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I'm Keith Simon.

Have you heard of the Health Wealth Gospel? Sometimes it's called the Prosperity Gospel.

Whatever name it goes by, it's one of the most destructive heresies that the average Christian is tempted by.

In its crassest form, it says that if you believe Jesus, if you obey Jesus, if you really have faith

in Jesus, he will make you rich.

But like I said, that's only the crassest version of the Prosperity Gospel,

and there are many other more subtle versions of it.

For example, you might hear that if you have enough faith

God will heal you from cancer or if you date God's way you'll have a great marriage or

if you do all the right things as a parent your kids will turn out well. If you pray with faith

God will do whatever you ask him to do. The core thing that's wrong with the

Health Wealth Gospel or whatever name you call it is that it teaches people to use Jesus as a means to an end.

They are saying that what they really want is wealth or health or a great marriage or

great kids and they will use Jesus to get those things. But that makes all those

things greater than Jesus. But the Bible is clear. There is nothing and no one

greater, nothing or no one more valuable, nothing and no one more

worthy of our worship and devotion than Jesus.

God can't give us something better than Jesus because there isn't anything better than Jesus.

All the blessings that come to us come to us in Jesus.

Here's Paul and 1st Corinthians.

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