F4F | Charity Kalstrup Tests Positive for New Thought Virus

Opening Remarks, the New Thought Diagnosis, and Why Women Should Not Preach

Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Roseborough. I am your servant in Jesus Christ, and this is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the word of God.

So today we're going to, once again, cover a woman by the name of Charity Calstrip. If you go into the archives of Fighting for the Faith on our YouTube channel, I made the claim, and I'll remake the claim in this video, that she has endangered the lives of children, and I would note the theology she's teaching endangers the lives of everybody, children, adults, seniors, it doesn't matter, because Charity Calstrip, as you're about to see, has tested positive for the new thought spiritual virus.

And if you're not sure what I'm talking about, I'm gonna be referring back to this. A great resource if you want kind of an update on, you wanna know the history and the false teaching and what's wrong with new thought, and all that kind of stuff.

Again, Melissa Dougherty's book, Happy Lies, is a book that you're going to want to pick up and read and learn and understand and give away to other people and warn them. So what we're gonna do today is we're heading back to Choose Life Church, weird name, when in fact, what they're teaching is death.

I mean, endangering people's physical bodies, endangering their eternal souls, and not bringing them life, but bringing them death, all in the name of Jesus, by the way. But like I said, Charity Calstrip is going to test positive for the new thought spiritual virus, which means you gotta isolate from her, you gotta mark and avoid anybody who does and teaches the things that she does and teaches.

You shouldn't be listening to them at all. It doesn't matter if they're on like a major television, Christian television network. In fact, most people on major Christian television networks, you shouldn't be listening to at all because they also have tested positive for the new thought spiritual virus.

The Opening Prayer and the Missing Requests

So let me do this. I'm gonna whirl up the desktop. And here's our web browser. And the name of this sermon is Keep the Water On. And there's so many different ways that this sermon goes wrong, sermon.

Number one, she shouldn't be preaching it. Women are not permitted to preach in Christ's church. They're not permitted to be pastors. They are not allowed to do this. See 1 Corinthians 14, 1 Timothy 2 for details.

And of course, I've done a very extensive article on this topic called the Paul side gambit, the Paul side gambit. I'll put a link to that down below in the description so that you can see that the Apostle Paul didn't say that women can't preach and be pastors because he was the original member of the He-Man-Woman Haters Club.

Nope, the prohibition for women to preach and to be pastors comes from Christ himself. It comes from Jesus all the way up to the top. It's not Paul who's making this, it's Jesus. In fact, Paul goes on to say in 1 Corinthians 14, if anyone doesn't recognize that what I'm writing to you is a command of the Lord, he shouldn't be recognized.

So that being the case, you have a resource now in the link, the Paul side gambit article that will help you in this regard. Next, we're going to take a look at, well, what else are we gonna do here? We haven't even done anything yet.

I haven't even hit the play button. What we're gonna do is we're going to listen very carefully to her opening, and I'm gonna put this in air quotes, her opening prayer. And one of the ways in which Christians need to develop discernment is to not only pay attention to what people say and do, but also to what they don't say and they don't do.

You'll note the false doctrine is gonna be done via commission, that people are gonna commit the sin of false doctrine by positively teaching false doctrine, and by positive, I'm just saying that they're positing it.

I'm not saying that it's a good thing, okay? They are legitimately teaching false doctrine. But the other part of it is that oftentimes, false doctrines have opposite effects in that they will lead people astray.

So for instance, okay, one of the things I've said, and I'll continue to say, is that the false doctrines regarding prayers to the saints, that's a false doctrine. You know what it does, is it cuts you off from communicating with your actual God and the one who is our true intermediary, our mediator, Christ, Jesus himself.

And so you gotta note then that people who buy into the lie that we can pray to saints, scripture says there's one mediator between God and man, and Christ is our intermediary. This is how scripture describes him, flat out.

So when you pray to the Virgin Mary, when you pray to Saint Joseph to sell your house and things like this, yes, that's a thing, by the way, you're not praying to God. You're not asking him for anything.

