Narrow Way with Steve Phillips Retching Rhema
Rhema is retched regularly from the throats of goats. You are blessed but you are begging. It is well and you weep. You are the head though you are the tail. Today is the day of your divine destiny and days of destitution continue. By force, by fire is actually by farce, by liar. Retching Rhema – all.
The text for this pervasive delusion is twisted, serpent-like, from 2 Corinthians 3:6: “The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” And thus the written Word of God remains unknown and thrown aside for their concocted “living” Rhema Word of faith. The flesh lusts after this imagined direct visitation from on high.
But it is actually an intruding invasion from the pit below. God has not spoken to these imposters.
“Then the Lord said to me, ‘The prophets are prophesying lies in My Name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, worthless things; they speak foolishness made up in their own hearts’” -Jeremiah 14:14.
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into worthlessness; they speak a vision of their own imagination, not from the mouth of the Lord. They keep saying to those who despise Me, “The Lord has said, you will have peace.”
“‘But who has stood in the council of the Lord, that he should see and hear His Word? Who has given heed to His Word and listened? I did not send these prophets, but they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in My council, then they would have proclaimed My Words to My people, and would have turned them back from their evil ways” –Jeremiah 23:16-18,21,22.
Fake prophets retch their positive “Word of Faith” Rhema of abounding well-being. “This is what the Lord says: ‘You false prophets are leading My people astray!’ When they have something to bite with their teeth, they cry, ‘Peace!’ But against him who puts nothing in their mouths they declare holy war. ‘You priests teach God’s Law for a price; you prophets won’t prophesy unless you are paid:’ and yet they all claim the Lord is with them. ‘No harm will come to us: is not the Lord in our midst?’” –Micah 3:5,11.
They are all liars like Zedekiah. “How did the Spirit of the Lord pass from me to you?” -1 Kings 22:24. The Spirit never was with him. And so Micaiah the true messenger of God is abused, struck, and thrown into prison as the 400 Retchers of Rhema spew their vomit while gorging greedy bellies.
And yet Zedekiah’s question did not go unanswered. “The Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets” -1 Kings 22:23. And there we have the source of Retching Rhema.
Rhema as a “Word of Faith” is a gross delusion and distortion of the written Word of God. See the biblical difference between Rhema and Logos in John 12:48: “He who rejects Me and does not receive My Words [Rhema], has one who judges him; the Word [Logos] I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.” Rhema essentially refers to the specific statements of Christ: individual verses. Logos basically refers to the composite totality of Christ’s Word. That is the distinction. This cancels Retching Rhema.
The letter of the Law kills, not because it’s evil, but because we are. “The Law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good; sin produced death in me through what is good” -Romans 7:12,13. “The letter kills but the Spirit gives life” simply is contrasting the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. The Law cannot save but rather condemns: “Cursed is everyone who does not keep all things written in the Law to do them” -Galatians 3:10. The Law cannot impart life –Galatians 3:21.
Its function was to point to and lead to Christ –Galatians 3:24. “It is the Spirit who gives life, the flesh profits nothing; the Words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life” –John 6:63. And being born of the Spirit, “the requirement of the law will be fulfilled in us” –Romans 8:2-4.
In the largest interdenominational seminary in Nigeria, I asked the assembled students and staff and faculty this question: How many of you have read the entire Bible at least once? Of the 200 assembled, 19% raised their hands, and the vast majority of them have been in “ministry” for years, Retching Rhema.
These deceiving peddlers of the “Word of Faith” throw the written Word of God into the refuse heap while belching their bile and vile substitutes invented daily from their own wretched retching hearts. The Word of God is abandoned, the flock is starving, while Retching Rhema reigns.