Bishop Darrell Hines and Holiness hypocrisy has reached new levels of outrage. Hines, a holiness preacher, recently had a moment of complete lack of self-awareness while preaching to a church full of people.
It was sad because the audience was captivated and there were 15-20 preachers affirming his struggle theology.
While searching for my Youtube channel, a thumbnail popped up with Bishop Hines’s image on it, referencing something about a prayer over Donald Trump. Several days ago, I wrote about this very issue and produced a Biblicist apologetical video on the subject.
After reading this, I can hear the self-righteous who agree with Hines and his limited theological competence; "Stand on that thang Bishop! God got you." I am asking Bishop to stand on it as well - he has at least the reading correct!
Demanding biblical holiness from any of God's people is never wrong. However, Hines and "holiness" preachers in general must be consistent in their application and if necessary, enforcement of the Law of Moses.
We will get to that in a bit.
I’m going to spend this article addressing the lying spirit evident in this man and how, while he quoted scripture accurately, he judged women unrighteously for several reasons (Prov. 17:15, John 7:24).
For regular readers, you understand that I am a complete believer in judging righteous judgment, although Black preachers often want you to believe that judging others is wrong (Prov. 31:9, John 8:1-11).
The falsity of "we aren't supposed to judge people" has been theologically disembowled on this site many times and I will spend no more time doing so (Matt 7:1-7).
It is interesting that pastors preach a gospel predicated on God judging sin, manifesting its solution in Jesus Christ, and curing the sin problem, yet fail to see the hypocrisy in teaching not to judge (John 3:1-17, Acts 8:18-23).
No matter how educated we as Black folk have become, our hearts are still often as simple as children (Prov. 1:22, Prov. 9:4).
How could we not be when proclaiming ourselves and others as sin sick, and in need of a cure, yet none can receive it without first "judging" themselves in need, which one is forbidden from doing.
This confusion and we know what the Word of God says concerning this (1 Cor. 14:33, Jam. 3:16).
Worse, by merely pointing others, and ourselves to the cure through Jesus Christ, we have judged illness to be present, yet claim judgment as evil (Isa. 5:20, Luke 12:10).
Back to Darrell Hines.
He reminded the audience, specifically women of God, that the Bible says they should not adorn themselves with costly apparel, gold jewelry, and other things that do not befit a woman professing godliness (1 Tim. 2:9-10, 1 Pet. 3:3-4).
Amen, and so be it!
However, when you examine the image of Bishop Hines, you will notice that he himself is adorned with gold jewelry. The Bible says, “O man of God, do you judge another and do the same thing? How can you escape the damnation of God" (Rom. 2:1-3).
Although the Bible clearly teaches women not to do this, it never says that a man should. Even if it were apologetically permissible for a man to be as “jeweled up” while condemning women for the same, Bishop Hines’s theological shortcomings failed to make the case.
Imagine someone who, with their left hand, pointed at you in condemnation for owning a gun and they have one in their right hand!
Also, while he was teaching this Scripture—obviously confused about its meaning and totality—he did what holiness preachers often do: fake speaking in tongues. Basically, they babble nonsense with no interpreter present, which the Bible says edifies only themselves (1 Cor. 14:4).
This was a phony representation of a move of the Holy Spirit because light and darkness cannot dwell in the same place and surely unrighteously judging someone while doing the same is evil (1 John 1:5).
Jesus said, “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad" (Matt. 12:30). Furthermore, since he so evidently misused scripture to his own end the truth was not in him when he preached (Rom. 16:17-18, Titus 1:10-11).
As they always do, the people of God were quasi worshipping, shouting and clapping (Jer. 5:31, 2 Tim. 4:3-4). You could hear the silly screams of Black church women who adore these men, even though they are leading them straight to hell (2 Tim. 3:6-7).
However, it is true that a woman should not wear clothing of a man (Deut. 22:5).
Although the Pentecotal Holiness' contextual application of this text has nothing to do with modern-day pants, that is irrevelant to their orthodoxy.
Hines and the entire holiness movement fail to effectively teach that women can wear dresses all day, every day, yet still not be pleasing to God (Gal. 2:16, Rom. 9:31-32).
Modesty is a lifestyle, not something like the buffet at Golden Corral, where you can pick some forms of modesty while leaving the others.
For example, holiness women are great at wearing dresses yet wear lipstick, makeup, and flashy church dresses, adorned fingernails which, according to the Bible, all are immodest (Ibd).
Just because a dress or skirt comes below the knees does not mean it is modest either!
Furthermore, perhaps holiness preachers can remind our sisters that the Bible also teaches it is a shame for a woman to cut her hair, as well as to come to the house of God with their heads uncovered (1 Cor. 11:1-15).
Anyone who understands the slightest bit about Black church culture knows that Black women cut their hair, and even those who wear hats often have their hair hanging out, which is not permissible, at least not in the cultural context of biblical Hebrew culture (Ibd).
I do not point any of this out to condemn our dear sisters but to reveal that those who lead them should teach the entire truth or keep their mouths shut.
There is no half-stepping in this warfare we partake in (Matt. 12:30, Rev. 3:15-16).
Furthermore, Scripture also tells us that if we offend in one point of the law, we are guilty of violating the entire thing (Gal. 3:10, Jam. 2:10).
How could they not be when:
Preachers condemn women for adorning themselveves immodestly while being so "geared up" themselves?
They teach against women wearing men's clothing yet fail to mention it is a sin to cut their hair as well.
Demanding female wear dresses that are flashy which is at the root of immodest presentation.
Men forbid wearing of makeup (sometimes) yet themselves have their beards shaved and trimmed which the Bible forbids (Lev. 19:27).
