Are Ron Martoia, Stephan Joubert and Nelus Niemandt Experts in their Field?
Ron Martoia, an Expert is an Unknown Drip Under Pressure
So Ron Martoia was invited to South Africa to speak at the Pierre van Ryneveldt NG Kerk on the 28th August 2009 on “Transforming Church the 2009 Way”. The speakers were: Ron Martoia, Stephan Joubert and Nelus Niemandt.
The topic that Ron Martoia spoke on was ‘Vertical Development and a Spirituality of Awareness’. The anticipation to hear this expert in the field of Transformational Architecture speak was overwhelming. What was Ron going to say that would be any different to Brian McLaren, Rob Bell, Scot McKnight, Shane Hipps, Leonard Sweet, Karen Armstrong, Phyllis Tickle and William Torbet et al?
Well nothing.
-The end-
Oh sorry, what did Nelus Niemandt speak about? Nelus spoke about a bridge (only because Brian McLaren spoke about it once) and Stephan Joubert made the question session as short as possible to avoid any serious questioning.
Then Stephan Joubert made this comment on twitter
“weird to see how some show up at conferences only to find reasons to disagree with the speakers and nail them on websites. Why?” – 9:24 AM Aug 29th http://twitter.com/stephanjoubert/status/3627339939
In future, to make sure that you only have ‘like minded’ people attend your secret gatherings please add a notice, preferably in big print that says: “All welcome, but please leave your brains at the door’.
Why are all these ‘conferences’ held during the week when the general public or the church can’t attend? Oh wait I forgot, it’s a SECRET place. You don’t want your church members to attend as they might get the shock of their lives to hear the rubbish that is spoken against Jesus Christ – you know things like:
- “Confessing that the Word became Flesh – the church is now challenged on this issue.” – Ron Martoia
- “God is not the Bible, only the Word of God” – Ron Martoia
- “Bible is only a story” – Ron Martoia
- “Bible is full of action packed stories that can be applied to our lives in different ways” – Ron Martoia
- “Something really major is going on in the world, we are in a New World and you only have 2 options. Join or dry up” – Ron Martoia
- “People who fight the New World will dry up, become dust, dusty in their spirituality” – Ron Martoia
- “All religions share 2 dimensions: Logos and Mythos” – Ron Martoia
- “You have no choice to live in a post-modern world. You are in it!! Join or dry up” – Ron Martoia
- “Move from focus on information to focus on visualisation and spirituality” – Ron Martoia
- “Metanoya means Repentance. Now please don’t fall on your knees and repent to God. That’s not what I mean”. – Ron Martoia
- “Metanoya means to get past yourself, get to a bigger place, get a larger mind, get invited to a bigger picture, get invited to a bigger mind, get out of your little mind.” – Ron Martoia
- “We are not called to deliver sound doctrine – we are in the people business”. – Ron Martoia
- “How much did the disciples know? Nothing!” – Ron Martoia
- “Jesus, I think, came to make better humans, not Christians”. – Ron Martoia
Stephan & Nelus, let us all know when you have reach the Alchemist level. You know, those different levels/stages of spiritual growth that Ron Spoke about: 1 Opportunists, 2 Diplomats, 3 Experts, 4 Achievers, 5 Individualists, 6 Strategists, and 7 Alchemists.
Nelus about that bridge; the one you spoke about for ages and never bothered to say what you really mean. I am going to make a big educated guess here and say: 1) You either know what the ‘bridge’ really stands for and deliberately hid it’s occult meaning from the people who attended, or 2) You really don’t know what it means and you are deceived and have fallen off the narrow path and need to heed the Word of God.
1 Timothy 4:1 1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
So for the benefit of those who attended and have no clue as to what Nelus was speaking about.
- The bridge is actually the rainbow
- The rainbow bridges heaven and earth in Occult/New Age teaching.
- The rainbow symbolises all faiths leading to one god.
And no, this is not about ‘the great commission’ of spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the nations. This bridge is about spreading another gospel and another Christ to the nations; This Christ is found in all faiths, and there is no need for repentance of sin because you can remain in your religion and follow this new Jesus at the same time. Which unfortunately for you and everyone else who believes this rubbish is a lie.
