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TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK Praise The Lord television program April 24, 1998 www.tbn.org Benny Hinn Benny Hinn Ministries www.bennyhinn.org "Now, Jesus endured the cross and looked towards the cross by the power of the Holy Ghost...He was kept sinless by the Spirit. Because the Bible says He offered Himself spotless through the Spirit. Watch this, it's right here. 'How much more shall the blood of Christ Who, through the eternal Spirit, offered Himself without spot.' So had the Holy Ghost not been there, then Jesus would have sinned." ON DOCTRINE NOTE: Where does one begin with Benny Hinn, whose comments are always so outrageous? He is always trying to create more excitement and bring attention to his self-proclaimed revelatory and prophetic abilities. He has said one thing right, noted in another quote: "If we quit giving you new revelations we're dead."It is those "new" revelations that Benny Hinn works so hard to create that keep the faithful coming back for more, and it is the constant quest to find the latest and greatest word from God that eventually causes Benny Hinn to push his statements into the world of the absurd. Such is the case with his statement that Jesus Christ would have sinned without the Holy Spirit. However, in Benny Hinn's theology, isn't it just as possible that the Holy Spirit would have sinned without Jesus Christ or possibly even God would have sinned without Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit? Benny Hinn's theology is defective, but he does not carry the issue to its logical conclusion and his followers don't discern the problem. The presence of or the indwelling of the Holy Spirit does not necessarily preclude the absence of sin in the life of an individual. The apostle Peter received the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, but the apostle Paul called him to accountability for his sinful conduct, Galatians 2:11-21. The Scripture says that John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb, so he possessed the Spirit even prior to any time in which he could have sinned, yet John the Baptist was not without sin. John's baptism was a baptism of repentance, which he realized that Jesus Christ had no need to receive, but John needed to receive it from Jesus Christ, and he said to Jesus Christ, "I have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?"The real difficulty with Benny Hinn's claim is that Jesus Christ did not receive the Holy Spirit until He was 30 years old, when He was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. What was the restraining power that prevented Jesus Christ from sinning during those thirty years, or is it to be presumed that He did sin? If Jesus Christ sinned prior to receiving the Holy Spirit, then he was not God incarnate and He could not have died for the sins of the world because His death would have only been for His own sins. |
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