Teaching, Life In the Spirit / John 16:14: MY CAREER? HIM? FOR WHOM??

sexta-feira, 3 de dezembro de 2010

MY CAREER? HIM? FOR WHOM??

by Wagner Lize

(Hebrews 12:1) ... lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

(Hebrews 12:2) - Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith ...

(I Corinthians 1:5) - that in everything ye are enriched by him, in all utterance and all knowledge

- Have you ever wondered what it takes to fulfill the career we offer?

This morning I thought the point of my walk that I'm God And at this point what level of involvement and commitment to what I proposed.

It did not take me on track and know that my lack of patience got me throughout my journey in many embarrassments and foolish sins such as worry, anxiety, immaturity, etc..

It often seems repetitive, I lost the mark of the vocation to lose the focus that Jesus is the author and finisher of my faith, and focusing on things natural and temporary.

I know the meaning of the phrase "so easily beset us"
And I know I took them to focus the attention of the true target, We pose this point we take a long time and even years to totally free.

When in fact, not theory! There comes a time when the only focus is the Jesus of faith understand the purpose, for He is the author and finisher of our faith!
Have you ever stopped to think what he says our faith in the particular sense and not collective?

Faith is given to us individually to comply with a specific career or a calling!

I will not fulfill your career, nor will you carry out mine!

There is a measure of faith for me and one for you!

(Romans 12:3) - For by grace given to me, I say to everyone among you not to think of himself than he ought, but to think soberly, according to the measure of faith God has given you.

It was God who established my career, Jesus is the author and finisher of my faith, that is, within what God has prepared for me to walk (career, calling, ministry, personal and family life) I have all the supplies needed (Fe) to accomplish it in exact perfection;

(Hebrews 12:1 b) ... and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

The improvement of this faith in the words of Paul:
-... and let us run with patience
It is interesting to say Paul and let us run, "since shortly after he says" patience "because who runs does not seem to me to be patient, but I understand that running means constancy and specific direction, the secret is in the word" patience "by Why?

Remember that both are fruits of the spirit in us.

"(Galatians 5:22) - The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance."

If you noticed the author and finisher of our faith has equipped us for such a journey.

It pays to stop and make an honest assessment to follow it.

Review our decisions and whether they are directed by the Spirit, or steps are directed by us!

Self frank assessment of the condition for God through his Spirit in the correct target and focus on Jesus

What is the purpose of our life?

For many it has been the site!

Dividends acquired here can give us a false sense of being right in our career, but only the probe of the Spirit of truth can reveal the perfect will of God for our journey.

Do not be surprised in the last accountability seeing great ecclesiastical figures were reproved and condemned by many.

The Word has already warned us:

(Revelation 20:12) ... were the face of God ... were judged by the things that were written in the books, according to his works.

But the good news is that we can walk on the right career, directed, guided.
(John 14:16) - I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever;

(John 14:17) - The Spirit of truth, whom the world can not receive because it neither sees him nor knows him: but ye know Him because He abides with you and be in you.

(John 16:13) - But when he, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself but will say whatever you have heard, and I will announce what is to come.

Jesus said it would give us the Spirit to guide us, He can lead us to fulfill our career.

Paul tells us:

(Romans 8:13) - For if ye live after the flesh will die, but if by the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

What Paul is saying is, when someone decides to walk in your own opinion, that is, the feelings and emotions, this person is wrong in your walk in God
But if we give conditions for the Spirit to guide us through our spirit, then we will live in the dimension of the Spirit and walk and fulfill our career that was proposed in God.

No more confusion, more confusion.

We can fulfill our mistakes without fear of career proposal.

(I Corinthians 1:5) - that in everything ye are enriched by him, in all utterance and all knowledge
In Christ Wagner Lize

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Kenneth E. Hagin

Kenneth Erwin Hagin (August 20, 1917 - September 19, 2003) was an influential American Pentecostal preacher. He is often referred to as the "father" (or "grandaddy") of the "Word of Faith" movement. Many of his followers often refer to him affectionately as "Dad Hagin" or "Brother Hagin". Hagin never received any formal theological training, however, he received an honorary doctorate from Oral Roberts University in the 1970s.

Biography

Personal life

Kenneth Hagin was born in McKinney, Texas, the son of Lillie Viola Drake Hagin and Jess Hagin. He was so small and lifeless that the doctor thought that he was stillborn. He had two children, a son named Kenneth Hagin Jr. who is presently the pastor of Rhema Bible Church and President of Kenneth Hagin Ministries, and a daughter named Patricia Harrison. She is the widow of the late Doyle "Buddy' Harrison and is the owner and publisher of Harrison House, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was married to Oretha Rooker.

On many occasions Kenneth Hagin demonstrated his ability to memorize large portions of scripture and other materials. Testimony of friends and family indicate that he possessed an amazing memory with which he could recall specific details such as the day of the week that a specific date fell on and that days weather.

Hagin died five days after lapsing into a coma due to a heart arrhythmia in September 2003.

Claimed he was healed

According to Hagin's testimony, he was sickly as a child, suffering from a deformed heart and what was believed to be an incurable blood disease. He was not expected to live and became bedfast at age 15. In April 1933 during a dramaticconversion experience, he reported dying three times in 10 minutes, each time seeing the horrors of hell and then returning to life. He also claimed that he was raised from a deathbed in 1934 by "the revelation of faith in God's Word". There is no firm evidence of the original diagnosis.

Two years later he preached his first sermon as the pastor of a small community church in Roland, Texas, 9 miles from McKinney.

His favorite scripture was Mark 11:23: "For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith".

Beginning to preach

During the next 12 years he pastored five Assemblies of God churches in Texas: in the cities of Tom Bean, Farmersville(twice), Talco, Greggton, and Van.