You wanna know what really upsets me? The fact that none of you have the guts to say WHAT YOU MEAN! You stand there and you preach an occult message to a group of +/- 30yr olds and they think this is Christianity!! You tell them they need to see the world through new lenses. But you don’t tell them what those lenses are and how one gets them. If you need a lesson in what you are talking about please do contact me. Because either you are too weak to come outright and say what you are teaching or you actually have no idea what you are being led into and at the same time are leading others to the same dark place.
You speak in pathetic riddles, ‘we gotta go back to move forward, can’t go horizontal anymore so we have to go vertical. New this, new that, change this, change that, until it suits our sinful lives – oh and throw that Bible book away, it’s making our lives a misery’.
Ron Martoia then later spoke at the Mosaiek Church in Fairlands, Randburg with: Johan Geyser, Trevor Hudson, Rex van Vuuren, Stephan Joubert, Williem Nicol, Gys du Plessis, Gavin Sklar Chik and Annemarie Paulin Campell.
See Mosaiek application form here:
BUT WAIT… IT GETS WORSE:
If you wait long enough you might get a spot on the the Oprah show discussing Eckhart Tolle’s ‘New Earth’ New Age book. And if you thought it was to disagree with New Age spirituality, then you are sorely mistaken. Ron Martoia wants to partake in the global spiritual phenomenon with Oprah.
Ron Martoia on: Oprah and Eckhart: What’s the Deal?
Oprah & Eckhart – Oprah’s Beliefs
So book your Skype seats y’all this is gonna be really enlightening.
Come Stephan and Nelus and church people, let’s talk. This comment section does not have to catch a plane (like Ron did) and therefore we will be taking questions with a time limit that is way longer than 15 minutes.
Some bible verses for Ron Martoia, Stephan Joubert and Nelus Niemandt:
Clearing your Mind, Emptying your Mind (Contemplation/Meditation) is NOT Biblical.
1 Peter 4:7 The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.
The Word of God (Jesus Christ) is the Way, the Truth and the Life THE ultimate authority – NOTHING ELSE.
John 14:6 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”
Proverbs 30:5-6 5 Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. 6 Do not add to His words Or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar.
Isaiah 8:20 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Deuteronomy 4:2 2 You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Deuteronomy 12:32 32 Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it
Revelation 22:17-18 17 “And behold,I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book. 18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book
Joshua 1:7 7 Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go.
Deuteronomy 5:32 32 “So you shall observe to do just as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.
Psalm 12:6 6 The words of the LORD are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.
Psalm 18:30 30 As for God, is way is blameless; The word of the LORD is tried; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
Speaking in riddles, in a sly manner, using foolish wisdom and vein babblings, and denying Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:17 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.
1 Corinthians 2:1 1 And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
1 Corinthians 2:4 4 and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
The Word of God is NOT your own interpretation, you CAN’T sit around and dialogue as to what you think it means:
2 Peter 1:20-21 20 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, 21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
2 Timothy 3:16 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;
Having God’s Holy Spirit come to abide in you when you are born again – Only the Holy Spirit will guide you into Truth – nothing else!
John 14:17 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
John 16:13 13 “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
John 14:26 26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
John 16:7 7 “But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
Acts 2:33 33 “Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured forth this which you both see and hear.
If you love Jesus Christ the Son of God you WILL love the Word of God for they are ONE and the same:
John 14:23-24 23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. 24 “He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.
John 14:1 15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”
1 John 5:3 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.
Word of God is LIVING and POWERFUL
Hebrew 4:11-12 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Jesus Christ the Word of God made Flesh will NEVER fail, NEVER be removed and NEVER be destroyed.
John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Matthew 24:35 35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.” (Mark 13:31, Luke 21:33)
Matthew 5:18 18 “For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Luke 16:17 17 “But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.
Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.
Taken CAPTIVE through Philosophy, Traditions, Culture, Fables, Elementary Principles, Paganism, Worldy wisdom thereby falling away from the faith:
Colossians 2:6-10 6 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. 8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. 9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;
1 Timothy 4:1 1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
Galatians 1:6-8,10 “I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed…. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.”
2 Timothy 4:2-5 “Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things…”
Deuteronomy 18:9-14 9 “When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. 10 “There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 “For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD; and because of these detestable things the LORD your God will drive them out before you. 13 “You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. 14 “For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.
False Teachers who use the name of Jesus Christ to deceive:
Matthew:7: 15-23 15 “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly areravenous wolves. 16″You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? 17″So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18″A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19″Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20″So then, you will know them by their fruits. 21″Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22″Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23″And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’
Jeremiah 14:14 Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.
