May 25, 2025 • 44 mins
Is David Diga Hernandez really teaching biblical Christianity—or is he just packaging the same old Word of Faith heresies in a more appealing, emotionally restrained format? In this video, we examine Hernandez’s background, theology, and public teachings to reveal a troubling alignment with the core doctrines of the Word of Faith movement. From prosperity-lite messages to claims of supernatural healing, we show how his teachings are far from sound doctrine, no matter how calm or polished the delivery may be.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
There have been times. I remember there was a time
where somebody asked me the other day. They said, what
was the most difficult thing that God ever asked you
to do? And among many things that I listed, I
would say that one of the most bizarre and difficult
things that God asked me to do had to do
with the way I prayed for someone who was in
need of healing. Now, if you know me, I'm always
saying things like, the Holy Spirit is classy, Jesus is
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a gentleman. God likes to be orderly and excellent. And
while I do believe that there's also a demonstrative effect
that comes from the power of the Holy Spirit that's
very in your face, that's very almost like a power surge.
And so there are times when God wants us to
get radical. There are some things that God has asked
his prophets to do in scripture that can seem a
bit bizarre, but never are they degrading to the human
nature that God has imparted to us. But there was
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this boy that God brought before me, and he was
blind and he could not see very clearly. In fact,
he had gone to a party and one of his
soul called friends slipped something in his drink, and when
he drank it, it caused him to have such blurry
vision that he couldn't read the words on the pages
of a Bible. And so what I did is I
got very a Bible, was very fine print, very small writing,
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very small letters, and I brought them to him. I said,
I put in his face. And I wasn't trying to
be cruel. I was genuinely asking. I said, can you
read that? He said no, I can't even see it.
I don't even know what the book is. And the
book was listed in larger boulder prints. And so he's
there in front of me, and the Lord tells me
very clearly, spit in his eyes. And I remember that
scripture where Jesus spit in the mud and put his
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eyes And I said, Lord, I can't do that. I
can't do that, Lord. And I remember just wrestling with
the Holy Spirit. I begin to sweat, and I began
a doubt, and I say, well, Lord, maybe it's not
really you, Maybe it's my flesh. Maybe it's the devil.
Maybe it's the devil trying to get me to do
some foolish I remember about ten fifty minutes and went
back and forth, and as finally I spit in my
hand and laid my hand in his eyes. Now the
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boy instantly was able to see. I put the Bible
right in front of his face, and he starts reading
with ease. The whole place went crazy. God moved, people
were encouraged. The boy went away healed that day. But
when I went home, I felt a very heavy weight
upon me, and I remembered that story. Were Moses to
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bring water out of the rock, He didn't obey the
instructions of the Lord exactly. He did it his way,
and he struck the rock instead of speaking to it.
Water came forward. The miracle still happened, but Moses had disobeyed.
And I found myself in a similar situation, and I
remembered that verse. Next chapter eight, verse twenty two, where
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Peter confronts Simon, the sorcerer who tried to buy the
Holy Spirit, and he says, repent of this thing, and
perhaps the Lord will forgive the wickedness of your heart.
He didn't guarantee him the forgiveness, because we have to
work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. God
is not an automatic machine that if we give a
specific response. He gives us a specific response right back.
No God responds to genuine Christ. So there I was.
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I felt that weight on me for having not been
specifically obedient to the Holy Spirit. For days, I wrestled
with the Lord asking for his forgiveness, and I remember
filling the release and I felt the power of God
returned on the ministry.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Welcome to the Long for Truth Podcast. I'm Robin long
Join my husband Dan and I as we explore the
roots of the early Pentecostal and Charismatic movements and we
shine a light on false doctrines and false teachers in
the modern church. Let's get started.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Hello everyone, Welcome along for Truth. My name is Daniel long.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Today we're going to be talking about David Diga Hernandez. Now,
we have talked about David Diga Hernandez on this channel,
but we've never dedicated an entire video to him. We're
going to do that today, and that's because Diga Hernandez
is a very dangerous false teacher. He teaches many core
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principles of the Word of Faith movement, even if he
doesn't always use the same language as the well known
figures like Kenneth Copeland, Benny and Bill Winston, Greflo Dollar
are those guys. What he does is he presents his
version in a more calmer, more polished, and I would
say even a more kinder, gentler version, and he seems
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more theologically sound. But when you pull back the layers,
the foundational teachings aligned closely with Word of Faith theology.
I think after seeing the clips that I'm going to
show you and the slides that I'm going to be presenting,
there will be no mistaking it. You're going to see
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that David dio Hernandez is a dangerous Word of Faith teacher. Now,
before we dive into the clips, let's look at some
slides because I found an article from about twelve years
ago from XP Media and I want to read a
few slides from that. Now. The article is called from
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the Projector to the Pulpit, and as I said, it's
of your old article. It was posted on x P media.
If that tells you anything, but guys like David diga
Hernandez like to present these dramatic experiences, either conversion experiences
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or a you know, healing experiences. You see these things
in many of these charismatic leaders. But let's go ahead
and take a look at this first slide here and
this comes. This is again, this is going to be
talking about his conversion experience, and this is what it says.
And this is now. This is taking place at a
convention in a hotel room when he was a little boy,
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all right, And this is what it says. Despite my
outer shell of morality in my spirit was dead. I
needed Jesus. My moment of salvation came to me in
a hotel room. My family was attending a week long
Bible conference. They had gone to the sessions while I
stayed behind in the room. I remember just sitting in
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the room being severely tormented by demonic powers. I felt fear, anger,
and hopelessness within me. It was purely demonic. I sat
frozen in a cold sweat. At the same time, I
felt the conviction of the Holy Spirit drawing me to
the Lord. It was sheer warfare over me. I could
feel the forces of Heaven and Hell battling over me.
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In the middle of the warfare, my dad entered the room.
My face said everything. It was tired and afraid. I
told my dad right then and there that I wanted
to give myself to Jesus. We prayed, and the moment
we did, Heaven filled my heart. The storm of the
demonic was instantly calmed by the mighty voice of God.
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I sobbed tears of joy as the perfect love of
God dispelled all fear. Had a couple of things to
notice about that quote. First of all, notice the drama there.
As I said in the beginning, it seems like all
these teachers, not all of them, but many popular charismatic
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teachers have either a dramatic conversion experience or dramatic healing
experience or something like that. And you know the reasons
for this is, well, they got to give you proof
that God's power is on them. They need their you
know that they're the authority that God has given them
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legitimized right. And it also creates a platform for them,
you know, especially if they're selling books which Hernandez mentions
or this article mentions. So you got to kind of
set yourself up here, and it might it might just
be too boring to say something like, well, you know,
I heard the word of God preached, I was convicted
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of my sin. I believed in Jesus. In Jesus, I
believe that he died and bled for my sins, and
so I turned to him in faith. That's a little
bit too boring, and that's not gonna that's not going
to make you stand out. So you got to have these, really,
I don't know, dramatic conversion experiences. Now. Then we moved
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on into the article and he talks about how he
was prophesied over as a young boy. And so we're
going to look at this next slide here from the
same article, an evangelist, Steve Romine had come to minister
at our church. He was a healing evangelist who had MS.
I watched as he prophesied over people and prayed for
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the sick. People who had come to church with pain
were leaving without it. As I observed an amazement, I said,
in my heart, Lord, that's how I want to be used.
But only moments after I thought that, Steve looked right
at me. He pointed at me and called me to
the front. I don't remember the exact wording, but I
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remember what the message was. He told me that I
would be used in the healing ministry, be known among
the nations, and carry a heavy mantle of the anointing
on my life. From that moment on my ministry had
a clear direction, all right. So he is converted at
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a young age, think he was eleven, maybe twelve, and
then he goes to this healing meeting shortly after, or
this evangelistic meeting shortly after, and this evangelist is there,
and I think he was like twelve or thirteen at
this meeting, as I said, And then he's prophesied over
and he's now been called to the healing ministry by
God at thirteen. So what he does now is he
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takes this Holy Spirit healing ministry to his school, and
this is what happens there while he's at school as
a teenager, it says. He says, there were instances when
kids who had no idea what the power of God
was like would have trouble standing as they approached nearer
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to the site of our undercover meetings. Skin diseases, asthma,
broken bones, eye problems, these and many more things were
being healed. Most of the time, the healings took place
right on the spot in view of everyone. All right,
So thirteen years old having these undercover meetings at school
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where nobody knows about it, and he's just kind of
it's kind of like this underground thing. And he's having
these healing meetings, right, and these kids are coming and
they have skin diseases, some of them have asthma, some
of them have broken bones and eye problems and all
of this, and they're healed some of them, he says instantly.
