F4F | David Diga Hernandez Can't Exegete Correctly

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So, David Diga Hernandez. We've been warning about him for a while. Here's another warning. This man is not capable of rightly handling biblical texts. We're gonna see him mangle two different texts today, and the Bible-twisting technique that he's going to be engaging in is called Eisegesis.

It's not spelled I-C-E. It's E-I-S. Eisegesis, and it means to read into the biblical text things that are not there. So we're gonna be looking at him kind of doing kind of like standard charismatic Pentecostal Eisegesis, but it's a twisting of God's Word nonetheless and a complete abandoning of what these texts are legitimately communicating.

And if somebody cannot rightly handle God's Word, they're not qualified to be teachers in Christ's Church. According to the biblical standard, those who teach in Christ's Church must be able to teach what's in accord with sound doctrine and refute those who contradict it.

David Digger Hernandez, he teaches false doctrine just straight up, and the proof is in the pudding, is in his inability to rightly handle a biblical text or two. So let's do this. Let's whirl up the the desktop.

And by the way, that's the lifeguard tower at Laguna Beach, California. I recently went to California to visit my mother. Her health isn't all that great, so I went to go and visit her and did a little time while I was there, did a little bit of street photography.

In fact, a little bit of a note here, if you don't already follow me on Instagram, so photography is my artistic outlet. My Instagram account is, you know, Instagram piratechristian, piratechristian is my account there.

And if you want to keep up on my latest, you know, photography adventures and what I'm putting together artistically, you'll know I use art like photography to keep me from losing my mind from all the heresy that I watch, but alas, that's not why we're here.

The False Doctrine of Flowing with the Holy Spirit

All right, so let's talk about David Digger Hernandez, shall we? David Digger Hernandez, the understudy of Benny Hinn, who engages in the same deceptive techniques that Benny Hinn has been famous for for decades, regarding fake healings and declaring people healed and acts like he has power to do all kinds of nonsense, and he doesn't.

It's all a show. Here's the deal. The biblical standard is somebody has to be able to rightly handle the Word of Truth. He doesn't, and so we're going to be listening to him teaching on, the name of the video is It's Actually Easy to Flow with the Holy Spirit.

Here's how. Flow with the Holy Spirit. Well, I would note, remember this, quod non es biblicum, non es theologicum? If it's not in the Bible, it's not theological. And I've created my own tagline, quod non es biblicum, non es biblicum.

If it ain't in the Bible, it's not biblical. I know the Latin isn't exactly great on that, but it makes the point. If it's not in the Bible, it's not biblical. So that being the case, where in the Bible are the great biblical passages that teach us how to flow with the Holy Spirit?

I can't think of one. The great flow passages, you know, Fourth Hesitations, chapter 6, verse 66, you know, it's right there, man, you know. Where are the great flowing with the Holy Spirit passages? So what he's done here is he started with his own theology, his own doctrine, the doctrine of flowing with the Holy Spirit.

The Bible doesn't teach it. And remember, quod non es biblicum, non es biblicum. If it ain't in the Bible, it's not biblical. There are no passages that teach flowing in the Holy Spirit. So everything that he's going to say is going to be gobbledygook.

And any time he opens a biblical text, by definition, he has to be twisting it because there are no biblical passages that teach about flowing with the Holy Spirit. I don't know a single,.

Single.

Christian dogmatics text or, you know, any kind of systematic theology that has a whole section on how to flow with the Holy Spirit. I mean, I would note that, you know, even notable cessationists who put together systematic theologies, you think of Wayne Grudem, there are no sections in his systematic theology about here's how you flow with the Holy Spirit.

So this is a doctrine completely made up.

By.

Charismatics and Pentecostals and Diga Hernandez here, by not even rightly being able to identify, wait a second, the Bible doesn't teach anything about flowing in the Holy Spirit. What's he going to be preaching?

His own experiences in eisegeting biblical texts. Unfortunately, the texts that he's chosen to eisegete, they are significant texts and he's oblivious, and I mean oblivious, to just how important they are.

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Self-Focus and Isaiah 6

I want to share with you how to flow with the Holy Spirit. These are deep spiritual realities that are rarely talked about, but every believer should know.

All right, so he wants to teach us how to flow with the Holy Spirit. These are deep spiritual realities that hardly anybody ever talks about. You know why? Because the Bible doesn't teach it. This is a completely made-up doctrine.

Let me back this up. I want to share with you how to flow with the Holy Spirit. These are deep spiritual realities that are rarely talked about, but every believer should know. Oh, well, here's the thing.

