belief that if one has had an emotional experience that they have been saved by Jesus Christ. Q: "What do you mean B-man? Isn't genuine repentance usually accompanied by an emotional experience? Like say: crying, weeping, sorrow. " A: Yes, most genuine repentances are accompanied by sorrow and weeping, but that does not mean that every emotional experience brings about a saving work by Jesus Christ. Lets move on, I will explain.
-Let's say that my family and I go to the movies and we decided to watch a very chick flicky dramatic movie that is a tear jerker. You know those movies that make you cry because they are very sad and depressing, but they also make your do the "happy cry" for some of the scenes that have a uplifting or vindicating theme. It's the crying that you do when you find out extremely good news, like your cancerous tumor is completely healed or your father survived a plane crash. Something like that.
-O.k so lets do some dissecting here by asking some questions. If I am watching the movie and a certain scene that is packed with protagonist vindication happens to makes me cry, does that mean that I have been saved by Jesus Christ? L.o.L of course not. I know its a silly question but check this out. If a particular excited evangelist comes up to me and has a conversation with me, and during this conversation he uses the same techniques the movie does to manipulate my emotions and bring me to tears, and then he proceeds to take me through the 4 spiritual laws technique and he takes me through the hoops and I end up saying the "salvation prayer" does that mean I am saved? Of course not.
Now I know that someone is going to say: "but thats how I got saved." And I believe you it is very possible God to save someone through this method, God can do whatever he wants. Here is what I am trying to say and what is very dangerous, not everybody who goes through this experience is actually truly saved, and I would go as far to say that 9/10 people that this happens to are not saved.
-The big problem here is that they actually do believe that they are saved, because of the false teachings of the preacher afterward and not only that, but because on the outside it actually resembles true salvation so much its very hard to be discerned. If they just had an emotional experience and their emotions fueled by pastoral motivation is what keeps them coming to church and worshiping but they are not actually truly saved, then who are they worshipping? It is an anti-christ.
-By the way, the backsliding and falling away rate of these false christians is very high, but when they are motivated enough and do not fall away then they will become a goat that thinks hes a sheep or "goat with a Bible" which is very dangerous because they will do the most damage to the church as false prophets.
-O.k now, that previous bit of information is applicable to many many Christians, but mainly to those that belong to the dangerous end of Christianity that many fine scholars would call "hyper(extreme) Armenianism" who seem to think that being emotionally excited and doing the same to others is all there is to Christianity.
To name a few: charismatic, hyper-charismatic, prosperity, and many pentecostal offshoots. I am not saying that this applies to everyone in these denomination because I know there are lots of pentecostal churches that do not practice this. Now I am going to go on and elaborate on what I believe is the most dangerous branch of this heresy which is the prosperity gospel.
-O.k so the prosperity gospel not only practices what I mentioned above, but after "converting" their prospect through their emotional experience this gospel will motivate their new convert by building up their self-esteem ego and telling them that God wants them to be super wealthy and prosperous and God wants them to have all of their dreams come true because it is very man centered rather then God-centered. I'm just going to divide this into sections because it so very wicked so I must explain each doctrine seperately. Here are the topics. 1.) Man-centered not God-centered 2.) Man's will be done rather then God's will be done 3.) Positive and negative theology.
1.) Man-centered not God-centered
-In the 16th and 17th Century there was a fierce debate as to whether the Sun revolved around the Earth or the Earth revolved around the Sun, eventually with the help of science men were able to discover 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt that the earth revolves around the Sun and that the Sun was the center of the Solar system, but isn't funny that men are still trying to convince people that The Son revolves around man and that man is the center of the universe. No my friends the earth and every man in it revolves around the Son of God not the other way around. The earth and man keep revolving,moving and changing but The SON never changes and is the center of everything AND does not revolve around man. Just as the Sun gives light to the world and is needed for the existence of life on earth, the same is true with The SON, He provides light and life to the world and not the other way around.
-I have searched far and wide but I have yet to find a God-centered teaching in the prosperity gospel, every teaching has the emphasis that man is the center, "the end all be all" of the universe.
