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This study of “Toxic Faith” will deal with the common “misbeliefs” that poison one’s emotional and spiritual well-being. This study will focus on how to eliminate toxic faith from one’s personal belief system.

Toxic Faith

“Toxic faith” believes that which is not true as though it was true.

“Toxic faith” believes that which is not true as though it was true.

Definition

Definition

Toxic faith...Toxic

faith...... differs from unbelief which

means one does not believe in Jesus Christ.

... differs from unbelief which

means one does not believe in Jesus Christ.

Toxic faith...Toxic

faith...… means one embraces a falsehood as

though it were true.

… means one embraces a falsehood as

though it were true.

such false belief is poisonous and hazardous to one’s emotional and spiritualwell-being.

such false belief is poisonous and hazardous to one’s emotional and spiritualwell-being.

By the word “toxic” it is

meant that...

By the word “toxic” it is

meant that...

Therefore . . . Therefore . . . The terms “toxic faith” and “misbelief” are synonymous.

The terms “toxic faith” and “misbelief” are synonymous.

The Origins of Toxic Faith

The Origins of Toxic Faith

No one starts out to have toxic faith.

No one starts out to hold falsehoods as truth.

So how does this happen?

No one starts out to have toxic faith.

No one starts out to hold falsehoods as truth.

So how does this happen?

You were told untruth and believed it!

You were told untruth and believed it!

You can’t do anything

right!

You told yourself untruth and believed it!

You told yourself untruth and believed it!

I can’t do anything

right!

The steps to “Toxic Faith”

The steps to “Toxic Faith”

1--I tell myself or I am told that an untruth is truth

2--I accept that untruth and live my life according to it

3--I try to convince myself and others of it

OR . . .

1--I tell myself or I am told that an untruth is truth

2--I accept that untruth and live my life according to it

3--I try to convince myself and others of it

OR . . .

The steps to “Toxic Faith”

The steps to “Toxic Faith”

4--I perceive my circumstances, events, or things in a false way

5--I put a false spin on them

6--I feel miserable because of the false spin I put on them

4--I perceive my circumstances, events, or things in a false way

5--I put a false spin on them

6--I feel miserable because of the false spin I put on them

“There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads

to death.”

“There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads

to death.”

Can be disastrous! Proverbs 14:12

Can be disastrous! Proverbs 14:12

Jesus said:Jesus said:"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” Mt 7:13:-14

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” Mt 7:13:-14

So what we believe really matters:

So what we believe really matters:

The content of faith is important!

1Cor 15:1 Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you ... that Christ died for our sins ... 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day….

The content of faith is important!

1Cor 15:1 Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you ... that Christ died for our sins ... 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day….

So what we believe really matters:

So what we believe really matters:

The content of faith is important!

15:2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

The content of faith is important!

15:2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

Believing the wrong message is fatal!

Believing the wrong message is fatal!

Paul calls it:

“different”

“no gospel”

“perverted”

“other gospel”

The content of faith is important!

Gal 1:6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- 7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9 As we have already said, so now I say again…

So what we believe really

matters:

FAITH

+ WORKS

= DIFFERENT GOSPEL

= Toxic Faith

The content of faith is important!Gal. 1:9 If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!

Besides “Toxic Faith” with respect to the gospel & salvation

Besides “Toxic Faith” with respect to the gospel & salvation

People believe many other things

that are different from what God’s Word teaches--which leads to ...

People believe many other things

that are different from what God’s Word teaches--which leads to ...

Other unnecessary results from “toxic faith”We are unhappy,

anxious, afraid, depressed, disappointed, etc. when God desires to bless us!

WHY? WHY?

Proverbs 23:7 “For as he thinks within himself so he is.”

Proverbs 23:7 “For as he thinketh in his heart,so is he.”

We become what we tell ourselves!

What we “tell ourselves” is called “self-talk.”

When we tell ourselves untrue

things About ourselves we eventually:

persuade ourselves they

are so

act upon them

become what we think

/believe

Why?

Proverbs 23:7 “For as he thinks within himself so he is.”

We become what we tell ourselves!We become what we tell ourselves!