Benny Hinn repents from the 'Prosperity Gospel'

hades has frozen over

Under discussion. Benny Hinn (might surprise you).

Good for Benny.

Prosperity Gospel teaching is an offense to the Holy Spirit.

First he is talking about how our flesh must be out of the way >

"our brokenness, our old man > we call that the flesh > must be broken, must be out of the way."

But instead now we hear how we need to "build the flesh", "it's a feel-good message". "I am sad to say, that prosperity has gone a little crazy."

He says he thinks it is an offense to say to give money, "to place a price on the Gospel". He says if someone says "break the back of debt with a thousand dollars", he will rebuke them. "That's buying the Gospel, that's buying the blessing, that's grieving the Holy Spirit."

"If you are not giving because you love Jesus, don't bother giving."

"I think it's time we say it like it is > the Gospel is not for sale, and the blessings of God are not for sale, and miracles are not for sale, and prosperity is not for sale.

There is no way this could possibly be true repentance. This guy was a charlatan, and he remains a charlatan who is now just taking another avenue to justify his scamming and fakery. According to the Bible's description of repentance he could only be repentant if he were condemning himself in no uncertain terms, making restitution like Zaccheus, getting out of public ministry altogether, and refusing to ever accept another cent from the gospel seeing how he has so badly abused God's Word and cheated so many already. He'd be calling himself a liar, a con-man, a first class fraud, a hypocrite, a deceiver, etc. Am I being too hard? No. If he were truly repentant he would be at least this hard on himself. As it stands he is just getting applause still as well as fooling the simple into thinking that he is trustworthy now who may have been suspicious of him before. Those people in that audience were hanging on every word he said and they would have applauded him even if he were begging for money yet. They probably gave him more money after this speech than they would have if he had just begged for money and directly preached a prosperity gospel. They weren't going to call him out and tell him he needs to put his money where his mouth is and be like Zaccheus; or that he needs to admit himself a wretched criminal like the thief on the cross, and not only a hell-deserving sinner in the sense that all are, but worthy of extra damnation because of how he has deceived and enriched himself as an alleged minster of the Gospel of Christ. He was a master manipulator before; and he is only progressing in his manipulation tactics now. Don't fall for this phony repentance. Many will, and many of these will do so for more than being innocently naïve and overly generous and lacking Bible understanding; many will justify him because they also want to excuse their own lives with a shallow repentance that doesn't align with the appropriate Biblical spirit of, and works meet for, repentance. That is a sure way to end up in hell. To any who challenge my statements here I will just point to the verses below and reiterate that the repentance Hinn is professing doesn't line up with the Bible's definition of repentance- so it is therefore logically a phony repentance.

2 Corinthians 7:9-11: "9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter."

I feel those are cheap words after he already has a $60 Million net worth from preaching what he is now clarifying.

I would await his repentance by getting rid of the immense wealth he accumulated by preaching such before giving this much credibility.

I agree that Benny needs to make atonement, but I am never concerned with the conditions that others here who say must be met. Who are they to demand restitution in the Name of the Lord?

Wow...disappointing.

I have been praying for the last forty years that God would strike Benny dead like he did Ananias and Sapphira.

Benny is a man who preached a false Gospel for 40+ years and conned money out of poor, uneducated people. He made Jim and Tammy Fae Bakker look godly! There was a similar pastor in South Korea 20 or so years ago. He has a huge following and a church of tens of thousands, maybe even 100s of thousands. He had a several-million dollar car collection and multiple mansions. He got a stomach ulcer I recall (this could be wrong it has been over ten years), and died in the hospital and went to hell. He described the torment and his knowledge that he deserved the judgement he had received. He was given a second chance and awoke alive in the hospital. After 6-8 months of recovery he returned to the ministry, reported his visit to hell, sold every car and mansion and gave the money away. Now that is a genuine repentance. I dare Benny to do that.

However he may have just become a Christian recently. His ministry has been empowered historically by the demonic and I have treated two of his victims who were demonized at Benny Hinn conferences. His audience seems like the typical mindless yes-men we find throughout all areas of our culture. They are like paid audience extras on an infomercial selling the George Foreman Grill.

But would have much preferred God has answered my Ananias and Sapphira 2.0 prayer!

Don't be like Jonah.

I heard that he has done this before, and only doing this because his nephew has been outspoken about his ministry as being in error.