May 4, 2025 • 19 mins
According to John Bevere, God speaks to him regularly—and he makes sure his audience knows it. But what’s even more concerning is his claim that God commands him to write certain books. If that’s true, we have to ask: are these just books… or new revelation? In this video, we’ll show you the evidence—and let you decide if John Bevere is simply promoting his brand, or elevating his words to the level of Scripture.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When you're listening to a sermon or reading a book
by John Bevie, you get the impression that God speaks
to John Bevie all of the time. It seems that
in almost every sermon every conference, John humbly brags about
how God talks to him. And this is a form
(00:22):
of spiritual manipulation. This is where a popular teacher will
make their audience know how important they are because they're
hearing from God, so you better listen to them. This
is John Vivier. Now, the purpose of this video is
not to mock John, but to expose the arrogance covered
(00:42):
up by his false humility. And before we get to
the main point of the video, we need to lay
some groundwork. We need to see just how often God
communicates with John. I want to show you these clips
so you can see them for yourself that John receives
a wrecked revelation from God all of the time. Now,
(01:04):
as you're watching these clips, ask yourself this question. How
often did you hear the Old Testament prophets or the
New Testament apostles brag about how many times they heard
from God. How often did you hear the apostle Paul
or Peter or any of the other apostles or authors
of scripture brag about how God told them to write
(01:25):
a book.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
When God spoke to me in nineteen ninety one and said, son,
I want you to write, I said, okay, you got
so many kids on the planet. You're getting us mixed
up with one another.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So God spoke to me in nineteen eighty eight. I
was a youth pastor, and he said, son, what is coming.
The outpouring of my spirit that is coming will be
much greater than the Book of Acts. He actually said
this to me. He said, it will be seven times
greater than the Book of Acts. So the Lord spoke
to me. He said, Son, that's what you need to do.
Exercise God. God just spoke to me. But then I
(02:00):
had the stupidest, stupidest thought. I said, God couldn't have
been a little more profound. And God spoke to me
and he said, go play touch football. I said, God,
nobody should ever hear that message. Ever, I'm throwing it away, Son,
don't throw it away. And I woke up this morning
I was like, Gosh, I'd love to preach on that
(02:22):
and love and the Holy Spirit is like no You're
here at this conference because of what I've given you,
and that's the new book. And the Holy Spirit whispered
to me, said, I'm coming one more time tonight. And
the only way I know how to describe this, and
I could never describe this, but I'm going to try,
is that you're at the end of the runway at
DFW and a seven thirty seven takes off right in
(02:44):
front of you. That kind of a violent wind came
blowing into that auditorium. Next morning, I'm in prayer my
Malaysian hotel and the Holy Spirit just speaks to me
and said, read Psalm nineteen. You know when God spoke
to me and told me to write this book? And
God said right, And I'm like, what you got the
wrong boy, John Vivie. If you don't write what God
(03:04):
is giving you to write, he will give that ability
to somebody else and one day you'll stand in judgment
for it. The Only Spirit finally spoke to me and said,
sign I'm through with you.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Welcome to the Long for Truth podcast. I'm Robin Long.
Join my husband Dan and I as we explore the
roots of the early Pentecostal and Charismatic movements and we
shine a light on false doctrines and false teachers in
the modern church. Let's get started.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Hello everyone, welcome along for truth. My name is Daniel Long.
Today I want to talk to you about John Bevie,
and not just about his theology, but about a recurring
theme in his teaching that you concern every believer who
takes the Bible seriously. A few weeks ago, my friend
Rick Becker from South Africa joined me for a video
where we broke down the troubling theology of both John
(03:57):
and Lisa Bevie. Thing we emphasized was their repeated claims
of receiving direct revelation from God. Now, when we say
direct revelation, we're not just talking about God putting something
on the heart. We're talking about John Bevie claiming that
God explicitly told him to write books, books that are
(04:18):
supposedly filled with prophetic insight meant for the entire body
of Christ. And here's why this is such a big deal.
When someone says God told me to write this book,
they're not just sharing personal inspiration. They're issuing a divine mandate.
That's not something we can afford to treat casually. If
(04:39):
God really did tell John to write these books, then
those books aren't optional. They're required reading for the church.
They carry the authority of God himself. And if that's
the case, then you and I would be disobedient for
not reading them. Let that sink in sore. There's what
(05:00):
I'm gonna do. I'm going to walk you through a
series of clips from John Bevie. We're going to start subtle.
