A Passive Jesus Who is Stubbornly Giving Up On His “Savior” Qualities.
On page 31 of Hagin’s book, he writes: “Not one single time in the New Testament is the church ever told to pray that God the Father or Jesus would do anything against the devil. In fact, to do so is to waste your time. The believer is told to do something about the devil. The reason is because you have the authority to do it. The church is not to pray to God the Father about the devil; the church is to exercise the authority that belongs to it…unless believers do something about the devil, nothing will be done in a lot of areas”…Jesus continued, “I’ve done all I’m going to do about the devil until the angel comes down from heaven, takes the chain and binds him, and puts him into the bottomless pit. (Rev. 20:1-3)”. Hagin says, “That came as a real shock to me”. And it should!
Whether you believe Christians have the authority from God to cast out devils or you don’t believe that, it still is against the nature of God to say “I’ve done all I’m going to do about the devil until the angel comes down …and puts him into the bottomless pit.” The nature of God is that God is a savior, a rescuer, a protector, and a provider of help for the believer throughout the Bible. But Hagin’s Jesus basically told Hagin, “I am not going to answer you from heaven with the spiritual help you need against the devil. I have already given you all the authority I have. So don’t bother praying to Me.” This is saying Hagin’s Jesus goes against the qualities of the biblical Jesus of saving, rescuing, protecting, and providing help against the devil and it is fully up to the believer to “do something about the devil”. If we look at examples of God rescuing his people in the Bible we will see historical facts that if the believer is truly needing help against demonically inspired enemies, Jesus or God as it may be won’t deny them what they truly need.
Hagin if he were alive today, would tell you I’m wrong, and that you’d be wasting your time to pray for Jesus’ help against the devil. But the Bible tells us that is exactly what Jesus does—he gives us help against the devil, and his minions by saving, rescuing, protecting, and providing help of all kinds against the spiritual battles believers face. Furthermore, God only trusts the believer with responsibilities that they are ready for. But Hagin’s Jesus throws the believer into a place of forceful action against the devil that he or she might not need to be in, not needing to rebuke, or command, or demand, or shout against the devil because now the believer is beginning to see himself as a forceful person in prayer who has got to start doing all these things all the time because Hagin says Jesus told him “the believer is told to do something about the devil”.
But to do something about the devil is very vague when there are only commands for the apostles to cast out devils and heal people. There are no requirements for the believer to cast out demons and heal people but just a single scripture in Mark 16:15-18 saying that it is possible for devils to be cast out by the believer, and possible for healings to follow the believer. But, the only things the Bible commands the believer to do are, to first submit to God then resist the devil, to stand with the armor of God on, and to give the devil no foothold. Resist the devil is very different than rebuke. God does the rest of the work against the devil, and he promises in Romans 16:20 “The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.” If Hagin’s Jesus were true, it would mean it would be an utter non-negotiable responsibility for the believer to be expected to rebuke the devil, cast out the devil, and “get your healing” by chasing away the devil. His Jesus said it would be a waste of time to pray to Him for help.
Again Hagin has elevated man to the place of Jesus’ authority, and demoted Jesus to the place of a tired, and passive, unhelpful slacker.
Romans 16:20 alone is enough to completely contradict Hagin’s Jesus, because his Jesus said he had done all he was going to do against the devil until the angel binds him in the bottomless pit. Paul says the God of peace himself will soon crush Satan underneath the believer’s feet. It is this scripture alone that truly can set the reader free from the constant accusations Hagin makes about the believer not doing enough with his spiritual authority to solve all the negative problems in the world, that Hagin blames on the devil, of course. LG
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