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Friday, February 6, 2015

DANIEL FAST: LIBERTY BAPTIST CHURCH DELAWARE BINDS CONSCIENCES AGAIN WITH MORE "SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE"~FAST FOR 21 DAYS TO REAP BENEFITS FROM GOD, THEN RETURN TO BAD EATING HABITS

21 DAYS OF DANIEL FAST, THEN:
"Ease back into your “typical diet.” This is especially true with caffeine, sugar, fatty foods, meat and dairy products. Small portions are wise and go slow, perhaps just one or two foods per day."
GEORGE TUTEN, PASTOR
http://www.libertybaptist.net/
STILL TRYING TO BIND CONSCIENCES;
THIS TIME WITH EATING GUILT 
LIBERTY BAPTIST CHURCH FIRST 
TRIED BINDING THE CONSCIENCES OF 
CHURCH MEMBERS WITH WRITTEN CONTRACTS, NOW WANTS THEM TO FAST
USING PROSPERITY PREACHERS' IDEAS 
SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS HERE:

LIBERTY BAPTIST:
LIBERTY BAPTIST:

THE DANIEL FAST: 
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THE PENTECOSTAL, FOURSQUARE, AND WORD OF FAITH 
ROOTS OF THE DANIEL FAST HAS NOT STOPPED LIBERTY 
BAPTIST CHURCH FROM FOISTING THIS MARKETING SHAM 
ON ITS GULLIBLE MEMBERS:
A) ELMER TOWNS:

Elmer Towns discusses his book - 

Fasting for a Miracle.



ELMER TOWNS, CO-FOUNDER OF LIBERTY UNIVERSITY;
GRADUATE OF THE APOSTATE FULLER SEMINARY




Elmer Towns on the next big church 

turnaround method:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS_V9U7fzlM

Dr. Elmer Towns introduces 

the Prayer Journey Paraphrase Bible:

B) SUSAN GREGORY: 
http://www.choose-life-now.com/;
QUOTE: "Susan Gregory is the CEO of Faith Driven Life, a training company 
dedicated to helping men and women of faith live the amazing life they can 
have because of Christ. She is an internationally known Christian Life Coach 
and Global Trainer." 

 http://daniel-fast.com/;
"My name is Susan Gregory. I live in Ellensburg, which is a small 
college town located in Central Washington. I received Christ in 
1973 and am an active member of Ellensburg Foursquare Church."
FinancialBreakthrough
SEE: https://danielfast.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/
how-to-end-a-21-day-daniel-fast/;
QUOTE: 
"Ease back into your “typical diet.” This is especially true 
with caffeine, sugar, fatty foods, meat and dairy products. 
Small portions are wise and go slow, perhaps just one or 
two foods per day."

 SEE: 
SEE ALSO: "BEWARE OF THE FOURSQUARE CHURCH" at:
Angelus Temple, built by Aimee Semple McPherson (picture below)
and dedicated January 1, 1923. The temple is opposite Echo Park, 
near downtown Los Angeles, California.
FAITH HEALER AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON:
Aimee Semple McPherson.jpg
C) JACK W. HAYFORD:
Jack Williams Hayford born June 25, 1934) is an American author, 
Pentecostal minister, and Chancellor of The King's University 
(formerly The King's College and Seminary). He is the founding pastor 
of The Church on the Way in Van Nuys and was the fourth President 
SEE: HAYFORD'S ARTICLE: "FASTING-THE FEAST THAT FREES":
SEE OUR PREVIOUS POST ABOUT JACK HAYFORD HERE:
D) JENTEZEN FRANKLIN:

SEE VIDEOS:
AND:

"The Daniel Fast and Jentezen Franklin's 

False Teachings"

Republished below in full unedited:

PARTS 1 AND 2:
It is with heavy heart I write this today. I have been called by our gracious and Holy Spirit to 
write this. Out of sincere duty to Him who reveals truth and obedience to Him who saves, I 
must say some things about the Daniel Fast and about Jentezen Franklin of the Fasting books. 
This is part 1, about fasting and the Daniel Fast

First, a parable. Picture a large house, in which you and I live with a family. We are all busy, 
doing things, and happily dwelling there. In November I awoke one morning and went into 
the baby's room, and as I opened the door I saw with horror that there was a wolf curled up 
with the baby, snarling and drooling. There are two things I could do. I could close the door 
and go downstairs to make breakfast, not saying anything about the wolf in the house. Or I 
could flip on the burglar alarm, call 911, and get my shotgun. Of course I opt for the latter. 
I am going to make a warning that there is a wolf in the house, I am going to make a ruckus 
about it, because wolves are dangerous and there are babes to protect.

