Exit and Support Network had this up about Gerald Flurry's latest sermon.
February 17, 2021
After the new U. S. president was sworn in GF gave another of his sermons with lunatic ideas and erroneous theology. Here are just a few:
He believes Satan has already been cast down to earth–but members have “angelic protection.” However, Laodiceans (since they didn’t go with GF) are not so fortunate and Satan is “stamping all over them.”
Only PCG can see the “vision” and “can prove it” since, as GF says, “We are a special people before God.” The world “has to listen to this one last message” from GF. You hear this in all his sermons. Everything is always one last–“one last chance,” “one last warning,” etc. How many one lasts are there?
I had to shake my head when he said, “If you remain loyal to God, you are never going to be spiritually alone.” He won’t come out and say that what he really means is: “If you remain loyal to PCG government.” But even so, what does that have to do with being “spiritually alone”? Perhaps it means “alone” when you are thrown out of PCG.
The word “loyal” isn’t even in the KJV which is what GF uses (except when he twists words from some other version such as the Moffat). What escapes GF is that loyal is primarily what God is to us. We are told in the Word of God that even if we are faithless, He remains faithful. (See II Timothy 2:13 NKJV:” If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.”) Why is that not understood by those in PCG?
I would say it is because members are not being taught that if they belong to Christ, nothing can take away their salvation. [Note: See Q&A: Can We Ever Lose Our Salvation?] The Word of God continually says God will never leave us or forsake us and that He continues to work in us until the end of our life. (See Philippians 1:26 KJV: “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:” and Hebrews 13:5 KJV: “…he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”
GF said to “study the new Trumpet magazine…especially the feature articles as they are truly outstanding.” Folks, how about studying the book of Colossians without PCG literature and find the treasures in Christ? (Colossians 2:3 KJV: “In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”) We have everything we need in Christ. But that isn’t enough for GF.
He quoted from HWA so many times that I lost track of which were HWA’s words and which were GF’s, He said we are “going to rule the Universe” and “restore the Universe” (this doctrine comes from the Mormons) and we need to “get our minds on the New Jerusalem.” How about saying “get our minds on Christ” who is our only hope. (See Colossians 1:27: “Christ in you, the hope of glory:“)
Towards the end of his sermon he said, “This is our future”and talked about the “power” we are going to be given. It’s all about power with GF. –PCG source
13 comments:
HWA is Flurry's messiah.
Loyalty is a two way, not a one way street. No person has an obligation to be loyal to a person or an organization that is exploiting them. Googling the topic, many denominations do teach unconditional friendship, but it's Marxism rather than biblical mortality. All who teach this, practise the exact opposite. It's the wolf talking to the lambs. Not forgetting, the word "one another" as in love one another, serve one another, appears over 50 times in the NT. That is, relationships are two way.
Another point hidden in the loyalty talk, is that when members joined a group, their "contract" was with the angelic "outer face" of the group, not it's true "inner face." Bait and switch contracts don't hold up in courts of law, since they are fraudulent. People did agree to join an abusive cult, and are morally entitled to walk away.
A spiritual famine sign when anointed leader Pastors such as Flurry and Pack pull away and ignore scripture and it all becomes about the wanderings of their minds.
As punishment God let Israel wander in the desert 40 years. Nowadays the Leaders wander in their own minds far further than Israel in the desert.
Cult litmus test... simply count up how many times in a sermon that HWA's name is dropped, and how many times you hear the name Jesus. If HWA wins, then ITS A CULT!
At least Flurry chooses another person as messiah. Dave Pack for instance chose himself..
Tonto,
I think that's a great cult litmus test.
We love you. You are very special. Go home. [&don't come back]
Flurry is his own Messiah!
So Dave Pack has Jesus Christ having returned and Gerald Flurry has Satan having returned. Obviously these two guys don't like each other, but playing throw in a biblical character poker has its dangers.
That danger is to the susceptible minds obedient to the narrative and cleaving unto a conclusion.
While I was still a teenager in the WCG, HWA stated in a sermon the exact same thing - that the war in heaven had taken place and Satan had been cast to earth. I spent every day day for a year looking any signs that this had taken place and the compulsory rapid advanced of prophecy that would follow.
If the subject of Satan and protection go hand in hand, then who is protecting the innocent minds from conflated false speculation emanating out of Oklahoma and Ohio?
Knowing that my cousins (the youngest of whom is only five) believe this crap scares me. I really hope they'll find a way out someday.
Cult litmus test... simply count up how many times in a sermon that HWA's name is dropped
How would Mr Waterhouse score with the HWA vs Jesus word count?
When I still attended pcg, I had come across basically this same comment to pay attention to how many times Hwa was mentioned vs Christ. I started doing that with tally marks while taking notes. I was astounded! One of the contributing factors to opening my eyes!
A PCG minister once said the craziest thing. "We're not to fear Satan, we need to fear ourselves". Yeah the PCG thinks that they have a protective hedge placed around them and that God would never allow Satan to come near them. That was their first and last fatal mistake.
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