Urgency for resolve resulted in enflaming the desire. Kenneth Hagin also struggled with money and the snare was laid before him. As Adam choose Eve over God, he also excused her, but God put a curse upon the choice.
Early in his ministry years, Chatfield was struggling financially while trying to serve faithfully. At one point, he couldn’t afford a used T-ball bat for his then-three-year-old son. The moment became a turning point.
Chatfield says…
“As a minister — someone who’s like a bold preacher of the gospel — I’m thinking, who on earth would want to follow my God if I’m saying, ‘God’s going to take care of these areas of your life,’ and the fruit of my life looks like everything but that?”
Proverbs 30:9
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Believers will choose a god that meets their own passions and expectations. They will even draw upon selected scriptures to match their witness as the voice of God. Satan used the scriptures as the voice of God to feed the imagination with promises.
Luke 4:6-7
And the devil said unto him, All this power [witness] will I give thee, and the glory [testimony of honor] of them: for that is delivered unto me [as the god of this world system of thought] ; and to whomsoever I will I give it [find favor] . 7. If thou therefore wilt worship me [use my system], all shall be thine. [Satan urges Jesus to appeal to the aspiration of humans and they will embrace it for their peace]
The god of this world uses the same approach today as he did to Eve 6000 years ago, and it still works.
Each new generation will become his victim. Satan is also the same yesterday, today and NOT forever. His pattern will fade in the flames of the lake of fire.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
1 Kings 18:26
And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
Believers will choose as god that speaks on behalf of their needs.
Exodus 14:24
And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
When believers set their own standards to please God, they provoke Him to anger.
Deuteronomy 9:7
Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord.
The prosperity message excites the imagination. Yes, God can do anything. But He only uses the Record of His Son for faith.
None of the apostles preached prosperity. They pointed to the apostolic priesthood for their faith.
Romans 15:26
For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem. [Paul didn't say, Just claim the promises and declare them]
They didn’t preach 10 steps to healing nor use vices to sow faith.
2 Timothy 4:20
Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
The false church hides their doubt behind declarations and decrees.
Luke 20:46
Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; 47. Which devour widows' houses [demand the tithe or loose their home], and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation. [derision will increase to anger and envy]
Mark 15:10
For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
Embrace the truth and escape the loop of delusion and all those that snared your soul with promises.
2 Peter 2:19
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: [a gospel absent the foundation] for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
Unto the pure all things are pure. Faith is perfect at the true altar of the covenant.
Titus 1:14-16
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.15. Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. 16. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
The gospel of the flesh is preached by the carnal minded in the pulpit. Baal is the gospel of the natural man. For it replaces the covenant of Jesus Christ in the apostolic priesthood with promises of transformation by good works [activity of the moral code and psychology of the heart] and truth is replace with fables [activity of God’s compassion in healing and prayer and used to justify one’s own gospel]. This is how the unconverted believers provoke the Lord.
Hebrews 3:7-9
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,8. Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9. When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. [ a whole generation dies, will this by your testimony also?]
Counterfeit tithe
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