Scriptural Truth Vs. Pulpit Lies

Scriptural Truth vs. Pulpit Lie$ By Patricia Backora

Put Christ on your credit card Go out on a limb for the Lord Be thou a faithful steward Give much more than thou canst afford. The Scriptures are elastic Just stretch God’s truth a bit Whip out that handy plastic Faith always runs a risk. Ignore uneasy feelings within Don’t go against the flow If you’ve got money throw it in It’s time for suckers to sow. Those big bandwagon slogans That make rich preachers richer Are they spun out of emotions Or do they stack up with Scripture?

I WANT MY PIE RIGHT NOW, WITH ICE CREAM PILED ON TOP! How hardly shall they that have riches enter the kingdom of God (Mark 10:23). But woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received your consolation (Luke 6:24). IF THE MAFIA CAN HAVE A CADILLAC, WHY CAN’T I? Why can’t you have your own protection racket too? Who are your role models anyway? Having food and raiment (clothes) let us be therewith content (I Tim.6:8). IF YOU WANT TO GIT BLESSED, DON’T EAT YOUR SEED, SOW IT TO MEET OUR MINISTRY’S NEED! Isaiah 65:22: They shall not build, and another (someone else) inhabit; they shall not plant, and another (someone else) eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people; and mine elect (chosen ones) shall long enjoy the work of their hands. GOD HAS NATURAL LAWS OF SOWING AND REAPING. IF YOU WANT CORN, PLANT CORN SEED. IF YOU WANT TO REAP MONEY, PLANT SOME MONEY SEED. If you want corn to pop up on your property, wouldn’t you sow corn seed on your OWN land? So whose yard do you think your lettuce will sprout up in? IF YOU DON’T PAY YOUR TITHE, GOD WON’T REBUKE THE DEVOURER. Isaiah 65:23: They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them (No mention of tithing here). TITHE TO THE SPIRITUAL LEVITES WHO FEED YOU! New Covenant tithing is a grave dispensational error. Laws meant for the Nation of Israel have been transplanted into the Church, and greedy churchmen have rewritten the tithing law to profiteer from it. I’ll go into detail to show what a tangled mess modern tithing is. 1. Jesus called tithing “a matter of the Law” (Matt.23:23). Tithing was part of the Law of Moses, as you’ll discover at the end of Leviticus 27:30-34. Nowhere in that passage is money listed as a tithable commodity. We Christians are NOT under the Law of Moses anyway (Rom.6:14; Gal.3:24-25;5:18;). Galatians 5:4 teaches that when you go back under the Law, you fall from grace (risk losing your salvation).

2. BUT ABRAHAM TITHED BEFORE THE LAW, SO THAT MEANS YOU HAVE TO TOO! This desperate plea keeps the cash flowing. In Genesis Chapter 14, you’ll discover several things about Abraham’s tithe that no dishonest preacher EVER brings up: a. Abraham’s tithe was taken from the spoils of a war fought to rescue his nephew Lot from the Kings of the Plain, who had raided Sodom and stolen its goods and citizens. Abraham’s tithe “of all” (Gen. 14:20) did NOT include a tithe of his personal estate or income. Hebrews 7:4 confirms that key point: Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils (Gr. akrothinion, best of the booty). b. Verse 14 tells us the SOURCE OF Abraham’s tithe, the very FIRST mention of tithing in Scripture: degenerate Sodom and Gomorrah. If the preacher wants you to imitate Abraham’s tithe, why not rescue goods stolen from a cathouse and present them to the preacher? c. Nowhere does it state that Abraham ever tithes again, or instructs his descendants to tithe on their income. d. Abraham also practiced circumcision, animal sacrifice, and, polygamy (see Gen.21:4;22:13;25:6). Should we also follow Abraham’s example in these things? 3. GOD WON’T BLESS YOU UNLESS YOU TITHE! HE’LL SICK THE CURSE OF MALACHI ON YOU! Whoa, there! Who was the Book of Malachi addressed to in the first place? Malachi 3:3 (Just five verses before the famous tithing passage) And he (God) shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall purify THE SONS OF LEVI, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Why should God all of a sudden shift His focus to ordinary pew-warmers? Lower-ranking Levites were responsible to bring in the best ten per cent of the tithes they themselves received from the people, and give them to the priestly family of Aaron (Num.18:25-28). The sons of Levi had failed to keep meat (food, not money) in God’s House (Mal.3:810). It was job of the LEVITES to transport the tithe of the tithe into the provision storehouses of the Temple after farmers and herdsmen of Israel had delivered to them ten per cent of Israel’s agricultural output. Ordinary Israelites were not permitted to come anywhere near the Tabernacle or its furnishings, on pain of death (Numbers 18:22). II Samuel 6:6-8 relates how Uzzah, a Levite, touched the Ark and died instantly. Today, preachers STILL play with fire when they tamper with God’s Word to profit from it!

