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Today’s Devotional – July 6th

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Power of Positive Thinking Gospels,

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Part 5:  

“Conservatives”

To read part 1, click here…June 9th (The Power of Positive-Thinking Gospels! Part 1)

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Several nights ago, a very popular evangelist gave a very high-energy presentation, with a very positive message. 

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This extravaganza was filled with short, but uplifting testimonies, a high-energy rock band, attractive women, well-timed jokes, and smoother-than-butter preaching!

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The vast audience seemed mesmerized, yet ecstatic about this uplifting and upbeat message! The night was a huge success!

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Audience hands – cropped & altered – Wikimedia – Universal Public Domain

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A DECADENT SOCIETY

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Yes, those gospels out there which we call, “Name It and Claim It gospels”, or “Prosperity gospels”, are the extreme version of false gospels which seek for earthly prosperity.

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And they are relatively easy to spot by those who are familiar with what the Bible says about earthly Mammon.

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After all, the Bible makes it clear…

…”And having food and raiment

let us be therewith content.

But they that will be rich

fall into temptation and a snare,

and into many foolish and hurtful lusts,

which drown men in destruction and perdition.”

1st Timothy 6:8, 9 (For entire quote click here)

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So, this and other similar passages make perfectly clear that the Christian is to shun much of the opulence and excesses which the people of the world seek after!

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CONSERVATIVE PROSPERITY GOSPELS

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Now, it wouldn’t be so bad to point out the gross avarice of these so-called liberal gospels which believe that “gain is godliness”, if we weren’t every bit as guilty!

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Yes, that’s right, while we are busy looking down our noses at those crazy “gain is godliness gospels”, the accusing finger from Heaven is likewise pointing down at us!

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PEACE AND PROSPERITY!

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For instance, most Christians bring up their children to believe that they must grow up to have a career which pays as much as possible!

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And they pray that God will protect them and provide an abundant life for them and even for their children!

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So how does this mind-set compare to the Bible’s admonition… “And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.”? 1st Timothy 6:8 

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After all, we are not content for our children to merely have food and covering, are we?

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Of course not! We want our children to have a nice blissful and abundant lifestyle!

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Lots of things, nice vacations, entertainment, and all the same accouterments which this secular society enjoys!

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And such erroneous thinking as this comes from listening to what this decadent/opulent/hedonistic society tells us!

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Morning Prayers – Ebenezer Newman – Downard – 1860 – Wikipedia – Public Domain

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A LIFE DEVOTED TO THE GOSPEL

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Instead, we ought to be bringing up our children to become self-supporting evangelists.

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Oh yes, they should be taught a trade and need a very good work ethic!

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But this idea that they must seek after a complicated, demanding career which affords an affluent lifestyle, is not in harmony with the Bible.

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No, but rather, they should be taught that their time and money are the gift from God and are to be used for the furtherance of the Gospel.

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Sacrificial giving of both time and money should become their greatest delight, as they follow the Great Sacrificial Lamb of God!

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WHICH WORLD WILL YOU CHOOSE?

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“No man 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.”

Matthew 6:24, 25

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This above passage was spoken by Jesus, as He taught the multitudes on the Mount.

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But for the most part, this is not what is being taught our children in today’s church-world, neither liberal nor conservative!

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ABOVE PICTURE: The False Prophet – signsofheaven.org – not for commercial uses

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SODOM & GOMORRAH ALL OVER AGAIN!

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It’s no wonder that we’re being enveloped in by Sodom & Gomorrah!

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After all, wasn’t the original sins of Sodom the same opulence which attracted Abraham’s nephew, Lot?

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And after some years of prosperity, Lot and his family found themselves living smack-dab in the middle of Sodom!

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Well, it seems as though we conservative Christians have much in common with Lot.

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It appears as if Sodom is springing up all around us and our children, as it also did to Lot!

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Picture–Lot Escapes Sodom-Genesis3-www.thebiblerevival.com offers free Bible clipart-public domain.

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WHERE ARE WE TO FLEE?

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So, what’s the solution to all this?

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Listen to this little song…

…”Turn your eyes upon Jesus…

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…look full in His wonderful face…

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…and the things of earth will grow strangely dim…

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…in the light of His glory and grace!

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Yes, as we turn our eyes fully upon Jesus and His precious life-giving Words…

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…then all the riches and selfish pleasures of this self-seeking world will begin to lessen their luster and lose their tight grip on us.

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Virtuous Woman with Bible – Braet von Überfeldt – 1866 – Wikipedia – US Public Domain

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Well, the solution to this great dilemma will be further addressed in tomorrow’s devotional

Audience hands – cropped & altered – Wikimedia – Universal Public Domain

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Teach me the correct way to live in this very affluent society. Give me the grace which lays down one’s life on the altar of Christ-like service. Hide me in this apparent day of wrath…

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Revelation 12 Woman & The Narrow Gate Stars (Orion’s Gate to Heaven)”…

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…or you may also read this much shorter article…“MARCH 7 (The Deceitfulness of Riches, Part 1)”

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THE END

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TODAY’S FEATURED SIGN

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HOW THE GATES RELATE TO ORION & DRAGON

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This sketch below is when these constellations are in the eastern sky in early winter (However, this constellation group can even be seen as early as July, in the pre-dawn hours).

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In the eastern sky, it’s not so easily seen which gate the Revelation 12 Woman will enter.

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The Wide Gate is made of the two brightest stars of this Wave of Water Constellation.

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Satan spews out the deadly water of his false worldly ideologies…

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…which many of these ideologies have a form of godliness, but in some way are not in harmony…

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…or perhaps these worldly ideologies add to the Bible, which is strictly forbidden (see Deuteronomy 4:2). 

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On the other hand, the Strait Gate (narrow gate) is composed of the two brightest stars of the Orion The Reaper’s sickle.

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The true Strait Gate represents Jesus, the Word of God.  

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Listen… “I [Jesus] am the door:

by me if any man enter in,

he shall be saved,

and shall go in and out,

and find pasture.”

John 10:9

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Revelation 12 Woman & The Narrow Gate Stars (Orion’s Gate to Heaven)” 

 

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TOMORROW…

“July 7th (Power of Positive Thinking Gospels & Conservative Gospels, Part 2)”

Audience hands – cropped & altered – Wikimedia – Universal Public Domain

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