It is interesting where life takes you. A friend has been reading my posts against faith healing, researched it and ran across Costi Hinn.
He is the nephew of Benny Hinn. The Lord graciously delivered him out of all that crap and he now spends his life in part writing books and giving interviews exposing the lies.
I have in fact written him on Facebook, linked the blog, letting him know the Lord has taken me down a very interesting path, please read. He may show up and do that!
So before the Lord and the world, may only Truth be proclaimed here; may only Truth happen here. May all real errors, lies, and machinations of the Enemy be ruthlessly exposed and brought to nothing.
But above all, the blog is about Jesus. Belongs to Him, His territory, whatever He wants. Like my life. Like Charles de Foucauld, I abandon myself to You, Lord Jesus Christ. I accept all; I surrender all.
May this blog be Your sacred space; may only Your Will and no one else’s happen here. Live, die, I am Yours O Lord.
I just ask above all You would be utterly glorified and lifted high, that this blog would testify only to and of You regardless of the cost to me.
I worship You and lift You high. I love You so very much, O amazing Lord. ❤❤❤ In Jesus’ Name Amen.
Dear brother Costi, I am writing this to you in case you show up and read it. What immense courage you had to escape and now to spend your life opposing great Enemy works.
I doubt you ever talk about the costs, but as I am doing that on a much smaller scale, I know they are there. Blessings on you, your wife and family. Thank you for your sacrifices and service. 😊
Your sister in Christ, Seren.
Okay so I listened to two podcasts interviewing Mr. Hinn and took copious notes.
They are available via whatever podcast software you may have. One is on “The Alisa Chalders Podcast” channel. Look for the one about the Prosperity Gospel and Mystical Miracle Movement.
The second is on “Equipping You In Grace” and is their Episode 139.
O Body Of Christ, Where Are You?
I learned what the Body of Christ has been up to and why they are not out there actually loving the lost and each other.
The Enemy has them all snarled up in occult practices, building physical churches, and theology debates. What I see is a huge rejection of actual spiritual gifts, as a reaction to being only in environments where those gifts were fakery or demonic.
This is quite understandable. But then I see they have gotten hung up on “correct theology.” I see this as an understandable response to lives drenched in the occult and lies.
But “correct theology” will not in the end save you. Only personally knowing Jesus Christ in a real, tangible relationship you experience like other relationships will do that.
Since the lies involved literally manufacturing your own reality or just denying the truth, however, I get why people went there.
Let’s Review: What Is The Fundamental Difference Between The Occult And The Spirit?
If you have been reading the blog, you know it all boils down to whose will is being done.
If you are attempting to accomplish your own will/the Enemy’s will, that is the core of what makes a spiritual act, of whatever kind, magick.
If you instead are trying to accomplish God’s Will, then only God can do this. You literally cannot accomplish God’s Will in your flesh.
“Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
“We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
“So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
“So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.” ~ Romans 7:13-25, NIV.
It is indeed important to know the truth from a lie when your whole life was spent living one. I understand why this is your focus.
But all “correct theology” will ultimately do is identify what species of sinner you are. It won’t save you at all.
Literally only Jesus Himself can do that through His indwelling Spirit, living His life through you.
“But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Sonship Through the Spirit
“Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. ~ Romans 8:9-17, NKJV.
What follows are SOLELY MY personal interpretations and conclusions about the podcasts. They do NOT necessarily reflect the views of Costi Hinn.
A Chosen Family, But Not By The Lord
So as far as I can tell from listening to these podcasts, the Enemy at some point in time set his sights on Benny Hinn and his family.
The incredibly simple premise was: teach them the basics of magick and have them perform and teach it under the guise of Christianity. Everyone will fall for it.
That worked splendidly well; by Costi Hinn’s own admission what was once a fringe movement is now mainstream evangelicalism.
Satan rewarded his servants with wealth and power far beyond dreams, which naturally attracted fallen mankind. Just keep performing magick onstage, say it is true Christianity, and I will keep the gravy train rolling.
