In His life and ministry upon the earth, Jesus is quoted as saying, “They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance”. Jesus speaks these words in the hearing of those who are supposed to be spiritual physicians (what the term preacher suggests) to their people. Spiritual physicians who are supposed to operate in the hearts of men (human spirit>psychological state, human will, decision making processes) using the spiritual instruments that are mighty through God to the dismantling of strongholds (spiritual surgery> cf. 2 Corinthians 10:4-6). Spiritual physicians who are supposed to have the concerns of the Lord and the needs of their people as their absolute concern and highest priority (what the term faith is supposed to mean). Spiritual physicians who are supposed to operate by the anointing of the Holy Spirit and not the carnality of their own humanism nor the influence of tempting satanism. In reality, however, King Jesus is speaking these words in the hearing of those we could classify as “Physicians of Death”. Spiritual leaders of carnal humanism (what the term carnality means) coupled with demonic influence that teach humanistic principles (what the phrase “commandments of men” suggests) and satanic influences (what the terms “dark sayings” and “doctrines of devils” suggests) for the word of God. Spiritual leaders that deliver the edicts of death and the statues of darkness for the appearing of “light” and “life” before unregenerate men (what the term “antichrist” suggests). Subsequently, these physicians of death create unregenerate false worshippers; who worship not in “Spirit” and in “Truth”, but in carnality (religious spirit) and demonic influence (religious tradition). Thus bringing to pass the word of the Lord when it states: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves”. Digressing for a moment, spiritual strongholds are thoughts within the unregenerate psychological state that are dominated by satanic forces and are re-introduced in a repetitive sequence creating a type of spiritual prison. Spiritual strongholds are highly lethal within the human psychological state because their repetitive nature can become permanent leading to what the bible calls a “reprobate mind”; a mind that cannot exit this permanent prism of destruction. In this reality, the human soul is lost to a fixed place of permanent torment or what the bible refers to as the place of perdition (cf. Hebrews 10:39). Constant rejection of the word of God is what allows satanic forces to create strongholds in the psychological state of mankind. If these satanic forces enter the religious realm where there is no “standard of the Spirit”, unregenerate men can take positions of authority appearing as ministers of light when in reality they are agents of darkness operating in the spirit of antichrist. Returning to the main line of thought, the amalgamation of unregenerate leaders and unregenerate false worshippers produces in the world what we could term as a “carnal church” or what the New Testament refers to as the “apostate church”. The detriment of this carnal church with its physicians of death and false worshippers is that apart from the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, it becomes impossible to detect this nefarious organism. This is why the Apostle John counsels the true church, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world”. The true worshippers of the Lord Jesus Christ (what it means to be a believer) seek the leading of the Holy Spirit in all facets of life as not to be overthrown by whom the scriptures refer to as “seducing spirits”. Forces of darkness that work in the hearts of unregenerate persons that act in the church setting as deceptive agents given to the dispensing of false doctrines, false worship, and false lifestyles. Concerning the physicians of death, their operations are not in the interests of the healing and restoration of their adherents, rather, their chief focus is upon the enrichment of their carnal desires. These physicians of death accomplish their ominous carnal pursuits in a myriad of ways; most notable is controlling the psychological states of their adherents through strict, carefully crafted, and deceptive measures that appear in the form of religious traditions that are designed to be both fanatical (suppressive) and highly manipulative (perverting). Now more than ever in the present afflictions of the human existential condition, must the true worshippers of the Lord manifest the manifold wisdom of God the Father. Manifold wisdom not rooted in the deathly amalgamation of humanism and satanism which are leading the blinded souls (false worshippers) to the threshold of eternal damnation; but rooted in a demonstration of the Lord’s power and His mighty Holy Spirit which lead willing participants into the eternal security of salvation in Christ and away from the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone. (Another Oil Point from Theology Nation)
Bishop Dr. G.A. Cox