This is a great video. Costi is a brave man to share the deception he experienced during his time working for Benny Hinn. God bless him. Thank you Chris for fighting for the faith.
That Benny Hinn is false as a 3 dollar bill is clear as daylight. SO I don't get why one needs endless debates about this. On doesn't have to know each and every detail of a lie. But it seems as if people are fascinated with this.
@OtisKopp from what I read today on Costi's site this was recorded weeks before Mike released his video. Before I read that I thought the same thing, why he wasn't recognized.
It’s very cool to me that costi now participates in the kind of discernment discussions that helped enlighten him to the truth over time. Families are benefiting from these discussions!
I'm physically disabled; simply put my body is absolutely broken and as sure as God is God I am STILL HIS CHILD. I have NOT been physically healed, but I am saved from eternal separation from my Savior because of HIS work on the cross - nothing I did or any "faith healer or shaman" can do to make me physically whole again. If God chooses to heal me fantastic, if not, I still press on towards to goal of running the race and following Jesus and pointing as many to Him as I can. The Gospel is absolute Miracle enough for me and I am filled with awe of my God.
Amen!!! I was just diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis last fall and have wrestled and thanked God much that I was taken out of this movement before I was diagnosed so I didn't fall into these traps! You are so right. Our biggest problem is the state of our soul! We are promised perfected glorified bodies in eternity!! Never understood why I NEED healing if I'm just gonna die again to go and be with the Lord😂 much love!❤
I came out of WOF after 55 years of Benny Hinn (my aunt went to his church in FL), Copeland and the like two years ago, thanks to UA-cam ministries like yours and Justin Peters and Mike Winger! Thank you so much for all you do to bring clarity to the scriptures! When I moved to Phoenix from Indy two years ago, I discovered Shepherd’s House Bible Church! I could not be more blessed to sit under Pastor Costi and the rest of the staff at SHBC! Thank you both for your faithfulness and hard work!
@@ellesmith4532 It's the terrible things that WOF causes. When I looked at this woman bouncing around the stage saying she was healed, I just remembered all the people I knew that had medical issues that ignored them because they were terrified of making a "negative confession". And were giving tons of money to these charlatans they couldn't afford because they were told to give "tenfold" amounts so they could pay their mortgages and rents they couldn't pay, because God would return it to them... They are HORRIBLE. And worst of all, once people have been through the clutches of these people, they think Jesus is a scam too. They don't realize HE is REAL and these cults have NOTHING to do with REAL Christianity.
Thanksgiving to God for Chris and Costi. I was raised in the pentecostal movement and was brainwashed into all of this deception. My wife and I discovered fighting for the faith in 2012, and God began to systematically break the life-long bondage off of my mind. I have wanted to tell Chris this for many years. When I needed answers, God had you there, and when my wife's life was hanging by a thin thread, l called you. You returned my call and prayed the prayer of faith, along with konsvinger. All praise and honor be to God for His mercy. She was healed. That's how it's done. I can't wait to see you in heaven; my precious brother. You can't possibly know what you mean to us down here. Thank u 4 ur faithfulness to God's Word. We love you so much!!! Never quit! Never surrender. This powder monkey is glad you're at the helm. Mark Truesdale
@@tubeyou-vx6nw you’re a great ironic, upside down, inside out, good is bad, bad is good, Satan’s your home-boy, lost, blind, deaf, deluded, deceived goat…if your comment is legitimate…if it is sarcasm very well said.
I’m so glad Costi was rescued out of this. My mother in law was a victim in my eyes, she couldn’t afford to go to his crusades, thank God, but he got what little she had. Getting rich off poor little old ladies who are living off social security. 💔😢 Thank you for sharing this.
@@destinycoach5 honestly I don’t even remember the words he would say. I would go out on a limb and say people were just being hypnotized by the music and filled with their emotions. David did not say anything extravagant. He often doesn’t even teach.
Same here!! Went and saw, Benny Hinn, Copeland and Jesse Duplantis 😢 But thankful He called me out of the deception when I started reading my Bible cover to cover, not just cherry picking verses and parts of chapters. Reading in complete context changes everything and deception leaves!!
One of the hardest isssue is just I knew Diga, we went to the same high school. One thing I’ll say is he was on fire for the Lord. While we were drinking and smoking doing dumb things he was truly preaching repentance and the gospel. Years later I ran into him at other churches. The day I heard him say Benny Hinn was his spiritual father I knew and saw a different preaching. Just pray he’s able to seperate from him and come back to the truth
Diga probably lives a cleaner and more set apart lifestyle than most people in this comment section. Christian’s ❤️ judging other people’s spirituality but if you looked at most of their lives you’d be terribly disappointed by their lack of Christlikeness. The average Christian barely share the gospel or lead anyone to Christ. Making disciples??? Nope! They’d rather talk bad about people like Diga but have little to no impact in the Kingdom themselves 🙄
And what's this truth you talk about? Cessationism?? Diga believes in Jesus who lived died and resurrected and ascended, he believes in heaven and hell and the Bible as authority. Curious to know what other 'truth' you're talking about
GREAT video!!!! Costi’s input and analysis are unparalleled, priceless and invaluable as he knows the players and all the insider knowledge that helps us see what a “show” all this is!!!!! THANK YOU BOTH!!!!!!
It’d be really interesting to see what happens in these gatherings when the music is turned off COMPLETELY. You remove the music and you probably do not have the same effect: no one would be crying and no one will be falling down or being “slain in the spirit.” Do not underestimate the power of music.
Can you imagine Jesus telling Philip to pull out a lyre when he healed the crowds? 😂 It’s interesting that none of the apostles specifically said they had a musician with them while evangelizing
@@Window4503 I’m convinced that satan is in the majority of what we call churches today. May our spiritual eyes be opened and May we truly seek our Father and be right with Him instead of wasting time in these emotionally driven gatherings motivated by love of power, influence and money.
@brianmwesigwa9871, Yes, so true. Also, included the repetitive words, hand motions, and other things used to hypnotize people. Watched a great video exposing how this is happening. A magician showed the steps used to hypnotize people and showed it’s exactly what is happening in these gatherings. So revealing how these false teachers are using the weakness of people to rob them. I pray the eyes of believers to be opened to see the deception of these thieves.
I found out that music was introduced into the church by Charles Finney. He thought that church services were boring and to get the world to come to our services, music should be introduced. So guess what? A play with emotions.
I haven’t looked into David Diga Hernandez but the concern I voiced in my video on Benny was that his methods are highly reproducible and David is among those who may well do that. This video confirms it! Very concerning.
I really enjoyed the Benny video and I got some very tangible things I could use to communicate how he is a false teacher. I was hoping this video was the same but I honestly just got that David uses the same posture,music and similar words as Benny. Maybe I missed something but I didn’t get anything I could use to help me communicate concerns to another person.
I'm a huge fan of all your work and labor in the Lord, and still very much am. You really shouldn't say much until you've looked into it for yourself though. You've always held up such incredible standards where you wouldn't speak out against something or for something unless you first researched the mess out of it for yourself, even when you were pressured to do otherwise. Please don't let go of those standards. It really sets you apart in the best of ways. Thank you so much for your labor that you do, it has really helped my own family tremendously.
Please watch David’s shorts before putting him in the same category as Benny Hin. They’re an easy litmus test that don’t require much of a time commitment. If you get more time and can watch actual sermons, great. I’ve respected your balanced approach and gentle speech for a long time - surely you’ll offer the same courtesy to David.
I'm a little confused. I've watched a lot of David Hernandez teachings and I haven't seen anything that contradicts scripture. On the contrary he seems to be very clear in his statements. I would like proof of him actually preaching something false. If you can provide that I'd appreciate it greatly
I watch Diga H also and he has clarified many many things for me. I’ve genuinely been helped through his teaching. However I don’t think the issue with Diga H is any of his preaching or doctrine. I do think it’s scripturally sound. The issue these guys take is in the delivery. Seems to be a lot of manipulation in the testimonies and pandering surrounding miracles etc. I don’t think the issue is whether Diga is false or not. But Benny H IS false and Diga claims him as his spiritual father which is a little concerning. I know people CAN be healed through a false preacher. Bc it isn’t the preacher who does the healing, it’s God. However I know there’s a lot of fake healings by false teachers for the looks.
You’re right. His teaching is bulletproof theologically on ALL counts. I’ve skeptically analyzed him for two years now. Not only that but he’s incredibly gifted at it. Calling him a false teacher is wrong. It’s the healing sessions that make people skeptical. Including me.
I feel sorry for Costi Hinn having to sit there and relive something that he has regretted, and yet has been so forgiven by the gracious and loving mercy of our GOD!
You don't need to feel sorry for him. It doesn't hurt him anymore. (Maybe some that his uncle is still in it) But he is speaking out and warning the church and there is LIFE in that. It always feels good to do the will of God. You don't need to feel bad. He has moved on is and doing a great work
@@destinycoach5 I still have memories of being in that mess and the memories aren’t comforting and I don’t even like to remember that heretical mess. And yes because of that mess we must speak out and I do but the memories are disgusting!
