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Slain in the Spirit
The Bible is clear that there would come a time that many in the church would come to believe false doctrines. Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; My son was recently visiting in a church out of town. The pastor was putting his hands on the forehead of those in the congregation and they were falling backwards to the floor. It frightened my son and he got up and left. There was good reason for his uneasiness. The baptism of the Holy Ghost is not something that can be passed on by breathing on or laying hands on someone. Jesus is still the Baptizer in the Holy Spirit. Jesus is constantly filling us with His spirit. Only we can stop the ever flowing of His spirit by sin. This is called being slain in the spirit. Someone will invite those who need healing or emotional and spiritual needs to come to the front of the church. They will either lay hands or blow on the individuals and they will fall backwards going into a trance like state. Some will just lie there while others may jerk, laugh, cry, roll, speak in tongues or have visions. There is no Biblical evidence showing one being slain the spirit. The new or immature Christian may just accept this practice, simply because he does not know any better. I have even had some tell me they just pretended because they were afraid that others might think them unspiritual. Heb 5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered. The mature Christian will test the spirits. 1Jo 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. Ellis Stewart, research director for Bill Rudge Ministries, in an article titled "Hindu Occultism" wrote: "The most feared and revered deity in Hinduism is the goddess Kali (Durga), the wife of Shiva the destroyer. She is also known as Shakti, which means force and represents the impersonal force that occultism teaches runs the universe. The divine power-touch of the guru is called Shakti pat. This is a term used for the touch (or near touch) of a guru's hand to the worshipper's forehead that produces supernatural effects. Shakti literally means power (so they believe) underlying the universe. The supernatural effect of shakti through the guru's touch may knock the worshipper to the floor or he may see a bright light and receive an experience of enlightenment or inner illumination, or have some other mystical or psychic experience." Bhagwhan Shree Rajnessh, a guru who placed a special emphasis on Zen Buddhism, passed his new spiritual "wine" with a single touch to the forehead of his followers. They would fall to the floor in ecstasy, drunk with the new "wine." Swami Baba Muktananda would slay followers in the spirit through Shakti-pat (physical touch). "Holy" laughter, crying, shaking and animal manifestations would occur regularly at his meetings. Followers of Yan Xin, a Chinese Qigong master, encountered "holy" laughter and other strange physical sensations. When we see Jesus pray for someone, did someone have to stand behind them to catch them? Do we see any of the disciples slapping someone on the forehead as they fall backwards or blowing on them when they prayed? We don't need to be slain in the Spirit but cut by the very word of God. Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Paul tells us: Eph 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; We don't have to be slain in the spirit to receive the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Every believer receives the gift of the spirit when he receives Christ as his personal Savior, salvation. Does the Bible show people line up in a church service in a row and have the power of the Holy Spirit given to them by some anointed person with someone standing behind them to catch them? God does not need a conduit for His power. In Rodney Browne's book, The Anointing, p.22, he states that any Believer can operate in any of the nine gifts of the Spirit. This is false statement. In 1 Corinthians 12 we learn that the Holy Spirit gives the gifts of the spirit and no one has all the gifts. The body of believers work together, each having his own gift. 1Co 12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. On the Larry King Show Benny Hinn described the anointing as “ Now here we are, human beings you know, made out of dust and God will touch the body with His power. It’s just like touching electricity, you know. It could throw you. It could also kill you if there’s too much of it.” The Holy Spirit is not like electricity. Joh 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Notice that those who had an experience with God fell on their faces in worship and fear! Gen 17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying …. Jos 5:13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? 14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant? 15 And the captain of the LORD's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so. Eze 1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. Eze 43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: 2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. 3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
Mat 17:5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. 6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
When God met with these it was not in a corporate setting. Their falling on their faces was in awe and fear. Rev 7:11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, Rev 11:16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, This is not some hypnotic trance. They fell in worship and awe of God.
When Christ breathed on the disciples did they fall down? Joh 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Those who promote "slain in the spirit" use Saul's encounter with God on the road to Damascus for Biblical support. Act 9:3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: 4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Saul was not a believer and was on his way to persecute more of the Christians. He fell to the earth when he was knocked down to the ground by the Sheckinah glory and a revelation from the Lord. No one touched him or knocked him down and no one caught him. In fact all that were with him fell to the ground. Act 26:14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Since Paul was an unbeliever how does this provide justification for slaying in the spirit today? Notice those that were not saved and in judgment from God fell backward, but again no one catches them. Joh 18:5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. 6 As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground. 1Sa 4:18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years. Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. Saul had just heard of his impending death from Samuel and he fell full length on the ground. 1Sa 28:20 Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night. Does being slayed in the spirit make one closer to God? Are they more spiritual? Why does someone have to catch you? Why would God want you to pass out? Why would this be the way to have an experience the Holy Spirit when you already have him in you as a Christian? Why is none of this mentioned in the Bible? Why, because this is straight from the devil. This spirit is not of God. This is of the antichrist. 2Co 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. When one is slain in the spirit by someone touching them, is this bringing glory to God or drawing attention to the one doing the touching? People are being deceived, almost hypnotized or in a trance-like state by another touching them or blowing on them. Sometimes this is done repeatedly. Why is there a need to blow them down over and over? Wasn't once enough? Sometimes music is used to get the people in an emotional state. The music is played loudly with a beat. The words are repetitious and it places the congregation in a state of hypnosis. The Holy Spirit is: Joh 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: Luk 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? Joh 1:33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. Joh 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 1Jo 4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. Luk 3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. No mention of Jesus falling out and having someone catch Him.
Luk 12:12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say. Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. It is the Holy Spirit that teaches and comforts. Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Act 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. 1Co 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
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