The Word of Truth Ministries
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Making Haste to Riches blinds
Saints
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A few nights ago I was looking at
the various ministers and ministries on TV to see what they were
doing and if they were teaching or preaching the word of God. My
overall impression was that the vast majority of the TV, radio, and
pulpits ministers, especially in America, are unsaved and outright
crooks. The late night TV ministers on such stations as BET and the
Christian Broadcasting networks are given over to the love of money. In the USA, there is a rampant
spirit, culture, and plague of love of money preachers who
have not been sent from God, who do not now or have ever known God,
and/or who were once saved, but are now backslidden from the faith,
their consciences are seared with, as it were, a hot iron, yet they
stay in their positions in the church and are using those positions
to secure all the money they can in the name of God. And because
they have the love of money spirit, they do all other damnable sins
and works in those positions. The Apostle Paul warned Titus and
Timothy against this love of money spirit that is so afoot in the US
ministers. Many of these ministers have coined and teach a Gospel
of Wealth in which they become wealthy first, primarily, and
mostly. And that is done by naïve Christians sending, giving, and
heaping upon ungodly men parcels and throngs of money in the name of
God. This old money seduction is older
than Rev. Ike, who, by the way, is still around receiving anyone’s
money who is uniformed enough to send it to him. But although Ike
made little bones about his seduction and what he was and probably
still is doing with the money sent to him, his fraud is miniature
compared to the colossus fraud that is being perpetrated against
Christian people by today’s USA ministers in the name of God. Turn on TV or radio nowadays and
hear and see the current crop of ministers. Money is their theme,
their passion, their every-pronouncement; whether they seduce the
money from the people through false prophesies, supposed healings
and miracles, or just outright vulgarities of ignorance. This is
open before our eyes, but that is not the end of it. In many
churches, the same insanity is transpiring. The people of God are
being made mere merchandise by these ministers of money, who know
not the way of God, whether in organized churches or by these TV
scoundrels. Many of these false prophets, even
as was Jimmy and Tammie Faye Bakker, were and are scalawags that
lack morals, ethics, and scruples so much (and so were those who
followed them) that the government had to step in and stop their
fraud! That is a sad comment on the behavior of Christian ministers
and those Christians who followed them. Weakened Christians have allowed
false teachers and preachers to come in and lead them to the poor
house and to the gates of hell. Many of these followers of false
ministers and teachers were once children of God who walked the way
of God, but now walk the way of the world. Some months ago, a tragic
“Apostolic” brother, whom I thought was a brother who understood
the message of God, asked
me if I had gotten a wake-up call from Kenneth Copland. I
could not imagine what he was talking about, until explained: The
Kenneth Copeland’s Ministry had called all those, I assumed, who
were on his mailing list or call list. I assured that brother that
Kenneth Copeland, Clefo Dollar, Leroy Thomas, Prophet Jordan, Benny
Chin, or any other of those charlatans would not call me! First,
I would never give money to them, and they call people who are on
their list because those people are financial supporters of them. Second,
they would never call me because I am a true minister of the gospel
who preaches the truth of God’s word and am able to give every
man and even those weak ungodly ministers the word of God more
perfectly, and I am ready to give every man a reason of the hope
that is within me. And that is not a language these brothers
want or understand! These ministers of money are
not interested in truth; their interest is simply money—the
more the better.* And since it is money they crave, they err, Paul
says, from the faith and pierce their souls with many sorrows. [1
Tim. 6:9-10] They have sought after money, and that money has
deceived them; for making haste to secure it, Solomon said, they are
no longer innocent! [Prov. 28]
Their hands and souls are defiled, and since they now have
this world’s goods, they think they are rich and have need of
nothing. These are they of the last day church—today’s US
Laodicean Church. They are not only lukewarm, but they are dead in
trespasses and sin, after the knowledge of Christ. [Rev. 3: 14-22] Paul is clear to Timothy, when
there is a love of money in a minister or a saint, that love of
money is always accompanied by deception so that one errs from the
faith. That is why he says, “But thou of man of God flea these
things….” [1Tim. 6:11] yet the easy access to the saints’
money is too hard for many to resist. They are amazed that they can
call upon the name of God and exercise a few inappropriate
scriptures and reduce saints of God into merchandise. [2 Pet. 2:3] When lust takes hold of a man,
blindness sets in. This is especially true in two instances: a man
with a maid; easy money and man. But both of these two lusts often
carry companions with them that the smitten is blind to. The young
man who sets his eyes upon a young woman because she is cute is,
more time than not, blind to cute’s companion. He does not see
ignorance that often accompany that cute woman; he only sees cute.
But as times goes on, after marriage, cute leaves, but ignorance is
tenacious, and it remains to torture him for life.
Likewise, the minister who sees easy money at a feign
scripture to the saints, is blind to the errors that accompany this
lust. Soon, he is on the road to perdition and adds many other
errors, while piercing his soul with many sorrows. These ungodly and blind ministers
try to persuade themselves and others that God is with them, but as
Samson rose up from his sleep (death) off the knees of Delilah and
shook himself, when Delilah cried, the Philistines be upon you,
Samson, the Lord was not with him.
So God is not with these modern day scoundrels. [Judges
16:19-20] In a word of Revelation, God had spewed them out of his
mouth, as God said He would do to this Laodicean Church.
[Rev. 3] The mighty Apostle Paul said that
these poor souls who think they are rich because they have defrauded
God’s people out of their hard earned money and put it into their
own bank accounts, will fall, as sure as the heavens stand, into
temptations and be snared with many foolish and hurtful lusts that
will drown them into perdition. [1Tim. 6:10] Although they now sit
in the temple of God, as if they are God, brothers and sisters,
saints of the most high God, they shall fall! [2 Thess.2:4] Where there is this love for
money, that is the very root of all evil, there can never be just
the love of money; there is always other evils because one who has
this money lust has erred from this gospel, this faith, this way of
God—whether he/she knows it or not. And once a man has erred from
the faith, there is no limit to the evil and ungodliness he will do. Look at these ways of men and see
whether they are ways of God. [Jer. 6:16] We have vulgar ministers
of money driving needlessly expensive cars (prices the size of a
home) three thousand dollar suits, mansions, airplanes, the best of
everything, millions of dollars. Why do Christians allow for these
charlatan ministers to strut as peacocks in the name of God? Was it
not Jesus who said, he that is greatest among you will be servant,
and doesn’t that make any different? Why not ask what are these
ministers doing with all the money they have in their bank accounts?
Have they no obligation to help the poor and the widows in the
church, the poor of the church? A non-Christian was told that a
man had much money, and that non-Christian man asked this profound
and probative question: “What is he doing with all that money?”
The answer to that question about the current crop of ministers of
money is that they are spending on conspicuous consumption. That is
because they are crude and vulgar and have no God in them to care
for any more than themselves. Pat Robertson invested $8 million in
Liberian diamond mines when they were in the midst of a civil war;
he was trying to acquire the possibility of a billion dollar return.
That is what some ministers who all themselves ministers of God are
doing after making merchandise of the people of God—spending it on
themselves and their families. When do we begin to see that this
picture does not resemble anything Christian. Brothers and sisters, the true man of God preaches the truth of God’s word; he is not interested in your money; he does not stress money, but your adherence to God’s word; he had the word of God in him and that word is more precious than his necessary food. But there is a spirit afoot that is damning American Christians. It is this love of money spirit; the scripture says flea this spirit and those who have this spirit. For this is not the way of God. ______________
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