Bishop Keith Butler
"We were sin, and he swapped places for us. He was the righteous Son of God, and he swapped with us his righteousness and took our sin. He swapped with us, and became it for us. We were deserving of going to hell and burning there for all of eternity. He went to hell in our place. For untold agony, Jesus, went through in the bottom of the pit. Hell, itself, paid the penalty that you and I deserve. On that third day, I believe there was party going on in hell. They thought they had him; they thought they had the Holy One. I believe they were all there, taunting Jesus; but then, Jesus in the pit of hell, the Father said, it's enough. The claims of justice has been satisfied."
(Keith Butler, "The Authority of the Name of Jesus," Article C-Faith)
"Now I have to say this about my spiritual father, Kenneth E. Hagin. I have seen people come up against him publicly. I've seen them do it in the media. I've seen them write books. They've done all kind of things. It made me so mad, and I wanted to jump in the fight and take them on for him. But his response is, "No. Go on and preach the gospel. Praise God anyhow. The truth will always come out."
(Keith Butler, "A Pattern to Unbelievers," Article C-Faith)
"This all started with that baby in that manger. Thank God it started, but I'm glad that He did not stay a baby. For something to happen for me and for you, the baby was going to have to grow up. The baby was going to have to give Himself to be beaten and hung on a cross. Then the baby was going to have to allow His spirit to be taken to hell.
This is the part that religious people can't handle. They try to figure this out with their minds. How could Jesus go to hell? Well, that is where you and I are going if we don't receive Him. And if you don't believe hell is real, don't find out by experience. They can believe that you and I can go to hell, but they can't believe Jesus went in our stead.
Let's read Acts 2:
Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
(vv. 26-31)
If His soul was not left in hell, then it must have been in hell. Why did it go to hell? Jesus went there because somebody had to pay the price for our mess-up. That is what that baby is about. It's about a gift.
The gift God gave you was redemption from hell-fire. That is better than getting a BMW. That's better than getting a diamond ring. It is better than anything you can think of. God redeemed you from eternal damnation."
(Keith Butler, "What Christmas Is All About," Article C-Faith)
"It says that Abram was very rich. That is just like God. He doesn't just make you rich. He makes you very rich, and adds no sorrow with it. And if He did it for Abraham, then He did it for you, because Abraham's blessings are yours. You need to say with your mouth, "Abraham's blessings are mine. I am Christ's, and I am Abraham's seed, and an heir according to the promise. I am financially blessed in Jesus' name. The blessing is yours."
(Keith Butler, "The Financial Blessing is Yours," Article C-Faith)
"Healing belongs to you! Jesus paid the price for your healing 2,000 years ago. So, why are so many of God's children sick? If your healing has manifested, how did you lose it? Oftentimes, people who receive healing lose it along the way because of Satan's counter-attacks. If you don't know what to do when the attacks come, the sickness or disease will come back again, perhaps even worse than before. But if you are someone who has received a healing, then seemingly lost it, you're going to get it back, in the name of Jesus. The Holy Ghost is in you. You know the Holy Ghost is God, so your body is literally the church house on earth of the Holy Ghost. It is literally the temple of the Holy Ghost. The Lord shared some insight with me about the body being the temple of the Holy Ghost. Do you think God wants a house that is broken down and not well taken care of? If you allow the body to have significant weight on it that it was not designed to carry, then it will begin to affect the beams of your body, the structure, which are your bones and limbs. At first it may carry it, but eventually it will suffer stress just like a roof. If you don't do anything for your body, if you will not "maintain" it, it will begin to break and tear...Keeping your healing has as much to do with what you do with your body and your faith as opposed to what God does...Today is your day for a miracle. Today is your day for healing. Today is your day for the power to go into your body and drive out whatever Satan has wrought. If Satan tries to bring the symptoms back, you say, "No, I do not receive them. I have been healed of them and I am the healed and not the sick." The healing power of God is available to you as you read these pages. Tap into the healing anointing and receive, by faith, your healing. You're the healed, so act like it in Jesus' name. Glory to God!"
(Keith Butler, "Keeping Your Healing," Article C-Faith)
"Of course, we know that Old Testament was written in the causative verb, and they had no real revelation as to the way things really worked. Today, we know the reason why Job was attacked—he let down the hedge of God's protection, because, in part, of his words spoken. Job said, "The thing which I greatly feared has come upon me." We know that fear activates Satan the same way faith activates God. In Job 1:5, Job is offering sacrifices in fear, not in faith. Some very bad things are about to happen to Job; he's about to lose his children and his money."
(Keith Butler, "Integrity: The Way to God's Best," Article C-Faith)
"Angels are our servants. We could say that angels are, for lack of a better term, "robots." In effect, they have been programmed, and the only thing they can do is what they have been programmed to do. If we push their "on" button, they operate. If we push their "off" button, they stop operating. We can turn that button on, and we can turn that button off. In other words, before we can have the ministry of angels working in our lives, we must first understand what it is that causes angels to be "activated." I use the word "activated" because angels can remain dormant...We can command our angels to minister for us by speaking on the authority of God's word."
(Keith Butler, "How to 'Activate' the Angels," Article C-Faith)
"Does God perform money miracles? Now if you were to go through the Word of God, you would find that Jesus performed, of course, many miracles during His lifetime. We are very familiar with a number of them. But I want you to see that He performed many money miracles, as I like to call them...I was studying this and I saw all the different ways that God blessed people financially. I found out that God has used kings, lepers, fish, waterpots, even estranged family members - somebody said, "now that's a miracle!" As we know, God has used a boy's lunch. God has had them throw nets out on the side. God has had the wicked come and give them something. And God has even had them marry a rich man. Somebody said, "Yeah, glory. That's me. Honey with money cometh, glory to God!"
(Keith Butler, "Jesus Performs Money Miracles," Article C-Faith)
"One time I was on a bereavement visit. This person's spouse had died. I was there ministering to them the Word of God. And it was just like somebody grabbed me and started leading me out the door. It was almost like it was a physical hand—get out this house now. It led me right out the door. When a woman came around the corner into the room, I saw why.
Holy Ghost was getting me out of the house immediately. I got out if that house. But I must have missed it, because I should have sent somebody else that day. The Holy Ghost will lead you where not to go. This is why you have to pray in tongues every day."
(Keith Butler, "Mark of the Mature Man," Article C-Faith)
"As the god of this world, Satan has a legal right to be here until Adam's lease runs out. Adam had been given dominion over this world until a new heaven and a new earth would come into existence. Then Satan took possession of Adam's lease."
(Keith Butler, "Satan's Temptations," Article C-Faith)
"And God wants you to have an extraordinary life - extraordinary spiritual blessing, extraordinary financial blessing, an extraordinary family, and extraordinary whatever you set your hands to do! That is the will of God for you, but if you're going to act like Abram and Sarai did and not have the full revelation of El Shaddai, you'll still be ordinary."
(Keith Butler, "Don't Reason About God's Word And Create an Ishmael," Article C-Faith)
Note: So all of the poor christians around the world are out of the will of God? I think that I will let Voice of the Martyrs know this revelation so that as they minister to our persecuted brethren that they should tell them that they should not be poor.
"Never say that God is doing this to me. Don't use that cop-out. God does not use tests and trials in order to teach. He gives you the Word, and he has the Holy Spirit to reveal to you the Word. He causes ministers to teach, and to preach the Word, to reveal to you revelation of the Word."
(Keith Butler, "Godly Wisdom Just For You - Part 6," Article C-Faith)
