Thank you so much Alisa and Costi. This has helped me immensely. I am slowly unlearning everything to doing with Word of Faith/Prosperity Gospel. God has been so faithful steering me into all truth, even though it is very hard at times and humbling and I am on my own because the people I know are either family who are non believers or friends still bewitched by Word of Faith/Prosperity teachings. Thank you again.
I saw Benny Hinn live at a Jesus 19 event....I came in with a bad cold, and prayed God would heal me...I continued to feel worse and worse as the night went on. I ended up with bronchitis and pneumonia and was sick in bed for almost a month. The sickest I've ever been. I didn't understand why I didn't get healed that night, but now I'm actually glad I didn't. It made me question the "faith healers" and now I look to God for my healing, not a man
This was worth my time. Thanks to both of you for your honesty. When I was a teen, I attended a youth group meeting once, there weren’t very many people that night, so the leader thought it would be good to “invite” the Holy Spirit so that we could speak in tongues. When Alicia spoke about asking God to receive what was truly from Him, I could totally relate. I did not receive the “gift of tongues”. I hindsight, I’m so thankful for God’s protection.
The gift of tongues is real and offered today. I’m sorry it scared you, but it is biblical. As is healing. You have to take out books of the Bible to get to this conclusion.
Greetings Tracy, I recommend reading 1 Corinthians Chapter 14 in its entirety. In one translation Verse 2 says "For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit." May our Father in Heaven continue to bless you on your journey of Faith.
Acts Chapter 2 records Apostles speaking in every language under Heaven. I'm paraphrasing here. The key phrase is "... as the Sprit enabled them". I would caution no one confuse this with the "speaking in tongues" that Paul would later address. Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit as a Helper, and Comforter.
@@sunsunsusie we should indeed pray for spritual gifts , but the Bible tells us that each will receive a different gift. There is so much said on the gift of speaking in tongues, specifically, that those who have it should pray for the gift of interpreting them. But if there is no one to interpret , then it would be best not to use it in church.
Bring him back! I remember, watching Benni on the foot of my mother's bed as a child and watching him wave his hand and the entire crown falling down and men and women throwing their canes and crutches down and asking my mother, "Mom, do you believe that's real?" She replied, so lovingly, as she always did, "Son, I don't know if THAT is or not but this is what I do know; through GOD, anything is possible."
Wow, this is crazy. I remember my parents took us to a live Benny Hinn event when we were super young and tbh we didn't really think about all this stuff at the time because we were just hearing the name Jesus and not much else. That's how a lot of heresy gets snuck in to so many innocent lives. They know better now but it's just what everyone was listening to at the time and we just went 🥺❤️.
This was an amazing interview. Thank you both! I'm especially glad you two broke down the issue of being "slain in the spirit" - I've experienced it myself but I now know I was not born again at the time and after the Lord saved me I began to realize those practices/occurrences weren't biblical. Thank you again!
I agree with everything Costi said except for being slain in the Spirit. When it is authentic, it means someone encounters the weighty presence of Almighty God. I've had it happen when I am alone. It's not based on "the man" but on God's holy presence.
I also have been slain in the spirit genuinely when called to ministry. - I have also witnessed people who had faked it. When this happened to me. I fell before the Lord because of his glory which is in the Bible many times. His glory cannot be held.
God is still in the healing business. The issue here is endorsement of false teaching. I agree in what one writer said: I believe in faith healing but not faith healers.
Faith Healing most definitely. If anyone is not already familiar with Matthew chapter 8, I recommend reading through it. Verses 5 thru 13 are about a centurion's faith. A Roman Centurion, in charge of 100 other Roman soldiers, was quite likely the last person anyone would expect to approach Jesus and ask for healing, much less healing from a distance!
I have been slain in the spirit and it was a real experience happened a few times when I got filled with the Holy Spirit I was all by myself fell down as a Deadman got the gift of tongues after a year of being safe and I use tongs all the time and I'm in a very balanced charismatic church I'm really sad that so many churches have gone off the rails but I really believe you can be slain in the spirit we can't put the Holy Spirit In A Box I no costi Hinn is against it and I know a lot of it is abused but it is a possibility we're not supposed to judge everything by people that a wackadoodle
Alisa, it's not related to this podcast but maybe you could have Leighton Flowers, Chris Roseborough or William Lane Craig on as guests. I really enjoy listening to your program!
