Evangelist Bentley stepping down
 

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Looks like Bentley kind of mislead his people....what a surprise.

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It went from seperation but nothing bad happening to an "unhealthy relationship on an emotional level"....


somebody needs to tell the truth. we aint got that yet.

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oh and I would jump on board Grady's band wagon if I thought us OPs were any better at disernment. Borat proved that wrong.

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Wow who would want to have an emotional attachment to him? He has enough emotions for everyone! No one could match that.

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I'm thinking of taking up a new hobby: boratting! :toofunny

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better than berating

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1 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 5 For each one shall bear his own load. Galatians 6:1-5

Todd Bentley is having problems with his marriage and has stepped down from ministry. Many are gleefully pointing fingers at him and saying, "See. I told you he was a fake." Others are praying for him, his wife, and his family.

Todd Bentley came from a rough background. When he got saved he spent quite a span of time in many hours of prayer daily. He had a ministry with "signs following" as spoken of in Mark 16.

He has been very high profile in a series of meetings which are called by some a Florida Revival and are called by others a new age freak show. I don't know Todd Bentley's heart. From reading things about him several years ago before he became so high profile I believe he is sincere and wants to be used of God. I'm sure there are things that went on in Florida that were carnal or of the flesh, and things that were even satanic, but there were also blessings and moves of God. Some with whom I am personally familiar were really stirred for God through attending those meetings.

Let's pray for his healing. He doesn't need any one kicking him when he's down. The accuser of the brethren (Rev 12:10) is busy doing that.

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:highfive

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I agree we should pray for him, we should for all that fall.

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...or physical, for that matter...

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Well, I will just say this, we have a family at our school. The father has been battling terminal cancer on and off for 6 years. They gave him a pretty grim prognosis at the end of the school year last year. As a last resort, they went to Lakeland, and lo and behold, when they got back and had doctors run tests the tumors have shrunk and there is no reasonable explanation. The doctors are waiting to see what happens.

I am not saying he was a great prophet or anything, but I think we need to have mercy on him.

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Praise the Lord. God is faithful.

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I am not trying to belittle any progress that God chooses to make in healing but I think the fall of Bentley is a positive thing for the body of Christ. He's become a cancer himself and people are absolutely foolish for following him.

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Amen

I remember a sermon one time from a preacher who got saved during a sermon by Jimmy Swaggart during the time of his alleged indiscretions. I remember the preacher saying that God rewards the faithful, and those who are full of faith. It didnt matter if the preacher was right, God cared enough to get the sinner right...

Just a thought

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Couldn't have happened to a nicer false prophet. Looks like God gets the final BAM!

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There was once a woman at a well......................

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.....who thought she was going to Hell.....................

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That was not a false prophet for profit......

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But........a sinner still the same......

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From the article:

..."Grady also criticized GodTV for telling people that any criticism of Bentley was "demonic." GodTV carried the Lakeland meetings live every night."


How sad.

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Dave I pointed out a few months ago reports that were
surfacing about him Yet I was railed against as spreading
lies, gossip, falsehoods,etc.

I knew when He got up and said that William Branham's
angel visited him and imparted power to him that he
was off.

Proverbs, Branham laid hands on my Dad in the 40s
and he was heald of a slight infirmity yet he went off
doctrinally. People with gifts are very vulnerable if they
don't stay under a good covering

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I really don't think JS has ever preached a message that would save anyone.

Last I heard old Jimbo was a anti Jesus Name trinitarian.

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Todd Bentley will step down as head of Fresh Fire Ministries, after the ministry revealed he had an "unhealthy relationship" with a female staffer.

UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIP????

What?

They were caught eating at McDonalds?

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There is also no gaurantee this "power" percieved or real, is from God. I have a friend who specializes in word of knowledge, healing and other esoteric spiritual ministry. She is not a Christian.

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This is about like having a cancer removed from the body of Christ. He's just a scam-artist.

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I've had a few of those unhealthy relationships myself. Thus the extra poundage.

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First of all Brother Ellis, Bentley needed to get repentence and the Holy Ghost before we could start dealing with issues of maturity. Considering yourself as one deals with another individual who has been over taken in a fault, requires that both need to be on the path of Truth. Not on the path of witchcraft and parlor tricks.

I don't understand this, if Todd Bentley was a Santeria High Priest you all would be praying that he gets saved, but since he wears a mask of Churchanity he is OK and just needs some prayer to get his home life straightened out?


Todd Bentley came from a rough background? What is that suppose to mean?
Brother Ellis, it has to be chapter and book that our lives are measured by, and not how bad our past was. Todd Bentley didn't have a life any more worse than a woman having to deal with a Charismatic preacher playboy.


Lakeland has always been a freak show. The Brownsville Assembly of God church is another sideshow from hell. When you drive by the place at night you can feel the weirdness.

Actions speak louder than words. I bet Todd's wife knows his heart and would like to plant a rolling pin upside his coconut

Have you ever heard of the smoking gun? Well, Brother Ellis, that is just what has happened. Mr. Todd has been having too many one on one Bible studies with the Cruzeematic ladies who have been writing him checks. Mr. Bentley has just been caught, and now he has to face the music. Bentley is just another in the long line of Un-Holiness preachers who after time have been exposed.


