SATAN Wants You even today. The same very busy devil who haunts the Las Vegas casinos, Church Bingo Halls, Lottos, who often even in churches wears a nice suit and tie to look respectable enough to con you out of your money, with half truths too, and with the false promises of earthly wealth in exchange for “your sacrificial gift.” Wonder how he got his suit too? He wants also you, he wants to net you, to fleece you, and for you be diverted, to miss the boat, he does not want you on the straight, narrow path that next also leads to Heaven, rather he wants you on the broad path that leads to hell. He clearly does not want you to live by faith in God to look after you, rather he wants you to do your own thing, for you to look after yourself. Don’t trust God he says, trust in others, trust in the Apostate Church, and in the crooked preachers too, or trust yourself rather. Trust even the too often bad Preacher these days who first Wants His Cut. He the preacher now also does wants to know What’s in it for him?
The Preachers still seem these days to be always hollering about how everyone must submit to THEM, it is a one way enforced submission and not rather rightfully a voluntarily ,reciprocal mutual one, and pay up, pay the tithe , or they’ll roost in Hell for all eternity. The same too often false PREACHERS who refuse to submit to others and to the whole Word of God especially. Telling the truth and sharing ALL the counsel of God as the Apostle Paul did (Acts 20:27) can be very costly with the preachers losing not only control of the money but CONTROL over people’s lives, and the false gratification it brings to their too often already swelled egos too. Satan likes to have the church members stranded in the Old Testament paying of the of tithe that next will be too often abused by the too often bad pastors now as well..
God’s ideal of a real Church now would STILL be where where everybody was just one big happy family of brothers and sisters behaving in love , decency, honesty too… but NOW even many homes, families do not have this and why? The devil, sin and self centeredness, false pride RATHER run the home LIVES and yes many churches, church pastors now too.
God took the initiative to have a great church by even imparting freely too His good Holy Spirit gifts to all, all of these mostly Gentile converts now too. But some how along the way these great gifts and the related gifted men and women they have next too often been rather neglected, abused, distorted.. and many people these days in the churches even need to be rescued from these religious kidnappers, oppressors. The Preachers themselves too often also falsely say do what I say and not what I do.. and especially not the the too often bad things.
Sadly ” When you’re about to be thrown out onto the street for lack of rent money, you just try to get one of those tithe-collecting tycoons to share with you the way the first century Christians did with those in need. Yeah, right, he’ll “PRAY” for you, that is, if you can get past his entourage of ushers. ” Who likely first will say your are poor cause you alone are at fault, are in sin or the lying, bad preacher will say you did not give the money to me, you gave it to God and God alone now, next is the one who will pay you, help you.. such hypocrisy too. Tithe givers and tithe Collectors live high on the hog while the poor “pew Christians” struggle to keep food on the table, a roof over their heads. (I Cor.12:5) Jesus clearly FORBADE the hierarchy (bottom-to-top pecking order) in His Body. He said in Matthew 23:8: But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and ALL YE ARE BRETHREN. Early Christians gained a reputation among non-believers for loving one another and being charitable toward the poor in their midst. But that is clearly now how it is these days, these days the privileged few “in ministry” fatten themselves at the expense of the struggling wage slaves out in the pews. Instead of being tenderly cared for by so-called shepherds, poor “pew Christians” get threatened that God’s gonna sick satan on them for failure to pay the preacher his cut before buying groceries and paying the rent. Satan now loves to see their kids go hungry while poor Christian parents pay tithes “by faith”, sacrificing the thin sliver of income left after rent, transportation and utilities are taken care of. God is NOT not at all pleased with any of such religious persons.
Go to any of the preacher for serious help and do you think you really are going to get it next? Often not now too unless you FIRST give more money, even your full “tithe” to Him? the preacher’s palm firstly seems still does even needs to be greased with a lot of money? What happened to the kind, loving , caring preachers? Died with the dinosaurs? But don’t even expect now even the help to be real, valid next too. I myself rightfully always prefer to go to God alone still and not to any preacher. In reality now as well if your are laid off, sick, unemployed, poor and there just ain’t much money to be gained from you don’t expect to be welcome back to most churches these days, I mean the religious social /Cultural/pride clubs, not really Christian Churches.
In some churches all they seem to still talk about all the time is giving more of your donations and tithing, 10 percent generally of your wages, and why? And now also why all the fuss over only one or two isolated and misapplied verses ABOUT TITHING in Malachi 3? what about all the other verses in the Bible about tithing, especially in the New Testament.. oh they do not exists in the New Testament?
I Tim.2:5 which states that there is only ONE Mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus. And not some other human being that must now accepts his direct representative, supposedly on God’s behalf. And NOWHERE in the New Testament does God even authorize him to take up, spend any of tithes in His Name. “Spiritual tyrants would demote us from our exalted place in Christ and relegate us to being tribute-paying peons who work and slave to build THEIR religious empires. The false Tithing preachers do radically alters our relationship with God, from being His child receiving His favors solely through His grace in Christ, to some hard-nosed “prosperity partnership” whereby God only dispenses answers to prayer in exchange for cold, hard cash.”
