At 1:52, Brown is speaking about Sid Roth, his good friend of forty years, "I haven't watched his shows." This is why Brown is so unbelievable. Either he is not as close as he claims or he most certainly has watched his shows. C'mon. At 1:54:57, Brown says, "I would point to Proverbs 6 that says God hates spreading division among brothers and I've called out discernment ministries for saying things about me that are false, false, false." The problem Dr. Brown has here is that Romans teaches us that division in the body is caused by false teaching, NOT those that call it out. The underlying assumption that anyone who is willing to lie about the fundamental truths and sin in their life must be a brother is ridiculously naïve. The far better barometer would be to examine what they teach - as we are compelled to do by scripture. It is important to realize here that calling out Benny Hinn is not calling out my brother. Brown always starts from the premise that nobody is lying. That being able to spell "Christ" correctly makes one a brother. He also complains about being linked to the NAR but that is not false false false. He may disagree, but the evidence is compelling in that he refuses to correct anyone in the NAR by name.
1:55 - Dr. Brown actually says that he has never in his 40 plus years of ministry said anything that would give substance to the Kat Kerr type of lunacy. Really? Off the top of my head there was Jennifer LeClaire claiming a sneaky squid spirit was stalking her. She correctly was mocked for this, and Brown had her on his radio show to give her cover and allow her to defend it. His defense was the usual, well I can't say it didn't happen. Calling Benny Hinn and Bill Johnson good brothers in the Lord is just as loony as Kat Kerr.
1:56:12 - Dr. Brown says, "I will get more judged in your circles for refusing to denounce the saxophone guy for years as opposed to what do I teach, what do I preach, what's the output of my life in ministry. I think that is unbiblical, unfair and unethical." Well, Dr. Brown can play the victim here, but his comment is absurd. It is wholly biblical to call out false teachers by name. Remember, it is Brown that claims the international spotlight. He is the one claiming to be the voice of moral clarity. He is the one offering his opinions on a plethora of subjects and platforms. Lying about what he has said or did would be unethical or unfair but telling the truth? Hardly. He also keeps trying to make a point most do not make. I do not call Dr. Brown a false teacher. He rarely does any real teaching anymore outside of NAR political stuff. He is a gatekeeper of false teachers for refusing to name them. If a guy claims Jesus stood at the end of his bed playing the saxophone is not enough for you to say "false"; then nothing is. I have always tried to give Brown the benefit of the doubt but that kindness has rarely been returned. In this one discussion he has affirmed Benny Hinn, Joseph Prince, Bill Johnson, Todd White, the Saxophone guy, Charisma News, Kenneth Copeland and I am sure I am forgetting some. Yet somehow the people pointing that out are being unfair.
1:58:33 - Brown on Hinn again, "I think scripture says that a false teacher is unregenerate and I am not prepared to say that about him." As I said up front this would be a recurring defense to avoid naming names. The reality is that scripture does NOT instruct us that we must determine if someone is hell bound to determine their teaching is false. Brown is trying to sound pious because none of us are called to pass final judgment on anyone but the reality is that we are to judge teaching. The Bereans were noble, not usurpers. At 2:01:52, Brown declares that he is just too busy to be expected to do research on false teachers and asks Justin what percentage of his ministry does Jewish outreach. What a bad comparison. We are all called to test everything but nowhere does it universally say that we all must target one demographic with the gospel. Again, if you simply do not have time to do due diligence about who is leading people to hell, maybe you shouldn't call yourself a church leader. Maybe you shouldn't have a national radio program and call yourself a bible answer man. Because people follow you and you are leading them into the waiting arms of Jennifer LeClaire and Benny Hinn!
2:02 - delicious irony Part Two as Brown declares, "If I am going to be judged on my orthodoxy for refusing to call a fine man like Mike Bickle a false teacher then I am going to say you are out of line. You do not know the man. You do not know his fruit. His walk, his life." - Oops, I think we know it now. His fruit was rotten. His teaching was a lie. He was not a fine man but rather a predator. This once again shreds the Brown-Storms tactic of using personal experience to trump doctrine and proof.
2:17:31 - Storms on defending prosperity pimps - claims there are differing degrees and that some are merely preaching with a great emphasis on generosity. C'mon. If someone is preaching generosity there is no one I know that would even call that the prosperity gospel. Storms knows this and is just trying to muddy the waters. Prosperity preachers preach to give them money in exchange for blessings. They lie about tithing, thus yoking believers back to the law according to Galatians. Teaching the universal principle of sowing and reaping is not prosperity.
Interesting at 2:21, Brown says that if he says this person teaches this or that and he categorically rejects it but without saying they are a false teacher, he thinks that should be sufficient. First of all, Brown mostly does not name the names anyway but look at this tortured statement. He admits the person he names is teaching something so abhorrent that he categorically denies it yet in the same breath won't call him false? Why?
At 2:34, I thought Osman's argument here is a bit weak regarding the fact that healing is sovereign but refusing to use the word gift. Brown was right here to call this difference semantics. Then at 2:43, Justin makes strong argument against divine healing but missed a good opportunity to explore Bethel, which would have triggered Brown, who always staunchly defends Bethel. This talk continues about healing, but Justin and Osman missed an opportunity by never getting into the sovereignty of God and how divine healing robs it. Brown actually infers that it takes no faith to pray for God's will but Osman answers correctly that our faith is in God's ability to heal.