Establishing a faith-based corporation

In 1949, he began an itinerant ministry as a Bible teacher and evangelist. Hagin was at this time also given full admission to the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International (FGBMFI) which had been established in 1951. He was also a part of the Voice of Healing Revival in the U.S. in the 40s and 50s together with Oral Roberts and T.L.Osborn. In 1963, Kenneth E. Hagin Evangelistic Association was incorporated, and the offices of the ministry moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1966. That same year, he taught for the first time on radio — on KSKY in Dallas. In 1967, he began a regular radio broadcast that continues today as Faith Seminar of the Air. Teaching by his son, Rev. Kenneth Hagin Jr., is also heard on the program.

Since its inception in 1963, his organization grew to include numerous media outreaches and ministries. These are:

Faith Library Publications – with 65 million book copies in print
"RHEMA Praise" – a weekly television program on the Trinity Broadcasting Network
"Faith Seminar of the Air" – a radio program heard on many stations nationwide and on the Internet
"The Word of Faith" – a free monthly magazine with roughly 250,000 subscribers
crusades conducted throughout the nation
RHEMA Correspondence Bible School
the RHEMA Prayer and Healing Center, located on the Rhema campus in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

In 1974, Hagin founded RHEMA Bible Training Center USA, which now has training centers in fourteen countries and has 23,000 alumni. In 1979, he founded the Prayer and Healing Center there to provide a place for the sick to come to "have the opportunity to build their faith",. Its Healing School continues to be held free of charge twice daily on the RHEMA campus. There are many other outreaches and RBTC graduates throughout the world.

Controversial legacy

Hagin was considered by his followers to be a dynamic preacher, teacher, and prophet known for preaching divine healing and prosperity through searching God's word and believing God in faith for financial gifts, then claiming and receiving them by faith. His Bible teaching focused mainly on faith and the victorious life of a Christian. Hagin's critics, however, including a large number of charismatic critics, believe a number of his teachings including the born again Jesus (as contained in "The Name of Jesus," 1978 ed., pp. 29-33) and 'God has faith' to be outside the confines of Christian orthodoxy.

Plagiarism Controversy

In 1983, two students at Oral Roberts University alleged that the bulk of Hagin's theological teachings were lifted verbatim from the writings of other authors. D.R. McConnell, who wrote his Master's thesis about the Word of Faith movement alleged that Hagin had plagiarized the writings of evangelist E.W. Kenyon, teaching not only the ideas of Kenyon but also lifting text word-for-word from many of Kenyon's eighteen published works.

Dale Simmons, one of McConnell's colleagues doing research for his paper entitled "An Evaluation Of Kenneth E. Hagin's Claim To Be A Prophet", discovered what he has described as plagiarization by Hagin of an author named John A. MacMillan. In this case it is alleged that Hagin not only plagiarized word-for-word, but also the title, "The Authority of the Believer".

Upon discovering Hagin's use of MacMillan's material, Simmons contacted the publishing house that published MacMillan's original work. The president of the publishing company confronted Hagin with evidence of the plagiarism. Hagin's response was to claim that he had not plagiarized anyone but that his acknowledgment of MacMillan had been an oversight. Hagin then implicitly claimed that the plagiarism was actually proof that his teaching and MacMillan's teaching were from God. In a portion of a letter printed on page 68 of "A Different Gospel" by D.R. McConnell, Hagin argued that persons speaking on the same subject use 'virtually the same words' because 'it is the same Spirit that is leading and directing.' Simmons did not accept this argument, noting that it begged the question why Hagin felt it necessary to read any books at all if God was going to inspire him to have the same thoughts and words as another author. This information is available from Oral Roberts University in Dale H. Simmons' Master's thesis, An Evaluation of Kenneth E. Hagin's Claim To Be A Prophet. Simmons repeats these charges in his 1997 book, E.W. Kenyon: The Postbellum Pursuit of Peace, Prosperity, And Plenty. Hagin did, however, give credit to MacMillan when a new copy with a new title ("The Believer's Authority") was released in 1984.

The real question, however, is not whether Hagin plagiarized. That fact has been established in numerous places. The question is whether or not Hagin received the plagiarism from God as he alleges.

At present, Kenyon's Gospel Publishing Company, based in Washington state, argues that Hagin did not plagiarize based on the fact that his books were merely sermons that were converted into book form. This claim, however, contradicts the statements of Ruth Kenyon Houseworth, Kenyon's daughter, given to both Judith Matta and D.R. McConnell in 1982.

William DeArteaga, a defender of the Faith movement, acknowledged that Hagin was guilty of plagiarism in his 1992 book, "Quenching The Spirit" (p. 243-245 of the 1996 edition). Geir Lie, a scholar who is favorable to E.W. Kenyon went so far as to say that Hagin's plagiarism was conscious and systematic (according to DeArteaga). Derek Vreeland, another charismatic scholar, presented his findings at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies ^[1]. Vreeland, too, believes Hagin unintentionally used the thoughts and ideas of Kenyon without properly attributing them to Kenyon.

Dale Simmons, who discovered Hagin's plagiarism of John A. MacMillan, concurs that Hagin plagiarized, but he theorizes that it was an instance of informal borrowing in Hagin's early preaching ministry.

The 'informal borrowing' that is common among preachers may account for some of the instances of plagiarism. Hagin lived near Dallas in his formative years, and E.W. Kenyon's works were very popular in the Dallas area at that time (the 1930s). Although this fails to explain the massive amount of plagiarism Hagin apparently committed, it is worth noting that in many instances he has cited by name sources that he used including Dr. Lillian B. Yeomans, Smith Wigglesworth, Corrie ten Boom, Ethan O. Allen, and some other (mostly Pentecostal-type) preachers. He has also favorably remarked about the ministry of Charles G. Finney.

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