Thank you for this. I was deceived and in the word/faith movement for 20 years and it nearly destroyed my life, my family and my faith. I do what I can now to warn people of the dangers of this heretical movement. It is a cancer in the body of Christ.
Firstly, good work in American Gospel. If you have the time, I’d recommend doing a podcast on theology & law in the Old Testament & New Testament. One common excuse used by liberal Christianity & the NAR is the OT isn’t relevant anymore - Jesus is love - therefore prophecy doesn’t have to be accurate, Holy Spirit makes people drunk & two men can marry each other.
All Word-Faith and NAR teachers and devotees who have constructed this entire narrative off the Word of A Holy God, and live off this narrative for their income, with weekly customers, and franchising this product to the ends of the earth, need to be Born-Again.
Shayna Lander - Good point, operating in faith pleases God and in fact amazed Jesus. Costi acts as though encouraging people to having more faith for healing is somehow wrong. It is not. Costi's credibility is pretty low here, as he acts as representing others beliefs in the worst way, with sweeping generalizations.
Alisa, could you look into Rev Sam Wells in England. He gave a talk at a Progressive Christianity Network Conference in 2013 and has written alot of books and articles....It seems to me, from reading the first few pages of his latest book, that he is a Progressive "Christian". He has created a new reformation movement in UK expanding from his church in London, the movement is called HeartEdge. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this so called Re formation and its ideas infiltrating into the U.K. Church.(Anglican and Scottish)
This is a link to an article he wrote on 'abundant life' for the church times. I'd never heard of him before? www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2017/6-october/comment/opinion/it-s-about-abundant-life-not-hell-avoidance
Claire Dimmock hi! Thanks, I've read that article before. His Re-formation ideas for the national churches here in UK is very progressive in my opinion.
What about that tingling anointing feeling and tongues . I don’t buy those things anymore . Emotionally driven danger ⚠️ we have all been fooled robbed messed around and deceived. Some by active choice some by foolishness !
"Let God be true and everyman a liar". There are abuses now just like there were two days ago or two milennia ago. It's nothing new. Yes let's confront covetousness posing as faith for finances and presumption for healing not rooted in faith. Let's also not allow doubt and unbelief into our lives under the auspices of being so "careful". Let's be "continuationists" who are partnering with God for a greater outpouring of His glory in the earth. And oh BTW, that includes miracles.
Greetings Bob. The Sheep and the Goats of Matthew 25:31-46 , speaks a similar message. Both groups will ask the same question, "Lord, when did we see you...?". The Sheep will be pleased The Son of Man's response. The Goats will very likely not be pleased. Humbling, in my opinion.
Bottom line we need to focus on discipleship in the balanced word of God but sometime people get slain in the spirit and healed and have the gifts of the Spirit but unfortunately all the idiots that are ruined it for so many people and destroyed so many lives and the day of judgment is coming on Judgment Day and then making tons of money off it and it's really sad you wonder why people don't get really safe and is not a true disciples
Word-of-Faith or prosperity gospel? I've heard those referred to as: "Blab it, and grab it, theology". I wonder how much they might have been preaching that stuff in the 1930's during the depression. Was it preached alot in the "roaring 20's?" It would be easy to preach when times are good for most everybody. Then, folks want to "get on the bandwagon" and get their share, too. But when the economy crashes, too many would wonder why its not working. I suspect PROPHECY is like that, too. For instance, does it die-down and go-on-the-back-burner 2yrs. right AFTER we win a war? Does it kick into high gear as a new leader comes to power and we may be at war with country in another year? Who might be pulling-the-strings and manipulating the public this way? When the world didnt end in 2000 and still not in 2001, either.....things may have cooled down in 2003-2004....and then, folks started looking to "the Mayan Calender" and 2012. That, didnt happen either.