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And everybody sees it right because he says, most of
the time, the healings took place right on the spot
in front of everyone. Now, if that were the case,
let me tell you, folks, you would have heard about
this by now. David would have been in the spotlight
as a young kid. These kids with broken bones or
especially asthma, I mean kids with asthma being healed right
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going home not having to take their medicine anymore, or
broken bones automatically healed right. And what would their parents do.
They'd be like, ah, that and the kids would tell
the parents, Hey, I was at school and they were
having this secret meeting of healing and this kid named
David was healing everybody. I mean, come on, it just
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sounds so outlandish, so outrageous. Yeah, you just can't believe that.
But that's not the only thing. It takes place, because
now you're gonna have residue leftover healing stuff and watch
what happens when the kids go back to the classrooms.
I was thirteen years of age when the overflow began.
While other kids were creeping in secrecy to high drug
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sexual acts and violent dealings, I was holding secret miracle
services on school campus. We prayed for the power of
God to invade the school. After the meetings, I would
head back to class with the residue of God's tangible
power on me. As I would enter the classroom. There
were instances where kids would fall under the power from
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a simple greeting by a handshake. They had no idea
what hit them as they picked themselves up from the
floor with very confused looks on their faces. Teachers were
never present when this occurred. All right, so residues left over.
Kids are falling out from a simple handshake. They just
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fall out under the power. It reminds me of something
that you know, Kevin Zadai would say when kevin' za
Daye said he was I think it was Kevin's dye
when he was on the plane and people were just
falling out under the power because he was so anointed,
and it was Brian Simmons that was on sid Roth
talking about how as he was walking through the grocery store,
people were just falling out under the power. So David
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diga thirteen year old boy shaking the hand of kids
when they come back in the classroom falling out under
the power because the residue was left on him, and
of course conveniently none of the teachers were present, as
he said, so just you know, you can take and
do what you want with that. But now, right, so
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he gets converted young age thirteen years old or so,
he gets prophesied over at a evangelistic meeting, and then
he takes this power back to the school and he
starts having undercover meetings and kids are falling out and
getting healed and all that. Well, now we go a
step further because now God is going to supernaturally call
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him into this wider ministry and he's going to meet
Benny hen. So let's take a look at that slide.
Let's see that is slide five. Let's take a look
at that slide. This is what he says. One day,
the Lord spoke to me. As I was continuing with
my daily usuals, I felt a tingling sensation move up
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and down my right hand. There was an intense heat
on my right hand. The Lord spoke to me clearly,
I have called you to take my healing power to
your generation. I was excited and skeptical at once. Days later,
I was watching a documentary on the life of Oral Roberts.
It turns out that a similar thing happened to him. God,
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I said, I want you to use me like you
used him. I continue to pray, or I continue to
pray that while still full of doubt. But Lord, I said,
if you want to use me in that way, confirm
it through I pause to think of the most unlikely confirmation.
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I wanted it to be a hard thing to prove,
so that I knew it was from God. I continued,
if this is what you want, Lord, confirm it through
Benny hen And the Lord did just that. Because this
next slide says fast forward several years, circumstances allowed me
the opportunity of meeting Pastor Bennie. I still remember my
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first time speaking with Pastor Bennie. I was brought into
a private room after a taping. He was standing there
facing a TV monitor. His back was towards me. The
man introducing us taped tapped him on the shoulder. We
were introduced. The moment I shook his hand, the expression
on his face changed. Pastor Benny grabbed my wrist and
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pulled me forward the anointing, he said softly. He laid
his hands on me, and I felt the power of
God bolt through my body. I was picked up off
the floor. Tears were streaming down my face. The presence
of God was so strong in that room. He pointed
to me. He pointed at me sternly and said, I
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see the anointing of Or Roberts. So Benny Hen has
the Catherine Cooleman anointing, and David Diga has the Or
Robert's anointing. So David Diga is really copying Benny Hen.
Here Benny Hen becomes David Diga's mentor. Now I should
tell you a lot. That should tell you a lot.
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If you've not seen Steve Kozar's documentary on Benny Hen,
I'll put a link to that down in the YouTube description.
It's a long documentary, but it's going to expose a
whole lot, and also Mike Winger's documentary. Probably most of
you have seen that, but I'll still put a link
to that down in the description as well, But that
should tell you a whole lot about David Diga. He
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was mentored by Benny Hennon. I've got some clips to
show you that in just a second. But before we
get to those clips, I want to show you another
clip here. This clip is with Chris Rosebro and Costi
hen They did a video together talking about David Diga
Hernandez warning people about David Diga Hernandez and I took
this clip from that video, and again I'll put a
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link to that video in the description as well so
you can watch it. But there's specifftly talking about David
Diga's healing meetings.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Watch you Jesus makes you love.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Jesus makes.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
What happened here? Sergio Diga.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
This is Linda.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Last week she had a fractured knee due to tentanais
and she said there was a crystal on the knee,
so she came in with the brace.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
She couldn't bend her knee because her knee was fractured.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
She said she found warmth come over that knee. She
can bend the knee. She's supposed to see the specialist,
but she believes she's healed. I have the lee brace
in my hand.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
That's a pretty big crap.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You can't tell me. I mean, come on, Cossie, it
can't read just you know, just admit it. Man, this
woman was just healed by Jesus. Isn't that what happened?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Man?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
I'm yeah, I'm sorry. I was trying to get the
songs out of my head. I can sing all those songs.
I could probably imitate everything he's doing right now too.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Listen, this is this is classic. You said it.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
You had Catherine Coleman, and if you pull up her services,
I know we don't have it right now, but if
someone would, maybe you'd be the first to do this.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
You pull up a three.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Part screen and give us Catherine and her crusades, give
us Uncle Benny, and give us David, and run them
in order, and you'll hear a lot of the same rhetoric,
the same service order, the same songs, the same flow,
and all of it is designed to to manipulate the crowd.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Even the guy that he has doing the healing line.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Yeah, my my blessed father, who my dad, who no
longer does any of that and works with my uncle
at all. You know, he used to be that guy though,
that that the hype man. You're on the mic and
you got the story and you're holding up a kneebrace
and you and then the person kind of stomps around
and then they Jesus, we give you praise, give him prayer,
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people clap, the crowd pans. You've got even the different
types of camera work that's going on there over the shoulder,
with a little bit of diga in the shot right
up close on the stage. You've got the wide shot
looking at the stage. You've got the crowd shot kind
of showing you like, look look at all the people,
look at how amazing this is, Look at how real
this is, and you get you know terms now that
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we didn't that back then because gen Z. But you've
heard of fomo, fear of missing out.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
The wo fomo is real. You're trying to give people fomo.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
You're you're showing them these shots and this pace and
this action, and they're going, man, were we're missing out?
We should be there. But all of that is smoking mirrors.
It's a house of cards. It's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Smoking mirrors, house of cards. And again he is emulating,
he's copying Benny hann I want to show you a slide.
This is from Hernandez's book, and this is a dedication
to Benny Hann. Look what it says. I dedicate this
book to Pastor Benny Hen, who is to me a mentor,
a friend, and a father in the faith. Thank you,
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Pastor Benny, for the rich and unparalleled teachings that the
Lord has anointed to lay a foundation for my understanding
of the person of the Holy Spirit. To Jesus belongs
the glory. I will steward well the impartation that I received.
I will boldly and unapologetically preach the saving and healing
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Gospel of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.
With love and honor David Diga Hernandez. So, David Diga
dedicated that book to Benny Hen. Folks, again, if you
haven't watched the documentaries that are out there on Benny
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Hen by Mike Winger, by Steve Kozar and others, you
need to do that. And again I'll put those links
in the description. But the very fact that he is
emulating Benny Hen in his services, and you heard Costy
talk about that. The camera shots, how he's you know,
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panning the camera around the the the music, all of
this stuff that's being emulated. David Diga is a copycat. Now,
he's not going to take his coat off and wave
it over the crowd, at least I haven't seen that
as far it so I know he hasn't done that.
He's not going to be as radical as Benny Hen.
He's going to be toned down. He's going to be
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much more seemingly, as I said in the beginning, seemingly
theologically sound. So now I want to take you to
I want to show you a couple of clips. Listen
to what he says in this clip. There's a couple
of things that I want to I want you to
I want to point out watch.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
People often ask how do you reach the youth, what's
the what's the key to this generation? I tell them
all the same thing, the same thing that touched the
generations before is going to be the same thing that
touches the generation now. That's the power of the Holy Ghost.