The first few might not hit as hard, but keep watching.
As we progress, the claims are going to get more
and more extreme, until finally they veer into territory I
would call blasphemous. Let's take a look at the first clip.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So this is why God calls a guy whose worst
subject in high school was English and Creative writing. Hello me, right?
Worst subject? I scored three seventy on the sad SAT
in English Choice. I really did. I'm not kidding, Okay,
So in all my travels, I've only met one person
that scored lower than me on the SAT. And God
says right, And I'm like, what you got the wrong? Boy? Right?
(05:46):
And I did nothing for ten months and then two
women came from me from two different states and say,
if you don't right, what God's even your right. He's
going to give mess to somebody else. One day, you're
going to give account. I would have missed my net
in my destiny. What it did for me is it
made me realize how I can't do without his grace,
without his empowerment in my life right and that he
made Because here I am tens of millions of books later.
(06:10):
They are in one hundred and eight languages now, and
people are always like, oh, you are such a great author.
I'm like, uh uh. The reason my name's on that
book is I was the first guy to get to
read it. You know, I realize I realized that it
was him who accomplished it through me. The dream was
much bigger than my ability.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Notice how he packages this alleged mandate from God and
a rapper of humility. He's calm, he's measured, He even
sounds reluctant, and yet he's claiming to speak on behalf
of the Almighty. That's the danger here. This is not
some fringe YouTube prophet standing in front of a white
board talking about blood moons. This is a slick, likable,
(06:54):
well marketed author who sells millions of books. And when
you wrap false doctrine and care and humility. It becomes
far more difficult to detect. Bavere doesn't look dangerous until
you realize what he's actually claiming.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Jesus is in the desert forty days, being tempted by
the enemy. But it's the last three that occur at
the very end that they are the ones that get
written about. God spoke to me, he said, you strengthen
my church. And we release this book faster than any
book we've ever This is the twenty first book, and
we released it faster than ever because I realized it
(07:32):
was a prophetic word for the body of Christ.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So now his book isn't just inspired, it's a prophetic
word for the body of Christ. Let's load down a second.
If this book truly is prophetic, if it is truly
a word for the entire church, then what happens if
the church ignores it? Wouldn't that be tanement to disobedience?
(07:55):
Wouldn't feeling to read John Beavir's latest book be equivalent
to ignore a message from God. But we're just getting
warmed up.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
But then, just at the end of last year, I
really felt in my heart so strongly to write a
book on multiplication and you know, we're in the midst
of this craziness right now, and I'm praying a few weeks.
I'm like God, this book launches November seventeenth, and the
Lord said, son, this is the message for the next season.
(08:27):
This is the message for coming out of the wilderness.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Here, Bavia claims that this book is the key to
leading the church out of the wilderness. Now that's the
way to claim if you don't know the context. He's
referencing a vision he says it received from God years ago,
a vision where God told him the church would enter
into a period of spiritual dryness. And now this book,
this particular title is apparently the divinely appointed tool to
(08:55):
God believers back into spiritual health. So again, this is
this isn't just helpful Christian advice. This is a prophetic revelation,
a roadmap for the church, straight from the throne room
of Heaven. If we're to believe him. Now, let me
say this again, and I'll keep repeating it because it
(09:15):
needs to be drilled into our heads. If God told
John Bevie to write these books, and if these books
are messages from God to his people, then we are
obligated to read them. Otherwise, we're not just skipping over
a Christian bestseller, We're rejecting a word from God. That's
(09:38):
the logical outcome of John's claims.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
You know, when God spoke to me and told me
to write this book, I remember as I wrote it.
As most of you know, I've written nineteen books. Now,
no book has ever impacted me personally as this book
Driven by Attorney. And I have to say this because
it's ten years old. We're doing a ten year anniversary.
We've never gotten so many testimonies of lives that have
(10:01):
been changed because of one study and this clip.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Bavir says that no book he has ever read has
impacted him more than his own book Driven by Eternity. Now,
maybe he meant no book he's ever written. Maybe, but
let's entertain the possibility that he meant no book period.
If that includes the Bible, then we got a serious problem.
The arrogance of placing your own book on a pedestal
(10:26):
above the inspired, in errant word of God should cause
any believer to take a step back and ask what
spirit is truly behind this? But it gets worse.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's interesting, I made a covenant with God years ago.