Prideful, ambitious, control freak, pompous Satan and his earthly followers do hate the way God now has redeemed us from the curse of the Law (Gal. 3:13; 5:18 ) and he hates us being freed, free in Jesus Christ, by our blood-bought freedom too.
Satan is really delighted now to see all the enslavements, abuse, chicanery and robbery going on in his rather den of thieves masquerading as a true church or a house of God! The devil and the too often bad pastor claim they knows what’s best for the flock so they’d better not take their freedom in Christ too seriously. Satan laughs at the sheep being able to hear the Voice of the Good Shepherd for themselves (John 10:27) he would rather would rather have them listen to some amusing preacher who perversely usurps the place of God the Father in their lives. These leeches also lay heavy burdens on God’s sheep , heavy burdens God never authorized! Satan and his bad preachers continues to rob God’s people of their identity, self worth, of BEING sons of God, made free in Christ, part of the House of God. “Instead, that honor is bestowed on some multi-million-dollar cathedral funded by TITHES AND OFFERINGS (freewill offerings are fine when necessary to meet REAL needs like feeding the poor and for missions, etc). Satan would far rather get Christians obsessed with remodeling the “sanctuary” (an Old Testament term) to the point where they neglect the care of poor Christians (God’s TRUE house). Admittedly, Christians must meet SOMEWHERE, and it might not be workable for the saints to assemble in private homes as they did in the First Century. But the local sheep shed must never be a white elephant on the backs of God’s people who are called to liberty. The REAL truth is the BODIES of God’s people ARE the real House of God (see I Cor.6:19). Today’s tithing doctrine is an indigestible invention of carnal greedy religious wolves. Tithing creates resentment and jealousy in the Body of Christ. Tithing turns smiley preachers into shiny-shoed tyrants Don’t you think the good Lord has feelings too, and preachers oughta treat His property with respect? Through the Tithing Lie, satan has created a class system of cliques in what originally was a church knit together in the love of Christ, sharing and caring one for another AS EQUALS (Acts 4:34-37; 2 Cor.8:13-14). Those ancient Christians actually shared their possessions with one another. I can just hear some pious preacher yelling that today that means only SPIRITUAL possessions, and hands off HIS Ferrari coupe! ” The devil just loves this division of haves and have-nots in the institutional church…and the way I see it, life’s way too short to give credibility to the cold, dead institutional church by paying the tithe tribute to it ”
There are yes there now are still too many false sheep who worship those too many crooked evangelical pastors too dressed in nice suits. Not trying to impress anyone, or showing off I next went to a new church dressed in my clean, regular daily clothes. I next too was surprised when no one said hello to me nor did they great me, and a few services later this continued to happen. So I prayed about it and to my surprise God said they were harlots, prostitutes. Embarrassed at this revelation I decided I would fully proof for myself this was true. So next Sunday I put on a white shirt, tie, nice black pants, and a white sports jacket and most everyone said hello to me. Incidentally the same thing happens to me on the bus as well.. Why? Also the very same pastor of this professing Christian church dressed there in a nice suit who also did not talk to me as well was next charged with abuse, slander, lying, misappropriation of church funds, and was eventually fired. Now these days when I see these peacock members, deacons, ushers strutting around church in their fancy suits trying to impress the others , it causes me to be sick to my stomach still. It would be better if they used the money rather to help the poor and needy in their own church.
(Eccl 10:7 KJV) I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Satan especially loves this one: Sons become servants who fearfully pay religious tribute, contrary to Gal.4:7 and Jesus’ own words in Matt.17:25-26 where He declares that the children are free (from religious taxation). Tithing severs us from the grace of God by substituting a performance-based relationship with God. Tithing contributes to the destruction of one’s essential faith, all very much to Satan’s delight. Tithing also clearly helps corrupt ministers to be led more astray by the lure of more earthly riches. This tithing sheep-fleecing today firstly all amounts to spiritual fraud. lies, dissentions… for we are Christ’s Royal Priesthood (I Pet .2:5,9) and who are ALREADY seated with Christ in heavenly places (Eph.2:6) and these too often false preachers now would demote us from being freed, slaves of no man, and also from being Royal priests before the Lord.
Deut. 12:32: What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: THOU SHALT NOT ADD THERETO, NOR DIMINISH FROM IT.
(Eccl 10:8 KJV) He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
(Eccl 10:9 KJV) Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
While God does not command, mention mandatory tithing in the New Testament, I might expect that God will bless some of the people who voluntarily tithe, give ten percent of all their income to God, in the place God specially now tells them to give too, for God diligently rewards those who put their trust in Him, obeys and follows his revealed will to them, but for sure God does not bless all of the tithers, for it depends on the initial reasons as to why they do tithe, which too often they can still be wrong reasons, selfish, self centered reasons like seeking self prosperity, financial security or showing off, boasting. For a true godly Christian believer is already promised now personal security in God, and all of their needs, not wants and desires , to be meet..
Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Open rebuke is better than secret love. Those who sin rebuke before all, doing nothing by partiality, and those whom I love I chasten and rebuke before all as well. I post much of these facts, truths openly to all presently so they will all even repent today. I rightfully do not put up with any crooked cops, bad pastors, crooks and I readily call the police, expose them , demand openly their full prosecution, dismissal too. Originally I gave many of them the doubt, but now I am convinced that most of them are deliberate, conscious crooks, specifically “hirelings” who should be fired, dismissed
I think we can agree that people world wide will next also read these posts, and that they will be upset by it and prosperity and properly respond to it too in Jesus name..
I also had sent my complaint to major news editors, major MPs, all the members of the legislatures in 4 major provinces now as well asking the government to deal with the false solicitation of funds, tithes under lies by any of the crooked evangelical pastors too.
Now at lest even the bad pastors also least cannot deny the fact they were given a chance to repent.. SEND THEM A COPY.. for it is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God. I have fired many pastors, seen the white terror on their wives faces when they also do see me.. they have the holy shakes, a spirit of holy fear.. the present public exposure and prosecution of the guilty serves everyone’s’ best interest still.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, expects responses this week from half a dozen of the country’s largest churches to questions about their finances.
Grassley has taken on megachurches, where millions of dollars are raised with little oversight. In letters that Grassley sent to the churches last month, he wonders whether the lavish lifestyles of the ministers violate the churches’ tax-exempt status.
The churches are huge, with congregations in the tens of thousands. The buildings are like magnificent stadiums, and the pastors are larger than life.
Rev. Creflo Dollar preaches the prosperity gospel, the belief that wealth is a blessing from God. He runs World Changers International Church just south of Atlanta. In a DVD called Does God Want You to be Poor?, Dollar says that Jesus was not poor and his disciples were not poor. He says faith can transform poverty into an abundant life.
“When we are prosperous people, we are responsible for going in, going back and impacting somebody else’s life that’s down. That’s our job: to pick people up,” Dollar says on the DVD. “But listen, how you gonna pick somebody up when you’re down yourself?”
Rev. Dollar did not respond to requests for an interview. At a recent Bible study at his church, he encouraged members to open a savings account. But it’s the extravagant pattern of spending at megachurches that led Grassley to send letters to the six ministries — including Dollar’s — with inquiries about their financial records.
The others include Bishop Eddie Long Ministries in Georgia; Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn Ministries in Texas; Joyce Meyer Ministries in Missouri; and Paula White Ministries in Florida.
Grassley’s Inquiry
Grassley said there have been complaints about the pastors’ extravagant lifestyles and questions about whether the churches’ tax-exempt status is being abused. That includes the personal use of Rolls Royce cars, private jets and multimillion-dollar homes. Grassley is also looking into exorbitant salaries, so called “love offerings” or cash payments to ministers; a justification for layovers in Hawaii and the Fiji Islands; and in one case, the purchase of a $23,000 commode with a marble top.
“There’s enough questions being raised that we felt it should be further investigated,” Grassley told NPR.
Since Grassley began seeking answers from the churches a few weeks ago, someone approached his staff with new information, that, “an individual always had to stay in a presidential suite when he traveled, and that the cost could be as high as $5,000,” Grassley said. “Maybe that’s not illegal, but it may raise questions about whether it’s the right expenditure of money.”
Some ministers have questioned the investigation. Bishop Eddie Long called it unjust and an attack on religious freedom and property rights. Long declined to talk further.
Ken Behr, president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, says that most churches in the country do not file a financial statement and they don’t have the level of transparency Grassley is looking for.
None of the churches belong to Behr’s group. Behr said the Senate inquiry does not infringe on the separation of church and state because Grassley’s questions have nothing to do with church doctrine.
Behr said it has to do with tax issues and the following types of questions:
“Were perks actually taxable benefits? Were gifts that were given to the ministry actually what’s called a pass-through transaction, where the individual gives directly to another individual rather than using the church in between?” according to Behr.
Questions also focus on compensation for the pastors. “Was there some oversight?” Behr said.
Ministry Responses
While the majority of churches have responded to Grassley, it is unclear how many will answer his questions.
Joyce Meyer Ministries has posted financial reports on its Web site. In a news release, Meyer said that even though she is not required by law to answer Grassley’s questions, she will do so by the Dec. 6 deadline.
Regarding the $23,000 commode, the statement calls it “a tall, elegant chest of drawers” and says it’s one of more than five dozen pieces of furniture that the ministry paid $261,000 for in 2001 to furnish its headquarters.
Grassley said he wants to make sure that billions of dollars in donations are being used properly and not for personal gain.
“My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees,” Grassley said.
If the churches fail to respond this week, they could face further scrutiny from the IRS and from congressional hearings.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16860611
Comment by thenonconformer — August 26, 2009 @ 4:38 pm