A Bad Doctrine

I heard a well known preacher talking about people following his teachings getting new expensive cars and with excitement in his voice he declared, “This is the harvest!”  His co-host excitedly agreed with him, and then the preacher launched into a prayer of thanksgiving for the time of the harvest.

I was shocked and turned the channel, I could not believe that I heard any preacher equating getting an expensive new car for giving to his ministry to the harvest. When Jesus talked about the harvest He was talking about saving souls from eternal hell! Not about giving to a ministry and getting a new expensive car!

Does GOD use this ministry to preach the Kingdom? Yes He does. Do people get saved? Yes they do! Does GOD use unbelievers to further His Kingdom? Yes He does, look at Pharaoh and Joseph, look at Cyrus and Ezra and Artaxerxes and Nehemiah. So why would He not use a believer who has a wrong doctrine?

The problem is that when a person is teaching a wrong doctrine and they are not corrected or do not receive correction then they can go off in other areas of deception. Believing that financial or material blessings are a harvest is just wrong! It may be a reward or blessing, but it is not the harvest as stated by the preacher.

Matthew 7:21-25 speaks into this area, for years I thought it was about unbelievers and I do not ever remember hearing a minister of the Gospel teaching on it. I went to Bible College for 3 years and I do not remember any teaching on it. In the last year Holy Spirit opened my eyes to the fact that Jesus was talking about the end times and he was talking about people who thought they were serving Him by their religious works. This revelation truly scared me because I could see that I could very well have been one of those people who thought they were serving GOD but were really serving themselves, for 20 years I was lawless.

Now I see it is too large a percentage of preachers who have been indoctrinated to believe what they are teaching is the Gospel when it is really another gospel.

The gospel of prosperity is not the Gospel Jesus taught! The core of this doctrine as I understand it is that if we give to ministries that ask for money GOD will repay us 30, 60, 100 even 1000 fold. Now this is not about tithing which should go to where you are being fed the Word of GOD, your local Church and most prosperity teachers are clear about that. I have read and studied the Gospels and Jesus did not teach that the more money we give to Christian ministries the more money our Heavenly Father will give to us. This is another gospel than the one Jesus and the Apostles taught! Jesus and the Apostles taught that we should be storing up treasure in Heaven not on earth. Treasure that is not corruptible but eternal!

Study all of Matthew 7, if you have any doubts after that then study all 4 Gospels.