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BENNY HINN

DAILY GUIDE TO MIRACLES from Oral Roberts Ministries
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
http://orm.cc

WE NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT
Benny Hinn
Benny Hinn Ministries
www.bennyhinn.org

"Jesus knew how important the Holy Spirit was in His life. Matthew 1:20 says that He was conceived by the Spirit. Think about that! It was the mighty Holy Spirit who took Jesus, the Word of God, and made Him flesh in Mary's womb! That's powerful! The Holy Spirit was also the One who descended upon Jesus and anointed Him in the river Jordan (see Luke 3:22). Then Luke 4:1 says it was the Holy Spirit who led Jesus into the wilderness. And He continued to lead Him. Jesus was led by the Spirit every day of His life.

Verse 18 says that He was also empowered by the Holy Spirit. And John 3:34 says the very words He spoke were given by the Spirit. It was also the Holy Spirit who kept Jesus sinless. Hebrews 4:15 says that Jesus was tempted just as we are. That means He could have sinned, but He remained sinless. How? Hebrews 9:14 reveals that He was spotless through the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit, even Jesus would have failed. Although He was God, He was just as human as you and I are. And He needed the Holy Spirit.

If Jesus needed the Spirit from the moment He was conceived, how much more do we need Him! We don't ever stop needing Him, and He is always standing by, waiting for us to ask Him to help us. Pray this prayer with me:

Lord, I love You. I need Your Holy Spirit afresh today. I thank You that He is in me to help me and guide me. May I always be alert in the Spirit so I will not miss Your mighty plan for my life. In Jesus, Name, Amen."

ON DOCTRINE NOTE:
Here goes Benny Hinn again. So, here is the same reply to his almost identical claim in another quote from: Praise The Lord TV Program.

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."
Trinity Broadcasting Network, December 9, 1990

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?"
Matthew 3:14 (NAS).

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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