For example :
-God created the entire universe just for man, all for man's pleasure all because of man.
-God created man just so man could have a pleasurable relationship with God and so man could have a pleasurable life in the garden of Eden, If only Adam didn't blow it.
-Every time God makes a move in the universe or does something out of his own free will towards a man, it's always gotta be because of something the man has done(whether good or bad) because God has to submit to certain "laws of judgement" in the universe because God can't do whatever he wishes to man, because thats not "fair".
-God is just some weak puppet who does everything that a man with enough faith demands be done, God is constantly being stone-cold stunnered by the devil, and needs man to help him win this war that has been going on for centuries.
-These and many other silly things are done, they will gather practically every orthodox Christian doctrine they will take the fact that it is God centered and make it all about man even up to and including the cross of Jesus Christ. It's no surprise either too because that's just what the devil does he takes things that are about God and tries to make it about him because of his pride. Since we are all born in sin and with him as our spiritual father it really is no surprise that we will duplicate him in this aspect.
-And here is my response: No, the earth was created by God for God to do whatever he wanted to do with his creation which just happened to be have a relationship with man. God is sovereign and does whatever He wants, the earth is the Lord's and everything in it, He does whatever pleases. If God wants to kill someone then he can do it without asking any questions. God created man to give glory to God not the other way around.
2.)Man's will be done rather then God's will be done
-All you ever hear the people in these prosperity sects talking about is what they want and how God is helping them to get it. God's will is not prevalent in their lives because they have not truly been saved so theres no way for them to know it.
Just to give you a clue in case you are wondering, God's will usually revolves around repenting of your sins, getting truly saved and helping others do the same.
-Preachers like Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland will frequently talk about how its God's will for man to be wealthy, healthy, successful, prosperous or "blessed" as they call it. Although it is true that God may want to sprinkle one of those things on one person here and there, prosperity preachers would have us believe that there is some law that God has to submit to out there and that God has to treat everybody the same way and that God wants this for everybody all the time.So to hold to this theology, they must make a God in their image who is loving and good to them all the time ,wanting to increase their wealth and success all the time and is not a Holy God or a God of Justice, but one who blesses and blesses and blesses materially.
-The main conviction of all true prosperity believers is that all good things come from God and all bad things come from the devil, and the believer defines what good and bad is according to his will. So if it's the believers will to be millionaire rap star then, anythings that comes up against him, whether it be, spoken read or in some sort of media is "of the devil" . Why is it of the devil? Because its trying to stop them from achieving their will duh, and that's whats important in a sinner's life, getting their own thing done. I will be speaking more about this in #3 positive negative theology.
3) People in all the Quixway systems(BWW, Leadership team development, network21 etc..) and in prosperity doctrine religions(kenneth copelant,benny hinnm joel osteen etc..) they all HOLD STRONG to what they like to call positive vs.negative mentality. Here's how it works.
-Lets say my name is Steve, and I want to build a nation wide-empire using the LTD business system as my vehicle, anything or anyone that supports me and my goal, furthers my ability to achieve my goal or makes me happy, excited or motivated is "positive" and it comes from God because God is the ultimate extreme of this positive force. God is the epitome of positive. He the force thats out there to give you what you want all the time. Jesus is just a name that I say or call to get this "god" to give me what I want all the time.
-So here's an example: Billy comes up to me and says: "Hey Steve, I heard about what you did yesterday that was so awesome and courageous, your an inspiration to the entire team, keep that up and you'll be a millionaire, young wealthy and free in no-time.
To which I Steve would respond: "wow Bill thats so positive, thank you so much for the encouragement."
-Now the "negative" is anything that comes against me and my dreams and goals of building my empire, anythings that tries to take away from my self esteem, my ego, my pride, my motivation, anything that tries to "steal my dream" .
-For instance: my old friend Spurgeon comes up to me and says: "Hey Steve, you seem to have become entranced by that business system, you have allowed it to become an idol in your life, what does it profit it a man if he gain the whole world but lose his own soul?"
