In watching a documentary about the false teachers of the prosperity gospel, the makers posted a list of them or their spouses who had died from different ailments or addictions. In that list were also cheap comments or mocking because the supposed healing powers of those false prophets failed their own families or themselves.
I am not a fan of mocking others or making cheap comments even when aimed at those who preach a false gospel especially when it comes to their death or the death of their family members.
True Christians need to remember that the gift of healing doesn’t over-rule other verses of scripture. The Bible tells us that ‘it is appointed unto man once to die, then the judgement’… no matter how good a healer you are that gift does not negate that fact. Everyone is going to die at some point in their life {save for those saved for the rapture} and no matter how many faith healers you visit when God says your time is up, your time is up.
Death is not necessarily a sign of failure of a faith healer and we should not mock those who cannot heal a family member nor should we take cheap shots. We need to investigate to make sure that the lack of healing was not God saying it is time for that person who was not healed.
Yes, Elijah mocked the prophets of Baal on the mount BUT he already knew that their ways were false and that they were not going to get an answer BUT Elijah’s behavior is not justification to ignore Jesus’ teaching in the NT. We may not fully understand the full amount of Elijah’s behavior and we should be careful not to sin when confronting those who are not of God.
We are not free to sin when combating evil. it doesn’t matter of the issue is abortion or false teaching or faith healing, believers have no permission to sin. We obey God and Jesus when we confront those who do evil, we do not stoop to their level but stay within the boundaries Jesus set for us and we find those boundaries set in the Bible.
If you want to expose these false believers then do it biblically, expose their doctrines, their anti-biblical lifestyles using the truth of Jesus. Do it with the aid of the Holy Spirit so that you can see clearly and do it with love so that you do not become simply a noise.
But do not mock, insult, or do personal attacks for those are not of God.
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