His Finished Work

In 2004 I wrote an on-line accusation that Pastor Benny Hinn

is involved with the Knights Templars in the Middle East. This report has spread widely on the internet.

BUT WHO WAS THE AUTHOR? IS HIS WORD TO BE TRUSTED?

Backgound

Back in the late 90's and up to 2003 I was involved in a Pentecostal church in Perth, Western Australia. I was in  a minor leadership position in the area of cell groups and prayer ministry. In 2002 I even travelled with the pastor to the USA for an Apostolic Prophetic conference with well known ministers in attendance.

On our return to Perth over the next months pride started to get my ear more and more. I was exalting myself and pulling down others in my mind and to my wife in private. It was in April 2003 that things in me came to a head and I left that church taking my family with me.

We were living only about 5 miles from the church but over the next 2 years we did not see any one of the 300 members of that church at all. It was quite bizarre. We did not go to any church in the area and over this time I began to develop the idea that that everything pentecostal was a deception.  

I would spend endless hours on the internet trawling through pages and pages of conspiracy theory sites and watchman type sites that expose all things charismatic in the Church of Jesus Christ.

In my own personal life at the time, I was unhappy. I was working in a contracting job in the booming building industry. I was working long days and making lots of money. My mind was filled with the things I had been discovering about the New World Order and the strange goings on of certain pentecostal ministers.

So I began to write my own exposes of the false teachers and their teachings. Aparently this is called apologetics. Yet who was the one writing these things?  

I had no inner peace. I had no joy. I struggled with temptation to sin daily. I had not been in a church for a year and had left the last church in anger and confusion. I had no prayer life. I read mostly the writings of other men and not the word of God.  

It was at this time that I saw Benny Hinn on the television and subsequently wrote an article that I sent off to a well known watchman type website in the USA.(They have removed the article at my request as of Feb 2010) If you have read the report then you know what it contains, I don't want to repeat what is in it. My accusations were groundless and based on evil suspicions...

1Ti 6:4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,NKJV (evil surmisings KJV)

Why did I do it?

Well, I thought I was being a protector for the sheep of God, warning them of the wolves in sheeps clothing. But really I did it because I wanted recognition and reputation. That craving for recognition was what  the enemy had used to feed me self agrandizing thoughts and self exalting thoughts. I played right into his hands and ended up leaving every thing I had previously believed. Instead of growing in grace I descended into a wilderness of bitter judgements and hard heartedness that lead in turn to sins of the flesh which threatened to destroy my marriage! These were dark, dark times for me. I even got drunk one night and contemplated suicide.  

The article I wrote was full of accusations and judgments I made about Pastor Benny Hinn, Canon Andrew White, Mahesh Chavda, Kim Clement and Todd Bentley.

The website that I sent it to posted the article and it soon spread across the internet with many other sites linking to it. The other ministries that linked to it still use my name when talking about the expose. I will have to live with that infamy...I am ashamed.

BUT WHO AM I!!??

As I said, I was a bitter individual with my own warped agenda. I was deliberately tearing down the reputation of these men...men I had never met. I was head hunting and defaming them with no grace or intention to do them any good. I myself was proud and arrogant and unchurched, blaming all of my problems on men in leadership. To put it plainly, I was deep in rebellion.

2Ti 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

2Ti 2:26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

 This scripture was definitely describing me! I was doing the will of Satan not God. For all my outward words and spoken intentions of trying to save the sheep from wolves, I was more destructive to the body of Christ with my poisonous attitude and evil suspicions.

I have been asking some of the ministries that post the article to remove it but, so far only 1 ministry has done this. I am extremely grateful that they have done this. Not because my name is still circulating but, because the article continues to defame and harm the body of Christ and the men involved.

I don't care if any of the article is true or not. And I would not know if it is. Rebellion had blinded my eyes to love and to the Spirit of grace. God has a proper way to deal with things in his body and I certainly did not follow that way!! Nor was I in any position to deal with other men, let alone pastors and preachers who have devoted their lives to their Lord.

I repent of ever writing the article and the harm I have caused God's children. Some young believers would have possibly read the article and been carried away from God's place of rest as a result.

2Ti 2:16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

2Ti 2:17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

 That is what my article on the Templars and Pastor Benny Hinn was...profane and vain babblings...and like gang-grene. God the Father deals with his children. There is no "watch man" ministry in the New Testament church. There are only bitter individuals who love nothing better than to expose others. It is the nature of satan to expose so as to bring about a downfall, while at the same time exalting oneself.  Yet love covers a multitude of sins. Love does not rejoice when a brother is exposed.  

I am not saying that Pastor Benny Hinn or the others are perfect or that their teachings are free of error. Who is!!?  What I am trying to say is that I had no authority from God to say any of what I  did. I took it upon my self to slander and insinuate all kinds of things about brothers in Christ. I am more guilty of sin than all of these men put together!

So I have written this expose of myself!!

1Co 11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.

Please dear brother and sister in Christ, do not feed upon slander and reports of so called watchmen who are not qualified to speak nor are they sent by God. It will poison your spirit and lead you away from Christ not to Him. When you read articles on the net or listen to preaching you come into contact with the speaker's spirit. If that person has a bitter spirit then you will be defiled by it. The wisdom of God is first of all peaceable not demonic!!

Jas 3:14 But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

Jas 3:15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.

Jas 3:16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.

Jas 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle,

willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

You have an anointing and you know all things ....God will show you what is of Him and what is not. He will have you to rest in His love and be led by your new nature NOT relying on the mechanism of the mind to reason your way through life.  

I sincerely apologize to Benny Hinn, Andrew White, Mahesh Chavda, Kim Clement, Mahesh Chavda and Todd Bentley.If these men wished to take me to court and charge me with slander I would gladly go and plead guilty.  I also ask forgiveness of all those I have led away from grace and into the jaws of satan through my poisonous attacks in the said article. May God cause us all to grow in grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

Dennis Rhodes.

Western Australia

Ministry Qualifications - NONE!!