Today’s Devotional – June 23rd (The Natural Man’s Prosperity Gospel Part 1)
By admin On January 29th, 2021.
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Today’s Devotional – June 23rd
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The Natural Man’s Prosperity Gospel
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Part 1
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“…men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth,
supposing that gain is godliness:
from such withdraw thyself.
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
For we brought nothing into this world,
and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
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 6:5-9
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For most of the past 2,000 years, the world just got by.
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Oh yes, there were rich people. But for the most part, if you were born poor, chances are, you would also die poor.
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Of course, there were a few extremely clever and ambitious ones who made it their chief goal in life, to become rich.
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But there were no get-rich gospels blowing in the wind in those days. People knew that they weren’t going to hit the lottery jackpot. People knew that poverty was probably going to be their lot in life.
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Orphanage run by Christians – Jan de Bray – Wikimedia – Public domain
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THE FALSE PROPHET BEAST’S POWER: THE EARTH
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But we are now living in what is known as the “industrial/technological revolution”, as Man began to take the elements of the earth and turn those elements of the earth into goods of various types.
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And so, this was the beginning of the world-wide economy. And the nations began to enjoy a prosperity never before experienced in the post-diluvian world.
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Oh yes, this has been a gradual progression, but it began to sweep through the nations who were struggling to remain faithful to the Gospel which they once enthusiastically embraced during the Reformation.
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ABOVE PICTURE: Satan, The False Prophet who offers a world-loving gospel
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ITCHING-EARS GOSPELS
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Listen to this unnerving prophecy concerning the total apostasy of the churches…
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine”
2nd Timothy 4:3, 4
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This above passage forewarns that a day is coming when the churches will no longer endure sound doctrine!
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Yes, the Dragon knew that by flooding these Christian nations with riches and material wealth, he could put out the holy fire with the complacency and self-satisfied lethargy which so often accompanies earthly prosperity.
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ABOVE PICTURE: Satan, The False Prophet who offers a world-loving gospel
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PROSPERITY-DRIVEN CHURCH-WORLD
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Thus, we have come to a day in which those “get rich” gospels are enjoying tremendous growth around the world!
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And along with the promise of financial freedom, these gospels have brought in the sensual music of the world, and even comedy in the pulpit, and other similar worldly attractions.
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Needless to say, these worldly gospels are attracting the great unwashed masses around the world into their gospel!
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Audience hands – cropped & altered – Wikimedia – Universal Public Domain
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“NATURAL MAN” REJECTS SPIRITUAL NATURE OF BIBLE
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But what’s wrong with financial affluence?
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And where did this prosperity-driven gospel come from?
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Does the Bible promote anything like this?
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Well, listen to this…
“Which things also we speak…comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God…
because they are spiritually discerned.”
2nd Corinthians 2:13, 14
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God has written the Bible in earthly language, to a great extent. Hence, passages concerning prosperity have a spiritual analogy.
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Yes, the Bible is a spiritual book. In other words, when a Christian reads the Bible, the Holy Spirit begins to interpret those earthly objects into spiritual truths.
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ABOVE PICTURE – Adding to or taking from God’s Word, the Bible
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GOD’S DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD!
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The Spirit-filled truth-seeker begins to perceive that the Bible has been written in such a way that it reveals the true motives of the heart. It is a “Two-Edged Sword” which cuts both ways! It will slay a person’s love for this world, or else it will slay his love for Heaven. In other words, you can’t have both worlds. You must choose which world you will live for.
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Listen… “For the word of God is quick, and powerful…
and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Hebrews 4:12
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Here is a very revealing verse which helps us to realize that God’s Word will discover the deepest thoughts and intents of our heart!
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ABOVE PICTURE: soldiers of the cross – armor up! – www.signsofheaven.org
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WHICH WORLD WILL I LIVE FOR?
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Listen… “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
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Oh yes, the Bible speaks quite often of earthly prosperity.
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But it does so, in order to speak of heavenly prosperity.
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This is where the Holy Spirit comes in to translate such earthly types, shadows, and symbols into spiritual truths.
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ABOVE PICTURE: Satan, The False Prophet who offers a world-loving gospel
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GOOD NEWS!
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Now amidst all this doom-n-gloom is some very Good News! Yes, if we find that our heart has been deceived by the deceitfulness of earthly riches, there is time to turn and flee from these things.
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Listen…
“In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold,
which they made each one for himself to worship,
to the moles and to the bats;
To go into the clefts of the ragged rocks,
for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His majesty,
when He arises to shake terribly the earth!”
Isaiah 2:20, 21
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Yes, as this prophecy reveals, there is coming a day in which God’s true worshippers will finally wake up to our peril.
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TO READ PART 2, CLICK HERE…
May 25 (The Natural Man’s Prosperity Gospel, Part 2: “Peace, Prosperity, Health & Family Values”)
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Let me not be deceived by the deceitfulness of riches. Let me keep my eyes fixed on Jesus, and pattern my life after His glorious life…
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “June 9th (The Power of Positive-Thinking Gospels!)” or you can also read… “Revelation 12 Woman & The Narrow Gate Stars (Orion’s Gate to Heaven)”
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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THE ARK IN THE HEAVENS
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So what importance to us is all this information? Well, if a person goes out at night, beginning in April (earlier in southern-most latitudes, and later in northern-most), in the pre-dawn hour, they just might locate the constellation commonly referred to as the Sagittarius Constellation . It is located in the southern sky. (Each night it appears a little earlier, slowly inching westward, through the summer, until it finally disappears below the western horizon in November.)
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At first, it simply appears as two twin birds flying westward. But if you look once again, it just might appear as a long box-like figure, with one star on the right, as you face it, and two stars on the left. The box, of course would be the Ark, and the stars on either side would represent angels, which are sometimes referred to as stars in the Bible (for instance, “the seven stars are the angels…” Revelation 1:20). To the right is a star-chart from Wikipedia, in which the editor of this site has sketched in this Sagittarius Constellation, to show how God created it to appear.
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “The Ark of the Covenant Constellation”
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TOMORROW:
June 24th (The War Nobody Prepared For!)
Satanic Mechanic wants your first-born – Wikimedia – C.C. Share-alike License
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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 STUDY #172 IS PRESENTED BY THE LATE HAROLD CAMPING…
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above picture: Prophet Jeremiah – www.christianimagesource.org – Public Domain
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