So if you like to sell, we have baskets right there. They put a separate one for seeds because sometimes you can give a seed if you have a certain need or desire or if God puts on your heart to sow for freedom because that’s a key for many people’s deliverance is to sow. Because many ministries do what other ministries do, it’s a copycat, cookie cutter type of a system. You know, Jeremiah 10-2, thus says the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, but what we see in many congregations is a revival of the days of Benny Henn.

It’s a revival of the same old things that people would do where Benny would take his jacket and start waving it around like he’s a Christian Harry Potter. But again, how is it that the cameraman never falls back? That man has some supernatural protection or something, or maybe it’s because there’s something else happening in the myths of all of this. Now, do not get me wrong, the laying of hands has biblical concepts. In Numbers 20-17, we see a concept of it. So the laying of hands is something you see in the Old Testament, even in the New Testament, you see it as well.

Mark 10-16, and he took them up in his arm, put his hands upon them, and blessed them. The laying of hands is something that we see in Scripture. In Acts 13-23, you also see laying of hands. What we don’t see in the Scripture is what you see in many of these congregations, where it turns into holy laughter. It turns into rap battles with tongues. Rodney Brown and Ken Copeland, when they started having like a Christian rap battle but with fake tongues, the modern day church turns biblical concepts into witchcraft, because a lot of this is manipulation as well.

Another example of this is in John 20-21-22. You see, a lot of people take biblical concepts and they turn it into a spectacle in a show. When miracles happened in the Scripture, it pointed to Jesus Christ, it pointed to the kingdom of heaven. A lot of these people, what they do is, they do these spectacles and these shows, and then they even get upset if you don’t fall back when they’re pushing you to fall back. Do y’all remember Kenneth Copeland? When he had the breath of God, and he blew to fight off COVID? Y’all remember that? This is why the Scriptures tell us in 1 John 4-1, Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits with the error of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

This is also why 1 Timothy 5-22 tells us, So is the laying of hands biblical? Do you see biblical presidents of them laying on hands? But you also see warnings to test the spirit. You also see warnings not to just lay hands suddenly on anyone. You also see warnings to be Bereans and compare things to the Word of God. So I do believe in the gifts of the spirit. I also believe that they must operate under the biblical parameters provided to us by Scripture. And I don’t agree that every Sunday church becomes like a fortune telling place for many congregations, especially in Latin America.

In many of these churches, as soon as the pastor is done, who’s going to come up? Who’s going to come up? And the pastor starts. No, we need more people to come up. Who’s going to come up? Who’s going to come up? Who’s going to come up? And then people love it because they go up there and the guys just start speaking to them and all of a sudden they start pretty much doing the Vulcan death grip on them and they fall back. And that’s another thing, church catchers. I was a church catcher and maybe that’s something that we need for another video.

But as a church catcher, you know how many people would fall back faking it? And I could tell they were faking it, bro. They would fall back like an Olympic diver, man. But I digress. That’s for another video and another time. But the laying of hands, be careful. Don’t just let anyone lay hands on you. Okay? And make sure you hold people accountable. If someone says, does says the Lord, write it down, write the date. If it doesn’t come to pass, mark them and avoid them. Because way too many people will say, I feel from the Lord.

I feel from the Lord. I feel from the Lord. And then when you were like, well, I appreciate that, man. Next time you’re talking to the Lord, call me on three ways so we can have this conversation. Because just because you feel from the Lord, that doesn’t mean I have to go with it. You have to give me time to process this. But in the modern day church, keywords like that are thrown around very loosely. And it’s used as a manipulative tactic because now when you say no to them, you’re not just saying no to them.

Oh, no, you’re saying no to the Lord because they heard from the Lord. And the track record of modern day prophets and modern day evangelists and modern day preachers and pastors is terrible. It’s terrible. The only things that they nail when it comes to prophecy and many of these congregations is catastrophic events. Those say things like in 2025, we’re going to get a lot of earthquakes. The earthquakes happen every day. And then when one happens, oh, I knew it was the spirit. No, stop. So, yes, I believe in the gifts of the spirit. I believe that God heals.

I believe that God delivers. I believe that God can do awesome things. I do believe in laying hands of people when it’s necessary and when it’s calls for, but it’s not for a spectacle. It’s not for a show. I just don’t see that the same person has to go up every Sunday to the front of the church to get a fortune telling by a pastor or a preacher. And every week is the same thing. And we haven’t even started with the church catchers. We’ll talk about that in the next one, because that’s another thing as well.

If you truly believe this is a move of the Holy Spirit, why do you even have to hold them? Can’t you trust that God will just hold them so they don’t bust their head in concrete? Or are we trying to avoid lawsuits? And if we are trying to avoid lawsuits in church, and are we really trusting in the Holy Spirit? And would people fall back if they knew that no one was actually there to catch them? Well, those are a lot of good questions that we need to talk about, and we’ll talk about them in the upcoming weeks.

God bless you guys. Be Bereans. Believe that God can still deliver, heal. Miracles are for today, but they must operate under the Biblical parameters provided in Scripture. Be a Berean. God bless you and your whole family. And let’s go ahead and pray as always. Heavenly Father, thank you for your gifts. Thank you for all that you do for us. Thank you for your healing. Thank you for your miracles. Heavenly Father, a lot of times, many of these false teachers are brought out into this world so that then they can cause disruption, so that then they can cause us to have doubt and fear, and us to not believe any more than you can move in today’s church.

Your holiness is real. Your power is real. Your deliverance is real, but it has to operate under the Biblical parameters that you’ve provided to us to protect us. Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, help us continue to walk in your ways, because without you, we are absolutely nothing. In Jesus’ name, Amen. God bless you. God bless your family. If you enjoy this video, if you even have a comment or feedback on it, in the description tab of this video, I’m sorry, in the comments section of this video, leave your comments. Tell me your experience of being taken advantage of in the church, or your experience within this movement in the church.

I would love to hear it. And share this with a pastor. Share this with the ministry. Let’s have a conversation. God bless you, and God bless your whole family. Thank you. [tr:trw].