If ordinary Israelites weren’t even allowed to come near the Old Testament dwelling place of God’s Presence, how on earth could they be the ones responsible for “bringing all the tithes into the House of the Lord”, or get cursed for failure to do something which wasn’t even their job? Tithing enforces an unscriptural clergy-laity distinction in the Body of Christ, and robs the New Testament believer of his position in Christ. There WAS a clergy-laity division under the Old Covenant, but that was caused by sin. God had originally planned that all Israel should be priests unto Him (Exodus 19:5-6). But a few chapters later they threw a wild party around a golden calf, committing fornication and gross idolatry (Exodus Chapter 32). As punishment, the Israelites lost their national priesthood, and after that God chose Levi exclusively to serve as Israel’s priests and Tabernacle caretakers. God even separated this tribe unto Himself from the rest of the children of Israel (Numbers 8:14). Whenever some religious person decided to improve on God’s way of doing things, what was the result? Leviticus 10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, WHICH HE COMMANDED THEM NOT. VERSE 2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. In Numbers chapter 16 God destroys a group of lower-ranking Levites who dare to challenge Aaron for the top job of High Priest. They end up getting swallowed up alive into hell (verses 30-33). In verse 35 the Lord rains fire on imposters who dared to offer up unauthorized incense. In verse 40 God clearly says that nobody who is not descended from Aaron is permitted to draw near to offer incense unto Him. The ordinary people COULD NOT have taken tithes into the Temple storehouses either! The real miracle is not that most people don’t become millionaires from tithing, but that modern preachers aren’t immediately judged by God for twisting His Word for sordid gain! Modern preachers boast of being spiritual Levites, but they could set their sights higher. Not all members of the Tribe of Levi belonged to the priesthood. In Numbers Chapter 17 God confirms that He has chosen the line of Aaron out of all the Tribe of Levi to perform the office of the

priesthood. All other families of Levi must share their tithes with them. But Aaron’s family did NOT tithe. Nehemiah 10:38: And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, WHEN THE LEVITES TAKE TITHES: AND THE LEVITES SHALL BRING UP THE TITHE OF THE TITHES INTO THE HOUSE OF OUR GOD, TO THE CHAMBERS, UNTO THE TREASURE HOUSE (Heb. owtsar, storehouse, or garner).****Notice, it was the LEVITES, not the other tribes of Israel, who brought in that particular tithe that went into the Temple storehouse. If preachers are so anxious to claim the office of “spiritual Levites”, which Levites do they mean? The priestly line of Aaron, or the lowerranking Levites held guilty by God of failing to bring food into the storehouse of God, to supply the needs of officiating priests working their assigned shifts in the Temple? What is the REAL curse of Malachi, and who exactly is it aimed at? The fisherman? The potter? The sandalmaker? The widow with barely two mites to scrape together? Malachi 2:1 And now, O YE PRIESTS, this commandment is for YOU. VERSE 2 If ye will not hear, and ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of Hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. Continue reading to the end of verse 9 in this passage, and you will see that God is rebuking the Levites, not the people. God is here concerned with the gross sins of Levi (verse 4) with whom he had a special covenant. It is the priests who have caused all Israel to stumble, not the ordinary Israelite! Under the New Covenant, the entire Body of Christ is part of God’s priesthood of all believers (I Pet.2:5,9; Rev.5:10). The Old Covenant priesthood did not pay any tithes. No one would have dared threaten those priests with the loss of God’s favor for failure to pay unscriptural money tithes, either! Tithing is a denial of your personal priesthood in Christ. Far from being an act of faith, it is a shameful token of surrender to men who dare to place themselves in the position of Christ Jesus, the only High Priest of the New Covenant. Tithing places you back under the curse of the law, because if you pledge to keep one part of the Law, you must keep it ALL! (Gal.3:10). Besides, if you had lived under the Old Covenant and tried to pay your tithe with a fifty-dollar bill, it would

