Benny Hinn: Now, Jesus endured the cross and looked towards the cross by the power of the Holy Ghost….
And here’s something that’s amazing. Paul! He was kept sinless by the Spirit. Because the Bible says He offered himself spotless through the Spirit. Watch this, it’s right here. “How much more shall the blood of Christ who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot.” So had the Holy Ghost not been there, then Jesus would have sinned.
Now I know, some of the, well –

Paul Crouch: The heretic hunters.

Benny Hinn: Some won’t like it, but it’s in the Bible.

Paul Crouch: Yes, it is. I’ve never heard that.

Benny Hinn: The Holy Spirit is the OnewWho kept Christ sinless. Because without the Holy Spirit, Christ would have sinned. And remember something: the devil would not have tempted Him had he thought that Jesus could not sin….

Paul Crouch: He wouldn’t have bothered.

Benny Hinn: Exactly. The devil would not have tempted Christ had Christ –

Jan Crouch: Not been able to sin.

Benny Hinn: Not been able to. In fact, if Jesus could not sin, you and I could not have identified with Him…..

Benny Hinn: He offered himself without spot to God through the eternal Spirit. It’s right there. You can’t argue with it. And anybody that thinks Jesus could not sin, you haven’t read the Bible right, because the Bible says He was tempted in all points.

(Praise The Lord, Trinity Broadcasting Network, April 24, 1998)

I want to tell you why I believe people get sick…In 2 Chronicles 16, verse 10 – and I like to read this – verse 10 and 11 and 12, the Bible says sickness comes when individuals attack preachers.

“Then Asa was wroth with the seer.”

He’s the king, and the seer was God’s servant.

“and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing.”

Because, see, he had prophesied something to him. And now this king named Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.

Now he had been, he persecuted the prophet of God and began to oppress the people.

“And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.”

The reason this man was struck with sickness is because he had been persecuting God’s servant and oppressing the people of God. We see in the Word of God, God declares in His Word, “Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm.” Now that was spoken concerning Israel, yet applies to the body of Christ today, and we must be so careful not to attack men of God even when these men of God are not living right.

(From Praise The Lord, Trinity Broadcasting Network, June 8, 1998.)

Perhaps that explains why Paul had a thorn in his flesh – for criticizing some of the wayward peddlers of the Gospel. It’s worth noting that he takes “touch not mine anointed” out of context, as it referred to physically attacking and killing Saul, not to criticizing him.