-To which I Steve would respond: Hey loser, I never realized how much of a negative loser you were until today, why are you trying to steal my dream, you are so negative, get behind me satan! in the name of Jesus!"
and I would procede to cut Spurgeon out of my life, because not only do I not like this "negative" but I can't handle it either because it the worst kind of "negative" because it sounds like truth! OH NO! if I keep listening to this my golden calf will collapse!
-By the way the devil is the exact opposite of God in the prosperity doctrine equation, hes the epitome of negative he exists to make your life stink and to try and stop you from getting what you want all the time.
-All this sounds silly right? guess what millions of people believe this more zeaolously then any bible believing Christian I've ever seen, its because they have duplicated the biblical model of a church from acts so they have comradeship for their own evil purposes which is able to drive them forward. These organizations claim to be giving all the honor and glory to "jesus christ" which christ that is, we must inspect, for they are zealously worshiping a replacement christ, an anti-christ.
So first let's find out what does the word "anti"-Christ mean. Is it a word that means against Christ? Yes and no. Only recently has this word began to mean against, kind of like how anti-semitic means against jews, or some people even think it means hating jews.
Although with today's dictionary this word can be used in this manner, tradionally this word "anti" does not mean against or hating, so it becomes confusing. The word "anti" in the original greek and in almost every instance of the new testamant, was only used in terms of replacement. The most correct use of the word "anti" could be seen in the bold italic word in the next sentence.
-They were expecting Greg, but Billy came instead of Greg.
So basically the simplest way I can put this is that when the anti-christ comes he will be a replacement christ that tries to come instead of the real Christ at the time of the second coming. What does this mean? Is he going to be a man so completely opposite of Christ? Someone like adolph hitler, that everyone is going to know that it's him, that is warring against the Annointed One of God? No not at all, what this is means is that the anti-christ is going to come and fool and deceive everyone who's name is not written in the book of life, into believing that he is the true messiah that has come to save him and they will believe it to a point of zealous worship.
On the outside he will seem to be an exact replica of Jesus Christ, by being loving, kind, authoritative, angry when he has to be,gentle and meek,working miracles, he will have one come before him just like John the Baptist and the bible says he will speak boastfully whatever that means. How will a true Christian be able to quickly notice that this is the beast? What is the dividing line? The determining factor? It is the cross of Jesus Christ and all those things attached to it: his resurection, sin, judgement, wrath of God, Hell, guilt, and need for forgiveness + grace.
You will say how can these things be how will this man come and replace Christ without ever talking about sin or the cross? Just look around today there are probably billions of people worshiping the anti-christ or what I like to call "fueling his coming". For now there are many anti-christs just like it says in 1 John 4 ... many anti-christs will come, but when the fueling is complete he will manifest and there will be only one and he will fit the bill for all of them.
Let's examine some of them:
The jehovah's witnesses claim to be worshiping a saviour messiah but this messiah did not die on the cross to pay for sins and did not endure the wrath of God because there is no hell to them. Thus they believe that Jesus only came to set an example of the works we must do to get to heaven. The Christ that I praise and worship is the one that endured the wrath of God hanging on the cross for my sins so I wouldn't have to. If they are not worshiping this Christ then what christ are they worshipping? It is an anti-christ. You see a Hindu person who is worshiping a false god like vishnu or a greek worshiping zeus is in reality just worshiping a demon and in the long run the devil because they are just idols, false Gods. But when you claim to be worshiping Jesus Christ, the Messiah like figure of the Bible when upon closer examination (crucifixtion, sin) you are not. Then you are worshiping a replacement christ.
The mormons also claim to be worshiping a messiah like figure who's name is Jesus. But this Jesus of theirs was the brother of satan and born of a sexual realtionship between Mary their god which they call Elohim who has also granted all judging privileges to joseph smith. Thier Jesus was married to several wives and had children but apparently he did die on the the cross for their sin. Is this what they believe though? If one were to actually join the mormon church they would quickly find that their salvation is completely works oriented, no grace at all. And since judging privileges were hand over to joseph smith they are likely to obey him and what he wrote in his works rather than God, and how can they resist worshiping this man. The christ that they worship is Jesus Smith or Joseph Christ. They are worshiping an anti-christ.
