Sick Healers?
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Roberts Liardon
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It's Not Working For Them Either! Probably the saddest "cut" of all is the FACT that the
majority of what the Word of Faith/Prophetic Movement charismaniacs teach does not even
work in their own sorry lives. I do not deny that the Lord our God is a Healer
- - - but He does so according to His sovereign will. We, His children DO
NOT command healing to "be." The people cited below all (with the
exception of the Wimber's) teach that healing is the right of all God's children, that we
can speak creative miracles into existence, that we can live in such an
"anointed" manner as to NEVER even get sick! Divine Healing That Wasn't Doyle "Buddy" Harrison, Founder of Harrison House Books, son-in-law of Kenneth E. Hagin died Nov. 1998 of cancer. He was the founder of Faith Christian Fellowship, the WOF denomination. How could he have died of cancer? He was in the "faith movement" BEFORE Copeland and others . . . E.W. Kenyon, Father
of the Word of Faith Movement. One of the initial teachers of divine
healing and it always being God's will to heal His children. Died in a coma brought on by
a malignant tumor. Copeland teaches that Kenyon was sitting in a rocking chair, his
daughter came into the room and Kenyon said "there's Jesus, good bye," and went
to glory. This is a lie. He died from disease. Frederick K. Price, Word of Faith mega-church
pastor in Los Angeles - his wife, Betty got cancer and was medically treated
(chemo-therapy) and by the mercy of God was patched up. "If you need a crutch upon or something to help you get along, then praise God,
hobble along until you get your faith moving to the point that you don’t need a
crutch." How Faith Works pp. 92-92 Jamie Buckingham, Discipleship Movement & charismatic author - died of cancer. He was under a medical doctors care. Charles Capps, Word of Faith teacher, teaches power of our words to create reality - his wife got cancer and was medically treated.
I guess Chuck’s wife must have not spoken the right magic words to keep the cancer from her body. John Wimber, Signs & Wonders Movement,
author of "Power Healing," - just died from cancer. He too, was medically
treated - no "power" healing for him, only chemo-therapy. Mack Timberlake, Word of Faith pastor - suffering from throat cancer, getting medical attention. R.W. Schambach, Faith Healer - got a quadruple heart bypass (from a real live human doctor)
Maybe so, but isn't it nice that He has provided doctors too? Without them, R.W. would have long ago faced his judgment. Dr. Hobart Freeman, Word of Faith teacher &
pastor of Faith Assembly - over 90 people died in his church following his teaching and
then Hobart died due to a medically treatable disease. Joyce Meyer, the fast rising Word of Faith female preacher. On Aug. 31, 1998 on her morning broadcast admitted that she had breast cancer and was MEDICALLY TREATED. I found her admission to be very interesting. Prophet Keith Grayton, Prophetic Movement - died of the complications of AIDS He spoke at our Church in Detroit, and declared he was totally healed. He died a year or so later. Kenneth Hagin, "father"
of the Word of Faith Movement - sister died of cancer, (he wears glasses as does his
son). Hagin’s great faith and special anointing could not keep her on the
planet or his eyesight from growing dim. Hagin's sister died from cancer.
Hagin's wife had to go to the hospital for an operation
even though Jesus "appeared" to Hagin and gave him a special anointing
to heal the sick (read I Believe In Visions). If people believe Hagin is
anointed then they will be healed, I guess his own family members doubt his
healing powers. Robert Tilton, God's "profit" admitted he had to get special face-lifting surgery because of the danger of getting ink poisoning from laying on all the prayer requests he received. Why didn't he command healing . . .like he does for countless others over the airwaves?
These people teach that it is God’s will to heal His children every time they come to Him in "faith." They also teach that we can "have what we say." Yet when they get sick what do they do? They go to the doctor just like the rest of us. None of the above received a "divine healing" or a "miracle" by the Biblical standard. In fact, several of these fine "Christians" berate other people who get sick and say it is due to their "lack of faith." However, when they or their family members get sick it is always an "attack of the devil," trying to stop their important Kingdom work. My point is simple - what they preach does not work. Why not? Because their teaching is not Biblical and thus God does not back up their doctrine. How Do They Explain The Following Text? Deut. 34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. I have heard many WOF teachers "preach" this text in the context of "Divine Life" which refers to NEVER getting sick at all. The fact is Kenneth Hagin Sr. and Junior both wear glasses, as does Oral Roberts, Marilyn Hickey, Charles Capps, and Joyce Meyers (to name a few). NONE of the Pentecostal/Charismatic teachers of divine healing/health/life have ever lived to be 120 years old either. The fact is their eyesight fails with age, like everyone else’s, but this does not stop them from preaching their false doctrines regarding healing. How Do They Explain? Katherine Kuhlman - an
acknowledged divine healer DIED from heart
disease in Tulsa OK, Oral Roberts could not heal her! These people were leaders in the field of divine healing, they allegedly got "results" and yet they too died from medical problems. How can this be? Why couldn't their fellow faith-healers get them healed? The answer? - Because NONE of these folks EVER HEALED ANYBODY! They were frauds and con-men/women who DID NOT PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACHED. When the chips were down where did they go? To the next tent meeting or miracle crusade? HECK NO! They ran to their private highly paid physicians and surgeons! Morality 1. Robert Tilton, Word of Faith Televangelist - 2 divorces, multiple law suits, caught in many lies, utters many false prophecies, uses unscrupulous means to garner millions from God's "gullible." 2. Peter Popoff, Televangelist - a proven fraud (read "The Faith Healers" by James Randi) 3. W. V. Grant, Televangelist - convicted felon for tax fraud, a divorcee. 4. Leroy Jenkins, Televangelist - convicted felon for arson & assault. 5. Jimmy Swaggert, Televangelist - adulterer, opulent lifestyle while crying broke on television. 6. Marilyn Hickey, Word of Faith teacher - shameless use of charismatic trinkets (blessed cornmeal, oils, cloths, seeds, coins, etc.). 7. Marjoe Gortner, came from 3 generations of Pentecostal preachers. He laid hands on multitudes to give them the "gift" of tongues. . . yet he himself was not saved. He admitted this publicly, and made a movie showing him in action. Unsaved, yet seeming to flow in the miraculous. 8. Jim Bakker, convicted felon. Jim & Tammy lived high off the hog for many years. Later they divorced, and in jail the Lord seems to have dealt with Jim and I think he has repented. 9. E.W. Kenyon, divorced his wife yet taught that faith is a law that works by another law, the law of love! We are told by WOF teachers that Kenyon was a man of faith and power - but how could his "god-kind-of-faith" been in operation if he could not even love his wife properly? These ministers represent just a portion of the charismaniac stew available on television. Each one of them is far more a servant of their own greed and lust for money & fame than they are a servant of Jesus Christ. Each of them promotes a wide range of heretical concepts always backed up with a plea to send the your money. The problem is that these (and others) claim a high degree of sanctification. Each claims to either have met with Jesus personally, seen Him in an open vision, been visited by angels, etc. . .Yet with only a cursory look into their personally lives and lifestyles one quickly sees how fraudulent their claims are. Some might want to say "these people do not represent the movement" or that I have "stacked the deck." The sad TRUTH of the matter is that these people are KEY PEOPLE in the movement. Some of these are the acknowledged LEADERS. Since what they promote does not work in their own lives why should anyone else believe them? |
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