I said, Lord, I will not write a book unless
you speak to me. I remember from two thousand to
two thousand and four, my administrator was coming in. I
had been writing a book every year since nineteen ninety one,
and we were in the year two thousand and God
said nothing, nothing, nothing. Publishers were asking me to write,
(11:01):
and my administrator walked in one day he said, all
you have to do is sign the contract. John, look
at what they're going to give our ministry. I said, Hey,
I am not writing anything unless God speaks to my heart. Well,
you know, just in the past couple years, I've had
a desire to write on the awe of God, on
the holy, healthy fear of God. But I've even had friends,
(11:25):
I've had family members saying, John, this is your life message.
It's time to write. You're in your sixties. My book
agent was like, John, I had preached it to her.
She was like, please please write this book. Well, last
February God spoke to me and said, Son, I want
you to write this book. And I felt so strongly
so I spent six months from February to August writing
(11:46):
this book. Last year, and then HarperCollins came along, also
known as w Publishing, or Thomas Nelson, some of you
know them. As they were so excited about this message.
We all sat around the room and I shared with
them some of the things I'm about to share with
you tonight. I remember the presence of God came into
that room, and you know what happened. They looked at
(12:07):
me and they said, normally it takes a full year
for us to get a book ready and get it out.
We want to accelerate this because we really believe we've
talked about it as a teen this book needs to
be out in February of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
In this clip, we find out that Bavir had made
a covenant with God. He says he would never write
a book unless God himself told him to. He claims
that from nineteen ninety one onward he wrote a book
a year until a span of several years went by
with total silence. God wasn't speaking. Then suddenly God breaks
(12:41):
the silence and tells John's son, I want you to
write a book on the awe of God. So what
does that mean? It means this book is special. It
means God waited years before in trusting this divine mandate
to John it means, according to his own narrative, this
is not a good book about fearing the Lord. It's
(13:02):
the book. It's the one God himself ordained to stir
reverence in the church. And if we buy into the story,
then we have to treat that book with the same
seriousness as scripture.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I could tell you story after story after story. I
remember being out walking on the golf cart path at
the golf course near where I live, and that's my
favorite place to pray when it's dark outside because you're
not going to trip over anything and all that. But anyway,
it's like five point thirty more and I'm praying in
(13:37):
the spirit, praying in the spirit and praying the spirit,
and I hear this inside of me, I want you
to write a book on the judgment seats. And I
remember I stopped praying. The Spirit said judgment seats. I've
maybe preached twenty minutes all my life on the judgment
seats and that's all I heard. And you know, I
wrote that book called Driven by Turning. You know, to
this day, it's still of all twenty books I've written,
(13:57):
it's still the longest book I've ever written, because why
I just start praying in the spirit, meditating in the word,
and all of a sudden God started downloading things.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
And there it is in his own words. The books
he writes are actually downloads from God. But listen closely
to what he says next.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know, I just got to take you back. I
got to talk about this just for a second. I mean,
here we are. The publisher told me that we just
passed six million Beta Satan copies last September. And never
in my wildest dreams that I think that this book
would surpass six million, let alone even a couple of million.
I knew that God's hand was on it. I'll never
(14:42):
forget as long as I live. I remember places that
I was writing at hotel rooms because the presence of
God was so strong, and this book came out so strong.
I remember there were times I could barely keep up typing,
and I type about fifty sixty words a minute. I
couldn't keep up typing. And at the very end, I
(15:05):
think one third of what I had written in this
book I had never heard, never thought of. I had
never preached it, never heard anybody else preach it in
my entire life. It came by revelation, by the Spirit
of God. And I even remember times I jump up
out of the chair in the hotel room going, oh
my goodness, that is so good, And you say, how
(15:27):
can you do that? Well, it's because you realize that
it's not you writing it. It's actually the Holy Spirit.
You know. I've said this so many times.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
My name's on.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
These books because I was the first guy to get
to read them.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
All right, let's break down just a few of the things.
John Bavir said in this clip. I knew God's hand
was on it. The presence of God was so strong
while I was writing it. There were times I could
barely keep up typing. One third of what I had written.
I'd never heard, never thought of, preached, never heard anyone
(16:02):
else preach. It came by revelation, by the Spirit of God.
I realized it wasn't me writing, it was the Holy Spirit.