Fantastic video- I sincerely enjoyed this conversation. Thank you for having and sharing this conversation I myself became so utterly disturbed and disappointed with my own local church at age 16- I am currently a teacher for the youth group at my church and am teaching my youth to DISCERN AND QUESTION EVERYTHING and read the Bible I will be sharing these videos and having these conversations with them as well.
Speaking of healing, would any here care to petition God on my behalf to heal me of my affliction? I'm passing through the refiner's fire right now and it is far from pleasant. I'd greatly appreciate any prayer for my sake.
God healed me from diabetes and I have documentation and I was not prayed over by anyone. God also healed my thyroid and again no one prayed over me. I was healed from non alcoholic cirrhosis. Now, I may have a liver issue, and I believe God for my healing. I give all the glory.
Oh my......I used to play those chords on the keyboard during healing lines in WofF churches for decades...Bb, Gm, F, etc, the same chords over and over again!! I repent of that. I witnessed so many people testifying of their healing, only to see them stay sick or sadly even die. The truth is that all of our bodies are dying. The most important message is salvation, which is the #1 priority for all of us.
As someone who just left the Charismatic movement (if you want to call it that) as I listened to Pastor Chris … I can assure you that MANY churches don’t even open a Bible during services. And I started realizing that the prophecies I heard were so not clear and not real prophecies. I thank y’all for your work and even prophecy bingo because it helped me see how crazy that was. I have been praying that I learn the true word and true gospel. That I love my Savior for just Him and not because I’m looking for something from Him.
The thing about these movements if you examine all the denominations of Christians they are false doctrines so when is it we say i am becoming a follower of Christ not a denomination...just my opinion
For what it’s worth, David opens the Bible every time he preaches, and he teaches sound doctrine from it as well. With zero deviation from theological truth. It’s just these healing sessions and association w Benny Hinn that are so out in left field. His teaching is some of the best I’ve ever heard.
The way that I clicked on this so fast! 😂 You and Costi (along with Jim Osman and Steve Kozar) were instrumental in my leaving WOF and I am so thankful for your ministries! ❤
Ive prayed for people in hospitals & they were healed, went home well, delivered from cigarettes. Power of God is real. Falling under the power is real. Ive done it many times. Ive been healed by Jesus all my life of many things. Not at any crusade, just at church service or at home
Costi is 100% right about the "new wave". It caught my wife and I and nearly ruined our family. We're thankful for God opening our eyes through Costi's ministry or we would've been destroyed completely.
I was healed of HORRIBLE migraine headaches when the brothers at my little church anointed and prayed over me. All credit, glory and power is in the hand of a merciful, living God. If i believe HE WILL achieve.
God can heal, and does, and it's important to have faith. But it's also important to remember that this life is only a training session. Things aren't going to be perfect, and sometimes He doesn't heal you. Or He does. But it's not a sin to have troubles; we are told we will have troubles. But God has purpose in our troubles. I just want to say this because there are wonderful, God loving, faithful people out there who are not healed for whatever reason, and they get bullied by people who talk about having faith & they might not have it because they're suffering. When really maybe the blessed, non suffering people maybe should be helping those people. Or something like that. Don't assume people who are suffering lack faith. Jesus suffered and He didn't lack faith. Just putting that out there🙏😇✌️
You caught me there Leroy. The Will Of the Father took a bad infirmity from me. You were dead on with the first one though. However, I personally believe prayer is very, VERY important. If I may have offended thee with this account sir, I opologize. God bless you brother in the only name worth mentioning, Jesus. (Edit)No deceiving, sideshow hucksters for me btw. My pastor says every Sunday he doesn't care if we have a dollar in our pocket. He's a good Godly man. Preaching Christ and him crucified, telling of a heaven to gain and a hell to shun.
@@gohawks3571 indeed. We glory in tribulations knowing that tribulation brings patience and patience, experience and experience; hope. Migraines were the beginning of my problems, believe me. I'm having trouble adjusting to my new job, spraying stain on boards for cabinets. They expect alot for a little. I got yelled at yesterday lol, but I wasn't troubled at all glory to God. Your comment helped me the other day. Thank you for, "just putting that out there". God bless you and yours and thanks again for the encouragement!!
@@MasteroftheDDT I'm glad I could be encouraging, but so sorry you experienced that🫂 I hope and pray for better times & strength for when times aren't so good🙏😇✌️
I am totally thankful for this channel and Justin Peters for helping me out of the Charismaniac movement. Such was my respect for this channel that when I found out you were a Lutheran it caused a curiosity in me. When I realized how much I loved Lutheran theology, I searched for a local church, we only had ELCA(not really even an option!) and LCMS, so I joined LCMS, and I love it. I love my pastor and the people there are awesome. It is a balm for my soul every Sunday morning for the pain caused by the evil of Charismania
@@LaoshiDJ Charismanics will always do this thing were they frame these others as if they are the fringe, but their church is somehow normal. The fact is, these others fill major venues, and have thousands of members, or even satellite sites. They are New York Best Selling Authors. They make so much money from donations that they can afford private jets and multimillion dollar mansions. Furthermore, your big name Continuationist Apologists like Michael Brown will actually defend them. The smaller charismatics will pass out Charisma magazine and other junk tied to these people. They ARE the norm. Your little rinky dinky nondenom/charismatic church is the fringe.
@@LaoshiDJ and actually, if you listen to this channel and Peters, they will talk about run of the mill Charismatics and debunk it. Peters has entire episodes dedicated to his work at disproving continuationism in general. His pastor, Jim Osman, wrote books to this effect. The stuff in Osman's books deals entirely with normative continuationist or "Hearing the Voice of God" theology
I used to watch Diga when he was maybe in the 40k subs on UA-cam, and these conferences he held was still small, long story short I was sending money monthly and as a single mom I could no longer afford it as it was in US dollars and I was living in Africa. I went to the account and tried to stop the payments, there were tabs to upgrade, stop and lessen the amount. I tried to make the amount less because I was sending 20 dollars a month which was alot in South African currency, the tab is disabled. The only tab that worked was the upgrade tab. When you try to stop the donation or make it less you have to email digas people. When I emailed they refused to stop the debit and said I need to pray and it was almost threatening like pray about this or else. I sent emails back and forth and eventually they stopped the debit. That was my experience. I used to be part of his zoom calls and get to watch these shows of healing. Thank GOD He deliverred me out of this yoke of bondage because thats what this whole movement felt like - a restless form of slavery.
Did you not have a home church? If the debit was coming off your credit card, why did you not get hold of your credit card company and ask for a stop be put on it?
@Gettingold-nb4suGod does not heal anyone at these ” shows” or “ events”! God heals when it is his individual will. That guy David Hernandez is not even saved. If he was Holy Spirit would convict him horribly!!
Thank you Chris and especially Costi for exposing and educating through airing this video. And praise God for Costi Hinn exposing his uncle. We need to pray for Costi as he continues to unravel the heresy and now teach sound doctrine. God bless you Chris and Costi!🙏🏻✝️
I always feel for Costi having to hear such terrible things about his uncle, however true. It must have been hard for him to take a stand. I applaud him wholeheartedly. God bless him!
While many preachers are like benny, false teachers and making staged and showy services dont throw all Charismatic in the same basket. God still does do miracles and is still healing. Inspite of fakes there are genuine ones. Gods people need discernment.
Yes! Exactly. I don't think all Pentecostals/Charismatics are bad, it's mostly just the people who are using signs/wonders/spiritual gifts for clout that are the biggest problem.
@@SusanNorthup I’m praying with you Susan for your family members to see the truth! Once we started seeing that they are almost all false teachers, false prophets and twisting the Word it all fell apart thanks to true discernment channels like this, and then you can’t unsee it!
Thank you, Pastor Chris and Pastor Costi very good video we appreciate you both very much God bless you and your family in Jesus' precious name amen✝️💜🙏💟
Man 😢 this is sort of upsetting to me because I used to watch his videos etc and I learned a few things but then was led elsewhere, I guess this is the difficult things. I don’t want anyone to be decieved because it does happen and it’s awful but then there’s also those who do it on purpose 😢 idk but this podcast brings truth and I’m really interested to watch this later on this evening , God bless you
I really don’t understand precisely what Diga himself did wrong… I am no fan of Benny at all. But this Diga guy… what did he do wrong? I didn’t see him bilk anyone out of money… maybe it’s that he’s just not following up the healings with medical practitioners? I don’t see that as a requirement for being a Godly pastor. Like Paul didn’t do that. But yeah, I agree it’d be wise to do if you’re gonna portray this to the world as evidence. We may not need to attribute malice to him yet. It may just be as simple as him thinking “hey, this is just how healing happens in a church. And I wanna see healing, so I’ll do it like this too.” Also, I’ve seen his teaching (not extensively) and it wasn’t off base at all. It actually helped me a lot. But… idk, maybe he’s way off in some areas. I think this may currently be guilty of a “Guilty by Association” fallacy. Maybe he IS some scumbag moneygrubber. But I haven’t been shown that in this video.
I declare David Hernandez Not Guilty!! He is being maligned. You are all getting jealous 'cos he has more views online and his events are actually saving people's souls.
Excellent interview. I was raised hyper-Charismatic and Word of Faith. I attended dozens of Hinn's services and was a volunteer for many. When Howard-Browne came on the scene we naturally went scampering off to that "new thing." One good thing about those experiences is knowing now how to spot the shysters popping up today. Like Costi said, there is nothing new under the sun.
