The Perverse Gospel Of Giving By Motivational Preachers And Pastors
Text: John 3:16 “For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Romans 5: 8 “But God commendeth his
love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
1 John 4: 9-10. 9 “In this was
manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten
Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that
we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for
our sins.”
Romans 8: 32 “He that spared not his
own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things?”
This night (12th November 2013) by the
special grace of God in my dream, I was having a conversation with a pastor of
RCCG. He was saying that, the reason why people are poor is because they don’t
give very handsomely. I countered him that, he was preaching a perverse gospel
of ‘receive in proportion to what you have given’. I asked him if he had
consider the given style and approach of the Almighty God, and he became
speechless. I then told him, this is the error you pastors are preaching today
that, giving is now the yardstick of measuring God’s faithfulness to His
children. I finally told him not to speak on what he knows nothing about, and
we discussed other matters.
Men and
brethren, giving was instituted and initiated by God when there was no room for
reciprocal. In Genesis 2:7, the
bible declared that “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living soul.” This was the very first
procedure of giving that was demonstrated by the LORD God Almighty (sharing his life with ordinary dust that
you are).
As the
various passages quoted in our text rightly says, God has since demonstrated
his given towards us without hoping of getting anything in return before we
were ever born again, “in that, while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:8. However, the messages of
today’s pastors is always giving, giving, giving and giving, as if this is all
that is required of us today by the Almighty God before we can be accepted of
Him as obedient children. This position of our pastors today on giving has
given rise to criminal activities by the Christians, as you are termed a sinner
when you don’t have the money to flout around like their flamboyant lifestyles.
Now, you
should understand that I am not in any way condemning the act of giving but the
approach and method that is employed today by our pastors. This is why a lot of
churches and pastors are now asking people to partner with them, in order to
receive outstanding miracles, breakthroughs, testimonies, favours, healings,
and all others just by sowing handsomely and bountifully to their church
through partnership. Child of God, if you truly know how much Jesus Christ has
invested on you, you will never wait for any one pastor to hoodwink and
brainwashed you into giving before you will give to support the work of God in
any capacity as a TRUE CHRISTIAN.
Sometimes
ago, a very popular pastor in Nigeria wrote in his daily devotional book with
the Topic - GIVING: WHAT
CONTAINER? I quote: “Dollar is a measure, Naira is another
measure, Euro is another and Pounds is another measure. If you want returns in
Dollars, sow in Dollars. DO NOT SOW IN
NAIRA AND BE EXPECTING A HARVEST IN EURO. IT DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT.
You can be in any country and sow in the particular currency in which you want your harvest. Sow and keep on sowing in that currency. By the time your harvest comes, you will celebrate. In addition, the various denominations of each currency are different measures too. TAKE FOR INSTANCE THE NIGERIA NAIRA, YOU HAVE N1000, N500, N200, N100, N50, N20, N10 AND N5 NOTES. IT IS THE PARTICULAR DENOMINATION THAT YOU USE THAT GOD WILL MULTIPLY AND RETURN TO YOU. IF YOU KEEP USING THE SMALLEST OF THE DENOMINATIONS AND THINK YOU ARE THRIFTY OR WISE, YOU ARE ONLY LIMITING YOURSELF. DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR BY USING THE BIGGEST DENOMINATIONS SO AS TO GET THE GREATEST HARVEST.
Sometimes however, when you sow in a foreign currency, God may give you the harvest in a local currency for a reason. But if you check the value and compare with what you sowed, you will know that God knows how to calculate value in any currency.”
You can be in any country and sow in the particular currency in which you want your harvest. Sow and keep on sowing in that currency. By the time your harvest comes, you will celebrate. In addition, the various denominations of each currency are different measures too. TAKE FOR INSTANCE THE NIGERIA NAIRA, YOU HAVE N1000, N500, N200, N100, N50, N20, N10 AND N5 NOTES. IT IS THE PARTICULAR DENOMINATION THAT YOU USE THAT GOD WILL MULTIPLY AND RETURN TO YOU. IF YOU KEEP USING THE SMALLEST OF THE DENOMINATIONS AND THINK YOU ARE THRIFTY OR WISE, YOU ARE ONLY LIMITING YOURSELF. DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR BY USING THE BIGGEST DENOMINATIONS SO AS TO GET THE GREATEST HARVEST.
Sometimes however, when you sow in a foreign currency, God may give you the harvest in a local currency for a reason. But if you check the value and compare with what you sowed, you will know that God knows how to calculate value in any currency.”
The above
was captured in November 2012 edition of the devotional.
