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posted by Bob Hunter @ Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Television evangelist Mark Chironna is a frequent host of the Trinity Broadcasting Network’s (TBN)Praise the Lord program and has his own show on TBN called The Master’s Touch. He’s also the overseer of The Master’s Touch International Church in Orlando, Florida.
God Ceased to Exist?
Unfortunately, in his ministry, Chironna communicates a basic misunderstanding about many aspects of the Scriptures, starting with the nature of God. He says “When He [Jesus] released Himself back into the hands of the loving and Almighty Father and He said ‘It is finished,’ literally…that moment when the immortal One died, rocks split apart, because that which held them for that brief moment was no longer in charge…and the whole earth went dark because that which held it together was expired for a moment.”
How can the "immortal One" expire? In reality, Jesus never ceased to exist, even for a moment, because it would have meant that God, who by definition is eternal, ceased to exist. In addition to the fact that the earth "went dark" starting at noon, not when Jesus died at 3:00 p.m., one might ask, if the rocks split because Jesus, the One who held them together, had died, then why didn’t the rest of the universe, including everyone on earth, also split for a moment?
Preaching the Health and Wealth Gospel
Chironna teaches that to the poor the Good News of the Gospel is money. “So in Isaiah 61….The first thing He says is ‘He has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.’ What is good news to the poor? You don’t have to be poor anymore. And if you don’t believe me, even liberal scholars acknowledge that Christ is talking about economic compensation, payback, economic forgiveness….God wants to bring people out of places of poverty into places of abundance.”
One would wonder why Chironna, who is supposed to be conservative, is quoting liberal scholars for support. To learn the context of this passage, Chironna would have done well to quote the rest of Isaiah 61:1, which continues, “He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.” The passage in Isaiah that Jesus quotes describes what Jesus did in His ministry, and, in context, it is obvious that Jesus is presenting Good News for the poor in spirit, and for those oppressed by sin – the Good News being the forgiveness of sins. Likewise, in places like the Sermon on the Mount He talked about the poor in spirit, not the poor in pocket book.
While Jesus did heal the blind and the lame, He didn’t restore wealth to the physically poor, nor did He even give them a pep talk on how to escape physical poverty. On the contrary, He warned people about the deceitfulness of wealth (Mark 10:24, 25).
Giving God Permission to Act
Chironna tells followers to speak words of faith and give God permission to act. “How many of you know you’re a new species of being? If you really are, then what God did in the original creation you can now give Him permission to do again in the new creation….Now you have the mind of God on the inside….You realize the person of perfect health is already living inside your body even if you’re sick right now. And what you and I need to understand is that God wants us to begin to think His thoughts after Him and once we think them, God the Son wants to then speak them on His behalf. That’s what the word of faith is….And then once you hear something in the Spirit, speak it with your mouth. As the Father thinks, the Son speaks and then the Spirit takes what you say and begins to reorder your world to line up with your faith!”
If people need to give God permission to do anything then He is no longer sovereign! Chironna teaches that Christians can speak things into existence. He states, “If I’ve been made in the image of God and I’m not like a giraffe or a monkey, the thing that makes me like God is I can talk. I can say ‘Let there be’ and there will be.” Imagine the chaos in the world if everyone could have exactly what they wanted, even if this ability applied only to Christians?
Choosing Wise Teachers
James made it clear that those who teach will come under more strict judgment from God (James 3:1), and Peter warned that false prophets and teachers would invade the church, introducing destructive heresies (2 Peter 2:1). It is the responsibility of the Christian not to blindly accept the teachings of anyone (particularly most of those on TBN) but to test everything by the Word of God.
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Praise the Lord, Trinity Broadcasting Network, January-April 2003
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posted by Bob Hunter @ Monday, October 19, 2009
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posted by Bob Hunter @ Thursday, October 01, 2009
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posted by Bob Hunter @ Friday, July 31, 2009
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"Now all these expressions, 'Him Which Is,' and 'Him Which Was,' and 'Is To Come,' and 'Faithful Witness,' and 'Firstborn From Among the Dead,' and 'Prince of the Kings of the Earth,' and 'The Alpha .and Omega,' and 'The Almighty,' are titles and descriptions of the ONE AND THE, SAME PERSON, Who is the Lord Jesus Christ, Who washed us from our sins in His own blood.