If I needed to know about flowing with the Holy Spirit, wouldn't I be able to just open up biblical text and find those passages that talk about flowing with the Holy Spirit? I mean, what does the verb flow mean in this sentence, anyway?

How to flow with the Holy Spirit, not just in life, but also in ministry. When you're ministering on a platform.

Do I sound annoyed? I'm annoyed.

When you're ministering in the streets, when you're ministering to a loved one, these are simple, basic, biblical principles.

Oh, biblical principles. Oh, okay. Again, which texts teach flowing with the Holy Spirit?

You can apply to your life immediately, and as you begin to apply these truths to your life, you'll begin to see that it's actually quite easy to flow with the Holy Spirit. Look, we complicate it.

In the flesh, we complicate things. Oh, we complicate it. I mean, it's so easy to flow with the Holy Spirit. It's so easy.

Again, where in the Bible does it teach this doctrine? But in the Spirit, that's where things are simplified. So, number one, you want to flow with the Holy Spirit. Number one, you have to forget about yourself.

Okay, so where will I find this list? If you want to flow with the Holy Spirit, the first thing you got to do is forget about yourself. This list doesn't occur anywhere in Scripture at all. So, we got a problem here, sir.

Where do I see this step about forgetting about myself so I can flow with the Holy Spirit? Where's that taught in the Bible? Again, I would point out, quod non es biblicum, non es biblicum. If it's not in the Bible, it's not biblical.

Where's this flow doctrine in the Scripture?

Now, I'm not saying that God doesn't care about you. I'm not saying that God doesn't want to move in your life or God doesn't want to give you breakthrough. But when you're flowing with the Holy Spirit, sometimes you can become a distraction to you.

Sometimes you can be so focused on what you're feeling or not feeling.

Okay.

Do you have a biblical passage that shows this?

What you're experiencing or not experiencing. What you desire. What you think. Sometimes you get in your own way. Let me show you something here. Go with me to Isaiah chapter 6, and I want to show you what happened to the prophet when he was initiated in his calling.

Isaiah's Vision, Cleansing, and Commission

So, Isaiah chapter 6, probably one of the more important passages in all of Scripture, and I there is no way to say this with hyperbole. It is a huge text. And you think this is about, number one, flowing with the Holy Spirit.

And number two, that the prophet Isaiah did something wrong and he could have flowed with the Holy Spirit more if he hadn't been so obsessed with thinking about himself. That's legitimately how he set this passage up.

Nothing could be further from the truth. And wait till you see this text, because when I walk you through it, there's no way you'll take this guy seriously on what he just said about it. Let's keep going.

Isaiah chapter 6, beginning at verse number 1. It was the year King Uzziah died that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings.

With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. So, here already we see the heavenly realm opening. Verse 3.

We see the heavenly realm opening.

Um,.

Okay.

So this is an example of flowing with the Holy Spirit. Far from it. We'll explain why in a minute.

They were calling out to each other, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of heaven's armies. The whole earth is filled with his glory.

Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh. Right. Yahweh, Savvahot. Uh-huh. All right. So, holy, holy, holy. Hmm. There's something important going on with that.

Their voices shook the temple to its foundations. I love that. And the entire building was filled with smoke. So here we see Isaiah the prophet carrying out his duties. He's being responsible. He's at work for the sake of God's glory.

Right. He was a priest. Then all of a sudden, in the middle of a seemingly mundane day, the heavens are open. He catches a glimpse of God's glory. God begins to reveal himself to Isaiah in a way he had never seen before.

I would argue, not only did God reveal himself to Isaiah in a way he had never seen before, God reveals himself to Isaiah in a way that he has rarely revealed himself to any human being. There's something pinnacle occurring in this text.

We continue. He looks and he sees angelic beings, heavenly hosts. And as they speak, their voices are so powerful that the temple is shaken to its foundations. Now, of course, he's frightened by this.

Yeah, the translation that you're reading from is a little sketch. I'm just saying. But verse 5, we see how Isaiah responds.

Now imagine this. Here is a man who is witnessing something that is divine. What is his first response? Well, his first response is often our response. Whenever we encounter the living God or whenever God is trying to walk us through something.

Verse 5. Then I said, it's over. It's all over. I am doomed for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the king, the Lord of heaven's armies.

You notice here that he's very focused on self. I, I, I, I.

He's thinking. So apparently he's doing something wrong. I mean, he could be flowing with the Holy Spirit more if he wasn't, if he was just not so focused on himself.