@@Window4503 😆 I find Basta overused but yeah I understand. I'd go if it wasn't that far away. I missed Bryan Wolfmueller s visit to AuS last year as well. We don't get much of that down here sadly, in the country of hellsong
Benny Hinn was just in Kenya where am from a few weeks ago with this same old story. Am glad you guys are able to help the universal church to be able to see this lies. Thanks to both of you and praise God for what he is doing through you and how you are using the online platform.
📚 Happy to hear Costi is working on a new book! I really enjoyed his book exposing WoF/Prosperity Gospel regarding his uncle. I'm a recovering preacher's kid myself, so I could relate in some ways...so much happens behind the scenes of a church that people would have no idea about regarding personalities/power dynamics. You're taught very early not to do anything wrong "in public" to make others "look bad" or it might harm the church or people's faith--serious stuff for a kid to handle. Anyway, not the overall focus of his book, but I still felt like I could relate to him having grown up "behind the curtain" so to speak.
Oh no! I miss premiere. I want to see medical proof of these healing. We are supposed to pray for healing not decree and declaring. Thank you Pastor Chris and Pastor Costi.
Watched twice, Great stuff Chris! Hernandez has an air of legitimacy in his speech and calling out some false signs and wonders. I’ve never seen him onstage and never intend to but the similarities of the manipulative music and his cadence are all Benny and Katherine Kuhlman. Evil🐺 Blessings brother and keep it up for the glory of God🙏✝️
the closer to the true Jesus the more cunning the deception. The enemy mixes a lot of biblical truth with just the right amount of deception and twisting of scripture.. I thaaank God for the discernment He has given and grown in me for I my discernment alarm bells went off and only some time later when someone asked if he was solid I did some digging and found a video where he did the slain in the spirit thing and just the whole showmanship..
I went to a David Diga Hernandez service up in Canada about 4-5 yrs ago. I was very put off by the way I saw him treat the church he was speaking in. Once the service started, no one was allowed to come in who wasn't already in the meeting area. If you stepped out during the service, you wouldn't be allowed back in. My perception was he was militant or aggressive on this. That turned me off. I wondered if I wasn't being too hard on him. Everyone is different. For a long time, I refused to hear his preaching and wondered if my " offense" was a stumbling block. I saw him and Vlad Savchuk on stage when Benny "repented" and wondered why they would even be there. Now, I know why. I have been listening to some clips of him teaching and found them helpful and encouraging. Now you have me wondering about my own discernment. I've never been a fan or follower of Benny Hinn. He seemed shady and showy from the beginning. It seems we like the showy stuff. I attendee a four square church years ago and was told about Aimee Simple McPherson. She is very much looked up to. Very similar to all of this. Theater productions at every service. When I did some digging to know who she was, I discovered some unflattering things about her life and how she was perceived at the time. Her 2 divorces, apparent kidnapping/ drowning that led to a suspected adulterous affair. When I spoke about, I received immediate push back that it was a lie. Thank you for sharing this video. I doubt I'll be able to un-see the comparison to Benny Hinn.
@toomanymarys7355 anyone can point fingers and declare "so and so aren't sound" or call them false. You'll need to elaborate. What specifically isn't sound in your eyes, or biblically?
Thank you Chris and Costi! You updated me from 50 years ago on this one. This Diga guy paces his sentences much like Kathryn Kuhlman did only he goes a little faster. It's - unfortunately - much nicer to listen to than Kuhlman. So glad to be saved out of all this.
38:37 I don’t understand. Are you guys saying they just straight up lie about people being healed and that who got hit is like an actor? Because if he got hit by a car… I could absolutely see his knees still being in a lot of pain and in need of healing after 5 months. Are we unwilling to say that SOME of these people may actually be healed?
These healing ministries are so deceptive. Just because someone is walking around after having an apparent injury doesn’t mean they were healed. I broke my foot and was still walking around and didn’t find out that it was broken until seven later. I still had pain and I knew something was wrong, but I was still able to bear weight on it as much as my pain tolerance would help me.
Hi Chris, I love your videos. I have noticed they are a little cool tinted. Can you ask your editor if he can fix that in post or check your white balance. Sorry if I am being nit picky. I just like when your skin tone looks a bit warmer. When he pointed out that this all is a show that gave me a new perspective on these conferences or healing meetings. And as I watched another video on Kat Krick, I also saw the show / acting there. I am glad I have had my eyes opened to these people. I wish I would have known years ago what I know now, but that is in my past.
One more comment. I remember being in a prayer line in my own charismatic church that we used to be members of, with my eyes closed, because that's what you do to be extra holy isn't it? Anyway, the minister comes along the prayer line then he gets to me, shouts at me and lays hands on me. I'm pretty sure I fell over from the shock of the shout! Maybe it was a sound wave that knocked me over!
Thank you for this video on Hernandez. One yr ago I was doing his so called Holy Spirit school but some of his teaching didn’t sit right. And I hated the very carefully edited and video-graphed “sermons”…. Honestly anything that painstakingly edited to me (including specific shots, lighting, reactions) immediately sets every nerve in my body off on alert…. I’m so glad you’ve done this on Hernandez. Thank you to Both of you… I started search a year ago and honestly, for new Christians or longtime Christians finally starting to really dig into scripture for the first time, it’s super helpful when people like you guys expose or caution against influencers like David diga! Thanks again …. A year after my inner self said “ya…. I think we will be wary” someone has finally said something about his ministry. thank you!!!!
David Diga Hernandez isn’t in the same category as Benny Hinn. Yes, he believes in the healing ministry, but he isn’t preaching at the pockets of believers with promises of financial breakthrough and great wealth. Try watching DDH sermons and teachings. There’s a humility and love that accompanies sound teaching. He’s not a heretic just because he believes in the gift of healing.
I watched several videos and he does exactly this. He don't just ask people to give money to him, he "dares" them, in every single video. He also says that will bring blessing into the lives of the givers, when they give HIM money. That's why I stopped watching his videos, I didn't like this communicative manipulation.
Ts no about the gift of healing, it's about the manipulating techniques he uses. Playing with emotions, manipulating with words, making an emotional stage show, and so on.
Much like a top 10 hit from the 90s takes me back to my high school days, watching these clips takes me back to my charasmania days. You’re so right, these songs and chords and phrases were used everywhere - even our little small town non denominational churches. Some of this is demonic, but I saw more of it as being just spiritual peer pressure, emotional highs and influence. I was convicted to go to several people from that part of my past and admit I had faked everything. Great conversation flowed from this, but it was incredibly hard to admit at first. This type of “holy rollin” was like an addiction where you had to keep going back for a new emotional high to hold you over until the next one because you needed to “feel God”. Thankful for the way God brought me out and the Holy Spirit guided me to Truth in the Bible. Also thankful for great ministries like this one and many others that helped me sift through the wreckage. ❤
I watched my grandmother get tricked by Benny Hinn for years growing up and as a new Christian, I was drawn to David Diga Hernandez. Glad I came across this video
Let me add we are no longer apart of the cult Praise Chapel fellowship we have been out of there for about 4 years now and we are truly free from all of that hot mess! I want to thank you for paving the way through your channel for my husband and I to realize we were NEVER called to Pastor a church we almost lost everything when we were apart of that cult. Thank you Jesus for yours and others platforms here on UA-cam. god Bless you❤
Well done - I can't think of anyone more abundantly qualified than Costi to comment on all this. Also, @ 31:55 the remark "It's like the same synth ..." had me laughing out loud for a moment. On a slightly more serious note, I play keyboard in a good, Bible teaching Baptist church. If anyone, in any church, told me to play such silly background mood stuff, I'd be like "No, not doing that, see ya later"
I have noticed Digga Hernandez has now created a paid membership thing to access his content, I think it's in depth videos on the holy spirit which I don't like and think is not right.
The worst thing about Benny Hinn is that charismatic pastors have been emulating him for the last 30 years and trying to “set the atmosphere for healing, raise people’s faith, lay hands on people and having them slain in the spirit” and so on. I have seen first hand that pastors take what he does, and try to copy him. So it’s not just David Diga, but it’s hundreds of thousands of preachers, evangelists, pastors, who are copying the ways of Benny Hinn and others like him and leading millions astray. There is no Biblical basis for any of it. It’s just passed on through the generations and millions of people don’t open their Bibles to read them (IN CONTEXT) to see that these theatrics and false theological beliefs hurt people! Great video and thank you both for helping lead me out of this movement 5+ years ago. To God be the Glory!
BLESSING TO YOU COSTI HINN FOR SPREADING THE REAL TRUTH. GOD WILL BLESS YOU BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS. IT TOOK A LOT OF FORTITUDE ON YOUR PART TO TELL THE REAL TRUTH. I PRAY THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE TRUTH ON BEHALF OF FATHER GOD. STAY UNDER THE COVERING OF FATHER AND BE ENCOURAGED...THE BEST IS YET TO COME, COSTI.
When people start coming out of their homes healed and filled with the holy Spirit, no cameras, no audiences, no props, just the presence and the glory of a Holy God, then maybe we can stop all the persecution of the Spirits move in Charismatic circles.
