Mass Sheeka Boom Ba in the Name of the Father (uh!), the Son and the Bam

The following video here I find very disturbing. I have seen a lot of Todd Bentley’s antics to date on You Tube and the Godless God Channel. I have watched Todd Bentley openly blaspheme, punch cancer patients hard enough in the gut to make them wince, boast about kicking old ladies in the face,  push people over, manipulate children, lie over and over again to the crowds and to the media, and falsely prophesy.

This baptismal service on the 4th July, what can I say really of how it makes me grieve so (and God)? Such a blatant mockery of God, and such a blatant disregard for truth. It mocks the new life and the real miracle of being a new creation in Christ Jesus and the old being gone. 

At 2.05 minutes on this video, Todd goes ‘tsssss’ and pretends to put the fire/anointing in the water by putting his hand in there to heat the tub up with more anointing. This is play acting like a child and outright mockery – the work of a charlatan and not a true man of God.

Of course, the power in baptism is in its symbolism for the death to self and the rising to new life. The power is not in the water, ‘anointed’ or otherwise. Making people jump about and manifesting in anointed water is taking the focus away from Christ and the real saving power of the gospel. Todd Bentley’s baptism is a public disgrace and mockery.

People are ‘falling out under the power in the baptism tank’ but there is no talk of repentence or confession of sins or Jesus as Lord. There are gnostic claims from Todd like ‘The fire is in the tub’, and nonsense such as ‘I baptise you in the name of the sheeka boom ba … bam’. At 2.10 minutes, Todd calls this ‘a mass sheeka boom ba’  - why on earth does he use such nonsense words for a baptism – because I tell you the truth, it is no real baptism. To the undiscerning, these words sound kinda spiritual or Christian or like tongues (albeit without interpretation) but not only are these the words of a charlatan and faker, they are also the words of an evil man with an evil impartation.

I know Lakeland supporters defending Todd Bentley keep on harping on about the so-called ‘converts’ he makes. Apart from, most of the people in this ‘revival’ are people already in churches, we have repeatedly have testified Todd does not  preach a true gospel of repentence, nor does he lead to the true Jesus, so there are a lack of real genuine conversions - and now it can be seen he does not preach or practice a true baptism.

In this video mockery, a baby  gets baptised – when of course, how can babies make this commitment, let alone this public declaration? Many people are in the ‘anointed tank’ who wish Todd to lay their hands on them, so they are healed or anointed, and so they can get others to get a healing or a revivalist anointing, other people who want to go ‘higher and deeper’ – many folk are evidently getting re baptised for all the wrong reasons – and Todd does not correct them. He baptises them anyway.

You do not baptise people so they get healed in this sense, or so they get anointed! Nor do you rebaptise the backslidden again for that is a public mockery of the cross.

A spaced out young man who has allegedly been a convert for some time claims he is being baptised as ’he wants to be a new creation’ in a future tense kind of way (does he not know the basic gospel truths?) – this same young man, by the way, is part of Todd Bentley’s church in Abbotsford, B.C. and attended Todd Bentley’s supernatural Bible school but ‘had not got around to’ being baptised before, but he says he is now ‘ready’. What does this lone fact say about Todd Bentley’s church’s and school’s acceptance criteria, and their and their ’spirit led’ leaders and students’ faithfulness in applying God’s word whether they ‘feel’ like it or not? It’s ok to go to Todd’s school which he is ready for, but not to obey God and get dunked?)

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