It was interesting to me that when you began to
play this song, Holy are You Lord, I'm sitting there,
I'm standing there in my seat, and I knew you
were going to ask me to share just a little
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bit and The thought that came to my mind was
that memory I had when you were ministering at the
Arrowhead Ponderena in Anaheim. I was fourteen years old. Never
before had I ever experienced like what I experienced on
that night. The choir began to sing it. I believe
Terry mccleman was actually there. They started to play Holy
are You Lord? And I remember, as a fourteen year
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old boy, all you said was, if you want the
power of God, get down here. I ran from the
top of I came early, and I still had to
sit in like the third section up top. I mean
they were announcing floors being shut down by the second
and so I remember sitting up there with my grandfather
watching you preach during the service. It was interesting to
me also that you're talking about these greats that used
to sit under and listen to And I'm thinking, here,
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I get to sit under watch Pastor Benny hen and
so we get that opportunity to see that same type
of mantle through you. So I'm sitting there in the
crusade Pastor Benny, and I'm watching you. And I never
told you this. In fact, I told very few people this.
You started to glow. I saw you you were it was,
and it wasn't because of the white suit. That's where
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my mind went. Initially, well, it's the white suit and
it's the sparkling on the lights. But then as I
really watched, I mean, you started to glow to such
a degree, and everything else around I remember, began to
grow dark, and I saw this anointing on it. I said, Lord,
whatever it is that's on that man's life, I want
to experience that.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
So, the same thing that touched the generations before is
the same thing that's going to touch the generations now.
And that's the power of the Holy Ghost. That's the
first thing I want to point out. So it's the
it's it's the crazy stuff that goes on at a
Benny Hen meeting, or at a David Digua Hernandez meeting,
or at a you know, demon slayer meeting. That's that's
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what's going to change the generations. No, the Gospel of
Jesus Christ is the power of God to salvation for
all who believe. It's the gospel that's going If anything's
going to change any generation or any human heart, it
is the power of the Gospel. And so we'll talk
about that in a little bit later. But think about
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what he said there that Benny Hen glowed. I mean again, folks,
Benny Hen has been exposed over and over and over again.
He has been proven to be a false teacher. Now
what's really interesting is this little video here is still
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on David Diga Hernandez's channel. This is his video, So
he hasn't taken. These videos that I'm showing you are
not clips that other people have taken. These are clips
from videos that are still up on his channel. Every
clip except for the clip I showed you with Costy
Hen and Chris Roseboro, every other clip is from videos
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that are still on his channel. So anyway, that's part one.
Let me show you the second clip with him, and
again listen to what he says about Bennie and this clip.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Watch so you make the call if you're in minister.
I'm fourteen, I had just started preaching something. Yes, I count,
So I run all the way down and I remember
by the time I got to the bottom section, there
was already several thousands of people packed up against the
stage and blocking the staircases. I remember many of us
remember from the Crusades, those big staircases on the sides.
I was pinned in between the stage, and the crowd
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was pressing on me, pushing me into the platform. So
I was a little nervous at what was happening there.
But I remember this. I walk up to the platform
and you're singing, Holy are you Lord? You had shut
your microphone off, and you're just walking back and forth,
back and forth, laying hands on people. And I remember
as I approached the platform, my whole body began to
vibrate and again went to well, maybe it's cold. But
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then I thought again, I thought, no, I never shake this.
But I mean, my legs were about to give out,
and I'm standing up against the plator and I'm looking
for a way. I'm thinking, I gotta get on that stage.
The staircases blocked, the crowd is pressing up against me.
I need to get onto that platform somehow. And so
I don't know how this happened, but one of your
security guards, I don't want to get him fired, but
he broke protocol and he reaches down to me and
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he says, come up here, pols me onto the platform.
This is all I remember. I'm walking up on the stage.
I see your back is turned, you're paying, you're praying
for somebody off in the distance, you've already laid hands
on them. You turn, and the moment you turn, it
was like this, Like what we were feeling tonight, there
was like this. I forgive me for using the word,
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and I don't mean it in new age, New ages,
but it was like this aura about you, this atmosphere
about you that as you approached, I felt like this
weight coming over me. And I remember this. You didn't push,
you didn't scream, you didn't yell, just very gentle touch.
I closed my eyes. I opened up. I didn't even
realize that I had fallen out into the powers. I
opened my eyes. I looked down. My body is shaking,
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like I'm being electrocuted. And then I remember the ushers
picking me up, turning me around and dropping me off somewhere.
I couldn't even walk back to my seat. I called
my dad, I said, Dad, Dad. Pastor Benny prayed for me.
Pastor Benny, and he said he could fill that anointing
like electricity running through the phone on the other side.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
All right, So again, Benny, hen's glowing, right, He's got
this aura over him. As David called it the aura
over him, and he gets annointed by Benny Hen. He
falls out on the floor. He's got all this electricity
going through his body. He calls his father, and his
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father says, oh, I can feel the anointing through the phone.
My question is how long ago was this? I mean,
if this was in the late nineties and even early
two thousands, what did you do go to a pay
phone call? I mean, I don't know, maybe this is
maybe this is you know, I can't I don't know
the date of this. So but I'm just thinking this
stuff through. Even so, folks, we're talking about Bennie Hen. Here,
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we're talking about a man who has been exposed time
and time again as a false teacher. And I can
not keep bringing that up. But that is very important
because this is who David Diga Hernandez is copying. He's
emulating Benny Hen. He's copying Benni Hen. But there's more.
Watch now.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I say all that to say this. I think about
that what I experienced that evening when I was fourteen
years old, and how it marked my life forever. And
I think about what's being preached today, and I compare
the two and I see that whereas once we were
taught to pray, now we're taught to think positively. Or
once we had supernatural empowerment, now we have superficial encouragement.
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Or once we had power, now we have programs. Or
once we had miracles, now we have methods. Or once
we had spirit, now we have style. And what's beginning
to happen is the secular world is beginning to influence
the church, and the Church is trying to accomplish like
Nadab and Abba who they're trying to accomplish in the
flesh what was once accomplished in the spirit, and only
that which is born of the spirit is spirit. And
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I'm thinking to myself, this is what my generation needs.
You talked about this depression thing. They're talking about counseling
out of them because they don't have the power to
cast it out of them. They're talking about sending people
to hospitals, which I don't have a thing against medical expertise,
but they're no longer praying for the sick. And I
thought there has to be a resurgence of this reliance
upon the power of the Holy Spirit. That night marks
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me in this way where I realized a single moment
in the presence of the Holy Spirit can transform your life.
But a life spent in the presence of the Holy
Spirit can transform the nations.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
So a life spent in the presence of the Holy
Spirit is what's going to change nations. And he's referring
to the kind of stuff that takes place at these
Benihan healing meetings, his healing meetings, and he saw next
to him, vlad Savchuk was standing next to David. There
the demon slayer's healing meetings. That's what we need to
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change this generation. No, folks, we need the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. It's the Cross, the preaching of the Cross.
The apostle Paul tells the Corinthians that he among them
knew nothing but Christ in him crucified. It is the
power of the Gospel that's going to change lives. And
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the Holy Spirit, Luther calls the shy person of the
Trinity the whole. What the Holy Spirit does is he
points people to the Gospel. He points people to Christ.
All right. He doesn't magnify himself. If you look through
the scriptures, he does not magnify himself. Even if you
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go through the Book of Acts. Yes, the miracles are
done there. That's the beginning of the church. The miracles
are done there, and the Holy Spirit of course is
present there in doing the work. But the purpose of
that is to present the Gospel first to the Jews,
then to the Samaritans, and then to the utter parts
of the earth where you had the apostle Paul's ministry
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going out. So, I mean, that's the that's what the
Holy Spirit does. He points us to Christ. It's not
these weird non Holy Spirit. And I'm telling you, folks,
what you're seeing in these meetings with Benny Hen and
David Diga and uh Vlad Savchuk and the others, these
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that's not the Holy Spirit. These these weird falling outs,
these weird what David described electricity going through you. That's
not the Holy Spirit. At at best, it's their own mind,
you know, it's their own emotions. And at worse, it's
something more senate, the sinister it's it's it's something demonic. Now,
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let's talk about prosperity. Is David Diga Hernandez a prosperity
gospel preacher. If you watch his videos, a lot of
his videos, you're gonna see, yes, he is. He just
does it in a more well balanced way. I guess
that's what he would call it. More balanced prosperity, more kinder,
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gentler prosperity. But he still is a prosperity Gospel preacher.
Watch this clip.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
You need to bring all of the components of biblical
prosperity together, and I'm giving you today three of those keys.
So the first one is good stewardship. You have to
manage your money well. You have to budget, you have
to plan. You can't get yourself in debt. You can't
go buying things you cannot you don't need. God is
not going to bless that. God will not bless a mess.
God only blesses what is well organized and what is orderly.
