Prophecy: No God! The Church Is Filled with Mini-gods.
Satan’s primary goal of separating humans from the God of the universe is through the deception of forming a world filled with self-as-god.
Since the Church is filled with “little gods” having wars among their own body members, deciding what is right for the Church promotes self-righteousness, which ultimately accomplishes Satan’s primary goal of separating humans from the God of the universe. Therefore, the “lion’s share” of humanity goes to Hell, and few go to Heaven.
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.” (Matthew 7:13-14)
The Word says, “we shall know them by their love.” According to statistics, most of the Church is known for its hate and divisive tactics! Overall, we have become a better example of the Tree of Knowledge vs. the Tree of Life. We have people running from the Church faster than to it – if you haven’t noticed? It is sad when authentic Christians trust unbelievers quicker than their own people. Even as I write this, thousands of “Christians” are plotting to destroy another Christian with their words, deeds, or gossip. It is no wonder that the masses are saying, “There is no God.”
Genesis has made it clear to us regarding humans playing god – each acting like a god, deciding, or self-interpreting, what they believe is right and wrong. Many no longer serve God with a singular “will” as the Body of Christ but rather serve many gods (pluralistic universalism) with many kinds of doctrines, which typically ARE doctrines of demons.
God wants us to know the real Jesus. The Father most assuredly wants us to understand the Godological details regarding how Jesus could do God's will without stealing God's role - despite the human tendency to play god. Jesus did NOT make decisions based on His own will but rather the will of His Father. (John 6:38) He carried out the Law to perfection. He goes on to sacrifice His life for the Divine purpose of placing the Holy Spirit in His Bride. This single act prevented authentic Christians from fulfilling the Law on their own. Now, born-again indwelt Christians have the perfect modality of releasing fulfilled Law through the indwelling Spirit. Most of us call this walking IN the Spirit.
Allow me to explain how this works.
Allowing our flesh to be a god starts with mankind setting standards of conduct for self, others, and God – even if the standards are of God. Whoever determines the standard/law is under the deception of thinking they have the right to demand absolute obedience to that standard/Law. They press on, demanding absolute obedience to those standards/laws. This gives them the self-governed prerogative of “judging” the attitudes and actions of the person(s) who refused to live by their mandates. Once judgment starts, the ideology of delivering consequences for failure to adhere to their guidelines quickly comes into play. Biblically, this is called revenge. This results in the standard-setter selfishly endeavoring to control the circumstances and people who violate their self-imposed laws. Control quickly converts itself into acting as a sovereign god. The standard-setter independently does whatever they please while attempting to maintain control. If their madness finds remnants of success, the fleshly habit of idolatry that seeks approval, praise, and acceptance from others becomes their ideation. These regressive acts end up in NOT seeking help and guidance from others. Self quickly settles in as a mini-god. It is a covert confession of “There is no God.”
Those who use playing god use actions and the doctrines of God as a “weapon” instead of a life-transforming seed. It is Satan weaponizing the Body of Christ.
What logic is in using God to sustain our position as a god? This is beyond illogical; it is stupidity and hostility toward God. God players are known for quarreling, suffering endless conflicts, and usually siding with friendship with the world versus Jesus Christ.
What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (James 4:1-4)
PLAYING GOD DEMONSTRATES AN ENEMY OF GOD
Self-imposed laws cleverly wrap in the Laws of God into the self-manufactured laws of self. In reality, it replicates the actions of Satan. This irony alone should be enough to wake us up. But it doesn’t. Forcing people into obeying our self-effort ideations shifts the “believer” away from God and onto an idol – OURSELVES. Once we become law-driving disciplers, we begin ministering in the grey zone, which I believe Jesus calls evil. (Matt. 5:37)
Reflecting on my life, I see an endless pattern of playing god. My childhood home promoted seeking help from no one – embedding lies such as, “you can handle this” or “go figure it out.” My problem? I was unable to figure it out.
Oswald Chambers once said,
“Sin is not wrongdoing; it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.”