Furthermore, a shaved beard and a shaved bald head, just as a woman's shaved head, is a sign of shame and humiliation (Lev. 21:5).
Why do they think a Isaiah propheied that the Messiah's beard would be ripped out to shame Him (Isa. 50:6)?
Hines’s hypocrisy did not end there either. He proclaimed that we, as Christians, only recognize two sexes: male and female (Matt. 19:4, Mark 10:6). While this is true, well, it should be, Black folk do, in fact, support gay marriage and the transgender movement by voting, upwards of 87%, for national Democrat politicians.
So, while Hines further offered, concerning a male and female only belief, he and the black church demonstrate the opposite through both who, and more importantly what they support politically.
Someone claiming the anointing to preach from God declares themselves equipped, through the revelation of the Holy Spirit, to carry out that mission (Eph. 4:11-12, 1 Pet. 4:10). If that is true, it must also be accepted that there are certain doctrines that prevent us from cohabitating with or providing any aid and comfort to the children of Satan (2 Cor. 6:14, Eph. 5:11).
Additionally, the Bible teaches us that if anyone does not bring us the doctrine of Christ, and we say to them, “Godspeed,” or “I am rooting for you to succeed with my vote", we are partakers in the evil that they commit (2 John 1:10-11).
The world frames this as being an accessory to the crime, whether before or after the fact. However, being slick and slithery, the Negro preacher will say, “I just can’t believe you guys. Well, I don’t agree with everything they do, but the totality of the evidence is good.”
So how can we, with a clear conscience, preach that a little leaven spoils the whole lump (1 Cor. 5:6-7). With what measure of integrity can we then stand behind the microphone and proclaim that light and darkness cannot dwell in the same place when national politic is the height of loving the wolrd and the thing in it (Jam. 4:4, 1 John 2:15)?
Have we become so hardened that, without the slightest bit of shame, we can thunder, while claiming Holy Spirit authority, that Jesus said we are either with Him or against Him, and be his enemy (Luke 6:46).
No need to proceed with that line of theological query; the point is made.
I am going to cease deconstructing Bishop Darrell Hines’s nonsense and will withhold comment about the rest of his nonsensical, doctrinally flawed, and incompetent sermon.
One thing that you, God’s people, have to understand is this: if the foundation of any message someone teaches or preaches to you is flawed, nothing built on top of that cracked and flawed foundation will be solid (Matt. 7:24-27, Heb. 12:27).
For example, returning to earlier comments, the Black church and its leadership have made their beds, at least for the last 100 years, with Democrats. For clarity, Republicans are just as wicked so do not misunderstand what I am saying.
However, because pastors foundationally support, vote for, and encourage other to do the same for Democrat politicians who push gay marriage, transgenderism, multiple sexes, by what measure of integrity can the church claim non-supportiveness when their vote literally empowers a politican to exercise evil?
It is like me selling a gun to a known murderer, yet when he uses that gun to take a life, I claim there’s no blood on my hands.
Failing to understand the sheer magnitude of their misplaced theology, these men have not only misled God’s people but also surrendered their authority to speak righteousness to sinners (Matt. 7:5, Matt. 15:8).
So why do holiness preachers like Darrell Hines, the Baptist train wreck Dr. Jamal Bryant, as well as even well-meaning preachers, support these people? The reasons are legion, but I will give you three.
First, as Jamal Bryant let slip, Black church folk believe God is with them and thereby loves them more or, at minimum, favors their political leanings more than white MAGA Christian nationalists.
The Bible teaches something much different (Acts 10:34-35, Rom. 2:11, Jam. 2:1).
Second, they continue to pour old wine into new wineskins with their view of how civil rights should be executed in modernity (Matt. 9:17, Luke 9:62).
As I wrote in another article concerning our community leaders, they cannot conceive that Dr. Martin Luther King carried the message of a prophet but they do not, and thus are trying to imitate the anointing of someone else.
Third, they lack a sufficient level of self-awareness to understand that they do not have to open their mouths and speak on everything (Jer. 23:21, Matt. 15:14).
This is the sin of the black preacher, never knowing when to shut up and let someone more gifted step into spaces out of their anointing and competency (1 Cor. 12:4-13).
For example, I don't teach seminars or Bible Studies on how to raise healthy children because I have none flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone. Furthermore, I do not preach on turning the other cheek because this is not something I am neccesarily skilled with.
In black church world, "passa know the answer to that" and it is highly likely he does not but will lie and obfuscate to cover-up what both they and I know - none are as smart as they believe themselves to be (Prov. 3:7, 1 Cor. 3:18, Rom. 12:16).
As I close, the Bible tells me to give honor to whom honor is due and tribute to whom tribute is due (Rom. 13:7).
As I inch up on 300 articles on this website, nearly half a million words, and this site is just a little over 2 1/2 years old, I have honored preachers who deserve it.
Yet the number of them is small when compared to those whom Paul taught us to rebuke openly (Matt. 18:15-17, 1 Tim. 5:20, Titus 1:13).
With respect to what is written here about Bishop Darrell Hines, please ask the Holy Spirit if it is true or not, and He will reveal it. I don’t mind being theologically challenged, and thank God that my associate ministers are theologically competent.
We often have lively, iron-sharpening-iron debates.
Most of all, I’m hoping someone forwards this article to Hines so that he may become more grounded and thoughtful with respect to discerning between theology and personal philosophical positions.
What is truly devastating to me, as a watchman sent to encourage God’s shepherds, is that 15 or 20 ministers were standing up behind Bishop affirming his theological nonsense.
Why?
One of my ministers put the answer this way: “They don’t care about the beef; the broth is enough for them.”
More plainly, it is the pretense of preaching and not its substance that the Black preacher is beholden to.
May the Lord God of armies help us all.
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