In 1 Corinthians 12 through 14—this admonition to the Corinthian church—there are cultural things that Paul is speaking to, but all of the truths are universal.  There are cultural things, there are things specific to Corinth that Paul is dealing with, but the truths are universal.  Here in the twenty-first century, we still need the Spirit that’s being conveyed here in our midst so that we can love, we can prefer, we can humble ourselves.  We seek servanthood that He might be all in all.  So, Paul, speaking to this church here in Corinth—and we’ve talked about who they are.  You can read the chapters that come up to this twelfth chapter, and we see many different deficiencies in this church.  We see how proud and boastful they are.  They were boasting about their gifts, about all these supernatural manifestations, and yet there was sin in their midst that it said even the heathen did not participate in.

You would not believe the sin that’s in churches today.  I knew of the fastest growing church—I won’t name the city—in this particular city, and on Saturday nights, the pastoral staff would get together for wife-swapping.  There were all kinds, beyond your imagination, of vices that were taking place.  There were supposedly miracles and signs and wonders that were being done.  They were the fastest growing church in the city.  There is a following, beloved, of false signs and wonders.  Amen?  It’s not just going to start here in the last days.  These are men that are wolves that come in and make merchandise of the flock of God.  These are evil, wicked men.  And tragically, so many of the people want to hear it.  Oh, they don’t want to hear, necessarily, that, but it was a church that all—every message was how you as an individual should be blessed of God:  You should be rich, you should never have adversities in life, and you are the head and not the tail—all of these principles that are exaggerated and misapplied into the lives of people.  It’s amazing the type of people that message draws, because it’s a community of idolaters, the worship of self.

We were talking about one of the most influential churches in the world today and the doctrines that are continuing to be promoted in that church.  And one of the statements of a pastor who’s involved in that same vision and that same theology, that same doctrine—I think I’ll get this right—was telling the congregation that he was standing before the Lord and worshipping Him and said, “Lord, there’s none like You,” and he said the Spirit stopped him and spoke to him and said, “Don’t say that anymore.  You are like Me.”  Now, when you’re standing and telling God that there’s no one like Him, and you hear that voice?  Amen?  I want us to know and be assured of one thing:  Our God is holy.  He is unique.  He is separate.  There is none like Him (Isaiah 46:9).  Amen?  So, this promotion and worship of the creature as it continues to accelerate in this hour in our generation.  The false doctrine of Mormonism has always drawn men into that direction.  The evolution that God Himself was like us at one time and evolved and we are evolving into that state.

Oh, we will be with Him, but we will never be like Him in the fact of His holiness and His divinity.  We’re one with Him because of His grace.  We are united with Him and abide in Him.  We’re His sons.  We’re His bride, but He is Lord.  So, as we recognize that and walk in that understanding continually of how holy and separate our God is, it will save us from a lot of these false doctrines that are coming up in this hour.