Prosperity Gospel: What It Is and What It's Not | Torah | Deuteronomy 28:1-14

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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If you obey God, will you get physical blessings in life? If you're a good Christian, does God owe you good things? Is the prosperity gospel real? Why is the prosperity gospel harmful. Keith uses Deuteronomy 28:1-14 to share the danger of the health and wealth gospel. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Deuteronomy 28:1-14 Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Keith Simon.
0:12.0	One of the most dangerous Christian
0:14.9	heresy spread around the world today is called the prosperity gospel. And one
0:19.4	reason it's so dangerous is because it can be so difficult to identify and yet it will lead
0:24.8	people away from Jesus by distorting the meaning of Jesus's life and death.
0:30.3	It's critics and I'm definitely one of them, call it the prosperity gospel or the health wealth gospel.
0:36.0	But the people who teach it try to pass it off as the biblical gospel or as biblical Christianity.
0:42.0	Let me define the prosperity gospel. Gospel or as biblical Christianity.
0:43.2	Let me define the prosperity gospel and then I'll tell you why I'm bringing it up in the context
0:47.7	of Deuteronomy 28, which is where we are on our trip through the Pinatook.
0:52.4	It's really simple to define. Prosperity
0:54.8	teaching says that through faith God will bless you with health and wealth in this
0:59.0	life and if you aren't healthy and wealthy it's because you don't have enough faith.
1:04.0	Let me give you a quick example.
1:05.7	My wife and I had friends, Larry and Kathy, and they were Saints.
1:10.1	They were hardworking.
1:11.1	They were godly people.
1:12.3	They had a great family. they volunteered in their church,
1:14.8	everything you would want out of a Christian family. Not only that, but they were also trying to start
1:20.3	a new ministry to orphans and people in foster care.
1:24.0	Now, Kathy came down with an advanced form of very aggressive cancer.
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