TheSixthSense: 'For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and omens, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. Take note, I have told you beforehand...' (Matt 24:24-25)
One of the first books I got, after the Lord's gracious salvation of my life, was the bestseller 'Good Morning Holy Spirit' by Benny Hinn. A great read at the time, I was fascinated by his knowledge about things of the Spirit and God and his path to experiencing the Holy Spirit even to conversational relations. I watched his sermons, I ignored comments about him being a heretic. I thought why people so judgemental especially christians, what is he possibly doing wrong? He preaches Jesus and the Holy Spirit and he even talks about casting out demons in Jesus name. He explains angels and God's relationship with them as though he had some divine revelation from the Holy Spirit Himself. I liked his book and certainly respected him as a preacher and a 'man of God.'
Then came a time when he came around to my city at a RCCG parish. I determined to go see him, even if it meant forfeiting my church service for his scheduled miraculous service. I had been praying for a miracle so I thought my moment had finally arrived. So, I went. Praise and worship was fantastic and colourful, way more appealing to the congregation than that of my church. Service carried on until Benny arrived, celebrated as he was ushered in then he began his sermon with 'whoow I feel the anointing' He went on to talk about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ taking us through the torturous ordeal of the cross along with the more than occasional sedating musical tune from his music crew.
'Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows...But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; And by His stripes we are healed(Isa 53:4-6) echoed through the speakers. Then, people gradually started coming out to give testimonies of their healing. 'My back pain for several months gone' 'My ankle pain gone' 'My arthritis gone' ...'My wrist pain gone' almost every healing seemed to be about pain. All the while, right in front of me was a row of people sat on wheelchairs, expectant for their healing. In fact, I'm sure almost everyone in the service required some sort of miraculous intervention. I thought maybe God hasn't remembered me or maybe I didn't have enough faith to receive my healing. I thanked God anyway for the service and the others.
Then came the moment that shook me. They had earlier passed envelopes with forms for credit card debit information for giving. So, Benny went ahead beseeching us to say and proclaim 'The wealth of the sinner must come to me.' (I thought what a dishonest desire to proclaim. What's my own with the sinner's money). He said Kenneth Copeland gave him a prophetic declaration at the beginning of the year that any covenant sowing with him would be exceedingly fruitful. He went ahead to give us a rundown of how Abraham, Isaac, Moses, Joshua and all sowed in obedience and they reaped exceedingly. He gave examples of how someone's financial debt was cleared from obedience and on with a couple of other examples. Then, he went personal. He asked a woman, 'how much do you pay monthly for your mortgage?' she said about a thousand then he said 'the Lord wants you to give a month's worth and watch what the Lord will do.'
As he continued, I noticed for the first time in my christian life that I completely switched off, very unusual but I could feel it - Quenching of the Spirit, maybe - But I silently prayed 'Lord, you know my heart, it is not even because of money that I am here and I really don't understand this money thing' Then it hit me, it is one Spirit, if God will heal me He will do it wherever I am through the His Spirit that is within. I don't even have to attend another church. So, I left quite confused but with the empty envelope. I was tempted to try sowing with a little but I waited and just prayed about it.
But, thank God for that experience because it made me to stop reading his book and any other I had planned and went directly to the bible and occasionally articles from John Piper's desiringgod.org and I noticed the world of difference between spirit-edifying bible-based teaching and what the 'prosperity word-of-faith hypergrace' people preach.
So, what is the false gospel of Benny Hinn? There are so many articles about Benny Hinn. From asking for Katherine Kuhlman's anointing at her grave to unbiblical revelations about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I had thought maybe Benny Hinn changed or lost it along the way because anyone who would encourage his church to read the whole bible couldn't be so bad right? His book talked about the lost emphasis on holiness by the church even then and it's not all garbage. There is rather some things to learn from his book.
But as I continue to read the bible, I discover that these deceptive practices contradict the life and teaching of Jesus Christ and His apostles and it is in fact, another gospel and definitely not of our Lord Jesus Christ. The money-loving lifestyles of Benny Hinn and his friends do not conform with the standards of 1 Tim 3:3 and Tit 1:7.
This teaching was made popular by the freemason Oral Roberts and it has invaded Africa to the point where people associate the gospel and Jesus Christ to these men of the occult. The history of the movement is quite interesting and relatively recent.
Another thing, Benny Hinn's miraculous 'slain in the spirit' and 'drunk in spirit' is similar to kundilani yoga spirits that give ecstatic feelings to the possessed. It's worse with Bill Johnson and his Bethel Church version of holy spirit. I have come to notice that the cliche 'birds of a feather flock together' cannot be any truer. These guys visit Nigeria and mingle with their allies in the deception of God's people. For the nigerian pastors, I give a benefit of doubt that some are actually sincere in propagating deceptive doctrines.
Imagine if Bill Gates, Zuckerberg and the rich others were to attend these churches, what would they preach? to sow seeds? for what then? how to make money? Or talk about pastor's money story?
The gospel of Jesus Christ is for everyone, the rich, poor, broken, healed, sick and well. It is about the finished work of salvation for victory over sin and death provided for in the blood of atonement. The message is simple and truth and it has continued to transform lives from the days of the apostles. There is power in salvation and it is usually a testimony.
The bible says those who reject and do not love the truth to be saved, God would give them a delusion so that they would believe a lie so that they would be condemned. (2 Thes 2:9-12).