So the mormons and jw's think we can work our way to heaven. Here is the answer to this: This is assuming that we start with a clean slate and every sin we do gives us a -1 and when we do a good deed it gives us a +1 to get back to 0. But the Bible says that we are conceived in the womb of a sinner and born in sin. And if we just commit 1 sin then the infinite wrath of an infinitely powerful God, the wrath of the God that created all those big huge stars out there in 6 days, abides on us. Why does it abide on us? Its because Before God is a loving God he is a God of Justice and since he's perfect the best analogy I can describe it with is like someone who is a perfectionist and has obsessive compulsive disorder who loves straight lines, when he sees a bump in the line you know what his greatest desire is, its to make it straight again, and since he is super powerful this is a very scary thought. But God is not a maniac who loses control of himself he does it because that is what he wants to do and since God is also a loving God who is the epitome of love we can see that he worked around his perfect Justice by unloading his wrath and crucifying the Lamb before the foundation of the world was set. Praise the LORD!
Ok now I'm going to do my best to thoroughly describe the replacement-christ that has so gripped the christian church that I have given it its own name: "The anti-christ in emotional Christianity."
This heresy is so bad that it needs it own introduction.
-Because of certain things that have happened to Christianity, like christian leaders thinking that cultural relativity and being inoffensive is more important than preaching truth, and a belief that man has the awesome power to convert sinners by his own enthusiasm and motivation, a very dangerous 8-legged venomous belief has crept into the Christian Community. It is the belief that if one has had an emotional experience that they have been saved by Jesus Christ. Q: "What do you mean B-man? Isn't genuine repentance usually accompanied by an emotional experience? Like say: crying, weeping, sorrow. " A: Yes, most genuine repentances are accompanied by sorrow and weeping, but that does not mean that every emotional experience brings about a saving work by Jesus Christ. Lets move on, I will explain.
-Let's say that my family and I go to the movies and we decided to watch a very chick flicky dramatic movie that is a tear jerker. You know those movies that make you cry because they are very sad and depressing, but they also make your do the "happy cry" for some of the scenes that have a uplifting or vindicating theme. It's the crying that you do when you find out extremely good news, like your cancerous tumor is completely healed or your father survived a plane crash. Something like that.
-O.k so lets do some dissecting here by asking some questions. If I am watching the movie and a certain scene that is packed with protagonist vindication happens to makes me cry, does that mean that I have been saved by Jesus Christ? L.o.L of course not. I know its a silly question but check this out. If a particular excited evangelist comes up to me and has a conversation with me, and during this conversation he uses the same techniques the movie does to manipulate my emotions and bring me to tears, and then he proceeds to take me through the 4 spiritual laws technique and he takes me through the hoops and I end up saying the "salvation prayer" does that mean I am saved? Of course not.
Now I know that someone is going to say: "but thats how I got saved." And I believe you it is very possible God to save someone through this method, God can do whatever he wants. Here is what I am trying to say and what is very dangerous, not everybody who goes through this experience is actually truly saved, and I would go as far to say that 9/10 people that this happens to are not saved.
-The big problem here is that they actually do believe that they are saved, because of the false teachings of the preacher afterward and not only that, but because on the outside it actually resembles true salvation so much its very hard to be discerned. If they just had an emotional experience and their emotions fueled by pastoral motivation is what keeps them coming to church and worshiping but they are not actually truly saved, then who are they worshipping? It is an anti-christ.
-By the way, the backsliding and falling away rate of these false christians is very high, but when they are motivated enough and do not fall away then they will become a goat that thinks hes a sheep or "goat with a Bible" which is very dangerous because they will do the most damage to the church as false prophets.
-O.k now, that previous bit of information is applicable to many many Christians, but mainly to those that belong to the dangerous end of Christianity that many fine scholars would call "hyper(extreme) Armenianism" who seem to think that being emotionally excited and doing the same to others is all there is to Christianity.