So what we're gonna do here, we're gonna start, and I'm going to play out here, and this is her opening prayer to this sermon titled Keep the Water On, and I want you to note what is missing, okay? It may be subtle for some of you, but once you learn how to look for this, you will always be able to spot it.

So I'm trying to teach you something here as far as like amping up your discernment skills by listening for what is missing. So listen carefully to Charity in her opening prayer and see if you can spot what's missing here.

Father, we love you today. We thank you for your word. We thank you that as

Now, a little bit of a note. I've sped her up a little bit. I've sped her up just a smidge just to kind of keep the pace of things moving. She is not high on crystal meth. I just want to make that clear.

So let me back this up. You'll note the speed is a little fast, but you should be able to keep up.

Here we go.

And his mercy endures forever.

Hallelujah.

Father, we love you today. We thank you for your word. We thank you that as we spend some time with you in this way, the way that you have asked us to in your word, when two on earth are gathered in your name, you are right there.

We are humbled. We are honored by your presence. We know that you never leave us and you never forsake us, but something supernatural happens around your word. And so we thank you, Father God, for the life that it is, the health that it is, the strength that it is even now, not just for those that are here, but those that are watching online.

I thank you, Father God, that health is springing forth speedily. I thank you for divine insight, for revelation, for instruction and progress.

Have you figured it out yet? What's missing?

Okay.

I'll keep, I'm just gonna play a little bit more. We'll obviously work our way through this. See if you can spot what's missing here.

Okay.

Very specific language, because she has tested positive for the new thought spiritual virus.

Okay.

So watch this.

In the next steps, God, I thank you for peace that passes all understanding. God, I thank you that your joy is our strength. We refuse to worry or have care or anxiety about anything. We serve the God who is more than enough.

We have access today to your mind, more than enough wisdom, more than enough strength, more than enough resources to get it all done supernaturally in a way that brings glory and honor to you.

So we thank you.

Have you noticed what's missing yet? Something very important is missing.

Thank you today for a help. We thank you for a lifting, because you are the glory and the lifter of our head. You are our strong tower. So we take our place in your presence today. We take our place in your word.

We take our place in victory today. We thank you that you're causing us to be victorious today, that today is the day of salvation, that faith is right now, and we believe we receive in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

All right.

What was missing from that prayer? It wasn't even a prayer at all. That's what was missing. Let me explain. So in James chapter four, okay, listen carefully to what James says. What causes quarrels? What causes fights among you?

Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and you do not have, so you murder, which sounds totally reasonable. I'm being facetious. You covet, you cannot obtain, so you fight and you quarrel.

Watch this. You do not have because you do not ask. Now, here's the thing. The new thought mind, not mind virus, spiritual virus, the new thought virus, it rewires your thinking so that when you pray, you're not asking for anything because that would be doubt, not faith.

But I'll show you in just a second how this doesn't square with scripture at all. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and you do not receive because you ask wrongly to spend it on your passions.

You adulterous people do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Okay, so you get the idea. You do not have because you do not ask. Now, let me show you a little bit of grammar here.

In Philippians 4, verses five and six, the apostle Paul writes, and I would note, this isn't the only time these words show up in the New Testament. This is not an exclusive thing. These words show up throughout the New Testament.

It's just that they show up here together, which makes it a little easier to make the point. So Paul writes, let your reasonableness be known to everyone. I would note some Christians need to write that on a Post-it note and put it on their mirrors and memorize and live accordingly.

I'm just saying. Okay, so let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your what?

Let requests be made known to God. Now, here's the one thing I love, prayer. So let's take a look at what the Greek word for prayer is.

Are you ready?

It's prosuche, and here's its primary definition. A petition addressed to deity. Prayer is a petition. A petition that is addressed to God. And I would note since it's a petition addressed to deity, well, golly, that's gonna rule out the Virgin Mary.

