By Ezekiel Kimosop
I watched a video of a leading West African prosperity teacher whose false teachings cut across all his telecasts.
He is however not alone in the business of promoting a gospel in which Christ is repeatedly diminished and man is exalted in His place. This is the fallacy of prosperity theology.
Now let's examine the latest error by the billionaire televangelist whose name starts with C.
John 5:20 says "For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel."
The preacher misinterprets John 5:20 to falsely teach error. He claims that the anointing of God on Jesus was progressively growing in the application of His faith so that greater miracles only took place in the end compared to the beginning of His ministry.
This is utterly false. It misrepresents the truths of God's word and mocks Christ's divinity as God the Son.
It is inconceivable that a preacher who purports to speak the mind of God can discount Jesus' divine power in this manner!
To teach that God was progressively building up Jesus' faith and capacity for performing miracles is to cast serious doubts on His divine essence as fully God and fully Man at all times during His earthly ministry.
It also implies that Jesus' faith underwent progressive growth from one step to another and that at one time he was possibly deficient in faith!
1 John 5:21 says "For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will."
This Scripture plainly affirms Christ's divine power to raise the dead in the same manner that God the Father does!
Yes, men grow from one glory to another in the knowledge of Christ. This however does not apply to Jesus. He perfectly knew the Father!
Jesus' divinity and humanity were indivisibly intertwined until Calvary. This is the foundation of the Biblical the doctrine of hypostatic union.
At no time was Jesus' divine essence diminished or discounted on account of His humanity, not even in His infancy. Only His glory was left in heaven upon His incarnate coming.
There is therefore nothing in Jesus' miracle series in the Gospels that suggests that He could not have started raising the dead to life before turning water into wine!
The Bible teaches that Jesus voluntarily submitted His will to that of God the Father in order to accomplish the works of the cross. His divine glory was restored to Him upon His ascension to heaven (Philippians 2:1-11).
Jesus did not require to grow in faith in the way we do. Luke 2:52 teaches that Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and with men.
Jesus was eternally possessed of all divine essence as God the Son. At no time did Jesus cease to be God. Scripture proclaims in Hebrews 13:8 that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever.
That's Biblical truth.
© Ezekiel Kimosop 2020
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