The biggest red flag of the "prosperity preachers" is their use of flattery to entice you into feeling good about yourself. Their goal is to get you to focus on all that you can get for yourself rather than loving and pleasing Christ.
When the focus is on how good we are, we are not likely to confess sin, we won't see ourselves as sinful, we will be filled with pride.
It is human nature to love being elevated, whether or not it's true becomes irrelevant.
Christ shows us our sinfulness that we might trust Him for cleansing. The devil works against any cleansing by making his target see themselves as special and worthy of worship.
God's principles are our protection against evil, the devil wants us to be disarmed so that our protection is removed.
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