Prosperity Preachers are Grifters!

Prosperity preachers are a lot like scammers who run pyramid schemes. They draw people in with flattery, and promises of wealth while the only ones getting rich are the scandalous disreputable charlatans at the top.

Worse than grifters these false church leaders use God's name to manipulate and demoralize those who are looking for quick fixes to life and who are greedy for the gain they did not earn.

The grifters and charlatans are to blame but so are those who fall for their schemes. All anyone has to do is ask God and read His Word, and the truth would be given to them.

James 1:5-6 ". 5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6 But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.…"

Just like the widow in the Bible who gave her last two coins, many people bring hardship on themselves by allowing these grifters to fool them into giving the money to them as though they are buying their way into heaven.

Imagine someone feeling guilty merely because someone else told them they should give, I can't help but think this is a form of co-dependency, in which the giver feels compelled to please those leaders that don't even know their name, nor anything else about them.

If the people who attended the gatherings of the grifters would begin to read their Bibles and ask God for truth they would be delivered from the clutches of these swindlers.

The problem is that grifters say what the people want to hear, the people are doing it to themselves by desiring what the charlatans are peddling. The hearts of the grifters are evil and so are the hearts of those who fall into their trap.

2 Timothy 4:3 "

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they shall heap to themselves teachers in accordance with their own lusts."

My prayer is that in these last days before Christ comes, many will become born-again and fall away from the grifters and their foolishness to begin to enjoy the peace of the Lord that comes from trusting in Him.

Tithing in the Church Age is not Biblical

How many of you have heard all your lives about the widow who gave her last coin as an example of how we should all look at giving.

The story is actually a condemnation of the Pharisees who suckered her into giving all she had when she was poor and would have nothing left.

The widow was trying to buy her way into the kingdom with her last two cents.

Jesus Christ was not praising the widow he was condemning the Pharisees for intimidating her into giving all she had.

In God's word, the old and new testament alike tells the people of God to take care of their widows not take from them.

Tithes were for the poor, the fatherless, and the widows. So why would the Pharisees be allowing her to give her money when they should have been giving her money.

Widows should not be giving their money they should be receiving. from others. Of course, widows who have enough and love the Lord will want to give but no one should expect giving from widows who barely have enough to eat.

Jesus Christ was chastising the Pharisees, it really wasn't about praising the widow for what she did it was more about chastising the Pharisees for taking from her at all.

Does this remind us of the modern-day Pharisees who sinfully beg and intimidate people to give money while parading about the stage in costly attire?

There is no scriptural model of passing a money plate for people to put in their money. There is no such thing as a tithe in the new testament assembly. Each person is to give as they are led by God and they are not to let others know how much they give. The leaders of the church are not to boast about how much money came in.

One more practice in the modern church that flies in the face of the word of God. When I realized this about tithes I no longer worried about whether or not someone else thought I was giving enough, I gave as led by the Holy Spirit and didn't speak of it to others. And, I had no business knowing or caring about how much anyone else gave.

If any church leader comes to your home to chastise you for your giving, my suggestion is to stop giving to them at all, not one more penny goes to a church that is so greedy and controlling that the leaders would defy the word of God because of their greed.

Just saying!!!!