That's gonna rule out St. Joseph. It's gonna rule out St. Teresa also. You get the idea here because Mary isn't a deity. Joseph isn't a deity. See, none of the saints of old are deities. A prayer is a petition addressed to deity.

And note, it's a petition. This is why Paul says, let your prayers and supplications with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. The only thing we heard from Charity Calstrip is thanksgiving.

I thank you, Lord, that you are giving us healing, that you are giving us prosperity, that you are giving us blessing. I thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. She didn't ask for anything. But note it says by prayer and supplication.

Now, supplication is kind of a fancy Greek word too, but let me show you what that is. What's the difference between a prayer and a supplication? Answer, urgency. So deesis is our Greek word here. So a supplication is an urgent request to meet a need exclusively addressed to God.

An urgent what? Request. So if a friend of yours is in an auto accident and in the ICU and they're getting ready to undergo surgery and it's questionable as to whether or not they will survive the surgery, but they need the surgery in order to live.

And if they don't have the surgery, they're gonna die and everyone's in anxiety. Oh no, what are we gonna do? That's more than a prayer, that's a supplication. But the thing that's common between them both is that they are requests.

They are petitions. And so what Charity did in her opening prayer was just offer thanksgiving, but note it says with thanksgiving. So you'll note those exposed to and are carriers of the new thought spiritual virus, they don't ask God for things.

They decree, they declare, they thank God for the things that he gives, but they don't ask. But scripture says, you have not because you ask not. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer, which is a petition to deity, God, and supplication, urgent request, being exclusively to God.

With thanksgiving, let your what request be made known to God. And you'll note the core doctrine of new thought is that your deity, that you co-create with Christ, that your words create reality and stuff, right?

And so isn't it interesting that Charity here in her opening prayer couldn't ask God for anything. You have not because you ask not. Let me just back it up just a little bit, just so you can just get a sample.

Here we go.

Today for a help, we thank you for a lifting because you are.

I thank you for help. Thank you for a lifting. I think, shout out to Cozart.

The glory and the lifter of our head. You are our strong tower. So we take our place in your presence today. We take our place in your word. We take our place in victory today. We thank you that you're causing us to be victorious today.

She's not asking God for victory. She's just thanking God that you're causing us to be victorious. But the scripture says with thanksgiving, the only thing she's offering is thanksgiving with no requests, no prayer, no petitions, no supplications, okay?

That if you are attending a church and your pastor can't even ask God for anything, chances are really good. That pastor has tested positive for the new thought spiritual virus. Run, get away. Because this false teaching, this doctrine from the pit of hell cuts off communication with God so you're not asking him for anything.

And so sneaky, super subtle. And so hopefully now you've figured out, okay, we gotta pay attention to not only what people say, but also what they don't say. That tells you a lot. Let's keep going here.

Proof-Texting Ephesians 5 and 1 Corinthians 3

Amen, amen. I want you to title your notes as we look into the word of God quickly before we turn into prayer, turn into a time of prayer. Keep the water on.

Okay, so the name of her message is Keep the Water On. And here's where I'm going to need to give you an analogy to evaluate what she's doing. She's not going to be going to a particular passage and doing a deep dive on what the text says and then also what it means.

Instead, what she's going to be engaging in is something called proof texting where she takes a verse or a sentence or half a sentence out of context and then takes another sentence out of context and sticks the two together, okay?

The analogy that I've used in the past, this is a pop bead necklace. What a beautiful necklace this is, right? And this is a great metaphor for the theology that she's spinning. The theology that she's spinning is nowhere found in scripture.

Nope, it just doesn't exist. The way she concocted it is by taking this verse out of context and then taking another verse out of context and then another verse out of context and then pop, pop, pop, putting them all together.

And look at the beautiful theology she's created. The Bible is not meant to be used this way at all. So she's not going to be exegeting. She's going to be proof texting and you need to be paying attention to how she's doing it because there are other false teachers out there that are not part of the new thought spiritual cult who also engage in the same technique.

