Teachings Tested by Scripture

"You don't have a god in you. You are one."

"God is a being that stands somewhere around 6'2", 6'3", that weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of a couple of hundred pounds, little better, [and] has a hand span nine inches across."

"He needs you well, he needs you strong and he needs you rich."

"99.9% of all people are good people."

"He had become sin, he was no longer the Son of God. He was sin."

"I started to give on that level so that God would owe me. I put God in debt."

"You need more money. What money can do in your head is bless, it can help, it can build, it can increase."

"I don't think anything I've said has offended someone of a different faith."

"I'm not asking you to give to the church, I'm asking you to invest in your future."

"I am not poor. I am not miserable. I am blessed of God."

"I refuse to accept that I am a sinner."

"Everything that prays to God is a god... I said, everything that prays to God is a god."

"Jesus had a nice house! You don't think Jesus had a nice house? You think he was homeless? ... Jesus had a nice big house! ... Jesus wore designer clothes!"

"I've never had the Lord say, 'I want you to have this, but you can't have it till you get the money.' He always says, 'Go get it, I'll pay for it.'"

"I really believe that if Jesus was physically on the earth today, he wouldn't be riding a donkey. He'd be in an airplane flying all over the world."

"I went to heaven and I saw Jesus. He showed me around. I met Abraham, I met Paul... I was there for five hours."

"He [Jesus] tasted spiritual death for every man. And His spirit and inner man went to Hell in my place."

"He became our sacrifice and died on the cross. He did not die a sinless death. He became sin... He went to hell in our place and gained victory there, triumphing over the enemy."

"God could not interfere in earth's realm without the cooperation of a man... God has the power, but you have the authority. God has the might, but you have the right."

"People ain't worrying about no blood on the cross... you don't want be talking about blood in the boardroom... The good news is not Jesus."

"As a believer, you have a right to make commands in the name of Jesus. Each time you stand on the Word, you are commanding God to a certain extent because it is His Word."

"I am not a sinner. I am a saint. I don't have a sin nature. I have a God nature."

"If you have to repent for something you did, you don't believe who you are."

"The Prophet prophesied to me that I was actually called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and I was called to reach the nations, and God was going to do many miracles through me."

"Christians can have demons inside them. These demons need to be cast out through deliverance ministry."

"De onde a gente tirou a ideia de que precisa batizar para ceiar? ... O batismo é sequencial, isso é bíblico.""Where did we get the idea that you need to be baptized to take communion? ... Baptism is sequential, this is biblical."

"Segredos para o sobrenatural. [Título de seminário e série paga no YouTube onde Ribeiro vende 'segredos' para acessar o poder de Deus]""Secrets to the supernatural. [Title of his paid seminar and YouTube series where Ribeiro sells 'secrets' to accessing God's power]"

"Ainda no hospital, depois do acidente, o próprio Cristo me visitou: trouxe um 'soro espiritual' em uma bandeja de prata e colocou em meu braço. Jamais esquecerei esse momento.""Still in the hospital, after the accident, Christ Himself visited me: He brought a 'spiritual IV drip' on a silver tray and placed it on my arm. I will never forget that moment."

"Reprograme o seu espírito! Você tem o poder de reprogramar a sua vida espiritual.""Reprogram your spirit! You have the power to reprogram your spiritual life."

"Unção sem caráter! [Postado por Ribeiro enquanto joga seu paletó em pessoas que caem no chão em seus cultos filmados para TikTok]""Anointing without character! [Posted by Ribeiro while throwing his jacket at people who fall to the ground during services filmed for TikTok]"

"Autism in some cases is demonic. I have seen it cast out."

"Deliverance is a lifestyle. You need to be constantly casting out demons and staying free."

"Demons can reside in the soul or body of a Christian while the Holy Spirit dwells in their spirit. This is why believers need deliverance."

"Cough it out! Vomit it out! Let it go! The demons are coming out!"