So, there may be water in a cess pool, but that still doesn't mean you can swim in it.

These are the same people who get stirred at a Benny Hinn crusade?

My lands, have you ever heard of emotions, men get teary eyed at the National Anthem being played. It doesn't mean that the Holy Ghost is moving.

People get all goosebumps at a Benny Hinn Crusade, and that guy is a full blown devil.

How about praying for the chap to get saved.



Well, he needs to get rebuked. You know what that is? That is what happens to a joker when he rips off nice people with the Bible, and sends those people down the wrong path. Brother Ellis, Todd Bentley needs to apologize to Jesus Christ and make it right by going to an Apostolic Pentecostal Church and getting prayed through until snot bubbles and tears flow. He needs to get the Holy Ghost and remove his little jewels that were more a gimmick than sincerity.

He used the look of our young and hustled Jesus like a vial of crack.
He played the people with his Ozzy Osborn look, while he slept with his Charismatic groupies.

The Word rebukes and exhorts, but the only way it exhorts us is when we stop the excuses and get right. No woman is over joyed when her husband cheats on her. She sure doesn't want the guy off the hook easy. Homeboy was feeling like a big man with the women, and it's his wife who is the one who suffers. Everyone is so worried about the joker with the lip ring, how about his wife who has just been robbed.

Call'em like you see'em Brother Ellis, and NEVER let a cheating man get off the hook easy. Because if he will rip off his wife and kids he will rob you also.
The man is one flesh with his wife, he is not one flesh with anyone else.
So if he will cheat on his own partner, he will not think twice with cheating with anyone else.

Todd Bentley doesn't have a ministry, his first ministry was to his WIFE, and children. While everyone else is feeling goose pimples with Todd, it's his wife who he was supposed to have his first RESPONSIBILITY AND LOYALTY.

If he couldn't take care of his position at home, he sure can't take of his position in the church.

Kicking a man while he's down, how about rebuking a man when he is CAUGHT! Bentley is sorry because of what he did, he is sorry because he was caught. The man is not down, the woman and the kids are down.

Todd Bentley and all those who use Jesus to make money and fame deserve everything they get.

Hopefully after these men get exposed they will turn from the path of death that they are on.

In Jesus name

Brother Benincasa

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Tumors shrank, or are they gone?

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Well, his wife should pray with him...and knock his teeth out in the process, just like he did.

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That's the problem right there. You think performance is truth and not the Book.

I thought all these years that Jesus saves, and not us. What's the name of the preacher who was "saved" in a Swaggart meeting? How did the man get "saved?"


Performance does not negate the Words of the Bible, we have to line up with the Bible, the Bible doesn't have to line up with what we "think" or "feel".

Deu 13:1-5

"If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God."

Mat 15:13-14

"But he answered and said, EVERY plant, which my heavenly Father hath NOT planted, shall be ROOTED UP. Let them ALONE: they be BLIND LEADERS of the blind. And if the BLIND LEAD the blind, both shall FALL into the DITCH."

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No, apparently the problem is in the ability to read and comprehend your response has absolutely nothing to do with what was posted.

The point of the post is that God rewards the faith of the believer even if the person “preaching” is not even saved themselves.

Pay attention to the words of Jesus fromt he following passage.

Mark 9:38-40
And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.
But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
For he that is not against us is on our part.

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Elder, you said a mouthful!

A word to the wise: when a person shows you the type person they are, believe 'em! :scripture

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Mark 9:38-40

And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us. But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a MIRACLE in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
For he that is not against us is on our part.

It's interesting when one of you guys try to use scriptures to prove that some reprobate that has a phoney ministry is legit you end up contradicting the rest of the Bible.

Ok, explain how the scripture you used above goes with this scripture verse?


Mat 7:21-23

"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done MANY WONDERFUL WORKS? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

I look forward to read your reply.

In Jesus name

Brother Benincasa

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I heard he was stepping sideways? :D

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A good covering called the Holy Ghost!

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Dear Jesus only you know the hearts...please mend the brokenness and bring life and restoration.
In Jesus name. AMEN.

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Any criticism of Bentley was justified and God TV must be filled with the same foolishness that created Todd Bentely.

American Churchanity might just be taking that long walk to the gallows.

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Yep, Jesus knows the hearts and that's why he exposes them.

Thank you Jesus!

Make Benny Hinn next on your list, please Lord Jesus!

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Evang. Benincasa,

I feel sorry for you.

Truly,
Rhoni

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You pray for individuals who rip people off under Jesus name, and you feel sorry for me? Anyway thanks for the sympathy. No problem in praying for sinners. Just don't let them off the hook until they do the right thing. He did wrong, and he needs to get right and make it right with his wife. Getting back in the pulpit in his home is his first duty.

Lord bless you and pray that Benny Hinn and the rest of those thieves get exposed.

In Jesus name

Brother Benincasa