Sermon Tone Analysis

Ellyn Davis, one of the authors of The Physics of Heaven, says this:

[The contributors of the book] all agree that the next move of God will cause a shift at the deepest level of who we are—perhaps the very “vibrational level” that the New Age movement has been exploring.

They also all agree that there are precious truths hidden in the New Age that belong to us as Christians and need to be extracted from the worthless.7

Contributor Jonathan Welton adds:

I have found throughout Scripture at least 75 examples of things that the New Age has counterfeited, such as having a spirit guide, trances, meditation, auras, power objects, clairvoyance, clairaudience, and more.

These actually belong to the church, but they have been stolen and cleverly repackaged.8

He continues with:

We need to begin to use [New Age] counterfeits as signposts.

Every time a counterfeit shows up, take it as the Lord presenting you with an opportunity to reclaim . . . the Church’s stolen property.9

This is like taking a bottle with a “Poison!” warning on it and re-labeling it, “Honey.”

We do this with so many things!

From “Christian yoga” to “worship experiences” that are geared toward emotional manipulation and pragmatism instead of being faithful to our savior and the hard work that requires, we are taking ways of worship from worldly religions and putting a Christian veneer on it, just like Micah in our text today.

Co-author Ellyn Davis asserts:

It wasn’t that I wanted to become a New Ager, I just wanted to find out if maybe they had uncovered some truths the church hadn’t.10

Davis then attempts to justify her position by claiming much of what she found “embodied biblical principles” and “could be backed up by Scripture.”11

But instead of a mindset that leads to seeking truth from those who are deceived by darkness, Scripture exhorts us to:

Compare Davis’ desire to sample New Age wisdom with the resolve of the newly saved Christians in Acts 19: These saints separated themselves from the occult; they did not peruse their occultic literature one last time in case there were some “truths” there.

As an act of worship, the unholy books were gathered and set on fire:

And what do we see as a result of the burning of their pagan, occultic, abominable resources?

Revisiting what God has to say about worship.

•Matthew 15:8-9 (Quoting Isaiah 29:13); 24:24