Welcome everyone to Deeper Waters where we are diving into the ocean of truth. I’d like to wrap up our look at Christian sound bites tonight. Right now, my plan is starting tomorrow that I’d like to look at a video put out by “The Amazing Atheist” on YouTube called “Thomas Aquinas sucks.” From my viewing, what’s amazing is that TAA actually thinks he’s refuted Aquinas. I hope this will be a good object lesson also in properly studying a worldview.
Speaking of YouTube, one of my favorite videos right now has been the one of Benny Hinn as the Dark Lord of the Sith. If you haven’t seen it, you need to go and watch it. It’s hysterical! However, as I was reading over the comments, I did read someone saying “Well you don’t want to touch God’s anointed.”
What does it mean to say that?
To begin with, God’s anointed in biblical times was a king. The first case we have of this is Saul. There are numerous cases in 1 Samuel where David has a chance to kill Saul. He not only has a chance, it would practically be a slam dunk. He could have done it and got away with it and he had the support of his men to do so.
Every single time, he refused. He would not touch God’s anointed. In fact, when people claimed to have killed Saul or even when they did kill his son who was on the throne for a short time, David had them killed. He knew that God had appointed Saul to be king of Israel and while David knew his time was coming, it would come on God’s time and not his own.
And yet in many of these cases, David also criticized Saul. He pointed out to Saul that Saul had been trying to kill him and that this was wrong. He wanted Saul to not waste his time out in this chase since David had done nothing wrong. Did he view Saul as God’s anointed? Yes. That did not stop him however from telling him, “You’re doing wrong.”
To say when someone speaks against a speaker like Benny Hinn, “Don’t touch God’s anointed,” is first off to assume that God has anointed Benny Hinn. However, let’s assume that for the sake of argument, and I know this will seem a huge leap to many readers, that Benny Hinn does have “anointing.” (Rest assured, I don’t think this for a second.)
All the text means then in saying “Don’t touch him” is “Don’t kill him.” Thus, as long as you’re not making death threats against Benny Hinn, you’re okay. By the case of Saul and David, you are entirely allowed to criticize Benny Hinn. If you think he is in the wrong, by all means speak up.
In fact, this is good for anyone in a leadership position. You should always feel free to come and be able to say how you think they’re wrong. In fact, God Himself allows this for Him in the Bible. He invites us to make our case before Him. If we think He is not doing right, in what way? This kind of questioning goes on regularly in the Psalms.
No leader in the church today should be immune to questioning. None of us are going to get it all right. We’re all going to have mistakes in our thinking. Questioning allows us to keep things right. When we say a leader is above reproach, we are well on the way to surrendering our thinking and forming a cult leader. We all know how God views idolatry and we can make an idol of a living human being.
Let’s not do so.
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