This isn’t how he sounds when he preaches. It’s how he sounds when he does these healing shows. His preaching style is normal, centered, biblically accurate, and quite honestly brilliant. This is why this is such a complicated situation. I wish he would just focus on teaching.
There seems to be a mass release of all these videos criticizing charismatics all of a sudden. I would encourage people to listen to all those they are criticizing for yourselves and test what they say against scripture instead of blindly accepting these criticisms
I personally followed all of the heretics being exposed for decades. So I have tested the spirits, and since God opened my eyes and rescued me, I now know their teachings are heretical.
It's not criticism. We are told in the Bible to call out the FALSE ONES. THIS ALL OF A SUDDEN THING IS GODS TIMING AND SEASON TO UNCOVER AND EXPOSE THE ONES WHO DO NOT REPRESENT HIM AND SENDING SOULS TO HELL . THOSE who have been told the truth and yet continue to follow and support the falsevones will be equally judged and punished. WAKE UP...NO LONGER BE DECEIVED. satan is working overtime sending souls to hell. FATHER SAYS THIS HAS TO STOP, NOW....
What “David says about scripture“ is sound. But he doesn’t need to be pushing a guy down on a stage who said he’s already been healed and watch the guy lay flat on his back. There’s no need for that. It’s an element of dishonesty. It’s showmanship and showmanship is not Necessary, nor is it honest. I still can’t figure David out. It’s like he’s the most gifted Bible teacher I’ve ever heard, but at the same time he’s pursuing this side-gig that throws everything into question and I think he needs to stop doing it.
Great work fellas, the first time I came across David Diga Hernandez was 3 years ago on the Street Gospel Podcast episode #4 where he was mentioned @ the 1 hour and 10 minute mark. Apparently he was around 18 years old and already casting demons out of Churchgoers.
I really like Sigga Hernandez, but I was concerned when I found out about a year ago that Benny Hinn is his mentor. I was just asking the Lord about this today, then I see this video! But I am so saddened because Digga Hernandez has some videos really good videos on the holy spirit, prayer and encouragement. This really saddens me.
I’ll be honest with you: as a Bible scholar of 30 years, David teaching videos are the best I’ve ever seen. Biblically sound and doctrinally accurate. I don’t know if he’s just convinced himself that he needs to do these healing shows on the side in order for the ministry to grow. I don’t know what he’s thinking. But as a teacher, until I see otherwise, Maybe we can just enjoy his teaching lessons and try to avoid the healing sessions.
I was in Bennys choir for 2 of his his healing services in the 90's(Pittsburg, Halifax). Im hearing the exact same worship songs in this service as i did with Bennyd services.
@@emmanuelokon9162 It's more than just the same songs. Same format & structure. It's a production. A show. Whole waves of people supposedly being slain in the spirit while getting super hyped & we used the music to excite them. A ton of phony, fraudulent activity going on in the Name of the Holy Spirit. Do some research. Members of his own family have exposed some of Benny's heinous activities. So when I see carbon copies of that cesspool 40 years later, I am not received, because I experienced it firsthand behind the scenes. RW Shambach, Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Oral Roberts, Jesse DuPlantiss. All false teachers, preachers, evangelists, etc. Same music, same format, same wolves in sheep's clothing. Best you get in your prayer closet with Jesus if you are deceived by the likes of them. He says "My people perish for lack of knowledge".
1st time I heard David Hernandez back in 2020, I wasn't watching the vid but just listening to his service while doing tasks. Then I heard him say things that sounded very familiar. Then I realized all the words and music and sounds sounded so much like Benny that I thought I was on a Benny hinn channel. So I picked up phone to see if you tube had skipped to next vid and since it didn't I watched for a bit and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Someone was replicating move for move song for song EXACTLY what Hinn did!!! Don't know why , but I was SHOCKED and disappointed. I was stupified that the Christians had not learned yet. Worse.... One SOUND pastor I've been listening to started hanging out with this bunch that Costi named. I've been trying to warn him but my comments get deleted. I cannot believe this is just a recycling.
Joni Erickson is a great example with a deeply moving testimony about healing. She's quadriplegic and she shares about the Father not healing her for the sake of her soul! If you never heard her story its definitely a must listen ✝️💜🙏
I think these sorts of videos need to be careful. The need for valid criticism needs to make sure it's done properly. One example, the criticism that on stage healings aren't medically verified is silly. No-one one on stage is going to get medically verified there and then, and in the follow up how many will get medically verified? It's not an easy thing to follow up on. So you can't point to the absence of that as proof of fake healings. Instead, people who have gone forward for healings could be encouraged to get confirmation so that it can be demonstrated. But ultimately, people don't look for healing so that they can get a piece of paper. In a way, it's not the healing, per se, that's the issue. Not even the template necessarily. It can be helpful to spot similar practises etc. But the focus needs to be on the teaching, and people need to be made aware of ways that they could be emotionally manipulated. And perhaps most importantly, people need to be given the genuine article - what the true ministry of the church looks like.
A bunch of people who could be working, sleeping, at a concert, or in the club come together to sing theologically sound worship songs to God and folks like you just dismiss it as 'a show'. Just remember that we'll give account to God for every careless word we make.
This is a great video. Costi is a brave man to share the deception he experienced during his time working for Benny Hinn. God bless him. Thank you Chris for fighting for the faith.
Waiting for a Dr. Michael Brown response
@@kevinevans8892”I’ve never watched anything he’s ever done but I know him and he’s the most Christian Christian that ever christianed”
@@kevinevans8892”I’ve never seen his stuff but I know him and he’s the most Christian Christian that ever Christianed.”
@@kevinevans8892. Why?
That Benny Hinn is false as a 3 dollar bill is clear as daylight.
SO I don't get why one needs endless debates about this. On doesn't have to know each and every detail of a lie. But it seems as if people are fascinated with this.
Mike Winger did an amazing job with his video on Benny Hinn. It's very long but worth the watch!
Welll…worth the watch time😊
Yes, his video spawned a bunch of new videos on Benny. Was hoping Mike would get recognition in this video.
@OtisKopp from what I read today on Costi's site this was recorded weeks before Mike released his video. Before I read that I thought the same thing, why he wasn't recognized.
@@meilingavelino9624 Thanks for the clarity! Still want to see Mike and Costi sit down and have a conversation.
It is
It’s very cool to me that costi now participates in the kind of discernment discussions that helped enlighten him to the truth over time. Families are benefiting from these discussions!
Amen
I'm physically disabled; simply put my body is absolutely broken and as sure as God is God I am STILL HIS CHILD. I have NOT been physically healed, but I am saved from eternal separation from my Savior because of HIS work on the cross - nothing I did or any "faith healer or shaman" can do to make me physically whole again. If God chooses to heal me fantastic, if not, I still press on towards to goal of running the race and following Jesus and pointing as many to Him as I can. The Gospel is absolute Miracle enough for me and I am filled with awe of my God.
But you can be healed
Amen praise God .
I just prayed for you that you have the best life possible. Blessings.
@@kathiewaltersliterally never she said she can't be. Stop.
Amen!!! I was just diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis last fall and have wrestled and thanked God much that I was taken out of this movement before I was diagnosed so I didn't fall into these traps! You are so right. Our biggest problem is the state of our soul! We are promised perfected glorified bodies in eternity!! Never understood why I NEED healing if I'm just gonna die again to go and be with the Lord😂 much love!❤
I came out of WOF after 55 years of Benny Hinn (my aunt went to his church in FL), Copeland and the like two years ago, thanks to UA-cam ministries like yours and Justin Peters and Mike Winger! Thank you so much for all you do to bring clarity to the scriptures! When I moved to Phoenix from Indy two years ago, I discovered Shepherd’s House Bible Church! I could not be more blessed to sit under Pastor Costi and the rest of the staff at SHBC! Thank you both for your faithfulness and hard work!
My aunt also, caused incredible havoc in our family in FL with Benny Hinn. She had dementia and a huge amount of the family money just disappeared.
Oh, wow! That’s awful! I’m so sorry your family went through that! 😢
@@ellesmith4532 It's the terrible things that WOF causes. When I looked at this woman bouncing around the stage saying she was healed, I just remembered all the people I knew that had medical issues that ignored them because they were terrified of making a "negative confession". And were giving tons of money to these charlatans they couldn't afford because they were told to give "tenfold" amounts so they could pay their mortgages and rents they couldn't pay, because God would return it to them... They are HORRIBLE.
And worst of all, once people have been through the clutches of these people, they think Jesus is a scam too. They don't realize HE is REAL and these cults have NOTHING to do with REAL Christianity.
Thanksgiving to God for Chris and Costi. I was raised in the pentecostal movement and was brainwashed into all of this deception. My wife and I discovered fighting for the faith in 2012, and God began to systematically break the life-long bondage off of my mind. I have wanted to tell Chris this for many years. When I needed answers, God had you there, and when my wife's life was hanging by a thin thread, l called you. You returned my call and prayed the prayer of faith, along with konsvinger. All praise and honor be to God for His mercy. She was healed. That's how it's done. I can't wait to see you in heaven; my precious brother. You can't possibly know what you mean to us down here. Thank u 4 ur faithfulness to God's Word. We love you so much!!! Never quit! Never surrender. This powder monkey is glad you're at the helm.