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You have to present him something to bless. He watches
for how you do. Secondly is generosity, and that is
an important component. You can't just have one and not
the other. You have to have both good stewardship and
generosity to others and toward the gospel. The scripture says
that he who refreshes others shall himself be refreshed. That's
what the Bible says, And the truth is that I've
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experienced this in my life. You know I mentioned the
one hundred thousand dollars equipment, and I want to get
back to that story. Now, this didn't start right there.
I started doing broadcasts on the Internet with a two
hundred and fifty dollars camera and then I upgraded it
to a twenty five hundred dollars camera. You know what
I did with that, I sewed it and God blessed me.
And when God blessed me, he upgraded us to about
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twenty thousand dollars worth of equipment. And that equipment was
enough to get us on the public access television. We
did cable television, public access and cable. I think we
were in like sixty thousand homes in one city. It
was in a big reach. But we did the best
we had with that. And then when God told me
when we were doing television, we did it for about
two years. The Lord told me this. He said, take
all of this equipment that you have, and I want
you to give it away. I want you to sew
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it to other ministries. I said, Lord, are you sure
for me? At the time as a televangelist, a televangelist
giving away his TV equipment is like a pastor giving
way as church building. I said, Lord, I need faith
for this. Help me. The Lord helped me. I sewed
all that camera equipment and it was no, it wasn't
that much later when I finished sewing all the CARI equipment,
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maybe a couple weeks after I sold the last piece
of equipment into other churches, I get a call from
a man who was willing to put up half of
the costs for everything that we're doing. And we raised
the other half in six months and God met the need.
We're talking and going from fifteen twenty thousand dollars worth
to reaching ourbout one hundred thousand dollars goal at the time.
I want you to think about that. It's a multiplication
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effect and each time you go God will test your generosity.
We go from glory to glory, from faith to faith.
God is constantly stretching us.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Okay, so that is prosperity teaching. Now, of course, David's
going to say that we're not to use the money
for a lavish lifestyle and to spend it all on ourselves.
The purpose is for the gospel, let's see, you know,
but but you know you need your breakthrough that that
video is about you getting your breakthrough, and so of
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course God's going to take care of you, and then
there's gonna be enough leftover to give to others. But
what you see what he does there, He talks about multiplication.
If you are generous, God is obligated to be generous
to you. He's going to I mean, this is how
the laws of prosperity work, right you, You be generous,
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even if it's even if you're broke and you're you've
only had five dollars. You give that five dollars, and
God's gonna bless you and give you more. You give
one hundred dollars, God's going to give you more. You know,
it's just this whole multiplication thing. And then he uses
himself as an example of how God spoke to him, said,
I want you to give the equipment away because God's
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teaching him something about prosperity. It's a multiplication thing. Give
all your equipment away and I'll bless you with better equipment.
Is this is the prosperity gospel, folks. David Diga Hernandez
is a prosperity gospel word a faith teacher. We'll get
to work to some of the teachings on faith here
in just a minute. But there's more. There's more about prosperity.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Watch. So maybe when you were broke, it was a
challenge to give five dollars, but you did that and
you sewed it and God blessed you. And now it's
a challenge to give one hundred dollars, but you do it,
and God blesses you, and you sew, and then you grow,
and then it's a challenge to give a thousand. There's
friends that I have who are multimillionaires, some of our
biggest supporters for this ministry, multimillionaires, and they're tell me
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it's kind of the same thing. They said, Lord, why
don't you ask someone else to give ten thousand dollars.
I had one of my supporters tell me, I said,
why don't he say, why don't you ask someone else
to give ten thousand dollars to the ministry? And the
Lord told them, fine, I'll bless someone else with a million.
So the truth is that to who much is given,
much is required. At each level. We need to demonstrate
our faith.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
So you see how them multiplication works. Five dollars, ten dollars,
ten dollars turns into one hundred dollars one hundred to
one thousand, give a thousand might become a millionaire. That's
how the multiplication works. So the question now is does
David Diga Hernandez believe that poverty is unbiblical?
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Well?
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Watch it is poverty God's will. Let me ask you,
is poverty God's will? Poverty brings stress, Poverty produces sickness,
Poverty produces starvation, Poverty produces lack, Poverty crushes dreams, Poverty
destroys hard work. Is that God's will?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
No, So if you're poor, you are not in the
will of God. What are you going to say to
all the Christians over in these other countries, these like
India or other countries around the world that you know
they're struggling to survive, Well, they're not. They must not
be applying the prosperity principles to their lives. Something's going
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on there. They must not be giving. On top of that,
what about the slaves in the New Testament? Because let's see,
I've got a statistic here. I want to see if
I've got it up here. Let's see did I put
it up here? Yes, Estimates suggest that slaves made up
about thirty to forty percent of the population in large
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cities like Rome and Corinth. A lot of slaves in Rome,
a lot of slaves in Corinth, and many of them
were Christians. And Paul speaks about masters treating their slaves well,
bond servants and slaves, you know, obeying their masters. Peter
talks about slaves, you know, in the obedience to their masters.
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So this is this was common. But those poor slaves, they,
you know, Paul must have overlooked the principles of prosperity
because they remain slaves. Again, this is just this is
just dangerous teaching, folks. It's bad. But that's not all
he teaches. He teaches the same kind of decree and
declare stuff through the power of your words that many
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of the other Word of Faith teachers teach about. So
this is his teaching on the power of your words.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Watch did you know that when you speak, the words
that you speak carry the weight of divine authority. You
have power in your words. You are like your father.
Your father God speaks with authority. Your father God speaks
with creativity. Your father God speaks with power. And when
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you speak, when you make a declaration, there is power
in your words.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
You are like your father when you speak, when you
make a declaration, there is power in your words. Now,
to be fair, David does not teach that we have
creative power, at least some of the videos that I've
watched on this topic. He does not teach that our words,
you know, have this creative power. But he says, we're
like Jesus. You know, the Father created, he says, and
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Jesus took with the power of his words and put
that creation into order. And so you have the power
to order things going on in your life. So you
can decree and declare.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Watch, there is power in your words. There is authority
in your declaration. You can declare healing. You can declare
that sickness leave. You can declare prosperity. You can declare deliverance.
You can declare salvation. You can declare expansions of ministries.
You can declare depression to be broken. You can declare
anxiety to be broken. You have been given this authority.
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Now again, the balance is this is not just you
wielding your own will. This is you aligning by faith
yourself with God's will. Faith is the key to activating
the power of your words. Faith doesn't obligate God. It
aligns you.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
So faith activates the power of your words. Now, I
have never heard David mention the force of faith. If
you don't know what the force of faith is. It's
a word of faith teaching that says faith is a force.
Your words are the containers of that force. Right, And
so as you speak faith filled words, you can create
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whatever you need. You can change your circumstances. So if
faith is a force and your words are containers of
that force, what's the difference of saying that your faith
activates the power of your words. They sound both sound
one and the same to me, at least they do
to me. One more clip I want you to listen
to because David kind of mocks the sufficiency of scripture
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in this clip.
Speaker 4 (41:41):
Watch.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
The Holy Spirit is the keeper of God's secrets. He's
the one who knew about Jesus coming in the flesh,
and he kind of hinted at it all throughout the
Old Testament, and the prophets kind of knew, but they
didn't quite get it. And then Paul talks about how
glorious it is that we get to know what he
had in his mind all this time. So the Holy
Spirit speaks to us those secrets. An infinite God cannot
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be completely explained in a finite book. Don't stone me
just yet. This book is complete. This book is the foundation.
This book is infallible. This book is the introduction. When
talking about the Holy Spirit and the voice of the
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Holy Spirit speaking to me, Cessatianists always ask me. They go,
brother David, is not the word of God enough? Is
this not sufficient? And they say it's so robust, you know,
it almost intimidates me. But I say, you know, the
purpose of this book was to connect us with God,
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was to put us in relationship with the Father. If
I can't talk to him and he can't talk to me,
then this book is insufficient. And I turn it write
back on them. Is this book not sufficient? Of course
it is.
Speaker 5 (43:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
You heard him say that the Bible is sufficient there
at the end of the clip. But he doesn't mean
sufficient at least I don't think in the way that
we mean sufficient when we say the Word of God
is sufficient. We would say what the Bible says in
Two Timothy chapter three, verses fourteen through seventeen. But as
for you, continue on what you have learned and have
firmly believe, knowing from whom you learned it, and how
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from childhood you have acquainted. You have been acquainted with
the sacred writings which are able to make you wise
for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is
breathed out by God, improfitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction,
and for training in righteousness, that the Man of God
may be complete, equipped for every good work. Two words,
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they are complete and equipped for every good work. So
I could do an entire video, and maybe I will
just on the sufficiency of scripture and using that clip
as a bass, But for right now we're done. I
just wanted to show you that David Diga Hernandez is
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not someone who should be followed. He is a dangerous
false teacher, and he is someone who definitely needs to
be marked and avoided. Thanks for watching, folks,
There have been times. I remember there was a time
where somebody asked me the other day. They said, what
was the most difficult thing that God ever asked you
to do? And among many things that I listed, I
would say that one of the most bizarre and difficult
things that God asked me to do had to do
with the way I prayed for someone who was in
need of healing. Now, if you know me, I'm always
saying things like, the Holy Spirit is classy, Jesus is
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a gentleman. God likes to be orderly and excellent. And
while I do believe that there's also a demonstrative effect
that comes from the power of the Holy Spirit that's
very in your face, that's very almost like a power surge.
