In answer to a question I received about a recent blog, I thought it might be good to explain to any new comers what I mean about a "False Jesus." I guess it does sound kinda weird if you're not up to speed on "inner healing language." Isn't it interesting how we all develop a special language within our circles of interaction? I'm sure all you non-sallies (a TSA language term) have noticed our TSA (The Salvation Army) special language from my blog entries!
Satan is the great imitator of God. He is not creative in and of himself, so since he's left God's environment of creativity, he mostly imitates things he sees God do. Hence his arranging his angels (demons) into a hierarchy, his desire to be worshipped, etc. From this desire to imitate God, he actually imitates Jesus in our understanding (he presents himself as an angel of light). Many people argue over Christianity today because the image they have of Jesus is wrong.
What I mean is, Satan presents himself to us as Jesus, but obviously puts a "twist" on the image, so we get a wrong idea of who Jesus really is. Then we grow up thinking Jesus is something he is not and get our belief system all messed up because of our error. It works like this (a fictitious situation):
As a small child, Johnny is told in Sunday School that Jesus is always watching him. Johnny later gets caught doing something wrong, gets punished and relates Jesus as this big "galactic traffic cop" of a God, just waiting for us to mess up and punish us. This creates a fear in us of Jesus, who we think is out to get us. Now Johnny sees Jesus incorrectly and even harbors a little mad feeling toward Jesus because he thinks he actually treats us this way (and we know that's not a right way for someone to act). Every time Johnny gets caught at something, he blames Jesus. He may even teach his own kids about this Jesus and make them fear him in this way too. This is not who the real Jesus is!
In this situation, Jesus was watching Johnny, but he was not "mad" at him when he did wrong, he was sad. Jesus wanted to help Johnny in that situation- not punish him. Jesus would much rather help us than punish us. Sin has its own consequences, it's not Jesus chasing us down to make us feel chastised.
So in an Inner Healing situation, we might "go" to these memories and almost re-live them to see that the Jesus we saw then, was not the real Jesus- rather Satan impersonating Jesus and giving us a false image of who Jesus is. Then we find the real Jesus in that situation and discover the truth. When we find the truth, we are set free (sounds like scripture, doesn't it- Oh! it is!) from our wrong image of Jesus and can replace our false image with the real Jesus.
So much of the church today is filled with false images of Jesus! Like the signs you may have seen that say "God Hates Fags!" Nothing is further from the truth of who Jesus is and presents a false image of who God is! God loves homosexuals so much he died for them and is right now trying desperately to bring every one of them to his side to learn what his true love is. But because of this false presentation of Jesus, the world thinks he's actually out there to punish people instead of save them! Can you imagine how powerful our testimonies would be if we could all get rid of these false ways of thinking about who Jesus is? Then the world would see true examples of who Jesus really is.
Tomorrow I'll give you another specific example from my own life where I had a False Jesus image and how the real Jesus corrected it and changed my way of seeing him.
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