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The MJAA
is one of the oldest and best established Messianic
Jewish organizations. God has used it to extend
Messianic Judaism in a number of significant ways.
It has done some great things over the years.
But in the past year or two the MJAA invited T.
D. Jakes to be the keynote speaker at their annual
conference. This was a terrible thing to do since
Jakes’ doctrine is founded in the "Oneness
Pentecostal" movement. Jakes embraces an
unbiblical view of the nature of God, known as
modalism or "oneness" doctrine. It denies
the tri personal nature of God. “In the
third century, orthodox Christians rejected modalism
(also known as Sabellianism, after Sabellius,
its most influential teacher) - the teaching that
the Son and Holy Spirit are the same Person as
the Father - as a denial of the faith. Early in
the twentieth century when Oneness Pentecostalism
reared its head, the Assemblies of God rejected
it as heresy” (quoted from the Christian
Research Institute, Article DJ902). This view
teaches that the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit are “emanations” of the one
true God; that each is a manifestation of God,
rather than each being a unique person. This is
heresy and has been rightly rejected by the orthodox
Christian Church for centuries. Yeshua spoke of
the Holy Spirit as a person (see, for example,
John 14:16 17, 26), and made clear distinctions
between His own person and that of the Father
and the Spirit, while at the same time affirming
the co equality of their nature. It is the teaching
of the Scriptures and the Church that within the
Godhead, there is a distinction of Persons but
a unity of nature. As if this heresy weren’t
enough, Jakes is a staunch advocate of the Word/Faith
belief system of calling your own reality into
existence. He is a preacher of the corrupt Prosperity
Teaching. He has gotten rich off of the ministry
and lives an extravagant lifestyle. He associates
with false prophets such as Benny Hinn. It was
wrong for the MJAA to allow a man like this to
participate, much less be the featured speaker
at their conference.
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