Now stop and think about this. According to Bevie, the
Bit of Satan wasn't just something God inspired him to write.
(16:23):
It was dictated, downloaded by the Holy Spirit himself. So
let me ask again, if the Holy Spirit dictated this book,
how is it not on par with scripture? This isn't
Christian hyperbole? These are his exact words. If we take
him at face value, then rejecting his book is rejecting
(16:45):
the Holy Spirit, and that, Folks, is a terrifying level
of spiritual manipulation.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It's a very serious thing to neglect the gift of
God on our life. My exam is those two women
coming to me from the state of Texas, from the
state of Florida and saying, John Vivier, if you don't
write what God is giving you to write, he will
give that ability to somebody else, and one day you'll
stand in judgment for it. Now, I think about it.
(17:16):
If forty years ago, when I was a twenty year
old man, if you would have walked up to me
when I knew there was a call in my life
to go to the nations of the world, and you
would have said, John BeVier, the way God is going
to send you to the nations of the world is
through your writings. I would have laughed you out of
the room. Yet I look now today and I realized
that I never would be where I am today and
impacting people's lives all over the world. In nations two
(17:39):
hundred and twenty twenty seven nations so far, I wouldn't
be where I am today had I not been faithful
to that gift to write, And so I would have
to echo Paul's words, woe is me if I didn't
write the books that God called me to write.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Woe is me if I do not write the books
God has called me to write. You can't make this up.
This is the language of prophetic urgency. This is the
kind of language Paul used when referring to preaching the
Gospel in One Corinthians nine sixteen, where he said, woe
is me if I do not reach the Gospel. John
(18:21):
Bevie is making himself equivalent to the apostles. He doesn't
have to say his books or scripture. His entire posture
screams it. So where does this leave us? It leaves
us with a teacher who has moved far beyond the
realm of biblical encouragement or devotional insight. He has positioned
(18:42):
himself as a prophet for the modern church, a man
to whom God gives special messages, downloads, and mandates. And
unless you buy and read his books, you're missing out
on what God himself allegedly wants you to hear. That, friends,
is why this man because once again we are faced
(19:03):
well a false teacher, who may appear humble, may appear gentle,
may appear sincere, but who is, in reality undermining the
sufficiency of Scripture and placing himself in a position that
belongs to Christ alone. Test everything, hold fast to what
(19:23):
is good, reject what is false. Lord willing, we'll see
you next week.
When you're listening to a sermon or reading a book
by John Bevie, you get the impression that God speaks
to John Bevie all of the time. It seems that
in almost every sermon every conference, John humbly brags about
how God talks to him. And this is a form
(00:22):
of spiritual manipulation. This is where a popular teacher will
make their audience know how important they are because they're
hearing from God, so you better listen to them. This
is John Vivier. Now, the purpose of this video is
not to mock John, but to expose the arrogance covered
(00:42):
up by his false humility. And before we get to
the main point of the video, we need to lay
some groundwork. We need to see just how often God
communicates with John. I want to show you these clips
so you can see them for yourself that John receives
a wrecked revelation from God all of the time. Now,
(01:04):
as you're watching these clips, ask yourself this question. How
often did you hear the Old Testament prophets or the
New Testament apostles brag about how many times they heard
from God. How often did you hear the apostle Paul
or Peter or any of the other apostles or authors
of scripture brag about how God told them to write
(01:25):
a book.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
When God spoke to me in nineteen ninety one and said, son,
I want you to write, I said, okay, you got
so many kids on the planet. You're getting us mixed
up with one another.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So God spoke to me in nineteen eighty eight. I
was a youth pastor, and he said, son, what is coming.
The outpouring of my spirit that is coming will be
much greater than the Book of Acts. He actually said
this to me. He said, it will be seven times
greater than the Book of Acts. So the Lord spoke
to me. He said, Son, that's what you need to do.
