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It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.” (Psalm 118:8)
Cale,
In other words, you really don't know from the Lord, whether Todd White is a false prophet or not. You're trusting in your pastor and his leadership team because you don't have your own oil to spiritually discern this. You are trusting in man to tell you the difference, but not the Lord.
Here is what the Lord says about those who trust in man:
Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength,
Whose heart departs from the Lord.
For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,
And shall not see when good comes,
But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
In a salt land which is not inhabited. (Jeremiah 17:5-6 NKJV)
You're trusting that your pastor, Robert Morris of Gateway Church, wouldn't invite a false prophet to minister to you because you believe him to be a man of God. A man of God is a shepherd with spiritual discernment who wouldn't invite a wolf (false prophet) to preach to his flock. But have you considered that Robert Morris would because he is a false teacher himself?
And why do you believe he is a man of God? Because, you are trusting your carnal senses, your flesh to confide in Morris to give you the answers. So of course, you don't know the difference because you “like to trust” in yourself and what you think rather than God. Which is why you have been deceived by both Robert Morris and Todd White. Your confidence is in the man of sin, the carnal nature, the flesh.
In his video,
Presbytery: What and Why, Robert Morris teaches his congregation about presbytery, and why they shouldn't neglect prophecy. He gives an example of how the presbyters from the Dallas Campus are purposely not given any names of the couples they are praying for. According to Morris, anonymous people receiving a word of God or prophecy is an example of witnessing the supernatural.
Where do you find it in the Scriptures where “presbyters” are given anonymous people to pray to witness the supernatural? Ironically, in the Gateway's Statement of Faith, it says the Bible “
cannot be added to, subtracted from, or superseded in any regard.” But isn't Morris doing just that? You won't find an example Scripturally because it's not the Lord's work but an example of signs and wonders of false prophets.
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For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.” (Matthew 24:24)
These presbyteries are no different from the palm readers and tarot card fortune tellers who may even say true things but their source of power isn't the Lord.
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Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, 'Thus says the Lord God,' when the Lord had not spoken.” (Ezekiel 22:28)
Robert Morris also teaches the
Diabolical Doctrine of the Trinity and
The Rapture.
You said,
I saw the hundreds of people come to the altar and give their lives to the Lord at the end of the service? I guess that's how I know he led them….(4 Dots)
This is an example of how you're trusting your carnal senses judging by appearances rather than the Lord. You're basically saying, “
hundreds of people are going to the altar and getting saved, this must be of God.” But the Lord says, “
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. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” (Matthew 7:13-14)
The front of your “church” isn't the “altar” of God but the wide and broad gate that leads to destruction for many. Just because hundreds of people go to your “altar” and pray the “sinner's prayer” doesn't mean they have been saved. What you saw there were hundreds of people being deceived by false teachers, who presume to come in the Lord's Name.
It is as the Lord says, “
Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.” (Matthew 24:11)
It's not “baffling” for us to see that the reason why you can't understand why we have spent the time and energy to “compile this case” is because you and your teachers are blind in your sins. How can the blind lead the blind? How can you, being blind, dismiss what we see?
We are telling you this so that you may repent and turn away from false teachers. They aren't trying to “get people into heaven” but leading them to death and destruction, though they likely don't know it. That's where they are leading you, Cale. And for that, you fault us because you are judging by the appearance of things. You're going based what you see, what you hear, and how you feel without any legitimate substance or spiritual discernment. You're doing the very thing that Jesus Christ tells you not to do.
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Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.” (John 7:24)
And what qualifies you to be our judge when you admittedly haven't had any spiritual discernment to tell the difference?
Cale, the truth is you and many people have been deceived by Robert Morris and Todd White. Why? Because you are all after what you want to hear to satisfy your lusts.
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For the time will come when people 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 NIV)
You need
Repentance. You need the True Lord Jesus Christ. If you repent and trust Him, He will save you from the snares of the enemy.
Cursed is a man who puts his trust in man but blessed is a man who trusts in God.
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Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
And whose hope is the Lord.
For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,
Which spreads out its roots by the river,
And will not fear when heat comes;
But its leaf will be green,
And will not be anxious in the year of drought,
Nor will cease from yielding fruit.” (Jeremiah 17:7-8)
Here is what it really boils down to. Will you continue to have confidence in yourself by taking the wide path and destroy yourself in your sins? Or repent, take the narrow path where few travel, and live?
Dennison Rivera