Well I took the time to listen to ALL FIVE ten minute parts.
Basically in the first part he said this
from the first part starting about 1:50 in and following
"simply, the gospel message is the vehicle in which the kingdom comes. The manifestation of God's kingdom is the gospel in action. One of the criticisms of this outpouring has been Todd, are you preaching the gospel? And I know people preaching the gospel, but have no gospel in action. And we've been preaching the gospel in America. But what is the gospel of the kingdom of God? See I believe the gospel of the Kingdom of God is: " The Kingdom of heaven is at hand." There is no gospel without demonstration. It's one and the same. The message, the gospel, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. You can't have the kingdom without the gospel. You can't have the gospel without the Kingdom. The Kingdom of Heaven is the manifestation and demonstration . The King's world showing up in our midst. Say "Hisworld!" audience:"His World" "His world" audience:"his world" Bentley: "the King's domain. Domain of the King. The rule, the reign of the King. Simply put, "the way that it is in heaven." say "the way that it is in heaven."
OK so we still have no idea what this gospel message is that he is supposed to be preaching. Then in parts 2 and 3 he basically reemphasizes what he said (and didn't say) in part 1.
Although he does get a little new agey in part 3 talking about getting in touch with the kingdom of God inside you and 'releasing it' into the world. Of course then he already in part 1 decried similar preachers like Oprah and Eckhardt Tolle and Wayne Dyer and psychics, all the while preaching the same thing they do.
in part 3 toward the end starting around 6:45 and beyond
"but... how many of you can access the presence of God ... from within? Just go ahead and try it. Ready? (closes eyes) 'oh Hi Lord. Thank you Jesus'
[interesting that he is calm and UNTWITCHY when he is supposed to be accessing God's presence... so why all the twitching and rolling on the floor as a manifestation of the presence of God?]
"...the Holy Spirit lives in me. I have the anointing right now. huh. Look at this sickness here. I've defeated you. BAM!' You think when I lay hands on people it's just one of these empty handed boombah? I've learned how to let the spirit that's in me QUICKEN my spirit and I've learned how to let the virtue that's in me come OUT of me and touch your need! Try it. Close your eyes. (closes eyes) whoosh. There he is. Feel the presence of the Lord? Release it... Release it... Release it... Release it... Release it...Release it. Healing is about releasing the virtue that's inside you. Healing is about bringing the Kingdom that's inside you. But you cannot manifest the Kingdom if you're not in tune with the presence of the Lord. And if you can't just stop and shut off your mind and every external distraction... the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in me.
[now there's the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit if I ever heard it.]
"and I'm simply ...in touch. There's resurrection power inside of me."
In part 4 he says something like this (i didn't take the time to transcribe it completely, because I was getting bored with the waiting for the gospel message by this time)
"so my suggestion is that if we really are the church how come I don't see healing everywhere?"
"they went out and preached the gospel and healing everywhere"
""I am going to stay in my mantle and my anointing is evangelism, my anointing is the gospel of the kingdom, and my anointing is healing and healing is a part o the gospel... I know who I am and I know how God has called me and anointed me, and I'm not going to go trying to preach something that God didn't call me to preach"
"It's not everything but it's full gospel"
So he says it's the full gospel, therefore it is? That's like Rick Warren saying the Purpose Driven Life isn't about you! In fact he does tip his hat to seeker sensitive philosophy at the end of segment 1:
he says after quoting or paraphrasing 1 cor 2:2 and v 4 at about 8:45 in:
"my speech and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, nor debates. And the greater the way we present the message. And I'm telling you, I'm not compromising the message by trying to present it in a way that I think that you want to hear it. I'm not trying to debate you, I'm not trying to argue you, I'm telling you there's countries that I go in and there's people right now in America, they go "Where's the signs? Where's the evidence? We've been hearing the message, yes God loves us, and every church in America's preaching the gospel, but WE NEED SOMETHING MORE! What makes Jesus Christ different than any other religion? We're watching the psychics on TV and we're watching the supernatural on the talk shows and Oprah and Montel" and so many people even in the church today are so fascinated by the Criss Angels, and the David Blaines,
[continuing to segment 2]
and all the supposed supernatural that's out there on the reality series...well I am telling you they are pitching the idea to us right now, Holly wood is gonna be here, and they're saying Todd, we want a reality series on the healing ministry, and the revival in Lakeland!
[I say, BRING IT ON!]
I said it's about time that the power of God gets a little attention!
[and here is one example of where I hear echoes of the vocal cadence of Nuremberg]
I'm tired of Oprah, I'm tired of Phil, I'm tired of Montel bringing all their psychics and all their people with these supposed gifts, I'm there "come on! Bring me on your talk show!!" I'll talk about miracles,we'll move in a word of knowledge, we'll move in a gift of (there seems to be an edit and missing words right here) we'll show them real power! I'm tired of counterfeit supernatural, counterfeit signs, false signs, and false Christs, and false wonders. I'm coming in a demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power, we're going back to the Bible! Back to the book of Acts!"
Back to the Bible indeed. Don't forget to leave out 2 Thess 2.
Part 5 is a testimony of how in the middle of his criminal dealings with drugs and arson and whatnot, God or Jesus "appeared" to him while he was looking for drugs, and suddenly after this 'visitation' he knew he was free from drugs and everything. Uh... ok.
Well I don't have a drug problem nor am I a car thief as Bentley says he was, nor an arsonist as he says he was...so how does that help someone like me? And why doesn't he confess to some of these crimes and go pay the restitution he should? That woudl be REAL repentance.
Todd Bentley-7 Signs of the Kingdom-The Authentic Gospel 1/5 is the first part. Follow the links from the youtube user to the other parts.
I simply cannot understand how someone, thinking they are showing us something by presenting this 'answer' to the charge that he does not preach the gospel, can MISS the fact that the GOSPEL IS NOT THERE!