Ezekiel 13:9 “So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations They will have no place in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, that you may know that I am the Lord GOD.
Ron’s, Stephan’s and Nelus’s gate is very wide:
Matthew 7:13-14 13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 “For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Listening to the Word of God vs Listening to Ron, Stephan and Nelus:
Matthey 7: 24-25 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 “And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 26 “Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 “The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell–and great was its fall.”
Wise vs Foolish:
Matthew 7:26 “Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
1 Corinthians 3:18 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.
Romans 1:21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
1 Corinthians 1:18 [The Wisdom of God] For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God For it is written, “He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS”;
1 Timothy 6:9 But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.
DTW
Let me help you out with the Ron Martoia quotes. You seem to miss an important part of the puzzle. Those who meditate, subject their brains and thinking into extra-ordinary processes as described in the article below. Please read the full article as it will help you to understand.
What I find very interesting is the reference to epilepsy and how abnormal electrical activity in the brain can produce a religious experience. I have an educational video that shows children having different types of seizures. In one clip you can see a girl having an absence seizure. She is talking away and then her eyes loose their focus and her facial muscles go slack and she is clearly unconscious. I have seen the exact same sequence in the Toronto blessing videos. Another clip shows Howard-Brown zapping people and they burst into uncontrollable laughter. The one man gasps that it hurts, before being thrown into another fit of hard laughter. There was nothing amusing about it. Did you know that there is a rare type of seizure called gelastic seizures that look exactly like that? Parents report that their children show extreme fear when they know the seizure is starting. It is most unpleasant. When Kenneth Copeland zaps Rodney Howard-Brown, he falls to the ground unconscious as if in a generalized seizure.
Those who have the condition called epilepsy, battle the seizures. Others, who seek after ‘transcendence’, induce altered states of consciousness deliberately and call it the presence of god. It seems to me that meditation is the LSD of the emergent church.
Ah yes, maybe my ‘leave your brain at the door’ comment is actually a good idea in more ways than one…lol
You know I think I am gonna post this as an article by itself if you don’t mind Amanda. I will leave it here too. I so agree with what is written above…
Amanda:
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/neuro/neuronewswk.htm
http://www.eubios.info/EJ141/ej141j.htm
http://theframeproblem.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/meditation-can-change-brain-function-u-of-t-psychology-and-psychiatry/
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma8/monkstudy.html
http://www.self-realization.com/articles/yoga/meditation_science.htm
Washington Post article by Marc Kaufman from Monday, January 3, 2005.
I’m still looking for my old info. c
Go ahead. I think it is important for us to understand that something has happened in their brains.
Amanda, I did a study some time ago about this function in the brain when “under a spell” or “spiritual awakening” etc. will search my “paper documents” and place asap. cecilia
Thank you, cecilia. So we learn from Meditation suite.101 that:
So when they speak, we have to bear in mind that the words come from a brain that has been altered.
The Tibetan monks are known for their happy disposition. They control their happiness through their brain? Maybe that is why the emergents shy away from unhappy words like sin, wrath, judgement,repentence and hell?
Thank you, cecilia. That will be much appreciated. Read the Ron Martoia quotes again. I can only feel pity.
I concur. And then you have Neurotherapy that does the exact same thing except it’s on a completely medical/scientific level. You can alter brainwaves on the Alpha, Beta and Theta levels to control pretty much anything in the brain.
If someone for instance has a propper medical condition where their brainwave frequencies were not functioning correctly, adjustments can actually be made using Neurotherapy to amend the problem – to a certain extent depending on what’s wrong. For an example, obsessive compulsiveness can be helped by adjusting frequencies on certain areas of the brain where these areas are just not communicating properly – like fixing the soldering on a transmitter on a chip.
Now, take someone who has a normal functioning brain where there is no deviation from the norm – in order words, the different lobes in the brain and all their little parts are working at the right frequencies and connecting properly. It can take just one tansmitter to fuse, or th wiring to come loose for a hundred other things to go wrong in the brain.
For instance when you go for an EEG – they are monitoring your brainwaves. Neurologists can tell by reading that sqiggly chart if something is amiss. With the advancement of science you can now go and have much bigger scans that will tell you indepth what is going on in that head of yours. And based on what scientists know to be ‘correct brain data’ through years of study, they will compare your scan to that of someone your age, gender, etc and work out what’s wrong and where.
