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Sanctuary
The
Lusts of this world
by Sister
Yvette of HickTownPress.com
Luke 4 is a great reference
for how the devil tempts us. I want to particularly point out
versus 5-7.
5And the devil, taking him up
into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the
world in a moment of time.
6And the devil said
unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them:
for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7If thou therefore wilt
worship me, all shall be thine.
Just a rewording of the lie
satan told Adam and Eve. This is in essence what these wolves in
sheep’s clothing are saying or should I say Armani Suits, tell
the people sitting in the pews or padded seats with padded seats.
They promise that if you do what they say then all the things of
this world will be yours. They say ‘didn’t the bible say you
shall be the head and not the tail?’ They say ‘the kingdom of
god is at hand’. Which kingdom are they talking about when they
teach people to desire riches?
People have become ignorant
of the devices of satan. They have a hard time believing that
perhaps the person in the pulpit was called by the kingdom of
evil. That God would never allow such a person to preach the word.
They forget that it was Satan who tried to use the word against
Jesus.
In spite of popular belief,
Jesus did not come to earth to live a holy life, suffer for us,
die on the cross, then rose just so we can be rich.
Luke 4:18-19
18The Spirit of the
Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel
to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach
deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19To preach the
acceptable year of the Lord
Many have replaced the real
promises of God with the lusts of their own hearts. These
preachers have willfully chosen to seek after the god of this
world which has given them an insatiable desire for fame, money
and control. I do not argue if some of these people were
called to preach. The problem is that many have done so in the
last 30 years in hopes of gaining fame and fortune.
Jeremiah 6:13
13For from the least of them
even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness;
and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth
falsely.
Covetousness:
Source: WordNet (r) 1.7
covetousness
n 1:
an envious eagerness to possess something
2: extreme
greed for material wealth [syn: avarice,
avariciousness,
cupidity]
3:
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
(personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: avarice,
greed,
rapacity,
avaritia]
Source: Webster's Revised
Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Covetousness n.
1. Strong
desire. [R.]
When workmen strive to do better than well, They do
confound their skill in covetousness. --Shak.
2. A strong or
inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing
some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money;
-- in a bad sense.
Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess
itself of the true end of getting. --Sprat.
Syn: Avarice;
cupidity; eagerness.
Source: Easton's 1897
Bible Dictionary
Covetousness
a strong desire
after the possession of worldly things (Col.
3:5; Eph. 5:5;
Heb. 13:5; 1 Tim. 6:9, 10; Matt. 6:20). It
assumes
sometimes the more aggravated form of avarice, which is
the mark of
cold-hearted worldliness.
Psalm 81:11-13 (King
James Version)
11But my people would
not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12So I gave them up
unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own
counsels.
13Oh that my people had
hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
Do not think for a moment
that these preachers are ignorant of what they do.
These people have willfully
chosen to follow their own hearts God will and has given them over
to their own lusts and desires. Now I am not talking about sexual
sin but the sin of rejecting the word of God because it did not
suit their agenda. I can’t emphasis enough these wolves know
exactly what they are doing. They know goodness well that the
God of the bible does not glorify the rich because they are rich,
and neither does he punish the poor because they are poor.
Generational curses are an entirely different matter and that’s
not what I’m talking about here. Let’s look at Romans 1:20-32.
I particularly want to point out a couple of verses in this
section:
20For the invisible things of
him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and
Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
28And even as they did not
like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a
reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient
They chose to be
deceived the moment they accepted the lies and then repeated them
as fact. The moment they started preaching a gospel I call
‘I’m richer than you are because I give more than you do to
the church’, better known as Word of Faith to those who practice
it but it should probably be called ‘Word of Lying Fakes’
(WOLF). The accepted the lies the moment they believed that the
only way to prove how close you were to God was by how much stuff
(favor) they had. These ‘pastors’ no longer look at people as
souls that need saving, to make disciple not blind sheep. I
don’t know if any of you have noticed but in one of these
churches in this town during the service there is someone going up
and down the aisles looking and you can a hear a clicking. He/she
has a counter in their hand and they are counting the people. The
only purpose is so they can calculate how much money they can
estimate is coming in. I know the local TBN here will not allow
you on their station unless you can prove you have at least 800
members.
The people have failed to ask
God for understanding, that their eyes may be opened to see the
deception so they can flee it.
Revelation 3:18-20 (King
James Version)
14And unto the angel of the
church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the
faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15I know thy works,
that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16So then because thou
art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my
mouth.
17Because thou sayest,
I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and
knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and
blind, and naked:
18I counsel thee to buy
of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white
raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy
nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that
thou mayest see.
