F4F | Andrew Wommack Says God Wants You Well

Welcome to another installment of fighting for the faith here on YouTube. If you think that Andrew Womack is a solid Bible teacher You've heard him in the past or watched him on television or you know.

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Andrew Wommack as a Word-of-Faith False Teacher

But he's actually very extremely highly dangerous. He's a word-of-faith Heretic and he's a fellow that teaches that Everybody can you know will be healed? You know it is as if that's a real promise that we have this side of the resurrection, which we don't.

But we're gonna head over to his His website and we're gonna listen to a part of a message and the message itself is titled. God wants you. Well, we're gonna note that he's shilling here. He's Selling books and stuff like resources said that basically will teach you apparently that you can somehow activate and you know get into.

You know you tap into the the will of God for you, you know you to always be healed and always be well. Which is not an actual promise in Scripture given to Christians. That's not that's not there at all and Instead we'll note then that he's gonna engage in a very interesting Bible twisting technique and That demonstrates actually definitively proves that he doesn't know the biblical text in the original languages and and so he Inadvertently reveals that it's theology is actually what he thinks is reasonable and how it should work Not based upon what the texts themselves literally say and and actually mean so let me whirl this up.

We're heading over to Andrew Womack's.

Website. Here we go. Let's get to it. Welcome to our Thursday's broadcast of the gospel truth. Today I'm continuing to talk about how God wants you. Well.

And you just kind of have to ask the question if God wants me. Well. Then if somebody's sick, how did that happen? He's got powerless to To make somebody well if he wants them. Well, I mean is God up in heaven wringing his hands going.

I really want to help you. I really do. I I really want you to be well, but there's these things you got to do and stuff. Yeah, this is this is a weird theology in and of itself just right off the bat.

And I've been dealing with this now for this is near the end of my fifth week. We've got these six volumes of DVDs with probably 28 or 30 Testimonies of people who've been miraculously healed and I've been playing though.

A little bit of a note is.

God definitely can heal today and Sometimes it is God's will for him to heal no doubt about it yeah, and so you can pray and you can ask God to heal you and If he so chooses he might just do exactly that but Scripture doesn't teach that it is always God's will to heal and if you just kind of apply like Basic logic here in and here's what I mean since since the apostles walked the earth.

What has been the death rate for every human being including Christians on planet Earth? Answer. 100 everybody dies and so and you'll note that oftentimes that as as we are getting closer to the grave the Sheer sign that you are getting closer to the grave.

Is that you experience? The chronic disease known as aging. Yeah, that's where your body stops working the way it did and you know that Andrew Womack for all of his talk that God Wants God wants you. Well He looks like an old fellow.

I mean his hair is all gray and he doesn't look like That if you played a pickup game of basketball with 20 year olds that he'd be able to smoke him, you know. Like not even close and so, you know Andrew Womack for all this talk about God wants you.

Well, this is a guy who when you compare his before and after photos before when he was 20. And now when he's what he looks like he's in his 70s, you know. This is a fellow who's clearly getting old. And so one of the things we say here at fighting for the faith is never trust a faith healer who wears glasses.

Uh-huh. Yep, and don't trust a faith healer a guy who says God wants you. Well, who is aging? Mm-hmm. If God wants you well, then you're gonna stay perpetually 20 or 18 you kind of get the idea. So, I mean just just applying like basic duh to this this problem you can see that Andrew Womack is not not telling us the truth and Again, you know if God wants us all well and Christians to always be well, then Why why aren't we all already?

Well.

Plus we have this book on God wants you. Well, I've got it on CD DVD.

I've got us. I'd like to see him like teach this message to Johnny Erickson Tata. You know who spent literally her entire adult life as a quadriplegic in a wheelchair.

Eddie guide. And we've got this USB that has over a dozen of my teachings that go along with healing on the authority of the believers spirit soul and body how to Receive God's best and on and on and on it goes and we've just got a wealth of information.

I've said this many times, but I really want to encourage you that I believe if you were to get this entire healing package.

Yeah, you got to get the package though. See you can't you can't just read your Bible on your own and learn this. Why not. I mean I own a Bible. I own several Bibles and and you know. The internet has like free Bibles online go to Bible gateway .com. You can look at all kinds of translations and paraphrase of the Bible for free.

