The Rick A. Ross Institute View of Kenneth Copeland (From Feb. 7, 2005 web crawl)

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From Feb 7, 2005 web crawl

The Rick A. Ross Institute View of Kenneth Copeland (From Feb. 7, 2005 web crawl)

"Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker."

Proverbs 17:5

"Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? But ye have despised the poor."

James 2:5-6

Kenneth Copeland

Kenneth Copeland teaches that, "God is the biggest failure in the Bible!" He also teaches that Jesus did not pay for our sins on the cross! Copeland also teaches that Christians are gods! He also teaches that Jesus never claimed to be God! How much evidence do you need to recognize that Ken Copeland is a false teacher that you need to avoid?

Ken Copeland is a Word Faith teacher. The Word Faith basically teaches the following, although not all Word Faith teachers are unified in all that they believe: Christians are little gods (Are Christians little gods?) Jesus did not pay for our sins on the cross but he had to finish the job of atonement in hell (Did Jesus pay for our sins in hell?). We can command God by our words and God wants us healthy and wealthy (Danger of Blessings). If Christians are not healthy and wealthy it is because of our lack of faith and/or knowledge    (Christians and Sickness). Christians have total control over their environment by the words that we speak, if we speak sickness and poverty we will be sick and broke. Conversely, if Christians speak blessings and healing we will be healthy and wealthy.

The Bible makes it very clear, God even simplified the matter by placing it all into one easy to understand chapter. God teaches us the following: that we should be content, we should not desire to be rich, the love of money is the root of all evil, that many people have erred from the faith due to a love of money, then it commands us to flee these things, (1 Timothy 6).

Some of the most Godly people in the Bible were poor, Paul (Philipians 4:11-12), Paul's companions (1 Corinthians 4:9-13), Old Testament faithful    (Hebrews 11:37) and Jesus (Matthew 8:20, 2 Corinthians 8:9).

"Supposing that gain is godliness; from such withdraw thyself...But godliness with contentment is great gain...And having food and clothes let us be content...But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts...For the love of money is the root of all evil, which, while some have coveted after, they have erred from the faith...But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness," 1 Timothy 6:6-11.

KEN COPELAND:



"Jesus never actually claimed to be God"
(Ken Copeland "Take Time to Pray," Believers Voice of Victory, Feb. 1987)

"Jesus went into hell to free mankind from the penalty of Adam's high treason...When His blood poured out it did not atone. Jesus spent three horrible days and nights in the bowels of this earth getting back for you and me our rights with God."
(Ken Copeland, Personal letter from Ken Copeland, Ft. Worth Texas, March 12, 1979)

"Not only did Jesus pass the test Adam failed, but He also paid the price for Adam's treason---He made Himself obedient unto death, paid the price in the punishment of hell for Adam's sin...In His victory over death, Jesus became the first born-again man of many who would be born in the image of God."
(Kenneth Copeland, "Fullness: God's Plan For His Family," BVOV Magazine, July & August 2004, page 34)

"It is important for us to realize that a born-again man defeated Satan."
(Ken Copeland, "Jesus: Our Lord of Glory," Believers Voice of Victory, April 1982, page 3)

"What [Why] does God have to pay the price for this thing? He has to have a man that is like the first one. It's got to be a man. He's got to be all man. He cannot be a God and come storming in here with attributes and dignities that are not common to man. He can't do that. It's not legal."
(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 138-139. Ken Copeland, "The Incarnation," 1985)

"Why didn't Jesus openly proclaim Himself as God during His 33 years on earth? For one single reason. He hadn't come to earth as God, He'd come as a man."
(Dr. John MacArthur, "Charismatic Chaos," page 336. Ken Copeland, "Believers Voice of Victory," Magazine August 8, 1988, page 8)

"They don't realize that when Jesus came to earth, He voluntarily gave up that advantage, living His life here not as God, but as a man. He had no innate supernatural powers. He had no ability to perform miracles until after He was annointed by the Holy Spirit as recorded in Luke 3:22. He ministered as a man anointed by the Holy Spirit."
(Ken Copeland, "Believers Voice of Victory," Magazine August 8, 1988, page 8)

"The righteousness of God was made to be sin. He accepted the sin nature of Satan in His own spirit. And at that moment that He did so He cried, 'My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me?' You don't know what happened at the cross. Why do you think Moses, upon instruction of God, raised the serpent upon that pole instead of a lamb? That use to bug me. I said, `Why in the world would you want to put a snake up there - the sign of Satan? Why didn't you put a lamb on that pole?' And the Lord said, 'Because it was a sign of Satan that was hanging on the cross.' He (Jesus) said, 'I accepted in my own spirit, spiritual death; and the light was turned off'."
(Dr. John MacArthur, "Charismatic Chaos," page 338. Ken Copeland, "What Happened From the Cross to the Throne?")

