The “Christian Church” has gone so far away from the Gospel of Christ that many of you who have been in the “church” for many years will be offended at these words. Not because they are not true or rightly divided (interpreted) but because they will find you or your favorite minister undone, wanting, and weighed unfavorably in the balance of God. Consequently, many of you will turn your ears and eyes away from this truth [and this is the word of God to you] and turn them back to the fables and traditions of men that you are so accustomed to. [Mat. 15:3; 2 Tim. 4:4] 

But as one feels or behaves a certain way as a result of planned conditioning, ungodly men have overtaken many in the church and caused them to adopt learned behavioral reflexes not taught of God but of men and that center around men who pull God's people away from Christ unto themselves. The Apostle prophesied of this conditioning many years ago. He said that men shall arise from outside and from inside the church, especially those from within, and they will pull you away from Christ unto themselves. [Acts 20: 29-30] This is what has happened to many supposed Christians, and that pulling away from Christ unto themselves is one of the first steps in processing many into  cultism. This conditioning will stop Christians from thinking rationally and spiritually. Instead, it will breed unbiblical thinking and behavior.

I have seen church people, under ungodly pastor-minted conditioning, spend money they do not have, beg for money they want to give to a pastor, and/or borrow to raise money to give to a pastor during some "Pastor's Anniversary." And after raising thousands of dollars to give to a man who does not need it and does not deserve it, they shout and rejoice as if a poor sinner has been saved, as if God has worked a marvelous miracle in their midst, or as if the poor have been fed. This ignorance, this ungodliness and this utter foolishness is learned, not from God's word, not from godly men, but from thieves and robbers who have made merchandise of God's people, who have a lust for money, and from men who, in spite of what they say, know NOT GOD. And the people love to have it so! [Jer. 5:31;1 Tim. 6:6-11; 2Peter 2:3] 

Wicked and ignorant men who should not be in the gospel of Christ at all--they have not been called, not been taught, and not been sent of God--are inside the church destroying God's people with erroneous teachings and behaviors not gotten from God's word; damnable behavior that actually denies the Lord. [2Pet. 2] These men who have conditioned the people of God to giving them money they do not need are men who have no word of God in them, they are reprobates in mind and spirit, thinking themselves wise, they are fools; having deceived others of their worth and standing with God, they, themselves, have in fact received a lying spirit and are surely damned, not knowing the way of God. For, instead of the love of truth, they have the love of money. And they use God's people to bring that money-lust to their fruition. [1King 22:22-23; 2Thes. 2:7-13]

And the poor weakened people of God have been made to think, through the bully pulpit of these false teachers that they should support pastors into a wealthy or grand lifestyle through 1.) monthly salaries that are above anything their members experience for the actual hard work they do, 2.) an invention these wicked men have concocted, "Pastors' Anniversaries/Appreciations."  3.) tithes going to him, and other schemes and concoctions God never intended and that cannot be justified by God's word. These money schemes that are poured out on God's people in total contravention to God's word are the brew of fraudulent and ungodly men. In these affairs, I have seen poor church members become unseemly to ingratiate themselves to ungodly men who are on the road to perdition and taking the poor weakened and blinded congregants with them. [1 Cor. 13] 

These indignities of graft and greed given to and taught by pastors, only go to buying bigger cars, expensive vacations, etc.--a conspicuous consumption peculiar to men of low class who lack intelligence. Never are the poor thought of; never are the widows indeed thought of; never are the needs of the saints thought of; never are the church building needs thought of. Just the fatted calf of a pastor made morbidly obese. And the poor congregants who are made participants in and prey of this ignorance and ungodliness, offer up a shout of rejoicing and a shout of triumph when an un-needy man is given more to add to his excess. What a spectacle, what an ungodly display of carnality and greed!

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once wrote that "...the moral arch of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice." And thank God it does, lest these crooks and criminals escape the just retribution of God for their ungodly acts. But neither death nor the grave can hide or shield them from the harm and fraud they work on the people of God. Death and hell must give up the dead to stand before God for the deeds done in the body.

This sinful picture of fraud and greed is played over and over again, as unscrupulous men work their wills on God's people because they have acquired a love of money spirit and conditioned God's people to be their catalyst to their money end. These gangsters, and that is what they are, have no shame; they only have a love for money and do not or care that they have erred and pierced their souls with many sorrows after money.  [1 Tim. 6:8-11].  One gangster bishop had the impudence to say to me, when I confronted him on the financial raping of God's people, "I never thought you were so jealous." That assertion, however, supposes that I was desirous of doing the same, but was not similarly positioned to do so. 

I have always marveled that ungodly men seem to measure others by their ungodly limitations. These limitations of thought and perversion of assumptions are usually the product of ungodly and ignorant men.

Ungodly men have taught this ungodliness to God's people, and strangely, they follow this conditioning to their own harm and love it so, as the scripture says. But Martin Luther once saw this pronounced greed in the Roman Catholic Church and was outraged, as they sold indulgences; he was prompted to move in absolute rebellion against this  sin. My brothers and sisters, this greed and pronounced sin is present in many, far too many, churches. What are you doing in the face of this way that is against the ways of God? 

God has said, stand in the ways and see....[ Jer. 6:16]