THE DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES

Part one.

Aloha my friends!

In my last message I have spoken on the love of money, and today I need to continue to speak on money and its deceitfulness. Many of us may have been deceived by the influence of money in our own lives. I hope that what I will say to day will be constructive and not condemning anyone. However, I invite you, the readers, to make inventory on how you make your money and how you use or misuse it.  

When Yehoshua was teaching on the Parable of the Sower, He spoke about the various results that take place when the seed of the Word is sown. Some seed falls on the wayside and some on stony ground. Other seed falls among thorns, and others  fall on good ground. (See Marqos/Mark 4:3-8)

Today I want to speak on the seed that falls among thorns. Yehoshua explains it this way:

“And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and chocked it, and it yielded no crop. 18 Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desire for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.”

Marqos/Mark 4:7, 18-19

Please note that I call my Creator Yehovah, for I am fully convinced that it is His name.  A few years ago, I did not know His Name, but now that I have learned His name, I call Him by His Name, and He answers me. If you disagree with me, it is fine. It is up to you to search for truth, and you will find. I am fully convinced that Yehovah is His name. It took me a long time to accept this pronunciation, but I made some research myself, and found the Name written with the vowels and finally accepted it as truth. So far different vowels have not been found written on the four-letter name Yod, He, Vav, He, in any manuscript.

And now let me continue to speak on the deceitfulness of riches.

Take up the cross and follow Him.

This verse has not been preached from the pulpits of America for a very long time. Now the message has changed, but Yehovah has not changed. And now let us read what Yehoshua had to say to His disciples.

Then Yehoshua said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.   For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his sown soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?  For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with his angels, and then he will reward each according to his works.

Mattithyahu/Matthew 16:24-27

Yehoshua begins to say that if we desire to come after Him, we must deny self and take up his cross and follow Him. Frankly I have not heard such message from a very long time. The messages now are to get blessed which is to them to be rich and follow Him, because He loves you so much and wants you to have everything you want, as long as you continue to give your money to such ministers. I am not exaggerating. I heard one message saying that she wants the rewards now not later in Heaven. It is obvious she has no understanding of the Word, or she is completely backwardly into the world.  She is not serving my Savior, but self.  She is very wealthy now, and has a big ministry.

Such ministers equate been blessed to be wealthy! The word prosperity mean to be successful, not only becoming rich. You are very successful when you have, or the enormous palace they may have. The true prosperity or success we must achieve is to completely and immediately obey Him. Our goal in life is please our Heavenly Father and do His will, not to fulfill our fleshly cravings. But greed and great pride has, sadly, invaded the church. 

Riches chucks the true faith. The deceitfulness of riches is a true statement. Many have lost their way by twisting Scriptures to their own detriment.  Riches has deceived them and they deceive others. Once again, the love of money is the root of all evil.

Being prosperous has nothing to do with being a millionaire; flaying your own airplane, driving the most expensive car, such a Maserati, or Mercedes, or whatever expensive car they may have does not prove that they are blessed. Often this is the proof that they have left the way of the cross. They are deceived.

In fact, if you have all these things that you have acquired from the money you get on television promising great things to you, it is stealing. You are stealing from the naïve, and ignorant people who listens to you.

I heard many messages that promote blessing in exchange for giving to that minister all they ask. Making promises that they would get out of debt supernaturally, if they sent them that great amount of money! This is not of Yehovah. Yehovah does not work that way, however, those men and or women are cheating the public.

I never read in the Scriptures that been wealthy is the result of been blessed. Those ministers are not serving my Savior. They are saving, just to be nice, themselves.

Our model to follow is Yehoshua, and all the apostles.

To be continued.