The Spirit of God in John expresses thusly in order to set forth the Supreme Deity of Jesus Christ and to reveal the Godhead as ONE God. Today there is a gross error. It is that there are three Gods instead of one. This revelation as given to John by Jesus, Himself, corrects that error. It is not that there are three Gods, but one God with three offices. There is ONE God with three titles, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. This mighty revelation IS what the early church had, and it must be restored in this last day along with the correct formula of water baptism.
Now modern theologians won't agree with me for here is what was written in a great Christian magazine. That teaching (on the Trinity) is at the very
heart and core of the Old Testament. It is every whit as much at the heart and core of the New Testament. The New Testament is just as much opposed as the Old Testament is to the thought that there are more Gods, than one. Yet the New Testament with equal clearness teaches that the Father is God, and the Son is God; and the Holy Spirit is God, and that these three are NOT three aspects of the same Person, but three persons standing in a truly personal relationship to one another. There we have the great doctrine oh the Three Persons but one God.
They also state, God, according to the Bible,. is not just one person, but He is three persons in one God. That is the great mystery of the Trinity. "It sure is. How can three persons be one God? Not only is there no Bible for it, but it shows even a lack of intelligent reasoning. Three distinct persons, though identical substance; make three gods; or language has lost its meaning entirely. Just listen to these words again, I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, saith the Lord, Which Is, and Which Was, and Which Is to Come, the Almighty. This is Deity. This is not simply a prophet, a man. This is God. And it is not a revelation of three Gods, but of ONE God, the Almighty.
They didn't believe in three Gods in the beginning of the church. You can't find that sort of belief amongst the apostles. It was after the apostolic age that this theory came in and really became an issue and a cardinal doctrine at the Nicene Council. The doctrine of Godhead caused a two-way split at Nicea. And from that split it there came two extremes. One actually, went into polytheism, believing in three Gods, and the others went into Unitarianism. Of course that was a little while in coming about, but it did, and we have it right today. But the Revelation through John by the Spirit to the churches was, I am the Lord Jesus Christ, and I am ALL of it. There isn't any other God, And He put His seal on this Revelation:
Consider this: Who was the Father of Jesus? Matt. 1:18 says, She was found with child of the Holy Ghost. But Jesus, Himself, claimed that God was His Father. God the Father and God the Holy Ghost, as we often express these terms, make the Father and the Spirit ONE. Indeed they are, or else Jesus had two Fathers. But notice that Jesus said that He and His Father were One, not two. That makes ONE God.
Since this is historically and Scripturally true, people wonder where the three came from. It became a foundational doctrine at the Nicene Council in 325 A.D. This trinity (an absolutely unscriptural word) was based upon the many gods of Rome. The Romans had many gods to whom they prayed. They also prayed to ancestors as mediators. It was just a step to give new names to old gods, so we have saints to make it more Biblical. Thus, instead of Jupiter, Venice, Mars, etc. we have Paul, Peter, Fatima, Christopher, etc., etc. They could not make their pagan religion work out with just one God, so they split Him up into three, and they made intercessors of the saints as they had made intercessors of their ancestors.
Ever since then people have failed to realize that there is just one God with three offices or manifestations. They know there is one God according to Scripture, but they try to make it the fantastic theory that God is like a bunch of grapes; three persons with the same Divinity shared equally by all. But it plainly says here in Revelation that Jesus is That Which Is, That Which. Was, and 'That Which Is to Come.. He is the Alpha and Omega, which means that He is the' A: to "Z' 'Or The All Of It, He is Everything, The Almighty." He is the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the valley, the Bright and Morning Star, the Righteous Branch, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. He is God, Almighty God. ONE GOD.
1 Tim. 3: 16 says, And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness.God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles; believed on in the world, received up into Glory. This is what the Bible says. It doesn't say a thing about a first or second or third person here. It says God was manifest in flesh. One God. The ONE GOD was manifested in flesh. That ought to settle it. God came in a human form. That didn't make Him ANOTHER GOD. HE WAS GOD, THE SAME GOD. It was a revelation then, and it is a revelation now, One God.
Labels: William Branham
posted by Bob Hunter @ Sunday, February 08, 2009
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posted by Bob Hunter @ Friday, October 10, 2008
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posted by Bob Hunter @ Tuesday, September 02, 2008
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"To the Scribes, the Pharisees and the hypocrites, the heresy hunters that want to find a little mote of illegal doctrine in some Christian's eye and poke that little mote out of their eye when they've got the whole forest in their own lives and in their own eyes, I say to hell with you!" Paul Crouch.
I am the former Coordinator of Research for the Christian Research Journal, and writer/researcher for the Christian Research Institute.
