The Power Within and False Teachers
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/21-burned-in-walk-over-hot-coals-at-tony-robbins-event-1.3851554
About nineteen years ago God called me to the ministry of Mormons. For the most part since that time I’ve not paid a lot of attention to all the false teachers out there as Joseph Smith and company keeps me busy enough without focusing upon others.
However, today a news clip caught my attention causing me to wonder why people fall for such dangerous schemes all because somebody told them they could do the unreasonable if they “unleashed their power within”.
As Christians all we have to do is compare what people do and say with God’s word. If it doesn’t line up we’re to disregard what they say. (Deut. 18:20-22) And that is what brings us here today.
Tony Robbins, the famous and self proclaimed inspirational speaker, held an event in San Jose, California where he laid down hot coals heated to 1,200 to 2,000 degrees. After giving one of his motivational speeches, he convinced people to walk on those potentially hazardous coals.
My thoughts on this: are you nuts?
As it turned out, twenty-one of the participants who attempted to walk over the hot coals ended up with second and third degree burns to the bottoms of their feet.
First of all there’s power within all of us. Either it’s the Holy Spirit or it’s our own self reliance which is against God and His purposes. There are no other choices and there is no other way. If your will isn’t in complete compliance with what His plan is for you personally then you’re fighting against Him. Secondly, detaching yourself from physical and/or emotional pain isn’t the way God designed us to behave.
God created us to rely upon Him; not ourselves. Self-reliance is another of Satan’s tricks to take attention away from the One God who deserves and demands our honor and respect. If we walk through the hot coals of life determined to make it on our own we’re gonna get burned in the end, literally and figuratively.
And I have to wonder…did Tony Robbins walk on those hot coals and if so did he cash their checks before or after the conference?
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…and now those people that burned their feet finally have the “power within themselves” to hire a lawyer and sue Tony Robbins…
I hadn’t thought of that but it’s so true!
I agree with what you are saying, but thousands of people have walked on hot coals at his seminars without getting hurt, and I have read some Christians thought it was a great experience because it gave them faith to overcome anything.
The trick here is to just keep moving… if you don’t walk the coals fast enough, you will get burned. The ones who got burned did so not because they didn’t “believe in themselves enough” or didn’t have “enough faith”. They got burned because they didn’t get through them fast enough.
Now if Tony Robbins wants to show us something miraculous, he should give his motivational speach to the people while standing on the hot coals…
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