During Neurotherapy they will then over a long period of time adjust certain parts of the brain to work at the correct frequencies and as things slowly come right in certain areas, those other hundred things start to come right too… Once the brain learns the new frequency, it STORES it, it remembers what the NEW frequency is and as time goes by the symptoms start to get better as the brain has been re-trained.
So, Neurotherapy can adjust a persons mental activity, perception and consciousness based on messing with the brain. Meditation does the exact same thing except meditation is done through a spiritual process where occult techniques are applied to clear the mind. Once the mind is made blank, the brain is then reprogrammed during the mediation process with a NEW way of thinking.
Your brain is what controls your entire body, when you are brain dead your body ceases to function. When you eat a chocolate for example and you get that 5 second rush of happiness it’s not you who is happy – it’s your brain. A chemical reaction takes place and your brain says, “Ah, I needed that” (Ok that’s my brain speaking here…dunno what your’s says lol). It’s a chemical deficiency that caused your brain to react that way in the first place. So now your brain knows that when it feels stressed or overly sad – giving it a chocolate will cause it to be happy or de-stressed (even if it’s only for 5 seconds).
The same thing with meditation. In fact I am going to coin the phrase: Meditation, the New Chocolate. (Keeping an eye on anyone who steals this, I’m onto you…) Ok…, you are told to meditate cos it’s gonna help relieve your stress, or you are told to meditate because everyone else is doing it, or you went to church and instead of chairs they had yoga mats and decided that instead of a sermon you were going to actually try something different, or you are just new age and you connect with angels and spirit guides on a regular basis, or you went for a massage and someone told you Reiki was just the most relaxing thing ever, not knowing that ‘Reiki are demonic spirit guides’. So you try it, and wow, you actually feel good afterwards.
How can anything that makes you feel good, be bad?
Well, now that you liked the feeling you try again, and again, but you find yourself not getting further than the feeling you felt when you first started. So you search for more info (as the spirit guide who is now leading starts to change your ‘thinking’). But you are stuck, you are a Christian! You’ve known most of your adult life that this is not Christian, the Bible condems witchcraft. But if your church says it’s ok, then gosh it can’t be bad, surely. A Pastor will NEVER lie. So to appease your conscience(ness) and you go look for Christian meditation… that should make what is EVIL, GOOD.
Great, you are on your way to a new mind, a new way of thinking, a transformation, you have been brainwashed, you have gone way beyond the veil of occult knowledge without even knowing it. The more you do it the deeper you go, or should we say the more VERTICAL you travel, the higher you go. In order to reach God you have to transcend…
Everyone who is meditating now has the anti-Christ spirit attempting to direct their thinking and though process. Everything that you believe to be true is now no longer true, you seem to be a different person. Everyone around you is all speaking the same spiritual language. Love, Happiness, Peace and Joy.
When someone says that they don’t agree with this new thing that you are and whole world are ‘into’ you get angry and disagree – how can anyone oppose Love, Happiness, Peace and Joy. The ‘spirit’ in you says, ‘that person is not one of us, they are dis-connected – we need to connect them, UNITE THE WORLD”.
And the Obama says, “YES WE CAN!” in fine print (and if they refuse to connect too us spiritually then we will just force them).
Wow, DTW. I am stunned and in need of chocolate. This is very sad. So in order to ‘feel good’, you do not need to repent and trust in Jesus Christ’s atoning sacrifice on the cross. You do not need to have faith in the Word of God. Truth is determined by feelings? If it makes me feel good, it is good?
Thomas, over at Watch and Pray, wrote about the same emerged crew in an excellent article called: The subtle inhibition or suppression of the true meaning of the cross of Jesus Christ:
DTW:
Disagree. Chocolate does not cause you to talk gibberish and deny the blood of the Lamb.
Ag no Amanda. I thought that was a good one liner lol. Ok seriously, yes meditation is very SERIOUS, for the demonic spirits that perches itself just waiting for one to ‘open’ your mind is beyond comprehension.
People are playing with fire and their pastors, the ones that are supposed to be ‘trusted’ – the shepperd that is supposed to look after the sheep is leading them right into the hands of a pack of wolves.
