The Word of God commands us NOT to labor to be rich. Wealth is a shallow and
wrong priority to have in life. The Bible emphasizes pleasing God with our
lives, not obtaining worldly success, fame and fortune. 1st Timothy 6:10
teaches that the LOVE OF MONEY is the root of all evil. Television and
Hollywood are saturated with naked women who strip down for money. Hollywood
actors who aren't married, kiss, caress and commit adultery on screen for
money. The Bible calls such ill-gotten money “filthy lucre.” People will do
just about anything these days for money. There's nothing sadder than a
person who lives for money.
Proverbs 23:4 is an amazing Scripture... LABOUR NOT TO BE RICH! The most important things in life aren't things. We were born into the world with nothing, and we will die with nothing. 1st Timothy 6:7, “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.” True success has been defined as, not what we take with us when we die; but rather, what we leave behind. There are many ideas of success, but whatever one's idea may be, no person can truly be successful who doesn't live for God. Oprah Winfrey is consider by many to be the most successful woman in the world. Oprah is paid $350,000,000 per year. Yet, Oprah is a Christ-rejecter, bound for hellfire in her sin of unbelief. Money is NOT success. Wealth (mammon) is NOT success. Fame is NOT success. Fortune and pleasures are NOT success. Talent is NOT success. Most people in the world today are completely ignorant of what it means to be successful in God's eyes. True Biblical success is to fear God and keep His Commandments (Ecclesiastes 12:7). One of God's commandments is NOT to work to become wealthy.
Tragically, Christianity, which began as a new birth by faith in the gospel
of Jesus Christ, has deteriorated over the millenniums into all sorts of
other things. In Greece Christianity was turned into a mere philosophy. In
Rome it was turned into a religion. In Europe, Christianity became a
culture. Worst of all, in the United States Christianity was turned into a
lucrative business, ripping off old widows, the afflicted and naive people.
Religion is the biggest racket in the world. Religion is the worst thing
that ever happened to this sin-cursed world. Faith in Jesus as the Christ,
the Son of God, is the way to Heaven (John 20:31), and NOT religion.
Deception, Dishonesty And Disrespect Are Sweeping Across America
When we get down to the point, 1st Timothy 6:10 teaches that the LOVE OF MONEY is the root of all evil. Satan uses fame, pleasure and fortune to recruit his servants. The Devil came to tempt Jesus in Matthew 4:9-10, but the Lord quoted the Scriptures to defeat and drive away the Devil. Satan's old tactics haven't changed. The Devil still comes to people today and offers them wealth, sexual pleasures, power, fame and the good life in exchange for worship and becoming a willing servant of evil. You can see millions of celebrities and successful people flashing the El Diablo satanic hand-sign, signifying their allegiance to the Devil. Let's face it, money is virtually synonymous with evil and wrongdoing.
The Bible tells us to be CONTENT with raiment and clothing (1st Timothy 6:8), having righteousness. Proverbs 16:8, “Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.” Doe to the deliberate economic attack against America by the murderous banking cartel, due to the artificial depression created by the Wall Street gang, due to the deliberate deindustrialization of American jobs by corporate greed... it has become almost impossible to become wealthy honestly. That's why evil people have resorted to opening nightclubs, taverns, gambling casinos and other unethical ways of making money quickly. Deception, dishonesty and disrespect are sweeping across America. There is something wrong with a society that has this frame of mind. Everything advertised on television these days has tons of fine print and disclaimers at the bottom, because it's all dishonest and deception.
Our U.S. President has lied repeatedly about his birth certificate. President Bill Clinton dodged the draft during the Vietnam War. As dishonorable as Clinton is, why did our government dishonorably appoint him to the office of President? It's a shame and moreover, wrong! Why the wave of cheating in our nation? President Obama is known for lying continually. President Barack Obama has been caught in at least 75 lies since he took office. Lies, lies and more lies. The attitude these days is that everybody lies; but that's not true because not everybody lies habitually. Everyone has told a lie. Congress lies about everything, passing laws that they haven't even read. Dishonesty abounds. Jesus said in Matthew 24:12 that the love of many people would wax cold because of abounding iniquity, rampant injustice. Congress, the President and the newsmedia lie about everything. Most people cheat and you can't trust them. People have become unreliable, overcharging others, cheating in business as a way of life.
Most
mechanics will cheat you because you don't understand cars. They'll put a
handful of metal shavings in your drain pan and lie to you, saying that you
need a new transmission. Mechanics will misdiagnose your car and then lie to
you to cover it up, charging you far beyond what it should have cost.
