I listened in on Sirius the other day while he was blathering on about listening to God. If you have an unsettled spirit it is God telling you not to do something. OK, I get that.
The he starts talking about how, over a period of several years his dad agreed to buy land from a farmer to expand the church and at the last minute backed out because of this unsettled spirit.
The first time it was because the banknote would have been too high.
The second time they had enough for a good down payment but he was still was unsettled.
The third time the farmer was having a tough time of things and had to sell, lowered the price from $20,000 an acre to $5,000 and acre.
Osteen took that as a reward for being patient and listening to God. Now here is my issue. A good faith offer was made to buy the property twice. At the last minute the church backed out. What happened to letting your yes be a yes? Secondly, does this not reek of the church taking advantage of someone who is down on their luck? All in all it doesn't seem like the Biblical model of doing business with someone.
He is a Pharisee
You are right! The owner of the threshing floor area was willing to give it away but the King insisted on paying full price.
It is also all based on the premise that we get instant rewards in our daily life from God, which rather begs the question of why bad things happen to good people, and why so many Saints were burned at the cross.
But yes, why did God want to punish that farmer? I’d love to ask him that question.
Just a bunch of flim-flam.