1 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
Of course I’m not saying that this is what elements in the emergent movement are advocating however it is necessary to acknowledge that the word meditation means different things to different people. The word itself is inline with Scripture and is an appropriate way to approach God’s word.
Maybe meditation is the good chocolate after all.
Meditate in the Bible means prayer. Normal simple prayer, a relationship with God, prayer (a normal conversation in prayer) thought Jesus Christ His only begotten son. If you want to meditate/pray the OCCULT way, then that’s what you CHOOSE TO DO. I warn you though.
Why don’t you go and do some research to find out why occult meditation is NOT biblical prayer!!
Hi DTW,
Is English your first language? I do not say that to be rude but you frequently don’t seem to understand the comments that people write. This is not the first time that you’ve reacted offensively to me after misinterpreting something I’ve said.
I said, “The word itself is inline with Scripture and is an appropriate way to approach God’s word.”
I seldom write anything without doing some research. I went and read the 18 uses of the word translated as meditation or meditate in the Old Testament and the 1 in the New. The word is clearly tied closely to Scripture, understanding God and praying to Him. As such my statements are not in conflict with Scripture nor your understanding of the use of the word.
My personal favorite use of the word is in the New Testament, Paul is speaking to Timothy and you’ll see the close connection between meditate and the Word of God, “12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. 15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. 16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.”
Mark
YES, we both speak a different language. I speak the from the Gospel of Jesus Christ and you speak from the Emergent Gospel – Two different messages, two different languages.
I on the other hand understand you totally. I get upset because you don’t unsterstand what you are getting yourself involved in.
If that’s your research on meditation. Then I can see why 99% of the world will be following, running, tripping after the false Christ.
Mark, I am doing all your research for you, should have some of it online tomorrow. Use it, don’t use…at least I try to warn you.
Yes. They have taken the words and have given them new meanings. When they say ‘gospel, Christ, kingdom, good, law, sin, truth, Satan, judgement, justice, redemption, be still, quiet and meditation, they mean something completely different to what the Bible teaches. It is time for an emergent dictionary!
Here is Chris Rosebrough’s review of Shane Hipps’ Sermon at Rob Bell’s Mars Hill Bible Church on the Spiritual Discipline of Silence.
Here is another Christian-emergent encounter. Chris Rosebrough and Bob DeWaay attended the Emergent Moltmann Conference and thought they have lost their grip on reality. It is that language thing again, or maybe they suffer from textual addiction. P.S. They do not meditate.
Mark
Meditate (Based on Word of God teaching) = Normal Prayer, Prayer as in a normal conversation with God, obeying the Holy Spirit.
Mantra (does not exist in the Word of God)
Matthew 6:7 Jesus said: “And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.”
Give attendance to reading = Pay attention, read the Word of God often, make sure you are interpreting scripture correctly and you can only interpret scripture correct through the Holy Spirit. If you are not born again and have the Holy Spirit abide in you, your interpretation of scripture will always be incorrect. And the answer to this question is come to be saved Mark by Jesus Christ the Son of God and not the false Christ who offers many paths to him.
1 John 4 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
doctrine = Correct doctrine NOT doctrine of demons (new age/occult doctrine)
Jesus tells us to be vigilant, be awake:
1 Peter 5:8 8 Be of sober spirit, be on the alert Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
2 Corinthians 11:4 4 For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully
No where in the bible do you find Jesus: Meditating, sitting with legs crossed, doing breathing exercises, repeating words over again, entering a trance like state, saying AUM, speaking about vibrations, vizualizing, walking in circles, etc, etc, etc,.
Find 1 verse in scripture where Jesus says that His message will change as the centuries change?
Find 1 verse in scripture where Jesus says his message will not be relevant to mankind 2000 years after He ascended?
You are confusing Roman Catholicism being Christian vs. genuine Christianity. Roman Catholicism is drenched in the Blood of the Saints. The Roman Christ is the Eucharist Christ permanently nailed to a crucifix whos Mother is an incarnation of many goddesses throughout the ages, right back to Egyptian Isis and her son Horus (false Christ).
The Emergent Church is a Roman Catholic vessel (their evangelization tool) being used to bring Roman Catholic authority over the earth, disguised under the banner of Genuine Christianity.
Hi DTW,
Everything I’ve written about meditation can be found [AdMo: url removed]
It does not conflict with what you’ve written. You are punching into the wind.