Why can't somebody just read the Bible and come to these conclusions regarding the doctrines that Andrew Womack is teaching. Hmm.

And if you were to study it and let this soak in on the inside of you It's gonna be very very hard for you to stay sick. If you get all of this and you know on our program, yes. Yeah, you know, I got to tell you as a pastor.

There are people that I care for. Who they are shut-ins, you know and I visit them regularly to pray with them to bring the word to them to bring the Lord's Supper to them and You know They're clearly heading towards the grave.

In fact one one gal that I I'm ministering to has a very very serious illness and was just diagnosed a couple of years ago and I'll be blunt. Is that it. I would be shocked if she makes it into the into the year 2019 that's how severe this illness is and yet when I visit her I point her to the promises of Christ for the forgiveness of our sins and the hope that we have in the resurrection.

Because ultimately all of our prayers as Christians Lord heal me are answered with a yes, but not in this lifetime. They're answered in the yes on the day when Jesus returns in glory to judge the living and the dead and The dead in Christ rise and so we our hope is in the resurrection.

But isn't it fascinating what you know that you know, if this was really a biblical teaching How come Christianity hasn't taught this for its entire 2 ,000 year history until the Word of Faith televangelist showed up in the United States.

Mm-hmm and And if why do I need to buy Andrew Womack's package in order for this to for me to be taught this.

Healing, Aging, and the Hope of the Resurrection

Okay, we played the testimony of Julianne Hartman who spent over $300 ,000 on Medication and was not getting better was getting worse. But then she got these materials free and she began to just saturate us.

So there you go.

I mean she she had she was spent three hundred thousand dollars and she's just purchased Andrew Womack's thing and then blammo. I mean you can't you can't deny a testimony.

Hmm. Herself in the Word of God and it produced total healing in today. She is completely Pain-free and she I forget the exact length of time. Praise. Andrew Womack. Yeah, I think that was appropriate but I think it's over a decade.

It was a long period of time she had just nearly been housebound. Sidelined she used to be very active and yet she got healed just through the Word of God. I didn't lay hands on her. I'm not saying that you can't get healed by having somebody else lay hands on you, but I think that that's Restrictive in a way.

I'm not always gonna be there with you. But the word well, I'm not gonna always be there with you.

Do you think you're Jesus Christ? I mean Christ himself literally said that I you will not always have me with you. But oh man I mean, how are we how is the church to make it without Andrew Womack and notice he's saying it trying to sound humble but.

Oh, man, I'll always be there with you. God will always be with you. And it says in Psalms 107 20 that he sent his word and Healed them and delivered them from all their destructions in the eighth chapter.

Yeah, that's out of.

Context. And it doesn't that does not mean that God always wills to heal people.

After the book of Matthew Jesus said it was the greatest faith He had ever seen this centurion who said speak the word only and my servant shall be healed now.

No in Matthew 8 he's putting again quoting this out of context. Did the Roman centurion speak the word and then his servant was healed? Nope. It was Christ Jesus Christ son of God in human flesh and you'll note then that.

Yeah, seriously, I just best way to put it is is that when it comes to signs wonders and miracles. Yeah. Nobody even comes in a close second to Jesus. Now Moses is up there but with the the miracles and signs and wonders that Christ did all prove that he is who he claimed to be none other than God the Son in human flesh and.

So when you get to where you can just receive healing through the word, that's all that you need. And so we're talking about. Well, why isn't everybody healed then if it's God's will. So here why not.

Why isn't everybody healed if it's.

God's will I mean, that's my question and watch his answer because where he goes with this is again.

Matthew 17, Faith, and the Limits of Healing

Revealing fascinating in a bad way, there's an instance in the 17th chapter of Matthew where Jesus disciples could not cast the devil out of a boy who was having problems with things like epileptic seizures.

Mm-hmm, and so Jesus rebuked them showing that it was his will they should have been able to do this likewise Jesus.

He rebuked them that should they should have been able to do this. Okay Oh says to be able to minister he. Now we're gonna we're gonna take a look at the text in question from Matthew 17 and then We're gonna add in A cross-reference because remember scripture interprets scripture that helps us out a little bit.

