A Better Covenant

 I will not do this often but you have to check this guy out. Here is his website. I sometimes get a little too upset with this type of foolishness; however, my main concern is for those he dupes. Most people who get caught up in this stuff are not money hungry crumb snatchers. They most likely start off with a heart to change. They have been broken down by poverty or life. They may have ran to the body for help only to be scorned or ridiculed instead of encouraged and built up. So they shake their finger at the church while at the same time desiring to have fellowship with God. They turn on the television and whala! This guy is on there telling them they can fix all their problems, all of the pain, all of the poverty, all of the lack, and heal them physically. All under one condition, you sow a special seed (always money for those who are not up on the jargon) into their ministry. They talk about their anointing and how they can be partakers (Philippians 1) with them in the ministry. The question is why not? The church abandoned them, family abandoned them, drugs, sex and counseling didn’t work. This is my last hope. So you keep sowing in hopes to get “your deliverance”! They run game and say it has to do with your faith. So you pray harder and you fast and you give more. The end result is typically devastating or even worse you get small success and give more. Whatever the situation these guys who preach like this are no fools. They understand how to run game on folk. They are spiritual con-artist and Christ usually takes the blame for their antics.

 Paul talks about these teachers in 1 Timothy 6. I am not going to go into much detail or try to exegete the text. Just read it then go back and read both letters to Timothy. I pray that if you are one of the people caught up in this movement that you would contact Tyris or myself or the local First Baptist Church in your area (they 90% safe). If you are one of these types of teacher. I pray that you also will read these two letters with the book of Titus and if you really believe what you preach then submit yourself to the word of God, but if you are a con-artist I pray that you will repent and turn to God for salvation.  These guys are springing up everywhere. Please be careful.

 1 Timothy 6

Teach and urge these things. 3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. 6 Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, 7 for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. 8 But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.