The house is Your Church. The wolf is The Daniel Fast and/or Jentezen Franklin, the 
promoter of the current fasting fad. We make a ruckus to let everyone know that there 
is a wolf ready to pounce on the babes of our faith.

FASTING

There are many churches today participating in the current fad known as The Daniel Fast. This 
is a man-made so-called spiritual activity that is supposed to automatically draw you closer to 
God by eating things that are on a list and not eating things that are not on a list. Other benefits 
touted if you partake of this fast are winning the battle over the flesh (hard to do when we are 
still flesh when the fast is done), losing weight and healings from diabetes, allergies, arthritis and 
cancer. Another benefit from doing the fast is said to be putting our spirit in charge of the other 
two parts of us, the soul and the body. It must be news to the Holy Spirit that we can put Him in 
charge of things. (source)

Fasting is in the bible, but the way it is being taught in the Daniel Fasting plan and in 
Franklin's book it is off center. That is the genius of false teaching, take a biblical thing 

 and twist it.

Let me say that I know good pastors have a heart for their people. I can't imagine the stress and 
difficulty of being a pastor in the last days, and the mourning they do for the sheep who are 
sleeping and at such risk! I want to shake them myself, out of complacency, laziness, or apathy, 
and get them to see that every moment for Christ counts. I know they want the best for us. But 
the Daniel Fast and the Jentezen Franklin books are not the way to wake them up and this isn't 
the best for the congregants of a church. 

About fasting: it is good. I fast. Fasting is biblical. However the only New Testament direction we 
are given is from Jesus' sermon on the Mount, and in that, the only specifics we are given about 
fasting is as a voluntary activity prompted by the Holy Spirit TO DO IT IN SECRET. Jentezen 
Franklin's model calls for the opposite. Otherwise, Jesus said, the temptation to lean toward pride 
and hypocrisy is too great. We are told in Romans 14 that the kingdom of God is not what we eat 
or drink, but the Daniel Plan contains a long list of what we may eat or drink.

If a person engages in it for the wrong motivations, such as it being a promoted activity from 
their church leadership, or as a weight loss plan, or as a healthy lifestyle, then it is a fad of 
no worth!

"Fasting in and of itself is unknown in Scripture as an end in itself. All of the benefits of fasting in 
the Scripture are indirect, not direct. Fasting is never isolated to create some virtue in and of itself. 
You don't just say well, I'm going to be spiritual, I will not eat. You are no more spiritual because 
you don't eat than because you do eat." (source)

"Fasting is to deny self, but it is not done in a vacuum. You don't just say well, I'm going to deny 
myself. I'm going to say no to myself and stop eating for no good reason. There is a reason to 
humble yourself in that manner. There is a reason to deny yourself in that manner. There is a 
reason to inflict yourself in that manner and the reason is a consuming one. [F]asting never 
occurs in a vacuum. It never occurs biblically without a corollary. So, fasting is almost not 
something you choose to do, but something you cannot avoid." (source)

What is the reason people would go on a Daniel Fast, which strictly is not the definition of fasting, 
because fasting is avoidance of food? Is it just to do it? Because it will make you grow spiritually? 
It won't, if that is your sole reason. It's not an activity that causes growth, it is an outward 
expression of an interior spiritual need or circumstance.

Here is an excerpt on the Daniel Fast and fasting in the New Testament from John MacArthur's 
site, Grace To You: 

"What’s sad is the effect these self-appointed authorities have on those who follow them. 
They bind consciences with false guilt. Setting themselves up as judges of what goes into 
your mouth, they oppose our Lord Jesus Christ, who declared all foods clean and said 
that nothing should be rejected if it is received with gratitude (Mark 7:19; 1 Timothy 4:1-5).

