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"Prosperity Gospel" Word of Filth Movement

Posted 4 months ago|3 comments|412 views
GOD IS GRADING... ON A CROSS!
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"Word-Faith movement ...philosophy has led its followers to believe that God must obey our commands if we speak the right words with enough faith. It makes man "god" and it makes God our servant who is limited in His activity for us by the words we confess out loud. There is no humility in this doctrine and it goes completely against the letter and the spirit of the Scriptures."
http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-pr...%29

John Piper has in the video posted, as calmly as he could, summed up the false "prosperity gospel" ...John Piper is author of the book Don't Waste Your Life, puts things in eternal perspective, while exposing the harm of the prosperity gospel. The most common argument for pursuing riches is, you can do more with more money... yet it seems our appetites grow along with our possessions, but the greed doesn't stop their, until it consumes every real valuable thing, that aren't things!

We Christians are eager to make disciples, but will they look like the model? We are so eager to have people obey Christ's Words... but in all things? Until we come to grips with the commission we have been given strait from God, how can we expect others to do more? God isn't grading on a curve... HE GRADING ON A CROSS!

John Piper - Why I abominate the prosperity gospel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLRue4nwJ...
UPDATE - 1 month ago
"Don't Waste Your Life" by John Piper
http://dwynrhh6bluza.cloudfront.net/reso...
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4 months ago: "But what does it say? "THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART "-- that is, the word of faith which we are preaching," Romans 10:8

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." Proverbs 18:21

However, prayer is not a blank check. To think of it that way is pride, futility and vanity.

Sickness or healing; Poverty or prosperity; Eternal Death or Eternal life are all tied to our tongues.

Reaping and sowing is a Law of Genesis. It works throughout all areas of our lives whether we choose to acknowledge it or not it. We ignore this law only to our everlasting detriment.

Let God be God and leave the results to Him.


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3 months ago: Half-truths are what make prosperity preachers believable to many. God IS bound by his covenant to us, and anything he promised us he cannot take back. That is a fact due to the fact that God by his very nature cannot tell a lie. Anything that God told mankind is immutable, inarguable, and non-negotiable.

I never read in God's word that we can demand anything other than what was promised us. I do believe, however, that faith plays an important role in prosperity and health. A certain woman was healed, not by Jesus, but by her faith that it would happen. (Mark 10:52)

And we are told that faith can literally move mountains. (Matthew 7:20)
3 months ago: I see the promises of God are incredibly prosperous to us, yet Jesus said that we would be hated because of Him. We need to lay up treasure in Heaven... some just seem to take others for what they can.

"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
Matthew 6:21

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