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April 26, 2016

Darren Wilson --Butchering Revelation to Fit His Carnality

By Anthony Wade

"Christian" filmmaker Darren Wilson believes that the God has to get back to work wooing him when he gets honest and tells him how disappointed he is in Him. I am not kidding.

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"'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. -- Revelation 3: 15-17 (ESV)

Darren Wilson fancies himself many things. He fancies himself a filmmaker. He fancies himself as someone who can "make God famous." He even fancies himself a Christian. The problem is the more he speaks, the more he reveals that he does not appear to even know God. At least not the God of the Bible. Darren has made several independent "Christian" documentaries, the most recent being the two wildly heretical movies about the Holy Spirit. I do not wish to rehash those here, as I have already written about them extensively. Instead, I turn to a recent article he penned for Charisma News entitled, "The Disease of the Lukewarm Christian."

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/behind-the-lens/56699-the-disease-of-the-lukewarm-christian

This article is a stunning tour de force into the mind of someone who is deceived in these end times. If we are to assume that Wilson is being sincere then he is beyond sincerely deceived. The insight we gain however is into the flawed Christianity that Wilson has been sold and is now in the business of selling. The reality is that the majority of verses in the Bible do not fit the warm and fuzzy fake jesus being marketed in churches across this country. This is the jesus that promises endless worldly purpose and allows all of the carnality our hearts desire under the rubric of friendship and love. It appeals to our fleshly desire to appear spiritual but never let go of our sin. To have our cake and eat it to, if you will. The verses today that Darren Wilson tries to repackage to fit his false belief system and false jesus are the key verses from the third chapter in Revelation. They are from the warnings Jesus gave to the Church at Laodicea. It is no wonder these verses always gave Darren trouble because they describe the church system he believes in. For all intents and purposes, Wilson is an elder in the modern day Church of Laodicea, as we will find out when examining his beliefs put forth in this article. Let us reason together and learn:

"Chapters 2 and 3 in Revelations deal with God's messages to the early churches, and while there's a lot of good stuff there, whenever someone wanted to drop the hammer of conviction on the crowd, they'd usually turn to the message for the church in Laodicea." -- Darren Wilson

Realize what Wilson is saying here beloved. There is a lot of "good stuff" in the letters Jesus wrote to the seven churches, which by direct inference means there is a lot of bad stuff as well. Specifically, Wilson is indicating that conviction is "bad stuff." The sad reality is that conviction is what actually leads one to salvation. Without it you are just playing church and making movies about it. This is how the purpose driven, seeker friendly mind approaches the Bible. It is like a salad bar to them. There is good stuff they like and bad stuff they choose to not put on their plate. More than a conqueror? I'll take some of that! God so loved me? I will take two servings of that! So lukewarm that Jesus might actually spit me out of His mouth? I don't like that so much. I will call that the hammer of conviction and leave it right where it is. Only now, false teachers like Wilson are becoming more daring. They are now taking the verses that don't fit the confectionary sugar god they have created in their own image and are redefining them. We saw this last year when mega church pastor Perry Noble actually tried to rewrite the Ten Commandments to make them more palatable. We see Wilson try desperately to do the same for these two verses:

"But as I explored the idea that friendship with God should be our ultimate goal in life, I began to look at these troublesome verses through the lens of friendship, and suddenly they didn't seem so troublesome anymore." -- Darren Wilson

Wow, the disconnect to spiritual reality should be stunning to anyone with actual discernment. To Darren Wilson, as well as the plethora of seeker friendly pastors of today, friendship with God should be the ultimate goal in our life. Nothing can be further from the truth beloved. This teaching arises from the friend of God theology that permeates the Seeker Friendly Industrial Complex. It is from the belief that because Abraham was a friend of God, therefore we are as well. But nowhere in Genesis is Abraham referred to as friend of God. Indeed this term was not bestowed upon him during his lifetime at all. Why did writers in later generations look at Abraham as a friend of God? Because of his faith in believing God. Because he was willing to sacrifice his only son. Many will then turn to John 15, as Wilson tries, and claim the promises made to the apostles as their own but even in doing so they miss the one word that is key:

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. -- John 15: 15 (KJV)

So yes, Jesus does make things more personal in these verses but do not miss the most important word here and that is "Lord." The fact that Jesus now viewed the Apostles as friends instead of servants does not change the base of the relationship and that is one of lordship. Friendship with God is born out of the base relationship of He being our Lord and Savior. Without that, you are not His friend. In fact, you are His enemy. Jesus even once lamented why people bother calling Him Lord if they refuse to do what He says. To the Darren Wilson's of the world however, friendship is one of equal standing. Jesus becomes your wing man. Your buddy. Your co-pilot. As Wilson reveals in this quote however, when you look at Scripture through a flawed lens, you will in fact get a flawed picture and that is exactly what he does with the key verses.