To name a few: charismatic, hyper-charismatic, prosperity, and many pentecostal offshoots. I am not saying that this applies to everyone in these denomination because I know there are lots of pentecostal churches that do not practice this. Now I am going to go on and elaborate on what I believe is the most dangerous branch of this heresy which is the prosperity gospel.
-O.k so the prosperity gospel not only practices what I mentioned above, but after "converting" their prospect through their emotional experience this gospel will motivate their new convert by building up their self-esteem ego and telling them that God wants them to be super wealthy and prosperous and God wants them to have all of their dreams come true because it is very man centered rather then God-centered. I'm just going to divide this into sections because it so very wicked so I must explain each doctrine seperately. Here are the topics. 1.) Man-centered not God-centered 2.) Man's will be done rather then God's will be done 3.) Positive and negative theology.
1.) Man-centered not God-centered
-In the 16th and 17th Century there was a fierce debate as to whether the Sun revolved around the Earth or the Earth revolved around the Sun, eventually with the help of science men were able to discover 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt that the earth revolves around the Sun and that the Sun was the center of the Solar system, but isn't funny that men are still trying to convince people that The Son revolves around man and that man is the center of the universe. No my friends the earth and every man in it revolves around the Son of God not the other way around. The earth and man keep revolving,moving and changing but The SON never changes and is the center of everything AND does not revolve around man. Just as the Sun gives light to the world and is needed for the existence of life on earth, the same is true with The SON, He provides light and life to the world and not the other way around.
-I have searched far and wide but I have yet to find a God-centered teaching in the prosperity gospel, every teaching has the emphasis that man is the center, "the end all be all" of the universe.
For example :
-God created the entire universe just for man, all for man's pleasure all because of man.
-God created man just so man could have a pleasurable relationship with God and so man could have a pleasurable life in the garden of Eden, If only Adam didn't blow it.
-Every time God makes a move in the universe or does something out of his own free will towards a man, it's always gotta be because of something the man has done(whether good or bad) because God has to submit to certain "laws of judgement" in the universe because God can't do whatever he wishes to man, because thats not "fair".
-God is just some weak puppet who does everything that a man with enough faith demands be done, God is constantly being stone-cold stunnered by the devil, and needs man to help him win this war that has been going on for centuries.
-These and many other silly things are done, they will gather practically every orthodox Christian doctrine they will take the fact that it is God centered and make it all about man even up to and including the cross of Jesus Christ. It's no surprise either too because that's just what the devil does he takes things that are about God and tries to make it about him because of his pride. Since we are all born in sin and with him as our spiritual father it really is no surprise that we will duplicate him in this aspect.
-And here is my response: No, the earth was created by God for God to do whatever he wanted to do with his creation which just happened to be have a relationship with man. God is sovereign and does whatever He wants, the earth is the Lord's and everything in it, He does whatever pleases. If God wants to kill someone then he can do it without asking any questions. God created man to give glory to God not the other way around.
2.)Man's will be done rather then God's will be done
-All you ever hear the people in these prosperity sects talking about is what they want and how God is helping them to get it. God's will is not prevalent in their lives because they have not truly been saved so theres no way for them to know it.
Just to give you a clue in case you are wondering, God's will usually revolves around repenting of your sins, getting truly saved and helping others do the same.
-Preachers like Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland will frequently talk about how its God's will for man to be wealthy, healthy, successful, prosperous or "blessed" as they call it. Although it is true that God may want to sprinkle one of those things on one person here and there, prosperity preachers would have us believe that there is some law that God has to submit to out there and that God has to treat everybody the same way and that God wants this for everybody all the time.So to hold to this theology, they must make a God in their image who is loving and good to them all the time ,wanting to increase their wealth and success all the time and is not a Holy God or a God of Justice, but one who blesses and blesses and blesses materially.