have been counted as sin because tithes on salaries and wages were never commanded. And what about the third-year tithes for widows and orphans (Deut.14:28-29)? Not to mention regular animal sacrifices, drink offerings, and periodic pigeon offerings for women. Why haven’t these laws also been transferred over to our dispensation of grace by greedy preachers? Maybe they figure a pigeon could be caught free of charge. So they wouldn’t make money off pigeon offerings anyway, ha! Seminary-trained preachers KNOW they’re pulling your leg with lies and resorting to emotional bullying to enforce an illegitimate tithe under false pretences. The Body of Christ is being violated both financially and spiritually by these charlatans! IF YOU DON’T GIVE TILL IT HURTS, GOD WON’T HEAR OR ANSWER YOUR PRAYERS. Isaiah 65:24: And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. No mention in those verses about having to pay the preacher first! GIVE TILL IT HURTS. Hurts who? I guarantee, if it was the preacher who felt the pain, he’d sing a different tune. It’s easy to be generous with other people’s pain. THE GREATER THE SACRIFICE THE GREATER THE BLESSING. But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless (Matt.12:7). GOD’S DONE ALL HE’S GOING TO DO ABOUT THE DEVIL TILL JESUS COMES BACK, SO IT’S UP TO YOU. SATAN IS AFRAID OF WHAT YOU’RE ABOUT TO DO! GET THOSE CHECKBOOKS OUT NOW AND MAKE A SPECIAL DEFEAT THE DEVIL DONATION! Romans 16:20: And the God of peace shall bruise satan under your feet shortly (no mention of money). If Jesus’ victory on Calvary isn’t enough to scare the devil, I doubt a few dollars will do the trick. IT’S TIME TO PUT GOD TO THE TEST. Thou shalt not tempt (put to the test) the Lord thy God (Matt.4:7). MAKE A VOW OF FAITH RIGHT NOW! Better it is that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay (Eccl.5:5).

Matthew 5:33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear (perjure) thyself; but shall perform unto the Lord thine oaths (vows). VERSE 34 But I say unto you, Swear (vow) not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne: VERSE 35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. VERSE 36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head; for thou canst not make one hair white or black. VERSE 37 But let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay, nay; for WHATSOEVER IS MORE THAN THESE COMETH OF EVIL. When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee, and it would be a sin in thee (Deut.23:21). Notice, God places responsibility for fulfilling the vow on YOU, not on the preacher who conned you into making it! And if you don’t pay it, God will count that broken vow as a SIN! If you’ve fallen into this trap, there’s still hope. In Matthew 6:12 Jesus taught His disciples to pray: Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. God is able and willing to wipe your slate clean and give you the grace not to fall into the same trap again! In Deuteronomy 23:22 God clearly states it is NOT a sin to forbear (refrain from) making a vow. God does NOT say forbearing to make a vow is a sign of weak faith! DON’T MISS THE STIRRING OF THE WATERS! THIS ANOINTING WILL SOON PASS, SO SOW A SEED FOR THAT MIRACLE YOU NEED FROM THE LORD! DON’T LET THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF ANOINTING EXPIRE BEFORE YOU GET DELIVERED OUT OF YOUR PROBLEM! WHIP OUT THAT CHECKBOOK RIGHT NOW! Psalms 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble (no expiration date on this ancient coupon!). And as for missing the stirring of the H2O, who did Jesus heal? The one who plunged into the Pool of Siloam first, or the man who never reached the water? (see John 5:2-9). BORROW THE RENT MONEY IF YOU MUST! GOD WILL GIVE IT BACK IN PLENTY OF TIME, AND YOU WILL HAVE EXTRA TO MEET OTHER NEEDS. That pushy preacher just might persuade you to ignore God’s inner caution that this guy might be a con artist. But hey, look at it this