Give me a scripture that God stopped doing all of His miracles. You can't. Nothing has ceased but there are those that use anything to con and control people.
@Floyd Frost God is in control. He decides if He heals or not and we have to obey and praise Him anyways. We do not decide if we or somebody else has to be healed. God decides.
@@sunsunsusie I actually can't tell what the OP is even trying to say, but just lol at 'dangerous.' On the other hand, I guess this makes it all seem cooler and more scandalous, though. No one is denying God's power; it's precisely in affirming HIS sovereign will to work as he pleases that we truly affirm it.
NIETHER Alisa NOR Costi have said here that God will no longer heal people or that he doesn't heal today. Reserve any criticism for what they've "actually" said. Otherwise, you're no better off than Job's friends. On a side note: If God stated in Job's final chapter that his friends "...have not said what is right of me", then we 1)should be wary of any teacher quoting Job's friends as a way teaching us about God's nature 2)learn the gravity of the idea that it is absolutely possible to have a wrong view of God. [[e.g., Eliphaz's experience of having a message from a decieving spirit which he, of course, just had to pass along this secret, hushed, & terrifying experience onto Job as a way of rebuking him for sins he never committed!!! -- Job 4:11-21]]
Oral Roberts has won the most evil men even said that he really never saw anyone get heel he was one of the worst and it's really sad because the true Remnant is not experiencing the gift and the power of the holy spirit in the normal way it's really sad what's going on it's sad that we've gotten off the beaten path because of so many evil people that falsified the word of God
To be honest Alisa, it sounds like Costi is going through the same deconstruction of the faith movement that you went through with progressive Christianity. just because Benny Hinn was a little out of balance does not mean he was completely off track. Love believes all things. Yes sometimes people slip into a "works mentality", but this generally happens with an immature view of faith. I don't hear anything related to "entering into His Rest".
@@JewandGreek That is what happens to all of us who come out of bad churches with bad doctrine & abusive leaders. We go from one extreme to the next & hopefully at some point a balance occurs, but it is hard because you kind of go on the defense just listening & looking for wrong teaching & doctrine. There is so much wrong teaching in the Body of Christ right now, so one has to know the Word & discern what is taught.
Benny Hinn taught a self-centered doctrine, encouraging his followers to believe that people were little gods. Something , that God warns us about in the Bible. Something that He utterly abhors, for it goes directly against the 1st commandment.
@@csmoviles Benny Hinn renounced the little gods doctrine in 1993. His critics won't tell you that but I just did. But even when he taught it he didn't teach it in the sense of polytheism as in Mormonism. He was just teaching an arguably extremist view on the Imago Dei.
I agree. We need to believe God for healing. Job happened, but God also healed leper’s. We must believe God for healing and when he doesn’t, we must praise him.
If you read your Hegel you would know that not everyone who criticizes something subscribes to its absolute negation. It is obvious that those who observe errors in WoF do not wish to see anyone sick or impoverished, and suggesting so is far beyond uncharitable. Here are just a few verses that expose the Prosperity gospel as a fraud: The Rich Man and Lazarus Luke 16:25 But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony. 25 And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us. Luke 6:24-25 But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort. 25 Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. The Beatitudes Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the Earth. Matthew 5:9 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, because theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Colossians 3:2 Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things. 1 Peter 4:1-2 1 Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin. 2 Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God. 3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.… 2 Corinthians 5:1-3 1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.…
It's sad that that the True Church of God like an ax and all the gospels is not experienced any of the balance of the word of God so costi Hinn is so turned off and I like him a lot and some of the people he shares with but I don't agree with everything cuz I've been a Charismatic Christian all my life since 1971 and the two churches I've gone to a very balanced and I've suffered as a Believer and I've been healed a couple times but I really believe that the doctor instead of preached I want extreme of the other is no Middle Road and it's very sad
This prosperity and 'new apostleship' gospel has reached all the way up to the White House and Republican Party elites and strong men (aka white christian supremacists). They are pulling Donald Trump's strings. I'm not really off topic with this comment either.