"The righteousness of God was made to be sin. He [Jesus] accepted the sin nature of Satan in His own Spirit. And at the moment that He did so, He cried, 'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?'"
(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 499. Ken Copeland)

"I've had ugly books written about me because I said that Jesus died spiritually, but the fact is, I didn't say that–the Bible said it. Jesus became our substitute. If he hadn't died spiritually, then we could never have been made alive spiritually. But He did! On the cross, Jesus was separated from the glory of God. He allowed Himself to be made sin for us, and He became obedient to death. He went into the pit of hell and suffered there as though He was the One Who had committed the sin."
(Ken Copeland, "The Power of His Resurrection")

"You dont have a god in you, you are one!"
(Ken Copeland, "The Force Of Love Audiotape," 1987)

"Adam in the Garden of Eden, was God manifested in the flesh."
(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 338. Ken Copeland, "Following the Faith of Abraham I,")

"God's reason for creating Adam was His desire to reproduce Himself...He was not a little like God. He was not almost like God. He was not subordinate to God even."
(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 109. Ken Copeland, "Following the Faith of Abraham I,")

"And I say this with all respect, so that it don't upset you too bad. But I say it anyway: When I read in the Bible where He says, 'I Am,' I just smile and say, 'Yes, I Am, too."
(Dr. John MacArthur, "Charismatic Chaos," page 332. Ken Copeland, "The Believers Voice of Victory," July 9, 1987)

“Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine nature. Alright, are we gods? We are a class of gods.”
(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 117. Ken Copeland, "Praise The Lord," TBN February 5, 1986)

"God's purpose and plan--the deepest desire of His heart--is coming to pass. God is going to have a family of equals!"
(Kenneth Copeland, "Fullness: God's Plan For His Family," BVOV Magazine, July & August 2004, page 32)

"Notice it doesn't say [Genesis 1:27-28] man was created almost in the image of God. It says man was created exactly like God--he was the fullness of God. Adam did not fall short in any area in his likeness of God. He had the very creative power of God in him and on him...One man, filled with the fullness of God, was commissioned and empowered by God to take dominion over the earth and bless it...This man--created in the image of God, like Him in every way..."
(Kenneth Copeland, "Fullness: God's Plan For His Family," BVOV Magazine, July & August 2004, page 34)

"It's not enough for us to just lie back and say, 'We'll, if it's God's will for me to have victory I guess He'll just give it to me. If it's His will for me to be healed, He'll just heal me.' No! It is His will. He did give it to you. By His stripes you were healed."
(Ken Copeland, "Does Your Heart Agree With Heaven?" Believers Voice of Victory Magazine, November, 2004, page 26)

“Several people that I know had criticized and called that faith bunch out of Tulsa a cult. And some of ’em are dead right today in an early grave because of it, and there’s more than one of them got cancer.”
(Kenneth Copeland, “Why All Are Not Healed”)

"Poverty is an evil spirit."
(Kenneth Copeland, Prosperity: The Choice Is Yours, pg. 4)

"You can have what you say! In fact, what you are saying is exactly what you are getting now. If you are living in poverty and lack and want, change what you are saying. It will change what you have...Discipline your vocabulary. Discipline everything you do, everything you say, and everything you think to agree with what God does, what God says, and what God thinks. God will be obligated to meet your needs because of His Word....If you stand firmly on this, your needs will be met."
(D. R. McConnell, A Different Gospel, page 172. Ken copeland, "The Laws of Prosperity," page 98, 101)

"Don’t be disturbed when people put you down and speak harshly and roughly of you. They spoke that way of Me, should they not speak that way of you? The more you get to be like Me, the more they’re going to think that way of you. They crucified Me for claiming that I was God. But I didn’t claim I was God; I just claimed I walked with Him and He was in Me. Hallelujah."
(Kenneth Copeland, "Take Time To Pray," Believer’s Voice Of Victory, February 1987)