way: Even if you send the preacher money for yet another mansion and God decides not to meet the preacher’s deadline, there’s always a park bench to crash on. The Apostle Paul was a renter (Acts 28:30). If you really believe Paul taught the saints to live responsibly, do you think Paul would have played Russian Roulette with HIS rent money to help televangelists purchase more Porsches and pink wigs? Besides, what if that old Scrooge landlord won’t give your seed extra time to sprout up, even when you plead with him that you mailed off his rent money for “the Lord’s” work? What if you don’t know how pitch a tent, and the only showers of blessing you get soak your sleeping bag? Do you think Brother Bigwig on TV would let you borrow one of his twelve mansions if you didn’t get your big windfall in time? Don’t bank on it! BORROW ON YOUR CREDIT CARD IF YOU MUST, BUT DON’T MISS OUT ON YOUR MIRACLE! The borrower is servant (slave) to the lender (Prov.22:7b). God’s people have been set free by the Cross of Christ. What does a vow do to your soul? Numbers 30:4: And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath BOUND HER SOUL….(you can read the entire passage yourself). Where will that rich preacher be when the wolf comes baying at your door, or some collection agency pesters you on the phone which is about to be cut off? Why, the preacher won’t worry about your bills. He’s out spending your money! Talk about letting others use you! Brother Judas Jet Chariot doesn’t mind selling you into slavery (to a debt collection agency) and chaining you to a vow to finance his flights to Fantasy Land! No sweat off his back if you risk the judgment of God by putting yourself back under the curse of broken law! But hey, isn’t an extra horse ranch or pleasure jet worth selling God’s children back into bondage to satan? POUR ON MORE GUILT BY ABUSING GOD’S FREE GIFT FOR SELFISH GAIN!!!! This abomination has no equal! The lowest of the low resort to this! Judas would roll over in his grave!

GOD GAVE HIS VERY BEST AT CALVARY, SO IF YOU DON’T GIVE YOUR BEST (MONEY, WHAT ELSE?) YOU DON’T LOVE JESUS VERY MUCH. SO IF YOU AREN’T “PLANTING SEED”, DON’T GO CRYING TO GOD WHEN YOU GET SICK OR GET FIRED. YOU’VE GOT NO RIGHT TO GRIPE IF THINGS DON’T GO YOUR WAY! SERVES YOU RIGHT, YOU GREEDY GOD-ROBBER! IF YOU TRULY WERE THANKFUL FOR JESUS’ DEATH ON THE CROSS, YOU’D GIVE TILL IT HURTS. I Pet.1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain (worthless) conversation (way of life) received by tradition from your fathers; VERSE 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. No mention of having to shell out cash to get redemption, or to keep it! Paul said: I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel (Acts 20:33). . DON’T MISS GOD’S TIMING! WHAT THOU DOEST, DO QUICKLY! Who did Jesus tell to act quickly? Judas, the crumb who betrayed Jesus and sold Him for 30 pieces of silver (John 13:27). Today’s televangelists sell Jesus for a whole lot more. Even Christ’s blood Atonement is being used to shame people into emptying their wallets, making crazy vows and getting into debt!

THE NAME-IT-AND-CLAIM-IT- AND BLAB-IT-AND-GRAB-IT CRAP GAME Which has you chant endless “faith confessions” like a broken record zombie Luke 12:15 Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. But when ye pray, VAIN use not vain retitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. JUST BELIEVE AND YOU’LL RECEIVE The devils also believe, and tremble (James 2:19b). Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts (James 4:3). I actually saw some rich preacher do this: WHAT YOU CONFESS IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM TAKES TIME TO BE MANIFESTED OUTWARDLY. THERE IS ALWAYS TRAVAIL BEFORE BIRTH. SO ACT OUT YOUR FAITH! GRAB YOUR STOMACH AND GROAN

IN THE EXPECTATION OF CHILDBIRTH. COMMAND THAT MONEY YOU VISUALIZE BY FAITH TO BE BIRTHED INTO THE VISIBLE REALM. Sounds like the preacher is scraping the bottom of his bag of tricks. If his private jet crash-landed out in the middle of nowhere and he got hungry, what would he do? Would he count his contractions and shout: Hamburgers, come out into the visible realm and feed me! How would your Travailing Salvation Showman bring forth his newborn burgers? Would he need an obstetrician to deliver his sack of Big Macs? Would he need a C section, like Arnold Schwarzenegger had in Mr. Mom?