Jesus also said we would do greater things than these. I totally think this video is unbiblical. Especially since we believe in the authority of the Bible. You can’t pick and choose the Bible. Healing is for today and we must obey God. Is anyone of you sick? He should go to the elders of the church and anoint them with oil. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well and the Lord will raise him up. Please offer a verse that suggest the Lord does not promise healing.
There have been many great miracles, not the least of which includes the spread of the Gospel to all continents. We take so much for granted when we focus on the venial, self-glorifying 'signs and wonders' of the Prosperity gnostics.
I have been slain in the spirit and it was a real experience happened a few times when I got filled with the Holy Spirit I was all by myself fell down as a Deadman got the gift of tongues after a year of being safe and I use tongs all the time and I'm in a very balanced charismatic church I'm really sad that so many churches have gone off the rails but I really believe you can be slain in the spirit we can't put the Holy Spirit In A Box I no costi Hinn is against it and I know a lot of it is abused but it is a possibility we're not supposed to judge everything by people that a wackadoodle
Thank you so much Alisa and Costi. This has helped me immensely. I am slowly unlearning everything to doing with Word of Faith/Prosperity Gospel. God has been so faithful steering me into all truth, even though it is very hard at times and humbling and I am on my own because the people I know are either family who are non believers or friends still bewitched by Word of Faith/Prosperity teachings. Thank you again.
Hope your way forward is ever clear and surefooted in this venture.
I saw Benny Hinn live at a Jesus 19 event....I came in with a bad cold, and prayed God would heal me...I continued to feel worse and worse as the night went on. I ended up with bronchitis and pneumonia and was sick in bed for almost a month. The sickest I've ever been. I didn't understand why I didn't get healed that night, but now I'm actually glad I didn't. It made me question the "faith healers" and now I look to God for my healing, not a man
This was worth my time. Thanks to both of you for your honesty. When I was a teen, I attended a youth group meeting once, there weren’t very many people that night, so the leader thought it would be good to “invite” the Holy Spirit so that we could speak in tongues. When Alicia spoke about asking God to receive what was truly from Him, I could totally relate. I did not receive the “gift of tongues”. I hindsight, I’m so thankful for God’s protection.
Alisia (sorry, I misspelled your name above)
The gift of tongues is real and offered today. I’m sorry it scared you, but it is biblical. As is healing. You have to take out books of the Bible to get to this conclusion.
Greetings Tracy,
I recommend reading 1 Corinthians Chapter 14 in its entirety. In one translation Verse 2 says "For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit."
May our Father in Heaven continue to bless you on your journey of Faith.
Acts Chapter 2 records Apostles speaking in every language under Heaven. I'm paraphrasing here. The key phrase is "... as the Sprit enabled them". I would caution no one confuse this with the "speaking in tongues" that Paul would later address.
Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit as a Helper, and Comforter.
@@sunsunsusie we should indeed pray for spritual gifts , but the Bible tells us that each will receive a different gift. There is so much said on the gift of speaking in tongues, specifically, that those who have it should pray for the gift of interpreting them. But if there is no one to interpret , then it would be best not to use it in church.
Bring him back!
I remember, watching Benni on the foot of my mother's bed as a child and watching him wave his hand and the entire crown falling down and men and women throwing their canes and crutches down and asking my mother,
"Mom, do you believe that's real?"
She replied, so lovingly, as she always did,
"Son, I don't know if THAT is or not but this is what I do know; through GOD, anything is possible."
Thank you Costi for sharing your story
Alissa again thank you these podcasts are so needed in these times.
Wow, this is crazy. I remember my parents took us to a live Benny Hinn event when we were super young and tbh we didn't really think about all this stuff at the time because we were just hearing the name Jesus and not much else. That's how a lot of heresy gets snuck in to so many innocent lives. They know better now but it's just what everyone was listening to at the time and we just went 🥺❤️.
This was an amazing interview. Thank you both! I'm especially glad you two broke down the issue of being "slain in the spirit" - I've experienced it myself but I now know I was not born again at the time and after the Lord saved me I began to realize those practices/occurrences weren't biblical. Thank you again!
Great interview Alisa. Thank you for exposing these false theologies.