So if you want to open up to Matthew 17 as well as Mark chapter 9 We'll take a look there to see what how marks gospel handles this account.

I mean today we should not accept the powerlessness that we see in the average church and in the average Christian today.

Yeah, see those of you who believe that it's not always God's will to heal. Yeah, you're just go to a church that yeah, that's into powerlessness. Uh-huh. That's just a completely well false straw man, and so after.

In verse 18, this is Matthew 17 18 Jesus rebuked the devil and he departed out of him and the child was cured for that very hour. So Jesus did what his disciples were unable to do not because he hadn't empowered them But because they just failed in this area.

And so it says in verse 19. Then came the disciples to Jesus apart and said why could not we cast him out now?

Remember and I'll note he's reading from the King James here. He'll explain why in a minute. Matthew chapter 10.

He had already given the disciples power and authority over all sickness and over all disease. And then he told them to go heal the sick cleanse the lepers raise the dead. They came back and they said Lord even the devils are subject to us in your name.

So they had already cast demons out of people. They had already seen people heal now. It's important that you put that together because these weren't people who had never done this before. They had used the name of Jesus.

They had cast out demons. They had seen people heal but this time they did the same thing that had worked in previous times and this time it didn't work. Now that is important. Mm-hmm again. I say that people who don't believe in healing.

They don't have this perplexity. They just say well, you know, this is now. Wait a second here, you know.

Unless you're some kind of a liberal who doesn't who doesn't believe that miracles are possible at all. Then you as a Christian Believe that God can heal. But that it's not always his will to do so so again, I clearly God, you know, he Andrew Womack hasn't activated his faith to keep himself from aging.

Yeah, it's looking pretty old there now. We'll do a little bit of work in the biblical text real quick here. And I'm gonna duplicate this tab because I want to get into Matthew chapter 10. See if I can find this real quick here.

Yeah the commissioning here Jesus Matthew 10 5 Jesus sent out instructions. Okay. So here we go. Jesus called to him his 12 disciples and gave them authority over Unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal every disease and every affliction.

The names of the 12 apostles are these you'll note here. Matthew 10 makes it clear that the authority to work in these signs and wonders. That they were working in was not given to Christianity to Christians they were given specifically to the 12 to the Apostles in fact.

This then becomes what is known as the signs of the Apostles and let me show you this in in 2nd Corinthians 2 Corinthians 12, I believe Corinthians 12 12. Yeah, here it is. The Apostle Paul writing against the So-called super Apostles.

He says He says I have been a fool second Corinthians 12 11 I've been a fool you forced me to it for I ought to have been commended by you for I was not at all inferior to these super Apostles even though I am nothing and.

So the signs of a true Apostle were performed among you without most patience with signs and wonders and mighty Works, so the Apostle Paul, you know you think of the passage in the book of Acts with the Apostle Paul literally could like send a napkin to somebody and They could be healed and you think of Peter that even a shadow would fall on somebody and they would be healed.

So these signs, you know this ability to operate in these sign. You know sign gifts was not given to Christianity as a whole it was given Specifically to the Apostles and that's exactly what Matthew 10 says that Jesus gave the 12.

This authority he did not give this authority to the church at large. And so then when you think by the time, you know Paul writes his letter to Timothy and says, you know, you know because of your frequent stomach ailments drink a little bit of wine.

Okay, you know a medicinal use of wine and you'll note then the assumption is is that well, you know healing You know wasn't an assumed thing that should be happening. In fact, let me show you the text because I think it's probably a good idea.

That you that you see it. And so let me let me go to the epistles in particular and oh, yeah First Timothy chapter 5 is what we're looking for. And by the way, I get a lot of questions about you know on YouTube.

About what software I am using for this for show the Bible and the name of it is Accordance a CC or da and CE you can find it at Accordance Bible dot-com and So first Timothy chapter 5 and specifically verse 23 and you'll note here that You know Paul the Apostle Paul who literally could operate in signs and wonders and heal people and in the back end of the Book of Acts, I mean he heals, you know someone on Malta of dysentery.

