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- Question #4
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- "What is Dominion Theology?"
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- Answer #4
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- Have you heard about that? Dominion Theology, that's a new label, for a new
- kind of theology, and there is always new theologies. Dominion Theology
- comes in a lot of forms, but I think what you are probably talking about is
- John Wimber, who is now advocating a new kind of Dominion. Let me give you
- this very simply, ok?
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- Dominion Theology, espoused primarily by John Wimber, who is networked
- through a group of churches called "The Vineyard Churches," basically is
- saying, "That as believers, we are to take power over Satan and demons, we
- are to exercise dominion over them." There is another kind of theology, that
- is existing today, that is called "Liberation Theology." It is a form of
- theology that says, "That the Church is to take dominion over the
- institutions of the world." That's another form of Dominion Theology, or
- Kingdom Theology.
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- And what it basically says is that the Church's mandate is to take over the
- institutions of the world, that's the Liberation Theology side. What
- Dominion Theology says is that we are to take over the Powers of Darkness;
- we are to take over the demons; and we are to take over the spirits; and we
- are to dominate Satan. We are to take dominion, and that's why they talk
- about "Power Evangelism" and "Power Healing." In other words, he trains
- people, supposedly, to invade the Satanic World and take dominion over
- demons.
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- That we as Christians, by living in the natural world, and by just moving
- around in the visible world, have failed to exercise the power that we have,
- to literally take over the Satanic World. You hear them talk about, "Binding
- Satan," have you heard that? "Binding demons; Pleading the Blood on demons;
- Pleading the Blood on Satan; Taking dominion over, not only demons, but all
- of the institutions of the world, that are infiltrated and influenced by
- demons.
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- And they believe that whatever people's problems are, tend to be demon in
- duced. And it gets extreme, no matter what it is, its a demon, and you have
- to take dominion over these demons. And that is why they talk about Power
- Evangelism. They say that you cannot evangelize without signs and wonders.
- You have to overpower the demonic world, and demonstrate your divine power to
- the lost, in order for them to be saved. Power Healing, break the bondage of
- demons and so forth.
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- It is unbiblical. We are never told, never told, to take dominion over
- demons. We are told by James, "Resist the devil and he will" what? "Flee
- from you." We are never told to bind Satan. We are never told to bind
- demons. We are never told to plead the Blood on Satan and demons. Listen to
- Jude 9, "Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued
- about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing
- judgment, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you.'" Even Michael, who is "superan
- gel," did not dare rebuke Satan. But rather said, "Lord, you take care of
- him." And if Michael, as a holy angel, does not take to himself the exercise
- of authority over fallen angels, where would we find a mandate to do that?
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- The Bible simply tells us, that if you want to deal with the enemy, you put
- on the whole armor of God, right? You put on the whole armor of God, and
- you'll be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. We are not called to
- take dominion over the institutions of this world. We are not called to take
- dominion over demons and over the devil. We are called to get on our
- spiritual armor, to resist that demonic world and trust in the power of God,
- who does take care of them.
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