-The main conviction of all true prosperity believers is that all good things come from God and all bad things come from the devil, and the believer defines what good and bad is according to his will. So if it's the believers will to be millionaire rap star then, anythings that comes up against him, whether it be, spoken read or in some sort of media is "of the devil" . Why is it of the devil? Because its trying to stop them from achieving their will duh, and that's whats important in a sinner's life, getting their own thing done. I will be speaking more about this in #3 positive negative theology.
3) People in all the Quixway systems(BWW, Leadership team development, network21 etc..) and in prosperity doctrine religions(kenneth copelant,benny hinnm joel osteen etc..) they all HOLD STRONG to what they like to call positive vs.negative mentality. Here's how it works.
-Lets say my name is Steve, and I want to build a nation wide-empire using the LTD business system as my vehicle, anything or anyone that supports me and my goal, furthers my ability to achieve my goal or makes me happy, excited or motivated is "positive" and it comes from God because God is the ultimate extreme of this positive force. God is the epitome of positive. He the force thats out there to give you what you want all the time. Jesus is just a name that I say or call to get this "god" to give me what I want all the time.
-So here's an example: Billy comes up to me and says: "Hey Steve, I heard about what you did yesterday that was so awesome and courageous, your an inspiration to the entire team, keep that up and you'll be a millionaire, young wealthy and free in no-time.
To which I Steve would respond: "wow Bill thats so positive, thank you so much for the encouragement."
-Now the "negative" is anything that comes against me and my dreams and goals of building my empire, anythings that tries to take away from my self esteem, my ego, my pride, my motivation, anything that tries to "steal my dream" .
-For instance: my old friend Spurgeon comes up to me and says: "Hey Steve, you seem to have become entranced by that business system, you have allowed it to become an idol in your life, what does it profit it a man if he gain the whole world but lose his own soul?"
-To which I Steve would respond: Hey loser, I never realized how much of a negative loser you were until today, why are you trying to steal my dream, you are so negative, get behind me satan! in the name of Jesus!"
and I would procede to cut Spurgeon out of my life, because not only do I not like this "negative" but I can't handle it either because it the worst kind of "negative" because it sounds like truth! OH NO! if I keep listening to this my golden calf will collapse!
-By the way the devil is the exact opposite of God in the prosperity doctrine equation, hes the epitome of negative he exists to make your life stink and to try and stop you from getting what you want all the time.
-All this sounds silly right? guess what millions of people believe this more zeaolously then any bible believing Christian I've ever seen, its because they have duplicated the biblical model of a church from acts so they have comradeship for their own evil purposes which is able to drive them forward. These organizations claim to be giving all the honor and glory to "jesus christ" which christ that is, we must inspect, for they are zealously worshiping a replacement christ, an anti-christ.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Leadership Team Development(LTDTEAM) & Britt World Wide(BWW) Perceptions And Thoughts
Introduction- A Christian's Perspective of Amway and Greed for non-christians and christians alike
Welcome, in this website I'll be discussing perceptions about Leadership Team Development which is a break away off of Britt World Wide system which is Quixtar also called Amway. Although many websites devote their time trying to convince people that this business is a scam and an illegal pyramid, people often beat around the bush attacking and defending whether or not Amway is an illegal pyramid or scam when thats not even the issue, of course its not an illegal pyramid and whether or not it is a scam must be left to each individuals perspective, but the main problems I will go through now...My main concern is with the cultic spiritual deception that occurs rampantly in this business.
The cultic tactics that they use to grow their business is just like the Jehovah's witness and Mormonism, they have an overt "christian" emphasis and they use the church model in the book of Acts of the Bible for the growth of their business.
Just like a true Christian church will evangelize by sharing the gospel, Quixtians will evangelize using what they call "sharing the dream" where they ask people what their dreams are and then ask them if they want to make more money to achieve those dreams.(which by the way is fine, but their motive and the end result of what they are doing is wrong) Then, just like the evangelist invites people to the church to hear the gospel preached by the pastor, the quixtian will invite the new prospect to the "business meeting" where the enthusiatic charismatic speaker pulls your heart strings by talking for 40 minutes about your dreams and why you deserve and can have more, then for the next 20 minutes he "draws the circles" and shows how to make money in the business, this whole process is the equivalent of the pastor the in church preaching the gospel and they call it "STP" which is"showing the plan".