"It wasn't a physical death on the cross that paid the price for sin...anybody can do that."
(Kenneth Copeland, What Satan Saw on the Day of Pentecost)

"Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross."
(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 11. Ken Copeland)

"God's reason for creating Adam was his desire to reproduce himself. I mean a reproduction of himself, and in the Garden of Eden He did just that. He (adam) was not a little like God. He was not almost like God. He was not subordinate to God even....Adam is as much like God as you can get, just the same as Jesus.....Adam, in the Garden of Eden, was God manifested in the flesh."
(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 478. Ken Copeland)

“Every prophet that walked the face of the earth under the Abrahamic covenant could have paid the price if it were a physical death only” “When He said ‘It is finished’ on that cross, He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. The plan of redemption had just begun; there were still three days and three nights to be gone through.”
(Kenneth Copeland, "What Happened from the Cross to the Throne")

Speaking of God “A being that stands somewhere around 6-2 , 6-3 that weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of a couple of hundred pounds or a little better, has a span of 9 inches across.”
(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 483. Ken Copeland)

"God intends for every believer to live completely free from sickness and disease. It is up to you to decide whether or not you will."
(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 533. Ken Copeland)

"Speaking God's Word over yourself is the key to staying healed and whole...Don't wait until you're sick to start speaking the Word. Start now! Ground yourself in God's healing message, speak it out in faith, and get ready to live a life of health and power!"
(Believers Voice of Victory Magazine, November, 2004, page 19)
Note: Why did Ken Copeland have to cancel his meetings due to a back injury?
"Much to my deep regret I must postpone our meetings in Australia, Singapore, Korea and Hawaii. A few days ago I injured my back badly enough that even though my healing has already started, so many hours of flying would be too much. Let's face it. I let this situation in my back go on for too long," Ken Copeland, website.

"When are we all going to wake up and learn God didn't allow the Devil to get on Job. Job allowed the Devil to get on Job...Job himself, said he was not upright in the earth. He said, 'I'm miserable. My tongue is disobedient."
(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 533. Ken Copeland)

“His (God) body and Adams were the exactly the same size.”
(Holy Bible, Kenneth Copeland) Reference edition p. 45)

"Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine class. All right, are we gods? We are a class of gods!"
(Ken Copeland, Praise The Lord, TBN February 5, 1986)

"I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is...The biggest one in the whole Bible is God...I mean, He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel; the first man He ever created; the first woman He ever created; the whole earth and all the fullness therein; a third of the angels, at least - that's a big loss, man....Now, the reason you don't think of God as a failure is He never said He's a failure. And you're not a failure till you say you're one."
(Ken Copeland, Praise-a-thon on Praise The Lord, April 1988)

“I've had people die on me standing there saying bless God you ain't gonna die. And they did anyway and I'm glad I stood, and I'm glad I stood, and I'm glad I stood. I ain't never stood for anything in my own life that didn't come to pass. I can only use my faith just so far with you.”
(Ken Copeland, Audio-clip, Christianity In Crisis, Hank Hanegraaff)

"God's on the outside looking in. He doesn't have any legal entree into the earth. The thing don't belong to Him. You see how sassy the Devil was in the presence of God in the book of Job? God said, 'Whee have you been?' Wasn't any of God's buisness. He [Satan] didn't even have to answer if he didn't want to."
(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 488. Ken Copeland)

"The Spirit of God spoke to me and He said, 'Son, realize this. Now follow me in this and don't let your tradition trip you up.' He said, 'Think this way - a twice-born man whipped Satan in his own domain.' And I threw my Bible down...like that. I said, 'What?' He said, 'A born-again man defeated Satan, the firstborn of many brethren defeated him.' He said, 'You are the very image, the very copy of that one.' I said, 'Goodness, gracious sakes alive!' And I began to see what had gone on in there, and I said, 'Well now you don't mean, you couldn't dare mean, that I could have done the same thing?' He said, 'Oh yeah, if you'd had the knowledge of the Word of God that He did, you could have done the same thing, 'cause you're a reborn man too."
(Dr. John MacArthur, "Charasmatic Chaos," page 337. Kenneth Copeland, "Substitution and Identification")

"Jesus was the first man to ever be borned [sic] from sin to righteousness. He was the pattern of a new race of men to come. Glory to God! And you know what he did? The very first thing that this reborn man did--See, you have to realize that he died. You have to realize that he went into the pit of hell as a mortal man made sin. But he didn't stay there, thank God. He was reborn in the pit of hell."
(Dr. John MacArthur, "Charasmatic Chaos," page 338. Ken Copeland, ""What Happened from the Cross to the Throne")

