AVOID DECEPTION

Keep these points in mind to avoid being deceived by heresies about healing and miracles:

·        God is always sovereign. A teaching that puts man in authority over God, such as the teaching that God must respond a certain way when a Christian says certain words, is a form of witchcraft.

·        Biblical faith respects the sovereignty of God and trusts God to do things in his time and his way.

·        Faith, like love, always has an object and God is the only proper object of Biblical faith.

Biblical faith is based on facts (knowledge of God's word) and may cause emotions, but feelings are not the basis of Biblical faith. Remember the pattern:

1. Facts,

2. Faith,

3. Feelings.

In cults and the occult this pattern is usually reversed.