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[This question] comes from Rod...

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Do Christians fall down involuntarily

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while worshiping God?

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I've been worshiping God 
with the praise of my lips,

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and had all the strength 
removed from my legs

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which has made me fall to the ground 
or into the chair behind me.

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Is this a Biblical experience

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or am I being seduced by another spirit?

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I'm not one who wants to 
place my faith in experience,

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but the Word of God

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knowing that the heart 
is deceitfully wicked.

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Now here's the thing, listen:

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True Christians have experiences -

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no question about it.

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Being saved is an experience!

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I've never known a person truly saved

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that their salvation wasn't an experience.

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True Christians have 
experiences. That happens.

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But you know what? Lots of 
not-true-Christians have experiences.

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There is the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit, if He 
bears witness with our spirit

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that we are children of 
God? That's an experience.

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If the love of God is poured

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into my heart by the Spirit, 
that's an experience.

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If men's hearts are 
regenerated by the Spirit,

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you better believe 
experiential things happen.

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If I become a new man,

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old things pass away;

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all things become new.

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Folks, that's an experience.

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You become filled with the Spirit.

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Acts repeatedly speaks about 
that. That's an experience.

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But, demons also do experiences.

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There are unbelievers that 
have demonic experiences.

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And they think it's of God. Ok?

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Here's the thing. How can 
we tell the difference?

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Well, the Scripture talks 
about testing the spirits.

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How do we test the spirits?

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By the Word of God. 
That's absolutely right.

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And when we go to the Word of God,

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the Word of God teaches us 
things about the Spirit of God.

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And where the Spirit of God is,

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the Spirit of God works 
based on the truth

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that is revealed about that Holy Spirit

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in the Word of God.

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And so, there are certain 
things we can look at.

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I would just say this: Sarah Edwards,

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Jonathan Edwards' wife, listen,

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she had an experience that went like this:

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She says, "At one time,

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my strength was immediately taken away,

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and I sunk down on the spot."

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Sound familiar? Just 
like this guy's situation?

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"Those who were near raised 
me, placed me in a chair."

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Sounds very familiar - this guy,

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all of a sudden his strength's 
gone, he falls in a chair.

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All of a sudden her strength is gone.

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She didn't fall in a chair, 
she went to the ground

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and other people put her in the chair.

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There was another time, 
she says she was,

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"moved so exceedingly, she was 
drawn so strongly heavenward,

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that it seemed as if her body

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were feeling as if it were 
being pulled upwards."

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She said, "I felt as if I must 
necessarily ascend thither.

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At length my strength failed me,

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I sunk down, and they took me up

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and laid me on the bed."

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Well, guess what? I've seen 
pictures of Benny Hinn

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waving his hands and 
people fell to the ground.

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Ok, Sarah Edwards falls to the ground.

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Benny Hinn's got people, 
they fall to the ground.

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So which category does this guy fall into?

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Well, let me tell you something.

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Let me tell you something

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about what Sarah Edwards 
said in the midst of all this.

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She said, "the presence 
of God was so near

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and so real that I seemed

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scarcely conscious of anything else."

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Now listen to what she says,

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"God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

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seemed as distinct persons,

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both manifesting Their 
inconceivable loveliness

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and mildness and gentleness

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and Their great and immutable love to me.

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I seemed to be taken under the care

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and charge of my God and Savior,

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in an inexpressibly endearing manner,

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and Christ appeared to 
me as a mighty Savior."

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Can I tell you one thing 
about the Holy Spirit?

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You know what Jesus 
Christ said about Him?

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In John 16:14, speaking of the Comforter

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or the Spirit of Truth,

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"He will glorify Me, for 
He will take what is Mine

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and declare it to you."

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Can I tell you what? Where 
the true Holy Spirit is operating,

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is it any marvel that 
the Father and the Son

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were made much of, 
but where another spirit is,

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the "Spirit" is typically 
made much of. Watch that.

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In the Pentecostal circles, 
the "Spirit" is made much of.

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In these health, wealth, 
prosperity circles,

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the "Spirit" is made much of,

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but where the Spirit is truly operating,

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He doesn't make much of Himself,

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He makes much of the Father and the Son,

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and especially the Son.

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You watch: whatever experiences 
people are experiencing,

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is Christ being magnified?

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Is He the focus? Is He central?

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I'll tell you this: You've got people 
falling down where Benny Hinn is?

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He prophesied that God would destroy

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the homosexual community of 
America by fire in the mid '90's.

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In about 1994 or 1995, 
no later than that,

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he also foretold that Fidel Castro

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would die during the '90's,

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that the world would end by 1999.

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Hinn has taught that the 
biblical Adam flew, had wings,

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that he even flew to the moon.

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He's said that the Christian Trinity

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is actually God in nine 
persons, not three,

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because the Father, the Son, 
and the Holy Ghost

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are each comprised of trinities.

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You know, Hinn said in one broadcast,

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"I've looked for one verse in the Bible,

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but I just can't seem to find it...

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one verse that says 'if you 
don't like them, kill them.'

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I really wish I could find it.

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Sometimes I wish God would give me

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a Holy Ghost machine gun and 
I'd blow their heads off."

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You know what Sarah Edwards said?

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"My soul was so filled 
with love to Christ,

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and love to His people,

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that I fainted under the 
intenseness of the feeling."

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You know what one of chief marks

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of true Christianity is? It's love.

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And where the Spirit 
of the living Christ is,

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there's love for God's people.

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Hinn wants to blow their heads off.

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Sarah Edwards is so taken up 
with a love for God's people.

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Listen: test the spirits.

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You know them by their fruits.

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Pauline's right, go to the Word of God

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and see the marks of the Spirit.

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Go to the book of Acts.

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Look where the Spirit was operating,

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where places trembled,

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where there were fillings of the Spirit,

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where there were supernatural occurrences,

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where there were experiences,

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and look in the midst of all of it,

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and look at the flavor, 
look at the aroma,

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look at the fruits of those things.

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Weigh things out by the Word of God.

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Hinn gives himself away 
as a false prophet.

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Sarah Edwards gives herself away.

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She's so entranced by Christ

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and by a love for the people of Christ.