When people do this, run away. You have to be able to show in context what a passage says and what God meant by having this passage penned and then look for valid cross-references that help us understand the doctrine that's in play.

That's not what she's gonna do. So here we go, keep the water on is the name of her message. Let's see how she handles the text and you're gonna see here, it's out of context proof verses strung together to create something that isn't even taught in scripture.

Here we go.

Keep the water on. Now, I don't know about you, but I frequently get encouraged in my home because I'll turn the water on and then walk away to do other things and leave the water running. Sometimes I'm warming it up and sometimes I just flat forget.

And so, here's the thing. As it pertains to the water that we're referring to, we're talking about Ephesians five, verse 26, that we're cleansed with the washing of the water of the word we wanna be.

Okay, now a little bit of a note here. Let's take a look at Ephesians five, okay? It's because the phrase the washing of water in the word comes in in this text, but it has a particular context. So you're gonna note Ephesians five begins with verse 22, wives submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

The husband is the head of the wife. He is Christ, is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its savior. Now, as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

And here we go with the next part. Husbands, love your wives, and then watch this. So how is a Christian husband supposed to love her wife?

Okay?

There's a very specific way. And it says, as Christ loved the church. Husbands, you are to love your wives. Christian husbands, you are to love your wives the exact same way that Jesus loved his bride, the church.

And what did he do for her? He gave himself up for her so that he might sanctify her. Now, a little bit of a note here. The word for sanctify, you'll note that in Christianity, we have lingo, we have words.

It's like going to Starbucks. You know, I'd like to order a double pump espresso macchiato venti. You know, you have to learn a whole new language to order coffee at Starbucks. Christianity's similar.

We actually have biblical words that we need to understand. So the word here is sanctify, and the question is, what does it mean? So the Greek word is hagiadzo, and so let's take a look at some of its meanings.

To set aside something or to make it suitable for ritual purposes, to consecrate or to dedicate, that's one definition. To treat as holy, to reverence, to eliminate that which is incompatible with holiness, to purify.

So there's our definition to eliminate that which is incompatible with holiness. That's really what's going on in this passage. To sanctify her is to make the church holy, to purify her. God is in the process of purifying his bride, the church.

So that's what it means, okay? So that he might sanctify her, having what? Cleansed her by the washing of water with the word. What is that a reference to? It's very clear what this is a reference to.

It's a reference to baptism. Having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, this is a reference to baptism. But Charity here, completely oblivious to what's going on here, because number one, she's not qualified to be a pastor.

Number two, clearly she has not studied and showed herself approved. Number three, she is under the influence of a demonic doctrine. The New Thought virus. You'll see more about this here. So she has completely missed the point.

The name of her sermon is Keep the Water On. Okay, and then she uses some personal analogy to how she sometimes likes to leave the water on to warm it up, don't we all? But then she references Ephesians 5 here, completely out of context, and what is she doing?

Pop beads. She's just stringing together things, okay? Let's keep going.

About Ephesians 5, verse 26, that we're cleansed with the washing of the water.

Of the word.

We wanna be productive. And today, we're kicking off this week, Monday, first thing, with our responsibility to be productive. And we have a

What does the washing of water with the word have to do with productivity? Answer, it doesn't have anything to do with it at all. How did she draw that connection?

I don't know.

It's one of the great mysteries of the universe because there is no sound exegete that's ever made this connection, ever. Charity is the first to do it in all of Christian history. And the reason why she's made that connection is because she doesn't know how to rightly handle God's word.

We continue.

Part in that. And so we want to, by illustrating and using this phrase, keep the water on, intensify, and increase in our productivity. Does everybody see?

Keep the water on, intensify, and increase in productivity.

What?

On earth. This is nonsense. This is gobbledygook.

Sound excited about that.

Yes.

All right, 1 Corinthians 3, verses six through seven, will be

Okay, so 1 Corinthians 3, verses six through seven. If I were to go there in my Bible program, would I be able to say, oh yes, I can see the connection between Ephesians 5 about washing, you know, the washing of water in the word.

