This is another false teaching. We believe that to have wealth is evil. If it is evil then why do we keep seeking to make more of it behind God's back? We ask for raises, seek better paying positions, we change jobs because the money is better. Man goes to college to become a professional in something to get a career to earn money.
The Bible says that God owns all of the gold and silver in the earth, so does that make God evil?
It also says the streets are paved with gold in heaven. In my Bible, it tells me that the kingdom of heaven is Within me. The Bible also says that God made Solomon RICH, Abraham RICH, now I ask you... if God means that money is evil then why would He give it to them?
Isn't it more likely that the LOVE..... of the money that causes man to lie, cheat, steal, kill, covet, and hoard for themselves is the Real culpret here?
My Bible has soooo many scriptures that speak of the wealth and prosperity of those who seek God with all their heart that I do not believe all of these men or churches that preach the follower of Christ must be Poor. Jesus came to the poor, not to keep them that way but to teach them a better way of life. To reveal the Father to them through His Word. To raise us up as son's to the KING. Do you know of any kings who have poverty stricken children?
Jesus was rich, yet he became poor for oursakes... do you understand why? Because our Father is not like the world who looks for a fast buck and will sacrafice their self to do the devils bidding to gain it showing unfaithfulness to Christ/The Word of God. He wants to raise us up in integrity, honesty, of quality and worth being good to our word so that He can bless us with true wealth that comes from within first, so that as a good tree it will manifest good things on the outside as well meaning provisions from our Father, not the world who teaches that to get rich you must be dog eat dog which is a clear mark of the beast.
To be led of your flesh is to satisfy yourself not giving a care about who you destroy, hurt or what God thinks of it.
To be led of the Spirit is to not worry about SELF satisfaction but to be unwilling to do anything that opposes God's Word which causes harm to other's and disloyalty to God to gain things in life. Illgotten gains are worthless because the spirit of that man is headed for destruction. It is not the money that is the issue, it is the hold that the soul has given over to the money that is.
God is a blesser and rewards VERY well with everything we can think of in life. But you won't get nothing from the Lord until your heart is right because money can ruin a soul if they have not been brought up on a firm foundation of God's Word to learn that money is not a god, But God is God and all things which you can ever imagine are in His power to give to who so ever shows true love to the Son. For if you have His Word planted firmly in your heart, you have the Father as well and all things are yours. For in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word WAS God, for God and His Word are one and He never changes. We have been brought into the commonwealth of Israel and just as God blessed them for obedience, so does He us.. yet our covenant is even better because we have the Spirit to help us do what is right in the sight of God so that we can live in even greater blessing for we are the Blessed Seed of Abraham in Christ Jesus!
You say you have faith prove it by your works... not physical works.... but stepping out on the promises of God to show that you walk by Faith(without seeing it first) and not by sight(only what you can see with your natural eyes) for faith without works to back it up is dead faith. God says take no thought... then by Faith step out on that promise to show your trust in His Word. He says to seek ye first His kingdom and His way of doing things.... so Do it, step out on that promise of God and begin to walk in the NEWNESS of life taking God at His Word doubting nothing that has proceeded from the mouth of God for it is truer than the news you heard this morning, it is truer than anything you can see with your eyes. In fact the spiritual world is more real than the natural things we can see. Believe God and take Him at His Word.. do not seek wealth for yourself, let God bring that to pass for your obedience to remain faithful to His Christ no matter what it seems you must give up.. for it will return to you multiplied if you just don't let money rule you. Seek to do the will of God, His Word is His will for us to live by and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.....
Matt 6:30-34
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
KJV
We should never fall into a trap of thinking we should love God so that we can gain things, we can not fool God, He knows the heart of all men. He is interested in your internal wealth above all first and foremost and so should we be, for without internal wealth, you will never have true riches.
The Bible says that God owns all of the gold and silver in the earth, so does that make God evil?
It also says the streets are paved with gold in heaven. In my Bible, it tells me that the kingdom of heaven is Within me. The Bible also says that God made Solomon RICH, Abraham RICH, now I ask you... if God means that money is evil then why would He give it to them?
Isn't it more likely that the LOVE..... of the money that causes man to lie, cheat, steal, kill, covet, and hoard for themselves is the Real culpret here?
My Bible has soooo many scriptures that speak of the wealth and prosperity of those who seek God with all their heart that I do not believe all of these men or churches that preach the follower of Christ must be Poor. Jesus came to the poor, not to keep them that way but to teach them a better way of life. To reveal the Father to them through His Word. To raise us up as son's to the KING. Do you know of any kings who have poverty stricken children?
Jesus was rich, yet he became poor for oursakes... do you understand why? Because our Father is not like the world who looks for a fast buck and will sacrafice their self to do the devils bidding to gain it showing unfaithfulness to Christ/The Word of God. He wants to raise us up in integrity, honesty, of quality and worth being good to our word so that He can bless us with true wealth that comes from within first, so that as a good tree it will manifest good things on the outside as well meaning provisions from our Father, not the world who teaches that to get rich you must be dog eat dog which is a clear mark of the beast.
To be led of your flesh is to satisfy yourself not giving a care about who you destroy, hurt or what God thinks of it.
To be led of the Spirit is to not worry about SELF satisfaction but to be unwilling to do anything that opposes God's Word which causes harm to other's and disloyalty to God to gain things in life. Illgotten gains are worthless because the spirit of that man is headed for destruction. It is not the money that is the issue, it is the hold that the soul has given over to the money that is.
God is a blesser and rewards VERY well with everything we can think of in life. But you won't get nothing from the Lord until your heart is right because money can ruin a soul if they have not been brought up on a firm foundation of God's Word to learn that money is not a god, But God is God and all things which you can ever imagine are in His power to give to who so ever shows true love to the Son. For if you have His Word planted firmly in your heart, you have the Father as well and all things are yours. For in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word WAS God, for God and His Word are one and He never changes. We have been brought into the commonwealth of Israel and just as God blessed them for obedience, so does He us.. yet our covenant is even better because we have the Spirit to help us do what is right in the sight of God so that we can live in even greater blessing for we are the Blessed Seed of Abraham in Christ Jesus!
You say you have faith prove it by your works... not physical works.... but stepping out on the promises of God to show that you walk by Faith(without seeing it first) and not by sight(only what you can see with your natural eyes) for faith without works to back it up is dead faith. God says take no thought... then by Faith step out on that promise to show your trust in His Word. He says to seek ye first His kingdom and His way of doing things.... so Do it, step out on that promise of God and begin to walk in the NEWNESS of life taking God at His Word doubting nothing that has proceeded from the mouth of God for it is truer than the news you heard this morning, it is truer than anything you can see with your eyes. In fact the spiritual world is more real than the natural things we can see. Believe God and take Him at His Word.. do not seek wealth for yourself, let God bring that to pass for your obedience to remain faithful to His Christ no matter what it seems you must give up.. for it will return to you multiplied if you just don't let money rule you. Seek to do the will of God, His Word is His will for us to live by and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.....
Matt 6:30-34
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
KJV
We should never fall into a trap of thinking we should love God so that we can gain things, we can not fool God, He knows the heart of all men. He is interested in your internal wealth above all first and foremost and so should we be, for without internal wealth, you will never have true riches.