And so there are times when God wants us to
get radical. There are some things that God has asked
his prophets to do in scripture that can seem a
bit bizarre, but never are they degrading to the human
nature that God has imparted to us. But there was
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this boy that God brought before me, and he was
blind and he could not see very clearly. In fact,
he had gone to a party and one of his
soul called friends slipped something in his drink, and when
he drank it, it caused him to have such blurry
vision that he couldn't read the words on the pages
of a Bible. And so what I did is I
got very a Bible, was very fine print, very small writing,
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very small letters, and I brought them to him. I said,
I put in his face. And I wasn't trying to
be cruel. I was genuinely asking. I said, can you
read that? He said no, I can't even see it.
I don't even know what the book is. And the
book was listed in larger boulder prints. And so he's
there in front of me, and the Lord tells me
very clearly, spit in his eyes. And I remember that
scripture where Jesus spit in the mud and put his
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eyes And I said, Lord, I can't do that. I
can't do that, Lord. And I remember just wrestling with
the Holy Spirit. I begin to sweat, and I began
a doubt, and I say, well, Lord, maybe it's not
really you, Maybe it's my flesh. Maybe it's the devil.
Maybe it's the devil trying to get me to do
some foolish I remember about ten fifty minutes and went
back and forth, and as finally I spit in my
hand and laid my hand in his eyes. Now the
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boy instantly was able to see. I put the Bible
right in front of his face, and he starts reading
with ease. The whole place went crazy. God moved, people
were encouraged. The boy went away healed that day. But
when I went home, I felt a very heavy weight
upon me, and I remembered that story. Were Moses to
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bring water out of the rock, He didn't obey the
instructions of the Lord exactly. He did it his way,
and he struck the rock instead of speaking to it.
Water came forward. The miracle still happened, but Moses had disobeyed.
And I found myself in a similar situation, and I
remembered that verse. Next chapter eight, verse twenty two, where
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Peter confronts Simon, the sorcerer who tried to buy the
Holy Spirit, and he says, repent of this thing, and
perhaps the Lord will forgive the wickedness of your heart.
He didn't guarantee him the forgiveness, because we have to
work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. God
is not an automatic machine that if we give a
specific response. He gives us a specific response right back.
No God responds to genuine Christ. So there I was.
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I felt that weight on me for having not been
specifically obedient to the Holy Spirit. For days, I wrestled
with the Lord asking for his forgiveness, and I remember
filling the release and I felt the power of God
returned on the ministry.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Welcome to the Long for Truth Podcast. I'm Robin long
Join my husband Dan and I as we explore the
roots of the early Pentecostal and Charismatic movements and we
shine a light on false doctrines and false teachers in
the modern church. Let's get started.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Hello everyone, Welcome along for Truth. My name is Daniel long.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Today we're going to be talking about David Diga Hernandez. Now,
we have talked about David Diga Hernandez on this channel,
but we've never dedicated an entire video to him. We're
going to do that today, and that's because Diga Hernandez
is a very dangerous false teacher. He teaches many core
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principles of the Word of Faith movement, even if he
doesn't always use the same language as the well known
figures like Kenneth Copeland, Benny and Bill Winston, Greflo Dollar
are those guys. What he does is he presents his
version in a more calmer, more polished, and I would
say even a more kinder, gentler version, and he seems
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more theologically sound. But when you pull back the layers,
the foundational teachings aligned closely with Word of Faith theology.
I think after seeing the clips that I'm going to
show you and the slides that I'm going to be presenting,
there will be no mistaking it. You're going to see
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that David dio Hernandez is a dangerous Word of Faith teacher. Now,
before we dive into the clips, let's look at some
slides because I found an article from about twelve years
ago from XP Media and I want to read a
few slides from that. Now. The article is called from
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the Projector to the Pulpit, and as I said, it's
of your old article. It was posted on x P media.
If that tells you anything, but guys like David diga
Hernandez like to present these dramatic experiences, either conversion experiences
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or a you know, healing experiences. You see these things
in many of these charismatic leaders. But let's go ahead
and take a look at this first slide here and
this comes. This is again, this is going to be
talking about his conversion experience, and this is what it says.
And this is now. This is taking place at a
convention in a hotel room when he was a little boy,
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all right, And this is what it says. Despite my
outer shell of morality in my spirit was dead. I
needed Jesus. My moment of salvation came to me in
a hotel room. My family was attending a week long
Bible conference. They had gone to the sessions while I
stayed behind in the room. I remember just sitting in
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the room being severely tormented by demonic powers. I felt fear, anger,
and hopelessness within me. It was purely demonic. I sat
frozen in a cold sweat. At the same time, I
felt the conviction of the Holy Spirit drawing me to
the Lord. It was sheer warfare over me. I could
feel the forces of Heaven and Hell battling over me.
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In the middle of the warfare, my dad entered the room.
My face said everything. It was tired and afraid. I
told my dad right then and there that I wanted
to give myself to Jesus. We prayed, and the moment
we did, Heaven filled my heart. The storm of the
demonic was instantly calmed by the mighty voice of God.
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I sobbed tears of joy as the perfect love of
God dispelled all fear. Had a couple of things to
notice about that quote. First of all, notice the drama there.
As I said in the beginning, it seems like all
these teachers, not all of them, but many popular charismatic
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teachers have either a dramatic conversion experience or dramatic healing
experience or something like that. And you know the reasons
for this is, well, they got to give you proof
that God's power is on them. They need their you
know that they're the authority that God has given them
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legitimized right. And it also creates a platform for them,
you know, especially if they're selling books which Hernandez mentions
or this article mentions. So you got to kind of
set yourself up here, and it might it might just
be too boring to say something like, well, you know,
I heard the word of God preached, I was convicted
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of my sin. I believed in Jesus. In Jesus, I
believe that he died and bled for my sins, and
so I turned to him in faith. That's a little
bit too boring, and that's not gonna that's not going
to make you stand out. So you got to have these, really,
I don't know, dramatic conversion experiences. Now. Then we moved
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on into the article and he talks about how he
was prophesied over as a young boy. And so we're
going to look at this next slide here from the
same article, an evangelist, Steve Romine had come to minister
at our church. He was a healing evangelist who had MS.
I watched as he prophesied over people and prayed for
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the sick. People who had come to church with pain
were leaving without it. As I observed an amazement, I said,
in my heart, Lord, that's how I want to be used.
But only moments after I thought that, Steve looked right
at me. He pointed at me and called me to
the front. I don't remember the exact wording, but I
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remember what the message was. He told me that I
would be used in the healing ministry, be known among
the nations, and carry a heavy mantle of the anointing
on my life. From that moment on my ministry had
a clear direction, all right. So he is converted at
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a young age, think he was eleven, maybe twelve, and
then he goes to this healing meeting shortly after, or
this evangelistic meeting shortly after, and this evangelist is there,
and I think he was like twelve or thirteen at
this meeting, as I said, And then he's prophesied over
and he's now been called to the healing ministry by
God at thirteen. So what he does now is he
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takes this Holy Spirit healing ministry to his school, and
this is what happens there while he's at school as
a teenager, it says. He says, there were instances when
kids who had no idea what the power of God
was like would have trouble standing as they approached nearer
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to the site of our undercover meetings. Skin diseases, asthma,
broken bones, eye problems, these and many more things were
being healed. Most of the time, the healings took place
right on the spot in view of everyone. All right,
So thirteen years old having these undercover meetings at school
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where nobody knows about it, and he's just kind of
it's kind of like this underground thing. And he's having
these healing meetings, right, and these kids are coming and
they have skin diseases, some of them have asthma, some
of them have broken bones and eye problems and all
of this, and they're healed some of them, he says instantly.
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And everybody sees it right because he says, most of
the time, the healings took place right on the spot
in front of everyone. Now, if that were the case,
let me tell you, folks, you would have heard about
this by now. David would have been in the spotlight
as a young kid. These kids with broken bones or
especially asthma, I mean kids with asthma being healed right
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going home not having to take their medicine anymore, or
broken bones automatically healed right. And what would their parents do.