I mean, this is a guy who clearly had the signs of the Apostles and. So he says this to to young pastor Timothy who was a pastor of one of the congregations in the city of Ephesus. He says no longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Note here that Paul didn't chastise. Didn't chastise Timothy and say why are you sick? You need to activate your faith and receive your healing because God always wills for you to be healed. Doesn't do that at all.

So just I wanted to do a little bit of work there. So you can kind of see where this you know what the Bible does teach in this regard.

But we come back to Andrew Womack way. It is God doesn't heal. This is part of being human and you have to suffer. But people who believe in healing in a way they have the opportunity to be more perplexed Than people who don't believe in healing.

Because the people who don't believe in now notice.

He's not making a biblical argument here. Now. We're just getting you know, the musings of Andrew Womack's own mind.

They're shooting it nothing and hitting it every time whatever happens. It must have been God's will. That's a chicken's way to live. Forgive me for being blunt. But what are you chicken?

What is this the the back-to-the-future argument, you know? Chicken. You know, hey McFly, you know, it's this. This is nonsense. This is not an argument.

And you're shooting at nothing. You hit it every time. You can't miss when you're shooting at nothing. But if you are aiming at a target, what happens if you miss. Why did you miss. You have questions like this?

So they said why couldn't we cast him out. And look at this in verse 20. It says Jesus said unto them Because of your unbelief.

Now he's quoting the King James and we'll take a look at the Greek behind this in a minute and Watch what he does here because this shows he's not a trained Exegete he is not a theologian in the in the truest sense.

He's.

Actually kind of a hack but let's watch what he does here. Now. This is really important and I don't mean to attack Any other translation. I am NOT one of these King James only guy. Now I use the King James because I believe it's awesome.

It's what I grew up on. It has depth to it that you don't get with some of the modern translations. They just take the surface meaning and put it in there in you and you can't plumb the depth. You can't read the same scripture over a Thousand times and get something new every time because it's just the surface level of what's being said.

I love the King James.

I am but by the way, I have a degree in biblical languages. Yeah, that's my pre-seminary degree. So yeah, I'm trained in in biblical Greek and biblical Hebrew not a King James only guy.

I am NOT against all other translations, but I just have to mention this that if you're reading the NIV The NIV says it's because of your little faith and that is not what this is talking about. Matter.

Yeah, notice how emphatic this is not what this is talking about, but it actually is. Let me show you real quick here. So we are in Matthew 17 now over on this tab. Let me go ahead and get mark 9 up and rolling.

So it's ready for us and We'll take a look here at again Matthew 17 and we're gonna take a look at the text itself. So Jesus and Peter James and John had just gone up the Mount of Transfiguration and this is the place where Jesus was transfigured you know before them and then Moses and Elijah show up and so Here's what it says.

So when they came to the crowd a man came up to him and kneeling before him said Lord have mercy on my son. For he has seizures and suffers terribly often he falls into the fire and often into the water and I brought him to your disciples and they could not heal him and Jesus answered Oh faithless and twisted generation.

How long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you bring him here to me? So Jesus rebuked the demon it came out of him and the boy was healed instantly and the disciples came to Jesus Privately and said why could we not cast it out?

And now I'm reading by the way the ESV and we'll show you the Greek behind this in just a second. So he said to them because of your little faith. For truly I say to you if you have the faith like a grain of mustard seed.

You will say to this mountain move from here to there and it will move for and nothing will be Impossible for you now a little bit of a note here. So Jesus says because of your little faith now Andrew Womack is taking issue with that and saying it can't be that it must be their unbelief and He's comparing the King James to the NIV the ESV uses the same translation, but here's the thing the Greek here actually says little Faith, that's literally what this word means.

So let me show you the word the the word here is Oligop, oligopistion. That's the that's how it appears here and it comes it's actually in its lexical form as oligopistia and it literally means smallness of faith.

Yeah, pistion faith. Oligop, oligopo is smallness the little littleness of faith and I'll show it to you in the lexicon here Oligopistia, here's the one in red and literally littleness or poverty of faith, that's What it means and so you'll note then the Greek text itself doesn't say because of unbelief it says because of oligopistia because of the smallness of your Faith and then he says for truly I say to you if you have faith like a grain of a mustard seed.

You'll say to this mountain move from here to there and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you so by him just saying well, I prefer the King James in this particular case, and I know that it has nothing to do with smallness of faith.

