What makes John Piper one of the many authors of confusion is his willingness to partner with heretics, and affirm them as orthodox; thus handing many of his follows over to wolves who will lead them into the false gospel of easy-believism, and the social gospel, which cannot save anyone from the wrath of God, and the heretical practices of mysticism, which introduce people to a counterfeit Holy Spirit that leads them away from Christ, and his gospel, and into the lewdness of heretics.
All of this can be seen by Pipers partnership with, and endorsement of, the following heretics:
Rick Warren, who promotes mysticism, easy-believism, the social gospel, and even the “new world order” through humanitarianism and philanthropy. Click on the provided link entitled “Piper Warren interview” to learn more.
Mark Driscoll, who blasphemes Jesus Christ, promotes the drinking of alcohol among Christians, indulges in blaspheming the Holy Spirit by claiming to have pornographic visions from God, introduces Christians to a sex toy shop on his church’s website, and leads his congregation into mystical practices. Click on the provided link entitled “Authors of Confusion Pt. 7 – Mark Driscoll’s ‘Cultural Relevance’” & “Piper loves Driscoll’s theology.” to learn more.
In the article entitled, “We Want You to be a Christian Hedonist”, Piper makes claims that contradicts the essentials of the faith as taught in Scripture. The claims are listed below:
“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.” – The Bible does not teach this. Instead, it teaches this…”Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven (Matthew 5:16).” & “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy (1Peter 2:9-10).”
“The desire to be happy is a proper motive for every good deed…” – The Bible does not teach this. Instead, it teaches this…”If ye love me, keep my commandments (J0hn 14:15).” & “…the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again (2Corinthians 5:14-15).” Therefore, the proper motive for doing good works is that of love for, and gratefulness to, Jesus Christ, who gave his life so that we could be saved from the wrath of God. Here is another motive for doing what is right…”Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates (2Corinthians 13:5)?” & “And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments (1John 2:3).” Therefore, we also do good works for the sake of being sure that we belong to God, and are not false converts.
“…if you abandon the pursuit of your own joy you cannot love man or please God.” – The Bible does not teach this. Instead, it teaches this…”If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple (Luke 14:26-27).” & “So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:33)” & “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul (Matthew 16:24-26)?” The Bible also gives us this warning…”Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, ***whose God is their belly***, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things (Philippians 3:17-19).” & “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, ***blasphemers***, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, ***lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God***; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: ***from such turn away*** (2Timothy 3:1-5).” Therefore, loving God is not at all loving one’s own pleasure, nor is loving God pleasure seeking. Also, “Love…does not seek its own…(1Corinthians 13:5)”.
The article is full of these kind of deceptive statements, which contradict Scripture, and the essentials of the gospel. These kind of statements can also be found in the video clip entitled “John Piper – What is Christian Hedonism?”, and they are listed below:
“God serves us. We don’t have to be his servants. I like that” – The Bible does not teach this. Instead, it teaches this…”Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them (John 13:13-17).” & “Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 24:44-51).” & “Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand (Romans 14:3-4).” & “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; ***serving the Lord*** (Romans 12:10-11)”.
“I don’t lift his burdens. He lifts my burdens” – “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light (Matthew 11:28-30). Therefore, believers are commanded to stop carrying their own burdens, and to, instead, carry God’s burden, which is to love others, and to proclaim the gospel to everyone.
After making these statements, he contradicts himself, and says that “God himself is our joy”, and “he does not work for us”. This is confusion. Furthermore, their is no need to teach hedonism for any reason. Believers can be sufficiently built up in their faith without these heretical claims. All that this heresy of Christian Hedonism serves to do is to stir up strifes concerning the essentials of the faith, and for no good reason.
Piper has persisted in making major offenses concerning the faith by his partnership with heretics (1John 2:8-11), and with his false gospel of hedonism (Galatians 1:8-9, Galatians 5:8-9). Scripture gives of his warning, and command, about those who do so…
Romans 16
17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil (Matthew 7:18).
The following links are a, four part, expose on “Freemasonry in the church”, by Christian J. Pinto. In it, he discusses Freemasonic doctrine, history, its agenda, and its infiltration of Protestant churches:
The link entitled “Glenn Beck, Ecumenism and the Social Gospel“, Paul Flynn gives his commentary on some of the news about Mormon Glenn Beck’s Restoring Love event and the evangelical leaders like Dr. Ravi Zacharias who attended his ecumenical Under God: Indivisible event.