They'd be like, ah, that and the kids would tell
the parents, Hey, I was at school and they were
having this secret meeting of healing and this kid named
David was healing everybody. I mean, come on, it just
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sounds so outlandish, so outrageous. Yeah, you just can't believe that.
But that's not the only thing. It takes place, because
now you're gonna have residue leftover healing stuff and watch
what happens when the kids go back to the classrooms.
I was thirteen years of age when the overflow began.
While other kids were creeping in secrecy to high drug
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sexual acts and violent dealings, I was holding secret miracle
services on school campus. We prayed for the power of
God to invade the school. After the meetings, I would
head back to class with the residue of God's tangible
power on me. As I would enter the classroom. There
were instances where kids would fall under the power from
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a simple greeting by a handshake. They had no idea
what hit them as they picked themselves up from the
floor with very confused looks on their faces. Teachers were
never present when this occurred. All right, so residues left over.
Kids are falling out from a simple handshake. They just
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fall out under the power. It reminds me of something
that you know, Kevin Zadai would say when kevin' za
Daye said he was I think it was Kevin's dye
when he was on the plane and people were just
falling out under the power because he was so anointed,
and it was Brian Simmons that was on sid Roth
talking about how as he was walking through the grocery store,
people were just falling out under the power. So David
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diga thirteen year old boy shaking the hand of kids
when they come back in the classroom falling out under
the power because the residue was left on him, and
of course conveniently none of the teachers were present, as
he said, so just you know, you can take and
do what you want with that. But now, right, so
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he gets converted young age thirteen years old or so,
he gets prophesied over at a evangelistic meeting, and then
he takes this power back to the school and he
starts having undercover meetings and kids are falling out and
getting healed and all that. Well, now we go a
step further because now God is going to supernaturally call
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him into this wider ministry and he's going to meet
Benny hen. So let's take a look at that slide.
Let's see that is slide five. Let's take a look
at that slide. This is what he says. One day,
the Lord spoke to me. As I was continuing with
my daily usuals, I felt a tingling sensation move up
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and down my right hand. There was an intense heat
on my right hand. The Lord spoke to me clearly,
I have called you to take my healing power to
your generation. I was excited and skeptical at once. Days later,
I was watching a documentary on the life of Oral Roberts.
It turns out that a similar thing happened to him. God,
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I said, I want you to use me like you
used him. I continue to pray, or I continue to
pray that while still full of doubt. But Lord, I said,
if you want to use me in that way, confirm
it through I pause to think of the most unlikely confirmation.
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I wanted it to be a hard thing to prove,
so that I knew it was from God. I continued,
if this is what you want, Lord, confirm it through
Benny hen And the Lord did just that. Because this
next slide says fast forward several years, circumstances allowed me
the opportunity of meeting Pastor Bennie. I still remember my
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first time speaking with Pastor Bennie. I was brought into
a private room after a taping. He was standing there
facing a TV monitor. His back was towards me. The
man introducing us taped tapped him on the shoulder. We
were introduced. The moment I shook his hand, the expression
on his face changed. Pastor Benny grabbed my wrist and
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pulled me forward the anointing, he said softly. He laid
his hands on me, and I felt the power of
God bolt through my body. I was picked up off
the floor. Tears were streaming down my face. The presence
of God was so strong in that room. He pointed
to me. He pointed at me sternly and said, I
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see the anointing of Or Roberts. So Benny Hen has
the Catherine Cooleman anointing, and David Diga has the Or
Robert's anointing. So David Diga is really copying Benny Hen.
Here Benny Hen becomes David Diga's mentor. Now I should
tell you a lot. That should tell you a lot.
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If you've not seen Steve Kozar's documentary on Benny Hen,
I'll put a link to that down in the YouTube description.
It's a long documentary, but it's going to expose a
whole lot, and also Mike Winger's documentary. Probably most of
you have seen that, but I'll still put a link
to that down in the description as well, But that
should tell you a whole lot about David Diga. He
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was mentored by Benny Hennon. I've got some clips to
show you that in just a second. But before we
get to those clips, I want to show you another
clip here. This clip is with Chris Rosebro and Costi
hen They did a video together talking about David Diga
Hernandez warning people about David Diga Hernandez and I took
this clip from that video, and again I'll put a
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link to that video in the description as well so
you can watch it. But there's specifftly talking about David
Diga's healing meetings.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Watch you Jesus makes you love.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Jesus makes.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
What happened here? Sergio Diga.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
This is Linda.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Last week she had a fractured knee due to tentanais
and she said there was a crystal on the knee,
so she came in with the brace.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
She couldn't bend her knee because her knee was fractured.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
She said she found warmth come over that knee. She
can bend the knee. She's supposed to see the specialist,
but she believes she's healed. I have the lee brace
in my hand.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
That's a pretty big crap.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You can't tell me. I mean, come on, Cossie, it
can't read just you know, just admit it. Man, this
woman was just healed by Jesus. Isn't that what happened?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Man?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
I'm yeah, I'm sorry. I was trying to get the
songs out of my head. I can sing all those songs.
I could probably imitate everything he's doing right now too.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Listen, this is this is classic. You said it.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
You had Catherine Coleman, and if you pull up her services,
I know we don't have it right now, but if
someone would, maybe you'd be the first to do this.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
You pull up a three.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Part screen and give us Catherine and her crusades, give
us Uncle Benny, and give us David, and run them
in order, and you'll hear a lot of the same rhetoric,
the same service order, the same songs, the same flow,
and all of it is designed to to manipulate the crowd.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Even the guy that he has doing the healing line.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Yeah, my my blessed father, who my dad, who no
longer does any of that and works with my uncle
at all. You know, he used to be that guy though,
that that the hype man. You're on the mic and
you got the story and you're holding up a kneebrace
and you and then the person kind of stomps around
and then they Jesus, we give you praise, give him prayer,
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people clap, the crowd pans. You've got even the different
types of camera work that's going on there over the shoulder,
with a little bit of diga in the shot right
up close on the stage. You've got the wide shot
looking at the stage. You've got the crowd shot kind
of showing you like, look look at all the people,
look at how amazing this is, Look at how real
this is, and you get you know terms now that
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we didn't that back then because gen Z. But you've
heard of fomo, fear of missing out.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
The wo fomo is real. You're trying to give people fomo.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
You're you're showing them these shots and this pace and
this action, and they're going, man, were we're missing out?
We should be there. But all of that is smoking mirrors.
It's a house of cards. It's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Smoking mirrors, house of cards. And again he is emulating,
he's copying Benny hann I want to show you a slide.
This is from Hernandez's book, and this is a dedication
to Benny Hann. Look what it says. I dedicate this
book to Pastor Benny Hen, who is to me a mentor,
a friend, and a father in the faith. Thank you,
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Pastor Benny, for the rich and unparalleled teachings that the
Lord has anointed to lay a foundation for my understanding
of the person of the Holy Spirit. To Jesus belongs
the glory. I will steward well the impartation that I received.
I will boldly and unapologetically preach the saving and healing
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Gospel of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.
With love and honor David Diga Hernandez. So, David Diga
dedicated that book to Benny Hen. Folks, again, if you
haven't watched the documentaries that are out there on Benny
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Hen by Mike Winger, by Steve Kozar and others, you
need to do that. And again I'll put those links
in the description. But the very fact that he is
emulating Benny Hen in his services, and you heard Costy
talk about that. The camera shots, how he's you know,
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panning the camera around the the the music, all of
this stuff that's being emulated. David Diga is a copycat. Now,
he's not going to take his coat off and wave
it over the crowd, at least I haven't seen that
as far it so I know he hasn't done that.
He's not going to be as radical as Benny Hen.
He's going to be toned down. He's going to be
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much more seemingly, as I said in the beginning, seemingly
theologically sound. So now I want to take you to
I want to show you a couple of clips. Listen
to what he says in this clip. There's a couple
of things that I want to I want you to
I want to point out watch.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
People often ask how do you reach the youth, what's
the what's the key to this generation? I tell them
all the same thing, the same thing that touched the
generations before is going to be the same thing that
touches the generation now. That's the power of the Holy Ghost.