I agree with everything Costi said except for being slain in the Spirit. When it is authentic, it means someone encounters the weighty presence of Almighty God. I've had it happen when I am alone. It's not based on "the man" but on God's holy presence.
god protects you you good works doers
The enemies of God fell back, those who worshipped Him, fell forward.
I also have been slain in the spirit genuinely when called to ministry. - I have also witnessed people who had faked it. When this happened to me. I fell before the Lord because of his glory which is in the Bible many times. His glory cannot be held.
Also no one prayed for me- I was seeking God and it happened. No one touched me.
I appreciate Costi Hinn telling his story. His book is great too. There are many false teachers, and being "Slain in the Spirit" is not Scriptural.
God is still in the healing business. The issue here is endorsement of false teaching. I agree in what one writer said: I believe in faith healing but not faith healers.
Faith Healing most definitely. If anyone is not already familiar with Matthew chapter 8, I recommend reading through it. Verses 5 thru 13 are about a centurion's faith.
A Roman Centurion, in charge of 100 other Roman soldiers, was quite likely the last person anyone would expect to approach Jesus and ask for healing, much less healing from a distance!
I have been slain in the spirit and it was a real experience happened a few times when I got filled with the Holy Spirit I was all by myself fell down as a Deadman got the gift of tongues after a year of being safe and I use tongs all the time and I'm in a very balanced charismatic church I'm really sad that so many churches have gone off the rails but I really believe you can be slain in the spirit we can't put the Holy Spirit In A Box I no costi Hinn is against it and I know a lot of it is abused but it is a possibility we're not supposed to judge everything by people that a wackadoodle
To my knowledge no believers were " slain in the spirit" in the New Testament
Alisa, it's not related to this podcast but maybe you could have Leighton Flowers, Chris Roseborough or William Lane Craig on as guests.
I really enjoy listening to your program!
thatguy263 No, not Flowers!
Thank you for this. I was deceived and in the word/faith movement for 20 years and it nearly destroyed my life, my family and my faith. I do what I can now to warn people of the dangers of this heretical movement. It is a cancer in the body of Christ.
Firstly, good work in American Gospel.
If you have the time, I’d recommend doing a podcast on theology & law in the Old Testament & New Testament.
One common excuse used by liberal Christianity & the NAR is the OT isn’t relevant anymore - Jesus is love - therefore prophecy doesn’t have to be accurate, Holy Spirit makes people drunk & two men can marry each other.
All Word-Faith and NAR teachers and devotees who have constructed this entire narrative off the Word of A Holy God, and live off this narrative for their income, with weekly customers, and franchising this product to the ends of the earth, need to be Born-Again.
Its all very interesting. You should take a look at the miracles of Kathryn Kuhlman.
Regarding "miracles", check out Matthew 7:21 - 23 (True and False Disciples).
I can’t think of a time Jesus was not moved by faith, can anyone think of any examples? 29:45
Shayna Lander - Good point, operating in faith pleases God and in fact amazed Jesus. Costi acts as though encouraging people to having more faith for healing is somehow wrong.
It is not.
Costi's credibility is pretty low here, as he acts as representing others beliefs in the worst way, with sweeping generalizations.
The prosperity preachers with ANOTHER gospel.
Great interview but I wish Alisa had asked Costi if he believes his uncle Benny is born-again. It would've been interesting to hear his response.
So, if I just tithe, will I be blessed more by God than if I don't? If so, am I still believing in the Prosperity Gospel if I believe this?
Alisa, could you look into Rev Sam Wells in England. He gave a talk at a Progressive Christianity Network Conference in 2013 and has written alot of books and articles....It seems to me, from reading the first few pages of his latest book, that he is a Progressive "Christian". He has created a new reformation movement in UK expanding from his church in London, the movement is called HeartEdge. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this so called Re formation and its ideas infiltrating into the U.K. Church.(Anglican and Scottish)
This is a link to an article he wrote on 'abundant life' for the church times. I'd never heard of him before?
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2017/6-october/comment/opinion/it-s-about-abundant-life-not-hell-avoidance
Claire Dimmock hi! Thanks, I've read that article before. His Re-formation ideas for the national churches here in UK is very progressive in my opinion.
