Is Word of Faith another Gospel?
Another gospel or is it The Gospel
Religion would have us believe that God wants the majority of us sick, poor, or in some other “test”. But what does Jesus say? In John 10:10 He says that it is the thief that comes to steal, kill, and to destroy, in contrast He has come to give us Life and Life more abundantly. In John 3:16 (we all know it by memory) “…that whosoever shall believe in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” The interesting thing is that the word “life” in both verses means the Zoe life of God. As you can imagine it means much more than just being able to breath. Zoe, in a few words is the life in all things, it means being complete and whole, it is the exact opposite of being dead, useless, damaged, or lack.
These aren’t my words or opinions. This is the Word of God.
In Luke 4:18 Jesus says that He is anointed to preach the Gospel (the good news) to the poor. In verse 19 He continues by saying he must preach the acceptable year of the Lord in other words the year of Jubilee. In that year all debts were canceled, all things that were pawned were returned. In other words everything was returned to its original state.
Our original state is the way God created us in the first place. Not the way we were born in the Earth but the way He created Adam and Eve. No sickness, No disease, no disfigurement, no lack. In fact He created Adam and Eve in a garden that was more that the couple needed, and He placed them in authority and power over the entire creation.
Jesus continues in Luke 4:43 by telling His disciples that he must preach the Kingdom of God. In Luke 9:2 He, in turn, tells His Disciples to go and preach the Kingdom of God and heal the sick.
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We are not in that original state, as in the beginning before the fall. We still live in this fallen world. The debt that was canceled was the debt that only a sinless man could pay. All of our sins were canceled.
Heaven is not on this earth. The promises of God are true, but many of them will not be realized in the physical realm.
Thank you for your comment, Earl.
I understand your point of view, and I just want to interject that the reason for this blog isn’t to “Make you” believe this or that. I know that we all agree that we must seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, that we must Love the Lord our God with all our heart and mind and soul, and that we must walk in such a way that the World should know us by our love.
I am overwhelmed by the act Jesus did on the cross. He not only paid for our sins but redeemed us. In fact there is no record of our faults (i.e. sins) anywhere. In other words, we were restored by the price that was paid. In studying this, I can only return to the time and place when we (as humans) became bound to sin, and in need of restoration. That is why Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 5:17 old things have passed away and Behold all things are become new Wow! To be saved is much more than just being rescued from Hell.
As for the Kingdom of God…Jesus said in Matthew 6:10 “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven.” I don’t believe that Heaven is here in Earth but I do believe that we can pray and have the Kingdom of God manifested here on the Earth. The Kingdom of God isn’t Heaven since Heaven is a place. The Kingdom of God is the manifestation of God’s will. It starts in the Spiritual realm and affects the physical realm, as it has since the beginning.
All things start in the Spirit. But it isn’t some ephemeral ghostly thing but a more real thing than what we can see, smell, taste, hear, and touch. Think about it. If indeed the physical world was created out of the Spiritual world then in all “reality” the physical world is the temporal, ephemeral existence. So to say, “This or that is a Spiritual thing or a Spiritual reality and not a physical one” as if to side-line its’ existence is to deny the tree because you see no shadow.
Gabriel Grimes
Please review my site.
The truth of the cross.
Thanks
Ken
Hi Ken,
I wouldn’t consider that a comment, but more of a plug for your site.
In any case, this site is to talk about the Word of Faith and how it is the Word that is preached in the Bible. This site is not about preachers, teachers or other men/women. Jesus never taught about “this person or that person”. He taught the Word.
If you would like to make a specific comment I would be happy to respond.
Gabriel Grimes
My comment is the word of faith teachers teach living the resurected life and this is good. But they do not teach living the crucified life. If one lives the crucified life then they can live the resurected life. If one seeks the resurected life with out living the crucified life then there is no God power for this life. There is power but this power is from another spirit. Because of this the Word of faith movement is another Gospel. One can read scriptural basis on my site.
Thanks
Ken
Ken,
I guess I am slow in responding .
I was looking over the comments on the Blog and I saw your latest comment made in January, 2009.
Once again, this site speaks not about teachers of Word of Faith but what the Word of Faith is. To talk about people would be a mess. Some say one thing and other say another. Within the denominations of the church we see differences and within the same denominations we see differences and within the conventions of the same denominations we see and hear others.
This is a distraction from what Jesus called us to do which was Love one another.
Your website is about pointing out something a teacher said not the Word of Faith.
I understand but what are your thoughts about the word of faith teaching in my comment.
Ken
HI Ken,
The Word of Faith teachers are more recognized for their teachings of living victorious in Christ, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t teach on repentance, forgiveness, putting away the old man, crucifying the flesh. Truly, we can not live victorious until the old is left in the dirt. But once we have chosen the Gift we have been transformed. And our training should not be solely nor mostly on what not to do and what you used to be and how not to be that again.
As we train our children to be adults we dont harp on what they have screwed up, nor do we teach on how to live a crucified life, we teach them to live in love, and obedience. When they do that they will be living a crucified life. In the same way when we are in Christ, we must live a crucified life but it isn’t through that way that we eventually walk circumspect. It is through His love and His teaching of faith, joy, and obedience that brings us to the point we walk in the spirit. Paul said it this way. “Walk in the Spirit and you will not walk in the flesh.”
We can try all our lives to crucify the flesh but if we don’t start walking in the Spirit….we will still be “trying to walk crucified” when He returns.