Give me a break. His inadequacies. He's probably afraid that he's going to be judged because of those inadequacies.

He probably. They're called sins. He doesn't feel worthy of having this experience because. Not worthy of having this experience. Listen to this list. Okay. Oh, Isaiah, the ultimate spiritual narcissist.

I, I, he's thinking of his inadequacies. He's probably afraid that he's going to be judged because of those inadequacies. He probably doesn't feel worthy of having this experience because he is so focused on self.

He's not fully able to experience, enjoy, or focus on the heavenly display that's before him.

What?

Oh, man.

David Diga Hernandez is completely oblivious and ignorant. I mean, I, I would say on purpose about what the scripture is all about. Oh, poor Isaiah. He missed a great opportunity to bliss out in the glory of God.

Oh, here he could have been soaking in the glory, but no, he was too focused on himself. And as a result of it, he wasn't able to flow. Are you kidding me?

Are you kidding me?

Listen, just a little bit more and then we're going to open up the biblical text. And so you and I often will run into.

The awareness of our inadequacies. The constant questions that berate our minds. The doubts that berate our minds. Um, even to the point where we're so focused on what we're experiencing that we can break that experience.

For example,.

There have been times. So we can break. Isaiah, he could have had more of an experience if he hadn't been so focused on himself and he broke the experience.

Wrong.

Okay.

If I sound annoyed, I am annoyed and I'm not going to apologize for this at this point. Okay, here's our text from the ESV, which is a much better translation than whatever it is that he was reading. And let's consider the importance of what's really going on here.

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord and.

Adonai.

Sitting upon a throne high and lifted up and the train of his robe filled the temple. Now, let's just parse this one out a little bit here. Uzziah reigned for a long time. He's also known as Amaziah if you read in the in the book of Chronicles.

The issue is is that he was a good king with one major exception and that is is that God ended up having to humble him because he arrogated to himself. He took on authority for himself that he didn't have.

He wanted to do some priestly things, but he's a king and he's not a Levite. And he's a member of the tribe of Judah, not of the tribe of Levi. And when he went to do those priestly things, he was opposed by the high priest and by the other priests and God struck him with leprosy to punish him and to humble him.

But he reigned for like 56 years. And when you read about the different kings of Judah and the kings of Israel, I mean, it's a horrible list, a roster of idolaters with a few kings who are faithful. Uzziah was one of these faithful ones and he reigned for like 56 years.

And I don't know if you remember when Queen Elizabeth died just a couple years back, but it was kind of a big deal when she died. So much so same with Isaiah. So the year that King Uzziah died and watch the interplay here.

So the king is dead and he says, I saw Adonai, I saw the Lord, the real sovereign, king of kings, lord of lords, sitting upon a throw high and lifted up and the train of his robe filled the temple. Now I'm going to make an argument and I'm going to have to put a pin in it and prove it a little bit later in our exegesis.

He sees the glory of Christ and I can prove it with the cross reference. That's the glory, the one sitting on the throne. It's Christ, the second person of the trinity, you know, the son of God. All of that being said, note that the train of his robe fills the temple, which then kind of leads to the next part of this.

And above him stood the seraphim. And I'm not going to get into the details regarding the seraphim at this point, but note that this is either a rank of angel or a type of angel. These are heavenly beings and they each had six wings.

And so they're not even able to stand on the floor of the temple because the train of the robe of Adonai, the sovereign lord, the sovereign, not king Uzziah, but the sovereign lord Yahweh, his train of his robe is filling the temple.

They can't even stand on the ground there. So what are they doing? They're flying and they all have six wings. And note, with two they covered their face. They can't even look at the glory of the Lord.

With two they covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And here's the thing, they called to one another and they said, so here we got like a picture, if you would, of a heavenly choir of seraphim, and they are crying to each other and they're echoing each other or responding to each other.

This is heavenly worship going on here. Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh, Yahweh, sabaoth. And then you've got, you know, HaEretz is full, Melo HaEretz is full of his kadosh, of his glory.

Right?

And the whole earth is full of his glory. And this is what they're singing and they're crying to each other with their faces covered by their own.

Wings. This is,.

This is mind-boggling.

All right?

And here it says, the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called. Not at the voice of the seraphim, of the one who called. This would be Yahweh's voice, Adonai's voice. And the house was filled with smoke.