"How did Jesus then on the cross say, ‘My God.’ Because God was not His Father any more. He took upon Himself the nature of Satan. And I’m telling you Jesus is in the middle of that pit. He’s suffering all that there is to suffer, there is no suffering left . . . apart from Him. His emaciated, little wormy spirit is down in the bottom of that thing and the devil thinks He’s got Him destroyed. But, all of a sudden God started talking."
(Ken Copeland, Believer's Voice of Victory, April 21, 1991)

"When Jesus cried, 'It is finished!' He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. There were still three days and nights to go through before He went to the throne Jesus' death on the cross was only the beginning of the complete work of redemption."
((Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 164. Ken Copeland, Jesus Our Lord of Glory, Believer's Voice of Victory, April 1982)

“Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of hell.”
(Kenneth Copeland, Holy Bible: Kenneth Copeland Reference Edition 1991 p. 129)

"What [why] does God have to pay the price for this thing? He has to have a man that is like that first one. It’s got to be a man. He’s got to be all man. He cannot be a God and come storming in here with attributes and dignities that are not common to man. He can’t do that. It’s not legal."
(Kenneth Copeland, "Question & Answer," Believer’s Voice Of Victory 16, August 1988)

"Jesus died two deaths. He died spiritually and he died physically"
(Ken Copeland, "Jesus Our LORD of Glory" BVOV, April 1983)

"He accepted the sin nature of Satan in His own spirit."
(Ken Copeland, Quoted in Hanegraaff, Crisis, 157-58)

"As a believer, you have the right to make commands in the name of Jesus. Each time you stand on the Word, you are commanding God to a certain extent because it is His Word"
(Ken Copeland, Covenant, 40-41)

During an alleged conversation with Copeland, Jesus is said to have remarked, "It was a sign of Satan that was hanging on the cross....I accepted, in my own spirit, spiritual death; and the light was turned off." We are told that Jesus "had to give up His righteousness" and "accepted the sin nature of Satan."
(Ken Copeland, What Happened from the Cross to the Throne, side 2. http://www.equip.org/free/DC755-2.htm)

Copeland's description of Christ's ordeal in hell is nothing short of chilling: "He [Jesus] allowed the devil to drag Him into the depths of hell...He allowed Himself to come under Satan's control...Every demon in hell came down on Him to annihilate Him...They tortured Him beyond anything anybody had ever conceived. For three days He suffered everything there is to suffer."(Ken Copeland, "The Price of It All," http://www.equip.org/free/DC755-2.htm)

Jesus speaking to Copeland teaches him, “It was a sign of Satan that was hanging on the cross....I accepted, in my own spirit, spiritual death; and the light was turned off.”
(Kenneth Copeland, "What Happened from the Cross to the Throne")

“He [Jesus] allowed the devil to drag Him into the depths of hell....He allowed Himself to come under Satan's control...every demon in hell came down on Him to annihilate Him....They tortured Him beyond anything anybody had ever conceived. For three days He suffered everything there is to suffer.” (Kenneth Copeland, “The Price of It All”)

"Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies."
(Kenneth Copeland, The Power of the Tongue, pp. 8-10)

"Here’s where we’re gonna depart from ordinary church: Now, you see, God is injecting His Word into the earth to produce this Jesus—these faith-filled words that framed the image that’s in Him…He can’t just walk onto the earth and say, "Let it be!" because He doesn’t have the right. He had to sneak it in here around the god of this world that was blockin’ every way that he possibly could."
(Kenneth Copeland, Audio-clip, Christianity In Crisis, Hank Hanegraaff)

“As a born-again believer, you are equipped with the Word. You have the power of God at your disposal. By getting the Word deep into your spirit and speaking it boldly out your mouth, you release spiritual power to change things in the natural circumstances.”

(Kenneth Copeland, "The Power of the Tongue," page 15)

"Then, he created Eve out of Adam. Now, actually God didn’t name her Eve, Adam named her Eve later. That wasn’t her name, her name was Adam . . . Adam. When God said Adam, they both came. Their authority was one and the same together. They did everything together. They had always been together. Even when she was still part of him, he was as much female as he was male, like God is. And God separated the female part of him and then put them back together. And she was Adam, they were Adam. He was the man, she was the woman. She was the man with the womb."

