Chester Hensley

[sako7]

would like to know who this is I know Paul Pinell

[crazyjoe]

Who is the this that you are asking who this is?

[crazyjoe]

Originally Posted by gloryseeker

then I restate my point...you're a nut

You proclaim that you are from the land of fruits and nuts, and both probably apply to you/

[jbigg]

Originally Posted by josh

He definitely had...and lost it.

My dad knew him well. He reached the place where he would enter the church with the lights dimmed, he was dressed in a white robe and a spotlight would follow him all the way to the platform.

Sad, indeed.

That is a lie.

[jbigg]

Originally Posted by stasis

Chester Hensley is a folk legend among some people.

I hear tales of many miraculous things happening during his ministry. I've even heard it said that he was able to move the sun across the sky and direct the wind with his fingers. I guess some people actually believe these things, despite the fact that if the sun moved out of place a decimal of a degree everything on earth would be destroyed, let alone the actual concept that God would give someone the ability to jerk the sun around (or the Earth) just for kicks on a Tuesday afternoon in the park or something. I mean, it sounds like Elisha had nothing on this guy.

I understand that when Chester Hensley died (in a car accident, or of cancer... I've heard two different stories), his congregation placed his casket within a hexagram, aka 'star of david' or 'seal of solomon', and hoped he would rise from the dead. He didn't.

For a while it seems some people regarded him as a kind of Pentecostal or Charismatic super-saint after he died... Like William Branham, I suppose. Everyone thought they inherited his ministry, or had been passed 'the mantle'. In fact, I think some preachers in the SE Texas area still believe they are the 'chosen one'. I never knew the man personally. He may have been a pleasant person, but it sounds like the stories of his ministry have become more and more distorted over time after his death. I mean, I hear all kinds of fantastic tales... gigantic fireballs flying out of baptistries and floating around the auditorium... Thousands of people being miraculously healed of diseases, ditch water miraculously turning into gasoline (instead of wine) to fill an empty fuel tank.

I personally would have liked to see a quadraplegic suddenly grow four new limbs, but I tend to doubt that happened. I mean, God can do anything he wants, but i'll have a healthy skepticism regarding the tales I've heard.

I also heard a person who was a member of Chester's church say that one of the seals of Revelation were opened during one of his church services... The Sixth Seal, I believe. Which is odd, because I thought only the lamb was worthy to open the seals. Perhaps the lamb decided to announce it's opening one night or something... sounds sort of like a grand-opening ceremony where someone cuts a ribbon with a gigantic pair of scissors, only probably with lots of freaky yelling and such.

It's funny how you always hear of such amazing miracles from other people who heard it from someone else who heard it from someone else. EG "Brother so-and-so went on a missionary trip to the Congo and raised someone from the dead!" Not that I don't believe miracles can happen. Obviously God can do anything he wants to do.

I also heard that in his latter days Chester was on a 'Nazarite Fast', and wouldn't shave. Someone named Randy Clark reportedly lambasted him about this quite a bit. Of course, Randy Clark also married a lady who was trinitarian (her name is Renee, they're still married.), and Chester wasn't too big on trinitarians, so he prophesied that this marriage would destroy Randy's 'ministry'. Randy Clark now runs a big charismatic 'ministry' called Triumph Church in Nederland Texas where he tells people that Jesus wants them to get rich and that Christ's disciples were entrepreneurs. It's like Tony Robbins, but with select bible verses, and lots of people dancing around in tutus and swinging from the ceiling on cables and twirling on the platform. Entertainment factor: 10. I understand lots of Pentecostal churches have since started having younger converts dance on their platforms to enticing music, holding two sticks, swinging them around and making the sign of the cross with them. Perhaps this comes from Randy's approach. I hear at one point in his ministry Chester liked to make grand entrances, wearing white robes with spot-lamps shining on him (I thought we were supposed to receive our robes when we die.. you know... 'he who endureth to the end'). Maybe Randy Clark got his inspiration for dramatic performances from the case of Chester's robed entrance.

Then there is the other guy who was (might still be) having church in Chester's old building. Don't know much about him. 'The Ark'. I think the named changed though... might be wrong. All I know is he says another guy named Gary Armagh is his enemy. Gary Armagh was also thought to 'bear the mantle' of Chester Hensley. Gary Armagh ran a church called World Apostolic Revival which is no more. He hooked up with a woman in his congregation and got a divorce. That tends to degrade one's reputation in 'ministry'.

Overall, it seems some people tend to be more interested in sensationalism, signs and wonders than bearing their cross and living for God.

Perhaps Benny Hinn inherited the mantle.

You are crazier than most of the stories you've heard.

[jbigg]

Originally Posted by StMark

So you think all these people are just making all this up ?????

Yes! Most of the stories you hear are blatant lies.

[Falla39]

Eph. 4: 29-32

29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

[stasis]

Originally Posted by jbigg

You are crazier than most of the stories you've heard.

Okay.

[Adrianstanley]

i know it has been a while but if there is any earthly possibilty that i could some how get copies of chester hensleys preachin i would gladly pay for the trouble! oddly enough my mom was one of those ranch hands that often took care of his horse Cheyenne, they said he loved that horse something fierce. However i did want to tweek a few of the details posted as our families were close before his death. Instead of the miracle of moving sun it was actualy what appeared to be a star that moved, in the presence of over 60 other witnesses, how ever when his daughter{ a child hood friend of my mothers at this time} had scarlet fever, she testified that her dady took her up in his arms and they walked out side near the horse corral and he waved his hand over he and a light and heat like the sun shining appeared over her body from under his hand and moving his hand away the light dimmed and her fever was instantly gone. My grandfather was a close friend of his played the piano there at the first church on boston and great grandfather was his barber those that knew the church will remember the barber shop an house across the street from the boston church{which has since fell in dis repair and was set to be torn down after passing thru the hands of several. Though sadly yes after he passed many many became as the branhamite folk< some family} the man who took over the Ark just before he passed is Phillip Volk, and well i wouldnt care to comment much on that, the word tells us on some things it ought not be named once among us, but as it always seems to occure as soon as a man is lifted up and exalted, and glory is taken for our dear savior intentionally or not they always seem to make a exit soon after the exaltation{i.e. branham, allen, etc....} Concerning Randy Clark, we were members there and many former hensley folk went there, and it will cause a good chuckle to know that the young chauffeur in question driving the limo was 9 times out of ten randy clark himself{his regular driver}, which is brother hensleys nephew, his mother and sister hensley are sisters<precious ladies} and the mentioned prophecy was fairly common knowledge since so many heard it, and well yes some of that may well have come to pass, though he is still senior pastor, they no longer stay in the nederland area, however he was a greatly anointed pastor and evangelist at that time at a time of 9 month revival we saw hundreds saved, baptized in Jesus name and filled with the holy ghost{ yes they was still one God back in the 90's} And yes there were body guards, my cousin being one, brother hensley had a lot of folk that well didnt like him and flat out hated him so it was often needful, though from hearing first hand witness testimony, after seeing fire balls, the lights flicker and even candles light along the wall...... i doubt he needed them. Today there is one church that is still going on with the message, that is the truth he did preach and was birthed under his ministry in abbeville la, called light house for jesus, a real fiery bunch, and they still recall some of his prophecies from time to time when one comes to pass or something happens that they remember him talkin about an are pastered by donnie bolden and his wife prophetess anna bolden. Hope this maybe clears up sone crossed wires, here n there. He was certainly a prophet and made a great impact spiritually in my families lives.

[houston]

take a load off annie...