"You cannot lose with the stuff I use!"
Posted on 07/31/2009 8:43:59 PM PDT by TBP
That is simply not true. Many people, by applying the principles of prosperity, have done very well. I know this from seeing it happen time and time again.
How big is your cup? If it runneth over too easily, perhaps you need a bigger cup. IOW, God will provide — as much or as little as we are open and ready to receive.
God is more than an ATM machine.
That comment shows that you don’t understand the teachings at all.
I remember watching Rev Ike as a kid, and actually came to admire the show. He may have taken their money so easily but he gave you a good hour of entertainment.
Prosperity Gospel = God wants everyone to be rich. If you’re not, you don’t have enough faith.... and you didn’t give me emough money this week.
The “health, wealth, and prosperity” Gospel is what St. Paul calls the “other gospel,” which is a perversion of the Gospel that Christ proclaimed. If God really did intend all people to be rich, then Jesus was a failure. I guess he didn’t have enough faith.
I like to focus on “What saith the Scriptures?”
“Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousnes delivereth from death.” [Prov.11:4]
“In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.” [Proverts 14:23]
“Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou should go.” [Isaiah 48:17]
“For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul?” [Mark 8:36]
“For bodily exercise profitable little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.” [1 Timothy 4:8]
“Mediate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.” [1 Timothy 4:15]
“This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.” [Titus 3:8]
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof; for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” [2 Timothy 3:16-17]
Jesus Christ told the story of Lazarus and the rich man.
He has to get through that eye of the needle first
Straight out of the Baptist creed he learned as a child.
I recall seeing the Rev. on TeeVee, way back when.
Rather opulent.
Tell that to the poor Christians in Sudan, Ethiopia, Chad, etc. Especially the ones who are enslaved.
"8 Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have become kings—and that without us! How I wish that you really had become kings so that we might be kings with you! 9 For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to men. 10 We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! 11 To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. 12We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; 13when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world."
My mom got a big kick out of this guy. I remember her quoting him “Money is not the root of all evil. The LACK of money is the root of all evil”.
RIP Rev Ike
"You cannot lose with the stuff I use!"
Here's a clip of Flip as Reverend Leroy. I don't know Reverend Ike, but I loved Flip Wilson.
There are some things money can’t buy...and in the end, God does not take MasterCard.
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