Mark
That’ll be the day…
Ah but I forgot who you are associated with, and this comment I made to you on the 24 Aug 09:
Stephan Joubert and Nelus Niemandt are not “Experts in their Field.”
No, no, they are giants, according to yoga enthusiast, Ron.
DTW, you are in the grips of textual addiction. Tut-tut.
Amanda
Ah man…that sucks!!
But seriously. Yes, they are seperating the Word of God from God. So you can throw the Bible away and just follow ‘Jesus’. What they fail to realise in all their giganticness (they must be close to the Alchamist level) that they can’t do this.
For Jesus Christ IS the Word made Flesh. If you try in anyway to change this you DENY Jesus Christ. And if in their minds they believe they have accomplished this then they DENY Jesus Christ.
The sad part is they honestly think that because they ‘say it and preach it and pass on the new message’ that it’s actually so – All they have done is created a new religion with a fake Christ where the Word (textual) no longer exists. Because what we speak now becomes the word instead. We become the gospel as per this horrendus emergent thinking.
Oh they need to hurry up and reach this place of quiet quickly – If I am not mistaken it comes with at least a 10 year pact to silence where they are not to make another peep or tweet! That can save a few hundred people from further deception.
i’d like to throw in a little comment here? Most members of the Afrikaans Susters Kerke, fall easily in this trap of opening up to New Age (very often connected to the occultic) teachings. I often thought why and discover that sisters are supposed to have a mother. and following the footsteps of history, discovering their mother is the Roman Catholic Organization (which the world wrongly calls “a church”). cecilia
Nail the Ron MARTOIA’S – SORRY satanists – of this world. Well done!!!I just find it amazing that there are intelligent people out there that fall for this trash. This is the real tragedy of life and that is that there are somany loved ones lost to satan because of idiots like MARTOIA.
If I read the word of our Lord as a fisherman like Peter, I come to this conclusion in my own simple way ie. God wants us all to have the same mind and spirit and belong to the same or one “church”. Jesus said,” Upon this rock-statement by Peter-I will build MY church. THAT MEANS ALL MAN -MADE CHURCHES ARE TABOO. Any comments? Regards. Danny
Hi,
I am scared when I read the comments here. The right thing to do is to measure what is said against scripture and question whether what was said was said in love. Everything we do should be in love, reflecting the way in which Jesus has done everything He has done. I find very little of that here. That goes for most of what I have seen here.
If it can’t be done in love and you just want to argue then argue properly, have a proper debate (or is it not biblical to have one). In a debate both sides of an argument is stated and evidence provided. For instance show what the URL is on comment
Mark Penrith
18 September, 2009 at 3:24 am
or are our eyes, minds and spirits not developed enough to comprehend understand or misunderstand what is there.
So if you please…
Steven
When I read the Bible the Lord says that if we love Him we will keep his commandments. What Martoia, Joubert and Niemandt are promoting is not love, because they are quite opposite to what the Lord calls love.
Nowhere in Scripture do I find that the Lord or any of the apostles took kindly to those who twist Scripture out of context. Paul, Peter, John, James etc warn us against such people.
We seem to forget that the Lord Jesus overturned the tables in the Temple, as well as call the Pharisees a brood of vipers. We also seem to forget Scriptures like:Tit 1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;Tit 2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
People who do not beleive that the Lord came in the flesh are defined as follow by the Word:1Jn 2:21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
1Jn 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
Believers who are supposed to be the Bride of Christ have become too tollerant of blasphemy – all this in the cause of so called love. To tollerate blasphemy in the name of love is not the Love for the Lord Who says all over Scripture that to love Him is to keep His commandments – no those who tollerate blashemy must understand what the Lord Jesus said:Rev 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
The church has in the name of love fornicated with error, another Jesus, another Spirit and another Gospel.
Part of the Body and precious Bride of Christ have fallen asleep and their lamps are not burning. Wake up Church!
The above and S Joubert’s quotes are ‘the signs of the time’. Paul explains, 2Th 2:3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for that day cannot come without the coming of the apostasy first…
Strange as it my seem, I write [www.myhand.co.za] what I like and I like what I write. The article ‘The Gospel’ is a favourite.
I find a lot of fascinating stuff on your site. Though I do not share your evaluation thereof, it is a great compilation of valuable resources and connections.
I only wish you could announce conferences upfront, that would be even more helpful.