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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. 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…

…look full in His wonderful face…

…and the things of earth will grow strangely dim…

…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, all the riches and selfish pleasures of this self-seeking world will begin to 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)”…

…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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20+ MINUTE AUDIO STUDY IN JEREMIAH 

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ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) ARE ENCOURAGED TO BEGIN FOLLOWING THIS 650+ AUDIO BIBLE STUDY THROUGH THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH EACH DAY ON THIS DAILY DEVOTIONAL.

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This is study #185.

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above picture: Prophet Jeremiah – www.christianimagesource.org – Public Domain 

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