"The New Testament leaves the details of fasting to the discretion of the believer and even 
de-emphasizes fasting in the progress of revelation. When Jesus taught against hypocrisy in 
Matthew 6:1-18, he taught us to give, pray, and fast privately. If you do, your Father who sees 
in secret will reward you."

[As opposed to praying, fasting is a] "Different approach altogether. Yes, he tells those who fast 
to fast in secret (Matthew 6:18). But he does not say, “Fast, then, in this way.” He does not give 
any instruction on fasting. He does not address frequency. He does not address diet. He does 
not address drinking liquids while fasting. He most certainly does not address whether the 
starchy endosperm in semolina vitiates the purpose of the fast!"

"His silence shows that Jesus de-emphasized fasting in comparison to prayer. If you needed 
such details to live your Christian life, He would have given them (cf. 2 Timothy 3:16-17). His 
silence shows you shouldn’t preoccupy yourself with the matter. Teachers today should not 
regulate fasting or elevate it to prominence when Jesus left it in the shadows."

Fasting is a private, Holy Spirit inspired activity usually and traditionally associated 
with grief, repentance, or for a specific purpose that Jesus Himself relegates to a 
private matter between a believer and God, vertically. The Daniel Fast promoters 
and Franklin have made it an activity on some name it-claim it spiritual check-off list, 
a horizontal display of public piety laden with potentials for hypocrisy and pride, 
exactly what Jesus said not to do. I'm sorry to be harsh, but someone has to say it.

A short series of essays on the proper approach to fasting can be found on John MacArthur's 
blog below, and in part 3 he deals with the Daniel Fast specifically. It is not long, each part is 
only 2 pages. I encourage you to read this four part series from a senior pastor of our faith to 
get an understanding of the theology behind fasting from which any discerning person can go 
forward on making good decisions on determining if their urge for fasting is a spiritual need or 
a church activity, and whether or not to take part in any program or plan set before them.

The Heart of Christian Fasting, Part 1. The Old Testament. 
The Heart of Christian Fasting, Part 2: Sermon on the Mount 
The Heart of Christian Fasting, Part 3: The New Testament (it is this part he deals with the 
Daniel Fast)
The Heart of Christian Fasting, Part 4: Fasting Today 

If someone wants to listen to or read a good sermon series on fasting, again I direct them to 
the Grace to You website and the series entitled Fasting Without Hypocrisy, Part 1 

I condemn this Daniel Fast as a fad, a gimmick based on flawed teachings, and man-made 
motivations and well apart from proper biblical moorings.

I exhort with all possible urgency that any church practicing it is dangerously adrift!

Part, 2, Jentezen Franklin next
There are many churches today participating in the current fad known as The Daniel Fast. This 
is a man-made so-called spiritual activity that is supposed to automatically draw you closer to God 
by eating things that are on a list and not eating things that are not on a list.

If you partake of this fast, other benefits mentioned on The Daniel Fast website are winning 
the battle over the flesh (hard to do when we are still flesh when the fast is done), losing weight 
and healings from diabetes, allergies, arthritis and cancer. Another benefit is said to be putting 
our spirit in charge of the other two parts of us, the soul and the body. It must be news to the 
Holy Spirit that we can put Him in charge of things. (source). Here is what others have 
experienced by fasting along with Jentezen Franklin: healed relationships, spiritual growth, 
physical healings, financial breakthroughs, and other blessings. Wow.

"If that is the case, you have to wonder what blessings aren’t being released, Franklin writes, 
what answers to prayer are not getting through…what bondages are not being broken…because 
we fail to fast." The Word-Faith crowd always makes a point to say that we will lose out 
on something if we don't do it their way. This is an example. Fasting is a voluntary activity 
we engage in at the prompting of the Spirit or when we feel we need to humble ourselves in grief 
or repentance, or to focus on Jesus in a more pointed way. More on fasting in previous post.

