The False Gospel of Kim Clement



On the whole I get surprisingly little negative email here at ApostasyWatch. That is probably because God sends people to this site who have eyes to see and ears to hear the truth about the great apostasy presently under way in the visible church. I know from my own experience that those who are deceived by the false teachers tend to avoid sites like mine that might challenge their most deeply held beliefs.

The vast majority of the negative email I do get, however, is in defense of Kim Clement. I am amazed at the number of people who feel the need to defend this man. My exposure of him seems to offend a great many people.

It is funny (funny sad, not funny ha-ha) that so many of these critical emails sound the same. Almost invariably they start off by saying ‘I don’t know God’s word as well as you do but I feel........……..”.  No kidding! If you knew God’s word you wouldn’t be so easily swayed by an obvious heretic like Clement. Then they go on to use the same old rationalizations that have been used for thousands of years to defend false prophets. With that in mind I would like to lay out the most basic reason for opposing Kim Clement and his ministry.


The first thing I want everyone to understand is that I consider Kim Clement to be a false prophet not because of his lack of prophetic accuracy. He is about as accurate as your average tabloid psychic but that by itself does not make him a false prophet.

Kim Clement is a false prophet because he preaches a false gospel!

Here is a portion of an interview with Clement by Matt Crouch on Praise The Lord (TBN), February 4, 1997. 
 

” The church, with its prophetic mantle can actually win a lot more people to the Lord because of the idea that we are presenting right now, and that is that every one of you were born and formed and sent upon by God for something great. The prophetic makes you aware of something that is already present in you that you've not seen……. Everyone that's born, God has placed something special inside. It's our responsibility as preachers of the New Millennium to bring out the treasure that's already there……….. I'm telling you there's going to be some ignoramuses coming to meetings, into our meetings, the New Millennium church, that's not focusing on the sin and trying to force them to repent and make them afraid because they're going to go to hell, and they're going to discover 'there's a glory, there's a beauty inside of me' that only Christ can bring out by the power of His breath and His resurrection. And that's what way the church is going

Matt Crouch: "Wow. I want to mention real quickly. Wow. You know, that's basically 180 degrees from the way it's been taught


Does this sound like the gospel of Jesus Christ or the gospel of Oprah?

Clement says: every one of you were born and formed and sent upon by God for something great.

But God’s word says:

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Rom 9:21-23

Clement says: The prophetic makes you aware of something that is already present in you that you've not seen……. Everyone that's born, God has placed something special inside.

But God’s word says:

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing:…. Rom 7:18

And:

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jer 17:9

Clement says: ……….. I'm telling you there's going to be some ignoramuses coming to meetings, into our meetings, the New Millennium church, that's not focusing on the sin and trying to force them to repent and make them afraid because they're going to go to hell.

But Jesus said:  

…..The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. Mark 1:15

Jesus sent out the disciples:  

And they went out, and preached that men should repent. Mark 6:12

Jesus further said:

……Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. Luke 24:46-47

How many more would you like?

I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13:3

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out,…Acts 3:19

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness……  Acts 17:30-31


Now tell me, are you going to believe Kim Clement or the word of God? Folks it’s really very simple. Without repentance there can be no salvation. Without salvation sinful man cannot commune with a holy God.

I know some of you will be tempted to give me the “what he really meant” defense. Save your breath. What he really meant is what he really said. Jesus said out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks (Mat 12:34 & Luke 6:45).

Some of you will also claim that while Clement may have “misspoken” we can’t know his heart. Again, I say, save your breath. You do err not knowing the scriptures. We can know his heart because the heart is reflected in the fruit it produces.

For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. Luke 6:43-45

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. Mat 12:33


In fact, it is Clements own words, proceeding from his corrupt heart that condemn him.

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. Mat 12:37

Kim Clements gospel of “something good” within every one is as blatantly false as it can be. It is a gospel that promises life yet requires no repentance and no sacrifice of self. It is the antichrist (in place of Christ) gospel that places the god of self on the throne of the heart. It is a gospel that tickles the ears of this covetous, proud, boastful generation.

Now we can debate Clements alleged prophetic ability until the cows come home but it really doesn’t matter. Even if he was 100% accurate in his prophecies he would still be a false prophet leading people to worship a false Jesus with his false new age gospel.

If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Deut 13:1-3

All you defenders of Clement need to consider this scripture. The Lord himself has sent Kim Clement to test you. He wants to see if you will truly put God and his word first in your life or will you follow the deceptive words of a man. Your defense of this man tells me that many of you are failing the test.

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.  Behold, I have told you before Mat 24:24-25

For a more in depth look at this subject including many more unscriptural statements by Kim Clement see Mike Oppenheimers report at Let Us Reason

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