(Kenneth Copeland, Audio-clip, Christianity In Crisis, Hank Hanegraaff)

Is God The Biggest Failure In The Bible?

Kenneth Copeland: "I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is."

Paul Crouch: "Okay."

Kenneth Copeland: "You know everybody you ask, you say, ‘Who’s the biggest failure?’ They say, ‘Judas.’ Somebody else will say, ‘No, I believe it was Adam.’ Well, how about the devil?"

Paul Crouch: (Sound of amazement.)

Kenneth Copeland: "He’s the most consistent failure . . . but he’s not the biggest in terms of material failure and so forth. The biggest in the whole Bible is God. . . . Wait, wait. Don’t you turn that set off. You listen to us. I told you. . . . Now, you sit still a minute. You know me well enough to know I wouldn’t tell something I can’t prove by the Bible. He lost His top ranking of most anointed angel, the first man He ever created, the first woman He ever created, the whole earth and all the fullness therein, a third of the angels at least. That’s a big loss, man! I mean you figure up all of that, that’s a lot of real estate, gone down the drain. Now, the reason you don’t think of God as a failure, He never said He’s a failure. (Paul Crouch and others laughing on the set.) And you are not a failure until you say you are one."

(Kenneth Copeland, Audio-clip, Christianity In Crisis, Hank Hanegraaff)

"Jesus had to go through that same spiritual death in order to pay the price. Now it wasn't the physical death on the cross that paid the price for sin, because if it had of been any prophet of God that had died for the last couple of thousand years before that could have paid that price. It wasn't physical death anybody could do that."

(Kenneth Copeland, What Satan Saw on the Day of Pentecost, audio tape #020022)

“…that Word of the Living God went down into that pit of destruction and charges the spirit of Jesus with resurrection power! Suddenly, His twisted, death-wracked spirit began to fill out and come back to life. He began to look like something the devil has never seen before. He was literally being reborn before the devil’s very eyes. He began to flex his spiritual muscles…Jesus was born again – the firstborn from the dead."

(Kenneth Copeland, The Price of it All, Believer’s Voice in Victory, vol 19 September 1991, p.9)

“He [Jesus] was down in that pit and there he suffered the punishment for three horrible days and nights for Adam’s treason ... There is a new birth takes place in the very depths of the earth, when the command of God says ‘That’s enough, loose him and let him go’.”

(Kenneth Copeland, What Happened from the Cross to the Throne, 1990, audiotape #02-0017, side 2)

“God’s on the outside looking in. He doesn’t have any legal entree into the earth. The thing don’t belong to Him. You see how sassy the Devil was in the presence of God in the book of Job? God said, ‘Where have you been?’ Wasn’t any of God’s business. He [Satan] didn’t even have to answer if he didn’t want to ... God didn’t argue with him a bit! You see, this is the position that God’s been in … Might say, ‘Well, if God’s running things He’s doing a lousy job of it.’ He hadn’t been running ’em, except when He’s just got, you know, a little bit of a chance.”

(Kenneth Copeland, Image of God in You III, 1989, audiotape #01-1403, side 1)

“Adam committed high treason; and at that point, all the dominion and authority God had given to him was handed over to Satan. Suddenly, God was on the outside looking in … After Adam’s fall, God found Himself in a peculiar position …God needed an avenue back into the earth …God laid out His proposition and Abram accepted it. It gave God access to the earth and gave man access to God ... Technically, if God ever broke the Covenant, He would have to destroy Himself.”

(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 533. Kenneth Copeland, "Our Covenant with God," 1987, pp. 8-11)

“God had no avenue of lasting faith or moving in the earth. He had to have covenant with somebody. ... He had to be invited in, in other words, or He couldn’t come. God is on the outside looking in. In order to have any say so in the earth, He’s going to have to be in agreement with a man here.”

(Kenneth Copeland, God’s Covenants With Man II, 1985, audiotape #01-4404, side 1)

"I know how much you are enjoying Benny Hinn and the great revelations that you are receiving."

(Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn Telethon, LeSea Network, April 16, 2004)

"I have been healed watching Benny Hinn on television."

(Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn Telethon, LeSea Network, April 16, 2004)

"The Spirit of Jesus accepting that sin, and making it to be sin, He separated from His God, and in that moment, He's a mortal man. Capable of failure. Capable of death. Not only that, He's fixing to be ushered into the Jaws of hell. And if Satan is capable of overpowering Him there, he'll win the universe, and mankind is doomed. Don't get the idea that Jesus was incapable of failure, because if He had been, it would have been illegal."