What then is the truth? 'Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth...And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth[/b] (John 17:17,19)
Someone said let's not limit God. True, but I'd rather limit God to His Word that would never pass away than not limit Him to His Bible than be exposed to demonic practices and doctrines in the name of pastor, prophetic revelation and signs and wonders of men and worse believing another gospel.
The truth is the Word of God. The Bible is sufficient. Sola Scriptura. Be like the Bereans who searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. (Acts 17:11) To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them (Isa 8:20)
Get Saved and Get Sanctified with the Word!!!
my people our overseers are all men of secret societies!
oyedepo, kumuyi, oyakilome, adefarasin, adeboye, ibiyome and of course tb joshua himself
CHAI true true, the rest of Nigeria dey fear IPOB oh!
na why dem dey fight una badly.
Dem don go dig up Old picture say na today
No man fights to keep his rubbish, rubbish is discarded.
IPOB the reason they are fighting you is because they know that they can't survive without you!
mrkayusfit: Biafra must never come. I'm afraid that Biafra will be developed in few years if declared. They are technologically sound and we need their expertise to build Nigeria. We must all stand against biafra
We are Nigerians first before been our tribes. Lord luggard saw a potential in us before merging us together. The only way to kill biafra agitations is to keep Nnamdi kanu locked up. As for Soyinka, he is a disgrace to we yorubas. No sane yoruba man will be pro biafra. One nigeria till death do us apart
As I said before "No man fights to keep his rubbish, rubbish is discarded." It's whats of value they fight to keep!
MEGAWATCH: When I told some people that former President Jonathan will fail his second term election so many people called me names in this forum, now am telling people again that President Buhari will be chased out of office before 2019 by mass protest and I I expect people to call me names but definitely it will happen. Like play, like play....
I was just going to say that we need to save Nigeria and Impeach Buhari
The Building of roads are not priority, but the state of Christianity in the nation . You gave Buhari ur blessings by giving him ur pastor and Christianity now being wiped out
RevengeReloaded: The President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Archbishop Magnus Atilade, has maintained that there is serious move to Islamise Nigeria. https://i.imgur.com/13UTmGF.png His remark is coming at a time when the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Sa’ad, denied insinuations that Muslims were planning to Islamise the country.
Abubakar had recently said, “It is not possible to Islamize Nigeria. We must respect one another and understand the tenets of the two religions.”
But speaking in Lagos, the Archbishop said there was plan to Islamise the country, stressing that those who want to “eradicate Christians” were busy planning on how to achieve their sinister aim.
Revealing that there was a grand plot to make Islam the official religion in Nigeria, Atilade called on Christian organisations to form a synergy and map out strategies on how they could overcome the threat on Christianity.
He said, “As we are seeing in the whole world now, no single church, denomination or organistion, can save the world. We have work to do and we need to be united to achieve a common goal. Individual organisations working alone have not been able to make an impact.
‘’Those who want to eradicate Christianity are very busy, those who are killing Christians and destroying churches in the north are very busy, they are coming up with different plans everyday and we as Christians cannot fold our arms and watch them destroying the church of Jesus Christ.
OP the North & the West are scared to be on their own.
It's fear, also some are jealousying the South-South & South-East.
See what the South-West say's out of jealousy!
mrkayusfit: Biafra must never come. I'm afraid that Biafra will be developed in few years if declared. They are technologically sound and we need their expertise to build Nigeria. We must all stand against biafra. We are Nigerians first before been our tribes. Lord luggard saw a potential in us before merging us together. The only way to kill biafra agitations is to keep Nnamdi kanu locked up. As for Soyinka, he is a disgrace to we yorubas. No sane yoruba man will be pro biafra. One nigeria till death do us apart
So we can see it's jealousy and envy, other bad belle
Osu175: YOU MAY WANT TO REMIND ME NOW TO THREAD SOFTLY OR OF THE FACT THAT OSINBAJO IS A PASTOR AND I SHOULD “TOUCH NOT MY ANOINTED”. MCHEEEEW… NANSENSE!!! ANY FOOL CAN BE A PASTOR? YES, ANY FOOL CAN BE A PASTOR BECAUSE GOD CAN USE ANYONE TO DO HIS WORK. ISN’T IT A SHAME THAT NIGERIA AND HER LINGERING ECONOMIC MESS IS BEING REFERENCED IN OTHER COUNTRIES AS THE REASON WHY FOOLS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED INTO GOVERNMENT? I CHOSE TO WRITE IN CAPS FOR THOSE BLIND SUPPORTERS OF THIS PRESENT GOVERNMENT, WHO DESPITE THE SIGNS BEFORE THEM, CANNOT SEE THAT THIS GOVERNMENT IS PLUNGING US INTO THE DARKEST PART OF HELL. AND BEFORE I FORGET, ETCETERA IS A NUISANCE…. I HAVE HEARD IT ALL.” The soft-rock artiste who won the HipHop world Music Awards for recording of the year has 2 albums to his credit. A self-titled album ‘Etcetera’ released in 2008 and “YES I AM” released in 2011. https://www.naij.com/894098-dr-goodluck-jonathan-dumb-prof-osinbajo-worse-singer-lashes-vp.html?f&poster=13434
Guys the wahala be say Redeemed wey the so-called Pastor who is VP to to an Islamist are Fake!
Dem so called Daddy G.O. na the fakest pastor.
I beg if u be a true Christian why support an Islamist like Buhari?
Redeemed , their GO and all most of their pastors are not of God.
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