Dr. Michael Brown recently appeared on the spiritually corrupt show Sid Roth’s, ‘It’s Supernatural’. Was it because, as Bethel’s Bill Johnson often says, ‘desperate people will take desperate measures’? Are we watching a ‘holy’ desperado, after the disastrous backlash from the American Gospel Roundtable, do the unthinkable again? The question is – why?
Source: Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural!, *WARNING* America’s Future Hinges On ONE THING!, Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1KZ2nSQ5hY, Uploaded April 01, 2024. (Accessed April 02, 2024.)
IS DR. BROWN’S ‘OPEN THEISTIC’ DEITY HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT?
Talks of Open Theism are once again starting to circulate across Christian social media platforms. This theology is another component in New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) circles that many Charismatic and Pentecostal believers would completely reject. Is Dr. Brown an advocate of this theology? Has he been pushing it on the gullible for decades, and are they falling victim to this dangerous belief?
Was he promoting this theology on the recent Sid Roth show? (4:25),
“Dr Michael Brown will explain why we should know about past revivals, and God’s
outpouring of His glory. Why – his strong warning about putting God in a box, and
his experience with three revivals and his eyewitness report of MAJOR miracles!”
If Dr. Brown worshiped an ‘inept’ God – of course he would think Christians can ‘box God’. This has been the argument of Dr Brown for decades regarding his NAR Holy Spirit revival theology. However the bible clearly states that the Christian will be content living in the fullness of God, day by day, living as the Psalmist says in Psalm 23:
“The Lord is my Shepherd.
I Shall Not Want”
This is the Christian theology Dr.Brown appears to publicly reject. A reminder to Dr. Brown as to what the scriptures say:
“I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:11-13
“But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.” 1Timothy 6:6-8
“Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:13-14
“If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.” John 7:37-39
Dr. Brown, along with many in the NAR demonstrate again and again their unbelief in the following scripture (emphasis added):
“I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.” John 6:35
For those who are satisifed in the goodness of Christ and His finished work on the cross, the Son, His crucifixion and the indwelling power and presence of the Holy Spirit is apparently not enough. Instead Dr Brown accuses the brethren of putting ‘God in a box’ and paints them as being either religious or pharisaical… again… and again… and again.
Brown: When God moves, when He shakes us out of the wrong place, it almost always gets us out of our comfort zone. When Jesus, He lifts it — why did He spit on dirt and turn it into mud? Why did He spit on a guy’s eyes? Why did He do that? Why did He try to —
Roth: If He did it today, they’d say, “You’re not of God!”
Brown: And magicians use spittle. Magicians would do it. The false gods, they said they had the spittle of life among the false gods. Why did he drive demons into the pigs and the pigs go running down and drown in the water? That can’t be God. Show me tongues of fire. The moment the Spirit falls, there’s division.
God’s not the author of confusion. He doesn’t say Prophet ‘A’, prophesy there’ll be rain, Prophet ‘B’, prophesy there’ll be no rain. No! But when the Spirit comes, He brings up to the surface what’s in people’s hearts and minds. And almost always, when the fire falls, just like at Pentecost, half of them hear the praises of God, and the other people, they say, “They’re drunk.”
When the Spirit falls, either people are shaking under the Power of God like happened with Wesley in Whitfield, or falling or crying out, or demons leaving, there’s something that’s going to scandalize us. We like a nice little revival.
Here’s our traditional prayer for revival.”God, send Your power, send Your glory, but Lord, leave us in control.” [Laughter] “Keep it to a convenient little hour.” And revival is not something you turn on, you turn off.
We use discernment, we use wisdom, but we say, “God, come and shake us and come and visit, whatever the cost or consequence, because that’s one thing we can’t live without. That’s Your presence.” [Applause]
If believers use biblical discernment, they’re just “boxing God” and being Pharisees, or ‘religious’.
We have to ask the question – is Dr. Brown a ‘revival junky’? Has he replaced his former love for drugs with a ‘spiritual fix’? And a ‘spiritual experience and fix’ it is.
DR. MICHAEL BROWN – ‘ROLLING HIS OWN THEOLOGY & TOKING IT’.
You might think we’re using strong words addressing Dr. Brown in this way – but these two men on this Sid Roth episode simply bypassed the cross when praying and then went on to a titillating ‘Niagara Falls experience’, encouraging people to think of revival in such manner – based on Dr. Brown comparing his own false ‘revival theology’ to the Niagara Falls experience (20:30).