My God! For heaven
sake, how does this perverse sermon agrees with the gospel of Our LORD Jesus
Christ? So, because I desire to be blessed by God as a Nigerian, I should now
be ‘sowing’ in Euro in his church, when the currency controlling my Nigerian
economy is naira and kobo. Where are these pastors actually leading the flocks
of Jesus Christ? No wonder individual contributors to his mega church building
project were tasked and billed to donate 1 billion naira for the project. May
God deliver his children today from the perverse messages of prosperity
preachers and pastors in Jesus name. Amen.
Also, I was
watching TV last week and I saw this punking hairstyle barbing pastor abusing
his prayer warriors that they were poor because they only know how to pray and
don’t know how to give. He so abused them that until he taught them how to
give, then they started buying cars and other luxurious things. Ask me people
of God, is financial prosperity the exclusive of the supposed Christians? Until
you come to the understanding of who you are in Christ Jesus, these
motivational and business minded preachers will keep on feeding fat on your
ignorance. May your eyes be opened to the truth today in Jesus name.
WHY DO YOU GIVE AS A CHRISTIAN?
Child of
God, we give wholeheartedly because we are the children of God. A true and
heaven conscious Christian don’t give in anticipation for rewards, he instead
give because he loves God. Therefore, if you are giving today, or sowing seed
because of the blessings you are anticipating in return, you have already
missed out from the blessing of the LORD that maketh rich without adding
sorrows Proverbs 10:22.
THE PERVERSE GOSPEL OF TODAY’S WEALTH
AND MOTIVATIONAL PREACHERS AND PASTORS
The perverse
gospel preachers on giving used these passages and many more of the scriptures
to support their prosperity preaching. They
usually interpret these scriptures out of context to imprison you and
ultimately turned you into their AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE ATM. Be wise as
serpents, Jesus Christ admonished us in Matthew
10:16. Are you wise today?
1. Luke 6:38 “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and
shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the
same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”
2. 2 Corinthians 9:6 “But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly;
and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.”
3. 1 Kings 17:8-16. 8 “And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell
there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath.
And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there
gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a
little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me,
I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but
an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am
gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we
may eat it, and die. 13 And Elijah
said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a
little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy
son. 14 For thus saith the LORD God
of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil
fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. 15 And she went and did according to
the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. 16 And the barrel of meal wasted not,
neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he
spake by Elijah.”
4. 2 Chronicles 7:5 “And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen,
and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people
dedicated the house of God.”
5. 2 Chronicles 1:6 “And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which
was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt
offerings upon it.”
6. Malachi 3:8-12. (TITHE IS NONE
NEGOTIABLE PLEASE AND IT IS NOT A GIVING – IT IS A MANDATE YOU MUST FULFILL AS
A TRUE BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN).
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we
robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9 Ye
are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the
storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith,
saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour
you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for
your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall
your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you
blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
7. Mt 10:41 “He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a
prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a
righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.”
8. Genesis 26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an
hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
GIVING (freewill offering, vows, seed
sowing etc) IS ACCORDING TO YOUR ABILITY.
In Mark 12:41-44, Jesus Christ taught us a lesson by observing
how people were giving their offerings. A lot of very rich and influential
people of those times gave millions and billions of their wealth as a freewill
offering to God (they did so to please
their pastors), out of the abundance they had and according to their
capacity (being very rich). However,
a poor widow was commended as the person that gave the most (imagine somebody that gave just two mites
because she gave to please God) as against the millions and billions that
were given by the super rich. Have you ever asked yourself why this woman’s
offering was the best even though it was the POOREST? It is simple! She gave
with all her heart without any form of compulsion or by being brainwashed, or fears
to be ridiculed by the greedy of lucre pastors. She gave joyfully and
cheerfully with all she had (“but she of
her WANT did cast in all that she had”) even though she was a pauper. What
lesson do you learn from this message of Jesus Christ child of God!
In giving,
you must realize that God is not in any way hungry and therefore, don’t you
ever think that if you don’t give, food will become scarce to God. Never! If
you don’t give, you are only doing yourself because the cattle on a thousand
hills belong to God Psalm 50:10.
Give because you loved God, and you are doing so in obedience to His commands John 14:15. Learn from brother Nehemiah
how to passionately and courageously give bountifully to the work of the LORD
without any motivation Nehemiah 2:1-8.
Meanwhile,
these preachers with perverse gospel message on giving are only stressing the
need for you to give for their personal consumption and aggrandizement. Haven’t
you see them today with their flashy and exotic cars, private jets, profit
making businesses and what not, due to the fact that they are earthly
concentrated? They are amassing wealth for their unborn generations and yet, THESE THINGS ARE NOTHING BUT DUNG,
using the language of Apostle Paul Philippians
3:8.
