Bill Johnson on Todd Bentley: Admits Previous Affair & Blames Present Affair on Todd’s Critics!

Thanks to ‘Kiev’ who directed me to this video here and transcribed it for me - the first few minutes of Bill Johnson’s sermon this week about Todd Bentley. Bill Johnson essentially says he won’t blame the opposition, but then immediately proceeds to blame them entirely for the outcome!

Bill Johnson:

“A great tragedy has come to light this past week. Todd Bentley the revivalist, who has been leading the Lakeland Outpouring meetings, has been having a major meltdown and has ended up filing for divorce – as a partial result of this particular meltdown.

{Endtimes thoughts – So it is the “meltdown’s” fault for Todd sinning – blamed from sheer pressure of work and the critic’s pressure – so all God’s fault really, not poor old fraudulent Todd’s. Not Todd’s guilt to own caused by his own sins from pressure of his sinful nature?]

This comes at the worst possible time, both for the revival and for those who have stood with him. Back in June, Che Ahn, John Arnott, and I went to Lakeland, Florida to do a commissioning service for Todd. We felt the need to stand with him as his opposition was great.

{As previously discussed the opposition was there for a very good reason! Because Todd was a liar etc…]

We can be a strength to Todd in this time, especially John and Che could be a great asset, as they’ve endured incredible opposition during the Toronto Outpouring.

{The reason you guys went was long term self promotion as well as coverup. Your “help” and “strength” obviously was not enough if that is what you really went for. But what of the Lord’s strength – ever consider that?]

Peter Wagner, a great great man of God, tremendous man of integrity,

{Integrity? In light of Wagner’s recent lying and backtracking statement!]

helped oversee and lead that part of the meeting. Although he had not personally endorsed the revival (now, I need to make the part of it clear, it wasn’t an opposition but he hadn’t been involved enough to be willing to endorse it)

{Bill needs to make this clear because of C Peter Wagner’s orders. Wagner, of course, is trying to distance himself from the revival and pretending he did not really promote Todd Bentley…when everyone can clearly see he DID.]

he felt it important enough to risk personal criticism from his peers in order to bring Todd into an apostolic alignment for his own safety.

{For his own safety. Don’t you love these obnoxious lying prophets’s spin on things in hindsight?]

I did not go to Lakeland to stand on the platform with Todd Bentley because he was perfect in character, or because we agreed on everything he was doing in Lakeland. I stood with Todd, in Lakeland, because of his enemies.

The relentless criticism and opposition, coupled with a sometime grueling unwise schedule, was bound to take its toll on this young man – emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually. It happened two years ago, it could happen again.

{Uh huh. Blame it on God.]

I was involved in a-a-a restoration process to help Todd a couple years ago, in this very area. And it was thought to all of us involved that the healing had taken place,

{Note he talks about healing not SIN – and note also he admits their healing is not complete or effective – nor is their discernment. He has stated elsewhere these problems have been there for years]

when in fact there were areas that just weren’t dealt with. He just drug it into this great outpouring.

[So then it was not the revival's fault, the schedule's fault, or anything else, if YOU did not deal with the real issues which were SIN and repentence and fear of the Lord - generally in all areas of his life because evidently none were there and a child could see this. Because let us not forget he was sinning from Day One by lying.... and indeed even long before Day One at Lakeland. And these guys want us to believe they honestly did not know.]

It was my intention to bring a deflection into the mix so that he wouldn’t have to take all the heat by himself. Little did I realize it was too late. He was out to place a burnout again, abandoning his marriage, pulling out of all public ministry. While I’ll never blame Todd or Todd’s opponents for Todd’s bad choices – I mean, in no matter what condition you find yourself, in no matter what kind of opposition or circumstances are around you, we can never blame anyone else for our bad decisions.

{Decisions = sin]

Because there is always a grace available for the circumstances that we are in, to make righteous decisions and to always choose well and have the Lord defend us. Are you with me on this? I’ll never blame the opponents of this outpouring for Todd’s choices. However, it had a greater effect on the outcome than any of his critics will likely own up to in this lifetime. History proves this.”

{Endtimes note – but where were Todd Bentley’s critics two or three years – practically nowhere? And he did the same thing THEN – commit adultery – so he cannot blame it on either this revival’s work schedule or its critics! Elsewhere Johnson has also acknowledged that these issues were there for years – so he cannot even make up one excuse and stick to it and keep his story straight!]

Bill Johnson then continues to talk about apostolic dominion in the video. The “Shift” as people abandon denominations and become one ”family” – that means unity under Wagner’s NAR spiritual fathers – which funny enough this revival was always about. It is the apostles seeking to use this fall for their own gain – don’t let them!

“We need to work to transition the church from denominationalism to family..and I want to tell you why…..denominationalism is not healthy and the reason denominations were initially formed because groups of people had agreement in common doctrine and that agreement was what brought them together. When your foundation is doctrinal agreement…you have to remove the part that is the oddball; you have to get rid of anything or anyone that doesn’t conform. And even now this kind of a statement dials up religious values in good people that don’t realize that they have been trained by a system that is deficient, its defective.”

Comment from Sheeple on this last paragraph from here:

“Johnson relegates the criticism against Lakeland and Bentley to a “denominational spirit” and he even goes on to say that there are people in denominations who don’t have a denominal spirit and some not in denominations who do have a denominational spirit….. he tries to characterize the position of the critics by making it a denominational issue. The problem is, the majority of the worse critics are all coming from non-denominational – charismatic people. A quick tour of Charisma Magazine’s forums will prove enlightening, which incidentailly forced them to shut down the board with all of the anti-Todd posts.”

Sheeple also made the excellent point then:

“if you were helping Todd ” a couple years ago”, wasn’t Todd “aligned” then? The double speak from you people is unreal….The spin that is being offered in Wagner’s defense is that Bentley had to be brought into alignment before correction could be offered. However, due to the fact that Bill Johnson and others had to restore Todd previously due to similar moral issues, wouldn’t Todd already have been in “alignment” even though there was no official corronation?”