Mark 8:34, “And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” This call to the people to “deny himself, and take up his cross” is not a great marketing tool. However, it leads us down the narrow path that leads to life.
180 degrees away from denying oneself and taking up one’s cross are the many professing to be ambassadors for God who misrepresent His Word. The “name it and claim it” prosperity televangelists are leading thousand down the wide path that leads to destruction. “
WATCH DEMONS WORK - LIVE IN CHURCH!
“Don't believe DEMONS are in the Church? Watch! 2 Cor 11:15; Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”
This video is a montage of telemarketing hustle from April 28, 2013
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Greed has perverted the simplify of the Gospel as prosperity preachers jet around the world and live in multi-million homes again 180 degrees from the servant humility of Jesus. Luke 9:58, “And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.”
Most of the televangelists seem to treat God in a casual way; almost as a genie in a bottle perverting Bible passages to generate income such as Malachi 3:10.
We are warned in 2 Timothy 4:3-4, “3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
A Christian who is a true ambassador of Jesus will have trials. John 15:18-19, “18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.”
As followers of Jesus we are to emulate His behavior, an impossible task but as we do our best our persona is often resented by those of the world. Such resentment often leads to Christians being accused of being intolerance and, taken to extreme; hatred.
Although we now have a POTUS trying to undo years of far-left damage to our country, it is an uphill fight. Our country becomes more sin-filled each day and lawlessness abounds as good is called evil and evil is called good. Our country needs moral preaching not a false prosperity gospel.
What many seem to ignore is that while we may have a loving God we also have a righteous God. Ultimately, all will be judged; some at the Bema Seat judgment and some of the White throne judgment. Philippians 2:10, "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.”
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