Several stories have appeared in the news in recent years about people who
have commit suicide because of crooked insurance companies that refused to
honor the policy holder's claim. Realtors will charge you property taxes in
the sale of your home that you've already paid. If you catch it they play
dumb, acting like it was an innocent oversight. God sees their wicked heart
and that they tried to cheat you (Proverbs 24:12).
You Cannot Serve God (Right) And Mammon (Wrong)
Dishonesty is everywhere online. Many people are such liars. Dating websites are corrupt and dangerous. Many stalkers lurk online, pretending to be someone else. Television commercials are promoting dozens and dozens of online dating websites. You might meet a man who is really a transvestite. One Georgia woman met a man who had brutally murdered his foster parents in Wisconsin. He was set free at 18 years of age because he had killed his parents as a minor. She had no idea. The guy was cheating on her, lying about everything. Companies are popping up left and right to do background checks on people before you date them. It's getting insane! Perverts, liars, psychos... welcome to America!
You might meet a woman who posted a beautiful photo online that wasn't even her. Some women are desperate to find a perfect man (or woman), even willing to steal someone else's photo, deceiving others. You might meet a woman who said she was 35 and she's really 55. She said she was 120 pounds, but that was 15 years ago... now she's 230 lbs! The internet is saturated with liars, frauds and deceptions.
JC Penny's new catalog is lesbian city! Ron Johnson is a flaming homosexual who came from Apple to be the CEO of JC Penny. Their stock is in the toilet. They deceived America and now their business is failing. JC Penny Goes Homosexual, Portraying Smiling Gay Parents (gay CEO hires DeGeneres). Our nation is becoming so evil. Every Christian should pledge a pledge to them self to be honest, upright and have integrity. I'm not a homosexual and I'm not going to be a part of the problem. I'm going to take a stand as a gentleman against wickedness. I'm not going to disrespect others, but I'm not going to go along to get along either. I'm going to be honest, living in a shack or a tent somewhere, than to lie, cheat and connive. Everyday I pray for God to help me to think right, live right and do right, and thanks be to the Lord Jesus, I can be right through His precious blood that He shed for me.
There
are only a few honest people in this world. Many people have been cheated by
lawyers. Lawyers are thieves, raping clients financially, lying continually
about costs, bilking them out of their life's savings, pushing them to the
brink of suicide. Hell will be filled with judges and lawyers. Jesus even
said, “WOE UNTO YOU, LAWYERS!” (Luke 11:52). Judges are
thieves who work with the lawyers to rob people, cheating them out of their
children, money, home, land and freedom. All judges are lawyers. The love of
money is the ROOT of all evil the Bible says. It's the love of money that
fuels the sexual perversion and suggestiveness on TV, in magazines and
throughout our culture. As the old adage says, “SEX SELLS!”
Every Secret Thing Shall Be Brought Into Judgment
Our day of death and reckoning in eternity is coming. Even our words will be judged (Matthew 12:36). God will hold us accountable for every ill word of sarcasm, slander and gossip toward another person. Gossip is the universal language, spoken by every evil tongue. God hates gossip, for Satan accuses Christians day and night before the throne of God (Revelation 12:10). ...
Ecclesiastes 12:7-14, “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity. And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs. The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth. The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd. And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”
We all have to make a choice between living to make money, or living to please God even if it means being poor and needy all the days of our earthly lives. I've made my choice, long ago, that money will never be an issue, nor even a priority in my life. You can have it all if that's what means so much to you. The opposite of the love of money is generosity.
Proverbs 16:8, “Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.” This is much more than a cute religious phrase in a dusty book called the Bible. My friend, these are the eternal words of our Creator and God. God, Who spoke the universe into existence, says that it's better to have little in life with righteousness, than to be filthy rich WITHOUT RIGHT. Oh, how America today is without right. Television is as immoral as can be. Corporate advertising is as immoral as can be. The word “right” has been perverted so much that people now think abortion, same-sex marriage and evolution are right. ONLY God has the right and authority to say what is right. Man does not have that right, nor authority. If Americans were right with God, there's no way that the U.S. Supreme Court could ever have gotten away with banning the Bible from our nation's classrooms in 1963.
The Godless leaders and lawmakers in America aren't the problem, we are as a society for putting up with their garbage. “We the people” used to mean something, but no longer. “We the puppets” is more like it. We the slaves, land of the cowards! We don't trust in God. The front of our U.S. one dollar bills says “In God We Trust,” but on the reverse it has Masonic symbols and messages proclaiming the secret destiny of America, which is a satanic New World Order. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”
We all have to give account in eternity one day for everything that we say and do. Jesus said in Matthew 12:36 that man will be held accountable even for idle (wasted) words spoken. Proverbs 24:12 says that God knows our very thoughts and monitors them continually, and will judge us accordingly. Psalms 139:1-5 teaches that God watches us continually, knowing when we rise up, and when we lay down, and knows our every thought and words we speak.
