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UN-BIBLICAL PREACHING ILLUSTRATED: Steven Furtick – Revives “Little gods” Doctrine….

The videos in this post are from the YouTube site, Pastor Michael Grant, (PMG);   Video-page link:  https://www.youtube.com/@Pastor_Grant/videos

At his YouTube site, PMG titled the first video below:  Steven Furtick revives little gods doctrine taught by Kenneth Copeland and Paul Crouch of TBN

I changed PMG’s title to make it part two of my mini-series on Biblical va UN-biblical preaching.

My last post illustrated biblical preaching which glorifies God and edifies the sheep of God; it used a video of a Voddie Baucham sermon: the World, the Flesh and the Devil.

The videos below, sermons by Steven Furtick, illustrate preaching that blasphemes God and leads God’s sheep far astray: onto the broad way and onto destruction.

[The second video sermon by Steven Furtick is below sermon points and article links concerning the first Furtick video.]

This two-part mini-series came out of a question a reader asked me regarding the nature of biblical preaching and its opposite.

 

Sermon Highlights for above video:

Sermon HIGHLIGHTS [bracketed statements; emboldening and underscoring are mine[:

TERM EXPLANATIONS AND LINKS TO ARTICLES:

Typology is a special kind of symbolism. (A symbol is something that represents something else.) We can define a type as a “prophetic symbol” because all types are representations of something yet future. More specifically, a type in Scripture is a person or thing in the Old Testament that foreshadows a person or thing in the New Testament. For example, the flood of Noah’s day (Genesis 6—7) is used as a type of baptism in 1 Peter 3:20–21. The word for “type” that Peter uses is figure.

When we say that someone is a type of Christ, we are saying that a person in the Old Testament behaves in a way that corresponds to Jesus’ character or actions in the New Testament. When we say that something is “typical” of Christ, we are saying that an object or event in the Old Testament can be viewed as representative of some quality of Jesus.

Eisegesis: is the interpretation of a passage based on a subjective, non-analytical reading. The word eisegesis literally means “to lead into,” which means the interpreter injects his own ideas into the text, making it mean whatever he wants. 

Ear tickling / itching ears: The apostle Paul wrote a warning for the church: “The time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear” (2 Timothy 4:3).

The Greek word translated “itching” literally means “to itch, rub, scratch, or tickle.” To want one’s ears “tickled” is to desire massages rather than messages—sermons that charm rather than challenge, entertain rather than edify, and please rather than preach. The people Paul warns about will have, as one commentator put it, “ears which have to be continually titillated with novelties.”

***Link to Got Questions article about 2 Timothy 4:3, itching ears: https://www.gotquestions.org/itching-ears.html

***Link to Got Questions article: What is Biblical Typology?  https://www.gotquestions.org/typology-Biblical.html

***Link to Got Questions article, What is narcigesis?  https://www.gotquestions.org/narcigesis.html

***Link to Got Questions article,  What is the difference between exegesis and eisegesis?  https://www.gotquestions.org/exegesis-eisegesis.html

Pastor Michael’s following sermon on Furtick goes deeper, for those who would know more such that they might learn greater discernment:

 

Video-page link:  https://www.youtube.com/@Pastor_Grant/videos

The following narrative and links accompanied the first sermon in this post at the YouTube site, Pastor Michael Grant:

In a recent sermon Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church taught his congregation that “whatever God is, you are too”.

Article Link: https://protestia.com/2024/02/14/here…

This teaching is meant to exalt man while pulling God down to our level. This statement by Furtick comes off the heels of the last scandal where the megachurch pastor claimed to be “God Almighty”. How can he make such a claim? This is a heretical teaching found within a segment of Charismatic / Pentecostal Christianity known as the “Word Faith” or “Word of Faith” movement. It’s also called “Name it and claim it” and it is a key Tenet of the “Prosperity Gospel” as taught by TD Jakes, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen and others.

The idea is that we are “little gods” therefore whatever God can do, you can do, IF you just have enough faith. It also usually includes you proving you have faith by donating “seed money” to the televangelist. For more click on my video titled “What did Jesus Mean When He said “ye are gods”?   • What Did Jesus Mean When He Said “Ye …  

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