VINTAGE: PART 1 WHAT IS A TRUE VS FALSE PROPHET?
Many false prophets have come into the world.” 1 John 4:1 How can we tell a FALSE spiritual father/sr. pastor, elder,leader from a TRUE ONE? (C) 2006/2013 Dr. Taveau D’Arcy All copyrights reserved
The Bible tells us not that we must not judge each other, however, it does teach us to “discern the fruits” of any individual. This includes, pastors, evangelists, teachers, apostles or prophets. Galatians tells us to “judge them by their fruits.”
The fruits of the Holy Spirit are listed in Galatians 5:22-23, “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,meekness and temperance.”
These are all GOOD fruits in the life of a spiritual father or mother or Christian leader. In I Corinthians 14 :10,the Bible teaches that, “there are many voices in the world, and each one has significance.” IFFM trains Christians to differentiate between all those voices in our modern day world: TV and church preaching, words of prophecy, advice from family and friends, inner voices, dreams, ideas, cell phone messages, emails, worry, feelings and a lot more.
Each message and therefore each MESSENGER must be accurately discerned.
TAVEAU CREATIVE LEADERSHIP /DFW LOF believe that the best and most accurate method of differentiating between FALSE and REAL PERSONS, PASTORS, PROPHETS, APOSTLES or TEACHERS, is to learn from the Bible, how to tell the difference between GOD’S TRUE VOICES in people or messages, and the devils FALSE, DECEIVING VOICE in persons, messages and spiritual fathers or spiritual mothers.
The Wisdom of God : Listening to Only the Voice of the GOOD Shepherd There are also ways to detect when the message, or voice, that teaches, gives a prophetic word, or offerings encouragement, actually is coming from the mouth of a pure hearted pastor or leader. James 3:17 tells us that, “The wisdom of God is first of all PURE, the PEACEABLE, EASILY ENTREATED…”
This means that any spiritual person who is dominating, dogmatic, bossy, or mean spirited has some dross somewhere down deep in his/her “well.” True Spiritual Fathers, Mothers are like good natural dads and moms. They are compassionate, never demeaning, some times they are more sober thoughtful deep thinking individuals, but they never put the “onus” on someone in order to control them through fear.
True,good spiritual and natural Dads and Moms don’t curse, threaten, or use demeaning labels, foul language to get their children to comply. Good pastors, spiritual parents do not abuse their God given position or office to control people. They don’t withhold affection or communication.
That is rooted in manipulation and spiritual abuse. Just like good earthly fathers, good spiritual fathers, mothers behave in an emotionally mature manner. Even when under spiritual attack or financial pressure, good spiritual fathers, apostles,ministers, refuse to compromise or prostitute their power for gain. A good spiritual dad or mom NEVER EVER THREATENS or PUMMELS THE PEOPLE with their mantle, title or spiritual position.
To do that reveals ignorance, immaturity and may be rooted in possessing an abusive, manipulative proud spirit. Good spiritual fathers and mothers are never position hungry.
To be any of the above reveals the potential to use persons, which is manipulation and is rooted in control, domination and is a form of witchcraft. GOOD spiritual leaders always earn respect by being wise, fair and good, but they never demand it.
Good Spiritual Fathers and Mothers, don’t criticize or say negative things about other sr. pastors or leaders. No matter how strange, unusual a TV minister or fellow pastor may seem, they never make critical comments from the pulpit about them or make jokes about them. Instead, if they do observe someone whom they feel is not bringing glory to the King of Kings, they go on their knees on behalf of that person, and intercede for them.
Or, they go to them privately to speak to them about the matter (non dominating Galatians 6;1/fully respectful Matthew 18:15-17). Real sr. pastors, spritual fathers and mothers, do not spread gossip, tales about other leaders. If they do see another pastor, person involved in sin, they do not take the seat of being a judge, but rather, they go to the person, as the Bible teaches, in a loving, humble spirit and practice Godly confrontation.
Real spiritual fathers, mothers practice a respect for all persons, but do not have a respecter of persons spirit. They do not demand that persons bow down to them due to their spiritual office. True spiritual leaders lead the people in bowing down before God’s throne.
Good natural fathers, mothers make good spiritual fathers, mothers. They don’t feel that they have a need to prove themselves to others. Because they let Jesus be the source of their esteem, identity or security, they do not have a spirit of competition with other members of the Body since they don’t fear some other pastor, leader usurping their authority or taking their place.
Of course, God has a whole lot of FIRE and EXCITEMENT in His nature, so each of us must differentiate between those who HYPE, and those who are pastors, persons, TV ministers, who are anointed by God to be entertainers.
In the giant spectrum of saints, there are many fashion and denominational styles and people groups: even some who by culture, nature or creative imagination, enjoy fashions that others, who might prefer dressing in low key, olive, navy and other drab tones, could judge to be “too glitzy”, or HYPING, and way too flamboyant. False persons, pastors, leaders, natural parents, manipulate people in their care.
Sometimes is through the use of HYPE…to enthrall and capture the focus of the people on them or for purposes of bringing in more money. Being flashy, demonstrating hilarity or even sporting fair amounts of BLING, does not necessarily constitute a person who is HYPING themselves.
And, some people dress more maturely than others.And for God’s people, including TV ministers, pastors, etc: It is truly the inward heart of the person, pastor that truly matters.
SEE: COMMON DOCTRINES OF EPHESIANS 4 at the top of this ONLINEFELLOWSHIP Page
TO BE CONTINUED ON UPCOMING POSTING. PART 2 (C) 2006/2013 Taveau D’Arcy All copyrights reserved
