INTRODUCTION:
Today there are two extreme financial teachings in the Christian field:
The Gospel of Prosperity and the Gospel of Poverty.
We believe as pastors of this spiritual house that both are wrong.
The Bible does not condemn wealth and neither should we.
The Bible does not defend poverty as the path to righteousness and neither
should we do it.
Proverbs 22:2 “The rich and the poor have this in common, The Lord is the maker
of them all.”
We can know that the presence or absence of money is not the way we measure
God's blessing.
Hebrews 11:32-34, 36-38 “
32And what more shall I say? For the time would fail
me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and
Samuel and the prophets: 33who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked
righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the
violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made
strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.”
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36 Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and
imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were
slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being
destitute, afflicted, tormented— 38 of whom the world was not worthy. They
wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.”