So even, even the building itself is shuddering and shaking at, at the voice of God. Right? And in the midst of all this, with the shuddering and the shaking and the crying and the calling and the angelic choir, and the glory of the Lord right there in the train of his robe filling the temple, all of a sudden Isaiah comes to grips with exactly what he is.

A sinner. And it's, and he says, woe is me. Now, a little bit of a note here. Here's where some cross-references are going to help. Woe is me. Oh, oh, he's not saying poor me. Okay? There's more to it than that.

The, the word for.

Woe.

Is used throughout the scripture as a curse. Okay, let me give you an example. Okay? So I'm gonna, I'm just gonna open this up and I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go, woe.

Okay?

Woe. And we're going to look in, um, let's go the, the, uh, the entire New Testament here. So we'll catch it in to, you know, we'll give you an example. So, woe to you, Chorazin. Woe to you, Bethsaida, Christ said.

When he says woe to them, he's saying that they're cursed. Woe is a word, you know, uh, it's a word basically declaring that they are cursed. Woe to the world for temptations to sins, but woe to the one by whom temptation comes.

And then in like Matthew 23, Jesus takes out the woes and just goes crazy with them. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You neither enter yourselves nor allow those who had entered to go in.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees. Woe to you, blind guides. Okay, this is, woe is a word of cursing. And what does Isaiah do? He doesn't say woe to the world. He says woe to me. I am cursed. Why? For I am lost.

I am a man of unclean lips. I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the king, the king, the sovereign, right? Melech, the king Yahweh of armies, Yahweh Sabaoth. Uzziah is dead and now he sees the real king, the king of kings and lord of lords.

And he is painfully made aware being in the presence of God the almighty, the consuming fire, the holy one of Israel, that he isn't holy. Not only is he not holy, he is a man of unclean lips. He dwells in a people of unclean lips and he is absolutely terrified as a result of it.

Very aware of his sin and he confesses it here. So then one of the seraphim flew to me having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. So one of these six-winged seraphim flies down, grabs a burning coal off of the altar with tongs, which is interesting.

He couldn't even hold it with his own hands. And he comes right up to Isaiah's mouth. Now, I want you to just imagine how terrifying this has got to be. So one of those seraphim crying kadosh, kadosh, kadosh, triple holy, father, son, holy spirit.

You know, and by the way, in the ancient world when it comes to like emphasizing things, they didn't have exclamation points. They didn't have bold and italic ways of, you know, of highlighting things.

They would have to repeat themselves. So you think of Galatians chapter 1 where Paul says, even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel other than the one already preached, let him be anathema.

Let him be damned. So I say, so I said to you before, I say again, if anyone teaches a gospel contrary to the one we preach, let him be anathema. Paul says it twice, because that's how you have to emphasize.

But here, it's not holy, holy. It's not amen, amen. It's kadosh, kadosh, kadosh. Holy, holy,.

Holy.

You getting it now, right? This is all the more reason why Isaiah just comes undone. So here we've got one of the seraphim now who are crying out, holy, holy, holy. And he grabs a burning coal off the altar and he comes straight at Isaiah's face with this burning coal coming right at him.

If there was ever a time that somebody would have wet themselves, this may have been it, right? But here's the thing. Is the seraphim coming for the purpose of judging Isaiah and his sin, and declaring his demise and casting him into hell?

No. So you're going to note, the coal on the altar references the sacrifice. And we learn from the book of Hebrews that Christ is the once for all sacrifice for all sins. This is a reference to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross.

And so rather than burning up Isaiah, this coal from the altar burns up his sin. Not him. Which speaks of the love of God, the mercy of God, the grace of God. What Isaiah said is true. I am a man of unclean lips.

I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. And so the seraphim takes a burning coal. He had taken the with tongs from the altar and he said, and he touched my mouth, and he said, behold, this has touched your lips.

Your guilt is taken away. Your sin is atoned for. That's an allusion to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, because it's only Jesus's death on the cross. He's the sacrifice.

Right?

It's only his sacrifice on the cross that forgives us of our sins, even Isaiah's. So now his sin is taken away. Now, of course, according to David Digger Hernandez, I mean, it should stop here because he was too focused on himself to flow with the spirit, right?

Wrong.

Watch what happens next. So then I heard the voice.

Of.

The Lord, Adonai, saying, the real sovereign, the real king, whom shall I send and who will go for us? Now, note, Isaiah just a second ago was talking about how he's a man of unclean lips and he called out a curse on himself.

Woe is me. And God says, whom shall I send? Who will go for us? And I said, here I am. I am here. Send me. He goes from being afraid because of his sin to confidently saying, I'm here, Lord, send me. This speaks of the change that occurs when somebody's forgiven of their sins.

