This episode of MZTV is of an historical nature. By studying these sects that have recently sprung up in the body of Christ and comparing them with the sects of old, God has caused me to see through to the motives behind the sectarians themselves.

There is a common denominator between the sectarians of Paul's day (such as those who were saying, "the resurrection has already occurred") and those of our own day who are saying, "half of Paul's letters are not for us," or "Jesus Christ did not preexist His birth in Bethlehem."

The light shines upon the the human foibles and embedded faults of a sectarian man or woman. Human nature has not changed. When Steve Martin, for instance (the man who rose up to defend Clyde Pilkington), wrote to say that “we are trying to correctly, cut the word of truth,“ the word “trying“ jumped out at me as though it were on fire. It showed me that those who want to cut Paul in half and separate our apostle from himself (speaking of the "Acts 28" hoaxers) must consciously try to make cuts TO the Word of God beyond the cuts appearing naturally IN the Word of God. In other words, they attempt to discover things above and beyond what is written. They are overthinking.

One will find overthinking to be the common thread uniting all sectarians. Overthinkers squeeze the Word of God with hyper-analysis and "deep research" (a euphemism for "overthinking") until it gives them what they want.

But it is not "deep research," it is overthinking a matter until the strained analysis supports one's own biases, serves one’s own preferences, and produces an unscriptural theory that passes as truth to the sectarian.

And then there are the Tories, that is, those who think that Jesus Christ did not preexist his birth in Bethlehem. They have made a video that has inadvertently highlighted how dissatisfied they are with the simple revelations of the book of John—truths lying on the surface of this beautiful letter. No, instead of accepting the word of truth that as it is written, they—like the Acts 28 hoaxers—thrust their tainted hands into the pure Scripture, muddying the waters of John, even casting doubt as to the authorship of the letter, dragging into the conversation so many foreign and unhelpful considerations that, by the time the fog clears, innocent viewer wonder whether John is even inspired in the first place.

These deceitful techniques will be found at the bottom of every sect that has infected the body of Christ across the centuries. Human nature serves up for us, over these centuries, men and women desiring to stand out, to be special, to label themselves as “deep thinkers“ and "deep researchers,“ who are, in reality, merely overthinking simple and long-established truths in the interest of making a name for themselves—“The Non-Preexistence Task Force,“ for instance.

This bombastic title should tell us everything we need to know about sects.