Exercise God. God just spoke to me. But then I
(02:00):
had the stupidest, stupidest thought. I said, God couldn't have
been a little more profound. And God spoke to me
and he said, go play touch football. I said, God,
nobody should ever hear that message. Ever, I'm throwing it away, Son,
don't throw it away. And I woke up this morning
I was like, Gosh, I'd love to preach on that
(02:22):
and love and the Holy Spirit is like no You're
here at this conference because of what I've given you,
and that's the new book. And the Holy Spirit whispered
to me, said, I'm coming one more time tonight. And
the only way I know how to describe this, and
I could never describe this, but I'm going to try,
is that you're at the end of the runway at
DFW and a seven thirty seven takes off right in
(02:44):
front of you. That kind of a violent wind came
blowing into that auditorium. Next morning, I'm in prayer my
Malaysian hotel and the Holy Spirit just speaks to me
and said, read Psalm nineteen. You know when God spoke
to me and told me to write this book? And
God said right, And I'm like, what you got the
wrong boy, John Vivie. If you don't write what God
(03:04):
is giving you to write, he will give that ability
to somebody else and one day you'll stand in judgment
for it. The Only Spirit finally spoke to me and said,
sign I'm through with you.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Welcome to the Long for Truth podcast. I'm Robin Long.
Join my husband Dan and I as we explore the
roots of the early Pentecostal and Charismatic movements and we
shine a light on false doctrines and false teachers in
the modern church. Let's get started.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Hello everyone, welcome along for truth. My name is Daniel Long.
Today I want to talk to you about John Bevie,
and not just about his theology, but about a recurring
theme in his teaching that you concern every believer who
takes the Bible seriously. A few weeks ago, my friend
Rick Becker from South Africa joined me for a video
where we broke down the troubling theology of both John
(03:57):
and Lisa Bevie. Thing we emphasized was their repeated claims
of receiving direct revelation from God. Now, when we say
direct revelation, we're not just talking about God putting something
on the heart. We're talking about John Bevie claiming that
God explicitly told him to write books, books that are
(04:18):
supposedly filled with prophetic insight meant for the entire body
of Christ. And here's why this is such a big deal.
When someone says God told me to write this book,
they're not just sharing personal inspiration. They're issuing a divine mandate.
That's not something we can afford to treat casually. If
(04:39):
God really did tell John to write these books, then
those books aren't optional. They're required reading for the church.
They carry the authority of God himself. And if that's
the case, then you and I would be disobedient for
not reading them. Let that sink in sore. There's what
(05:00):
I'm gonna do. I'm going to walk you through a
series of clips from John Bevie. We're going to start subtle.
The first few might not hit as hard, but keep watching.
As we progress, the claims are going to get more
and more extreme, until finally they veer into territory I
would call blasphemous. Let's take a look at the first clip.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So this is why God calls a guy whose worst
subject in high school was English and Creative writing. Hello me, right?
Worst subject? I scored three seventy on the sad SAT
in English Choice. I really did. I'm not kidding, Okay,
So in all my travels, I've only met one person
that scored lower than me on the SAT. And God
says right, And I'm like, what you got the wrong? Boy? Right?
(05:46):
And I did nothing for ten months and then two
women came from me from two different states and say,
if you don't right, what God's even your right. He's
going to give mess to somebody else. One day, you're
going to give account. I would have missed my net
in my destiny. What it did for me is it
made me realize how I can't do without his grace,
without his empowerment in my life right and that he
made Because here I am tens of millions of books later.
(06:10):
They are in one hundred and eight languages now, and
people are always like, oh, you are such a great author.
I'm like, uh uh. The reason my name's on that
book is I was the first guy to get to
read it. You know, I realize I realized that it
was him who accomplished it through me. The dream was
much bigger than my ability.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Notice how he packages this alleged mandate from God and
a rapper of humility. He's calm, he's measured, He even
sounds reluctant, and yet he's claiming to speak on behalf
of the Almighty. That's the danger here. This is not
some fringe YouTube prophet standing in front of a white
board talking about blood moons. This is a slick, likable,
(06:54):
well marketed author who sells millions of books. And when
you wrap false doctrine and care and humility. It becomes
far more difficult to detect. Bavere doesn't look dangerous until
you realize what he's actually claiming.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Jesus is in the desert forty days, being tempted by
the enemy. But it's the last three that occur at
the very end that they are the ones that get
written about. God spoke to me, he said, you strengthen
my church. And we release this book faster than any
book we've ever This is the twenty first book, and
we released it faster than ever because I realized it
(07:32):
was a prophetic word for the body of Christ.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So now his book isn't just inspired, it's a prophetic
word for the body of Christ. Let's load down a second.
If this book truly is prophetic, if it is truly
a word for the entire church, then what happens if
the church ignores it? Wouldn't that be tanement to disobedience?