And productivity and 1 Corinthians 3, six through seven is just right in line with those ideas. Let's take a look. Kind of let's take a look ahead of her, okay? 1 Corinthians 3. Now, verses six through seven are down here, okay?

But here's the thing. The three rules for sound biblical exegesis are context, context, and context. So let's take a look at the actual context of 1 Corinthians 3, six and seven so that we can know what this passage is about.

And we'll see if charity is handling this correctly, okay? So Paul writes to the church of Corinth. But I, brothers, I could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh. As infants in Christ, I fed you with milk.

And even now you are not yet ready for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when one says, I follow Paul, and another says, well, I follow Apollos, are you not being merely human?

What then is Apollos? So note the problem here is there's strife and conflict at the church of Corinth over who they follow. Some people say, well, I'm following Paul. And the other one says, I'm following Apollos.

And Paul's like, ah, okay. What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered. So no, Paul planted the church at Corinth. Apollos watered, he's most likely the pastor of the congregation there in Corinth.

Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one. Each will receive his wages according to his labor for we are God's fellow workers.

You are God's field, you are God's building. Let me continue with this context. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation. Someone else is building upon it, Apollos is.

So let each one take care how he builds upon it. No one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now I could continue, but you have a really good idea just by looking at the context, reading back some verses, reading ahead some verses.

You know what this passage is about, right? You've got it worked out. It's not that hard. This isn't rocket surgery. So Charity here is talking about leaving the water on, the washing of water with the word, having something to do with increasing your productivity.

Okay, and she says she's excited about that, and then she's going to talk about 1 Corinthians 3, six through seven. How much would you like to wager with me that she's going to completely twist this text and ignore what it says and what it actually means?

We back this up, listen again.

Want to, by illustrating and using this phrase, keep the water on, intensify, and increase in our productivity. Does everybody sound excited about that?

Yes.

All right, 1 Corinthians 3, verses six through seven will be our context today for these thoughts. In the Amplified Classic, it reads, I planted, Paul said, what did he plant? The seed of the word of God.

We're talking about the seed of the word of God. Paul said, I planted, Apollos watered. Say, keep the water on. Apollos came and watered, but God, all the while, was making it grow, and he gave the increase.

So it's neither he who plants that is anything, or he who waters, but only God, who makes it to grow and become.

By the way, if somebody's quoting from the Amplified or the Amplified Classic and teaching from it, run, that's not even a sound translation at all.

Greater, say, I'm here to grow. Once you make Jesus the Lord of your life, if there was not a part, a part to experience.

Okay, now, let me back this up so you can see what she's doing. She's basically wanting to zero in on this concept that Paul planted the word of God, and so she's now going to add another bead to the necklace of false theology that she's creating, okay?

And so she cares nothing about what the text says or means in context. She just wants to get this idea, oh, Paul planted the seed of the word of God, and Apollos watered it, so we need to keep the water on.

Why productivity, apparently? This is nuts.

Or he who waters, but only God, who makes it to grow and become greater. Say, I'm here to grow. Once you make Jesus the Lord of your life, if there was not a part, a part to experience, a part to enjoy here and now, and then that affect other people, then we would go immediately into glory.

We would go immediately to heaven.

Says what biblical text? Now, you gotta note here, she's not exegeting this passage. She's just offering up her speculations. Well, this would be the case of what would happen based upon my understanding of how the world operates, but no text says what she's saying.

Now she's theologizing out of thin air.

So there's a fun time to, this is a good time to be alive. It's good to be saved on earth, wherever you are, because you get to see the miraculous power of God that you received in salvation be manifested through your life.

It's not hard, his yoke is easy, and his burden is life.

I get to see the salvation of God manifested in my life? What exactly do you mean by that? Now, a little bit of a note here. I want to remind you of this woman and what we've covered in the past. She is dangerous, and in the first 50-ish seconds, first minute of this message, you're going to hear new thought, but you're going to also hear her chastise.

