This is Hungry Gen podcast, and I just want to thank you for joining us today. Here at HG, our vision

is to see thousands saved locally and millions globally. We hope you enjoy this week's message.

But I'm really excited today to bring a message called Kingdom Prosperity.

And I highly recommend that you would go back and listen to Pastor Vlad's messages on the theology of work, I think two weeks ago.

And then his latest one from last week, I highly recommend listening to those as well because they're powerful teachings. But

today I want to talk about this because this is actually quite a controversial topic, even just

the word prosperity. It gets thrown around in so many ways where it can be, it's just very

divisive. It's very controversial. And it's kind of a heated debate. So I want us to

understand this topic from a scriptural lens, not just taking one verse and building a sermon off of

it, but really looking at the totality of scripture. What are God thoughts on prosperity?

What is the biblical view of prosperity? So we see four things in scripture. Number one,

each person has a designated purpose and God gives to them according to that purpose. Some people

think that if you're a Christian, as a believer, if you just have faith and obey God, you're going to

be wealthy, you're going to be rich. This is a divine right for every believer.

However, we see in the scripture that this view is not fully accurate. Take, for example, John

the Apostle, who wrote the book of Revelation, he was exiled to a barren, rocky island called Patmos,

where criminals were exiled to serve their sentences. He was exiled to this island, and he writes

this, I John, your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ,

was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

I was in the spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice as of a trumpet saying,

I am the alpha and the omega, the first and the last, and what you see write in a book and send it to the seven churches.

Well, in this revelation, Jesus says this to the church in Smyrna.

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