07/18/2024
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Bill Johnson: "The Gospel requires miracles to be fully preached"
Bill Johnson: "I hunger for the day when the church will make the same statement to the world – if we’re not doing the works that Jesus did, you don’t have to believe us"
Johnson is deceived and is deceiving others.
When the crowds sought Jesus after he fed the five thousand they weren't looking for a Messiah to save them from their sins, but looking for someone who could satisfy their earthly needs: “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled" (John 6:26).
Even when Jesus Christ performed real miracles (not Todd White's leg-lengthening trick or Bethel's fake "glory cloud"), crowds didn't believe.
The rich man in Hades thought a miracle in the form of someone who was raised from the dead and sent back to earth would be effective in saving his brothers. But Abraham's reply showed that the scriptures were sufficient: " But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’" (Luke 16:29-31).
Johnson is a false apostle, a real Apostle - Paul, knew that the gospel needed to be proclaimed because it was the power of God for salvation: "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek" (Rom 1:16).
That is what Paul preached: "For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness" (1 Cor 1:22-23).
