In Matthew 6:19 Jesus warns that people should not
build for themselves what will give them temporary satisfaction on the earth. We
are mortal beings. We will not live in the world forever. Certainly we will
die, and there is judgement waiting after death. We will surely leave behind those
things we treasure so much. Those possessions will never last. Moths will feast
on the treasures. People who inherit them will attach no value to them and will
misuse them. Some of the treasures will rust even while we are still living. Even
thieves will break through and steal some of the treasures.
Above all, your heart will not be at rest as you will
spend your precious times thinking about how to safeguard your treasures. “For where your treasure is there will your
heart be also”. Matt. 6:21
Prosperity messages will not help you. Your Pastor is
inspiring you to go after the riches of this world because he wants you to make
money in order to make his church rich. It is his church and NOT the church of
Christ. Your Pastor knows the Church will benefit more from your wealth and it
doesn’t matter to him how you got your money. Salvation of your soul is never
the concern or priority of the Pastor. That is why many pastors do not follow
the authorised syllabus of God as contained in the Bible while presenting their
messages.
I am advising you to beware of manipulators. You are
advised to work for your salvation. Now that you are a believer, you should not
suffer any believer like you to mislead you. Jesus says every believer has the
power to cast out the devils and heal people in His name. The divine powers are
given to all true believers and not to pastors or church leaders only. There
will be no excuse before God that your pastor was the reason you could not do
things right.
You should not get frustrated by the heresies
presented in the church as messages. Jesus says you are blessed and you should
believe that. Your blessings are not
conditioned to tithes or offerings. Let no one drive you with prosperity
messages to do unwholesome acts. I advise that you should rather be hungry for
more of Jesus.
Envy not; jealous not; and keep no malice unless you
don’t believe that your home is in Heaven. You are a stranger here. Jesus has
advised us not to love the world…but instead we should expect the world to hate
us because the world first hates Him. Let us be keen about the things that will
take us to Heaven. We cannot love Christ and avoid the cross. Christianity is
the race to Heaven and anyone who allows the treasures of this wicked world to
distract him will stumble and fall and lose his crown. The conclusion of the
whole matter is: Love God, Love Jesus and hate the world.
Note this teaching is not against riches. God frowns
at laziness.
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