(07:55):
Wouldn't feeling to read John Beavir's latest book be equivalent
to ignore a message from God. But we're just getting
warmed up.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
But then, just at the end of last year, I
really felt in my heart so strongly to write a
book on multiplication and you know, we're in the midst
of this craziness right now, and I'm praying a few weeks.
I'm like God, this book launches November seventeenth, and the
Lord said, son, this is the message for the next season.
(08:27):
This is the message for coming out of the wilderness.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Here, Bavia claims that this book is the key to
leading the church out of the wilderness. Now that's the
way to claim if you don't know the context. He's
referencing a vision he says it received from God years ago,
a vision where God told him the church would enter
into a period of spiritual dryness. And now this book,
this particular title is apparently the divinely appointed tool to
(08:55):
God believers back into spiritual health. So again, this is
this isn't just helpful Christian advice. This is a prophetic revelation,
a roadmap for the church, straight from the throne room
of Heaven. If we're to believe him. Now, let me
say this again, and I'll keep repeating it because it
(09:15):
needs to be drilled into our heads. If God told
John Bevie to write these books, and if these books
are messages from God to his people, then we are
obligated to read them. Otherwise, we're not just skipping over
a Christian bestseller, We're rejecting a word from God. That's
(09:38):
the logical outcome of John's claims.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
You know, when God spoke to me and told me
to write this book, I remember as I wrote it.
As most of you know, I've written nineteen books. Now,
no book has ever impacted me personally as this book
Driven by Attorney. And I have to say this because
it's ten years old. We're doing a ten year anniversary.
We've never gotten so many testimonies of lives that have
(10:01):
been changed because of one study and this clip.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Bavir says that no book he has ever read has
impacted him more than his own book Driven by Eternity. Now,
maybe he meant no book he's ever written. Maybe, but
let's entertain the possibility that he meant no book period.
If that includes the Bible, then we got a serious problem.
The arrogance of placing your own book on a pedestal
(10:26):
above the inspired, in errant word of God should cause
any believer to take a step back and ask what
spirit is truly behind this? But it gets worse.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's interesting, I made a covenant with God years ago.
I said, Lord, I will not write a book unless
you speak to me. I remember from two thousand to
two thousand and four, my administrator was coming in. I
had been writing a book every year since nineteen ninety one,
and we were in the year two thousand and God
said nothing, nothing, nothing. Publishers were asking me to write,
(11:01):
and my administrator walked in one day he said, all
you have to do is sign the contract. John, look
at what they're going to give our ministry. I said, Hey,
I am not writing anything unless God speaks to my heart. Well,
you know, just in the past couple years, I've had
a desire to write on the awe of God, on
the holy, healthy fear of God. But I've even had friends,
(11:25):
I've had family members saying, John, this is your life message.
It's time to write. You're in your sixties. My book
agent was like, John, I had preached it to her.
She was like, please please write this book. Well, last
February God spoke to me and said, Son, I want
you to write this book. And I felt so strongly
so I spent six months from February to August writing
(11:46):
this book. Last year, and then HarperCollins came along, also
known as w Publishing, or Thomas Nelson, some of you
know them. As they were so excited about this message.
We all sat around the room and I shared with
them some of the things I'm about to share with
you tonight. I remember the presence of God came into
that room, and you know what happened. They looked at
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me and they said, normally it takes a full year
for us to get a book ready and get it out.
We want to accelerate this because we really believe we've
talked about it as a teen this book needs to
be out in February of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
In this clip, we find out that Bavir had made
a covenant with God. He says he would never write
a book unless God himself told him to. He claims
that from nineteen ninety one onward he wrote a book
a year until a span of several years went by
with total silence. God wasn't speaking. Then suddenly God breaks
(12:41):
the silence and tells John's son, I want you to
write a book on the awe of God. So what
does that mean? It means this book is special. It
means God waited years before in trusting this divine mandate
to John it means, according to his own narrative, this
is not a good book about fearing the Lord. It's
(13:02):
the book. It's the one God himself ordained to stir
reverence in the church. And if we buy into the story,
then we have to treat that book with the same
seriousness as scripture.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I could tell you story after story after story. I
remember being out walking on the golf cart path at
the golf course near where I live, and that's my
favorite place to pray when it's dark outside because you're
not going to trip over anything and all that. But anyway,
it's like five point thirty more and I'm praying in
(13:37):
the spirit, praying in the spirit and praying the spirit,
and I hear this inside of me, I want you
to write a book on the judgment seats. And I
remember I stopped praying. The Spirit said judgment seats. I've
maybe preached twenty minutes all my life on the judgment
seats and that's all I heard. And you know, I
wrote that book called Driven by Turning. You know, to
this day, it's still of all twenty books I've written,
(13:57):
it's still the longest book I've ever written, because why
I just start praying in the spirit, meditating in the word,
and all of a sudden God started downloading things.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
And there it is in his own words. The books
he writes are actually downloads from God. But listen closely
to what he says next.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know, I just got to take you back. I
got to talk about this just for a second. I mean,
here we are. The publisher told me that we just
passed six million Beta Satan copies last September. And never
in my wildest dreams that I think that this book
would surpass six million, let alone even a couple of million.