Here’s one for all those worldly windbags scaring tithes out of God’s people: Isaiah 26:18: We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought (done) any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. DON’T YOU DARE ENTER GOD’S HOLY PRESENCE WITHOUT AN OFFERING BECAUSE HE CHARGES ADMISSION TO OUR BARNUM & BAILEY SHOW! Saints, we’re ALREADY in God’s Presence! Believers are joined to Christ as ONE SPIRIT (I Cor.6:17). How much closer to God do you think you can get than that? Does God move out if we fail to pay our “tithe rent” to some flashy preacher on TV, an imposter whose denim

Levi’s can claim more kinship to Levi than he can! Christ dwells in our hearts BY FAITH (Eph.3:17), and our body IS the Temple of the Living God (II Cor.6:16). How do you tithe to God’s New Covenant Temple? Swallow a fifty-dollar bill? Hebrews 5:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession (no mention of paying admission to the deacon). VERSE 16 Let us therefore come BOLDLY unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Greedy preachers dare to make the One Way into God’s Presence a toll road! Shame on them! What greater spiritual sin against the Body of Christ can they commit! AS OUR LOVE GIFT TO YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION OF $2000 OR MORE, WE’LL SEND YOU A PRECIOUS HEIRLOOM YOU CAN KEEP FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO CHERISH AS A PERPETUAL TESTIMONY TO YOUR FAITH. SPECIALLY MINTED OF 24K GOLD, THIS VICTOR’S MEDALLION OF FAITH IS EMBOSSED WITH PURE SILVER, A PERPETUAL REMINDER OF YOUR TRIED AND TRUE FAITH. ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER OF THESE VICTOR’S MEDALLIONS WILL BE MINTED (Thank heavens!). REMEMBER THE WIDOW WHO SACRIFICED HER ALL TO MEET GOD’S NEED!

Funny how the minimum acceptable contribution, the widow’s mite, keeps on getting bigger and bigger. That’s just inflation, I guess. I wonder where these “precious heirlooms” of “purest gold” are churned out, and how much the third-world slaves who make them get paid? Are they “heroes of faith” too? And what about boasting in our own good works? Isn’t showing off a “precious heirloom” you got for pampering the preacher a form of boasting? I don’t think God approves of us boasting of works performed to earn His favor (Eph.2:9). And aren’t we supposed to have our eye on a HEAVENLY reward, instead of a corruptible one (I Cor.9:25)? As for God needing our cash, that sounds a bit fishy. I was under the impression that the streets of Glory were solid gold (Rev.21:21). What about God’s big cattle spreads? (Psalms 50:10). The poorest “faith partners” can’t even afford to feed a cat. And in verse 12, didn’t God plainly say that if He were hungry, He wouldn’t even tell us,

because everything ALREADY belongs to Him? God can rustle up a Tbone steak anytime He feels like it! DON’T QUESTION “THE LORD”, JUST LOSE YOURSELF IN THE BLESSING STREAM. I doubt the Lord of heaven is behind all the craziness happening in meetings where victory videos replace the written Word of God . More likely, it’s the poodle-permed lord of the loot who is raining down the gold dust and angel feathers. Prove (test) all things. Hold fast to that which is good (I Thes.5:21). The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophets (I Cor.14:32). VERSE 33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. JUST KEEP ON SINGING, SAINTS, TILL GOD’S POWER COMES DOWN! Is God so tone deaf He didn’t get the message the FIRST time you sang that silly song that insults your intelligence and makes you jump like a jack rabbit? Even the Moonies chant over and over to get in the swing of things.

Singing to soften hearts is just another form of fleshly self-effort, though it seems oh, so spiritual. I’ve been in services where the crowd psychs itself up into happy-clappy hysteria, singing the same overemotional, spiritually anemic chorus over and over, swaying and jumping. But there would be no lasting fruit from their exertions. After