Those calling themselves cessationists, what authority do the have to call cessation on anything?
What about that tingling anointing feeling and tongues . I don’t buy those things anymore . Emotionally driven danger ⚠️ we have all been fooled robbed messed around and deceived. Some by active choice some by foolishness !
I still love pastor Benny, one of my favorite teachers.
❤🙏❤🙏❤
"Let God be true and everyman a liar". There are abuses now just like there were two days ago or two milennia ago. It's nothing new. Yes let's confront covetousness posing as faith for finances and presumption for healing not rooted in faith. Let's also not allow doubt and unbelief into our lives under the auspices of being so "careful". Let's be "continuationists" who are partnering with God for a greater outpouring of His glory in the earth. And oh BTW, that includes miracles.
These false preachers will have to look into the eyes of Jesus , what a day that will be " I never knew you " !
Greetings Bob. The Sheep and the Goats of Matthew 25:31-46
, speaks a similar message. Both groups will ask the same question, "Lord, when did we see you...?". The Sheep will be pleased The Son of Man's response. The Goats will very likely not be pleased.
Humbling, in my opinion.
Sorry this microphone isn't saying everything I mean but hopefully you'll understand
Bottom line we need to focus on discipleship in the balanced word of God but sometime people get slain in the spirit and healed and have the gifts of the Spirit but unfortunately all the idiots that are ruined it for so many people and destroyed so many lives and the day of judgment is coming on Judgment Day and then making tons of money off it and it's really sad you wonder why people don't get really safe and is not a true disciples
Word-of-Faith or prosperity gospel? I've heard those referred to as: "Blab it, and grab it, theology".
I wonder how much they might have been preaching that stuff in the 1930's during the depression. Was it preached alot in the "roaring 20's?" It would be easy to preach when times are good for most everybody. Then, folks want to "get on the bandwagon" and get their share, too. But when the economy crashes, too many would wonder why its not working.
I suspect PROPHECY is like that, too. For instance, does it die-down and go-on-the-back-burner 2yrs. right AFTER we win a war? Does it kick into high gear as a new leader comes to power and we may be at war with country in another year?
Who might be pulling-the-strings and manipulating the public this way?
When the world didnt end in 2000 and still not in 2001, either.....things may have cooled down in 2003-2004....and then, folks started looking to "the Mayan Calender" and 2012. That, didnt happen either.
The apostates and the falling away is here
Give me a scripture that God stopped doing all of His miracles. You can't. Nothing has ceased but there are those that use anything to con and control people.
Agreed. This podcast is a idea that is dangerous. “Christians claiming Godliness but denying his power”
@Floyd Frost
God is in control.
He decides if He heals or not and we have to obey and praise Him anyways.
We do not decide if we or somebody else has to be healed.
God decides.
@@e.l.243 Exactly.
@@sunsunsusie I actually can't tell what the OP is even trying to say, but just lol at 'dangerous.' On the other hand, I guess this makes it all seem cooler and more scandalous, though. No one is denying God's power; it's precisely in affirming HIS sovereign will to work as he pleases that we truly affirm it.
NIETHER Alisa NOR Costi have said here that God will no longer heal people or that he doesn't heal today. Reserve any criticism for what they've "actually" said. Otherwise, you're no better off than Job's friends.
On a side note: If God stated in Job's final chapter that his friends "...have not said what is right of me", then we 1)should be wary of any teacher quoting Job's friends as a way teaching us about God's nature
2)learn the gravity of the idea that it is absolutely possible to have a wrong view of God. [[e.g., Eliphaz's experience of having a message from a decieving spirit which he, of course, just had to pass along this secret, hushed, & terrifying experience onto Job as a way of rebuking him for sins he never committed!!! -- Job 4:11-21]]
Oral Roberts has won the most evil men even said that he really never saw anyone get heel he was one of the worst and it's really sad because the true Remnant is not experiencing the gift and the power of the holy spirit in the normal way it's really sad what's going on it's sad that we've gotten off the beaten path because of so many evil people that falsified the word of God
To be honest Alisa, it sounds like Costi is going through the same deconstruction of the faith movement that you went through with progressive Christianity. just because Benny Hinn was a little out of balance does not mean he was completely off track.