After attending church if the person sees that they haven't kept the 10 commandments and that they need Christ as their saviour because of their sin then there is usually discipleship afterwards, where some mature church members will help the person get started with the Bible and what not, with amway it is the same. After hearing the rants of the charismatic speaker, if the prospect's heart strings are pulled and he becomes lustful for money, then those who are interested will usually get together for a "follow-up" with their "mentor" (they call this the mentoring process) where they will be shown a plan for the next 90 days and given some motivational and quite often some cultic books.( some described below) Just like Christians are told to depart from their life of sin( pornagraphy, narcotics, stealing, lying etc) and leave the service of the devil to work for God, the new prospect is told very quick into the business that he has spent his whole life serving "negative" and that he needs to cut off all "negative"(which is of course defined by them) from their life and start to think positive, only allow positive into their life and to start to serve the "positive force" which they sorta make into a god of theirs. Of course positive is anything that encourages supports or agrees with what they are doing to help them build their business, and "negative" is anything that tries to hinder them or discourage them.
So if the parents of the prospects discourage them from doing the business the "mentor" will suggest cutting them off for a while because they are "negative"(do you see the culticness here?)
Because of the fact that this business has an overt christian emphasis and most people in this business call themselves "christians"(even though all they care about is money and have life centred on greed and lust)
they will often apply the label "devil" to whatever is negative and harming to their goals and dreams(building business) and then consequently they will apply the label of "god" to whatever is positive. By the way this idea comes from free masonry with the help of Napolean hill who was himself a famous free mason . (described below)
When a church begins to grow the church then decides to expand its boarders using missionaries, to go to the nearby cities and even cities abroad in different countries to do what they call "planting a church", in the same manner those who drive hours and hours to different cities, or even devote their lives abroad to preaching the Amway gospel(lustful prosperity), are called "warriors" who are "planting open meetings."
And of course they have an "us vs. them" mentality you will often here people in this business refer to themselves as "winners" and anyone who is not in the business or rejects their offer to do them business as "losers" they do this so much that they take the "losers" to the point of enemy status. This is the "us vs. them" mentality that is present in every cult and is very often displayed. Without an enemy that is being criminalized, mocked,slandered, hated, and beat-low then a cult can't exist.
AND OF COURSE MY BIGGEST CONCERN is that, just like the mormons and J.W's they do this all in the name of Jesus Christ, which is a false jesus. Its the jesus of the prosperity gospel which is a heresy(more on this topic here) and because of organizations like this that are in reality only interested in money and filling their own bellies and puffing themselves up, then the name of Christ is disgraced and trodden down and blasphemed among men.
This section is made especially for Christians or at least those who "profess" to be. There is such a thing as false converts people who claim that Christ is their Lord but in reality are slaves to sin, read all of matthew 7:21-23.
For those of you in the LTD system that call yourselves Christian I challenge you to read this and tell me if I have lied, and if you do call yourself a Christian then you should have enough guts to read this, or are you going to get scared away by the "negative"? A wuss is someone who can't handle a rebuke, winners definetly can.
It is a blatant fact that this system of business is an incubator for the sin of idolatry and greed/covetousness(which they call dreaming to confuse people and make it sound nicer, because dreams are not bad, but the ones they encourage are all greed centred and breaking the 10th commandment) the longer you are in it the more of your heart gets stolen and latched onto by this false God called the LTD system. And I would say that at least 99% of people who are in the LTD business are committing the sin of idolatry with their false God being the LTD system itself and the idol they have made of their own goals and dreams. Idolatry by the way is the worst sin in the bible. Loving something else more then Jesus Christ, every IBO loves the LTD system and their own "dreams and goals"(which is lust and covetousness, the more you pursue the bigger idol it becomes) more then they love Jesus Christ and would not be willing to give it up even if Jesus came down face to face and asked them to do it. They would say that it is not Jesus, its gotta be the devil because Jesus would never ask me to leave something for his sake. People who haven't read the Bible or at least, the new testament say these silly things. Why would Jesus not want you to leave an organization that is deceiving people and teaching New-age psychological crap, along with Free Masonry (napolean hills works, norman vincent peale's power of positive thinking, and Og mandinos works) all these men were extremely famous free mason's who knowingly worship the devil himself, and many other lies that come from the prosperity gospel and the word of faith movement.