It was interesting to me that when you began to
play this song, Holy are You Lord, I'm sitting there,
I'm standing there in my seat, and I knew you
were going to ask me to share just a little
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bit and The thought that came to my mind was
that memory I had when you were ministering at the
Arrowhead Ponderena in Anaheim. I was fourteen years old. Never
before had I ever experienced like what I experienced on
that night. The choir began to sing it. I believe
Terry mccleman was actually there. They started to play Holy
are You Lord? And I remember, as a fourteen year
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old boy, all you said was, if you want the
power of God, get down here. I ran from the
top of I came early, and I still had to
sit in like the third section up top. I mean
they were announcing floors being shut down by the second
and so I remember sitting up there with my grandfather
watching you preach during the service. It was interesting to
me also that you're talking about these greats that used
to sit under and listen to And I'm thinking, here,
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I get to sit under watch Pastor Benny hen and
so we get that opportunity to see that same type
of mantle through you. So I'm sitting there in the
crusade Pastor Benny, and I'm watching you. And I never
told you this. In fact, I told very few people this.
You started to glow. I saw you you were it was,
and it wasn't because of the white suit. That's where
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my mind went. Initially, well, it's the white suit and
it's the sparkling on the lights. But then as I
really watched, I mean, you started to glow to such
a degree, and everything else around I remember, began to
grow dark, and I saw this anointing on it. I said, Lord,
whatever it is that's on that man's life, I want
to experience that.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
So, the same thing that touched the generations before is
the same thing that's going to touch the generations now.
And that's the power of the Holy Ghost. That's the
first thing I want to point out. So it's the
it's it's the crazy stuff that goes on at a
Benny Hen meeting, or at a David Digua Hernandez meeting,
or at a you know, demon slayer meeting. That's that's
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what's going to change the generations. No, the Gospel of
Jesus Christ is the power of God to salvation for
all who believe. It's the gospel that's going If anything's
going to change any generation or any human heart, it
is the power of the Gospel. And so we'll talk
about that in a little bit later. But think about
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what he said there that Benny Hen glowed. I mean again, folks,
Benny Hen has been exposed over and over and over again.
He has been proven to be a false teacher. Now
what's really interesting is this little video here is still
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on David Diga Hernandez's channel. This is his video, So
he hasn't taken. These videos that I'm showing you are
not clips that other people have taken. These are clips
from videos that are still up on his channel. Every
clip except for the clip I showed you with Costy
Hen and Chris Roseboro, every other clip is from videos
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that are still on his channel. So anyway, that's part one.
Let me show you the second clip with him, and
again listen to what he says about Bennie and this clip.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Watch so you make the call if you're in minister.
I'm fourteen, I had just started preaching something. Yes, I count,
So I run all the way down and I remember
by the time I got to the bottom section, there
was already several thousands of people packed up against the
stage and blocking the staircases. I remember many of us
remember from the Crusades, those big staircases on the sides.
I was pinned in between the stage, and the crowd
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was pressing on me, pushing me into the platform. So
I was a little nervous at what was happening there.
But I remember this. I walk up to the platform
and you're singing, Holy are you Lord? You had shut
your microphone off, and you're just walking back and forth,
back and forth, laying hands on people. And I remember
as I approached the platform, my whole body began to
vibrate and again went to well, maybe it's cold. But
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then I thought again, I thought, no, I never shake this.
But I mean, my legs were about to give out,
and I'm standing up against the plator and I'm looking
for a way. I'm thinking, I gotta get on that stage.
The staircases blocked, the crowd is pressing up against me.
I need to get onto that platform somehow. And so
I don't know how this happened, but one of your
security guards, I don't want to get him fired, but
he broke protocol and he reaches down to me and
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he says, come up here, pols me onto the platform.
This is all I remember. I'm walking up on the stage.
I see your back is turned, you're paying, you're praying
for somebody off in the distance, you've already laid hands
on them. You turn, and the moment you turn, it
was like this, Like what we were feeling tonight, there
was like this. I forgive me for using the word,
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and I don't mean it in new age, New ages,
but it was like this aura about you, this atmosphere
about you that as you approached, I felt like this
weight coming over me. And I remember this. You didn't push,
you didn't scream, you didn't yell, just very gentle touch.
I closed my eyes. I opened up. I didn't even
realize that I had fallen out into the powers. I
opened my eyes. I looked down. My body is shaking,
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like I'm being electrocuted. And then I remember the ushers
picking me up, turning me around and dropping me off somewhere.
I couldn't even walk back to my seat. I called
my dad, I said, Dad, Dad. Pastor Benny prayed for me.
Pastor Benny, and he said he could fill that anointing
like electricity running through the phone on the other side.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
All right, So again, Benny, hen's glowing, right, He's got
this aura over him. As David called it the aura
over him, and he gets annointed by Benny Hen. He
falls out on the floor. He's got all this electricity
going through his body. He calls his father, and his
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father says, oh, I can feel the anointing through the phone.
My question is how long ago was this? I mean,
if this was in the late nineties and even early
two thousands, what did you do go to a pay
phone call? I mean, I don't know, maybe this is
maybe this is you know, I can't I don't know
the date of this. So but I'm just thinking this
stuff through. Even so, folks, we're talking about Bennie Hen. Here,
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we're talking about a man who has been exposed time
and time again as a false teacher. And I can
not keep bringing that up. But that is very important
because this is who David Diga Hernandez is copying. He's
emulating Benny Hen. He's copying Benni Hen. But there's more.
Watch now.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I say all that to say this. I think about
that what I experienced that evening when I was fourteen
years old, and how it marked my life forever. And
I think about what's being preached today, and I compare
the two and I see that whereas once we were
taught to pray, now we're taught to think positively. Or
once we had supernatural empowerment, now we have superficial encouragement.
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Or once we had power, now we have programs. Or
once we had miracles, now we have methods. Or once
we had spirit, now we have style. And what's beginning
to happen is the secular world is beginning to influence
the church, and the Church is trying to accomplish like
Nadab and Abba who they're trying to accomplish in the
flesh what was once accomplished in the spirit, and only
that which is born of the spirit is spirit. And
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I'm thinking to myself, this is what my generation needs.
You talked about this depression thing. They're talking about counseling
out of them because they don't have the power to
cast it out of them. They're talking about sending people
to hospitals, which I don't have a thing against medical expertise,
but they're no longer praying for the sick. And I
thought there has to be a resurgence of this reliance
upon the power of the Holy Spirit. That night marks
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me in this way where I realized a single moment
in the presence of the Holy Spirit can transform your life.
But a life spent in the presence of the Holy
Spirit can transform the nations.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
So a life spent in the presence of the Holy
Spirit is what's going to change nations. And he's referring
to the kind of stuff that takes place at these
Benihan healing meetings, his healing meetings, and he saw next
to him, vlad Savchuk was standing next to David. There
the demon slayer's healing meetings. That's what we need to
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change this generation. No, folks, we need the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. It's the Cross, the preaching of the Cross.
The apostle Paul tells the Corinthians that he among them
knew nothing but Christ in him crucified. It is the
power of the Gospel that's going to change lives. And
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the Holy Spirit, Luther calls the shy person of the
Trinity the whole. What the Holy Spirit does is he
points people to the Gospel. He points people to Christ.
All right. He doesn't magnify himself. If you look through
the scriptures, he does not magnify himself. Even if you
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go through the Book of Acts. Yes, the miracles are
done there. That's the beginning of the church. The miracles
are done there, and the Holy Spirit of course is
present there in doing the work. But the purpose of
that is to present the Gospel first to the Jews,
then to the Samaritans, and then to the utter parts
of the earth where you had the apostle Paul's ministry
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going out. So, I mean, that's the that's what the
Holy Spirit does. He points us to Christ. It's not
these weird non Holy Spirit. And I'm telling you, folks,
what you're seeing in these meetings with Benny Hen and
David Diga and uh Vlad Savchuk and the others, these
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that's not the Holy Spirit. These these weird falling outs,
these weird what David described electricity going through you. That's
not the Holy Spirit. At at best, it's their own mind,
you know, it's their own emotions. And at worse, it's
something more senate, the sinister it's it's it's something demonic. Now,
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let's talk about prosperity. Is David Diga Hernandez a prosperity
gospel preacher. If you watch his videos, a lot of
his videos, you're gonna see, yes, he is. He just
does it in a more well balanced way. I guess
that's what he would call it. More balanced prosperity, more kinder,
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gentler prosperity. But he still is a prosperity Gospel preacher.
Watch this clip.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
You need to bring all of the components of biblical
prosperity together, and I'm giving you today three of those keys.
So the first one is good stewardship. You have to
manage your money well. You have to budget, you have
to plan. You can't get yourself in debt. You can't
go buying things you cannot you don't need. God is
not going to bless that. God will not bless a mess.
God only blesses what is well organized and what is orderly.
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You have to present him something to bless. He watches
for how you do. Secondly is generosity, and that is
an important component. You can't just have one and not
the other. You have to have both good stewardship and
generosity to others and toward the gospel. The scripture says
that he who refreshes others shall himself be refreshed. That's
what the Bible says, And the truth is that I've
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experienced this in my life. You know I mentioned the
one hundred thousand dollars equipment, and I want to get
back to that story. Now, this didn't start right there.
