Sarah Edwards or Benny Hinn, who is the false prophet?

[This question] comes from Rod...

Do Christians fall down involuntarily

while worshiping God?

I've been worshiping God
with the praise of my lips,

and had all the strength
removed from my legs

which has made me fall to the ground
or into the chair behind me.

Is this a Biblical experience

or am I being seduced by another spirit?

I'm not one who wants to
place my faith in experience,

but the Word of God

knowing that the heart
is deceitfully wicked.

Now here's the thing, listen:

True Christians have experiences -

no question about it.

Being saved is an experience!

I've never known a person truly saved

that their salvation wasn't an experience.

True Christians have
experiences. That happens.

But you know what? Lots of
not-true-Christians have experiences.

There is the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit, if He
bears witness with our spirit

that we are children of
God? That's an experience.

If the love of God is poured

into my heart by the Spirit,
that's an experience.

If men's hearts are
regenerated by the Spirit,

you better believe
experiential things happen.

If I become a new man,

old things pass away;

all things become new.

Folks, that's an experience.

You become filled with the Spirit.

Acts repeatedly speaks about
that. That's an experience.

But, demons also do experiences.

There are unbelievers that
have demonic experiences.

And they think it's of God. Ok?

Here's the thing. How can
we tell the difference?

Well, the Scripture talks
about testing the spirits.

How do we test the spirits?

By the Word of God.
That's absolutely right.

And when we go to the Word of God,

the Word of God teaches us
things about the Spirit of God.

And where the Spirit of God is,

the Spirit of God works
based on the truth

that is revealed about that Holy Spirit

in the Word of God.

And so, there are certain
things we can look at.

I would just say this: Sarah Edwards,

Jonathan Edwards' wife, listen,

she had an experience that went like this:

She says, "At one time,

my strength was immediately taken away,

and I sunk down on the spot."

Sound familiar? Just
like this guy's situation?

"Those who were near raised
me, placed me in a chair."

Sounds very familiar - this guy,

all of a sudden his strength's
gone, he falls in a chair.

All of a sudden her strength is gone.

She didn't fall in a chair,
she went to the ground

and other people put her in the chair.

There was another time,
she says she was,

"moved so exceedingly, she was
drawn so strongly heavenward,

that it seemed as if her body

were feeling as if it were
being pulled upwards."

She said, "I felt as if I must
necessarily ascend thither.

At length my strength failed me,

I sunk down, and they took me up

and laid me on the bed."

Well, guess what? I've seen
pictures of Benny Hinn

waving his hands and
people fell to the ground.

Ok, Sarah Edwards falls to the ground.

Benny Hinn's got people,
they fall to the ground.

So which category does this guy fall into?

Well, let me tell you something.

Let me tell you something

about what Sarah Edwards
said in the midst of all this.

She said, "the presence
of God was so near

and so real that I seemed

scarcely conscious of anything else."

Now listen to what she says,

"God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

seemed as distinct persons,

both manifesting Their
inconceivable loveliness

and mildness and gentleness

and Their great and immutable love to me.

I seemed to be taken under the care

and charge of my God and Savior,

in an inexpressibly endearing manner,

and Christ appeared to
me as a mighty Savior."

Can I tell you one thing
about the Holy Spirit?

You know what Jesus
Christ said about Him?

In John 16:14, speaking of the Comforter

or the Spirit of Truth,

"He will glorify Me, for
He will take what is Mine

and declare it to you."

Can I tell you what? Where
the true Holy Spirit is operating,

is it any marvel that
the Father and the Son

were made much of,
but where another spirit is,

the "Spirit" is typically
made much of. Watch that.

In the Pentecostal circles,
the "Spirit" is made much of.

In these health, wealth,
prosperity circles,

the "Spirit" is made much of,

but where the Spirit is truly operating,

He doesn't make much of Himself,

He makes much of the Father and the Son,

and especially the Son.

You watch: whatever experiences
people are experiencing,

is Christ being magnified?

Is He the focus? Is He central?

I'll tell you this: You've got people
falling down where Benny Hinn is?

He prophesied that God would destroy

the homosexual community of
America by fire in the mid '90's.

In about 1994 or 1995,
no later than that,

he also foretold that Fidel Castro

would die during the '90's,

that the world would end by 1999.

Hinn has taught that the
biblical Adam flew, had wings,

that he even flew to the moon.

He's said that the Christian Trinity

is actually God in nine
persons, not three,

because the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Ghost

are each comprised of trinities.

You know, Hinn said in one broadcast,

"I've looked for one verse in the Bible,

but I just can't seem to find it...

one verse that says 'if you
don't like them, kill them.'

I really wish I could find it.

Sometimes I wish God would give me

a Holy Ghost machine gun and
I'd blow their heads off."

You know what Sarah Edwards said?

"My soul was so filled
with love to Christ,

and love to His people,

that I fainted under the
intenseness of the feeling."

You know what one of chief marks

of true Christianity is? It's love.

And where the Spirit
of the living Christ is,

there's love for God's people.

Hinn wants to blow their heads off.

Sarah Edwards is so taken up
with a love for God's people.

Listen: test the spirits.

You know them by their fruits.

Pauline's right, go to the Word of God

and see the marks of the Spirit.

Go to the book of Acts.

Look where the Spirit was operating,

where places trembled,

where there were fillings of the Spirit,

where there were supernatural occurrences,

where there were experiences,

and look in the midst of all of it,

and look at the flavor,
look at the aroma,

look at the fruits of those things.

Weigh things out by the Word of God.

Hinn gives himself away
as a false prophet.

Sarah Edwards gives herself away.

She's so entranced by Christ

and by a love for the people of Christ.