A number of evangelicals participated, this week, in an ecumenical conference in Texas in conjunction with Glenn Beck’s Restoring Love event. The speakers at this event included priests Jonathan Morris and Frank Pavone, Jewish rabbi Aryeh Spero, prosperity preacher Kenneth Copeland, Richard Land, ousted president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, as well as apologist Ravi Zacharias, John Hagee, David Jeremiah, Tony Evans, Franklin Graham, Ken Hutcherson, historian David Barton and others.
The Bible gives this command to the church in regards to partnering with Roman Catholicism:
2John 1
8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
The Bible gives this command to the church in regards to the prominent Protestant leaders, who are partnering with Rome:
Romans 16
17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
For more information on this topic, click on the following links below:
Jesus warned his disciples of deception that was intended for the church.
Mark 13 5 And Jesus, answering them, began to say: “Take heed that no one deceives ***YOU***.
So the deception is not just for those who don’t know God. It is also designed to deceive Christians; especially during what Jesus called the “great tribulation”, which will occur shortly before Christ’s return.
Mark 13 21 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, He is there!’ do not believe it. 22 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 23 But take heed; see, I have told you all things beforehand.
Before the great tribulation, the world will be dominated by a world church (Revelation 17). It will deceive all of the nations of the world
Revelation 17 1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show
you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”
It is because this false church will dominate the world’s understanding of what it means to be a Christian, that God, before hand, told us not to be deceived by it, and also to come out of it. He tells us to come out of it, because many of his elect have been raised within it from childhood.
Revelation 18 4 And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
Some of the people that God has already called out of this church were priests, and monks, within this church, such as Martin Luther and John Hus. Many of them were killed by this false church. That is why the Bible said that it is drunk with the blood of the saints (Revelation 17:6). During its first reign over the kings of, what Daniel called, the “fourth kingdom”, it was reported to have killed about 50 million people through its crusades and inquisitions (Daniel 8).
Revelation 17 shows us that it will rule over the kings of the fourth kingdom before the great tribulation (Revelation 17:1-3).
The beast is the office of the pope. Throughout the church age, the popes have claimed to be “The Holy Father”, “The Father”/pope means father, “The Vicar of Christ”/antichirst, and Christ veiled in human flesh. The fourth kingdom/Europe believed this heresy, and idolatry, and thought that this madness was Christianity. If only they were able to read the Bible. Then they would have been able to see for themselves that this was the opposite of Chris’s church, and that the popes were Christ’s enemies.
Matthew 24 4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no
The VICARS OF CHRIST “Vicar of Christ”, which means: to reign in the place of Christ. “Antichrist” means: one who puts himself in the place of Christ. It also means: the opponent of Christ.
one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. Luke 21 8 And He said: “Take heed that you not be deceived. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and, ‘The time has drawn near.’ Therefore ***do not go after them***.
These are the popes; the little horn of Daniel 7:19-25, Daniel 8:23-25, and it will come back during the great tribulation (Revelation 13, Revelation 17).
So the concept of a Universal church is not a theory, but Bible prophecy, because the Bible tells us that the fourth kingdom will rule over the earth, and that the capital of the fourth kingdom is the little horn/Roman Catholicism & the popes.
The knowledge of the fourth kingdom’s efforts to take over the world is as common as their slogan, which is “the new world order”. It means “a one world government for the entire world to be ruled by.” Many coming out of Europe have been working toward this goal, such as the Jesuits, Freemasons, Rosicrucians, The Illuminati, Roman Catholicism, Skull & Bones, The Bohemian Club, The CFR, The United Nations, The European Union, International Bankers, The super rich corporations & families of the West (America & Europe), and many others. And all of these are working together as one, for the purpose of bringing about a new world order, and “Coexistence”. They claim to be working toward establishing peace and security for the world, just as the Bible foretold (1Thessalonians 5:1-6).
1Thessalonians 5:2-3
There is a very religious element to this conspiracy. It operates according to the principal of ecumenism, for the purpose of creating a universal religion, that consist of all of the world’s religions, under the leadership of the new world order’s government. Within this one world religion is Christianity, and its intent is for Christianity to be led by Roman Catholicism. In America, this includes, both the religious right, and the religious left. It is through doctrine and practice that the conservatives are being aided and led by Roman Catholics in their “God in government” campaign, which is a moral crusade for the soul of America, and Liberals are being led by Roman Catholics through humanitarianism, and mysticism. These are the out-workings of the social gospel, and most American Christians are being led astray by it. The social gospel has shaped America throughout its history the mid to late 1700’s.
The proofs of the effort for the new world order, the Universal church, and coexistence, can be affirmed by the following links:
The following two films “The March to Armageddon” & “The New Age“, by Christian J. Pinto, is a documentary of the history and agenda of the New Age Movement. It shows that the movement is more than just a new spirituality, but it is the religion of the “new world order”.
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