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Pacific Waves

Volume 1, Issue 10

Bible Study by Juanita Simpson

destruction.  The second choice is whether we want to eat good fruit or bad fruit. False teachers produce bad fruit, and they will be sent away from Jesus forever.  If we eat their bad fruit, we might also be sent away.  Jesus finished His sermon by telling a parable about building.  Since he grew up as a carpenter, we can see why He would talk about building houses. He closes His sermon by telling us that we

have to choose how we will build our house or life. Read Matt. 7:15-27

First we want to see why Jesus told this parable. In 1938 a hurricane and tidal wave struck the east coast of Connecticut where I was living as a child.  The Weather Bureau gave warning that a hurricane was headed our way and that it was likely to spawn a tidal wave. The

resort shores of our state were crowded with houses and cottages. Some people heeded the warning, and left the shoreline for safety.  Others laughed at the foolish weather people because no such thing had ever been experienced in the history of Connecticut.  The tidal wave swept the shoreline clean of cottages and expensive mansions, along with quite a few people who disregarded the

"There will be false teachers among you …" cont.

causing things to come into existence.

"I know of a little dog that got saved (laughter from audience ) now don't argue to me about this, In Jasmin Alabama…He's now a pastor of a Church, I dunno his church may not know his dog got saved I dunno His son came in there and said daddy I want you to lay hands on this, he called this dog by name, I don't remember what the name of the dogs was. He said I need to lay hands on him. He said why. He said "I got him saved but I need baptized in the Holy Ghost" (laughter from the audience Copeland laughs as well)…you can laugh if you want to but that means something to God." (Kenneth Copeland)

Comment: He was serious, he wasn't kidding. Doesn't the Scripture say to preach the Gospel to every creature in Mk. 16:15? So there you have it! I guess it's scriptural. Never mind that the creature is to believe, (I guess his dog barked for the pastor to know). These kinds of stories are disturbing, but there are more.

Here is Copeland having a conversation with God as he's preaching:

"He said you weren't dying, I said what do you mean I wasn't dying my spirit was coming out

of my body he said that's right you were fixin', he said you were just about to come out of your body and I was going to allow you to minister that congregation without your BODY, you were gonna go through that congregation like a whirlwind, of the power and glory of God. I said your gonna have to show me that in the Scripture, he said and showed me 2 Cor. chapters 1, 2, 3 ,4, 5, and 6 the apostle Paul said I bear, I carry around with me the dying of in my body for you that the life of God might be manifest in my mortal flesh. He said the one that raise Jesus from the dead is in you and he will make alive your mortal body . He said you missed that opportunity for that experience . I said what was I going to do, he said I'm not going to tell you, you missed it." (Kenneth Copeland)

Comment: The Bible teaches in James 2:26 that the body without the spirit is dead. Death is the severing of the inner man, the spirit from our body. The Scriptures Copeland claims that the Lord showed him do not teach what he is proposing. The apostle Paul did not minister without his body. This whole figment of his imagination is a mockery of God and his Word and is proven by what he claims God spoke and how he speaks back to God.

Copeland said before the spirit

was leaving his body he grabbed hold of it by his will. Ecc. l8:8 tells us no one has power over the spirit to retain it. This is similar to astral projection by occultists. The texts he cited do not teach traveling without your body to minister to people. They teach nothing like this!

"Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord." (Kenneth Copeland, "Believer's Voice of Victory", Feb. 1987, p.9)

Comment: Think about what he's saying! To pray to yourself? This is what the New Age teaches as well as the occult -- that we are God. Copeland's God is himself, because he claims he is one with God. This is why he can say the things he does. He can speak things into existence because he is one with God.

"Words create pictures, and pictures in your mind create words. And then the words come back out your mouth....And when that spiritual force comes out it is going to give substance to the image that's on the inside of you. Aw, that's that visualization stuff! Aw, that's that New Age! No, New Age is trying to do this; and they'd get somewhat results out of it because this is spiritual law, brother. (Kenneth Copeland, Believer's Voice of Victory (television program), TBN, 28

March 1991.)

Comment: Copeland believes this spiritual law can be used by anyone, believer or not. The evidence of his theology betrays his occult interpretations of the Scriptures.

God is a "spirit-being with a body, complete with eyes, and eyelids, ears, nostrils, a mouth, hands and fingers, and feet." (Kenneth Copeland ministry letter, 21 July 1977.)

Comment: This is Mormonism. In the Old Testament God says not to make any image of Him since they saw no form. There is no such teaching as Copeland's in Scripture.

Deut. 4:15-16  "Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, "lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female,"

The Bible says God is spirit Jn. 4:24.

Isa. 40:18-20 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him?
Isa. 40:25 "To whom then will you liken Me, or to whom shall I be equal?" says the Holy One.
Rom. 1:23  and changed the glory of the incorruptible God