Jentezen Franklin is the guru of fasting. He has written two books on it and is the one 
who championed The Daniel Fast. His statements about why we fast include fasting to 
get a blessing, to earn God's favor, to get a public reward, to get our greatest 
breakthrough, to "release" a hundredfold return. (source).

So the lesson from The Daniel Fast and Jentezen Franklin is that we fast to get something. 
I do not believe we fast to get something, and I do not believe we should expect something 
and I do not believe we have the power to cause God to do something if we fast. More on 
what fasting is all about in the previous post.

Secondly, if we fast, Franklin says, it causes God to "release" these things into our lives. My 
understanding is that fasting is a private expression of a deeply felt spiritual need and a way 
to humble myself before Almighty God.

All this elevates fasting to an importance the bible does not give it nor did Jesus give it. 
So who is this Jentezen Franklin?

Franklin is pastor of a Holiness church in GA but he is also pastor of a Holiness church in CA. 
How does he do it? This article from Charisma Magazine explains:

"Every Sunday, Franklin arrives at Free Chapel in Gainesville (GA) by 5 a.m. for prayer, 
preaches two sermons and shakes hundreds of hands before boarding a private jet at 2 p.m. 
with his family and two staff members. They arrive at John Wayne Airport, located five minutes 
from Free Chapel Orange County (OC), and by 6 p.m. Franklin is in the pulpit. The next day is 
filled with Orange County staff meetings, and the group returns to Gainesville on Tuesday. 
"This may sound like a crazy schedule, but it is actually exhilarating," Franklin says. ... "My family 
comes first, and what shows me that this is of God is the way they can be with me more now 
than ever," Franklin says. "The school systems have actually worked it out that my children can 
be off the two days so they can be with me."

Is this a biblical model of pastoring? Pastor means shepherd. How can he shepherd his flock if 
he has one pasture in Judah and one in Persia? He can't. It is not a biblical model of shepherding. 
As for his family, is taking his children out of school for two days a week the best, most stable life 
for them? Is his ambition so great he plunks his children in the middle of his "crazy schedule" so 
he can enjoy the 'exhilaration'? And a private jet??? He had a choice to stay in GA. He chose the 
jet set lifestyle. Is this the proper Christian pastoring and fathering model we want to buy into? It 
isn't for me, and I refuse to spend money buying his book.

His friends tell us a lot about who Franklin is. This weekend he is preaching from the 
pulpit of false preacher Joel Osteen's stage at Lakewood Church! (source here and here). 
There is no worse false church in America than Lakewood. There is no worse false 
preacher than Osteen! Osteen denies the Gospel in favor of becoming a motivational 
guru to have "your best life now". The only way you're having your best life now is if 
you're going to hell. (that was John MacArthur's wit). This Jentezen Franklin will be 
preaching from Osteen's stage for two days. That should tell us a lot.

FALSE PASTOR ALERT.

If that is not enough, after this weekend Franklin will be hosting the "Praise the Lord" show with 
Jan and Paul Crouch on TBN. There is no deeper of a snake pit of false doctrine than Praise 
the Lord show on TBN and Franklin will be promoting it. (source)

Franklin should be excised from any bible-believing church on these bases ALONE. 

But wait, there's more.

As for his teachings, they are false doctrine too. He said in one sermon as he appealed for 
money, lots of it for over ten minutes, over sentimental music blared from loudspeakers, 
"I've never come to Hillsong Conference where I haven't sown at least a $1000 seed..."

Yet the bible says, "So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the 
hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, 
they have received their reward in full." Mt 6:2

and Franklin goes on, "$1000 seed...into this place, because if I sow now, the rain of now will 
fall on my life." NAME IT CLAIM IT! Tithe big, you get big. And what is "the rain of now" for 
heaven's sakes? His hands were fluttering down as rain, and the audience looked up as if 
expecting manna or Armani suits or money to fall from the sky right then.

He is a Word-Faith preacher and we know those are false. The Word-Faith crowd is big on 
"if you do this, you get this." "If you do this it will cause God to move." They talk about 'releasing' 
power into your life, but in fact the only thing we have the power to release is a fart after dinner. 
He elevates to us more power than we have and diminishes Jesus in the process.