Classically, this is the goal of our enemy. He despises the idea of authentic believers BEING in Christ. He is always pressing the demonic doctrines of “you can do it” or “you can figure it out.” God constantly challenges His children to deny themselves while our flesh is in a constant state of independence. As long as we feed the flesh, the believer will never discover life more abundantly – IN CHRIST. Humans are created to be dependent. This battle starts on the frontlines of the flesh waging war with the Spirit, which by the way, is a war that can only be fought and won by Jesus. It would behoove us to leave the sin of independence to Satan. Let him suffer the price of playing god. (Rev. 12:7)
I could care less about the opinions of others!
No greater knowledge exists than the knowledge of the Holy God. Fruitfulness is the opinions of His “followers.” Our thoughts are not His thoughts; our ways are not His ways. His ways and thoughts are clearly revealed in His Holy Word. Playing god demonstrates the primary strongholds that God actively works to reduce in those who claim Jesus as Lord. The actions of playing god are the sins Satan uses to block a person from receiving Christ and minimally releasing Christ. The enemy would prefer us to be strong, independent, and self-sufficient. God did not create man to be independent of Him! We cannot possibly experience “letting God be God” without dependence on and in Him. The Lord’s mission to reduce us to nothing to find everything is erroneous unless we embrace this simple but challenging message. All indwelt believers must embrace this Truth. If we don’t, we will remain in a constant state of deceiving ourselves.
“For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.” (Gal 6:3 NASB)
One of the ugliest forms of playing god is self-deception, particularly when a believer works at being something or somebody.
I have one too many memories of hearing my parents and siblings communicate, “If you’re going to be anything in this world, you’re going to have to work for it.” The problem with this kind of “stinky thinking” is that even if I reached those subjective measurement marks, I was still left in want, which created an obtuseness, and bewilderment of sorts, resulting in disappointing myself and those who put these standards/laws upon me.
It took me years to realize the demise & absurdity of my striving to make others proud. Even after being advanced in ministry, by the Lord’s doing, obtaining a measurement that most ministers would be content with, I still found myself a disappointment and an “unqualified” worker of the Gospel in the eyes of those that pushed me to make others proud. Did my achievements and awards accomplish their goal? No. I still came up short, leaving me faced with whether Christ is my identity or that of man.
Pride is at the root of playing god. Throughout our lives, Satan works his lunacy to place “identity markers” in our lives through family, friends & those who pressure us to make them proud. These “identity markers” do not disappear; they remain in our flesh - until death parts us. The enemy uses a performance-based fear of disappointment to drive us back to these markers. Sure enough, as soon as we revisit them - the self-life takes over. Today, I embrace that whenever I play god, I inadvertently say, “There is no God.”
Standard/law setters are never content. They are addicted to having others worship them. While they use the modality of expelling disappointment to keep their worshipers close, they perpetuate their habit of setting more standards. For all of us who are faced with living with people who use this madness, always remember, once you arrive at their mark of measurement, they WILL raise the bar of performance. This reality should implore us to shift to a worthy standard-setter who has already fulfilled the mark of excellence required of us – Jesus.
Jesus already obtained the mark of excellence - for us!
We should not blame ourselves or those who demand, “Make me proud.” We need to focus on the Spirit, who clearly understands the enemy's efforts to use our flesh to revert to self as a mini-god. Who also is ready and willing to release the fulfilled Law from within. The Truth exposed in this article is simple and profound. Few truly grasp it, but for those who release the mind of Christ from within, well, it becomes effortless.
Our Lord’s prophecies reveal the closer we get to the portal of the Rapture; the more deceived and hard-hearted the masses will become. For the Antichrist to have his way in his short-lived tribulation, he must have a global society of mini-gods. However, after the masses settle into their self-appointed position as “god,” he will reveal himself as the “god” of the universe, thus, demanding all worship him. Self as god is the golden key to the worship of the Antichrist. How ugly is that?
When humanity demands to play god, we should be reminded there is a God, and we are not He.
One of the ultimate forms of playing god is through taking a life. That can take shape in many methods - abortion, homicide, euthanasia, and suicide. Generation Z has now converted the ideation of suicide into a trendy responsible thing to do. We offer a helpful resource to negate this deception. Check out the video.
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