Anybody like brownies? I love brownies. A warm brownie with a glass of milk is the ideal dessert. Now imagine that you have a huge, warm, delicous brownie in front of you. Would you eat it? Probably, right? But what if you found out that when the brownies were made that a little poop was added to the mixture. Would anybody want that? I gurantee that nobody would eat it. It is a poopy brownie and the only good place for it is in the garbage. Poopy brownies are being served in to many churches today. It comes in the form of the prosperity gospel. I have nothing but hatred and anger for the prosperity gospel. What the prosperity gospel says that if you tithe, God will bless and give you more money and you will be rich. It teaches "Biblical principles" but centers around money. Most of the leaders of the prosperity gospel are greedy liars that bring reproach upon the name of Christ. I can't stand that people actually preach this lie, and they emphasis it above Christ, the King, who is to blessed forever. The whole ministry is based around money and the leaders of it live lavish lifestyles and most of them get caught stealing the church's money or some other public sin. The prosperity gospel is also being exported from this country into Africa and Asia at alarming rates. It is a false gospel and we need to take a stand against it. Listen to what 1 Timothy 6:3-10 says, If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
The full scope of Biblical revelation clearly shows that God's top priority is not about making us rich and comfortable, but about exalting Christ. So I encourage you to take a stand against the prosperity gospel and the ludicrous claims that it makes. For it is not the true gospel, but a false one.
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