19As many as I love, I
rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20Behold, I stand at
the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door,
I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Instead of seeing the falling
preachers as God waking up the body and cleansing the church, most
people think that the devil is doing this to innocent people. Read
Job 1:6-12. That’s a long story alone. There is complacency in
the church that is stealing people’s souls. It is stealing their
ability to rightly judge (discern) right from wrong. I love the
way it is described in Galatians
3:1
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not
obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently
set forth, crucified among you?
It is sad where preachers
will justify people who openly sin, even their own sins. And if
you correct them according the Bible they are quick to say
‘well, god knows my/their heart’. I put god in lowercase
because the god they are speaking of is not the God of the bible.
People have forgotten that which they first learned and turned
away to things that pleased their flesh. Sure every once in a
while the superstar ‘preachers’ will mention about sin, but
they do so in a nod, nod, wink, wink kind of manner. As if to say,
’Who am I to judge?’ Today’s preachers are the new
pharasees and Sadducees of our day.
The Jesus I know says ‘go
and sin no more’:
John
8:11
She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I
condemn thee: go, and sin no more. (There is more time talking
about what Jesus might have written in the dirt than about the
fact that in John 8:11 He told her to sin no more.)
John
5:14
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him,
Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come
unto thee.
Everyone loves to talk about
the blessings of God but no one wants to talk about the curses
that are promised if we willfully (as an individual and as a
nation) choose to disobey and sin. And I’m not talking about
whether or not tithe is required now, which people have elevated
to a requirement for salvation. But Leviticus 26:14-46 is a good
example of the curses that are come upon the people and the
nations who turn their backs. Very few churches dare to preach the
true word of God anymore. No money in it. Instead they preach
about self improvement, how to have your best life now. They
preach about having a fulfilling sex life even to singles and
children. People no longer come to church seeking understanding
and growth. Instead they are told that whatever they desire
as long as they tithe and give offerings before they pay their
bills god will do it for them. They never hear anything that
convicts them of sin. They might as well have Oprah or Tyra as
their ‘preacher’, they spit out the same venom.
1 John 4
1Beloved, believe not
every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because
many false prophets are gone out into the world.
People have taken to acting
like you can’t question the ‘preacher’ or what every title
the person is called. There is nowhere that there is a curse for
questioning. If we never ask questions we never learn.
John
14:26
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will
send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all
things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
People love to use Malachi
3:8-10 as a means of causing an undue burden on the poor. But if
we go back one chapter to Malachi 2: 9Therefore have I also
made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as
ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
Actually the entire book of Malachi is an indictment against the
preachers who have turned away and speak a falsehood.
Just as these preachers have
willfully turned their backs on Jesus so have those who choose to
follow them without question because it satisfies their own flesh.
So while it is easy to just blame the ‘preachers’, if they had
no one who was willing to sacrifice their own salvation for lust
of the flesh they wouldn’t have as much influence as they have
now.
One popular sermon I have
heard is how they twist the story of the woman with the alabaster
jar in Matthew 26:7, Mark 14:3, and Luke 7:37. They use this story
to justify why people should empty out their bank accounts to
‘bless’ the mand of gawd. But the questions I have are; how is
this helping the body of Christ if the money is used to buy new
private Jets? How are the hungry being fed by building a bigger
‘sanctuary’? Why are there now ATM machines in churches that
they now call ‘Automatic Tithing Machines’? Think about it,
Katrina and Rita were the perfect opportunity for these mega
churches to reach out and help. The economy was still ok then in
most of the country; many could have easily paid housing. No, that
was done by the smaller churches with far less resources who were
reaching out. Both Creflo and TD are in real estate. If Creflo can
demand your income tax information before you can be a full
member, it doesn’t take a genius to realize this is not right.
No, instead I hear many of these same preachers who are under
investigation by the government and many others say they are like
Moses leading the people. Perhaps they are.
Moses led the people around a
dry desert for 40 years, many of whom never entered into the
kingdomland. Many of the people never let go of Egypt (the
world). Many have been led to believe they can have Jesus and
their sin too. Many people want to be entertained every
Sunday and if they are not they hunt for other places where they
can get their ‘party’ on. Jesus did not call us so we can have
our ‘Best life yet’ Mr. Olsteen. Jesus did not call us so we
can call ourselves gods with a little g Mr. Grouch, Mr. Hinn and
Mr. Copeland. He called us to equip us for this spiritual war that
we are in and for those who won’t believe that you are going to
continue to be the victim and wonder why you are repeating the
sins of your father and father’s father and so forth. They are
not teaching you how to fight the darkness of this age.
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