DOES GOD WANT US TO BE RICH?

Yes, say some mega churches.
Others call it heresy.
The debate over the new Gospel of Wealth rages on the points raised below:

YES PROSPERITY IS GOD’S GIFT
• “Then you say in your heart,” My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth”. and you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His convenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day”______________Deutoronomy 8v17-18;


• “Here is what I have seen: It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; for it is his heritage. As for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it, to receive his heritage and rejoice in his labour-this is the gift of God.’.
__________________Ecclesiastes 5v18-19.

• “Bring all the tithes into the store house that there may be food in my house, and try Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts.” If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it”.
___________________Malachi 3v10

• “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bossom.For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
_______________Luke 6v38

• “Then Jesus said,”….i have come that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.”
________________John 10v10




NO, PROSPERITY IS NOT GOD’S GIFT

• “Do not be afraid when one becomes rich, when the glory of his house is increased; For when he dies, he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him. Though while he lives, he blesses himself---for men will praise you when you do well for yourself---He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see light. a man who is in honour,yet does not understand is like the beasts that perish.”.
_______________Psalm 49v16-20


• “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for you treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasures are, there your heart will be also.”
_____________Matthew 6v19-21

• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”..

______________Mark 10v24-26

• “sell what you have and give alms, provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys.”

_______________Luke 12v33

• “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire.”
________________James 5v1-3


THE BALL IS NOW IN YOUR COURT.
WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS OVER THE ISSUE OF PROSPERITY IN CHRISTIANITY?

To assist our debaters, I want to site the books of
1. Acts2v38 on the day that Christianity was inaugurated over 2,000 years ago in which said ,” Repent and be baptized everyone of you and you will receive the HOLY SPIRIT.” And
2. Luke 11v13 where God promised to give the Holy Spirit to those who ask for Him.
3. Matthew 6v33 in which the Lord said “Seek you FIRST the Kingdom of God and Its righteousness and every other things will be added unto you”. It is my believe that Wealth is one of the ‘Every Other Things’, so if a Christian is overemphasizing Prosperity alone in the Gospel blessings, he may miss not only his salvation, but all other things.
4. 2 Corinthians 6v16,1v22,Galatians 4v4-7-where the Holy Spirit will be deposited in your heart upon repentance and baptism as a seal of being a member of God’s family.
5. Romans 8v9b-If anyone does not have the spirit of God, he does not belong to God/Christ.
I suppose having the Spirit of God is more important than all the riches of this world.
Please let us hear your contribution to this debate.

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