Luke 16:13, “No servant can
serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or
else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and
mammon.” The word “mammon” in the Bible means wealth. Money buys
wealth.
Forsake Not The Assembling Of Ourselves Together
Many people misunderstand what the Bible means concerning not forsaking “the assembling of ourselves together.” Hebrews 10:28 plainly mentions despising Moses' law. Hebrews 10:26 plainly mentions “no more sacrifice for sin.” This means that if you reject Jesus as the Christ, then there's NO other way to Heaven. Clearly, the people who FORSOOK the fellowship of other believers did so because they were NOT truly saved to begin with. This Scripture doesn't condemn people who don't attend church services regularly; but rather, those people who fail to stay on the Lord's side. There are many saints around the world who love the Lord Jesus, but they cannot find a decent New Testament Church in their area; they are still on the Lord's side. Hebrews 10:25 warns about forsaking the Lord's side because you were never saved to begin with.
Churches are filled with unbelievers today. As an example, the Unitarian Universalist Church, of which sicko Hollywood Producer Stephen King's daughter is a lesbian minister, 18% of the congregation are professed atheists. Satan does not hang out in taverns and gambling casinos. He owns them hook, line and sinker. Hands down the Devil owns the abortion clinics. Instead, Satan resides in the Church, monitoring what God's children are doing (Revelation 2:13).
Hebrews 10:23-28, Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses.”
Hebrews 10:25, “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” This Scripture refers to people who had previously adopted the philosophy of Christianity, but were never saved to begin with. I was reading an article earlier this week, authored by a man who once attended a Baptist church, but is now an avowed atheist. This man had attended a Baptist Bible college and graduated. It's difficult to understand how a man could flip-flip 100% in his beliefs. Yet, it's not too difficult to grasp if you understand that many people start out with a philosophy instead of a new birth. Christianity is a new birth, the second birth, being born anew by the Spirit of God (John 3:7). Most people have churchianity, but they don't have Christianity. This is what the Bible means by “forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.”
There is only one way to Heaven and that is
through faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ. We read this same truth in Acts
4:12. This is what Paul meant by being “fallen from grace” in Galatians 5:4.
That is, if you reject Jesus as the Christ, as do all Jews who worship in
Judaism, then you are on your way to Hell without hope. There is ONLY one
way to Heaven, and that is through the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ on
Calvary's hill. Jesus died, was buried and then resurrected miraculously
three days later. If you receive that (the gospel) as full payment for your
sins, then you are saved. If not, then you are doomed. There are over
1,600,000,000 Islamic Muslims today who reject Jesus as the Messiah. They
are all hellbound in their sins and unbelief. Allah is a fraud, who
according to the demonic Koran, has no son.
The Sons Of Belial, Satan
Titus 1:11 says that false prophets teach heresy for filthy lucre's sake. That's why Rick Warren teaches The Purpose Driven Life heresy, which has made him filthy rich. 1st Timothy 3:8 commands a pastor not to love filthy lucre. No man the Bible says, NO MAN, can serve wealth and God at the same time. You'll love the one, and hate the other. That's what the Bible says. Most people who live for money are in denial. Few greedy preachers will admit that they are serving mammon. I am 100% against any so-called Bible ministry making tens-of-millions of dollars where the bulk of the money goes into people's pockets. No minister should live high-on-the-hog, exploiting the Lord's work for personal gain. That's why I expose Ken Ham's Answers In Genesis ministry that took in $22,000,000 in 2010 and $19,000,000 the next year.
In the Old Testament, Eli's sons were spoiled and greedy, choosing the best meats out of the pot for themselves, having sex with harlots and shaming the work of God (1st Samuel 2:12-17). The sons of Eli were temple priests who knew not the Lord. “...the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there. ...Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD” (1st Samuel 1:3; 2:12). They were of the Devil, Belial. These were the PRIESTS! Catholic priests are the sons of Satan! Mormons priests are the sons of Satan! Lutheran ministers are the sons of Satan! All false priests are the sons of Satan!
We must all decide as INDIVIDUALS whether we are going to walk upright in the fear of God, or walk in the lusts of the carnal flesh and do our own thing. I choose to fear God and walk upright in the Lord. As Christian believers, the Bible teaches that Christ lives in us. Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” —John 3:16