Mark Truesdale
What an amazing story. Praise be to God and to Jesus our saviour!!
Costi is a fake slanderer who got mad because he couldn't freeload from benny anymore so now he's going around crying about his uncle.
@@tubeyou-vx6nw you’re a great ironic, upside down, inside out, good is bad, bad is good, Satan’s your home-boy, lost, blind, deaf, deluded, deceived goat…if your comment is legitimate…if it is sarcasm very well said.
Healing is not deception. I'm pentacostal but was never a fan of Benny Hinn.
@@expo1706 that’s a broad sweeping statement, can you unpack that- ‘healing is not deception’?
thanks so much...ALWAYS enjoy hearing from Costi Hinn
I’m so glad Costi was rescued out of this. My mother in law was a victim in my eyes, she couldn’t afford to go to his crusades, thank God, but he got what little she had. Getting rich off poor little old ladies who are living off social security. 💔😢 Thank you for sharing this.
Unfortunately I was at this conference. Thank you Lord for taking me out of this movement!
Where was it held?
@@karenfisher4170 Brooklyn I believe
@@RichRay77tell us about it. What did you see feel notice?
@@destinycoach5 honestly I don’t even remember the words he would say. I would go out on a limb and say people were just being hypnotized by the music and filled with their emotions. David did not say anything extravagant. He often doesn’t even teach.
@@RichRay77 Sooooooo they were worshipping God and you weren’t and can’t even state what David did wrong but YOUR clear it was wrong??? Got it👍🏾
Wow, to think I used to go to this type of church services. I was seriously deceived. But Thanks be to God for saving me.
Same here!! Went and saw, Benny Hinn, Copeland and Jesse Duplantis 😢 But thankful He called me out of the deception when I started reading my Bible cover to cover, not just cherry picking verses and parts of chapters. Reading in complete context changes everything and deception leaves!!
@@susanmulder2660that was not God who called you out ! That was an angel of lite ( Lucifer) !!
Costi Hinn (knowing the Spirit) listed on audio. Loved it! Will listen again. Thank you Costi! Bless you both❤
One of the hardest isssue is just I knew Diga, we went to the same high school. One thing I’ll say is he was on fire for the Lord. While we were drinking and smoking doing dumb things he was truly preaching repentance and the gospel. Years later I ran into him at other churches. The day I heard him say Benny Hinn was his spiritual father I knew and saw a different preaching. Just pray he’s able to seperate from him and come back to the truth
Not all about Benny Hinn is bad.
@madelynhernandez7453 just the important parts...like the fact that he butchers God's Word and couldn't properly preach Christ to save his life...
Diga probably lives a cleaner and more set apart lifestyle than most people in this comment section. Christian’s ❤️ judging other people’s spirituality but if you looked at most of their lives you’d be terribly disappointed by their lack of Christlikeness. The average Christian barely share the gospel or lead anyone to Christ. Making disciples??? Nope! They’d rather talk bad about people like Diga but have little to no impact in the Kingdom themselves 🙄
And what's this truth you talk about? Cessationism??
Diga believes in Jesus who lived died and resurrected and ascended, he believes in heaven and hell and the Bible as authority. Curious to know what other 'truth' you're talking about
I love David Hernandez he is awesome man of God. He is not like Benni Hinn
GREAT video!!!! Costi’s input and analysis are unparalleled, priceless and invaluable as he knows the players and all the insider knowledge that helps us see what a “show” all this is!!!!! THANK YOU BOTH!!!!!!
It’d be really interesting to see what happens in these gatherings when the music is turned off COMPLETELY. You remove the music and you probably do not have the same effect: no one would be crying and no one will be falling down or being “slain in the spirit.” Do not underestimate the power of music.
Can you imagine Jesus telling Philip to pull out a lyre when he healed the crowds? 😂 It’s interesting that none of the apostles specifically said they had a musician with them while evangelizing
@@Window4503 I’m convinced that satan is in the majority of what we call churches today. May our spiritual eyes be opened and May we truly seek our Father and be right with Him instead of wasting time in these emotionally driven gatherings motivated by love of power, influence and money.
@brianmwesigwa9871, Yes, so true. Also, included the repetitive words, hand motions, and other things used to hypnotize people. Watched a great video exposing how this is happening. A magician showed the steps used to hypnotize people and showed it’s exactly what is happening in these gatherings. So revealing how these false teachers are using the weakness of people to rob them. I pray the eyes of believers to be opened to see the deception of these thieves.
I found out that music was introduced into the church by Charles Finney. He thought that church services were boring and to get the world to come to our services, music should be introduced. So guess what? A play with emotions.
Thank you both so much for all you do! My husband and I have learned so much from your ministries.
Pastor thank you so much for standing up to these horrible criminals
I just posted too that of criminal charges can be brought
Thief’s in the pulpit
Okay humor me what's the criminal thing David Diga has done? Calling people criminals unprovoked is simply disgusting
I haven’t looked into David Diga Hernandez but the concern I voiced in my video on Benny was that his methods are highly reproducible and David is among those who may well do that.
This video confirms it!
Very concerning.
I really enjoyed the Benny video and I got some very tangible things I could use to communicate how he is a false teacher. I was hoping this video was the same but I honestly just got that David uses the same posture,music and similar words as Benny. Maybe I missed something but I didn’t get anything I could use to help me communicate concerns to another person.
Mike, it’s concerning that you would confirm some gossip about a guy you have not looked into yourself. Very disappointing brother.
I'm a huge fan of all your work and labor in the Lord, and still very much am. You really shouldn't say much until you've looked into it for yourself though. You've always held up such incredible standards where you wouldn't speak out against something or for something unless you first researched the mess out of it for yourself, even when you were pressured to do otherwise. Please don't let go of those standards. It really sets you apart in the best of ways. Thank you so much for your labor that you do, it has really helped my own family tremendously.
Mike you should consider this now. You guys might really be against someone anointed.
Please watch David’s shorts before putting him in the same category as Benny Hin. They’re an easy litmus test that don’t require much of a time commitment. If you get more time and can watch actual sermons, great. I’ve respected your balanced approach and gentle speech for a long time - surely you’ll offer the same courtesy to David.
I'm a little confused. I've watched a lot of David Hernandez teachings and I haven't seen anything that contradicts scripture. On the contrary he seems to be very clear in his statements. I would like proof of him actually preaching something false. If you can provide that I'd appreciate it greatly
I watch Diga H also and he has clarified many many things for me. I’ve genuinely been helped through his teaching. However I don’t think the issue with Diga H is any of his preaching or doctrine. I do think it’s scripturally sound. The issue these guys take is in the delivery. Seems to be a lot of manipulation in the testimonies and pandering surrounding miracles etc. I don’t think the issue is whether Diga is false or not. But Benny H IS false and Diga claims him as his spiritual father which is a little concerning. I know people CAN be healed through a false preacher. Bc it isn’t the preacher who does the healing, it’s God. However I know there’s a lot of fake healings by false teachers for the looks.
David Hernandez is spot on biblically. His teaching is lucid, well researched, inspired and balanced.
IT TAKES THE HOLY SPIRIT TO PERCEIVE TRUE THINGS OF GOD! WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS MANY WILL FALL AWAY FROM FAITH!
You’re right. His teaching is bulletproof theologically on ALL counts. I’ve skeptically analyzed him for two years now. Not only that but he’s incredibly gifted at it. Calling him a false teacher is wrong. It’s the healing sessions that make people skeptical. Including me.
I feel sorry for Costi Hinn having to sit there and relive something that he has regretted, and yet has been so forgiven by the gracious and loving mercy of our GOD!
Me too 🥲
You don't need to feel sorry for him. It doesn't hurt him anymore. (Maybe some that his uncle is still in it) But he is speaking out and warning the church and there is LIFE in that.
It always feels good to do the will of God.
You don't need to feel bad. He has moved on is and doing a great work
@@destinycoach5 yes that’s true , I pray his Uncle repents soon before it’s too late , he’s not getting any younger . 🙏🏿
@@destinycoach5 I still have memories of being in that mess and the memories aren’t comforting and I don’t even like to remember that heretical mess. And yes because of that mess we must speak out and I do but the memories are disgusting!
@@septemberbabydoll Thank you.
Fantastic video- I sincerely enjoyed this conversation. Thank you for having and sharing this conversation
I myself became so utterly disturbed and disappointed with my own local church at age 16- I am currently a teacher for the youth group at my church and am teaching my youth to DISCERN AND QUESTION EVERYTHING and read the Bible
I will be sharing these videos and having these conversations with them as well.
Speaking of healing, would any here care to petition God on my behalf to heal me of my affliction? I'm passing through the refiner's fire right now and it is far from pleasant. I'd greatly appreciate any prayer for my sake.
Excited for this interview!
God healed me from diabetes and I have documentation and I was not prayed over by anyone. God also healed my thyroid and again no one prayed over me. I was healed from non alcoholic cirrhosis. Now, I may have a liver issue, and I believe God for my healing. I give all the glory.
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Just prayed for you.
