Jesus asked the question, ” what does it profit a man to gain the entire world and lose their soul.” The health and wealth message promises the whole world to the determent of your soul. The health and wealth message is not new; it is a repackaged lie of Satan. He sold it in the garden, ”Did God say.” We are warned of it in the Scripture, ”For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs” 1 Timothy 6:10. God is not anti things or even wealth, but our craving and worship of it. The rich man who filled his barns, to the rejection of the Lord and eternal things, Jesus said this type of person would hear, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared–whose will they be? Luke 12:20
This message of miracle, breakthrough, seedtime, and harvest ravaged through the church. The result, packed pews, but hearts pumped full of sugar water for the soul. Is it any wonder that folks like Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn have lasted so long? Christian TV and Christian churches have been complicit in the degradation of the Gospel message. When a man can preach, ”we are little gods” and ”Jesus had to be born again, and still take in millions each year, something is wrong. Dr. Walter Martin warned of this even in the ’80s. Yet we see the result when the White House spiritual advisor is a devout false teacher, the proverbial chickens have come home to roost.
Yet the new health and wealth message is sly. It promises a world where you can achieve all things, where your words manifest your destiny, sickness doesn’t exist, and evangelism means performing miracles on demand.
We have ”professing” believers with spiritual diabetes, unable to produce fruit for the kingdom of God, because instead of abiding in Christ, they live for their best life now. So, is it any wonder in urban communities with the rise of so-called Hebrew Israelites, Nation of Islam, Five percenters and secular ideology, many Christians are but sitting ducks waiting to be picked off. So I ask, was it worth it. Was it worth the books, TV networks, money, and packed churches? Was it worth your 50 minute worship time and shallow preaching after? Was it worth bringing in false teachers to pour into your people so the offering could go up? Is it worth you going back to that again?
We have a moment where instead of seeking to build on a foundation that is but shifting sand, we build a foundation on Christ. We don’t need wizard staff, haze, and glitter. We don’t need arm twisting or falling out. We don’t need flag-waving and independence day Sundays. We have what we need, the finished work of Jesus Christ, the word of God, and the power of the Spirit.
In the end, people need substance, and the Word of God is enough. Was the prosperity gospel worth it?
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Sadly we all was the question Jesus asked, ” what does it profit a man to gain the entire world and lose their soul.” Even after we become believers we fall into that sinful nature that we want what the world has as if we can have one foot on the road for Christ and the other foot in the world. It does not work like that we have to make a heart choice to always follow Christ in this journey. For this world is not our home we are just passing by.
I have always loved that question that Jesus asked. It causes me to always examine myself with the word of God. It keeps me on track.
Have a bless day.
Thanks for reading and responding! I agree, we need to stay before the Lord, steadily examing ourselves by the word of God.
Exactly, we are to do 2 Timothy 2:15. Have a bless day.