DOES THE POSSESSION OF FINANCIAL
BLESSING AND BREAKTHROUGH IN A SUPPOSED CHRISTIAN TRULY SHOWS THAT GOD IS
BLESSING HIM AS A RESULT OF HIS/HER FINANCIAL GIVING?
Children of
God, don’t let anyone deceive you. The fact that you are very prosperous today
does not amount to your cash giving and donation towards the work of God in the
church (freewill offerings, vows and
others). This is because God is the one that gives power (to Christians and non Christians alike)
to get wealth Deuteronomy 8:18. The
Almighty God is equally the One that cause His rain to both fall on the
Christians and the non Christians alike Matthew
5:45. Again, every good gift and every perfect gift are from God James 1:17. God is also the One that
give bread to the eater and seed to the sower Isaiah 55:10. He is the One that equally bring promotion Psalm 75:6. He is also the One that set
up one and bring down another Psalm
75:7. Therefore, you absolutely have nothing to boast about in regards to
your financial opulence. In case you don’t know, God is seeing you AS A FOOL,
hence you will die and live these material and corruptible possession in the
hands of the people unknown to you Luke
12:20. Don’t you ever in your life forget that God created the waster to
destroy your wealth too Isaiah 54:16.
GOD’S VERDICTS AGAINST PERVERSE
GOSPEL PREACHERS
These and
much more are the verdict of the Almighty God on you that is preaching a perverse
gospel of giving, except you repent.
Job 20:4-29.
4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed
upon earth, 5 That the triumphing of
the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the
heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have
seen him shall say, Where is he? 8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased
away as a vision of the night. 9 The
eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more
behold him. 10 His children shall
seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. 11 His bones are full of the sin of his
youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under
his tongue; 13 Though he spare it,
and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps
within him. 15 He hath swallowed
down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his
belly. 16 He shall suck the poison
of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. 17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and
butter. 18 That which he laboured
for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance
shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein. 19 Because he hath oppressed and hath
forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he
builded not; 20 Surely he shall not
feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. 21 There shall none of his meat be
left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every
hand of the wicked shall come upon him. 23
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon
him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall
strike him through. 25 It is drawn,
and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall:
terrors are upon him. 26 All
darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him;
it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. 27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise
up against him. 28 The increase of his
house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. 29 This is the portion of a wicked man
from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Job 27:8 “For what is the hope of the
hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?”
Psalm 39:6 “Surely every man walketh in a vain
shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not
who shall gather them.”
Psalm 52:7 “Lo, this is the man that made not
God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened
himself in his wickedness.”
Jeremiah 17:11 “As the partridge sitteth on eggs,
and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave
them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.”
James 4:13-14. 13 “Go to now, ye that say, To day or
to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and
sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye
know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a
vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”
Consider
your ways today and amend them before it is too late.
God bless
you.
LIST OF NIGERIAN MOST RICHEST PEOPLE
2013 AND YET, NO SINGLE NIGERIAN PRIVATE JET OWNERS AND MOTIVATIONAL PREACHERS AND PASTORS MAKE
THE LIST. WHO IS DECEIVING WHO?
In a country with a population of over 160 million
inhabitants and millions of businesses; these 20 entrepreneurs diligently
carved their names in the sands of time.
Check out the list below.
1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote – founder of Dangote Group, Richest man in Africa and Richest black man in the world
2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Equatorial Trust Bank, Globacom
3. Femi Otedola – ZENON Oil and Gas
4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group
5. Cosmos Maduka – Coscharis Group
6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Flee
7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone
8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank
9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria
10. Alhaji Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group
11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – Former Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group
12. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group
13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards etc.
14. Chief Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group
15. Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communication, AIT.
16. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group
17. Chief Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six French companies
18. Ifeanyi Ubah – Capital oil and gas
19. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox Computer
20. Fola Adeola – GTBank
21. Chief Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars
Check out the list below.
1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote – founder of Dangote Group, Richest man in Africa and Richest black man in the world
2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Equatorial Trust Bank, Globacom
3. Femi Otedola – ZENON Oil and Gas
4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group
5. Cosmos Maduka – Coscharis Group
6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Flee
7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone
8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank
9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria
10. Alhaji Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group
11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – Former Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group
12. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group
13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards etc.
14. Chief Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group
15. Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communication, AIT.
16. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group
17. Chief Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six French companies
18. Ifeanyi Ubah – Capital oil and gas
19. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox Computer
20. Fola Adeola – GTBank
21. Chief Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars
