TEST EVERYTHING! ... even wild elephants!

1 Thes 5:19-22 "Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil."

Matthew 7:15-19 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits."

2 Peter 2 "But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies...And many will follow their SENSUALITY, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed...especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority...They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you. They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin...These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by SENSUAL passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption".


April 2008 - Lakeland starts... if you are not familair google Lakeland Revival and Todd Bentley
August 11 - Bentley announces that he would be leaving the revival
August 16 - Bentley is exposed by his own ministry board and is forced to resign from his own ministry because it was discovered that an ADULTEROUS relationship had been going on DURING THE REVIVAL. It was later discovered that this adulterous relationship was with a young intern in his ministry. So lets recap ... THIS GUY WAS SLEEPING WITH HIS INTERN WHILE CONDUCTING THE LAKELAND REVIVAL MEETINGS! Bentley had a wife with cancer back home along with two children. It gets worse.
September - Instead of repenting of his sin, Bentley announces that he will be divorcing his wife. Stating that their marriage was "beyond repair". Anybody ever read Jesus's teaching on divorce? And isn't that interesting the healing evangelist whose consistent message that God can heal anything ... states that his own marriage is beyond the power of God.
March 2009 - Instead of repenting, Bentley leaves his own family and marries his intern - her name is Jessa.
March 2009 - It is announced that a "restoration team" was put together to restore Bentley - this team included: Bill Johnson, Jack Deere, and Rick Joyner.
Feb 2010 - as pictured below - he is back in the saddle again...conducting meetings at Rick Joyner's Morning Star Church



Scripturally this guy would be questionable to meet the qualifications for church membership much less lead services and for the people who listen to this junk... What are you thinking - seriously? Have you ever read your Bible? TEST EVERYTHING... ESPECIALLY FRUIT... I mean that in all love...

1 Tim 3:2-7 "Therefore an overseer MUST be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil."

Betting God put that in there for a reason...further comments by Piper below
http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1348_test_revival_with_doctrine/