Love believes all things.
Yes sometimes people slip into a "works mentality", but this generally happens with an immature view of faith. I don't hear anything related to "entering into His Rest".
Costi went from one extreme to the other
@@JewandGreek That is what happens to all of us who come out of bad churches with bad doctrine & abusive leaders. We go from one extreme to the next & hopefully at some point a balance occurs, but it is hard because you kind of go on the defense just listening & looking for wrong teaching & doctrine. There is so much wrong teaching in the Body of Christ right now, so one has to know the Word & discern what is taught.
Benny Hinn taught a self-centered doctrine, encouraging his followers to believe that people were little gods. Something , that God warns us about in the Bible. Something that He utterly abhors, for it goes directly against the 1st commandment.
@@csmoviles Benny Hinn renounced the little gods doctrine in 1993. His critics won't tell you that but I just did. But even when he taught it he didn't teach it in the sense of polytheism as in Mormonism. He was just teaching an arguably extremist view on the Imago Dei.
So what do you preach? The poverty gospel? The sick gospel? Are you serious? God wants you prosperous and healed. Period!!!!
My mom died of cancer at age 24. I guess God didn’t want her healed.
I agree. We need to believe God for healing. Job happened, but God also healed leper’s. We must believe God for healing and when he doesn’t, we must praise him.
@ Darrell F
What preach? The true gospel.
What passage of the bible are you reffering to? Thanks.
@@sunsunsusie
Well said. T h a t is the truth.
Bless you.
If you read your Hegel you would know that not everyone who criticizes something subscribes to its absolute negation. It is obvious that those who observe errors in WoF do not wish to see anyone sick or impoverished, and suggesting so is far beyond uncharitable.
Here are just a few verses that expose the Prosperity gospel as a fraud:
The Rich Man and Lazarus
Luke 16:25
But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony. 25 And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.
Luke 6:24-25
But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort. 25 Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
The Beatitudes
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the Earth.
Matthew 5:9
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, because theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Colossians 3:2
Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things.
1 Peter 4:1-2
1 Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin. 2 Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God. 3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.…
2 Corinthians 5:1-3
1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.…
It's sad that that the True Church of God like an ax and all the gospels is not experienced any of the balance of the word of God so costi Hinn is so turned off and I like him a lot and some of the people he shares with but I don't agree with everything cuz I've been a Charismatic Christian all my life since 1971 and the two churches I've gone to a very balanced and I've suffered as a Believer and I've been healed a couple times but I really believe that the doctor instead of preached I want extreme of the other is no Middle Road and it's very sad
Unfortunately, this guy sounds Calvinist, based on the language he's using. That's a whole other can of worms :(
This prosperity and 'new apostleship' gospel has reached all the way up to the White House and Republican Party elites and strong men (aka white christian supremacists). They are pulling Donald Trump's strings. I'm not really off topic with this comment either.
Whatever boomer
Jesus also said we would do greater things than these. I totally think this video is unbiblical. Especially since we believe in the authority of the Bible. You can’t pick and choose the Bible. Healing is for today and we must obey God.
Is anyone of you sick? He should go to the elders of the church and anoint them with oil. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well and the Lord will raise him up.
Please offer a verse that suggest the Lord does not promise healing.
You’re right!
There have been many great miracles, not the least of which includes the spread of the Gospel to all continents. We take so much for granted when we focus on the venial, self-glorifying 'signs and wonders' of the Prosperity gnostics.
I have been slain in the spirit and it was a real experience happened a few times when I got filled with the Holy Spirit I was all by myself fell down as a Deadman got the gift of tongues after a year of being safe and I use tongs all the time and I'm in a very balanced charismatic church I'm really sad that so many churches have gone off the rails but I really believe you can be slain in the spirit we can't put the Holy Spirit In A Box I no costi Hinn is against it and I know a lot of it is abused but it is a possibility we're not supposed to judge everything by people that a wackadoodle
God exists in a box he made for himself.