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hillsbororiver:
I absolutely loved what Ray wrote as he was concluding the latest installment of the "Hell" series.

HELL Part E--HADES & THE SECOND DEATH http://bible-truths.com/lake16-D5.htm

"In today's world of Christendom, it is hardly admitted that the life of a Believer is to be one of tribulations and trials, pain and suffering, sorrow and death. It is rather taught that Believers are to be healthy, wealthy, worldly, and wise. After all, who wants to live a life of "dying?" If the Christian life of overcoming is such a great life, why not live it FOREVER? No, our goal is to GET OUT OF THIS LIFE."

Isn't this mindset of prosperity in the here and now the absolute opposite of what Christ has taught us?

Mat 6:19  Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal:
 
Mat 6:20  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Mat 6:21  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Peace,

Joe

OBrenda:
Joe...I Love that you shared this.
As God has been dealing with me to get rid of the things I don't need.  Sad to say most people only use 20% of what they have.  Most earthly material things that we have cost more than we know to posses them.  I know people who have spent several thousands of dollars to protect their possesions in their home, with video cameras, and alarms.

I don't want to own anything I have to worry about someone stealing.  The only sure bank account is in heaven.

Our possesions, should not be possesing our time, thoughts, worries, and more money that may be put to better use!

Kat:

Hi Joe,

I can remember a verse that the church used a lot before taking up an offering.

Mal 3:9  Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
v. 10  Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

Of course they believe this "tithes" was talking about money and the "I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it" was talking about great 'physical' blessings - prosperity.  But this is what Ray says about these Scriptures.

http://bible-truths.com/tithing.html ----------------------

If there is no spiritual application of these statements and we rather take them literally, there appears to be a contradiction here. Why should the people bring the tithes to the "storehouse" (a granary for storing grain) when what God wanted was "bread in His house," (the tabernacle/Temple, and not the "storehouse")? The only food in God’s house—the tabernacle, was a dozen loaves of bread. And that bread was for the Priests only, not for the tribe of Levi. Since there were only twelve loaves of bread in the Tabernacle/Temple of God, are we to believe that the whole nation of Israel did not bring enough grain to the storehouse to make even twelve loaves of bread?

God does not contradict Himself, there needs to be something other than a need for enough grain from the whole nation of Israel to make twelve loaves of bread! Just what does God mean, "that there may be meat [bread] in Mine house?" Is God really reprimanding Christians of the 21st Century through Malachi’s prophecy to bring our checkbooks to church, "that there may be money in Mine house?" Yet this is the teaching of the Church regarding Malachi’s message. What is the Truth?

Does God ask Israel to bring all the tithes and offerings into the storehouse, or treasury, or granary, so that there will be "tithes and offerings in Mine house?" No. God says so, "that there may be meat in Mine house?" We know that they did not bring the tithes and offerings into the holy place of the tabernacle. Only bread was kept in the holy place. The "bread" in the holy place was a type of something future, just as everything that happened to Israel and all of their offerings and ceremonies were a type of something future (I Cor. 10:11). He must indeed be spiritual blind who cannot see that the "bread" in the holy place foreshadows "The True Bread of Life—Jesus Christ."

If God wanted more money in His house, why did Jesus do what He did in the House of God?

"And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the MONEY changers… and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves" (Matt. 21:12-13).
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John 6:50  This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.
v. 51  I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world."

mercy, peace and love
Kat

Dave in Tenn:
Amen, Guys.  This is the most perplexing strain of current Chistianity to me. 

OBrenda, here's a parable from my own life.  When I first took my on-the-road job, I had put my stuff into storage and just decided to keep it there until I could find a permanant place to live.  That took longer than I thought, and I just kept sending checks to the storage facility month after month.

Theives broke in and stole just about everything of value (stereo, golf clubs, other electronics) and I didn't even notice until I went to move it all out.  I had spent over $1000 to store old furniture that, if sold, wouldn't have raised me $250.  And my refridgerator never worked again.

Stevernator:
I really enjoy this teaching that Lord Jesus gives us. One of the reasons I like it is because it shows that our greatest desire should be God. To me it shows why wordly philosophies such as Buddhism falls short. That religion proposes the end to suffering in the cessation of desires. However here, Jesus shows that when our desire is directed towards heavenly treasure, it bears good fruit.

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