"It is so easy to get caught up in the busyness of ministry," he says. "It's dangerous to have a 
growing ministry and a shrinking passion for God; something gets out of whack. When I find 
myself becoming mechanical in my preaching, even a one-day fast fine-tunes me and makes 
my heart sensitive. For me, fasting is the key."

Fasting is not Jiffy Lube. It is the Word fine-tunes you. Sigh.

But most telling, is the following:

He said, "When I feel myself growing dry spiritually, when I don’t sense that 
cutting-edge anointing, or when I need a fresh encounter with God, fasting is 
the secret key that unlocks heaven’s door and slams shut the gates of hell. 
The discipline of fasting releases the anointing, the favor, and the blessing of 
God in the life of a Christian."

Don't gloss over this. 

It is the most abhorrent statement imaginable. It is sacrilege. Jesus has the key to heaven and 
hell. Nothing we do unlocks it. How sacrilegious to say that any activity we do unlocks heaven 
or shuts hell. This is wrong! On just that statement, he should be booted from every bible-
believing pulpit, our churches, and our bookshelves!

And why is fasting characterized as a "secret"? It is not, at least not to anyone who reads the 
bible. And what is a 'cutting edge anointing'? Is it different from a regular anointing? Franklin 
distinguished the "normal seed" from the "precious seed" in one 'name it claim it' sermon I'd 
listened to. I guess I am missing out on the "cutting edge" anointing and I just have to settle 
for the regular anointing we get when we're saved. (1 John 2:20).

See, that is the dangerous heresy in Word-Faith preachers like Franklin, they subtly elevate 
themselves and their teachings above what the bible says, making everything else seem 
humdrum by comparison by using sexy words like cutting edge, fine-tune, heart sensitive, 
breakthroughs, hundredfold return, precious seeds.... it is all very exciting in Franklin's world, 
exhilarating, even. By comparison, the staid old faith, prayer, service, obedience seems dry 
as yesterday's toast.

The Word-Faith doctrine "puts confidence in the nature of faith rather then in the object of faith. 
It assumes that there's something inherent in believing that enacts [or "releases"] something 
when it isn't true at all. It is not the nature of faith that is effective, it is the object of faith. It is my 
faith in God that gets results not my faith in my faith." (source: A biblical answer to the prosperity 
Gospel)

Franklin Jentezen is a jet setting, TBN hosting, Osteen partnering Word-Faith prosperity 
preacher who has no business being in any biblical church. He is a wolf. 
Avoid Jentezen Franklin and The Daniel Fast. Rely on the Holy Spirit to direct your steps. 
Pray, fast when the Spirit prompts you, read your bible so you will have the discernment 
to spot a false teaching when you come across one. 
Go have a good lunch, and don't forget to thank the Lord for it!
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PAULA WHITE ON FASTING ("GOING TO ANOTHER LEVEL")
(IF YOU CAN STOMACH THIS FOR ONE HOUR):

"The power of fasting!"- 

Pastor Paula White -9/15/2011



 (P.S.: SHE SPENT TIME IN ROME WITH BENNY HINN
SEE OUR PREVIOUS POST HERE:
http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2014/06/recent-
pentecostal-scandals.html

PAULA WHITE & T.L. LOWERY
"In 1984, while living in Maryland, she was introduced to the gospel and became 
a Christian. On her television show in July 2005, White recounted the vision she 
received from God shortly after conversion: "When I was just eighteen years old, 
the Lord gave me a vision that every time I opened my mouth and declared the 
Word of the Lord, there was a manifestation of his spirit where people were either 
healed, delivered, or saved. When I shut my mouth, they fell off into utter 
darkness and God spoke to me and said 'I called you to preach the gospel'".[4]

Paula White later on became a part of the National Church of God in 
Fort Washington under T.L. Lowery of Church of God (Cleveland, 
Tennessee), and a small church in Gaithersburg-Damascus, Maryland area."
SEE OUR NEWER POST ABOUT T.L. LOWERY AT:

Sandy Simpson: The New Apostolic Reformation
Part 1 of 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVkBCp6T1Lg
Part 2 of 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvbiV7j_xk0





















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