Oh my......I used to play those chords on the keyboard during healing lines in WofF churches for decades...Bb, Gm, F, etc, the same chords over and over again!! I repent of that. I witnessed so many people testifying of their healing, only to see them stay sick or sadly even die. The truth is that all of our bodies are dying. The most important message is salvation, which is the #1 priority for all of us.
Amen 🙏🏽
Salvation above all....AMEN!!!
As someone who just left the Charismatic movement (if you want to call it that) as I listened to Pastor Chris … I can assure you that MANY churches don’t even open a Bible during services. And I started realizing that the prophecies I heard were so not clear and not real prophecies. I thank y’all for your work and even prophecy bingo because it helped me see how crazy that was. I have been praying that I learn the true word and true gospel. That I love my Savior for just Him and not because I’m looking for something from Him.
The thing about these movements if you examine all the denominations of Christians they are false doctrines so when is it we say i am becoming a follower of Christ not a denomination...just my opinion
So true. No bible is EVER opened and no biblical instruction ever happens which is scary because you open yourself up to deceiving spirits.
For what it’s worth, David opens the Bible every time he preaches, and he teaches sound doctrine from it as well. With zero deviation from theological truth. It’s just these healing sessions and association w Benny Hinn that are so out in left field. His teaching is some of the best I’ve ever heard.
Excellent episode! Thank you Pastors❤
Was waiting for this!!!!
People are unfortunately hungry for signs and wonders.. but NOT FOR TRUTH...SAD
David diga teaches the truth and from gods word. Healing is a byproduct
You can’t have signs and wonders and truth at the same time?
The way that I clicked on this so fast! 😂 You and Costi (along with Jim Osman and Steve Kozar) were instrumental in my leaving WOF and I am so thankful for your ministries! ❤
Sorry, can you tell me whats WOF
@@madelynHernandez5577 Word Of Faith, usually falls under the umbrella of prosperity gospel and all that.
Ive prayed for people in hospitals & they were healed, went home well, delivered from cigarettes. Power of God is real. Falling under the power is real. Ive done it many times. Ive been healed by Jesus all my life of many things. Not at any crusade, just at church service or at home
Costi is 100% right about the "new wave". It caught my wife and I and nearly ruined our family. We're thankful for God opening our eyes through Costi's ministry or we would've been destroyed completely.
What do you mean by New Wave?
@@jdl2180 the next generation of grifters like Benny Hinn.
Costi is so brave for telling the truth against his own family! Must be so heartbreaking for him 😢
I was healed of HORRIBLE migraine headaches when the brothers at my little church anointed and prayed over me. All credit, glory and power is in the hand of a merciful, living God. If i believe HE WILL achieve.
God can heal, and does, and it's important to have faith. But it's also important to remember that this life is only a training session. Things aren't going to be perfect, and sometimes He doesn't heal you. Or He does. But it's not a sin to have troubles; we are told we will have troubles. But God has purpose in our troubles. I just want to say this because there are wonderful, God loving, faithful people out there who are not healed for whatever reason, and they get bullied by people who talk about having faith & they might not have it because they're suffering. When really maybe the blessed, non suffering people maybe should be helping those people. Or something like that. Don't assume people who are suffering lack faith. Jesus suffered and He didn't lack faith. Just putting that out there🙏😇✌️
If you believe? So the only reason you're not healed is if your faith is bad?
You caught me there Leroy. The Will Of the Father took a bad infirmity from me. You were dead on with the first one though. However, I personally believe prayer is very, VERY important. If I may have offended thee with this account sir, I opologize. God bless you brother in the only name worth mentioning, Jesus.
(Edit)No deceiving, sideshow hucksters for me btw. My pastor says every Sunday he doesn't care if we have a dollar in our pocket. He's a good Godly man. Preaching Christ and him crucified, telling of a heaven to gain and a hell to shun.
@@gohawks3571 indeed. We glory in tribulations knowing that tribulation brings patience and patience, experience and experience; hope. Migraines were the beginning of my problems, believe me. I'm having trouble adjusting to my new job, spraying stain on boards for cabinets. They expect alot for a little. I got yelled at yesterday lol, but I wasn't troubled at all glory to God. Your comment helped me the other day. Thank you for, "just putting that out there". God bless you and yours and thanks again for the encouragement!!
@@MasteroftheDDT I'm glad I could be encouraging, but so sorry you experienced that🫂 I hope and pray for better times & strength for when times aren't so good🙏😇✌️
I am totally thankful for this channel and Justin Peters for helping me out of the Charismaniac movement. Such was my respect for this channel that when I found out you were a Lutheran it caused a curiosity in me. When I realized how much I loved Lutheran theology, I searched for a local church, we only had ELCA(not really even an option!) and LCMS, so I joined LCMS, and I love it. I love my pastor and the people there are awesome. It is a balm for my soul every Sunday morning for the pain caused by the evil of Charismania
@@LaoshiDJ
Charismanics will always do this thing were they frame these others as if they are the fringe, but their church is somehow normal.
The fact is, these others fill major venues, and have thousands of members, or even satellite sites. They are New York Best Selling Authors. They make so much money from donations that they can afford private jets and multimillion dollar mansions.
Furthermore, your big name Continuationist Apologists like Michael Brown will actually defend them. The smaller charismatics will pass out Charisma magazine and other junk tied to these people.
They ARE the norm. Your little rinky dinky nondenom/charismatic church is the fringe.
@@LaoshiDJ and actually, if you listen to this channel and Peters, they will talk about run of the mill Charismatics and debunk it.
Peters has entire episodes dedicated to his work at disproving continuationism in general. His pastor, Jim Osman, wrote books to this effect. The stuff in Osman's books deals entirely with normative continuationist or "Hearing the Voice of God" theology
I used to watch Diga when he was maybe in the 40k subs on UA-cam, and these conferences he held was still small, long story short I was sending money monthly and as a single mom I could no longer afford it as it was in US dollars and I was living in Africa. I went to the account and tried to stop the payments, there were tabs to upgrade, stop and lessen the amount. I tried to make the amount less because I was sending 20 dollars a month which was alot in South African currency, the tab is disabled. The only tab that worked was the upgrade tab. When you try to stop the donation or make it less you have to email digas people. When I emailed they refused to stop the debit and said I need to pray and it was almost threatening like pray about this or else. I sent emails back and forth and eventually they stopped the debit. That was my experience. I used to be part of his zoom calls and get to watch these shows of healing. Thank GOD He deliverred me out of this yoke of bondage because thats what this whole movement felt like - a restless form of slavery.
Did you not have a home church?
If the debit was coming off your credit card, why did you not get hold of your credit card company and ask for a stop be put on it?
Same here!
@Gettingold-nb4suGod does not heal anyone at these ” shows” or “ events”! God heals when it is his individual will. That guy David Hernandez is not even saved. If he was Holy Spirit would convict him horribly!!
@@vangary100no it was not a credit card it was from my debit. So you have to stop the debit order from the account
@@RoseTaliwe I don't give any money to any of them shysters and never did.
Brilliant you guys.
You still sound loving even though such deception is happening.
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Thank you Chris and especially Costi for exposing and educating through airing this video. And praise God for Costi Hinn exposing his uncle. We need to pray for Costi as he continues to unravel the heresy and now teach sound doctrine. God bless you Chris and Costi!🙏🏻✝️
Why do Charismatics lack so much discernment? What do you think?
They're told that discernment = doubt.
We don’t. We’re not all the same. They’re are many of us who are very intellectually astute. Sam Storms, Craig Keener, and many others.
I always feel for Costi having to hear such terrible things about his uncle, however true. It must have been hard for him to take a stand. I applaud him wholeheartedly.
God bless him!
While many preachers are like benny, false teachers and making staged and showy services dont throw all Charismatic in the same basket. God still does do miracles and is still healing. Inspite of fakes there are genuine ones. Gods people need discernment.
Yes! Exactly. I don't think all Pentecostals/Charismatics are bad, it's mostly just the people who are using signs/wonders/spiritual gifts for clout that are the biggest problem.
Amen!
Gods will is toi heal, if it wasnt Jesus wasnt healing any of them, if it wasnt Gods will to heal
Thank you guys for all your hard work and dedication to TRUTH.. this channel helped my family come out of charismatic deception!
Praying for some of my family who are steeped in it…
I’m happy for your family to have come out of it!!
@@SusanNorthup I’m praying with you Susan for your family members to see the truth! Once we started seeing that they are almost all false teachers, false prophets and twisting the Word it all fell apart thanks to true discernment channels like this, and then you can’t unsee it!
I'm so thankful and praise our Triune, Holy God for Brother Costi!
Thank you, Pastor Chris and Pastor Costi very good video we appreciate you both very much God bless you and your family in Jesus' precious name amen✝️💜🙏💟
Looks like Mike Winger's exhaustive video is having a ripple effect. I would love to see Costi and Winger do a video together.
This will be so good.
Man 😢 this is sort of upsetting to me because I used to watch his videos etc and I learned a few things but then was led elsewhere, I guess this is the difficult things.