(Dr. John MacArthur, "Charasmatic Chaos," page 339. Kenneth Copeland, "What Happened from the Cross to the Throne")

"A poverty stricken student from Oral Roberts University attended my father's Tulsa seminars in the mid '60s and got turned onto the Word of God. The student was deeply in debt, but he desperately wanted my father's tapes. He offered to trade the title of his car for them. Buddy Harrison, my brother-in-law, was managing the ministry then. He took one look at the old car and told him, 'Just go ahead and take the tapes. Bring the money when you can.' So young Kenneth Copeland memorized those tapes and another great ministry was launched."

(D. R. McConnell, A Different Gospel, page 4. Ken Hagin jr. "Trend Toward the Faith Movement," page 67.)

"Other people have gotten started because of my Dad's ministry. They'll even admit it. They have preached his sermons almost verbatim from his tapes. Ken Copeland did."

(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 333. Ken Hagin jr., "Faith Worketh by Love," page 21)

Ken Copeland claimed that 'Faith Critics' would go to an early grave and would also experience the dreaded disease of cancer.

(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 337. Ken Copeland, "Why All Are Not Healed,")

"Any image that you get down on the inside of you that is so vivid when you close your eyes you see it, it'll come to pass."

(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 338. Ken Copeland, "Inner Image of the Covenant,")

"The visualization they do in meditation and metaphysical practices...is the perverted form of the real thing."

(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 339. Ken Copeland, "Inner Image of the Covenant,")

"New Age is trying to do this; and they'd get somewhat results out of it because this is spiritual law, brother."

(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 339. Ken Copeland, "Inner Image of the Covenant,")

"Jesus bore the curse of the law in our behalf. He beat Satan and took away his power. Consequently, there is no reason for you to live under the curse of the law, no reason for you to live in poverty of any kind."

(Hank Hanegraaff, "Christianity in Crisis" page 214. Ken Copeland, "The Laws of Prosperity," page 50-51)

"Earlier this year when I was taping a BVOV broadcast on this message, the voice of the Lord came and said to me and our studio audience, 'I am ready to do things you have never seen or heard of before. Are you ready? Are you ready for Me?' Then He said, 'You're not waiting for Me, I'm waiting for you.'"

(Kenneth Copeland, "Fullness: God's Plan For His Family," BVOV Magazine, July & August 2004, page 35)

"Some people say, "Well, Jesus' ministry was poor and He got along just fine." That's ridiculous. It would have been impossible for Jesus to be poor! All the way through the Old Testament, God promised material blessings to anyone who would walk perfect and upright before Him. If God had failed to bless Jesus financially, He would have been breaking His own Word...Jesus had so much money coming in and going out through His ministry that He had to appoint a treasurer. That's what Judas was. There was enough money in that treasury for Judas to steal from it without the money being missed."

(Kenneth Copeland, "The Gospel To The Poor")

"It takes money to preach the gospel. Jesus Himself knew that, and contrary to what some people think, His ministry was not a poor one. He had so much money coming in and going out through His ministry that He had to appoint a treasurer. His name was Judas."

(Kenneth Copeland, "From Faith to Faith A Daily Guide to Victory," December 5)

"You can't be successful in life if you're sick all the time. If you're broke all the time...That just ain't no kind of living."

(Kenneth Copeland, "Believer's Voice of Victory," Daystar, September 3, 2004)

"Much to my deep regret I must postpone our meetings in Australia, Singapore, Korea and Hawaii. A few days ago I injured my back badly enough that even though my healing has already started, so many hours of flying would be too much. Let's face it. I let this situation in my back go on for too long," Ken Copeland, website.

Yet he teaches: "God intends for every believer to live completely free from sickness and disease. It is up to you to decide whether or not you will...I ain't never stood for anything in my own life that didn't come to pass."

"It always amazes me when I preach about prosperity and someone comes up to me and says, 'I don't need much prosperity. I'm a simple person with a simple life. So I just ask God for enough to meet my needs.' They think that's humility, but it's not. It's selfishness!"
(Kenneth Copeland, "From Faith to Faith A Daily Guide to Victory," December 5)
Note: I guess Agur was selfish!
"Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? Or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain," Proverbs 30:8-9.

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