And based on what is he saying that what sounds reasonable to him not actual exegesis or an ability to work in the original languages now, I wanted to show you the the cross reference here in the Gospel of Mark and We're gonna note that there's a there that the fuller Expanded version when you take to the two Gospels and kind of put them together.

You can kind of see the bigger picture because Matthew has a particular emphasis Mark has a particular emphasis and you take the details of both and you get the fuller picture what happened. So in so Mark chapter 9 verse 14 when they came to the disciples They saw a great crowd around them scribes arguing with them and immediately all the crowds when they saw him They were greatly amazed and ran up and greeted him.

And so he asked what are you arguing about and someone from the crowd answered him teacher? I brought my son to you for he has a spirit that makes him mute and Whenever it seizes him it throws him down and he foams and grinds his teeth and it becomes ridges.

So I asked your disciples to cast it out and they were not able and so Jesus says Oh faithless generation How long am I to be with you? How am I to bear with you bring him to me? So They brought the boy to him and when the Spirit saw him immediately Convulsed the boy and he fell to the ground and he rolled about foaming at the mouth and Jesus asked his father Well, how long has this been happening to him?

And he said well from childhood. It's often cast him into the fire into water to destroy him but if you can do anything have compassion on us and help us and Jesus said well if you can well all things are possible for the one who believes.

So immediately the father Cried out and said I believe help my unbelief and when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together He rebuked the unclean spirit saying to it you mutant deaf spirit I command you to come out of him and never enter him again and after crying out and convulsing him terribly It came out and the boy was like a corpse so that most of them said well He's dead.

But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up and he arose and when he had entered the house his disciples asked him Privately, why could we not cast it out? And he said to them this kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.

Mm-hmm, and some some manuscripts literally say prayer and fasting so now kind of put it all together. Because of your little faith and in this particular case They're they're smallness of faith Should have driven them to their knees in prayer.

Because this particular kind of demon only comes out by prayer. Yeah, so yeah kind of fascinating putting putting all together here. So Andrew Womack though We'll go back to his argument be his him denying.

This can't be Smallness of faith. It can't be littleness of faith. Yeah, that's exactly what the Greek text says.

In fact, if you were to go on in the rest of this verse in verse 20 It says Jesus said unto them because of your unbelief for verily I say unto you if you have faith as a grain of mustard Seed you should say unto this mountain remove hence to yonder place and it should remove and nothing Shall be impossible unto you.

The rest of this verse goes on to make the point that if your faith is as small as A grain of mustard seed that's enough to see a mountain cast into the sea. The whole point that he's making is you don't need big faith if your faith is just this tiny.

It's enough to accomplish whatever it is that you need. So yeah, but see the thing is is that the text itself.

Literally says Oligopistion because of the smallness of your faith. So clearly their faith wasn't as big as the grain of a mustard seed. Uh-huh. So His Argument is invalid. Because he's not referencing the original languages.

He doesn't know his Bible. He's just preferring one over the other and he said basically saying well This can't possibly be because this doesn't compute with my reason. Yeah, your reason is not the you know, the Determinant as far as what is true none and not true in God's Word.

And so What Andrew Womack has done here not intentionally, but they actually quite definitively though demonstrated that he's not really one who's properly studied and Done what is necessary to be a public teacher of God's Word.

He's literally tripped up here and showed that he is not somebody who understands how the biblical languages work. And he's just preferring one over the other because one thing fits his false theology and the other Runs against his false theology.

And so his false theology is in based upon his reason is now in the driver's seat. Determining what is true in Scripture as opposed to what is untrue in Scripture. And it's rather than his mind being conformed to what God's Word actually Says he's in error because he doesn't know the Word of God and he doesn't know how to reference the original Languages and he's just definitively proven.

He makes his decisions based upon what he believes not what the Word Says and that's one of the hallmarks of a false teacher when their theology runs against what God's Word says. And they will make arguments based upon their reason.

Yeah, you're dealing with somebody who's twisting Scripture there now. I know that was probably subtle and kind of you know. You're dealing with a little bit of minutiae. But is it actually quite telling if you've been trained to know what to look for that's why I shared it with you.

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