Page 55 - Prophetic Word Newsletters Archive 2006 by Pastor Randy Shupe

“THAT WHICH HAS BEEN IS WHAT WILL BE. THAT WHICH IS DONE IS WHAT WILL BE DONE.
AND THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN…IT HAS ALREADY BEEN IN ANCIENT TIMES BEFORE US.” Ecc. 1:9-10

LUST OF THE FLESH As God’s people, are we following right along with

“…THE TREE this Satanically deluded world that decides for itself
WAS what is “good for food” rather than believing what
God’s Word clearly states as food to be eaten and
GOOD food to avoided? (Deut.14, Lev. 11)
FOR FOOD…”
Why is it that America, the richest nation in the world,
Gen. 3:6

has the poorest health and the highest cancer rate?

Satan deceived Eve to believe his fruit was “good for food”

although God said it was forbidden. Can it be that that we have

come to believe that which God said was unclean is now clean?

Indeed, “…that which has been is what will be…it has already

been in ancient times before us.”

THE LIE LUST OF THE EYES How could Eve (or us today) view something that God
forewarned would lead to death and see it as “pleasant

“…THAT to the eyes”? Because Satan told her just the opposite of what
IT God told her, “You will not surely die.” She believed THE LIE
rather than THE TRUTH. Why? Because the lie is easier to
WAS digest than the truth. The carnal man wants a religion without
PLEASANT TO consequences. Are we today looking longingly at things that
THE EYES…”

Gen. 3:6

potentially can kill us spiritually, but believing the doctrinal lie of

Satan of “Once save, always saved,”

and “Unconditional eternal security”?

THAT THE PRIDE OF LIFE This is where I would like to spend the rest of
(PROMOTES this newsletter’s thrust. Do you think that the
“…AND A TREE church in America is feeding God’s people a
PRIDE IN MAN) DESIRABLE TO
MAKE ONE WISE…” steady diet of knowledge that is
SELF-CENTERED and promotes PRIDE?
Gen. 3:6 I do, and I hope to convince you that what is
going on under the guise of “spiritual truth” is
Paul warns us: actually knowledge from Satan’s “Tree of the

Knowledge of Good and Evil.”

…WE KNOW “GUARD WHAT WAS COMMITTED TO YOUR TRUST,
THAT WE ALL HAVE KNOWLEDGE. AVOIDING THE PROFANE AND VAIN BABBLINGS AND

KNOWLEDGE PUFFS UP… CONTRADICTIONS OF WHAT IS FALSELY CALLED
IF ANYONE THINKS THAT HE KNOWS ANYTHING, KNOWLEDGE – BY PROFESSING IT, SOME HAVE
HE KNOWS NOTHING YET AS HE OUGHT TO KNOW.”
STRAYED CONCERNING THE FAITH…”
1 Cor. 8:1-2
1 Timothy 6:20-21

Paul is speaking negatively about what is “falsely called knowledge.” His warning is against the kind of
knowledge that “puffs up.” This type of knowledge is filled with “profane and vain babblings and
contradictions” to what is revealed in God’s Word. Such knowledge was being embraced in Paul’s day
(see Gnosticism) and was causing some to “stray from the faith.” It is still going on in our day. The
modern-day church is filled with self-centered knowledge that puffs up believers with pride. We are
inundated with self-help, feel-good programs bent on sanctifying self-centeredness, self-importance, self-
acceptance, self-awareness, self-love, and self-dependence. The church is “going down to Egypt for its
help” (see Isa. 30:1-5, 31:1-3). The church is readily endorsing the world’s cherished “12-step programs” as
in harmony with God’s Word, although it promotes developing a comfortable god of one’s own
imagination rather than embracing the image of God in the Bible. Also, problems like alcoholism and drug
addiction are no longer identified as sin as the Bible plainly states, they are now considered to be
“diseases.” Soon this comfortable label will be applied to addiction to pornography,homosexuality and
child molestation. The world’s cherished principles of Freudian psychology are now widely accepted as
“Christian psychology.” That philosophy is an oxymoron filled with “profane and vain babblings and
contradictions” with what is stated in God’s Word!