Guerrero then pressed him on his flashy wardrobe, multiple homes, and limousines. I have a lot of natural gas on my properties. Copeland believes that the idea that preachers should be pious is a Biblical misunderstanding and that he was rewarded by God with great wealth. He backed it up with an anti-Semitic stereotype. Is it not I, the Lord? God made the disabled and infirm. Babies are born every day with defects. Many children grow up with congenital deformities.
Some people have illnesses that last for years. While it is unexplainable according to our human logic, it is all part of God's sovereign, loving plan. Some sicknesses are from Satan. Luke God may allow Satan to inflict illness for His own sovereign reasons. The classic example is Job Job chapter 1. Some sickness is God's chastisement for sin.
Numbers 12 ; Deut. The Bible also tells us plainly that God disciplines the Church through sickness, hardship, and even death 1 Cor. Clearly God allows and even causes sickness for His own sovereign purposes.
Yet Kenneth Copeland allegedly writes: "Tradition has taught that God uses sickness, trials and tribulation to teach us. This idea, however, is not based on the Word of God. Sickness is of the devil, and God doesn't need the devil to straighten us out! That is blasphemy! In Him we have already been delivered from the whole curse. We're protected from danger, sickness, lack or any other bad thing that's under the curse.
God promised us in Psalm 91, 'I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name' verse 14, New Living Translation. Jesus said that we are actually blessed not through victory and success but through mourning, persecution, insults, poverty, hunger, weeping, hatred and rejection Matt. He said that those who follow Him may see their family members become their enemies Matt. All who follow Jesus must give up everything Luke and deny themselves and take up a cross Matt.
Throughout the book of Acts the disciples were persecuted, hauled into courts, threatened, imprisoned, beaten, flogged, stoned to death and put to the sword.
They faced riots and mobs. False witnesses were brought against them. They were scattered from their homes Acts and some believers even had their property confiscated Heb. At one point Paul was imprisoned for two years Acts According to 1 Cor. They was "hard-pressed", "perplexed", "persecuted", "struck down", and "always given over to death" 2 Cor. They faced troubles, hardships, distresses, beatings, imprisonments, riots, hard work, sleepless nights, hunger, dishonor, bad report, beatings, sorrow, and poverty.
Paul himself was chained and imprisoned frequently, flogged five times, beaten with rods three times, stoned once, shipwrecked three times, and was constantly on the move from danger. Cold and naked, he sometimes went without food, water or sleep. Yet Copeland writes: "The only suffering we encounter in sharing His victory is spiritual. That's what the Word is talking about when it says we are to be partakers of Christ's suffering. In other words, the only suffering for a believer is the spiritual discomfort brought by resisting the pressures of the flesh, not a physical or mental suffering.
Jesus has already borne for us all the suffering in the natural and mental realms. That's why it's to God's glory when we are healed or delivered physically and mentally, for we only have to fight in the spirit realm.
Are we to assume Copeland is a stronger man of faith than Paul was? Paul understood the essential Christian doctrine of self-denial. He was willing to take up his cross, put to death his sinful nature, and face persecution and death daily as a bondslave of Christ and for the benefit of others. Yet this crucial Christian concept is strangely absent in Copeland's prosperity teaching. Hebrews describes men of God who were tortured, jeered at, flogged, chained, imprisoned, stoned, sawed in two, and put to death by the sword.
They wore sheepskins and goatskins and wandered the deserts and mountains, living in caves and holes in the ground. The were destitute, persecuted, and mistreated. The Copelands would say these were people of weak faith, but verse 39 says they were commended for their faith! Christians should not be surprised at suffering 1 Peter ; 1 John ; 1 Thess. Godliness and suffering go hand in hand 2 Tim. Looking for a church home?
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The information below was provided to MinistryWatch by the ministry itself. To update the information below, please email: info ministrywatch. Finally Living in God's Will After years of running from the will of God, Kenneth and Gloria packed what they had and their two children and headed to Tulsa by faith. Kenneth had no money to pay for tuition nor did he have a job.
Kenneth was a licensed pilot and was unsure as to how he would be able to manage holding down a job to provide for his family and going to school. On the very first day Kenneth showed up to register for classes, God miraculously provided the money for tuition and books, and he landed a job flying an airplane for Oral Roberts.
He was traveling with Brother Roberts, attending classes during the day and listening to tapes from Kenneth Hagin at night. Although Gloria was not in school, she was growing just as much.
She was committed to studying the Word for hours every day while also taking care of the children and the house. For the first time in their lives, Kenneth and Gloria found themselves smack dab in the will of God, and they couldn't be happier!
They began to experience His peace, provision and direction as they were obedient to obey His will. Receiving the Call to Ministry One day in March , Kenneth knew the Lord was trying to tell him something, but he didn't know what.
He came home from school that afternoon, and decided to go down to the Arkansas River bed, just about a mile from his house, to pray and listen.
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