I don’t want anyone to be decieved because it does happen and it’s awful but then there’s also those who do it on purpose 😢 idk but this podcast brings truth and I’m really interested to watch this later on this evening , God bless you
I really don’t understand precisely what Diga himself did wrong… I am no fan of Benny at all. But this Diga guy… what did he do wrong? I didn’t see him bilk anyone out of money… maybe it’s that he’s just not following up the healings with medical practitioners? I don’t see that as a requirement for being a Godly pastor. Like Paul didn’t do that. But yeah, I agree it’d be wise to do if you’re gonna portray this to the world as evidence.
We may not need to attribute malice to him yet. It may just be as simple as him thinking “hey, this is just how healing happens in a church. And I wanna see healing, so I’ll do it like this too.”
Also, I’ve seen his teaching (not extensively) and it wasn’t off base at all. It actually helped me a lot. But… idk, maybe he’s way off in some areas.
I think this may currently be guilty of a “Guilty by Association” fallacy. Maybe he IS some scumbag moneygrubber. But I haven’t been shown that in this video.
I declare David Hernandez Not Guilty!! He is being maligned. You are all getting jealous 'cos he has more views online and his events are actually saving people's souls.
Excellent interview. I was raised hyper-Charismatic and Word of Faith. I attended dozens of Hinn's services and was a volunteer for many. When Howard-Browne came on the scene we naturally went scampering off to that "new thing." One good thing about those experiences is knowing now how to spot the shysters popping up today. Like Costi said, there is nothing new under the sun.
Blessings to you for loving through warning, & teaching the saints.
Great video. Thank you for showing how people are being deceived.
Ohio Campus loving this. Thanks to both of you for exposing this deception. BASTA!
That’s the Kozars but I’m sure Chris doesn’t care.
@@msnawrecka9786we're one big family ain't we 😊
@@msnawrecka9786 Chris and Kozar give each other a hard time about "BASTA". I include it with all my F 4 F comments.🤣
@@Dilley_G45If there’s ever a big discernment conference led by them it had better be named the BASTA conference or I ain’t going!
@@Window4503 😆 I find Basta overused but yeah I understand. I'd go if it wasn't that far away. I missed Bryan Wolfmueller s visit to AuS last year as well. We don't get much of that down here sadly, in the country of hellsong
Thanks so much for this video
"Pray for them like a normal elder..." I love Costi!!!!
Benny Hinn was just in Kenya where am from a few weeks ago with this same old story. Am glad you guys are able to help the universal church to be able to see this lies. Thanks to both of you and praise God for what he is doing through you and how you are using the online platform.
I highly recommend Costi Hinn books. They are easy to read and so helpful and encouraging! 🙏
Great video! I really appreciate Costi Hinn.
If you didn’t say you’re healed you’re taught your in doubt and unbelief according to there teachings too.
Yes and its devastating. I have been acused of lacking faith so even if God healed me, He took it away as punishment from my lack of faith.
📚 Happy to hear Costi is working on a new book! I really enjoyed his book exposing WoF/Prosperity Gospel regarding his uncle. I'm a recovering preacher's kid myself, so I could relate in some ways...so much happens behind the scenes of a church that people would have no idea about regarding personalities/power dynamics. You're taught very early not to do anything wrong "in public" to make others "look bad" or it might harm the church or people's faith--serious stuff for a kid to handle. Anyway, not the overall focus of his book, but I still felt like I could relate to him having grown up "behind the curtain" so to speak.
Costi seems to be part of the money making team. Very sad.
Oh no! I miss premiere. I want to see medical proof of these healing. We are supposed to pray for healing not decree and declaring. Thank you Pastor Chris and Pastor Costi.
Watched twice, Great stuff Chris! Hernandez has an air of legitimacy in his speech and calling out some false signs and wonders. I’ve never seen him onstage and never intend to but the similarities of the manipulative music and his cadence are all Benny and Katherine Kuhlman. Evil🐺 Blessings brother and keep it up for the glory of God🙏✝️
the closer to the true Jesus the more cunning the deception. The enemy mixes a lot of biblical truth with just the right amount of deception and twisting of scripture.. I thaaank God for the discernment He has given and grown in me for I my discernment alarm bells went off and only some time later when someone asked if he was solid I did some digging and found a video where he did the slain in the spirit thing and just the whole showmanship..
I went to a David Diga Hernandez service up in Canada about 4-5 yrs ago. I was very put off by the way I saw him treat the church he was speaking in. Once the service started, no one was allowed to come in who wasn't already in the meeting area. If you stepped out during the service, you wouldn't be allowed back in. My perception was he was militant or aggressive on this.
That turned me off. I wondered if I wasn't being too hard on him. Everyone is different. For a long time, I refused to hear his preaching and wondered if my " offense" was a stumbling block. I saw him and Vlad Savchuk on stage when Benny "repented" and wondered why they would even be there. Now, I know why.
I have been listening to some clips of him teaching and found them helpful and encouraging. Now you have me wondering about my own discernment.
I've never been a fan or follower of Benny Hinn. He seemed shady and showy from the beginning.
It seems we like the showy stuff.
I attendee a four square church years ago and was told about Aimee Simple McPherson. She is very much looked up to. Very similar to all of this. Theater productions at every service. When I did some digging to know who she was, I discovered some unflattering things about her life and how she was perceived at the time. Her 2 divorces, apparent kidnapping/ drowning that led to a suspected adulterous affair. When I spoke about, I received immediate push back that it was a lie.
Thank you for sharing this video. I doubt I'll be able to un-see the comparison to Benny Hinn.
Four Square are not sound at all!
@toomanymarys7355 anyone can point fingers and declare "so and so aren't sound" or call them false. You'll need to elaborate. What specifically isn't sound in your eyes, or biblically?
Thank you Chris and Costi! You updated me from 50 years ago on this one. This Diga guy paces his sentences much like Kathryn Kuhlman did only he goes a little faster. It's - unfortunately - much nicer to listen to than Kuhlman. So glad to be saved out of all this.
You guys are sad but I pray that God will bless you anyway. It’s all about faith people for without faith it is impossible to please God!
Mike Winger released a very good video on Benny Hinn. Well researched. Never seen Mike so emotional about someone. Calling Benny out as a wolf.
38:37 I don’t understand. Are you guys saying they just straight up lie about people being healed and that who got hit is like an actor? Because if he got hit by a car… I could absolutely see his knees still being in a lot of pain and in need of healing after 5 months.
Are we unwilling to say that SOME of these people may actually be healed?
It does my heart good to see the nephew of my childhood “Pastor” and Chris together discussing this.
I thank you Lord for putting me in a bible preaching/teaching church.
Thank God for Pastor Costi!
Well done, brothers in Christ👍🏾👍🏾.
These healing ministries are so deceptive. Just because someone is walking around after having an apparent injury doesn’t mean they were healed. I broke my foot and was still walking around and didn’t find out that it was broken until seven later. I still had pain and I knew something was wrong, but I was still able to bear weight on it as much as my pain tolerance would help me.
Hi Chris, I love your videos. I have noticed they are a little cool tinted. Can you ask your editor if he can fix that in post or check your white balance. Sorry if I am being nit picky. I just like when your skin tone looks a bit warmer. When he pointed out that this all is a show that gave me a new perspective on these conferences or healing meetings. And as I watched another video on Kat Krick, I also saw the show / acting there. I am glad I have had my eyes opened to these people. I wish I would have known years ago what I know now, but that is in my past.
One more comment. I remember being in a prayer line in my own charismatic church that we used to be members of, with my eyes closed, because that's what you do to be extra holy isn't it? Anyway, the minister comes along the prayer line then he gets to me, shouts at me and lays hands on me. I'm pretty sure I fell over from the shock of the shout! Maybe it was a sound wave that knocked me over!
Thank you for this video on Hernandez. One yr ago I was doing his so called Holy Spirit school but some of his teaching didn’t sit right. And I hated the very carefully edited and video-graphed “sermons”…. Honestly anything that painstakingly edited to me (including specific shots, lighting, reactions) immediately sets every nerve in my body off on alert….
I’m so glad you’ve done this on Hernandez. Thank you to Both of you… I started search a year ago and honestly, for new Christians or longtime Christians finally starting to really dig into scripture for the first time, it’s super helpful when people like you guys expose or caution against influencers like David diga! Thanks again …. A year after my inner self said “ya…. I think we will be wary” someone has finally said something about his ministry. thank you!!!!
David Diga Hernandez isn’t in the same category as Benny Hinn. Yes, he believes in the healing ministry, but he isn’t preaching at the pockets of believers with promises of financial breakthrough and great wealth. Try watching DDH sermons and teachings. There’s a humility and love that accompanies sound teaching. He’s not a heretic just because he believes in the gift of healing.
I watched several videos and he does exactly this. He don't just ask people to give money to him, he "dares" them, in every single video. He also says that will bring blessing into the lives of the givers, when they give HIM money. That's why I stopped watching his videos, I didn't like this communicative manipulation.
Ts no about the gift of healing, it's about the manipulating techniques he uses. Playing with emotions, manipulating with words, making an emotional stage show, and so on.
None of these people are healed. He is a charlatan.
Look at Rose Tiwule below. He is a thief.
No he’s not a heretic because he believes in healing he’s a heretic because he’s a fake healer !
Thank you Chris and Costi for explaining this.
This was a good interview! Thank you for not using vitriol! I don't like listening to heresy hunters bc of it. Again thanks!