This, by the way, this was a message that was delivered to a youth group, and she shames a child for having an allergic reaction, but how she shames them is unbelievable, and I would note that endangers people's lives.

Listen carefully.

Promise land for you, but without taking actionable and intentional steps,.

You'll never lay hold of it.

You're already here.

So the teaching is, and it starts really quick, Jesus already purchased the promised land for you, but without taking actionable, intentional steps, you will never lay hold of it.

You're already blessed. You're already free.

I'm just struggling with mental problems, and we kind of thought that, but you don't have to keep struggling, right? Have you ever had a conversation with somebody.

And you're thinking, wow, this got a lot going on. You got a lot of thoughts going on up there, right?

You don't have to struggle.

You don't have to struggle,.

But you have to take the actionable steps in order to receive everything that Jesus paid for. You don't have to be sick.

You don't have to be sick? What?

I just have allergies.

I'm just telling your leader.

I just always had, one time, when we were playing at the park, somebody had an allergy to grass. We needed to probably know that. If you weren't gonna stand in your healing, you can't go to the city park and play like all the broke out hives.

If you're not gonna stand in your healing, you need to let us know. Who? Who is she blaming for the allergy outbreak? A child. Because the child wasn't standing in her healing. I'm telling you, it's just a matter of time before one of the kids at Choose Life Church dies by believing this nonsense.

This is not Christian doctrine. This is not what the scriptures teach. And to literally shame a child for having an allergic reaction, oh, well, this child wasn't standing in her healing. Angering is a good word at this point.

So you gotta know, where we're at now in this sermon is that same theology manifesting again. Let me back it up just a little bit and continue.

Earth, wherever you are, because you get to see the miraculous power of God that you received in salvation be manifested through your life. It's not hard. His yoke is easy and his burden is light. So what does the seed of the word of God produce for you?

Well, it produces.

So notice what she did. She doesn't care about the context of 1 Corinthians 3, not at all. She just wanted to get this concept. Paul planted and the polis watered. What did he plant? The seed of the word of God.

We just need that phrase so that I can then, well, add another bead to the theology I'm spinning. This is called proof texting, okay? She's not actually teaching what the scriptures say. She's just stringing together a bunch of out-of-context passages that actually aren't teaching on the same thing, and she's creating her own theology, and it's this pop bead necklace.

That's what she's doing.

Produces for you, number one, personally, and it's to produce your destiny. So when you

So the seed of the word produces for you personally, your destiny, says what biblical text? I'm not familiar with any passage that says the seed of the word produces my destiny. It doesn't exist. She's lying.

That's not true. But note, it sounds like she's teaching something biblical because she found the text in 1 Corinthians 3 that said seed. I planted in the apostle, you know, and the apollos watered. So therefore, this has gotta be biblical, right?

Wrong.

She's completely ignoring the context of this passage, and she's creating her own. It's made out of cheap plastic, too. It ain't worth nothing. We continue.

Romans 8, the Resurrection, and the False Promise of Health and Wealth

First and foremost, encounter the word of God. All that he is, Romans 8, 11, says the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead comes to live on the inside of you.

Yeah, that's the Holy Spirit, right.

You receive and you become thoroughly furnished in him with everything necessary, with the grace needed to be a success, healing.

Wait a second here. Let me back this up. Romans 8, 11. Let's see if we can take a look at that passage, okay? She said Romans 8, 11. I'm going to go here, duplicate this tab, and we're gonna go to Romans 8.

Romans 8. Romans 8, 11. Okay, so let's apply our three rules for sound biblical exegesis. Context, context, context. There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Beautifully said, by the way.

Read Romans 7 to get more of the context. Paul lamenting the fact that he still has a sinful nature. For the law of the spirit of life has set you free in Christ from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law weakened by the flesh could not do.

By sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemns sin in the flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh but according to the spirit.

For those who live according to the flesh, they set their minds on the things of the flesh. Those who live according to the spirit, they set their minds on the things of the spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death.