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Financial prosperity is the downfall of many, many people. A good portion of them divorce their spouses. They become inveigled with rank materialism. They increasingly push God out of their lives. Children of such people become spoiled and entitled brats.
Smarmy smiling Joel Osteen.
Can’t imagine who he’s talking about - LOL!
It took me a long time to get most of this “prosperity” thinking out of my head. It’s always there to one degree or another, but it is ever shrinking.
The prosperity as described in the bible is all about attitude. It’s how one can be in the joy of the Lord, yet also be in prison.
> I don’t necessarily hate the people preaching it... <
I guess I don’t hate them either. But I come mighty close to hating them. I was flipping channels early one morning and came across the Inspiration Today Camp Meeting show. It’s run by David Cerullo and his sidekick Mike Murdock.
Murdock was saying that the only way G_d will bless you is if you first give up $1000 of your money. And to who? The sick? The poor? No, give it to the Inspiration Today Camp Meeting show.
But then it got worse. Murdock said if you don’t have the $1000, put it on your credit card. Do it now.
That is monstrous! Murdock didn’t tell people who had nothing to read the Gospel, and pray. Instead, he told them to go deeper in debt.
Who are the most prominent prosperity Gospel preachers? I know about the Osteens and Andy Stanley. Who are some other prosperity rockstars?
Prosperity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Cause people to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ; pick up their cross and follow Him, that their name be written in the Book of Life.
Seek ye first the Kingdom of God...
Everyone will have to account for themselves before the Most High some day - do your own duty and leave the rest to God Almighty.
Just my opinion obviously.
P.S. - I am not advocating or defending Osteen or the so-called ‘prosperity Gospel’!
He didn’t really articulate clearly what he hated.
I do not like the prosperty preachers at all but I also do not
feel sorry for the people they scam as it takes very little Bible
reading to see that they are wrong.
Also the prosperity preachers are not much different from the
preachers for hire as they are just more ambitious and think they
are their own boss even though they are working for Satan.
Jesus had something to say about the hirelings which thousands of
churches has.
Some one will make the statement that a man is worthy of his wages
and that is true but a preacher of God is not working for wages he
is giving of himself.
Any one should be able to read about what happened on the day of
Pentecost, believers who wanted to join Christ sold every thing they
had an laid the proceeds down at the apostles feet, these
believers became the church they worked 24 hours a day if needed to do
God’s work.
Yet today any one can become a church member and never have to do
anything they don’t even have to attend church.
I know several preachers who do not take wages and these are the ones
who will preach the truth, many of them lead churches who do not collect
thighes and like Paul they work and support them selves.
Jesus said the preachers for hire will flee when the wolves come, it looks
to me like the wolves have come and you can see by the head lines on f.r.
that the hirlings are fleeing( giving in) because people loves religion
but do not believe in God.
I believe we are now living in judgement day and what I have said I do not say to critisize
because if I get through the straight gate most of you will be there ahead of me.
I’ve heard him talk about his experiences before.
It’s good to hear someone speaking out against this heresy.
Who and what God hates is what counts. Sadly too few actually are taught that there are things that God ‘hates’..... IF a preacher for hire, preaches about ‘wealth’, then one knows where his/her heart is. Climate change taxation is a prosperity ‘gospel’ for some. To be an American, is one of the most blessed ‘possessions’ a human could have inherited... Again, the wolves are out there attempting to destroy that inheritance. Mind you some in the ‘name’ of Jesus, have their charities fed right from our taxpayer treasury.
Almost all prosperity preachers also believe in the heresy of Word of Faith. Basically they believe Jesus’ death on the cross was not sufficient, he first had to go to hell and pay for the sins of mankind through more pain and torment. After three days he was “born again” and raised from the grave. As a result when we are born again we become little gods and can create wealth and health with our own words.