The Deception of False Ministers
In their mind, they believe that they are working for God, they think they are pleasing God. But the truth is that, they are deceived and they operate under the influence of demons. They believe that they are casting out demons. The truth is that such people are not casting out demons. They are in covenant with evil spirit to transfer demons, postpone satanic activities and suspend demonic actions for a while.
‘Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity’ (Matthew 7:21-23).
There are small boys and girls, very young in ministry, without any guiding spiritual father or training filled everywhere with cloud following them. They are under the yoke of the devil; they are deceived to deceive others. They have no training, no guide and no character or respect, yet they rushed into ministry. It is very dangerous and destructive to rush into ministry without character, the fruit of the Spirit.
‘Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith’ (Galatians 5:21-22).
The Dangers of Entering Ministry Without Holiness
When I look into many young ministers’ ministries, I pity the multitudes following them, why? They are in business with the devil to deceive their followers, merchandise them and make them enemies of Christ. They are filled with the spirit of subtlety, mischief and perversion. They are enemies of righteous living, children of the devil without the fruits of the Spirit. They are empowered by the devil to transfer problems from head to leg, liver to kidney, brain to intestine, etc. If you sow more seed, pay them more tithes direct for personal use, they can transfer your problems to your wife, husband, children, other places or business.
To the devil and his ministers, you must never be free. By the time they finish with you and you do not have anything to give, you will be abandoned to die. Most people like that get offended at God, blame God, find fault and die in their sins to spend eternity in hell fire. That is why you pray many prayers, go for many deliverance but will never be delivered. Other deceived ministers can postpone your problem or suspend them. They are in covenant with the devil and they are empowered to do so. They can never cast out demons because demons cannot cast out demons.
Every program they organize is to make more money, deceive people and increase demonic activities. It is very difficult to discover some of them because they practice fake holiness and try to do good, help widows to deceive many. If you come too close to them and discover their secret, you become an object of their attacks.
Some of them can pray very well, fast and preach soundly but everything they do is defiled. They try to imitate every good thing that Christ do but looking very close, they are counterfeit of Satan. They have confused the mind of many who desire to serve God. They are false apostles, deceitful workers transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
‘For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works’ (2 Corinthians 11:13-15).
The Reality of Genuine Miracles and True Ministers
Our generation is witnessing unprecedented explosion of false ministers in cults. The two problems they have created now are: 1. Some people are already deceived to believe that every supernatural thing is from God and such can easily be deceived by this cult ministers.
2. Others who have been deceived by so-called miracle workers are already so disappointed that right now, they group everything supernatural as counterfeit. They think, believe and teach that real miracles cannot happen anymore in answer to prayer and deliverance programs. They two are deceived. I want to assure you that there are genuine, life-saving, pure miracles from God through the operation of the gifts of the Holy Ghost. You must be careful and prayerful to distinguish and identify the lying wonders of Satan, which he performs through his messengers to deceive the hearts of men and women.
‘And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed’ (Revelation 13:13-15).
If you want to know the truth, fake ministers, you must be born again and bear the fruits of the Spirit. Any demonstration of power, show of anointing and prosperity without the grace to live holy is fake. If you have power without purity, discernment, faith, healing anointing and prophetic voice without discipline, holiness and control over your tongue, you are far from God. Many ministers have great gifts and talents that men revere, yet those ministers are under the condemnation of God.
When Christ sent the letter to Philadelphia, He introduced Himself as He that is holy, true with final say. The best thing that will happen to anyone on earth is to identify with Christ. If you do that now, today, He will empower you with the Spirit of holiness, truth and give you access to other things. You cannot ignore Christ, leave Him behind, ignore His righteousness and truth, pursue power, come back, and say you are serving Him. You may be in a hurry to open ministry, seek and get power by all means but you cannot force Christ to approve your ministry. There are ministers who only know parts of the scriptures that favor their part of ministry and ignore others. Others know the scripture very well but they are faulty in explaining them. Others, because of their intellectual attainment, the conscious of their social class in the society, their wealth often restrain them from knowing the truth. The truth is that no man’s wealth, education or position in life is complete if he does not know the scriptures.