This was so creepy, I had to shut it off! I'm not sure if it was demonic or dementia, or maybe both, but that was not of God! When you see this kind of video, it really just confirms what liars and false teachers these people are! And Hagin was supposed to be the "daddy" of the whole Word Faith movement.
Very sad! I hope I can get that video out of my mind, soon!
It takes a special kind of person to watch demonic videos like these, in order to refute them. (I am not one of those who can watch this kind of disgusting behavior long, for sure!) Last year, there was Osteen thread. I decided to read some of his sermons. Give him a chance to shine. Besides being infantile and written at about a grade 4 level, there was no knowledge of the bible, terrible exegetical mistakes, and always pushing for money and happiness as the goal of our Christian walk!
The goal of our Christian walk is to be transformed into the likeness of Christ, the one who had no place to lay his head, to allow the Holy Spirit to change our character, through suffering, trials, and difficulties. (Romans 5:3-5; Romans 12:1-2; 2 Cor. 11:23-29 etc!)
I also posted Osteen's sermon here and "analyzed" it. I don't think anyone even commented on it, agreeing or disagreeing. Maybe I overwhelmed them? Our underwhelmed?
I dare anyone to actually read their sermons, and look at how many verses are used, and how they are used. A verse never stands in isolation.
Basic Bible Interpretaton means context, context, context! The gospel itself includes the whole bible! The Word Faith Gospel, no matter what person is preaching it, is not Biblical, in that it reflects a truncated view of the whole of Scripture. The selectivity of these evangelists allow them not only to espouse a view not taught anywhere in the NT, but also to carefully avoid hundreds of texts that stand squarely in opposition to their teaching!
Joanie Marie posts devotion after devotion by Joseph Prince. He often uses Greek, but he does not translate the words correctly, according to 3000+ years of the knowledge of both Classical and Koine Greek, to say nothing of Byzantine and modern Greek. They twist the words to mean something different and always to support their heresy. How easy to seduce people into their false gospel by throwing out a few Greek words to make themselves impressive, when they either do not know Greek (or Hebrew) or they are changing the definition to suit their own agenda!
Grace777 is another one who does that all the time. He took a Greek word, metanoia, and actually changed the word to mean something different, that is not the gospel. When he came out and said that repentance was just "changing your mind" like if you change your mind about whether you are going to the grocery store or farmer's market, I finally saw how this ugly game of distorting the Bible gets!
We won't even get into all the people that quote one verse, or 1/4 of a verse, in the case of Isa. 53:5d. They pull a long chapter and book out of context, which is how Jesus died to heal our sin sick souls.
"She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,because he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”)." Matt 1:21-23.
Who was the prophet mentioned above? The same Isaiah that wrote Isa. 53 and wrote this prophecy in Isa. 9. The book of Isaiah was written for 2 reasons:
1. To encourage the people to repent of their sins!
2. To encourage the people that the Messiah who would forgive their sins would come (700 years later!)
To take Isa. 53:5d out of context, means ripping it out of not just the verse, but the chapter and the whole Bible. I literally see this in every Word Faith preacher I hear or read. It is a cobbled together, uncontextal gospel, that is contrary to the Bible.
I urge everyone to stop reading these preachers, and just read the Bible through a few times or 50. When you start reading the words in context, you begin to realize why Word Faith is a heresy. Because, it is a "different gospel."
"I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! 9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!" Gal 1:6-9