"Jesus didn't reach His potential."

"Your words frame your world. We need to activate our faith talk to activate what's in the unseen realm."

"You are as much the incarnation of God as Jesus Christ was."

"If horses get together, they produce what? Horses. If the Godhead says 'Let Us make man in Our image'... what are they producing? Gods!"

"God is powerless to do anything in this earth except what Christians allow through invoking His Name in prayer."

"Jesus was handling big money. The Bible says that Judas was a thief. If you only have a few bucks, you don't need a treasurer and you don't need a thief."

"I just love to talk about your money. Let me be very clear — I want your money. I deserve it. This church deserves it."

"For you to sit in physical bondage is to deny the power of the gospel... If I said that for you to live from paycheck to paycheck is to deny the power of the gospel, many of you would get angry."

"God is saying you can sow that money for whatever you want... You mean if you need some love you can sow money? Well, that's what it says."

"Do you know — take it all the way back into the Old Testament and the Muslim and you, we actually serve the same God. Allah to a Muslim, to us Abba Father God."

"You see on the cross, Jesus became you, so that you could become Him... He took on your fallibility, your weakness, your vulnerability on the cross, so that you could become Him."

"The world doesn't need more judgmental Christians."

"We have to become comfortable with wealth, and break the bondage, guilt and condemnation of impoverished thinking. Poverty is definitely not God's will for His people."

"Frank would visit my room on the excuse of going to the toilet. This black shadow would come into my room."

"I was paid for my silence."

"Don't analyze it — just let the Holy Spirit do what He wants to do. Just receive it."

"Let it come, Lord! More, Lord! More power! More manifestations!"

"I told God, 'Why is the power not moving?' He said, 'Because you haven't kicked that woman in the face.' The gift of faith came on me. He said, 'Kick her in the face — with your biker boot!' I inched closer and BAM! Just as my boot made contact with her nose, she fell under the power of God."

"I said, 'God, I want revival,' and He said these words to me: 'Leg-drop the pastor!'"

"In walks Emma. The Lord said, 'Here's Emma.' She floated a couple of inches off the floor, emitting brilliant light and colors. She carried bags and began pulling gold out of them, putting gold dust on people. I believe Emma released a financial and prophetic anointing."

"I told the Lord, 'Why can't I just move in healing and forget talking about all that other stuff?' He said, 'Because, Todd, you gotta get the people to believe in the angel.' I said, 'God, why do I want people to believe in the angel, isn't it about getting the people to believe in Jesus?' He said, 'The people already believe in Jesus, but the church doesn't believe in the supernatural.'"

"I'm just the Holy Ghost bartender. I just serve the new wine and tell them to come drink."

"I'd rather be in a church where the devil and the flesh are manifesting than in a church where nothing is happening because people are too afraid to manifest anything. And if the devil manifests, don't worry about that, either. Rejoice, because at least something is happening."

"One night I was preaching on hell, and it just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like, the more they laughed."

"We cursed that thing in the name of Jesus and Zika disappeared."

"I believe there are many paths to Jesus. You don't know how Jesus would reveal Himself to somebody, so I'm not into excluding people."

"You know, I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know... I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity."

"Well, in my mind they are [Christians]. Mitt Romney has said that he believes in Christ as his savior, and that's what I believe, so, you know, I'm not the one to judge the little details of it."

"When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God really. You're doing it for yourself, because that's what makes God happy."

"I don't use it [the word 'sinners']. I do believe that everybody's made mistakes, but I don't focus on that. I focus on the fact that God's got a great plan."

"If you develop an image of victory, success, health, abundance, joy, peace, and happiness, nothing on earth will be able to hold those things from you."

"I am blessed. I am prosperous. I am successful. I am victorious. I am talented. I am creative. I am wise. I am healthy. I am forgiven. I am anointed. I am accepted. I am a child of the Most High God."

"God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball's in your court."