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We live in a time of great deception, and I want you to be armed so that you can identify five types of false teachers that you absolutely must mark

and avoid. Number one, there's the charlatan. And these are those who use outright fakery.

Sadly, there are those who only pretend to be of the faith and use the church as a system of gain. In 2 Timothy

chapter 3 verse 13 we read, but evil people and swindlers will grow even worse as they deceive

others while being deceived themselves. It's sad, but it's true. People fake miracles.

And when I say fake miracles, I'm not talking about Christians who maybe think they got healed

or are believing for a healing and confessing that by faith.

I'm talking about people who outright pay actors, talking about people who fake the spiritual gifts.

I myself had a run-in with an individual like this

who was using my old outdated Facebook information to prophesy over me. I called it profiling.

And the moment I identified what they were doing, they told that individual, you can get all

of this information on my Facebook. And again, I knew it wasn't coming from the Lord because it wasn't accurate.

It was just outdated.

It was from an older Facebook page that they had found of mine.

So we have to be aware that not everyone who claims to be moving in the power of the Holy Spirit

is indeed moving in the power of the Holy Spirit.

I understand that sometimes this can cause confusion, but I think a good balance is to not

be so paranoid that we just outright reject the miraculous and not be so gallable that we just

embrace everyone who tells us they're moving in the miraculous, but rather keep a healthy

observation of what is going on around you, keep a healthy

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