2Ti 4:3-4 For there shall be a time when they shall not bear sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they shall heap up for themselves teachers tickling the ear,
and they shall indeed turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to myths.
I was going to post a video that I thought had really hit home for me. I was going to share it as something to be reckoned with, but instead I will post it as something that shows the pure hypocrisy of the teachers today. Below is the video... (okay for some reason it won't let me embed it now so here you go with the link)
The Prosperity Gospel (John Piper)
Wow right? So what did you think? Were you convicted at all? "I want me a BMW too, can JESUS do that?!" How is that "selling a bill of goods" doing for you? While I believe that there is a truth in the message, it was pointed out to me that video stank (yes I used that word, is that a word?!) of the typical hypocrisy rampant in ministry today. Take a look around Mr. Piper's website http://www.desiringgod.org/Store/ . Do you see it now? The selling of HIS interpretation of Yahweh's word?
Mat 10:8 "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. You have received without paying, give without being paid.
I can see it now, the apostle Paul...
"Step right up Ladies and Gentlemen, right here, right now, you too can recieve a word from the LORD. Just $19.95 (throw in some infomercial twang and you get the idea), ACT NOW and you get free shipping on orders over $25!!!!!"
Look in scripture, when do we see Yahushua angry?
Mat 21:12 And יהושע went into the Set-apart Place of Elohim and drove out all those buying and selling in the Set-apart Place, and overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold doves.
Mar 11:15 And they came to Yerushalayim. יהושע, entering into the Set-apart Place, began to drive out those who bought and sold in the Set-apart Place, and overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those selling doves.
Temper, temper, temper!!! Overturned tables? Sounds like an angry fit to me. Must have been pretty upsetting, should be for you too.
While in no way do I mean to single out Mr. Piper, but quite frankly if I were to list all the "ministries" that sell their goods, it would take all day to type it out on my little blog here.