Heres more:
The first commandment is: HEAR! O ISRAEL! I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD, you shall have no other Gods before me!
Some may say their God is Jesus But they are Liars for they are in fact serving the LTD system and their own bellies(greed). The LTD system is what they love and trust the most. The LTD system controls every decision and action that the IBO makes in their day not because the IBO is being mind controlled but because this is what the person actually desires to do. This is how they have been trained.
When I go to a church I hear: Praise the Lord! We were on the verge of divorce but my marriage is better because of Jesus Christ. I had a ________ (insert whatever) addiction and Jesus helped deliver me from it. Thank you Jesus. I was depressed and down low but Jesus came into my life and made me full of joy. Praise the LORD.
NOW........ heres what you hear at an LTD business meeting:
Isn't the LTD system awesome?!(Praise LTD) We were on the verge of divorce but my marriage is better because of LTD.
I had a ________ (insert whatever) addiction and LTD helped deliver me from it. Thank you LTD.
I was depressed and down low but LTD came into my life and made me full of joy. We love the LTD system!! (Praise LTD.)
Those of you who attend meeting regularly know what I'm talking about, Doesn't this scare you? LTD is taking the praise of Jesus Christ.
By the way if you are reading this and you are feeling your conscience bothering you you should praise the Lord, that is not the devil that is the Holy Spirit pricking you warning you to repent and regret all the sins that you've committed against God. What sins you say? Have you ever lied? stolen? blasphemed? adultered? fornicated?
Before God is a loving God(and he is a very loving God) he is a God of JUSTICE. Study this word people. This is why there is a hell. If there was a County Judge out there who allowed murderers and rapers to go free without sending them to jail you would call him a "bad Judge" and "corrupt judge". God is not a bad or corrupt judge, this is why hes going to send people like adolph hitler to hell, but God is so good and so perfect and Just that he will punish every single sin including lies and blasphemies even if you've only committed one. You better hope that those sins were punished for you on the cross of Jesus Christ or you'll be paying the price for them yourself in hell. This is why you need to repent and trust in Jesus Christ and his finished work on the cross for your salvation and not in your own works. Here are scriptures to consider.
For all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23. Notice how it says all, that means you too.
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives. 1 John 1:8-10. Just to affirm you guys.
and: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:8-9.
Nothing we can do can save us, because we are sinners and it says when we try to work our way to salvation, that our works are like filthy rags in the sight of God(Isaiah 64:6)
We need to trust in the finished work of Christ for our salvation and nothing else, not LTD, not BWW, not our job promotions,not our climbing of the corporate ladder or any other institution, not the pastor,not the church people and not our own works.
You may ask why I am doing this. I am not doing this because I hate the LTD business system of BWW or Amway, its just a stupid business that thinks it can take the place of Christianity. I am doing this because I care for your soul. If I saw you asleep in a burning building and didn't wake you up then I would be a monster.
Grace and Peace to you
with all the love I can muster
Batista
P.S Here is a very helpful resource if you would like to do some more reading. This is a very short(20 min read) and scholarly book written by a christian about MLM and the church.
http://www.merchantsofdeception.com/files/MLMandTheChurch.pdf
If some are reading this and are worried that I am just some loser blogger out there, I would accept the persecution gladly for the sake of my Lord Jesus Christ and his will, just like you are willing to accept enormous amounts of persecution for the LTD system and your dreams(idols) which in end is just doing your will rather then God's, but please if you want to see my face, I know that you IBO'S are movers and shakers why dont you come and have a cup of coffee with me, or invite me to your open meeting to speak as a guest, I am not afraid of you. Leave some comments if you want to do any of these things, and those who are upset try not to use dirty language please.
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