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Octo ber 18 , 2009. “God wants His People to be Healthy and Wealthy ”. “If Jesus Christ were alive today and walking around, he wouldn’t want his people driving Volkswagons and living in apartments.” Robert Tilton. Because God wants us to have more cash.

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Octo ber 18 , 2009

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  1. October18, 2009

  2. “God wants His People to be Healthy and Wealthy”

  3. “If Jesus Christ were alive today and walking around, he wouldn’t want his people driving Volkswagons and living in apartments.” Robert Tilton

  4. Because God wants us to have more cash.

  5. J On the one hand …God promises his people health and wealth.

  6. If you obey the LORD your God…you will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country…The LORD will send a blessing on everything you put your hand to…. The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your womb…and the crops of your ground...The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty…

  7. Proverbs 3:1-10 • long life 2 • prosperity 2 • smooth paths 6 • physical health 8 • emotional health8 • wealth 10

  8. J On the one hand …God promises his people health and wealth.

  9. L On the other hand …God allows his people to be poor and sick. • Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great wealth with turmoil. • Proverbs 15:16

  10. L On the other hand …God allows his people to be poor and sick. • For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but to suffer for him. • Philippians 1:29

  11. You can’t help offending people… a If you live like Christ. Paul: “All those who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.” 2 Timothy 3:12

  12. “This idea that God wants everybody to be wealthy? There is a word for that: baloney. It’s creating a false idol. You don’t measure your self-worth by your net worth. I can show you millions of faithful followers of Christ who live in poverty.”

  13. SOLUTION …God’s promises of health and wealth are 100% true,when (and only when)our eternal future is taken into account.

  14. 1. The prosperity promises are partly fulfilled today: a. Because all things being equal, good behavior gets good results. *Natural law…law of natural consequences

  15. Proverbs 6:6-11 23:29-35 • How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? …poverty will come on you like a bandit! • Who has woe? Who has strife? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? Those who linger over wine, who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.

  16. 1. The prosperity promises are partly fulfilled today: a. Because all things being equal, good behavior gets good results. *Natural law…law of natural consequences

  17. 1. The prosperity promises are partly fulfilled today: b. But as a society abandons God’s moral rule and wisdom order, they are fulfilled less and less.

  18. 1. The prosperity promises are partly fulfilled today: SO … Take a Wisdom pill regularly:read Proverbs.

  19. 2. The prosperity promises are 100% true, when eternity is included. Prov. 23:17 There is surely a future hope for you. Prov. 24:19 The wicked have no future hope.

  20. Psalm 73 • My feet had almost slipped…for I envied the prosperity of the wicked. They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong…. carefree, they increase in wealth.

  21. Psalm 73 • When I tried to understand all this, it was oppressive to me till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny.

  22. Psalm 73 • Surely you place them on slippery ground; you cast them down to ruin. How suddenly they will be destroyed, completely swept away . . .

  23. Psalm 73 • I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you. You hold me by my right hand … and afterward you will receive me into glory.

  24. Psalm 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is nothing on earth that I desire beside thee.

  25. 2. The prosperity promises are 100% true, when eternity is included. SO … Take the long-rangeview of life.

  26. “God wants his people to be healthy and wealthy.” Busted Confirmed

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