Rich and Famous Pastors
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K
I live in a house that was made back before indoor plumbing was available, and my dad was the one who ran the plumbing in this house as the bathroom was once a closest to one of the bedrooms. The water comes from a well and there is central air or heat ducts in this house. It has a wood burning furnace and a electric wall heater that my dad also installed, in which my dad had to run the electricity in it to.
If God was to bless me with a lot of money I would continue to live in this house and use the majority of that money for helping others. I would not upgrade to a better house as this one is fine, for there is no need to have big expensive things that are worthless and can not be taken with you in heaven. These things will be burned up in the future !!!
If God was to bless me with a lot of money I would continue to live in this house and use the majority of that money for helping others. I would not upgrade to a better house as this one is fine, for there is no need to have big expensive things that are worthless and can not be taken with you in heaven. These things will be burned up in the future !!!
i love ya to death. Notice the story you used. Jesus didn't take up an offering from the masses.What the Duce is wrong with Him! He could have made a fair piece of change off these poor slobs. After all, He needed the money for His ministry!
Preachers today need to council Him on how He is stopping the blessings from flowing to the folks by not telling them that they need to give money first before God can bless them!
Where am I going wrong here?
Also. No one is saying that rich is sinful. It's how they got their riches by distorting the word of God to bilk the masses, including the poor. Freely they have received and exorbitantly they charge!
Oh, and Willie, you are a real stand up guy. God bless you bro.!
Preachers today need to council Him on how He is stopping the blessings from flowing to the folks by not telling them that they need to give money first before God can bless them!
Where am I going wrong here?
Also. No one is saying that rich is sinful. It's how they got their riches by distorting the word of God to bilk the masses, including the poor. Freely they have received and exorbitantly they charge!
Oh, and Willie, you are a real stand up guy. God bless you bro.!
K
You are comparing apples to oranges here.
Remember what the Lord said about the woman and the rich when tithing in Mark 12:41-44 ???
The rich put in their money, but the woman who had little because of poverty gave everything she had out of love.
Lord Jesus said she gave more then those rich people gave showing it does not matter how many you feed compared to others, it matters where your heart is into doing it.
For the same would be said about us if all we had was $20 dollars and we used all of it to feed a couple others, while a rich man had $20,000 but only used $5,000 to feed others. Then the Lord would say we have given and done more to !!!
S
Kenneth, I think you have a good heart but you also need to closely examine your thinking on this subject. Didn't Judas likewise criticize when the oil was used to anoint Jesus instead of being sold and given to the poor? What did Jesus say? Why didn't Abraham give all his wealth to poor hungry families? Why didn't Joseph as high magistrate just give grain away, instead of using it to make Pharaoh rich?
Could it possibly be that God prospers because he knows what's in men's hearts, he knows that with great wealth, they will also do great good? A man must look at what he is doing now ,with what he has, to see what he will really do with an abundance.
A man can't say," if God made me that wealthy, I would give the majority of it away", unless he is giving away the majority of what he has now. That man says in his heart," I would give but I need all I have now." I tell you that it is that man who truly is serving mammon, for what is his source, what is his supply, what is his God? That man trusts, and relies on his small supply, to provide for his means. If he truly trusted God as his supply, he could give out of his necessity rather than out of his abundance.
Could it possibly be that God prospers because he knows what's in men's hearts, he knows that with great wealth, they will also do great good? A man must look at what he is doing now ,with what he has, to see what he will really do with an abundance.
A man can't say," if God made me that wealthy, I would give the majority of it away", unless he is giving away the majority of what he has now. That man says in his heart," I would give but I need all I have now." I tell you that it is that man who truly is serving mammon, for what is his source, what is his supply, what is his God? That man trusts, and relies on his small supply, to provide for his means. If he truly trusted God as his supply, he could give out of his necessity rather than out of his abundance.
K
Then you are not reading what I said as I said earlier it is not wrong to have money, but it is how you came about getting that money and what you do with it.
Do you really think God would be satisfied with a rich person feeding a few people every month just so they can get a tax break off it, or because they feel obligated, or they think it will get them something for doing this ???
God said He loves a cheerful giver, and that is one who gives expecting nothing in return and also says that giving should not be done out of obligation.
Do you really think God would be satisfied with a rich person feeding a few people every month just so they can get a tax break off it, or because they feel obligated, or they think it will get them something for doing this ???
God said He loves a cheerful giver, and that is one who gives expecting nothing in return and also says that giving should not be done out of obligation.
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True, but they preach everyday about love and compassion. If they practice what they preach, do you think they can afford to buy jets and mansions. Half of the world is starving. And remember, those money they have, came from using the word "God" as a trading item. If they were Bill Gates or Ophrah, fine.
One of the hallmarks of such teachers is that they say something and then pause for the audience to repeat that portion. Then say something else and ask the audience to repeat again. And so forth and so on. It's almost like (or maybe even is) an incantation of some sort.
Last time I checked, not Jesus, John the Baptist, Paul or any of the other apostles treated their audiences as if they were in a motivational seminar.
Last time I checked, not Jesus, John the Baptist, Paul or any of the other apostles treated their audiences as if they were in a motivational seminar.
K
Well you are on the right track a little because I do always do for others and not worry about what myself has.
I trust in God that He will provide it for me when I need it, therefore I do not worry about what I have or don't have.
If a worry starts to arise about having something it is always about having to provide for others, but I know God will take care of those things.
You do realize there is a command in the OT Mosaic laws that 10% of crops were to be left and given to the poor ???
Lord Jesus said do not build up treasures and possessions in this world because they can not be taken with you, the only treasure we are to build up for is in heaven. How do we do this?
By giving the majority of what God has allowed us to have to help others in need, nowhere does the bible say you can keep the majority to yourself. Even when the rich man came to Jesus asking what He needed to do , and stated that he has kept the commandments since his youth, Jesus then told him to go sell everything that he had and give it to the poor.
How many of this rich preachers if told to sell everything they had and give it to the poor would actually do it ????
K
All it takes is a little implanting of the seed to draw one to God.
God then gives the increase to those who continue in the faith of Jesus Christ.
What we must ask is if these rich preachers are giving the truth in the word or if they have been corrupted by money and now teaching apostasy/false teaching. Saying things like if you have faith enough or if you give enough you will be rich are false teachings.
Plus I have watched a number of them on TV, some have been good but some have had some bad teachings in their sermons.
The issue that I see and am trying to point out is to get some of these people who believe everything they say is truth to realize in some cases it is not.
I for one like listening to Perry Stone and I have been seen defending not to place the title of false teacher on all TV preachers, but when it comes to money how they got it and what they do with it from there does determine if they are doing properly by that money.
God then gives the increase to those who continue in the faith of Jesus Christ.
What we must ask is if these rich preachers are giving the truth in the word or if they have been corrupted by money and now teaching apostasy/false teaching. Saying things like if you have faith enough or if you give enough you will be rich are false teachings.
Plus I have watched a number of them on TV, some have been good but some have had some bad teachings in their sermons.
The issue that I see and am trying to point out is to get some of these people who believe everything they say is truth to realize in some cases it is not.
I for one like listening to Perry Stone and I have been seen defending not to place the title of false teacher on all TV preachers, but when it comes to money how they got it and what they do with it from there does determine if they are doing properly by that money.