"Obviously, God wants us to trust Him and go after Him with everything we have--to be "hot." But I think the reason He tells us He's also OK with us being "cold" is because at least then we're being honest with Him. He can work with honesty. Some of my best times with God have come when I've simply been brutally honest and told Him how disappointed I am in Him, how much I'm struggling with the idea that He is always good, and how I just don't have the spiritual energy or desire to be "hot." He would then take those moments of raw honesty and get to work wooing me back to Him." -- Darren Wilson

So in the theology of Darren Wilson, God serves him. God has to get to work to woo him back whenever Darren is "honest" and tells God how disappointed in Him he is. Wow. What an egocentric, narcissistic bag of poisoned theology. Not only that but he misses the meaning behind the point God is making altogether. According to Wilson, Jesus is OK with us when we are cold. If by OK, he means going to hell I guess Darren could be right but that is clearly not even what Darren means. To Darren, those moments when you doubt God you are just being cold. Beloved, that is absurd. Let us turn to the entire context of the key verses:

For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"- Revelation 3: 18-22 (ESV)

Beloved, the cold in this analogy are unsaved, not just lacking the spiritual energy to be hot. The hot are clearly those on fire for God and have a zeal for Him and His Word. Who then are the lukewarm? The context always provides us with the answer:

1) They are deceived into thinking that they are rich, prosperous and have no needs.

2) They are actually wretched, pitiable, poor, blind and naked.

3) They are unsaved as evidenced by Jesus counsel to buy refiners fire so that their ailments could be healed.

Yet to Wilson, the lukewarm are just not being honest with God. Their Facebook status goes to "acquaintance" instead of "friend." Wait a minute then. Who is unsaved to Darren Wilson? According to this teaching -- no one! As long as you are in a church, you are just striving to forge the best friendship you can with Jesus. Sometimes you are hot hot hot, and other times you are just brutally honest with Him that you are frigid. What is the "cure" for lukewarmness according to Wilson? Just being honest with your pal Jesus. The sadly ironic thing here is the list above provided in the context of the key verses define Wilson and the seeker friendly theology he sells. Like the modern day Laodicean Church, Darren Wilson fancies himself rich and prosperous; needing little. When he is able to sell his heretical movies to the masses of deceived goats he convinces himself it is the blessings of God instead of the consent of the unsaved. It is the same reason why Joel Osteen can pack 50,000 a week in Lakewood. It is not the blessing of God but rather His judgment beginning on a backslidden church. Wilson does not realize he is pitiable, wretched, poor, blind, naked and quite possibly unsaved. The Laodicean church is all around us today beloved and their problem is not that they are not best buds with Jesus. It is that they are best friends with the world and play church on Sundays. So why is it better to be cold than lukewarm? Let us first turn to Gill's Exposition on the Entire Bible:

"I would thou wert cold or hot; which must be understood, not absolutely, but comparatively; and not that it was an indifferent thing to Christ whether she was one or the other; but he alludes to what is natural among men, it being generally more agreeable to have anything entirely hot, or entirely cold, than to be neither; and so uses this phrase to show his detestation of lukewarmness, and that it is better to be ignorant, and not a professor of religion, than to be a vain and carnal one; Christ desires not simply that she might be cold, but that she might be sensible of her need of spiritual heat and fervency."- Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

At least the cold might eventually desire the warmth and light of the heat. The cold might still realize her need for warmth and light. The lukewarm has deceived itself into thinking that it is warmth and light when it is most certainly not. Jesus taught this in the Gospels when he said that how deep was the darkness of someone who has convinced themselves that their darkness is actually light! That is the point beloved. The church at Laodicea had convinced themselves that they were saved when they were not! Just today I saw three different clips from the recent worship portion of services at three different mega churches. One was Old Time Rock and Roll. Another was Purple Rain. The last was a medley of 1990's sitcom songs. I kid you not. During worship. Those are churches that are pitiable in their action. Naked in their shamelessness. Blind in their carnality. They need the refiner's fire. They need to abandon the false jesus they have created. So does Darren Wilson:

"The lynchpin was always the verse quoted above, and the meaning was heavily implied--if you're not all in with God, then He's got a problem with you." -- Darren Wilson

Yes Darren. You almost tripped over the Gospel. There is no partial salvation beloved. When we stand before Christ, 75% in will not cut it. We cannot even stand before Him at 99%. If we are not all in, we most certainly do have a problem. That problem is a place that Darren cannot fathom in the depths of his wickedly deceptive heart and it is called hell. To Darren, his loving false jesus is there to serve him and woo him, not condemn him. After all, a loving fake god viewed through the lens of friendship would never send his own friend to hell! Right?

Wrong. Friendship must start with Lordship. That means your life is surrendered to His. That means we pick up our cross daily to follow Him. That means we lose our life for his. That is anti-seeker friendly. In the seeker friendly minds of Wilson, God is there to augment our life, not save it. All those pesky, troubling verses that don't fit into this candy box of sweet nothings? We will just butcher them to fit our poisonous beliefs. These are evil and wicked teachings beloved that will lead people straight to hell. God is love but He loved us so much He sacrificed His only Son. Not because we are friends but because He is Lord. He is merciful. He is grace. The Words He wrote to the Church at Laodicea serve as a warning to us today. I pray people are listening to that warning instead of the ongoing heretical nonsense from people like Darren Wilson.

Reverend Anthony Wade -- April 25, 2016



Authors Bio:
Credentialed Minister of the Gospel for the Assemblies of God. Owner and founder of 828 ministries. Vice President for Goodwill Industries. Always remember that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.

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