Tuesday, 6 May 2008
False Impressions And Dangerous Conclusions
I want to assume something for a minute. Let us assume that Todd
Bentley is able to prove conclusively that God has raised a couple of
people from the dead through his ministry.
Many people will then probably believe that they should go and
partake of this ministry, and do everything that Todd Bentley tells
them to do. They might conclude that God was attesting to them,
through this mighty miracle, that everything that is being done in
this ministry is exactly according to the orders and directions of
Jesus Christ. This would be a false impression, and a dangerous
conclusion.
Last night, Todd Bentley revealed at Lakeland that when he had first
started to follow God, he was attending church with the Charismatic
Roman Catholics. Are we then all to follow Todd's lead, and begin
where he did, with the Charismatic Roman Catholics?
I want to present a bit of testimony from "Butler's Lives Of The
Saints", regarding "Father Dominic", who in the year 1218, raised a
man from the dead in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
"Father Dominic" was the father of the Dominican Order of Priests in
the Roman Catholic Church.
I quote from page 262, of Volume 3, of Butler's Lives:
"It is related that when, on Ash Wednesday, in 1218, the abbess and
some of her nuns went to their new monastery of St. Sixtus, and were
in the chapter house with St. Dominic and three cardinals, a
messenger ran in to say that the young Napoleon, Cardinal Stephen's
nephew, was thrown from his horse and killed.
The saint ordered the body of Napoleon to be brought into the house,
and bid Brother Tancred make an altar ready that he might offer
Mass.
When he had prepared himself, the cardinals with their attendants,
the abbess with her nuns, the friars, and a great concourse of people
went to the church.
The Sacrifice being ended, Dominic, standing by the body, disposed
the bruised limbs in their proper places, prayed, rose from his
knees, and made the sign of the cross over the corpse; then, lifting
up his hands to Heaven, he cried out,
NAPOLEON, I SAY TO YOU IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, ARISE.
That instant, in the sight of all, the young man arose sound and
whole."
Stephen L. Bening
I want to assume something for a minute. Let us assume that Todd
Bentley is able to prove conclusively that God has raised a couple of
people from the dead through his ministry.
Many people will then probably believe that they should go and
partake of this ministry, and do everything that Todd Bentley tells
them to do. They might conclude that God was attesting to them,
through this mighty miracle, that everything that is being done in
this ministry is exactly according to the orders and directions of
Jesus Christ. This would be a false impression, and a dangerous
conclusion.
Last night, Todd Bentley revealed at Lakeland that when he had first
started to follow God, he was attending church with the Charismatic
Roman Catholics. Are we then all to follow Todd's lead, and begin
where he did, with the Charismatic Roman Catholics?
I want to present a bit of testimony from "Butler's Lives Of The
Saints", regarding "Father Dominic", who in the year 1218, raised a
man from the dead in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
"Father Dominic" was the father of the Dominican Order of Priests in
the Roman Catholic Church.
I quote from page 262, of Volume 3, of Butler's Lives:
"It is related that when, on Ash Wednesday, in 1218, the abbess and
some of her nuns went to their new monastery of St. Sixtus, and were
in the chapter house with St. Dominic and three cardinals, a
messenger ran in to say that the young Napoleon, Cardinal Stephen's
nephew, was thrown from his horse and killed.
The saint ordered the body of Napoleon to be brought into the house,
and bid Brother Tancred make an altar ready that he might offer
Mass.
When he had prepared himself, the cardinals with their attendants,
the abbess with her nuns, the friars, and a great concourse of people
went to the church.
The Sacrifice being ended, Dominic, standing by the body, disposed
the bruised limbs in their proper places, prayed, rose from his
knees, and made the sign of the cross over the corpse; then, lifting
up his hands to Heaven, he cried out,
NAPOLEON, I SAY TO YOU IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, ARISE.
That instant, in the sight of all, the young man arose sound and
whole."
Stephen L. Bening
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