I knew that God's hand was on it. I'll never
(14:42):
forget as long as I live. I remember places that
I was writing at hotel rooms because the presence of
God was so strong, and this book came out so strong.
I remember there were times I could barely keep up typing,
and I type about fifty sixty words a minute. I
couldn't keep up typing. And at the very end, I
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think one third of what I had written in this
book I had never heard, never thought of. I had
never preached it, never heard anybody else preach it in
my entire life. It came by revelation, by the Spirit
of God. And I even remember times I jump up
out of the chair in the hotel room going, oh
my goodness, that is so good, And you say, how
(15:27):
can you do that? Well, it's because you realize that
it's not you writing it. It's actually the Holy Spirit.
You know. I've said this so many times.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
My name's on.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
These books because I was the first guy to get
to read them.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
All right, let's break down just a few of the things.
John Bavir said in this clip. I knew God's hand
was on it. The presence of God was so strong
while I was writing it. There were times I could
barely keep up typing. One third of what I had written.
I'd never heard, never thought of, preached, never heard anyone
(16:02):
else preach. It came by revelation, by the Spirit of God.
I realized it wasn't me writing, it was the Holy Spirit.
Now stop and think about this. According to Bevie, the
Bit of Satan wasn't just something God inspired him to write.
(16:23):
It was dictated, downloaded by the Holy Spirit himself. So
let me ask again, if the Holy Spirit dictated this book,
how is it not on par with scripture? This isn't
Christian hyperbole? These are his exact words. If we take
him at face value, then rejecting his book is rejecting
(16:45):
the Holy Spirit, and that, Folks, is a terrifying level
of spiritual manipulation.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It's a very serious thing to neglect the gift of
God on our life. My exam is those two women
coming to me from the state of Texas, from the
state of Florida and saying, John Vivier, if you don't
write what God is giving you to write, he will
give that ability to somebody else, and one day you'll
stand in judgment for it. Now, I think about it.
(17:16):
If forty years ago, when I was a twenty year
old man, if you would have walked up to me
when I knew there was a call in my life
to go to the nations of the world, and you
would have said, John BeVier, the way God is going
to send you to the nations of the world is
through your writings. I would have laughed you out of
the room. Yet I look now today and I realized
that I never would be where I am today and
impacting people's lives all over the world. In nations two
(17:39):
hundred and twenty twenty seven nations so far, I wouldn't
be where I am today had I not been faithful
to that gift to write, And so I would have
to echo Paul's words, woe is me if I didn't
write the books that God called me to write.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Woe is me if I do not write the books
God has called me to write. You can't make this up.
This is the language of prophetic urgency. This is the
kind of language Paul used when referring to preaching the
Gospel in One Corinthians nine sixteen, where he said, woe
is me if I do not reach the Gospel. John
(18:21):
Bevie is making himself equivalent to the apostles. He doesn't
have to say his books or scripture. His entire posture
screams it. So where does this leave us? It leaves
us with a teacher who has moved far beyond the
realm of biblical encouragement or devotional insight. He has positioned
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himself as a prophet for the modern church, a man
to whom God gives special messages, downloads, and mandates. And
unless you buy and read his books, you're missing out
on what God himself allegedly wants you to hear. That, friends,
is why this man because once again we are faced
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well a false teacher, who may appear humble, may appear gentle,
may appear sincere, but who is, in reality undermining the
sufficiency of Scripture and placing himself in a position that
belongs to Christ alone. Test everything, hold fast to what
(19:23):
is good, reject what is false. Lord willing, we'll see
you next week.
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