I started doing broadcasts on the Internet with a two
hundred and fifty dollars camera and then I upgraded it
to a twenty five hundred dollars camera. You know what
I did with that, I sewed it and God blessed me.
And when God blessed me, he upgraded us to about
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twenty thousand dollars worth of equipment. And that equipment was
enough to get us on the public access television. We
did cable television, public access and cable. I think we
were in like sixty thousand homes in one city. It
was in a big reach. But we did the best
we had with that. And then when God told me
when we were doing television, we did it for about
two years. The Lord told me this. He said, take
all of this equipment that you have, and I want
you to give it away. I want you to sew
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it to other ministries. I said, Lord, are you sure
for me? At the time as a televangelist, a televangelist
giving away his TV equipment is like a pastor giving
way as church building. I said, Lord, I need faith
for this. Help me. The Lord helped me. I sewed
all that camera equipment and it was no, it wasn't
that much later when I finished sewing all the CARI equipment,
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maybe a couple weeks after I sold the last piece
of equipment into other churches, I get a call from
a man who was willing to put up half of
the costs for everything that we're doing. And we raised
the other half in six months and God met the need.
We're talking and going from fifteen twenty thousand dollars worth
to reaching ourbout one hundred thousand dollars goal at the time.
I want you to think about that. It's a multiplication
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effect and each time you go God will test your generosity.
We go from glory to glory, from faith to faith.
God is constantly stretching us.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Okay, so that is prosperity teaching. Now, of course, David's
going to say that we're not to use the money
for a lavish lifestyle and to spend it all on ourselves.
The purpose is for the gospel, let's see, you know,
but but you know you need your breakthrough that that
video is about you getting your breakthrough, and so of
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course God's going to take care of you, and then
there's gonna be enough leftover to give to others. But
what you see what he does there, He talks about multiplication.
If you are generous, God is obligated to be generous
to you. He's going to I mean, this is how
the laws of prosperity work, right you, You be generous,
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even if it's even if you're broke and you're you've
only had five dollars. You give that five dollars, and
God's gonna bless you and give you more. You give
one hundred dollars, God's going to give you more. You know,
it's just this whole multiplication thing. And then he uses
himself as an example of how God spoke to him, said,
I want you to give the equipment away because God's
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teaching him something about prosperity. It's a multiplication thing. Give
all your equipment away and I'll bless you with better equipment.
Is this is the prosperity gospel, folks. David Diga Hernandez
is a prosperity gospel word a faith teacher. We'll get
to work to some of the teachings on faith here
in just a minute. But there's more. There's more about prosperity.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Watch. So maybe when you were broke, it was a
challenge to give five dollars, but you did that and
you sewed it and God blessed you. And now it's
a challenge to give one hundred dollars, but you do it,
and God blesses you, and you sew, and then you grow,
and then it's a challenge to give a thousand. There's
friends that I have who are multimillionaires, some of our
biggest supporters for this ministry, multimillionaires, and they're tell me
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it's kind of the same thing. They said, Lord, why
don't you ask someone else to give ten thousand dollars.
I had one of my supporters tell me, I said,
why don't he say, why don't you ask someone else
to give ten thousand dollars to the ministry? And the
Lord told them, fine, I'll bless someone else with a million.
So the truth is that to who much is given,
much is required. At each level. We need to demonstrate
our faith.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
So you see how them multiplication works. Five dollars, ten dollars,
ten dollars turns into one hundred dollars one hundred to
one thousand, give a thousand might become a millionaire. That's
how the multiplication works. So the question now is does
David Diga Hernandez believe that poverty is unbiblical?
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Well?
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Watch it is poverty God's will. Let me ask you,
is poverty God's will? Poverty brings stress, Poverty produces sickness,
Poverty produces starvation, Poverty produces lack, Poverty crushes dreams, Poverty
destroys hard work. Is that God's will?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
No, So if you're poor, you are not in the
will of God. What are you going to say to
all the Christians over in these other countries, these like
India or other countries around the world that you know
they're struggling to survive, Well, they're not. They must not
be applying the prosperity principles to their lives. Something's going
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on there. They must not be giving. On top of that,
what about the slaves in the New Testament? Because let's see,
I've got a statistic here. I want to see if
I've got it up here. Let's see did I put
it up here? Yes, Estimates suggest that slaves made up
about thirty to forty percent of the population in large
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cities like Rome and Corinth. A lot of slaves in Rome,
a lot of slaves in Corinth, and many of them
were Christians. And Paul speaks about masters treating their slaves well,
bond servants and slaves, you know, obeying their masters. Peter
talks about slaves, you know, in the obedience to their masters.
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So this is this was common. But those poor slaves, they,
you know, Paul must have overlooked the principles of prosperity
because they remain slaves. Again, this is just this is
just dangerous teaching, folks. It's bad. But that's not all
he teaches. He teaches the same kind of decree and
declare stuff through the power of your words that many
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of the other Word of Faith teachers teach about. So
this is his teaching on the power of your words.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Watch did you know that when you speak, the words
that you speak carry the weight of divine authority. You
have power in your words. You are like your father.
Your father God speaks with authority. Your father God speaks
with creativity. Your father God speaks with power. And when
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you speak, when you make a declaration, there is power
in your words.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
You are like your father when you speak, when you
make a declaration, there is power in your words. Now,
to be fair, David does not teach that we have
creative power, at least some of the videos that I've
watched on this topic. He does not teach that our words,
you know, have this creative power. But he says, we're
like Jesus. You know, the Father created, he says, and
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Jesus took with the power of his words and put
that creation into order. And so you have the power
to order things going on in your life. So you
can decree and declare.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Watch, there is power in your words. There is authority
in your declaration. You can declare healing. You can declare
that sickness leave. You can declare prosperity. You can declare deliverance.
You can declare salvation. You can declare expansions of ministries.
You can declare depression to be broken. You can declare
anxiety to be broken. You have been given this authority.
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Now again, the balance is this is not just you
wielding your own will. This is you aligning by faith
yourself with God's will. Faith is the key to activating
the power of your words. Faith doesn't obligate God. It
aligns you.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
So faith activates the power of your words. Now, I
have never heard David mention the force of faith. If
you don't know what the force of faith is. It's
a word of faith teaching that says faith is a force.
Your words are the containers of that force. Right, And
so as you speak faith filled words, you can create
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whatever you need. You can change your circumstances. So if
faith is a force and your words are containers of
that force, what's the difference of saying that your faith
activates the power of your words. They sound both sound
one and the same to me, at least they do
to me. One more clip I want you to listen
to because David kind of mocks the sufficiency of scripture
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in this clip.
Speaker 4 (41:41):
Watch.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
The Holy Spirit is the keeper of God's secrets. He's
the one who knew about Jesus coming in the flesh,
and he kind of hinted at it all throughout the
Old Testament, and the prophets kind of knew, but they
didn't quite get it. And then Paul talks about how
glorious it is that we get to know what he
had in his mind all this time. So the Holy
Spirit speaks to us those secrets. An infinite God cannot
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be completely explained in a finite book. Don't stone me
just yet. This book is complete. This book is the foundation.
This book is infallible. This book is the introduction. When
talking about the Holy Spirit and the voice of the
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Holy Spirit speaking to me, Cessatianists always ask me. They go,
brother David, is not the word of God enough? Is
this not sufficient? And they say it's so robust, you know,
it almost intimidates me. But I say, you know, the
purpose of this book was to connect us with God,
(42:51):
was to put us in relationship with the Father. If
I can't talk to him and he can't talk to me,
then this book is insufficient. And I turn it write
back on them. Is this book not sufficient? Of course
it is.
Speaker 5 (43:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
You heard him say that the Bible is sufficient there
at the end of the clip. But he doesn't mean
sufficient at least I don't think in the way that
we mean sufficient when we say the Word of God
is sufficient. We would say what the Bible says in
Two Timothy chapter three, verses fourteen through seventeen. But as
for you, continue on what you have learned and have
firmly believe, knowing from whom you learned it, and how
(43:30):
from childhood you have acquainted. You have been acquainted with
the sacred writings which are able to make you wise
for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is
breathed out by God, improfitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction,
and for training in righteousness, that the Man of God
may be complete, equipped for every good work. Two words,
(43:55):
they are complete and equipped for every good work. So
I could do an entire video, and maybe I will
just on the sufficiency of scripture and using that clip
as a bass, But for right now we're done. I
just wanted to show you that David Diga Hernandez is
(44:17):
not someone who should be followed. He is a dangerous
false teacher, and he is someone who definitely needs to
be marked and avoided. Thanks for watching, folks,
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