the service, everyone would yak about sports or the weather. Even praise can be STAGED to earn God’s blessings. There are times people should be silent in God’s Holy Presence (Habakkuk 2:20; Zech.2:13). Packing the service with exciting music and prosperity formulas draws paying crowds, but it doesn’t necessarily bring conviction to sinful hearts in need of a Savior. In Acts 2:14-36 Peter preached a simple, short sermon and he didn’t even give an altar call. Yet people were “pricked in their hearts” by the Holy Ghost and they asked what they needed to do to be saved (Acts 2:37-41). There is no record of Peter “warming up the crowd” with special music, no offering taken, no invitational hymn, not even an altar call. It was entirely by the sovereign grace and mercy of God that souls came to Christ. SWEET SUSIE WILL KEEP ON SINGIN’ TILL THAT TOTE BOARD HITS ONE MILLION! Amos 5:23 Take away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. VERSE 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. I suspect God is far more interested in purity of motive than fine musicianship. Preachers KNOW they are poor, blind, miserable, and naked spiritually (Rev.3:17). They KNOW they serve money instead of God, and they could never in a thousand years get the long-lasting results humble Simon Peter got in his own ministry. The apostle Peter fished for men. Peter had no gold or silver, but he was able to get people healed (Acts 3:1-11). Fishers for funds have to resort to talent shows and sensational new doctrines to keep the crowd fired up with enthusiasm to give. Brother Loveloot might get an awestruck “reverent” look on his face and say, softly and tenderly: GOD SPOKE TO ME THAT THERE ARE TEN PEOPLE IN THIS AUDITORIUM WHO CAN GIVE TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS APIECE. COULD YOU BE ONE OF THEM? This is an appeal to people’s pride: Who will be among God’s chosen few of faith, more spiritual than all the selfish schmucks who hang onto their rent money? With a rich, resounding voice the preacher might say: THE SPIRIT OF GOD SPOKE TO ME AND SAID HE’D BLESS YOUR SEED, SO GET UP OFF YOUR FAT DUFFS AND MEET GOD’S NEED RIGHT

NOW! GIVE YOUR BIGGEST BILL TO GOD! OR BETTER YET, MAKE A STANDING DONATION BY CREDIT CARD!

Who’s going to RUSH my biggest bill up to God? Gabriel? Does God need filthy lucre to renovate His rainbows in heaven? How did God ever manage to create the earth before religion discovered Discover Card? Funny, God hasn’t spoken to ME about donating MY bus fare to buy more pink wigs and gold-plated fixtures! It’s bad enough the preacher will pressure people with guilt, fear, pride or greed to empty their pockets. It’s bad enough he’ll get them to deny their own priesthood in Christ by reviving (and reinventing to suit themselves) the Old Testament practice of tithing to men. But using the Blessed Holy Spirit to fill their coffers is playing with the devil’s WMD, just like a bird break-dancing on a live wire! Ananias and Sapphira paid a terrible price for playing games with the Spirit of God (see Acts 5:1-11). How easily people forget!

FILL OUT THAT PLEDGE CARD RIGHT NOW! Jesus wasn’t too keen on making vows. Did Jesus really commission His disciples to go into all the world and get people to sign pledge cards? SEND THAT MONEY IN, FOLKS, AND THE LORD’LL BLESS YA REAL GOOD! NOT ONE sermon have I ever heard preached on this little gem: He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich shall surely come to want (extreme poverty). All I can say is that verse never fails to work, and if you want to avoid unnecessary heartache you won’t buy Brother Bigwig any more antiques or mansions. DON’T QUESTION THE NEW THING “GOD” IS DOING. TRUST YOUR SHEPHERDS. Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Luke 17:1 It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

VERSE 2 It were better for him that a millstone were tied about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend (cause to stumble) one of these little ones. IF YOU’VE BEEN EATING OUR SPIRITUAL FOOD WITHOUT SUPPORTING THIS FAITH MINISTRY, YOU’RE SINNING AGAINST THE LORD! Isaiah 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, AND HE THAT HATH NO MONEY; come ye buy and eat; yea, come buy wine and milk WITHOUT MONEY AND WITHOUT PRICE. VERSE 2 asks: Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? How many horse ranches, wine cabinets, sun beds, diamonds and Ferraris does that TV preacher really need before he proves to the world he’s a child of the King? SAINTS, IT’S TIME TO INVEST IN GOLD BEFORE THE TRIBULATION HITS. GOD WANTS HIS CHILDREN TO DRIVE THE BEST CAR AND WEAR THE FINEST CLOTHES. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see (Rev.3:18). IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE PART OF THIS MOVE OF “GOD”, THAT DOOR SWINGS BOTH WAYS. GOOD RIDDANCE! GOD DON’T NEED YOU ANYWAY! Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. Money-hungry fat cat preacher, why are so many leaving your flock? Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad (Ezek.13:22a).

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