Pacific Waves

Volume 1, Issue 10

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

Copeland, "The Price of It All," 4-6.)

"The death of Jesus Christ was not a physical death alone. If it had been a physical death, Abel would have paid the price for mankind. He was the first man that died because of honoring God and His Word. If it had been a physical death only, it wouldn't have worked! And if He hadn't died spiritually, that body never would have died." (Kenneth Copeland, What Happened From the Cross to the Throne, Tape #00-0303)

Kenneth Copeland: "He [Jesus] was literally being reborn before the devil's very eyes. He began to flex His spiritual muscles.... Jesus was born again-the firstborn from the dead the Word calls Him-and He whipped the devil in his own backyard. He took everything he had away from him. He took his keys and his authority away from him." (Kenneth Copeland, "The Price of it All," Believer's Voice of Victory [September 1991 p.4-6.)

"Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of hell" (Kenneth Copeland, Holy Bible: Kenneth Copeland Reference Edition  Kenneth Copeland Ministries, 1991), 129.)

"...Got Him (Jesus) in there. Jesus said three days and three nights the Son of Man will suffer in the heart of the Earth like Jonah in the belly of the whale. Suffered there. suffered your penalty. Suffered my penalty...And there's this emaciated suffering sin. I mean He-listen folks- He went deeper into that pit than any man had ever gone. He suffered all sin. No man has ever committed "all" sin, but that One suffered all sin, all sickness, all disease - the entire curse of the Law. "Made a curse for" - we don't have any concept of what He went through down there in the bowels of that place called Hell... one born again man defeated all of Hell....took all that bunch in Paradise. They heard Him preach. The Bible

says Jesus preached in Hell. When I get to heaven, I want a video of that, man. I gotta see that. ...All that bunch got born again." (Kenneth Copeland, 9/4/97 Copeland's program, TBN)

Comment: Not only does Jesus get born again in hell, but so do others! What kind of Spirit-led teacher goes so far beyond the

halls of hell ... Jesus ... was raised up a born-again man ... The day I realized that a born-again man had defeated Satan, hell, and death, I got so excited ...! (Kenneth Copeland, Believer's Voice of Victory , September, 1991)

Comment: Why would Copeland be so excited on this point? Because Jesus is Himself a born again man. This means Copeland has the same powers that Jesus did. That certainly is exciting but it's certainly NOT TRUE! The Bible teaches we are servants and followers of Christ. If what is presented by Copeland is true then we have no need of submission; we can use our faith powers to do what we like.

"How did Jesus then on the cross say, 'My God.' Because God was not His Father any more. He took upon Himself the nature of Satan. And I'm telling you Jesus is in the middle of that pit. He's suffering all that there is to suffer, there is no suffering left . . . apart from Him. His emaciated, little wormy spirit is down in the bottom of that thing and the devil thinks He's got Him destroyed. But, all of a sudden God started talking." (Kenneth Copeland, Believer's Voice of Victory (television program), TBN, 21 April 1991.)

Comment: Once again the Bible says something different. What they believe on this matter is no small issue, but a matter of one's salvation. If salvation is obtained in any other way than by the cross, it becomes another gospel, a condemned one according to the Apostle Paul.

Col. 1:20  " and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross."
1 Pet. 1:19 "but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot."
Heb 9:14-15 " how much more

shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance."

Christ said it is finished before He died. That means paid in full, the debt of sin is completed . Where? AT THE CROSS.

Heb 10:29 "Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?"

If you think Copeland's teaching is biblical or glorifies Christ's sacrifice, I'm sorry it doesn't ... it mocks it. It's not any different from what the Mormons or the Masons say about Christ or the cross.

There are only two choices one can make: believe Copeland or believe the Bible. They are both on the opposite ends of the spectrum. Both cannot be true.

Scripture that he can speak where God Himself is silent? According to Copeland the suffering is not finished on the cross (the altar). Blood is not enough for the atonement. To me this is a very scary. Copeland presents a Jesus who does not fulfill the prophecies and typology of the Old Testament but is subjected to more suffering beyond His death and needs to depend on the Spirit like all of us to come back to life.

"He allowed the devil to drag Him into the depths of hell as if He were the most wicked sinner who ever lived ... Every demon in hell came down on Him to annihilate Him ... [They] tortured Him beyond anything that anybody has ever conceived ... In a thunder of spiritual force, the voice of God spoke to the death-whipped, broken, punished spirit of Jesus ... [in] the pit of destruction and charged the spirit of Jesus with resurrection power! Suddenly His twisted, death-wracked spirit began to fill out and come back to life ... He was literally being reborn before the devil's very eyes. He began to flex His spiritual muscles ... Jesus Christ dragged Satan up and down the