Strange Fire by John MacArthur

Author:John MacArthur [John MacArthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

BENNY HINN VERSUS THE BIBLE

Perhaps no place in Scripture indicts the modern charismatic search for signs and wonders more than our Lord’s rebuke of the Pharisees in Matthew 16:4: “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign.” Though the multitudes crowded Jesus, desiring to see a miracle or experience a healing, the Lord “did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men” (John 2:24). Jesus knew there is a false kind of faith—that which is little more than a superficial curiosity about the supernatural, not a genuine love for the Savior.

The modern Charismatic Movement is characterized by that same kind of superficial faith. Yet it is far worse. In the days of Jesus and the apostles, true miracles were being performed. In our day, though charismatic leaders claim to have that same supernatural power, nothing truly miraculous is being done through them. The so-called ministries of today’s faith healers and televangelists are nothing more than a facade. Healers like Benny Hinn are obvious con artists who are getting rich on the backs of gullible and desperate people.

So why devote an entire chapter to Benny Hinn, if he has been publicly and repeatedly discredited? The answer is twofold. First, in spite of his many guffaws, blunders, and scandals, Hinn remains a popular charismatic televangelist and the most well-known face of faith healing. His “ministry” continues to impact hundreds of millions of people around the globe while simultaneously raking in hundreds of millions of dollars. Second, Hinn’s insistence on the continuation of miraculous healing for today aptly illustrates the devastating extremes to which the charismatic position on healing logically leads. Faith healers like Hinn claim to be able to replicate the healings of the apostolic age. In reality, their shenanigans have none of the characteristics of the actual New Testament gift of healing. In the rest of this chapter we will consider six stark contrasts between the healings recorded in Scripture and the modern counterfeit.

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