So he said, you go and I want you to say to this people. Now, here's the assignment. You keep on hearings, but do not understand. You keep on seeing, but you do not perceive. Make the heart of this people dull and their eyes heavy and blind their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn and be healed.

And then I said, how long, O Lord? And he said, until cities lie waste without inhabitant and houses without people. And the land is a desolate waste and Yahweh removes people far away. And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again like a terebinth or an oak whose stump remains when it is felled. The holy seed is its stump. That's a reference to Christ, by the way. So Isaiah receives his commission.

The he he was still flowing with the spirit. Hmm. Was he flowing? No, not really. And God gives him the assignment to preach, to be a prophet, but for the purpose of making people's hearts dull. Where he sees God in his presence and God forgives him of his sin and absolves him, sends the seraphim to touch his mouth and burn up his sin rather than burn up Isaiah.

Isaiah sent with the very words of God for the purpose of making people's hearts dull so God can act in judgment against them. Now I said earlier that what Isaiah saw here is nothing less than the glory of Christ.

How do I know that? Well, it's a little known passage in the gospel of John chapter 12. Listen to what John writes. When Jesus had said these things, he departed and he hid himself from them. And though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled.

Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Therefore, they could not believe for again Isaiah said he has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart lest they see with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn and I would heal them.

You'll note that this is a this is a paraphrase. This is a paraphrase of the very words that Isaiah heard at his prophetic commissioning that he was going to preach the word and these people's hearts would be dull and their eyes would be closed and all of this being said, watch what comes next.

Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory, Jesus's glory, and he spoke of him. Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees, they did not confess it.

So John chapter 12 verse 41 makes it clear that Isaiah saw the glory of Christ, Jesus's glory. Where did he see it? There in the throne room in Isaiah chapter 6. So this is not a passage talking about, well, if you want to flow in the Holy Spirit, you got to learn how to not be so focused on yourself.

That's not what this passage is about at all. And what David Digger Hernandez has done to this text is criminal. This is spiritual malpractice and proof he is not a sound teacher that anybody should be listening to.

The Misuse of Mark 5 to Justify Charismatic Disorder

Now, if that were not enough,.

Well,.

There's more to it. And that is that this is another one of those false doctrines taught by the Charismatics and Pentecostals that when God, the Holy Spirit moves and works, he's going to do it in ways that you may not agree with.

So watch where Digger goes with this next.

This one gets complicated. What I'm about to share with you, it's difficult, especially for those who are in public ministry. You're a preacher, you're a teacher, you have an online ministry, maybe a Bible club at school, maybe you write or you post things on social media, you know, in an attempt to spread the kingdom of God through evangelism.

Well, number two is you have to forget about others.

So if I want to flow in the Holy Spirit, I got to forget about myself and I got to forget about others. Again, which biblical text teaches these steps to flow with the Holy Spirit? Again, qua non es biblicum, non es biblicum.

If it ain't in the Bible, it ain't biblical. I don't know of any passages that say I need to forget myself if I want to flow in the Spirit. By the way, there's no text to talk about flowing in the Spirit.

So that means he's going to have to twist a biblical text to make it look like it teaches this. And the text he does, just like the Isaiah text, it's an important one. And he can't, he's not capable of rightly handling it.

We'll see that in a second.

Both compliments and criticisms. There's a popular phrase, and I agree with it, though I don't know exactly how to quote it. It goes something to the effect of, if you live by their compliments, you will die by their criticisms.

And this is true. We become...

Not in the Bible.

...so consumed with compliments and criticism that we begin to be taken off of course.

Oh, so compliments and criticism can take us off course. Which text is teaching us this, by the way?

Forget who we are in Christ.

We.

Limit the unique expression of the anointing in our own lives because we're...

So those were the important words. We limit the unique expression of the anointing in our lives. What on earth are you talking about? How can we... What, what, where in the Bible does it say that we can limit the unique expression of the anointing in our lives?

What, what text teaches this? No text teaches this. This, he's isogeeting some things into this. So if you've ever been in the Charismatic and Pentecostal movement, you know, they'll sit there and say, God's going to, you know, you got to not be offended by God because when he moves he might do something that might offend you.

He might make you roll around and flop on the floor like a fish. Or he might make you quack like a duck or bark like a dog. You can't limit the Holy Spirit. If he decides that he's going to do that, you need to be ready to flow with his unique expressions when he shows up.