Brown: I wrote a book that came out three months before Brownsville. Three months before the revival, I shared that picture of Niagara Falls. I said, “That is a picture of revival. Are you ready?” I knew it was about to hit. And Sid, we are in the early stages now of the Holy Spirit beginning to pour out in a fresh way in America, but it’s not just going to be a Brownsville or a Toronto — there will be thousands of places where the fire falls.
And we must seize the moment when it happens. (Applause)
Roth: You know, Mike, interesting enough, I had a vision about Niagara Falls also. And in this vision, I was there by myself, and the mist that you described started coating me. And it was the light of God. It was the presence of God. It was the Glory of God. And many people don’t know this, almost every day they have a rainbow there.
What does a rainbow stand for? The promises of God, the covenants of God. So all the promises of God in that glory are going to be instantly unstoppable, amazing answers instantly. It’s going to be different than any time you’ve ever — or any generation has ever walked with God.
And I’m telling you, I was there alone. You know what that meant? I can’t ride on someone else’s faith. I’ve got to ask for myself. I have to hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Brown: How else will two billion Muslims turn to Jesus? How else will Israel be saved? How else will America be shaken? There has to be a greater, sustained move of God with intensity, with rapidity, than we’ve ever seen. And as I sit — I mean, obviously we’re not at the Falls, but it’s stirred — boy, does it stir the memories.
And you know, it reminds me again, every day we have to live as disciples. Every day we do the little things. Every day the mom’s changing a diaper and dad’s busy doing — we do our daily work. The church is doing the work the disciples should do day by day.
But Sid, when we have experienced the glory, when we’ve been under those Falls, so to say, how can we live without it? How can we just go back to normal church life, those of us who’ve tasted it and seen it? And those who’ve just heard about it. They read about Brownsville like I read about the Welsh Revival.
I want to shout to everyone, “It’s real!” It’s the nature of God. It’s the reality of God.“
This is delusion at this point. Is this a ‘spiritual junky’ having revival withdrawals, simply ‘lost in space’, wanting the next big ‘spiritual hit’? He continues (23:54):
Brown: “It’s the nature of God. It’s the reality of God. And what He wants to do is the thing that’s been abnormal, that’s been exceptional — He wants that to be the norm. He wants that to be the climactic thing before He returns.
Why not now? Why not here?
Why not something greater than we’ve ever seen? Does God not have the ability? He does. Does God not have the desire? He does. How about us?
Hungering and thirsting until the answer comes.”
Not being simply content in the grace and comfort of God is something Dr. Brown appears not to understand. He’s made that abundantly clear over the decades with his preaching of this ‘end-times revival’ that has never happened. Is he just a man who is hungry and thirsty for God’s ‘power’, with an unsatiable appetite for God’s end-time dominion and reign to come now through his own volition?
Coming towards the end of the show, it seems that Dr. Brown has no regard of the gospel as he simply skims over this opportunity, an opportunity many God-fearing believers would not neglect to share – the true gospel of Christ’s death for our sins, Jesus taking the wrath of God on Himself so that we may be forgiven of our sins and never experience the second death.
Not Dr. Brown. Once again he is completely lost in his own false beliefs – as Sid Roth suggests that end-times revival could be ‘now’ and ‘here’ on set, to which end Roth invited Michael Brown to pray.
Sorry Jesus, we won’t preach your death any more – we want the Spirit instead? (24:23):
Roth: You said something — “Why not now? Why not here?” Would you pray for us? So it is now!
Brown: Yes.
Roth: It is here!
Brown: Yes. Father, right now, [Music] I pray for every single one watching. May there be a hunger, a thirst, a desire, a passion, the likes of which they’ve never known. May they have a cry that comes from the depth of their being. God, visit me now. God, send the fire now. God, change me now. God, send Your glory now, for Your honor, for the sake of a dying world, for the exaltation of the Name of Jesus.
For the salvation of the Jewish people here and now, start with me. I ask it in Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Roth: You live a holy life, God says, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
And that’s it.
One would hope that somewhere on this entire show Dr. Brown would talk about Jesus, his cross, his death, his burial, his resurrection and ascension, to articulate the mysteries of the wondrous gospel of our Lord and the faith once and for all delivered to the saints.
No. Just hunger and thirst for ‘revival’.
Leonard Ravenhill and David Wilkerson would be turning in their graves if they could see Dr. Brown on this episode of Sid Roth’s ‘It’s Supernatural’.
* In an upcoming article, CWC will go further into the theology of Dr. Michael Brown and his end-times ‘dominionist’ fanaticism.
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