Love you, Parrot!!! 🦜
Much like a top 10 hit from the 90s takes me back to my high school days, watching these clips takes me back to my charasmania days. You’re so right, these songs and chords and phrases were used everywhere - even our little small town non denominational churches.
Some of this is demonic, but I saw more of it as being just spiritual peer pressure, emotional highs and influence. I was convicted to go to several people from that part of my past and admit I had faked everything. Great conversation flowed from this, but it was incredibly hard to admit at first. This type of “holy rollin” was like an addiction where you had to keep going back for a new emotional high to hold you over until the next one because you needed to “feel God”.
Thankful for the way God brought me out and the Holy Spirit guided me to Truth in the Bible. Also thankful for great ministries like this one and many others that helped me sift through the wreckage. ❤
Here to rewatch. I spent to much time yapping with all the fam in the chat 😂❤
I watched my grandmother get tricked by Benny Hinn for years growing up and as a new Christian, I was drawn to David Diga Hernandez. Glad I came across this video
Pastor Chris, my husband and I used to pastor a Praise chapel church here in Fresno, Ca my husband knows David Diga’s family.
Let me add we are no longer apart of the cult Praise Chapel fellowship we have been out of there for about 4 years now and we are truly free from all of that hot mess! I want to thank you for paving the way through your channel for my husband and I to realize we were NEVER called to Pastor a church we almost lost everything when we were apart of that cult. Thank you Jesus for yours and others platforms here on UA-cam. god Bless you❤
I was part of PC as well. They started teaching New Apostolic Reformation stuff. Sad.
Well done - I can't think of anyone more abundantly qualified than Costi to comment on all this.
Also, @ 31:55 the remark "It's like the same synth ..." had me laughing out loud for a moment.
On a slightly more serious note, I play keyboard in a good, Bible teaching Baptist church. If anyone, in any church, told me to play such silly background mood stuff, I'd be like "No, not doing that, see ya later"
I have noticed Digga Hernandez has now created a paid membership thing to access his content, I think it's in depth videos on the holy spirit which I don't like and think is not right.
Great video to partner with Winger's exposé
The worst thing about Benny Hinn is that charismatic pastors have been emulating him for the last 30 years and trying to “set the atmosphere for healing, raise people’s faith, lay hands on people and having them slain in the spirit” and so on. I have seen first hand that pastors take what he does, and try to copy him. So it’s not just David Diga, but it’s hundreds of thousands of preachers, evangelists, pastors, who are copying the ways of Benny Hinn and others like him and leading millions astray. There is no Biblical basis for any of it. It’s just passed on through the generations and millions of people don’t open their Bibles to read them (IN CONTEXT) to see that these theatrics and false theological beliefs hurt people! Great video and thank you both for helping lead me out of this movement 5+ years ago. To God be the Glory!
BLESSING TO YOU COSTI HINN FOR SPREADING THE REAL TRUTH. GOD WILL BLESS YOU BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS.
IT TOOK A LOT OF FORTITUDE ON YOUR PART TO TELL THE REAL TRUTH. I PRAY THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE TRUTH ON BEHALF OF FATHER GOD.
STAY UNDER THE COVERING OF FATHER AND BE ENCOURAGED...THE BEST IS YET TO COME, COSTI.
When people start coming out of their homes healed and filled with the holy Spirit, no cameras, no audiences, no props, just the presence and the glory of a Holy God, then maybe we can stop all the persecution of the Spirits move in Charismatic circles.
David even SOUNDS like Catherine Kuhlman when he preaches! Unreal.
I was thinking the same!
What's Wrong with Kathryn Khulman.? She was highly annointed!
This isn’t how he sounds when he preaches. It’s how he sounds when he does these healing shows. His preaching style is normal, centered, biblically accurate, and quite honestly brilliant. This is why this is such a complicated situation. I wish he would just focus on teaching.
There seems to be a mass release of all these videos criticizing charismatics all of a sudden. I would encourage people to listen to all those they are criticizing for yourselves and test what they say against scripture instead of blindly accepting these criticisms
I personally followed all of the heretics being exposed for decades. So I have tested the spirits, and since God opened my eyes and rescued me, I now know their teachings are heretical.
It's not criticism. We are told in the Bible to call out the FALSE ONES. THIS ALL OF A SUDDEN THING IS GODS TIMING AND SEASON TO UNCOVER AND EXPOSE THE ONES WHO DO NOT REPRESENT
HIM AND SENDING SOULS TO HELL . THOSE who have been told the truth and yet continue to follow and support the falsevones will be equally judged and punished.
WAKE UP...NO LONGER BE DECEIVED. satan is working overtime sending souls to hell. FATHER SAYS THIS HAS TO STOP, NOW....
What “David says about scripture“ is sound. But he doesn’t need to be pushing a guy down on a stage who said he’s already been healed and watch the guy lay flat on his back. There’s no need for that. It’s an element of dishonesty. It’s showmanship and showmanship is not Necessary, nor is it honest. I still can’t figure David out. It’s like he’s the most gifted Bible teacher I’ve ever heard, but at the same time he’s pursuing this side-gig that throws everything into question and I think he needs to stop doing it.
Great work fellas, the first time I came across David Diga Hernandez was 3 years ago on the Street Gospel Podcast episode #4 where he was mentioned @ the 1 hour and 10 minute mark. Apparently he was around 18 years old and already casting demons out of Churchgoers.
I really like Sigga Hernandez, but I was concerned when I found out about a year ago that Benny Hinn is his mentor.
I was just asking the Lord about this today, then I see this video!
But I am so saddened because Digga Hernandez has some videos really good videos on the holy spirit, prayer and encouragement. This really saddens me.
I’ll be honest with you: as a Bible scholar of 30 years, David teaching videos are the best I’ve ever seen. Biblically sound and doctrinally accurate. I don’t know if he’s just convinced himself that he needs to do these healing shows on the side in order for the ministry to grow. I don’t know what he’s thinking. But as a teacher, until I see otherwise, Maybe we can just enjoy his teaching lessons and try to avoid the healing sessions.
I was in Bennys choir for 2 of his his healing services in the 90's(Pittsburg, Halifax). Im hearing the exact same worship songs in this service as i did with Bennyd services.
So it's now wrong to sing the same worship songs that Benny Hinn sings?
@@emmanuelokon9162 It's more than just the same songs. Same format & structure. It's a production. A show. Whole waves of people supposedly being slain in the spirit while getting super hyped & we used the music to excite them. A ton of phony, fraudulent activity going on in the Name of the Holy Spirit. Do some research. Members of his own family have exposed some of Benny's heinous activities. So when I see carbon copies of that cesspool 40 years later, I am not received, because I experienced it firsthand behind the scenes. RW Shambach, Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Oral Roberts, Jesse DuPlantiss. All false teachers, preachers, evangelists, etc. Same music, same format, same wolves in sheep's clothing. Best you get in your prayer closet with Jesus if you are deceived by the likes of them. He says "My people perish for lack of knowledge".
1st time I heard David Hernandez back in 2020, I wasn't watching the vid but just listening to his service while doing tasks.
Then I heard him say things that sounded very familiar.
Then I realized all the words and music and sounds sounded so much like Benny that I thought I was on a Benny hinn channel.
So I picked up phone to see if you tube had skipped to next vid and since it didn't I watched for a bit and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Someone was replicating move for move song for song EXACTLY what Hinn did!!!
Don't know why , but I was SHOCKED and disappointed.
I was stupified that the Christians had not learned yet.
Worse.... One SOUND pastor I've been listening to started hanging out with this bunch that Costi named.
I've been trying to warn him but my comments get deleted.
I cannot believe this is just a recycling.
Joni Erickson is a great example with a deeply moving testimony about healing. She's quadriplegic and she shares about the Father not healing her for the sake of her soul! If you never heard her story its definitely a must listen ✝️💜🙏
Aren’t there laws against fraud?
Take him to a hospital to have him heal not going to happen
I think these sorts of videos need to be careful. The need for valid criticism needs to make sure it's done properly. One example, the criticism that on stage healings aren't medically verified is silly. No-one one on stage is going to get medically verified there and then, and in the follow up how many will get medically verified? It's not an easy thing to follow up on. So you can't point to the absence of that as proof of fake healings. Instead, people who have gone forward for healings could be encouraged to get confirmation so that it can be demonstrated. But ultimately, people don't look for healing so that they can get a piece of paper.
In a way, it's not the healing, per se, that's the issue. Not even the template necessarily. It can be helpful to spot similar practises etc. But the focus needs to be on the teaching, and people need to be made aware of ways that they could be emotionally manipulated. And perhaps most importantly, people need to be given the genuine article - what the true ministry of the church looks like.
I’m so glad I researched Diga. He has some ear tickling doctrine that sounds interesting.
2:10 - What exactly do mean when you say that people don't have gifts of healing or prophecy today? Is that in contradiction to 1 Corinthians 12?
Love Jesus Image! Beautiful ministry! 🎉
It's all a show, that is what the music is for.
A bunch of people who could be working, sleeping, at a concert, or in the club come together to sing theologically sound worship songs to God and folks like you just dismiss it as 'a show'.
Just remember that we'll give account to God for every careless word we make.