Sweet Little Lies
It was necessary to pervert the Gospel a bit. Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of lords, being the real God, was unlikely to stand idly by while Satan misused His Name above all names.
Therefore a slight modification was needed. The Hinns didn’t preach the real Jesus Christ, but what Costi Hinn calls “Gospel Plus.”
In “Gospel Plus” you get all the benefits promised to you in Heaven…NOW. You are therefore guaranteed the total victory, healing, treasures in Heaven, blessings, that sweet mansion Jesus said He would prepare for you. NOW.
A certain famous televangelist talked about treasure in Heaven but cashing it in NOW. Another preaches Best Life Now. Costi Hinn calls it “Jesus + benefits.”
Satan rewarded all these people preaching his twisted version of Christianity with wealth, fame and power. So, therefore, many eagerly signed on, all those who sought such things.
The real object of worship in “Gospel Plus” isn’t Jesus but SELF. It is about how can I manipulate God into doing what I want. In other words, SELF WILL.
Put On Stage Makeup, A Big Smile, And Plaster Any Cracks
As it was Satan’s show and not the Lord’s, things went wrong. People were not healed, or something happened that wasn’t supposed to. You learned to blow it off. If you got too nosy or had too many questions, you were warned not to question the Lord’s anointed.
Occasionally a little more force was necessary to keep the sheeple in line. If someone didn’t get healed, the hoax couldn’t be admitted. Therefore the victim got blamed, told it was THEIR lack of faith at fault.
As opposed to this being a massive lie and Enemy work. Blame the sick person, what fun!
Ooohh we can extend this a little bit. People who still fought then got told they had to give something, sacrifice, do something costly and uncommon to get that healing.
All kinds of ways to exploit that.
One of the common ones was leaders using it as leverage to get people in line. Your friends left our church, think something is wrong here.
So cut them off and anyone else who questions my anointing. God will honor your sacrifice and you will get the blessings, healing, anointing you desire, heh heh heh.
That is every bit as evil as it sounds. You see now we have a culture of secrets, lies, abusive and controlling behaviors that is a clear Enemy signature.
Making Withdrawals From The Bank Of God Inc.
The basic principles of magick the Hinns used worked the same with wealth as well as health. Just use them to basically print money, what a great life!
Just, remember old Uncle Satan, do me a little favor and share with all the nice people how you got crazy rich. Much obliged.
So the servants happily did so. Came up with blessing formulas, some involving specific numbers, justified with Bible verse soup. Drew scattered verses from all over out of context, used them to write a convincing sales pitch.
Cha ching! Business was booming; the servants of Hell wealthy and powerful, huge numbers of souls now in the Enemy’s clutches, wanting the same for themselves.
Follow our prayer formula, that vacation house in Tahiti will be yours. You don’t even have to think. In fact don’t, that is SO much better.
What Do Successful Businesses Do? Expand Operations, Duh.
In 2004, one of the chosen servants announced he had a prophetic word from the “Lord”. Apostles were coming back!
New Apostolic Reformation Is Launched
Apostles would hold the authority of the church. They would be granted the power to control weather, do miracles OBVIOUSLY, spark revivals, turn over churches and even GOVERNMENTS.
Whoa sign me up how do I become one of those????
Anything is available at the right price, my dears. Pay up and an apostleship is yours. We even offer a couples discount for the discerning, and well heeled, couple.
We of course want the apostles to be properly educated, so we started a school so you can learn how to wield your new miraculous gifts you purchased.
There is a learning curve of course, and a reasonable fee. Teachers are a bit scarce, unfortunately. We just want you to succeed.
When you graduate our secret training, you will be able to control healing with your will, alter reality according to your wishes. That is worth the price we ask, right???
Nope this doesn’t describe Hogwarts or a secret Illuminati school. You would be forgiven for thinking that though.
Sadly, this obviously stupidly occult doctrine has been extremely well packaged and marketed. It really IS mainstream and it is THIS I am running into!
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Christ is the only Life, as this post testifies.
Please pray for Costi Hinn, his family and his church, as I am sure he draws heavy fire of all kinds for his continuing brave stand.
The Lord bless you all! In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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